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Star Wars Squadron In Engine Reveal Trailer (Not gameplay. Gameplay reveal on Thursday)
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Yep. Even just having other ships shooting at each other in the very very far background (so you just get to see the larger ships and otherwise just lasers flying around) to keep the screen just a tiny bit busier than it'd be otherwise would be enough. Not so much you can't tell your actual enemies apart, obviously.
Gosh, just thinking about this and what it can potentially be...!
I might be the other way around. If this game is what I hope it is, it might just have sold me on VR.
Just realized that they picked this era because:
1) Still lots of capital ships accessible to both sides
2) Empire can install shields on their TIE fighters so they won't get smoked and makes the 5v5 battles more plausible since the Empire used to rely on quantity whereas Rebels focused on survivability.
It's interesting. Didn't expect it. Jeff grubb seems to indicate that this is a concerted effort of EA to draw back more ambitious Star Wars projects. I'm ok with that honestly. Just produce something of quality like Jedi Fallen Order
Please don't suck.
I guess even a bad Star Wars themed space fighter game in VR would still be a cool experience but I'm hoping the campaign is more than a short lowish budget tack on merely there as a selling point for a mainly multiplayer game.
I guess even a bad Star Wars themed space fighter game in VR would still be a cool experience but I'm hoping the campaign is more than a short lowish budget tack on merely there as a selling point for a mainly multiplayer game.
5 vs 5 is perfect for VR tho, Eve Valkrie is 5 vs 5 on PSVR and is soooo much fun. I'm usually at the top of the leaderboards from playing against non VR noobs. Hoping it will be the same with this game lol. Seriously, us VR guys are going to have a major advantage. Its bigger advantage then kb/M over a controller.
EA needed to get more mileage out of their $bn licensing deal with Disney, and they also needed to start learning to use VR. Assuming it's not a complete turkey, this is basically the game that EA needed to make.
- I wouldn't be surprised if PS4VR runs at 60hz with PS5VR maybe pushing that to 90 or even 120hz.
- games with very high movement speed can be ridiculously network sensitive. Going beyond 10 players may be problematic, especially for a cross-gen title due to CPU demands.
But I would view this game in a similar way to EA's reboot of Battlefront. It's probably not going to be perfect, but it will hopefully give them some idea of what to do with a sequel (assuming EA retains the license).
- I wouldn't be surprised if PS4VR runs at 60hz with PS5VR maybe pushing that to 90 or even 120hz.
- games with very high movement speed can be ridiculously network sensitive. Going beyond 10 players may be problematic, especially for a cross-gen title due to CPU demands.
But I would view this game in a similar way to EA's reboot of Battlefront. It's probably not going to be perfect, but it will hopefully give them some idea of what to do with a sequel (assuming EA retains the license).
It was nothing special but it's not as bad as people say it is.
Yup, the advantage that VR gives in dogfights in space (I used to play a lot of Elite Dangerous) is hard to overstate.
These rarities give me the fear.
Those ships are like character classes, I'd bet they're going to be pretty conservative adding new ships at risk of pay-to-win. I imagine there will be mostly cosmetic microtransactions like above.
I recall that this would have a short campaign and the biggest focus being MP? Still, could be nice.
Which honestly makes complete sense.
EA seemed to have got stuck against these huge Star Wars projects and I honestly don't think everything needs to be. A Star Wars space battles/dogfighting game should be 101 with this license, and it doesn't require mountains of modes and features to make work.
I'm not familiar with those variants, but just as long as we don't get the TIE Defender I'm happy. Or the Missile boat.
Wedge! Hera! VR!!!! Sold. I assume it's going to look like BF2 and maybe we get more sin elements.
I really hope there are a bunch of AI fighters flying around as well. It would be extremely strange to have capital ships locked in combat and then only have 5 fighters on each side flying around.
VR? Awesome. Definitely in for PC then. I have an Oculus Quest that I've already used on PC through Link.
Starfighters was my favorite mode in Battlefront 2 until everyone stopped playing it so obviously this interests me.
I even played that mode in first person, as harder as that was. I got pretty good at it.
And full crossplay? Damn so this will actually have a population even for PC players!
This seems right up my alley. For $40 I can't complain too much.
Starfighters was my favorite mode in Battlefront 2 until everyone stopped playing it so obviously this interests me.
I even played that mode in first person, as harder as that was. I got pretty good at it.
And full crossplay? Damn so this will actually have a population even for PC players!
This seems right up my alley. For $40 I can't complain too much.
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I doubt EA is gonna lose the license unless some other publisher outbids them. Which seems unlikely
Could be cool. I hope the controls are not just what we got on Battlefront 2. I hated air combat in that game.
What? Air combat in Battlefront 2 is some of the best air combat around.
VR support with crossplay? Thank the PCVR lords! I've been missing a game like Eve: Valkyrie so much.
The PSVR game I always wanted. EA finally listened to us after so long.
I was beginning to worry that the only Star wars experience I would get in VR was that short Battlefront PSVR demo.
I was beginning to worry that the only Star wars experience I would get in VR was that short Battlefront PSVR demo.
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Fucking hell, please don't tell me VR is exclusive to Playstation. So frustrating. Actually re reading it I think I read it wrong so hoping for the best!
Oh man, if this does bring in elements of Xwing/Tie Fighter then I am hyped
I'm pretty sure that most of the time "In-engine Trailer" is a euphemism for prerendered CGI using the game engine to do offline rendering at higher asset and/or image quality than actual gameplay. Occasionally, it may be a realtime cutscene of sorts, again usually with higher asset and/or image quality than actual gameplay.
It's not, it even has crossplay between PC and PSVR...which is key, especially for us PC players because of low population numbers. Not sure if there's crossplay with non-VR players (they say crossplay on all platforms but that's still a little vague), but that would be even better!