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4 hours ago, Captainant said:

I really wish they would remake TIE Fighter, it's too bad EA tried to turn Squadrons into a live service game

The biggest issue was that they released it, then about 6 months in, abandoned it. But it's not entirely EA's fault -- the number of players dropped off a cliff within a week of its release. For whatever reasons, it was a pretty failed product.

But playing with HOTAS is an entirely upgraded experience from playing it with a mouse or controller. Now there's a big learning curve to having to map all of the controls, learn how to use them, and then after that you've gotta figure out why it crashes to desktop 4 out of every 5 times you try to launch it*, but once you're in the game and playing? It's AWESOME.

*still don't know why

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51 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

The biggest issue was that they released it, then about 6 months in, abandoned it. But it's not entirely EA's fault -- the number of players dropped off a cliff within a week of its release. For whatever reasons, it was a pretty failed product.

But playing with HOTAS is an entirely upgraded experience from playing it with a mouse or controller. Now there's a big learning curve to having to map all of the controls, learn how to use them, and then after that you've gotta figure out why it crashes to desktop 4 out of every 5 times you try to launch it*, but once you're in the game and playing? It's AWESOME.

*still don't know why

Add in a VR headset and baby you got a sim goin! I used to play Elite Dangerous with some friends that way, it was a blast

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1 hour ago, Captainant said:

Add in a VR headset and baby you got a sim goin! I used to play Elite Dangerous with some friends that way, it was a blast

Yeah, VR headsets aren't my thing. I don't mind playing with my son's, but he's really complaining about the Oculus 3, and hoping to sell it and eventually upgrade to the latest Steam thing when it comes out.

They're making a new podracing game apparently.

@Rimbo have you tried Ace Squadron? Have a buddy that enjoys that one.

16 minutes ago, ztejas said:

They're making a new podracing game apparently.

@Rimbo have you tried Ace Squadron? Have a buddy that enjoys that one.

Naw.

It's all about that Larry Holland-style X-Wing/TIE Fighter style piloting. Larry Holland didn't design the games past X-Wing Alliance, but Squadrons follows a lot of the design decisions of Holland's games -- power management, shield balancing, etc -- and has a very similar feel. If you want a modern TIE Fighter game, that's pretty much the game to play. Only thing missing from it is the ability to swap how the blasters fire -- you could switch between individual bolts, dual bolts, and (on X-Wings/TIE Interceptors) quad bolts firing at the same time; on Squadrons, you get one shot per blaster period, and all blasters at once -- so e.g. on the B-Wing the Ion and Blaster cannons all fire at the same time, and as far as I can tell there's no way to just use the ions or blasters.

I don't even care to play real flight simulators. I just wanna lock s-foils in attack position and go blow up a Star Destroyer

3 hours ago, Captainant said:

Add in a VR headset and baby you got a sim goin! I used to play Elite Dangerous with some friends that way, it was a blast

2 hours ago, Rimbo said:

Yeah, VR headsets aren't my thing. I don't mind playing with my son's, but he's really complaining about the Oculus 3, and hoping to sell it and eventually upgrade to the latest Steam thing when it comes out.

a friend said vr headset with an A wing is basically cheat code

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