Blade-Runner
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Master the art of starfighter combat in the authentic piloting experience STAR WARS™: Squadrons. Buckle up, feel the adrenaline of first-person multiplayer space dogfights alongside your squadron, and learn what it means to be a pilot in a thrilling STAR WARS™ single-player campaign.
5v5? What the crap?! Battlefront 2 has 12v12 for their space multiplayer. PASS!
low playercount sucks IMO. I miss the old days of 128 player 1942 servers on maps like coral sea. Where you actually had real dog fights going on with many planes.5v5 conveys to me that they actually put some thought into it, tested it many different ways and decided that 10 players was the sweet spot for competitive play, and a higher skill ceiling.
In other words they actually want it to be a mode that you can use teamwork and tactics, rather than 24+ ships with kids and casuals playing pew-pew-shoot everything on screen then get bored after two rounds. That was the problem with Air Superiority mode in BF3/BF4 - high playercount lowered skill ceiling because it was chaos.
Everspace 2 is also coming.Finally, a space ship based Star Wars game. Honestly I would prefer a unique IP because Star Wars is fairly lame and this would make it harder for something better to get funding. But seeing as no one else stepped up to the game, I suppose this is a good thing.
low playercount sucks IMO. I miss the old days of 128 player 1942 servers on maps like coral sea. Where you actually had real dog fights going on with many planes.
Did you play the first (2015) EA Battlefront? Playing the beta felt like SW Battlefield. Unless you just mean you wish there was more focus on combined arms vehicular + infantry combat ala BF3/BF4, rather than infantry-focused run and gun with a couple AT-ST's and X-Wings thrown in as an afterthought.Given the multi-platform support, I'm betting that the 5v5 limit is more of a hedge against all of the various types of lag involved.
Beyond that, I keep hoping for a 'Star Wars Battlefield' game, but I think we're still a console generation from that even being feasible at scale.
Did you play the first (2015) EA Battlefront? Playing the beta felt like SW Battlefield. Unless you just mean you wish there was more focus on combined arms vehicular + infantry combat ala BF3/BF4, rather than infantry-focused run and gun with a couple AT-ST's and X-Wings thrown in as an afterthought.
Lemme guess: No single player campaign? That's the impression I got from the trailer.
Well, I'm still cautious, I hope it does not mean like XvT single player, or Q3A single player mode.
Well, I'm still cautious, I hope it does not mean like XvT single player, or Q3A single player mode.
I see a lot of red flags.
This seems like a looter shooter in space, but I wish to be wrong about that.
Combined arms, as you put it, is what I'm getting at yeah.Did you play the first (2015) EA Battlefront? Playing the beta felt like SW Battlefield. Unless you just mean you wish there was more focus on combined arms vehicular + infantry combat ala BF3/BF4, rather than infantry-focused run and gun with a couple AT-ST's and X-Wings thrown in as an afterthought.
Well, I'm still cautious, I hope it does not mean like XvT single player, or Q3A single player mode.
I see a lot of red flags.
This seems like a looter shooter in space, but I wish to be wrong about that.
Well the price is making me even more skeptical. If it's a fully fledged game with a proper campaign, then why is it 40? Something is fishy.Says "story" but I too am worried. If its a looter shooter I'll be disappointed.
Gameplay looks sick! This might finally be it!
Looks like male Caucasians are now virtually extinct in the Star Wars universe. The rebel diversity squads must have rounded them all up and interned them in re-education camps on Tatooine after the Empire was defeated, I am sure Disney has a movie in the works to make that canon.
Seriously? Keep the politics off this.
Seriously? Keep the politics off this.
Looks pretty good for what it is, I am interested. If the campaign is okay and the MP is good I'm in at $40. Just hope it isn't too grindy, all those upgrades look worrisome.
I'd agree, but the the video itself explicitly injects politics by mentioning the diversity of the characters (who cares?).