General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: atlau on June 19, 2020, 01:33:48 AM
Title: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: atlau on June 19, 2020, 01:33:48 AM
Saw a trailer for a new Star Wars space combat sim. I remember playing x wing and tie fighter as a kid. Wonder if it will be any good. They claim to support vr too
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: CptTrips on June 19, 2020, 09:56:22 AM
Yeah, I remember enjoying X-Wing.
Not sure if I could handle this one in VR without getting motion sickness. lol.
Hopefully there will be a demo to give it a test run.
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: Wiley on June 19, 2020, 10:02:55 AM
F I N A L L Y!!!!
Now someone just needs to get on a co-op FPS set in the Terminator universe and my other gaming wish will be granted.
Not entirely sure how excited I am for their multiplayer, my main concern is how good the single player is.
Wiley.
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: RichardDarkwood on June 19, 2020, 02:59:43 PM
looks like battlefront
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: Mister Fork on June 19, 2020, 04:00:05 PM
Don't get me started on Fruggin Battlefront fiasco. BF-V was suppose to be this awesome, historically accurate WWII FPS. Feels more like Team Fortress 2, but worse.
I'm hoping, especially with VR, it feels more like the Star Wars flying games I had on PC. :pray
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: RichardDarkwood on June 19, 2020, 05:36:20 PM
Don't get me started on Fruggin Battlefront fiasco. BF-V was suppose to be this awesome, historically accurate WWII FPS. Feels more like Team Fortress 2, but worse.
I'm hoping, especially with VR, it feels more like the Star Wars flying games I had on PC. :pray
one can hope
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: Meatwad on June 19, 2020, 08:28:10 PM
Who made the AH comment :azn:
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: BoilerDown on June 20, 2020, 02:18:12 PM
The problem is its made by EA. I won't touch the game until its confirmed their business model for it isn't remotely toxic.
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: Vulcan on June 20, 2020, 06:19:55 PM
Now someone just needs to get on a co-op FPS set in the Terminator universe and my other gaming wish will be granted.
Not entirely sure how excited I am for their multiplayer, my main concern is how good the single player is.
Wiley.
There was a Terminator Skynet game in the mid-90s. Set in the period of the war, it supported VR, driving vehicles and flying those odd drones.
I used to love it as there was a jeep with a 50 cal mounted on the back, and the 50 cal tracked to where ever you were looking (VR tracking). It was huge fun driving around smashing terminators with the 50.
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: AKKuya on June 21, 2020, 06:46:35 AM
The video and website states the only internet gaming will be limited to 5 vs 5. If they don't find a way to open that for hundreds of players in the same server, then fail this game will.
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: TWCAxew on June 21, 2020, 07:11:59 AM
I have a HUGE dislike towards EA. I boycott them and so do my friends. We have been disappointed over and over. I don't think it will be different this time.
The game has potential I suppose but as far as I have seen it looks like a cash grab. 5v5 only I heard somewhere?? Why not a full MMO like AH with starships and planets as bases? Could be very epic. :old:
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: BoilerDown on June 21, 2020, 07:43:48 AM
The video and website states the only internet gaming will be limited to 5 vs 5. If they don't find a way to open that for hundreds of players in the same server, then fail this game will.
LOL X-Wing vs Tie Fighter was 4v4. That was in 1996 on dialup. 5 v 5 is a joke.
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: Volron on June 21, 2020, 11:56:08 AM
Well, I don't think this one will take hold, despite it looking fairly nice. But all those "parts".... "I'm going to make my A6M2 faster, more maneuverable, but also sport a couple of 30mm guns that are very accurate and have solid amount of ammo, just a slow RoF."
Pass.
FreeSpace 2 is still better. :)
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: svaalbar on June 21, 2020, 06:40:34 PM
I'll probably try it if it isn't hot garbage, which it is, if it is a 5v5 mode only.
32 vs 32 would be pretty fun, but probably way to chaotic for the map size I bet (if this was ever going to be done)
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: Meatwad on June 21, 2020, 08:28:27 PM
EA will make sure it will just be "barely" playable unless you spend cash on upgrades, shields, weapons, etc. If you dont want to get killed by the whale spenders within 20 seconds of the round starting, you must spend cash on upgrades.
Now if Capital Games (see star wars galaxy of heroes) get a hand in it, you can guarantee it will be pay to win and be full of bugs (not the geonosians)
I do play SWGOH, and its a hot broken mess right now
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: CptTrips on June 21, 2020, 08:39:30 PM
EA will make sure it will just be "barely" playable unless you spend cash on upgrades, shields, weapons, etc. If you dont want to get killed by the whale spenders within 20 seconds of the round starting, you must spend cash on upgrades.
The video I linked stated that no upgrades will be purchasable with cash, only in game achievement.
5v5 is a little disappointing. Vast fleet battles with capital ships and fighter squadrons would be cool. But really, I'm only hoping it has a good offline campaign.
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: TWCAxew on June 22, 2020, 09:53:03 AM
The video I linked stated that no upgrades will be purchasable with cash, only in game achievement.
Some ppl at a dutch tech site I follow discussed this aswell. An important thing in the trailer they fell over where the words "at launch". A week after all odds are off.
U know things are bad when this becomes a selling point.
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: Wiley on June 22, 2020, 10:56:55 AM
The video I linked stated that no upgrades will be purchasable with cash, only in game achievement.
5v5 is a little disappointing. Vast fleet battles with capital ships and fighter squadrons would be cool. But really, I'm only hoping it has a good offline campaign.
Ditto. 5v5 is just not worth it. I'm there purely for the single player campaign. Co-op similar to something like Borderlands might be a good thing, but I just want an updated Tie Fighter.
Wiley.
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: atlau on June 22, 2020, 02:21:36 PM
Ditto. 5v5 is just not worth it. I'm there purely for the single player campaign. Co-op similar to something like Borderlands might be a good thing, but I just want an updated Tie Fighter.
Wiley.
I dont ever remember playing the original x-wing multiplayer.
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: BoilerDown on June 22, 2020, 03:17:16 PM
I dont ever remember playing the original x-wing multiplayer.
It was X-Wing vs Tie Fighter that had multiplayer. Really ahead of its time too, not all the technology was ready.
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: Becinhu on June 23, 2020, 05:54:03 PM
I loved both X-wing and Tie Fighter. Both were pretty solid games for the time.
Title: Re: Star wars: squadrons
Post by: streakeagle on June 23, 2020, 08:12:57 PM
The space combat in the original Star Wars Battlefront 2 game was pretty good. Large online battles with fighters by the 100 on each side fighting to destroy capital ships. For those that preferred first person shooter roles, you could land a shuttle in an enemy ship's bay, creating a spawn point for doing all kinds of bad stuff from within the enemy's ship.
You could map all the controls to HOTAS controllers using the in-game interface, unlike the newer Battlefront and Battlefront 2 that were set up for game controllers and didn't permit any configuration/assignment within the game. Battlefront 2 didn't have cockpits, but you could use a first person forward view instead of the third person from the rear view. Give me that game with the graphics in the recent Battlefronts and this upcoming Squadrons game, and I would be very happy.
If hear good things about this or if my son wants it, I will end up getting it. But the last Battlefront and Battlefront 2 games with cinematic graphics were much inferior to the original games. I couldn't stand playing them no matter how good the graphics look. Whereas, I still play the original Battlefront 2 from time to time.