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I'm really looking forward to this after everything I've seen. A great $40 package.
On Star Wars games as a whole:
I think what we really need is a blowout Star Wars Battlefront game. Like the seamless ground-air-space that people have dreamed about for years. This game seems to be a great model for space-air combat and we need to get less arcade-y on the ground. More influence from older Battlefield titles. Capital Supremacy is the model for this but it needs to be seamless and not have a automated transition between ground and space. We should be flying the troop carriers and landing them on the enemy ship. It feels like games used to let us do all that but now the cool parts play out in cutscenes. It's like if you had a D-day map where you don't drive the boats onto the beach. What's the point?!
On Star Wars games as a whole:
I think what we really need is a blowout Star Wars Battlefront game. Like the seamless ground-air-space that people have dreamed about for years. This game seems to be a great model for space-air combat and we need to get less arcade-y on the ground. More influence from older Battlefield titles. Capital Supremacy is the model for this but it needs to be seamless and not have a automated transition between ground and space. We should be flying the troop carriers and landing them on the enemy ship. It feels like games used to let us do all that but now the cool parts play out in cutscenes. It's like if you had a D-day map where you don't drive the boats onto the beach. What's the point?!
Yeah, I guess it depends on the game. Like Lant_War said, I started VR with the worst game possible for motion sickness.
You know what, I'm buying this game, even if I'll only play it in 2D.
I can't resist piloting X-Wings/Tie Fighters. My favourite parts in Battlefront 1 & 2 where the flying ones, so I know I'll love this.
It's called streamlining and it's not always a good thing. Feels like games were way more ambitious back then with this kind of stuff.
The SSDs for next gen systems might something like that finally feasible on console hardware
Did you download the latest Nvidia drivers? They contain optimisations for the game.
Like with most things in the hobbyist world, the question is: How much do you want to spend?
There are recommendations as low as $50 and as high as $1,000.
Actually scrap that. Geforce experience shows my fps at 100+. It really doesn't feel smooth for some reason
If you're on Xbox then it should be in your system settings under time/region (I believe). Just switch to NZ and it'll reboot your console and give you access to the games. It's worked for almost every game I've bothered to try since owning an Xbox One this gen.
At this point, any one you can get your hands on I would imagine. They've been out of stock for awhile.
At the very least Boost Mode will take advantage of unlocked framerates, or improve dips below the targeted cap. And you'll be able to take advantage of system level VRR if you have a supported display.
3D Audio is hardware based, so there should be a toggle that enables virtual surround sound for whatever you're playing, but they haven't really detailed that functionality as far as real world usage goes.
let's say money was no object. I'm wondering if pedals come into play in this game at all, which HOTAS integrates best with this game overall and IMO the Thrustmaster Warthog is too old to command the price it does and should not be seriously considered. Right now I'm looking at the Thrustmaster T.16000M FCS bu wondering if there's anything better than that in terms of durability and design, and wondering if getting those pedals would be a waste.
EDIT: I also already own a Thrustmaster T Flight HOTAS 4 for PS4 and PC that I bought for Ace Combat 7 which is basically broken now because the twist function started drifting like 6 months after buying the thing and apparently that is a known issue with these sticks. Never touching that model again, and hoping not to get another one like that with known durability issues.
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If money is no object,
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(I'd recommend the Gunfighter Space Edition) + whatever throttle you want from someone else.
or
VPC Constellation ALPHA-R
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+
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VPC MongoosT-50CM2 Throttle
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When I'm ready to replace my current HOTAS (http://www.chproducts.com/ - Fighter Stick, Pro Throttle, and Pro Pedals), I'll be going with a full VIRPIL setup.
Haven't read that story, but I don't think they'd put newer games on there. Think it would be things like Mass Effect games and things like that.
Ars was writing about this too - that the frame rate felt lower than it is.
Maybe the whole space + ground at once part wasn't feasible but they've definitely stripped away things that were present in older games on older hardware. In Star Wars Battlefront II you had to destroy various parts of the capital ship to open it up then you had to pile everyone on the transports and fly them over to blow it up from the inside. Way more immersive than, say, current Battlefront's Capital Supremacy where they don't even animate getting on the transport. You just hold a button, and then a cutscene plays. Even the little touch in MW2019 of flying to the MP map rather than popping in is kind of nice even though it's just a cutscene. Immediately feels cool when you first play.
Yeah, I think Battlefield is a good illustration of this. Early Battlefields had expansive naval, ground, and air combat. You could drive all of the ships (even the aircraft carrier spawn point and shoot their guns and sink the other ships into the ocean. They slowly stripped those away so our naval combat is mostly now personal craft. With Titan mode you could fly the Titan, you had to find a transport to get onto the enemy Titan, and when you won, you had to run off and parachute out to escape before it blew up. 100000% better than just getting a Victory screen. Now you can't even go through takeoff in a plane, it just pops in which is weird because now Battlefield animates so many things like getting to various vehicles but then took this away.
It's probably not unrelated that as requirements for graphical fidelity went up, we lost some of that work but these are like their main tentpole releases. It's THE time to blow the doors off, not skimp. Especially with Star Wars games with a built-in gigantic audience.
So i'm getting 140FPS constantly but the game is not smooth at all. Will try the driver, but can't say whats causing the problems tbh...
I load it from steam and get a black screen. is my instal buggered up or do I just have to wait two more minutes or something (Singapore)?
This is where I see MS not doing anything with VR will end up being a big mistake.
OK this is Wierd. I was using 144hz refresh rate previously and everything felt sluggish. Although fps was showing 130+. The moment I switched to 60hz refresh, it feels fine now. Could be a bug you think?
Ahhhh, ok. Thanks for the response. If the MP is good, I may pick up early. Otherwise I'm mostly waiting for next gen versions of all these new games.
Anything from Thrustmaster or Logitech will do. Least expensive but acceptable is probably this one:
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Not sure about stock.
Having the same issue. But I switched to 60hz and turned on vsync. This should solve the issue for now. Let me know how it goes
Sounds that way. Thanks for posting a work around. Hopefully they resolve this soon.
That might have answered several questions in the thread all by itself. lol
Just read it, they are adding EA Play (lets you play new games for 10 hours like a demo), not EA Play Pro (the thing that lets you play new games free). On top of that EA Play lets you play some of their old games for free, so they'll be adding things like The Sims, Mass Effect, Garden Warfare and other games like that. Games that are a few years old.
Technically. But since there was no game titled XvTF2, giving the thread that title would still make sense.
That's more X-wing 2 (or 3, if we count TIE Fighter as X-wing 2).
XvT was more a spin-off in the series, as it was focused in the Multiplayer while the other three games were focused in the Single Player. XWA had a quite decent multiplayer tho, which has been expanded a lot along the years with some mod wizardy, but nothing compared with the campaign.
Yup it works, just changed region to NZ and it launches. I'm in the UK.
What Hz is your monitor? Vsync / G-Sync / Freesync active?
Don't worry. I only use bleach and the finest sand paper to get all my eyelash grease off.
