3 Major Problems that could KILL Star Wars Squadrons... and how to fix them
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- 🔶 Today we look at the three major issues currently facing Star Wars Squadrons, and provide solutions that will make the game better! All that and more on today's Star Wars Squadrons video on EcksToo!
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The first day I played online, I was using a y-wing to get a feel for it in dog fight mode and was destroyed as expected. I got a message from someone on the other team telling me to "get better kid". I'm 41.
this ^
I will never touch pvp. no matter the game or time. I am 26 and lived through a sponsored modern warfare 2 team and I promise you I have had enough of other humans online for a lifetime. I ever dumped facebook I was so sick of humans. AI mode is all I need.
@@battlefieldcustoms873 There are very toxic people on many games as on Age of empires online on voobly, they very easily call you noob, and worst things, even when you know that who is calling you that, is someone who has been called like that and is also not doing well, but want to blame on you if the team lose.
@@tsubs7426 thats not even the half tho. I have played over 40 games on xbox one of AI and have gone entire games without dying as a bomber and A wing. I would rather command a fleet then a starfighter because of personal confidence but in a small ship these 12 year olds can just exploit and camp and who the hell knows what other garbage they will pull to get easy kills. hard ass pass for me
@@battlefieldcustoms873 I felt exactly the same and was reluctant to buy Squadrons purely for the single player campaign, as it was pushed as primarily MP.... but into the MP fleet battles now and loving it - not received a single comment of any description at all so far!,... Unless I was just to stressed out to notice? :)
@@battlefieldcustoms873 I usually at the end of the match gets to the top of most games but with this one is always at the bottom. In any case if I am not good enough yet or at least not in team, I like to play all vs all or free for all. That way no one gets offended if I lose, maybe why some battle royale games became popular. But in aoe2 some all vs all of 8 players matches takes between 3 to 5 hours . I am not playing this online until I really learn the controls, is first time using hotas.
Me n my casual buddies level 20ish got matched against a levl 90 and his team...went EXACTLY as youd expect lol
Didn't expect to see the Viper here lol. Will you be making any content on Squadrons? Would love to see your wild ass take on this game even if it's broken haha
@@SRXAltered ha no one ever does xD Ive streamed a bit but I think im going to work on some upcoming shooters. Quest 2 is so popular right now :D
Same. I’ve almost refunded the game because that’s how all my matches seem to go
Just came out of a game against a full team. 3 of them were level 100 +, 1 level 50+ and 1 level 12. They were absolutely unbeatable. 2 of them never even died, and we didn't get the chance to touch their frigates once! And honestly they weren't even using exploits or anything like that they were just really well coordinated and experience already. Probs all communicated with mic, had roles and knew each other. That's all fine and very impressive actually but don't put THOSE guys up against me and my team of level 10 ish players. (im level 25 I believe ) who don't know each other, communicate at that level ( i type short messages). Bottom line don't match up players against each other who are way out of each other leagues.
solo queuing is hell. being the only one on the team that played the game for more than 5 seconds vs a full party of 5 experienced players. it makes me not want to play.
The game is a blast to play. What baffled me is when they said basically “no new content”.
This is EA, it’s Star Wars. This isnt some small mod the community made.
For me, there are some serious balance issues.
My entire Squadron: *carefully plans our components and team comp for best strategies*
The 5 TIE bombers heading at our fleet: “HAHA ROTARY CANNON GO BRRRRRRT”
Yeah, sorry 'bout that :)
@@ZagadkaTeg lol I don't blame you, I blame EA/ The Devs. (Even if I'm cursing out bomber players out of salt in chat :p) But honestly, it's probably best people abuse it. They need to see how overwhelmingly succesful these strats are so they can balance accordingly.
As someone who doesn't talk to people much on games and doesn't vc, I usually just go with what I like
Ya dude it’s actually an issue
The TIE bombers rotary canons are more powerful than a proton torpedo. As a bomber main, I know what I am talking about.
The bugs could wear Star Wars Squadrons down. Two patches already out but 4 major cases haven't been treated specifically in story mode. If they could fix all the bugs the game could go up again.
What bugs?
@@acehigh79 The game has massive framerate issues in vr for many, regardless of their hardware. People with 2k or 3k series cards and newer processors reporting regular drops to slideshow levels. Couple that with the atrociously slow load times (I've personally seen the game take upwards of five minutes to just get into even training mode, running off a SSD no less) and it's no wonder people are already dropping the game.
@@heylookitsrob not on consoles son. That's a pc issue
9:24 X-wing vs tie fighter solves this with a jamming beam that some capital ships have: if you get too close to a star destroyer, your weapons get jammed and can't fire anything. Also with turbolaser power and efficiency: you get destroyed with a couple shots. That forces you to dodge and constantly move to attack a capital ship.
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Its frightening how accurately you described the EXACT 3 major Problems I identified as well. My entire squad has already stopped playing already, waiting for exactly these fixes.
Long term, I think that private matchmaking and some more game modes might really benefit the game. Fleet battles are a bit too symmetric atm. Implying that Rebels have some sort of standardizations, CR-90s are beautiful but way too common, same goes for raiders. Some variation, even if its just optical, would greatly benefit the game.
Also maybe a playmode like assault, where on side has to destroy a "death star" like installation in multiple phases and one has to defend. Or even CTF where both teams fight around a shuttle that they need to capture and escort to their base or something.
Focusing on the negative, the game has been overwhelmingly awesome so far, contrary to what many were expecting or fearing.
Frankly none of these three problems even compete with the horrific lag the game has because there is zero regional matchmaking. I can deal with not having a rank, they can take their time with AI farming, and while the balance towards TIE Bombers is bullshit it's still alright because the game is fundamentally fun as fuck to play.
What's NOT fun at all to play is going in with 0-3 kills per match because only 10% of your blaster fire is actually connecting (despite you being able to see every shot hit their shields/hull). That makes the game so god damn frustrating because I have zero control over this situation, there is no way at all to make the game only find other Oceanic players to play with, which has more or less killed any desire for me to play it, because what's the point if I can dump an entire overcharged + blaster charge into a regular TIE fighter and have it not dip less than 70% health, and yet as soon as my fighter starts taking damage, the server seems to rush all damage to me at once so it feels like I'm being shot down after only three hits.
And sure the devs have confirmed that they're AWARE of the issue, but none of the patch notes reflect that it's even close to being a priority fix. Go figure.
Yeah I hear you mate, playing in NZ is balls. I hate that there's no way to see where in the world you are connected to to know if you're going to have a bad time, for a while I thought it was just me that was bad at the game. I can't keep away though its too much fun. Dogfight seems to handle it a bit better, I guess theres less going on.
It's a downward spiral though because a lot of my friends have given up on the game (as I'm sure a lot of players in this region have) and so there's less of a player base here resulting in more matches with a worse connection. The odd times the connection is good you feel like a god lol
I'M on xbox in sydney if you wanna squad up?
What needs to be done is an add on that can be purchased that includes some original xwing vs tie fighter single player missions with the 4K upgrades.
I played most of my time in Ace mode for the campaign and had a blast with it. I haven't played much of MP right now since I'm waiting for the kinks to get worked out. For longevity, I wish they would add a way to generate missions for small parties to play. I'm more up for a mission challenge than a dogfight challenge.
I also noticed that even when all the turrets are destroyed on capital ships that there is still laser fire coming from it. I feel like that is something that either needs fixing or was put there intentionally.
Yep! Seems like laser fire comes from the model itself rather than the turrets or amount of turrets. Found this out earlier today! Kind of disappointing but it is what it is for now.
I just want EA to support this damn game. Nice video as always!
If we're talking about adding content, another game type that might be fun: races. Trying not to spoil, but the last mission would be fun to do competitively.
Its is very important that you voice this though. Because you are one of the most prominent game changers. Especially within this game. I personally want this game to survive for years. But yeah, whithout a working ranking system, private matches and more content ( in that order) will probably leave it dead in the water before the end of the year.
Thank you for bringing these issues to attention. me and my squad pretty much exclusively play dogfight mode now because of the AI creep and bomber memes. I definitely think the rank system will be fixed it's unfortunately one of those unforeseen circumstances but the two other issues you mentioned and I just mentioned are fundamentally depressingly unfun and pretty much discourage any form of dog fighting in fleet battles. The bomber to me literally is one of those deals where it's so good that if we switch all to bombers with rotary cannons when we're losing a game it pretty much makes up the points an progress, it's really unfun and easy mode at the moment I would like them to just completely remodel the bomber in general and come up with a different game plan for it, it's genuinely a better Starfighter than most of the ships in the game which is crazy to me
For me, probably every one out of five games I actually get people who are at my same low level of skill, and I almost stopped playing when my first few matches, I got destroyed by people at level 30
Needs way more map variety and different multiplayer missions..
I agree. Or different multiplayer modes like a domination type game. And planet maps
An Interceptor/A-Wing Death Race would be pretty neat.
Maybe a escort mission
I think it would be really cool to add in an extra starfighter class called “heavy” which would be the tie advanced v1 and the b wing for each faction. It would be really cool to get this as like an unlockable thing, or if they make an add on for each NR and Empire to aquire some b wings and tie advances, and after you do each missions, you unlock the ships in multiplayer.
I'd like to see a "Assist Counts as Kill" if you do the vast majority of damage. (especially when AI does that final bit of damage)
X wing vs tie fighter and x wing alliance would count 2 assists as a kill. Gives a better idea of the true kd ratio.
60fps bug is my #1 problem. everything else i can and will keep playing til it gets fixed. As a VR only player, the 60FPS problem is absolutely broken as hell
They need to add more content not only to bring players back but to make up for the mistakes they have done.
I think there needs to be a 5 second grace period with a countdown on screen when the other team switches the tide of the battle. It sucks when you're in the middle of attacking a capital ship, and suddenly the other team goes on the offensive and you get blown out of the sky before you can do anything about it. Seriously, just a little timer that says "Danger Zone in 5...4...3...2...1"
Honestly a good idea, gives you time to fall back! I think the game already kind of has this but it’s super short and you have to be extremely aware of when the tides shift!
I have been playing since day one every day and I still don't have my rank because of people leaving matches. I am starting to lose interest in the game because of this. any tips on how to keep having fun even though I'm stuck without a rank?
Rank is bugged generally. I’ve got 90 hours and am still stuck at 0. Imo its still fun to play just because the game itself is addicting! I would try to continually improve and focus on what you can do better and learn different loadout setups! Super high skill cieling in this game with tons to learn!
Heres my little wishlist for the game thatll never happen:
-balance those damn bombers
-Prequel era ships skins and maps
-maybe a Big Team battle mode? (2x fleet ships, take on the SSD/Viscount Mon Cal at the end)
Hit the nail on the head. To me, this game is god tier, and I have a buddy who I play regularly with. My other friends got in a little later and are getting absolutely trashed because of the ranking, so now they don't play. It really sucks, this is one of the better multiplayer games I've played in a long time and the incompetency of the design team is going to kill it before it even gets started at this rate.
LOL when I memed about owning X and A-wing jockeys before launch with the THICC Tie bomber I didn't expect it to actually work or even go this well. Gotta love that rotary cannon
I have almost exclusively started playing Dogfights because of the ranked and balancing issues with Fleet Battles. It makes me sad to do it, but I am optimistic they will fix it. It is unfortunate that I am putting off playing my favorite game though.
Went from non stop playing to over it.Thought it would be like the classic Rouge Squadron game. Hoping for some updates, this game has so much potential. I'd enjoy some maps that aren't in space with some land targets.
Planetary maps would be awesome! Hopefully EA and Motive sees the value for post-release content and we get some cool stuff like that!
I’m ranked at the bottom thanks to the broken system and I had to stop playing because I was destroying players at that rank and it doesn’t feel good at all. I feel like I’m encouraging people to not come back so I decided to be the one to leave. I had a lot of fun at launch when everyone sucked and I hope others get close to that experience
If there is a bug anywhere, EcksToo is the right place to address it. I have no doubt that people from Star Wars properties are watching everything and listening to every word said here on this and on the main channel.
Man, the ranking bug is a huge morale killer. I wasn't affected by it for a short time and I was burning through matches trying to rank up. As soon as I think I'll be able to, BOOM, ranking bug. I have about 40 hours logged (and around 25 of them have been with the ranking bug) and I don't really think I'll stop playing any time soon, but the bug has really killed my competitive morale.
My only real issue with the game is I can only play a few matches before I feel wiped out, even if I'm winning.
I also prefer dogfight mode over fleet battles. Way too many drops in Fleet Battles, more so than Dog Fights.
Just want to say thank you... I went back to the game, taking on the advice and things have got better. I'm no superstar fighter, but I play the objective support my team and most of the time I get wins. I play bomber now as my main class, its just so much fun speeding in zapping a Capital Ship. The interceptor is my next challenge... anyway thanks again @EcksToo
There's a couple of bugs regarding framerates on PC that really need to be addressed as well.
One particularly nasty one involves high framerate monitors only displaying at 60fps.
On a flatscreen it's not that bad, but in VR it is a huge problem. This isn't about lot of people whining because their 144hz monitors aren't displaying 144hz.
I understand being annoyed by that, but other bug fixes should take priority over that.
However...
VR HMDs are also "high refresh rate monitors". Which makes it a bit of an issue, and not because VR users are being entitled about not squeezing the most possible performance out of their screens.
60fps in VR can cause simulation sickness in a lot of people, and it also has a nasty doubling effect when the camera is moved. You won't see it looking around, but when you turn your axis with a controller it's easily visible and can make simulation sickness even worse.
This means for a lot of VR users, the game is literally unplayable in VR at all.
This is a problem because a lot of people bought the game specifically because of VR support and have little to no interest in playing on a flatscreen. That's not good for the player base, and is a more significant chunk of the PC user base than I think a lot of people realize.
It won't kill the game, but fixing that in short order would help with the lifespan of the game in the long run.
Especially with the Quest 2 being a hot item this holiday season.
On your list of issues, this should be worthy of a fourth spot I think. VR is going to boost the lifespan of this game, but not if it doesn't get off the ground due to that playerbase abandoning it because they couldn't play it without getting sick.
I don't get simulation sickness, and this is the very reason I'm not playing it right now. Even though it doesn't make me sick, the doubling effect is problematic and I'd rather just not play until it is fixed.
The most glaring problem: there's no post-launch content planned for a *multiplayer* game.
The solution: post-launch content.
Wouldn't it be great if developers could just go back to making multiplayer games like they did in the 2000s. Players hosting lobbies for people to join and talk in, and chose sides before the host launched the match which he had selected the map and rules for. No ranks, where people played the game because they liked playing, not to increase their status or unlock new weapons that give them an advantage over lower ranked players. Everybody had all options available to them right from the start of playing.
Rank progression, unlocking greater powers, matchmaking. These things have ruined online multiplayer.
I feel as if the players killed multiplayer. People used to be happy to lose to a good player/team.
Now it's "win at all costs" and basically look up on the internet how to beat any player that is playing OUTSIDE the meta...
@@HRDKR93 It was a gradual thing, caused by the things that came into multiplayer. Stat recording and leaderboards were probably the start. Making players want to get higher up the board, and at the very top, players fighting hard to keep their spot rather than just playing the game for the enjoyment.
Glad I'm not the only one who wants the rank system adjusted. I managed to get a ranking, but the ranking progress is a total rng for me. I've lost very close matches and lost 25% rank progression and other close games where I won and was MVP for my team and my rank went up 3%.
spot on eck. i played the other day where one guy farmed 84 AI kills in a match. not to mention the whole team was Y-Wings with the 60% upgraded health and guided rotary cannons. the TTK on this game is absurd. half everyones health and/or increase laser damage/shooting time until recharge. its ridiculous to sit behind a bomber for 10 seconds full power to lasers blasting. the health, guided laser cannon and fleet battle cheats (AI Farming & sitting inside shield) are killing an otherwise solid game for me
Bomber Guns: Devs went the wrong way 180. Bomber Guns should be high damage but low fire rate, lower projectile speed. A short (lower speed) laser burst might be fine.
To balance the above: fighters and interceptors would have main laser weapon damage reduction against capital ships.
This would help put these ships more in-line with their role.
Here is a simple fix for bombers attacking capital ships: add a damage multiplier based on speed. Below a certain speed, x2 damage. Even lower x4, standstill x8 (fictional numbers). In such a scenario, you might even lower damage if you go really fast. Simple and would accomplish the desired effect, I think.
Would love private matches, even just for the simple aim of "Hey friend, want to versus me in dog fight or fleet battles?" everything else can be AI, but being able to play selectively with friends would be amazing. Not meaning to go off topic, but I think it's one of the main reasons why Among Us has flourished: playing with random people can be really hit or miss, but being able to invite friends, and friends-of-friends, makes it much more enjoyable
I can feel EA didn’t expect this game becoming popular and this game is kinda of experimental for them, the developer team is passionate to bring back SW space shooting game , but their resources is limited. If this game is successful, EA will probably create SW:Squadrons 2 soon with more proper content , instead of spending time in SWS DLC. This is usually how EA do things.
Good analysis.
The ranking problem ist probably my main concern at the moment too.
But i would say there is one other big problem connected to it.
The instable Matchmaking/Network/Netcode.
I still drop out of games too often and sometimes i can rejoin and sometimes not.
Which is a problem especially from the perpective if you are in a game and somebody leaves or probably dropped.
Sometimes the game willl be ranked even if there's 3vs5 and sometimes it will count as an abandoned.
While the penalty for leavers is way too small (i have not seen any) they maybe don't want to increase it, because they don't want to punish people for the bad "netcode".
I kinda felt the Tie Bomber hull thing on a Tie Fighter as well a couple of days ago.. Could be I simply need to get better of course, but I fired a long volley in an A-Wing with rapid fire canons and almost all of the shots hit, but he lost relatively little hull. But again, not excluding the fact that my skills also may have had something to do with it.
IMO, the main cause the stop and blast strat is the ease at which you stop, even unintentionally. I think we could see an increase in skill ceiling if some momentum was held over from your last vector change, instead of instantaneous inertial dampening as we have now. If stopping was far more dangerous and had to be planned out, it would likely have far reaching benefits.
I think they should hold map making contests. The best 10 submissions get added to the game. Maybe they can hold a yearly map making contest! That way they don't need to add their dev work into it and we still get new maps. Given some template, I get we could have 40 maps added in a couple years, lore friendly maps too!
Best part of squadrons is getting the super speed glitch where everything visually goes fast
Bombers seem fine to me... Even kitted out with heavy hull if the enemy actually ATTACKS me more often then not I will die horribly. But more often then not I see A wings attacking Tie int, xwings after Corvettes, Support shooting ties and meanwhile I just slowly putter along in my hella slow Tie Bomber. It does help a bit that I have Slam engines in place though.
No views, 5 likes, 1 comment. Seems correct, youtube!
Just nerfing the health of the TIE Bomber alone would help alot. I've played several matches where the Imperial team just camps under the star destroyer in TIE Bombers with rotary cannons and the special hull, long range torpedoes can't get through because they are too slow, and get shot down, and an xwing with fully charged and higher damage output lasers barely makes a dent on those bombers
I don’t know why but “Meme Beam” just cracked me up. I was sitting there laughing for a solid minute because of it.
Those are legit issues, but a big one for the health of the game, is custom games or at least specifically challenging 5v5 teams. Having to queue snipe to play against your friends is absurd. I don't need it to be ranked matches or anything, but it's multiplayer. People have wanted to play against friends since the days of the NES. My family bought the multi-tap (or whatever the NES one was called) for the original Bomber-man to play against everyone. It's crazy that this wasn't in the game at launch.
1st good video dude keep going
They need to:
*FIX hitreg when i see how EZ some people can take out others within 3 seconds and i have to shoot at somone for 15 Seconds and more*
*1 Second burst makes 566,7 damage right so when i hit a Tie-Fighter for 5 seconds i do 2833,5 damage!!!* Maximum hull for Tie-Fighter is 2480 if you modify it.
*So why he is still flying then?? He flys in a straight line in front of me while im shooting at him and he flys back to his hangar ez*
2:02 your not hiting as good as me but u take them out in seconds. When i aim at them it is red for like 10 seconds
Ya I've stopped playing as I don't have the time to rank up, and it was getting annoying to play as I would get killed in seconds. I hope they resolve this.
Same. The first weekend was okay, but I didn’t keep up and now I just suck.
@@nova423 Dude... so I went back and got a rank status and its been better. Bomber and playing the objective has really help me. Try again... also for me I've learned to shift the power around alot more .
I felt their press release explaining why they weren't doing any content updates to be rather passive aggressive. If they truly wanted to do an "Old School" approach, they would release a $30+ expansion that adds an additional 8 hours of single player content and additional multiplayer modes.
I've been playing on my own for a while as sometimes it's a headache trying to find a team , playing solo is not much fun I have to say , every game someone will leave , and my rank , still stuck at zero , I'm level 51 but my enthusiasm for the game is dwindling , it is a shame as the gameplay and the game it's self is actually exactly what I wanted . That's why it's so annoying we have such little content and a semi broken game . This could have been a little master piece . I hope they don't give up on this game . Update , I'm glad to hear you ask for more maps and content at the end of the video! This is a rare game , to have such little content and no match making is insane , Cmon EA!! If you get this right you will could have a hardcore fanbase that will support this game long term. :(
FPS stutter in VR matters to me more than all that stuff. The game will never be 'fair'. Make it run smoothly first:)
Same here, it’s weird because it seems to only happen for me whenever I play a ranked match. But when I play any other game mode I never run into VR stutter.
So am I correct in assuming they have remappped the initial control scheme so you don't have several different functionalities mapped to the same button and the single player game assuming it's the mapping it's not calling for at the moment, not showing all mappings for a functionality in calling for it in a tutorial? HAve they also fixed the Star fighters to their true X-wing durability?
Im hoping for more modes both smaller and larger in scale,
Imagine a Ship escort mode where one squadron has to escort a ship or convoy of their faction through lets say 3 points where they will be attacked by enemy fighters, All the while between fending off raids from enemy players who have 2-3 AI allies trailing them each
Most annoying bug... Sometime my pilots voice changed from Male Veteran to Female Rookie. Also happens if the EA servers cannot be reached.
a different bug is the loadout slots. Normaly they don't appear, but if I load the scores table and go back to ship layouts, they appear
Yeah agree completely. Nerf the Bomber, sort out the Ranking issue (not been able to rank since I got it), sort the sound issue and definitely more content (Ships, maps and possibly new type of pvp ie ground assault?)
They need to make a big push for Black Friday sales through Christmas. Operation 2 kicks off at the start of December. Everything needs to run smoothly during November so they can make a big marketing push in December to "re-launch" the game.
I wasn't sure if this was covered previously but what about the mysic too? I miss those x-wing vs tie fighter tracks
Hey there! I found that switching ships fixes the muted sound thing for me. Not sure about loadouts but switching to a different ship seems to work.
They still need to fix it, mind you, not saying it's good as it is. Just a workaround I found
The biggest problem with squadrons is allowing cross play between pc and consoles. Good players on pc with flight sticks will dominate console players on controllers. It's easier to turn and perform evasive maneuvers with the flight stick. The so called "experts" won't acknowledge this because they are part of the PC problem. I've experienced this first hand......got stomped a couple matches due to this...if all players were on controller or all on flight sticks it would have been a closer match.
I have no issues with cross play console vs console. Controller vs controller is a more even match up.
How do you know you got stomped because the other guy had a flight stick, what if you're just not as good as you delude yourself to be? How do you not know you can buy a flight stick on console as well?
I don't disagree with your list, but here are 2 other things I find are pretty major as well:
1: Bad hotas support still. To this day, I still have to use joystick gremlin in order to use my rudder pedals in the game. This is unacceptable in 2020. Furthermore, there are occasions when IN GAME, my joystick just stops responding or only half of the buttons respond. I can yaw and go up and down, but none of the buttons work. Or, my fighter keeps firing for no apparent reason, even if I'm not pressing the trigger. This usually stops after a few minutes, but it's enough to make me useless for these minutes. Why does this happen? I have no idea.
2: Connection issues. Of my 10 ranked matches, I've had I think 2 that had full teams on it. Everytime we start a game, either the other team lacks member, or we do. Yesterday, my 2 squadmates couldn't connect to my game and couldn't reconnect either, which forced a 3 vs 5. Worse still, the game decided to count anyway, so that was a quick loss on my end... Honestly, of all the issues you mentionned, the connection issues seem to be the most pressing one to fix. It has literally stopped us from playing the game.
This is exactly why I haven't even attempted to play ranked, not until it is fixed...
The ranking is my biggest issue. Went 45-3 in a 3v5 cause I can't get out of Maverick 1. Incredibly frustrating.
Its already dead, the drop in numbers could be unprecedented.
One possible way to stop the AI farming might be to have a cooldown for each player, like they can only kill 5 AI fighters within a certain timeframe and any further kills don't count for anything until the cooldown resets. Just an idea.
If people have already benefited from AI farming its disadvantageous/unfair to stop it now.
The SWS 5mans Discord has 2 days a week where squads queue up at the same time. Its a fun way to get true competitive games
Honestly, I think the AI creep is working the best on Yavin, because there is no cover for the AI or the other team trying to get the farmer ( yes there is the clouds but you can’t stay in it very long)
Edit : for the bombers, as a main, I notice that a lot of people target you as soon as they see you ( you are the number 1 enemy) and as soon as you are spotted by an enemy interceptor, fighter or even a bomber, you are somewhat already dead because of how much of a boat it is. Although I don’t like bombers only strats, overwhelming the enemy team with 5 literal destruction machines and make this empire strat : number, number and number.
I dont know about Star Wars lore but isnt there something called a Repulsor Beam? Which does the opposite of a tractor beam ...this could solve the problem of idle starships taking shots at them under their own shields. You make the AI Captial ship use a repulsor beam and the ship's pushed away, ideally disabled for a couple of secs like when hit by an Ion missile and makes them sitting ducks -away- from their target.
Personally my biggest concern is 4v5 games. Games should not start if both teams are not complete.
I also play a lot the "stationary" bomber, because when you play solo there are almost no other waybto destroy ships strategic points. The shield is too close to the ship and from a defensive point of view it's so easy to destroy incoming ships.
Despite that i really love that game.
For me the the most annoying thing is the still not fixed refresh rate bug.
When you play the game at more than 60Hz and more than 60FPS it just feels like playing at 20-30FPS. Yeah you can counter that by setting the game to 60Hz and play with vSync on. Problem is, that my VIVE runs at 90Hz and this problem really makes me sick in VR. And I would love to also play in VR.
Also I would love to have a sensitivity curve for my inputs. Why does EA not offer this? Why do they manafe the sensitivity curves?
And headtracking support would be neat...
Starting off just today and having a lot of fun. I'm really wanting to main Y-Wing, it's been my dream ever since I was small, but would I be dragging my team down if I'm playing a Bomber during defensive phases?
Not really. The Y-Wing can be incredibly hard to take down with the power management and some loadout tweaks, and the unguided rotary cannon melts starfighters if you can get the drop on them and keep them in your sights. Besides, if you manage to stay alive through the defense, you're already setup for an attack run immediately after, which can sometimes turn the match around with the enemy team still dealing with a respawn timer while you have free reign over their frigates and/or capital ship.
It can be a very strong tactic to run a bomber with 1 anti-fighter auxiliary such as the multiguided missiles and the other for capital ships. Keeps you versatile and lethal.
I really want a more indepth cosmetic customization system, like it's cool, but probably lots of people have the same interior and exterior customization as me, as well as loadout, and my a-wing just doesn't feel like mine, something like the customization in war thunder, with the decals and stuff would be so good
I like my tie bomber, but I know that it is over-performing. Thus I mostly play tie fighters or interceptors just to hone my skills for when it inevitable gets nerfed. I found a loadout on the interceptor that is hilarious and very effective, so all in all I ma having more fun than static attacking :)
But yeah, ranking bug needs fix asap.
One thing that can kill this game is that it is not finished. The story mode is impossible to finish since mission 9 has a bug that loads infinitely. This happens to hundreds of people and EA just says they are working on it. That is a game-breaking bug.
Between the terrible matchmaking situation and the completely immersion-breaking bomber meta, I haven’t played in a week.
I think this game has esports potential if they do some work on it
Surface battles. Make it like rush mode in battlefield with a tug of war dogfight in the middle. Match starts with a dog fight then you go attack the enemies ground bases. Bombs would have gravity and game play would change due to gravity.
Escort missions. One team escorts 3 capital ships to a warp point while the other team try’s to take them out. Attack team needs to take all three out to win.
Yeah,.... I STUCK AT 0 RANKING SYSTEM!
Two weeks passed - and I already forgot about this game...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks TIE bombers are way overpowered. I mean, yeah, I like the offensive capability, but that ought to be balanced out by making them on-par with a TIE fighter's defense.
My list would be:
-Fix Ranks
-Fix Ai farming it’s cancer
-Private matches
-New game modes or at least some kind of custom game mode maker especially if they go through with the no new content claim.
-Tweak bombers. No reason I should be able to get 100+kn cap ship damage, there’s just some builds at are waaaay to effective.
I've just done a dogfight where my team had an average level of 8, and the other team had one level 97 and one level 75... This is fine
So to summarize, if I'm interpreting this right:
*1:* The ranking is jank as fuck at the moment.
*2:* Farming AI is OP on certain maps.
*3:* TIE Bomber is too tanky and can survive staying still next to a capital ship.
To me the ranking seems like the most important issue, followed by the TIE Bomber's relative tankiness making it 2good, then there's the AI farming. In that regard, unless such a thing is already in the game, having a bounty system would help turn the tide against AI farming being dominant. That way, if you're able to take out the ace who took out a lot of your AI pilots, morale would swing in your team's favour, 'cause that mad goat tallying his AI kills has finally been put out of action, at least for a little while. It'd work from a mechanical AND narrative perspective!
Using the thumbstick vs triggers for throttle is the JANKIEST thing in a flight game
THEY NEED TO FIX RANKED. I WAS PLACED IN LOWEST RANK AND CANT EVEN PROGRESS!!!
My main issue is sometimes my hits don’t register. And then when I get tapped lightly I immediately explode. Seems to be client based as when I restart the game it fixes it for a bit. As far as enemy ships, I hate the A-wing the most. I find it’s lasers track more than other ships. Probably network though
I think it's all related to lag, whereabouts are you playing?
@@Falcon4117 California. I have fiber. 50up/50down 7ms ping to SF. Some games my hits register, some games they don't.
@@000NULL Oh wow everyone I've spoken to with the issue (including myself) is in Australasia.
It would be nice if we had more freedom in practice mode. Let us spawn in with friends and customise it how we want. Be great to be able to spawn as many capital ships, frigates and enemy squadrons as you like as well as friendlies and just have fun with it. Make it more like the skirmish mode like in the old x-wing and tie fighter games.
I can’t recall the last time I won a ranked game as New Republic. The balance of play is off.
I have pretty good Wi-Fi and I get no lag in any other games.. but this game lags every time I’m chasing an enemy and sometimes turns my ship a whole 180 degrees. It’s infuriating how many matches I’ve lost because it takes me a whole minute to line up my sights on the enemy
An expansion for this game would be awesome
The game launched with 35,721 players... now there are 2,765 peak and only 2,199 playing an hour ago. That is a *massive* drop in players in barely 2 weeks. That's just on Steamcharts.
All I wanted was ranked fleet battles experience. But it was pretty bad from quitters to an entirely broken ranking system. I’m playing MCC until it’s fixed..
Well made points that are widely accepted by most of the Squadrons community. Game has great potential for a long life but they need to address the matchmaking and bomber meta fast. Private matchmaking...yep should have been in from the beginning.
This game has so much potential,but the lack of modes and perfomance problems in vr is killing it for me.im worried by the time its fixed no one will be playing
My friends and I went up around 16 percent after we won 3 matches in a row and on the 4th match which we lost a close game, we went down 20 percent 😐