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Star Wars Squadrons GAMEPLAY reveal trailer
- Thread starter Lifejumper
- Start date
Your skepticism is understandable, but the details shared from the Polygon interview (as discussed at length in this thread already) give me a great deal of reason to be optimistic.
- No microtransactions or season passes
- Clear upgrade progression path
- Full VR support from Day 1
- Actual sub-system management like the PC games
- Said upgrades are not just straight improvements from earlier versions
And it's only $40 so a lower barrier to entry.
What is "good"?
You mean games I personally enjoyed? I really love Battlefront 2 for example, that's a fun Star Wars pew pew game.
Fallen Order was a fun one time playthrough via EA Access as was Anthem.
Just kinda think it's childish to dismiss something cause it has a name on it you don't like.
EA on the box has nothing to do with the product in the end.
It was. Wasn't perfect, but it was good at the very least. I'd say it was the best Star Wars game of the gen so far.
Now now I'm sure that's not what he's doing....
Oh.
Official word is that because VR is so distracting, it evens out.
*shrug*
Fallen Order is a good game.
Battlefront 2 still has a very large player-base 3 years after launch, and they added in almost another games worth of content for free over those 3 years so not sure where you are getting dead from.
He didn't say anthem was fantastic he said it was fun enough for a one time play-through.
Wild how opinions work
I could see the argument that since the instruments are actually used in the game, tracking a foe with your head to line up a shot means you aren't looking at you shield meter or laser charge gauge. In 2D, those are always on screen.
But really, when you get good, you don't need to look at the instruments as much anymore. You'll just have a feel for "how much can I shoot" and "how much more damage can I take".
VR probably has the steeper learning curve, but also the higher ceiling simply due to superior visibility and being able to track the enemy off-screen.
Bud have you played either of these games? Battlefront is far from dead.
You also have to move your head to look at your radar for example
Exactly. VR is for the "OMG! I'm in an X-Wing!" factor more than for a quick competitive edge.
VR + a flight stick is going to be domination.
The only mitigation is if your weapons always fire center of the screen, lots of PC monitors have those crosshairs you can enable.
I will never be a corporate boi but dude...
Apex Legends
Battlefront 2 in it's current stage
Titanfall 2
have been some of the best online shooty things i've played recently.
Squadrons is a love letter to X-Wing and TIE Fighter; it's highly unlikely that they're going to make it control like a different game. Now if it makes you feel better, TIE Fighter did have a 3rd person mode, but it didn't have the targeting reticle, the radar, or any of the cockpit interface so it was completely useless.
The game is going to be like a light flight simulator so VR is only going to work like a fancy hat switch. You can do pretty much the same thing with a decent flight stick or just using keyboard commands. Controllers might be at a disadvantage, but they were going to be at a disadvantage to begin with.
If Squadrons works like X-Wing (and it certainly looks like it does), all of your guns are going to be fixed so you're going to fire at the center of the screen. They will be offset though depending on where they are mounted on your craft (so X-Wings will fire on the four corners of the targeting reticle); probably with some level of convergence.
They did say that the ships have different convergence. An X-Wing thereby has a different engagement range than say a Tie Fighter or an A-Wing.
While X-wing Alliance had automatic convergence, you could also change it on the fly to various pre-fixed distances on the ships who had a more "spread" weaponry. It was very situational, but if we don't have automatic convergence would be a neat detail to be able to adjust it, in the vein of most WW2 simulators. Not expecting it at all, tho :P
It was extremely janky. It really could have used some serious polish. also the game just ends. very anti-climactic. Great foundation though. It's clear to me it was pushed out early.
Fallen Order (you say it's a bad game, It was my game of the year)
Apex Legends
Battle front 1 & 2. (1 was good, 2 is great and still very active)
A way out
Burnout Paradise Remaster
Titan Fall 2
Command and Conquer Remastered
Unravel 1&2
Sims 4
Plants vs Zombies (Both versions!)
Battlefield 1
battlefield 4
Obviously these aren't all 10/10 games. But they are all good, which is what you asked. But none of this matters to you anyways i'm sure.
You can use the quest on pc via Link or streaming with either ALVR or virtual desktop.
The issue is I don't have a desktop and I know my surface pro is incapable of running anything but cuphead lol. I might just do the PSVR but idk.
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I hope it might be like, to use an example from another game, Destiny Gambit.
Generally you can't kill the boss outright. You need to wait till the Primeval Slayer buff is high enough to do significant damage. But good teams with a good set up can kill him earlier.
Turbolasers are no joke. Those are the big batteries on either side of the Star Destroyer, the ones with four barrels each. Not much use for picking off starfighters at knife fight range, but if you're far away and moving predictably, I'd be disppointed if you didn't get oneshot by a Turbolaser. It's what they do.
I remember one of the X-Wing or TIE Fighter games where Lambda Shuttles were terrifying. They gave them asinge Turbolaser cannon. They just wiped out starfighters in one or two hits.
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I would've thought that VR is running at a far lower res on PS4 too.
I think Battlefield games have something similar to this in first person flight. If I recall once you press it you're flying on a straight path but the control stick gives you the ability to freely look around the cockpit.
I'm hoping for PS5 compatibility Day 1 with increased PSVR performance.