Star Wars Squadrons In 2023 (And Overall)

This time I am playing Star Wars Squadrons and checking if this game still holds up nowadays, as well as bumping into star destroyers

[@CACTUSchannel24]

O yeah!! Very cool content - pew pew pew!!

[@jetpackdonut]

Pew pew pew indeed my friend

[@dustinsmith608]

back in the 90s I loved Xwing vs Tie Fighter and all the variations that came. they were all super realistic simulators and I had always hoped they would make a newer version the older I got. but I just kept waiting. when I saw the teaser for this I started to get excited that maybe the old days were coming back. but after many many other games failing to produce I did not jump on this and buy it when it came out. in fact I still have never played it even though I got it for free. I actually wish they would just do a remake of the old games. update the graphics but keep ALL of the old games simulations and playability. the old games were brutal. if you had a mid space collision with something, anything it either destroyed you or crippled your ship and that was part of the simulation. the ships were fragile when it came to colliding with something. shields would help some but it came down to piloting skills. in many cases if your ship was hit by a missile and you had full shields you were very crippled. if your shields were damaged already you just died and while frustrating it made you more aware of being tracked by other ships and trying to evade them. I doubt I will ever truly play this game as I dont even know if I have a actual flight stick any more that works. I wont ever play mouse and keyboard or a game pad for a flight sim.

[@yatsu2me]

The campaign story is pretty good to go through, but the skirmishes, and presuming you do it multi-player, gets old with the whole trying to destroy opposing capital ships. The capital ships need the same repetitive strategy and they are so devastating to approach, making the continuous deaths and reruns exhausting. The biggest frustration of all is that the ancestral games (Xwing vs Tie, Star Wars Battlefronts) of decades ago are so much more fun than these current EA games of the same concept (Squadrons, Star Wars Battlefronts). I have a bad habit of initially blaming the microtransactions concept as purposefully withholding a game's full potential for more profit, creating an artificial impression the gameplay has shortfalls. For these games, I felt like EA ignored the fact the basic concepts had been around for decades and should build on that. Instead, they just reinvented a basic wheel with a little more polish and didn't venture into anything new.

[@joshuaknox2724]

cartoony? star wars is cartoony in general that's why it sells so many toys......

[@toxicplayer8089]

it is not, extremely difficult im going back to bf2

[@TikTokslimjimx42]

I whent back and played bf2 and there was just sweats and it just did feel the same and when I did play it yea I put 89 hours in total but I've been playing bf1 and I like that one better I might give bf2 another chance idk

[@TikTokslimjimx42]

Meant to say didn't

[@jetpackdonut]

Yeah, bf1 is the best 🙏

[@Linerges]

Yeah, game looks boring.