Second-screen, motion controls, virtual reality; BioWare Montreal's Ian Frazier tells devs how to figure out which ones are right for them
Ian Frazier recently shared how players could unlock stuff and the possibility of DLCs in upcoming video game Star Wars: Squadrons.
What the $40? I’m sold. And it’s nice to see EA learning from the debacle that was Battlefront 2 launch
EA trying to buy good faith from the customer. They know they fucked up with BF2. Promising a full game at a reduced price and the promise of no Microtransactions. Might work.
They've been trying this. They did it with Jedi: Fallen Order too. Its going to take them doing this with multiple games in order to win back the community's trust though, if its even doable.
Did they promise no microtransactions? I knoe they said everything can be unlocked by playing the game. But that doesn't mean they won't include microtransactions for people that want to get everything quickly. And if they do that, it also doesn't mean they won't make it a huge grind to unlock everything through gameplay.
Because we should all have learned by now that being able to unlock everything with gameplay is not the same as saying no microtransactions.
There's a couple things I'm not sold on yet.
Sure, its $40. But its a 4 hour campaign and 2 multiplayer modes with only 4 ships per faction. So it SHOULD be $40, really. Though it is nice to see EA actually do the right thing by pricing it appropriately.
And whats really bothering me is that it looks like both modes are just 5v5 with no bots. Thats just bad. I can understand the dogfighting mode being like that. But the mode where you have to take out an enemy capital ship? There needs to be a bunch of bots flying around too. Its kind of silly that a capital ship would only launch 5 fighters to defend itself. There just doesn't look like there's enough going on in that mode without fighters flying all over the place.
40 seems high based on what it is and considering the very low level of effort. They have taken the Starfighter Assault mode directly from the BF2 title. They have re-swizzled it (by how much remains to be seen). They are reusing maps, ship models, character models, heck almost everything. The game has a grand total of 6 maps. 6. 2 of which look like direct copies of what we have already played.
It is LOCKED into 1st person view. Oh and there is entirely too much diversity and inclusion for my liking. Perhaps one of the unlocks is a white male character as they appear to be as rare as Unicorns now.
$40 is too high for 5v5 crossplay vr compatible multiplayer starwarsfight game?!?! Man it must be nice to be so jaded. 6 maps multiple ships multiple modes i just get lol. I know its ea and its cool to hate but theyre last efforts as far as star wars goes have been good they "fixed" battlefront its free jedi knight was good and now this.
What the? Only 4 hours? And locked in first person. I’m sold and sold.
I love games I can finish in a weekend. I mean I pay $30 for 4K Blu Ray sometimes. $40 isn’t that bad.
Yeah. This is super cool news, I will buy this game now, even preorder.
It's good to hear that EA changed with the star wars games at least...
The fact this is been seen as a great thing saddens me.
This should be a standard, instead it's now seen as a stand out feature to brag about..
Tell you what would be something to brag about. Being able to say your game is so fun you don't need a progression system to lock things behind like every other multiplayer game.
I'm still skeptical I'll wait to see the final product but after Jedi Fallen Order I can see EA doing this right.
I looked at other sites reporting on this same news and I did see a tweet from a developer clarifying that Microtransactions won't be in the game at all.
So thats definitely a good thing. But I really wish there was more to this game. A 4 hour campaign, 2 MP modes, and 4 ships per faction is just not a lot of content to keep people interested for long. Especially if its really only 5v5 in both modes with no bots.
It's almost like the execs at EA woke up and decided they wanted to do good things this past year. Hope it keeps up.
Star Wars: Squadrons Creative Director Ian Frazier revealed that you'll be able to do drifting maneuvers in the upcoming space combat game. He also confirmed the ability to entirely remap controls - buttons and even sticks.
A deep dive into the game EA calls the ‘definitive’ Star Wars flight experience.
I don't really care if my console has a YouTube app, if it helps me watch TV, if it fries eggs for me while I take a shower. I get a console for gaming, so as long as the gimmicks are a secondary thing, that's fine with me
I really care if my console has a YouTube app, if it helps me watch TV, I don't want yet another console with just improved graphics I want a entertainment centre that does lots of things, just gaming is to 1980s, things have moved on, way on.
1080p/60 fps
Remote Play
Innovative game play we haven't seen.
Apps and other stuff are not very important. Its always about the videogames.
Finicially supported 1st party studio games!!!
oh and ps plus
remote play,better hardware for me