Star Wars Squadrons - PC/PS4/XB1/VR!

[Benny]

I'm going to be on this weekend so will see what PC servers are like.

[Darwock]

I did eventually get a few more games in, but nowhere near enough for the time spent trying.

 

I’ll tell you what though, there is some straight up unfair BS going on. When the game tells you a player abandoned the match, “it is safe to quit” - don’t believe the lies. I was at 60% progress through Hotshot 1 rank, we started a game with less players so the info screen announced it was not going to be counted and I could quit the match, so I did. My rank immediately got reset to 0% progress.

A later match, we got half way through and then one of our team dropped out - menu announced the score *would* still be counted, and so we were forced to take a kicking. Lost all the progress I had made in restoring my rank again.

You have to just take whatever shit sandwich the matchmaking lays in front of you; lose rank if you are outnumbered and lose even more if you don’t see a pointless match through to the end.

I’ve also had it up to here with that POS Thrustmaster stick - I noticed it was becoming really hard to pitch up, so did some on the spot maintenance (more electrical cleaner and air duster) and it effed up the roll Inputs again. Another thorough cleaning, and now I can’t get full lock when I roll left - it is slower than if I go right. The potentiometer gives a proper response if I twist it with my fingers, so it must be something mechanical with how the stick is rotating the POT. Did several disassemble/reassembles with no change and then just dumped the thing on the floor and plugged my Hori back in.

 

Not a good evening, all told.

 

[Thor]

Had a good chance to play this in VR tonight - It's fucking amazing!! When those X-wings explode

[Herbalizer]

I can get this for £16 from Epic Store.  I'm very tempted.

[smac]

Just buy it, already. It's more than worth that.

[Thor]

Not enjoying the imp side of the story. Their missions feel like a slog now.

[Darwock]

On 30/10/2020 at 02:58, Benny said:

I'm finally getting my fill of Hades, so I'll be right back on this this weekend to try for a higher score.

I didn’t do better, but I finally matched your kill record. So this is where you tell me you blew it away over the weekend, lol.

 

14 kills, 3 deaths, 8 kill streak. I was using a TIE bomber at Nadiri dockyards, and a fair number of those kills were seeker mines (lol at the overly macho voice of my pilot gloating “and I wasn’t even trying”) but I’ll take what I can get.

 

I finally got 10 wins as Rebels in ranked fleet matches, and I do want to improve my rank but I need a break from that mode. Really fed up with it starting the match with unbalanced teams. Today was 4 vs 5 in the briefing room, then when it force-started on the timer someone else on my team obviously couldn’t be doing with it either, so they dropped out leaving us as 3 vs 5 - after the first round of getting pummeled everyone else quit except me (I wanted to keep my rank progress) - so I just switched to spectate match from perched high above the Star Destroyer. Funnily enough, even with no active opposition the other team managed to get shifted to defense by the AI. I still didn’t come out though. Bloody ridiculous.

[Benny]

Actually I'm still playing Hades 

[Hexx]

Seeker mines for the win!

[Pob]

Those seeker mines are the worst. Took me a whole game of randomly blowing up while chasing the same TIE Bomber before I realised what was happening

[Darwock]

New dogfight record!

 

15 kills, 6 deaths (forgot to check assists), I could have had more but I got a bit over-excited as the clock ticked down and boosted into an asteroid. There was one other guy higher level than me and I was leading him most of the match but he finished on 16 kills, bahhh 

 

He was flying an A-wing and I can say with confidence that the missile reversal countermeasure is much more annoying than seeker mines ><

 

@Benny You’d best just uninstall Hades and get back in the cockpit

[Benny]

31 minutes ago, Darwock said:

New dogfight record!

 

15 kills, 6 deaths (forgot to check assists), I could have had more but I got a bit over-excited as the clock ticked down and boosted into an asteroid. There was one other guy higher level than me and I was leading him most of the match but he finished on 16 kills, bahhh 

 

He was flying an A-wing and I can say with confidence that the missile reversal countermeasure is much more annoying than seeker mines ><

 

@Benny You’d best just uninstall Hades and get back in the cockpit

 

Fuck it, I'm going on tonight. What ship was that in? My record is with an X-Wing so far.

[Darwock]

A mix, I started in a regular TIE fighter, and after a couple of deaths I switched to the Bomber.

 

edit - PSA for everyone that hasn’t played for a while, there’s another patch out. I’d love to know what was changed but they provided a QR code on a loading screen for details. Not much bloody use when you’re playing in VR.

[Valver]

1 hour ago, Darwock said:

PSA for everyone that hasn’t played for a while, there’s another patch out. I’d love to know what was changed 

https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/squadrons/news/update-2-0-release-notes?isLocalized=true

 

Its a big list!

[Pob]

Great change:

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Capital ship turrets are now much deadlier against players that are slow/close to capital ships and less deadly against players that are fast/far

 

[Darwock]

Thanks for that, some great stuff I’ve been keeping my fingers crossed for, especially with ranked fleet battles.

 

TIE bomber nerfed too, wish that had come when I was trying for my 10 rebel wins.

[Benny]

Damn, there goes my cap ship strategy.

[Pob]

No way man, full-speed strafing runs for me! None of that full-stop nonsense. Same reason I refuse to use the auto-aim lasers.

[Darwock]

It was the worst thing about the game, when you’re on defense and get killed, watching the various subsystem life bars drain away before your eyes from all the parasitic bombers parked next to your flagship.

 

I often tried to do the same, but always messed up the braking point so I would collide hard with the target, careen off and lose my bearings, so I usually did end up strafing across the hull trying to find my original target. Anyway, instant death on attack runs is the norm for me so I doubt I’ll notice any difference.

[Benny]

Well after the update there's some weird issues. The first person view freezes after every second to last conversation for me after every mission and before starting the next one. Have to Alt F4 to exit as you can't even open the menu.

[layten]

Got a VR headset earlier this week. Time to pick this up.

[Darwock]

New dogfight record! 16 kills, 3 deaths, with a kill streak of 10. In a TIE bomber again.

[Benny]

I found the last few story missions really frustrating:

 

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Fly through debris filled chutes and exploding asteroids with a tiny margin for error. On the last one it's very cinematic and everything but I was directly following the leader as the objective instructed, but still randomly died. It went for a "cinematic" wrap up that fell rather flat for me.

 

Still, now it's all about the multiplayer.

 

[smac]

I had no problem with the 

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Fly through asteroids bit - found it boring, and was concentrating on flying too hard to notice any cinematic. Think I got a speed achievement for it.

What I did find hard was

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taking out Linden. Usually one of his Wingmen in an A Wing would tag me as I tried to whittle him down. Spent hours trying to kill the bugger.

 

[Benny]

3 minutes ago, smac said:

I had no problem with the 

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Fly through asteroids bit - found it boring, and was concentrating on flying too hard to notice any cinematic. Think I got a speed achievement for it.

What I did find hard was

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taking out Linden. Usually one of his Wingmen in an A Wing would tag me as I tried to whittle him down. Spent hours trying to kill the bugger.

 

 

I think for that bit at the end they

 

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Artificially keep his shields up until he's flown through a few of the plasma venting things on him.

 

[smac]

Yeah, it's padded. You can get there earlier by doing a lot of damage, quickly, but I suspect you're better off

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waiting ‘til his shield regenerator goes down then letting him have everything you have. Seeker mines helped, as he basically jousts you, head on; so I'd fire one off as he started his run past me.

 

[sprite]

So this looks brilliant. I’m guessing it’ll fill that Rogue Squadron shaped hole in my life.

 

I play Xbox One, I’ve got Game Pass Ultimate... does that mean I get it free tomorrow?

[metallicfrodo]

No, it won’t be on EA Play for 6months to a year. Fallen Order is being added to EA Play though.

[sprite]

1 hour ago, metallicfrodo said:

No, it won’t be on EA Play for 6months to a year. Fallen Order is being added to EA Play though.

ta!

[Darwock]

It’s funny how this game ebbs and flows - I had a round in an X-wing this evening that was just wonderful, I went 9 kills with no deaths (first time on a full round!)  despite coming under fire numerous times, and then the very next round I could barely scrape a 3/2 despite being in my favourite bomber.

 

Is it just me that is wildly inconsistent like this, or does everyone go through the same stuff?

 

I am trying to improve my win ratio rather than my KDR, so I was happy to see a level 237 guy put on my team (his level badge was silver, first one I’ve seen like that). Get into the match and he’s the most useless chump I’ve ever seen, just got slaughtered 0/7 - we lost the round. I came across the same guy on the opposing team in the next few rounds, and noticed his Y-wing is always just kind of drifting around at the edge of the area, doing vague spirals. I’m assuming it’s an AFK player who has taped down his controls or something, but why on earth would anyone want to do that? The trend I saw was that whichever team that guy was on would lose the match, so I stopped playing in case he got put on mine again. Don’t want to drop below 50% wins again! (0.51 atm)