It's called an etheric rudder. Looks like anyone who played Star Wars: TIE Fighter will have a lot more context looking at this trailer. The layout ideas are very similar, but with ability gimmicks thrown in on top.
Well we did hear about it and everyone hated Project Maverick from what I could tell. People were mad this goes before more Battlefront 2 and Jedi Fallen Order sequel. But Im really happy we are getting this game. I want it more than more Battlefront
@@robertmartin1611 There don't have to be micro transactions for EA to ruin things. Potential problems from experience with EA I expect: -Dumbed down gameplay with stupid stuff like regenerating "health" and/or ammo. They should take X-Wing Alliance as an inspiration but the gameplay will probably feel more like the space battles in Battlefront 2. -Ridiculously high TTK like in Battlefront 2. -"Abilities" like in Battlefront 2. -Too much customization. This would not be thaaat much of a problem for the rebels but it would absolutely ruin immersion when the Empire could do this as well. -DLCs aren't micro transactions, so lots of DLCs. These are my predictions. I seriously hope the game will be good, but when it comes to EA, I never get hyped and I don't listen to the people. People said Battlefront 2 became a good game but it still sucks. No micro transactions doesn't equal a good game.
@Salmon you can control a lot more about how your ship looks and what it can do than you can in bf2, which can lead to fighters being very diverse in both looks and functionality
So are there going to be no crosshairs. That’s actually really cool. Also the mechanic for the imperials looks a lot like the one when you start off on command sector north as the imperials.
This is giving me flashbacks to my favorite game of all time - Tie Fighter. I am so so so so so so so excited for this game now. I can't even believe something like this is being made.
I feel the same, I never imagined I would see another game like Xwing or Tie Fighter come out... ever. I'm cautiously optomistic but it is EA so I'm still skeptical, but I'm happy to be proven wrong! Tie Fighter is also one of my faveroute games ever, been a long wait for a worthy sequal!
@@Clones_and_coffee well come back and let me know how disappointed you are... bc this game is trash compared to everspace and star conflict, i don't know about rebel galaxy outlaw, but geez SWS'S controls are trash
Christoph Wolf Im playing it now. Yes I’m having trouble getting used to it, it isn’t as intuitive or easy compared to the old games. The function/targeting wheel thing is annoying to get to more complex commands.
Those cockpit interiors look a lot like the x wing and tie fighter games.... The 3 power types and targeting computers.... Like I am having flash backs.
The dev said that he and his team were huge fanboys of those games. They commonly drew cockpits of those ships as a hobby and one even created X-Wing cockpit in his garage for fun :) So yeah, they are pushing very hard for those good old days of Space sims.
@@delta2372 "To be forgotten?" Hate to break it to you bud, but they're already forgotten by many fans, especially the younger ones who weren't even alive when those games came out. If anything it may entice people to track them down and see what they've been missing out on.
Looks gorgeous. I would love to play this with a Flightstick and a Keyboard like the old days. The drift feature is pretty sweet, could really equalize the combat between shielded and unshielded ships if TIEs can do it more effectively than Rebel ships. The fact there are SLAMs proves that the Devs actually played the old games and really know how great they were. Very intrigued by the heavy cannon weapon, too. Carving up a capital ship at close quarters will be incredible.
In fact if they make TIEs fundamentally more maneuverable, it will become significantly unbalanced towards the Empire. All your shields are useless when the enemy can comfortably sit on your tail and keep hitting you until you are dead. Remeber my words, when the forums burst into flames with "Empire OP" topics.
Fleet battles looks like a remake of ClassicFront 2 space systems, with the Frigates and Cap ship Hardpoints and its available offline, I have a very good feeling about this!
Do the ships actually have target-able hard points like in OG Battlefront 2? If its just 3 modules on the ship without the ability to target things like turbolasers, engines, laser and ion cannons, I'm gonna be a little bit disappointed.
It's a spiritual successor of X-Wing vs Tie Fighter. XvT Series (4 games and an expansion) was a major block buster franchise of the 90s which was a super in depth Space Simulation set in the Star Wars universe. This is a lot more, how should I say... Dumbed down for the modern generation of knuckle draggers but it's far deeper flight mechanic wise than anything a AAA studio has felt they can do for the last 20 years. In the 90s on PC Simulation titles like MechWarrior, Freespace, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and Wing Commander were the PC Exclusive killer apps you could not get on console and were responsible for why everyone who owned a home computer in the 90s owned a mandatory Joystick. Hard to believe that for a while if you game used all the keyboard buttons 3x's over (Holding Alt, Ctrl, or Shift) and came with a mini phone book manual you were almost guaranteed to have a massive hit! Now It's $40. In 2002 the Gold Standard of Space Simulators came out, Freespace 2! Game of the Year, 10/10's, 100% scores. And it flopped. That was the last AAA Space simulator from a major studio. I think this $40 budget game is a test to see if Space Sims are able to make any kind of come back. I bet if we get a Squadrons 2 it'll be like Battlefront in scope. This almost feels like a proof of concept to the executives who no doubt were hesitant to sign off on it as it's a dead genre. (EA use to make Wing Commander, a major franchise in the genre back then)
@@gungriffen I just hope their "fleet battles" aren't just starfighters with destroy the control point inserted as "capital ships" instead of actual interaction with and between the fighters and the "capital ships". I understand if their are targeting the old space sim market, but the fleet battle in the trailer gets my hopes up on it being more in depth.
@@macwelch8599 Especially Seyn. We still don't even know what she looks like. Any time they show artwork of her, its always the back of her head or wearing the helmet. :P
@@punctuationman334 The B-Wing is NOT a bomber (unless you're playing X-Wing or Armada). Its classified as a HEAVY ASSAULT starfighter. Meaning, technically, it could provide the best kind of support - fire support. Besides, The U-Wing was a troop lander/ground support gunship. They would have been better with the E-Wing
Never has a game more screamed "DLC!" to me lol. Obviously I want as many ships as they'll put in the game (B WINGS DAMMIT), but what I think would be really cool is a "Cinematic"/"Capture" mode. Lots of awesome community content could be generated from that.
totally agree. no one ever mentioned that there are more than 8 ships from the start. So either its delayed free content which is fair but why launch a half ready game since 8 ships will be boring hardcore since you cannot swap within a single class. Or there are DLC'S coming which explains the lower starting price but they will generate money over the time with additional ships and probably design features. But honestly i dont want to customize my interior of an xwing or anything. I would have loved to design change the exterior. That also would have brought more depth to the game when changing wings, guns, etc. that have different effects and visuals. Quite sobering so far for me... :(
@@diarmuid1213 bf2015 had more variety so it was Worth it. Here you only have First Person space battles. Not Worth to me. But thats up for everyone to decide themselves.
They're unbalanced when a team doesn't understand the idea of swarming. Even Slave 1 can be taken out in only 2 waves with 3 ships hitting it at the same time, 1 wave if Slave 1 has no chance to use the sonic charge, or the attacking wave is out of range. The idea is to swarm. Have 1 interceptor lay chase to the hero, and 2 fighter class ships to cover the flanks. Add more ships for faster hero destruction.
They had to fall so they can learn to walk. With the updates to battlefront, fallen order and squadrons I think some confidence has been restored with a good amount of people.
Phrosties They had no faith in fallen order, that was all because respawn insisted they wanted to make a game after their successes. I strongly believe that Microsoft being interested in acquiring the license when time is up has a strong validity to it.
Since we have "classes" the plan would seem to be EA selling ships that have all the same stats as the basic starfighters but looking very different. The name, "squadrons" also doesn't lock them into any specific era so you could have Clone Wars or even the Mandalorian War campaigns. That way, EA avoids the P2W accusations but knows that people would pay for an "Interceptor" that is a Clone Wars era Jedi Starfighter which functions the same as an A-wing.
@@SandyCheeks1896 Vulture droids would be unlikely since they have no cockpits for EA to monetize and the UI would just be displayed over the players screen as they'd be "seeing" through the droids eyes. But there were non-droid starfighters like the Belbullab starfighters and bombers which were used by the CIS.
TauridBorn hopefully it will be like agents in valorant. Where after a certain amount of xp will unlock another ship, like the B-wing, maybe the ghost or falcon, dooku’s Geonosian ship maybe(?), and any other ship. Maybe they each have some kind of different passive that isn’t too op so it isn’t a kind of pay to win.
Look’s great so far. I would like to see some more uncut gameplay though, especially from the Capital Ship mode. With that mode, it’s got to be a huge battle with loads of AI ships, especially if both team only has 5 players each.
I could see ai having to fill a 12 on 12 role for fighters only and maybe for objective section 4 bombers 4 fighters 4 interceptors ai. Balancing would be interesting If a team has 5 a wings with the intent of just hunting fighters they would go into round 2 with no human bombers making their attack ineffective. I'm wondering if there will be a death penalty for killing yourself to respawning. Or if you will have to fly back to land and deploy another fighter which wastes time. I think this could be really deep strategy wise if they play it smart.
That little shield thing you were wondering at is for aiming. In the trailer if you watch it, in one frame when the player is firing at the TIE, the icon for the TIE is dead center, as if it was in a crosshair. It is a targeting computer or whatever you would call it.
Everything screams this being a modern update/reimagining to the X-Wing/TIE Fighter games and that's not a bad thing. Hopefully there will be a wider assortment of flyable ships than just the stock Rebellion and Empire models. TIE Defenders, E-Wings, Assault Gunboats, Torrents, ARC-170's would be cool.
It seems like the multiplayer mode of this game is what they had originally envisioned X-Wing vs TIE Fighter being (but weren't able to pull off at the time).
As a fan of those games? I'd honestly say everything but the graphics seems like a worse version of those games. The flight model looks like it's trying to crudely ape something like E:D rather than trying to stick to Star Wars, and why have stupid gimmicks like turrets and tractor beams unless the core dogfighting and ship-managing mechanics aren't fun enough? In fact why have them even then? It just detracts from it being a Star Wars experience and turns it into something different with a Star Wars coat of paint on it.
I mean you can.... just don't expect it to be a coup de grâce like in Return. altho if they make on-target collisions count as damage to said targets, that'd be sweet
Oh man, a modern successor to X-Wing? The nostalgia feels from some of the cockpit effects had me hooked right away. I hope they do a similar system to the X-wing series. The full 360, somewhat scripted way those missions worked would lend itself really well to player-generated missions. They have the SLAM?! Here's hoping for some Assault Gunboat/Missile Boat content at some point, along with as many of the plethora of ships from X-Wing Alliance as humanly possible. It'd be unfair to ask for ALL of those ships, but I can dream. Perfect opportunity to canonize some new ships.
It was an amazing game, I played the hell out of it back in the day. A few of these developers are familiar with that title, since the cotpicks looks just like they did back then, and I am sure the line "Balance of Power" said during the trailer was no coincidence.
WingedDynamite i know right? I guess it’s very tailored to starfighter lovers, but it’s clearly not a half baked game as some youtubers are calling it.
Ehhh I wouldn't say positive, since it's Disney canon you will have very little in ship variety, I wish games would mix Disney and legend's content for more variety of vehicles and equipment but since Disney hates legend's and wants to erase all traces of it that will never happen
@@kinggoten It does, looks more like a Rogue Squadron with certain X-Wing elements to me. Remember XWA had no unlock system, thank god. The support ship also behaves very differently in XWA it can only reload your missiles. Do like the return of the laserbanks though.
No no, it's the replacement of the x-wing' tie fighter and rouge squadron game's, since Disney dispises everything from legend's and the Lucas era they are trying their best to erase everyone's memory of anything to do with that time in star wars.
@@delta2372 "Disney despises everything from Legends/Lucas era, they are trying their best to erase everyone's memory of anything to do with that time in Star Wars." Yeah that's why they still have all the old Legends books in print, all of the old Legends comics are readable on Marvel Unlimited, and all of the old games are available on Steam. Hell, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy just got released on the goddamn Switch. The persecution complex y'all foster is truly one of the dumbest things I've borne witness to.
This gave us an important thing I always thought we needed more of: capital ships firing missiles TFA had an opportunity to have had the FO switch to maining SAMs/doing a missile vibe for whatever in-lore reason they wanted but chickened out.
Some TIE's like Vader Black Squadron (those from Death Star) did have shields and hyperdrive. It was optional equipment what could be installed on TIE/LN in case of elite units.
Patrick Buerke You must have never played X-wing Vs. TIE Fighter. THAT is the standard by which all other combat simulators are held against. OG BF2 was cartoony even in comparison to Rogue Squadron 2 and 3.
@@streetfightinmanrs Yeah it was basically battlefield flight models and detail. I played a toooon of XW: Alliance as a kid growing up. Loved messing around in the Skirmish modes.
@@ВладиславДараган-ш3ф thrawn was hyperspace jumped with ezra and the purgill at the end of rebels, and sabine + ahsoka only start looking for him after the battle of endor
Thrawn cloned himself an switched places sometime before the feral ewoks killed his clone. There was no investigation to see if he was dead obviously because there we was dead. Then he went home at some blueTang an later came back as an embassy to the Republic, under his real name. Who compares to that?
Don’t get me wrong, I love Sheridan, but I attribute his success to superior instinct and Thrawn’s to superior intellect. In a straight strategic fight Thrawn will win, however, Sheridan wouldn’t get killed by his own bodyguard.
I loved those games too...there's actually nothing new here. Every time he says "I wonder..." or the like about something in the cockpit it just means he hasn't talked to anyone that played those games.
"In other Star Wars games you can fly right by a star destroyer not really too much to worry about" Rogue Squadron 2 and 3 would beg to differ. I'm pleased to see the power management mechanic and 3d wireframe of your target, its nothing new by any means, Freespace is the earliest example of it I can think of, but glad to see it none the less.
I was looking for someone that pointed that out, try flying close to a star destroyer in XvT, you'll see if you last long, especially alone in the harder difficulty setting, plus near some places you get your weapons jammed too
Delta 23 no, it’s to make money, and people were already forgetting those games. This game might bring more interest to the star fighter genre of Star Wars games.
ISDs in X-Wing Alliance would chew you up even if you came in a Y-wing or a B-wing. He seems to think they only have turbolasers and not hundreds of point defense guns just waiting for a foolish pilot to *try* to take out the shield generators. They even would shoot down your missiles and torpedoes forcing you to get close which puts you in range.
The original 1993 X-wing game (and subsequent games) had the exact same resource management mechanic shown here. It was a staple in space fighter sims throughout the 90s, back when the genre was most popular. Super glad to be seeing a revival of that - I'd have expected EA to give us a much more watered down experience, in all honestly.
For the power bars you were talking about: Blue = Engines Red = Weapons - the two |'s on the side of the triangles appear to me to represent weapons, also the TIE hud only has red and blue power bars, which would imply engines and weapons) Green = Shields - In the HUD's of the ships with shields, shields are green, , also the C icon on the power bar represents kinda a shield around a ship, and as mentioned above the TIE ships had no green bar power bad because they had no shields.
@@delta2372 And yet the took everything from Tie Fighter and Alliance. the SLAM engine was on the Missile Boat. Plus it got this X-wing player interested.
Oof I just noticed that Edit: actually, I think that might be based on customization. At 19:04 you can see the correct version. I would assume one of the upgrades might change the way the cockpit looks. That’s certainly caught my attention
What I want for pilot customization For the rebel pilots: •old clone wars era pilot armor(phase 1 and 2) •different bounty hunter armor (Like what obi wan wore when he faked his death or what Leia's wore rescuing han) •different alien species: ithorians, zabrak, twlek, rodian, kaleesh, duro,harch,etc For imperials: •different sqaudron markings •experimental pilot armors •special forces •royal guard pilot armor(and royal guard tie interceptors)
@EckhartsLadder 14:10 actually shows how we will control the shunting between the energy - it is arrow key (left, right, up, down). It is visible in all the other cockpits as well, but here it is completely obvious. That is why you cannot make head or tail out of the pictograms. Because they do not mean "shield, engine, weapons" but they show arrows. Lore-wise, it would make sense to have 4 buttons in the cockpit as well. Left arrow = engine power (blue) Up arrow = weapons (red) Right arrow = shields (green/turqoise) down arrow = reset to nominal blue/red colours also match the SW Galaxies layout... This is completely the same way as it is in for example Elite Dangerous. Moreover, 17:20 "nimble deflector" seems to hint at a possibility to shift energy between each shields (nimble will shift it faster), I reckon conversion shield will do something with that too. It is also hinted in each of the cockpit of the shielded ships. (TIE Reaper = two little arrows next to the shields) This also in line with SW Galaxies and all the shout outs during space battles in movies.
@@supergkop5678 I do agree with him saying it's stolen as the disney canon has been lazy and outright boring, everything is so nerfed and outside a few ships there aren't any good news desgins, only the U wing and tie reaper are actually cool designs and arguably the ressurgance ISD but everything else is either hideous or from the original film's
Good to see you finding some more of what you enjoy in the new content. I know after ROS came out there was a lot of other stuff that happened and came out that you were struggling with enjoying. Glad to see it man
My classic star wars were always the x-wing and tie fighter series and I'm overjoyed that this is looking more and more akin to that game right down to the power management format. I can't wait
EA once again exaggerated what a game features. You can't have "massive fleet battles" with 10 starfighters, 4 frigates and 2 capital ships. That's a minor skirmish at best and it won't capture that Star Wars feeling unless they toss in another 30 or so AI star fighters and some more frigates and vessels. As for the "strategy"... well, the choice of offense, defense or support class is just barely "strategic". We're talking Team Fortress 2 levels of planning where you just have a HWGuy, Medic and an Engineer to guard the base. So yeah, very little thought needed. Fortunately, SW:S doesn't have any competing multiplayer starfighters games or else I'd not bother to buy it.
What would be cool to have is something similar to the Post Stall Maneuver from Ace Combat 7 that can be done but requires a specific speed limit and aircraft. What do you guys think? I'm sure not many people know what I'm talking about but if you do search up the Post Stall Maneuver from Ace Combat 7
@@RomanHistoryFan476AD I Think you are missing the point......also they literally are flying like they are in the atmosphere. But the PSM was a instance based effect that required precise speed and angle of attack.
Eck: The yellow dot in the center of the aiming screen is the area you can see in front of you. Things at the edges of your "radar" are behind you. Look at 6:44. The red dot to the very left of that center dot is the Tie Bomber that just took a missile hit in front of you. It's the exact same radar display used in the older video games.
just play LucasArts game X-wing vs Tie Fighter to see what we will be getting it has SLAM engine on the Missle Boat and Tractor Beams on the Tie Defender. All the ships that have shields can be adjusted forward or back, you can use shield energy to boost lasers or engine speed or vise versa. Also look at the X-wing game and Tie Fighter game, BTW Tie Fighter is the best Star Wars fighter sim with a great story that also includes you working with Vice Admiral Thrawn to save the Emperor from the Traitor Admiral Zaarin. Game comes with a story book following the recruit you play as all the way up to the rank of Emperor's Hand if you do the secret missions.
And is also the only single player star wars game I know that is 100% centered around the Empire and shows their point of view. You know, the thing they were bragging about when they announced Battlefront II's campaign and then the campaign only had 3-4 missions as an actual Imperial. And its also the game that introduced the Tie Defender, lets hope we can see one at least in campaign.
the maneuver at 9:25 is a zero gravity mechanic used first in the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series and again in the expanse sifi show it was also attempted in Babylon 5 however special effects were limited and failed. the idea is thrust engines dont need to keep burning once desired speed is reached until something slows it down. so that means that a spacecraft can continue on its coarse then using maneuver thrusters at full power as main engines are off to spin the ship to face what ever direction wanted but still moving in the original direction inertia was taking the spacecraft.
11:18 Eck the red one is weapons. Shields is green. Also I think that middle one with a triangle with three lines below it is proton torpedo (Edit: ok apparently it was "seeker warheads")
Yeah, you can tell which management bar represents which system, as they're all color coordinated. The speed is the same color as the speedometer. Weapons the same color as the laser charge display. And shields the same color as the ship health's shield indicator (most is green, but I think I saw a cyan one in there too, and the power management bar was the same different color).
This and skate 4 was all they had. Skate 4 is amazing but they showed nothing. This looks interesting but not enough to fill ea’a usual game release density
@EckhartsLadder The shield icon on the HUD denotes a capital ship. The shield will most likely be in the fleet battle mode when you lose the fighter battle and must defend your friendly cruisers. The large red box icons are either enemy capital ships of the flagship.
When he's talking about the shields and blaster energy it's a mechanic straight out of the old X-Wing and TIE Fighter games in the mid 90s. And it's clear Eckharts has never hear of those games. Actually all the things he says "I wonder..." about the cockpits is already known to anyone who played those games. He should just ask an older mate.
I know, right! Kids these days. I was sitting there correcting him the whole video. This is pretty much X-wing vs. Tie Fighter updated with new graphics and some gameplay tweaks. I am sooooo in.
6:33 I assume that it is a minimap and the individual icons resemble your team's capital ships, the enemy's capital ships, or main objectives. Anytime the icon is in the center of the screen, the pilot is facing the ship or objective, and anytime the icon is on the edge of the screen it means the ship or objective is to the side or behind you.
I was cautiously optimistic upon watching the trailer, but after your breakdown I'm genuinely excited. Never stop never stopping, man. It's not rambling when it's informative.
I'm glad TIE Fighters are finally a threat again. Before this they were only intimidating in A New Hope before legends slandered them into the worst ship in Star Wars.
well they were designed to keep the galaxy in-check, and the average person in the galaxy couldn't do shit to a TIE Fighter. So they 100% make sense as a mass-produced, highly effective, fighter... against things that are completely unable to stop them. I.e. 99.9% OF THE GALAXY.
Doing the drifts and crazy manoeuvres would be down to the inertia dampers. Trying to go that fast and pull those moves, would result it a red/black out without them.
Shields were only on the defenders, not the regular TIEs. Maybe they could bring an option for that in with another option for the New Republic too but I wouldn't hold my breath because the TIE Defender was Thrawn's baby and he was trying to sell the idea to the emperor while tarkin and krennic were selling the death star to him. Then Thrawn disappeared. That's why we never see them beyond rebels.
This may not be possible for the fleet battles, but what if you could rearrange your capital and support ships? Moving them around into different fleet positions and compositions? Possibly replacing a certain frigate or capital ship for another? This could compliment your squadrons strategy and loadout. This could all be done in that prep phase inside your capital ship that they showed beforehand.
I’m not sure how I feel about the trail the star fighters leave behind them, I understand if they’re making a sharp turn and you see the trail but I’m not a fan of seeing the trail in space, besides that the game looks amazing!!!
I think it's probably there for gameplay purposes, giving you a visual sense of enemy vectors at distance for you to lead your shots since I presume they aren't going to give you a smart targeting reticule that gives you a shot-leading estimate. The sim elements they describe in this make it sound like a lot of things are going to be more manual, so the game is going to have to communicate information to the players differently.
In response to your question about if looking around your cockpit without VR would work: In Elite Dangerous they get around this by having you click in the left joystick (I play on PlayStation) to toggle head gimbaling or standard flight controls. It works pretty well from my experience although VR players would certainly have an advantage
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Eck’s squadron
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The ecks wings would be epic
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It's called an etheric rudder.
Looks like anyone who played Star Wars: TIE Fighter will have a lot more context looking at this trailer. The layout ideas are very similar, but with ability gimmicks thrown in on top.
if there isn’t a gold Darth Vader bobble head that i can put in my tie fighter i’m gonna be mad
Zambie gimme a Boba Fett bobblehead please!
*Hot pink with metal flake
It has to be mother of pearl with gold trim obviously and it has a purple cloak.
For $9.99 you'll get one. and only $18.99 for two. 🤪
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Elite dangerous star war lol
Star Wars Squadrons: The game that no one expected yet everyone liked
Well we did hear about it and everyone hated Project Maverick from what I could tell. People were mad this goes before more Battlefront 2 and Jedi Fallen Order sequel. But Im really happy we are getting this game. I want it more than more Battlefront
And THAT is the sign of a good game. Here's hoping they don't F*** it up with "updates" and "balance patches".
Mr. Faith it’s been confirmed there be no micro transaction.
I don't like a game before it's out. Especially if it's from EA.
@@robertmartin1611 There don't have to be micro transactions for EA to ruin things. Potential problems from experience with EA I expect:
-Dumbed down gameplay with stupid stuff like regenerating "health" and/or ammo. They should take X-Wing Alliance as an inspiration but the gameplay will probably feel more like the space battles in Battlefront 2.
-Ridiculously high TTK like in Battlefront 2.
-"Abilities" like in Battlefront 2.
-Too much customization. This would not be thaaat much of a problem for the rebels but it would absolutely ruin immersion when the Empire could do this as well.
-DLCs aren't micro transactions, so lots of DLCs.
These are my predictions. I seriously hope the game will be good, but when it comes to EA, I never get hyped and I don't listen to the people. People said Battlefront 2 became a good game but it still sucks. No micro transactions doesn't equal a good game.
Never thought I'd say this, but EA blew me away! Much like Alderaan.
I thought Jedi Fallen Order blew me away. It did. This blew me apart like the Death Star
too soon bro
@Salmon you can control a lot more about how your ship looks and what it can do than you can in bf2, which can lead to fighters being very diverse in both looks and functionality
They used to be Alderaan, now they’re Aldergone.
With Fallen Order and now this, it seems EA are finally getting their Star Wars s**t together.
So are there going to be no crosshairs. That’s actually really cool. Also the mechanic for the imperials looks a lot like the one when you start off on command sector north as the imperials.
I hope a HUD because you have one of those in a real fighter.
Blade Valant I mean everything you need is in the cockpit
weaps probably auto target.
Imma have to get used to no crosshairs I’m going to suck 😂
Nah there are crosshairs. They were off for cinematic reasons. However there is no aim circle like in SWBF2
The Legends New Republic symbol is canon. It's in The Mandalorian.
Yeah it's seen on the battle droids in the prison ship episode.
But non of the awesome ships the new republic made are, the disney new republic honestly sucks
@@delta2372 they are probably the resistance ships
@@ivabarai2770 yes the X and A wing MKII totally new and something I want to fly.....
I think you mean the Legends New Republic symbol was stolen. Either its all still legit or none of it is.
This is giving me flashbacks to my favorite game of all time - Tie Fighter. I am so so so so so so so excited for this game now. I can't even believe something like this is being made.
I feel the same, I never imagined I would see another game like Xwing or Tie Fighter come out... ever. I'm cautiously optomistic but it is EA so I'm still skeptical, but I'm happy to be proven wrong! Tie Fighter is also one of my faveroute games ever, been a long wait for a worthy sequal!
@@Clones_and_coffee well come back and let me know how disappointed you are... bc this game is trash compared to everspace and star conflict, i don't know about rebel galaxy outlaw, but geez SWS'S controls are trash
Christoph Wolf Im playing it now. Yes I’m having trouble getting used to it, it isn’t as intuitive or easy compared to the old games. The function/targeting wheel thing is annoying to get to more complex commands.
Those cockpit interiors look a lot like the x wing and tie fighter games.... The 3 power types and targeting computers.... Like I am having flash backs.
Well this game is to brush those games and rouge squadron under the rug to be forgotten
@@delta2372 not with 5v5 it wont
The dev said that he and his team were huge fanboys of those games. They commonly drew cockpits of those ships as a hobby and one even created X-Wing cockpit in his garage for fun :) So yeah, they are pushing very hard for those good old days of Space sims.
@@delta2372 "To be forgotten?" Hate to break it to you bud, but they're already forgotten by many fans, especially the younger ones who weren't even alive when those games came out. If anything it may entice people to track them down and see what they've been missing out on.
@@sentrysapper45 thank god for steam . I got the x-wing and TiE fighter twin pack .
Looks gorgeous. I would love to play this with a Flightstick and a Keyboard like the old days.
The drift feature is pretty sweet, could really equalize the combat between shielded and unshielded ships if TIEs can do it more effectively than Rebel ships.
The fact there are SLAMs proves that the Devs actually played the old games and really know how great they were.
Very intrigued by the heavy cannon weapon, too. Carving up a capital ship at close quarters will be incredible.
it's confirmed thats the game is vr ready and it has hotas support
Hope TrackIR works too. I can't wait for it to come out, I've wanted pretty much this format of game for a long time, and so far it looks great!
In fact if they make TIEs fundamentally more maneuverable, it will become significantly unbalanced towards the Empire. All your shields are useless when the enemy can comfortably sit on your tail and keep hitting you until you are dead. Remeber my words, when the forums burst into flames with "Empire OP" topics.
Fleet battles looks like a remake of ClassicFront 2 space systems, with the Frigates and Cap ship Hardpoints and its available offline, I have a very good feeling about this!
That's the first thing I said when I saw it. If the flight/ physics model is better than classicfront2 then this game is going to be great.
Insert: over used prequel line.
GeNeRaL kEnObI
Do the ships actually have target-able hard points like in OG Battlefront 2? If its just 3 modules on the ship without the ability to target things like turbolasers, engines, laser and ion cannons, I'm gonna be a little bit disappointed.
It's a spiritual successor of X-Wing vs Tie Fighter.
XvT Series (4 games and an expansion) was a major block buster franchise of the 90s which was a super in depth Space Simulation set in the Star Wars universe.
This is a lot more, how should I say...
Dumbed down for the modern generation of knuckle draggers but it's far deeper flight mechanic wise than anything a AAA studio has felt they can do for the last 20 years.
In the 90s on PC Simulation titles like MechWarrior, Freespace, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and Wing Commander were the PC Exclusive killer apps you could not get on console and were responsible for why everyone who owned a home computer in the 90s owned a mandatory Joystick.
Hard to believe that for a while if you game used all the keyboard buttons 3x's over (Holding Alt, Ctrl, or Shift) and came with a mini phone book manual you were almost guaranteed to have a massive hit!
Now It's $40.
In 2002 the Gold Standard of Space Simulators came out, Freespace 2!
Game of the Year, 10/10's, 100% scores.
And it flopped.
That was the last AAA Space simulator from a major studio.
I think this $40 budget game is a test to see if Space Sims are able to make any kind of come back.
I bet if we get a Squadrons 2 it'll be like Battlefront in scope.
This almost feels like a proof of concept to the executives who no doubt were hesitant to sign off on it as it's a dead genre.
(EA use to make Wing Commander, a major franchise in the genre back then)
@@gungriffen I just hope their "fleet battles" aren't just starfighters with destroy the control point inserted as "capital ships" instead of actual interaction with and between the fighters and the "capital ships". I understand if their are targeting the old space sim market, but the fleet battle in the trailer gets my hopes up on it being more in depth.
I hope they add prequel fights, like the fight above corusant.
I agree
That would be so cool,
EA: I agree, actually an excelent idea....$$$$$
probably a DLC for $49.99
They won't, Disney really wants the prequels down the memory hole.
Alternating between your 2 characters in the story mode sounds awesome
Can’t you do thAt in LEGO Star Wars
Tuglfugl Fex not 2 characters that you created and customized
Hope it's not like Inferno Squad in BFII 😢
Angel Huerta they were very interesting characters, but criminally underused and developed
@@macwelch8599 Especially Seyn. We still don't even know what she looks like. Any time they show artwork of her, its always the back of her head or wearing the helmet. :P
“You can also make your pilot look like Emma Watson”
Lol best thing I’ve heard all day
Last time i was this early Alderaan was still in one piece.
Yes yes very original
lol
Last time you were this early, the Arsenal bird wasn't blown up
Razgriz03264 too soon
Yeah, real tragedy that mining accident.
Can’t wait to hear “I’ll try spinning that’s a good trick”
It would be cool to see a tie defender and a b wing as an add on for the game in the future.
Agree. A bit disappointed they picked the U Wing over the iconic B Wing.
Elizabeth Lestrad a b wing couldn’t operate as a support ship, it’s a highly advanced bomber. It would make no sense for it to be in that role.
@@punctuationman334 The B-Wing is NOT a bomber (unless you're playing X-Wing or Armada). Its classified as a HEAVY ASSAULT starfighter. Meaning, technically, it could provide the best kind of support - fire support.
Besides, The U-Wing was a troop lander/ground support gunship. They would have been better with the E-Wing
Elizabeth Lestrad then make it a different class, it’s not that hard of a sollutution
Elizabeth Lestrad There definitely needs to be a heavy assault class added, at the very least for multiplayer
Never has a game more screamed "DLC!" to me lol. Obviously I want as many ships as they'll put in the game (B WINGS DAMMIT), but what I think would be really cool is a "Cinematic"/"Capture" mode. Lots of awesome community content could be generated from that.
There’s apparently more ships to be shown not just the 8
totally agree. no one ever mentioned that there are more than 8 ships from the start. So either its delayed free content which is fair but why launch a half ready game since 8 ships will be boring hardcore since you cannot swap within a single class. Or there are DLC'S coming which explains the lower starting price but they will generate money over the time with additional ships and probably design features. But honestly i dont want to customize my interior of an xwing or anything. I would have loved to design change the exterior. That also would have brought more depth to the game when changing wings, guns, etc. that have different effects and visuals.
Quite sobering so far for me... :(
I would pay for a season pass similar to bf2015 where they release new ships and other content every few months
@@diarmuid1213 bf2015 had more variety so it was Worth it. Here you only have First Person space battles.
Not Worth to me. But thats up for everyone to decide themselves.
I'm like, *praying* for astromech customization tbh
jonas borthne facts
Preach
I like the idea but they might not do it because the empire does not have astromech droids
@@jgmthetriggered6399 well the rebel scum does so I don't see why they couldn't customize them
@@user-lp7tx1fe6t I see you are a man of great intellect
"Star Destroyers aren't Dangerous"- grins in Rogue Leader
@sean Khan
SDs are ez
Squadrons: is a thing for 2 seconds
My mans: it belongs in a museum
So do you!
I hope EA keeps hero ships out of this one, they felt unbalanced in the battlefront games
Nikolas DeRosa : Or have hero ships but make them super expensive so to keep them rare.
Of just keep them relegated to an optional choice in the story missions
Their controls were also Klunky though
They're unbalanced when a team doesn't understand the idea of swarming. Even Slave 1 can be taken out in only 2 waves with 3 ships hitting it at the same time, 1 wave if Slave 1 has no chance to use the sonic charge, or the attacking wave is out of range. The idea is to swarm. Have 1 interceptor lay chase to the hero, and 2 fighter class ships to cover the flanks. Add more ships for faster hero destruction.
Cant wait for the game to released, EA should have made some more games earlier instead of wasting the star wars licence 🦃
They are only doing these in order to try and save the license when renewal comes up.
@@DarkZenith ohhh yeeaaahhh.. maybe.
They had to fall so they can learn to walk. With the updates to battlefront, fallen order and squadrons I think some confidence has been restored with a good amount of people.
Phrosties They had no faith in fallen order, that was all because respawn insisted they wanted to make a game after their successes. I strongly believe that Microsoft being interested in acquiring the license when time is up has a strong validity to it.
They're try to save the license also what will ea do to destroy a good game they done it before
I wonder if they will be adding more ships later, like the TIE Defender and B-Wing
It lambda shuttle. We've seen it, but it is unsure if we can pilot one.
Betcha there will be an expansion pack with TIE Defenders vrs B-Wings
Since we have "classes" the plan would seem to be EA selling ships that have all the same stats as the basic starfighters but looking very different. The name, "squadrons" also doesn't lock them into any specific era so you could have Clone Wars or even the Mandalorian War campaigns. That way, EA avoids the P2W accusations but knows that people would pay for an "Interceptor" that is a Clone Wars era Jedi Starfighter which functions the same as an A-wing.
Kryyss X exactly man. There’s no reason prequel era vulture droids and arc-170 could not come to the game.
@@SandyCheeks1896 Vulture droids would be unlikely since they have no cockpits for EA to monetize and the UI would just be displayed over the players screen as they'd be "seeing" through the droids eyes. But there were non-droid starfighters like the Belbullab starfighters and bombers which were used by the CIS.
@@KryyssTV I would be fine with that if it meant we got ships from other eras
TauridBorn hopefully it will be like agents in valorant. Where after a certain amount of xp will unlock another ship, like the B-wing, maybe the ghost or falcon, dooku’s Geonosian ship maybe(?), and any other ship. Maybe they each have some kind of different passive that isn’t too op so it isn’t a kind of pay to win.
10:08 Was that Rae Sloane? That's like her first non book appearance ever.
Yep thats Sloane
Симеон Колев not to get into semantics but still technically a book, but yeah you’re right, she didn’t only appear in a novel
wow yeah nice catch!
Look’s great so far. I would like to see some more uncut gameplay though, especially from the Capital Ship mode. With that mode, it’s got to be a huge battle with loads of AI ships, especially if both team only has 5 players each.
I could see ai having to fill a 12 on 12 role for fighters only and maybe for objective section 4 bombers 4 fighters 4 interceptors ai. Balancing would be interesting
If a team has 5 a wings with the intent of just hunting fighters they would go into round 2 with no human bombers making their attack ineffective. I'm wondering if there will be a death penalty for killing yourself to respawning. Or if you will have to fly back to land and deploy another fighter which wastes time. I think this could be really deep strategy wise if they play it smart.
what I didn't like about starfighter assault was there was no sense of speed, so I hope they add that in squadrons
ynot I mean, I can see that things look fast in the trailer so things look good.
That little shield thing you were wondering at is for aiming. In the trailer if you watch it, in one frame when the player is firing at the TIE, the icon for the TIE is dead center, as if it was in a crosshair. It is a targeting computer or whatever you would call it.
if it's anything like the old 90s X-wing and TIE fighter games then you will need to lead your shots and that will tell you if u r on target
I thought the shield icon might be to indicate where the ship you're tasked to defend is.
It probably works exactly like the one in Elite Dangerous
@@Zeto. Exactly. I was thinking the same thing. If your weapons are slower than light, you need a lead indicator like this.
Everything screams this being a modern update/reimagining to the X-Wing/TIE Fighter games and that's not a bad thing. Hopefully there will be a wider assortment of flyable ships than just the stock Rebellion and Empire models. TIE Defenders, E-Wings, Assault Gunboats, Torrents, ARC-170's would be cool.
That game series was out before the prequels. Would have been nice of LucasArts to have added the ARC-170 and the Naboo N-1.
It seems like the multiplayer mode of this game is what they had originally envisioned X-Wing vs TIE Fighter being (but weren't able to pull off at the time).
As a fan of those games? I'd honestly say everything but the graphics seems like a worse version of those games. The flight model looks like it's trying to crudely ape something like E:D rather than trying to stick to Star Wars, and why have stupid gimmicks like turrets and tractor beams unless the core dogfighting and ship-managing mechanics aren't fun enough? In fact why have them even then? It just detracts from it being a Star Wars experience and turns it into something different with a Star Wars coat of paint on it.
This is what I was thinking, I loved TIE fighter so much when I was a kid
fingers crossed!
I wish you could fly an A-wing into the bridge of a Star Destroyer.
Only way the rebel scum could win
I mean you can.... just don't expect it to be a coup de grâce like in Return.
altho if they make on-target collisions count as damage to said targets, that'd be sweet
Then I want to do that with my Tie Interceptor to a MC-80 aswell 😁
Would rather just fly a K-wing and bomb the shit out of it and the ISD next to it
just get an a-wing with all power to speed and a slam engine and bam youve got the perfect kamikaze ship
Oh man, a modern successor to X-Wing? The nostalgia feels from some of the cockpit effects had me hooked right away.
I hope they do a similar system to the X-wing series. The full 360, somewhat scripted way those missions worked would lend itself really well to player-generated missions.
They have the SLAM?! Here's hoping for some Assault Gunboat/Missile Boat content at some point, along with as many of the plethora of ships from X-Wing Alliance as humanly possible. It'd be unfair to ask for ALL of those ships, but I can dream. Perfect opportunity to canonize some new ships.
Missile Boat? Don't you mean the King Hell God Emperor Starfighter of Death?
@@VindicAlpha Ah, of course! My mistake.
You can always tell when someone hasn't played the original X-Wing and Tie Fighter games.
I was about to make this comment myself. XvT was the gold standard of SW games back in the day.
Those were the days!
Still is the gold standard. I’m still slowly rolling through TIE Fighter. We need those quality of games back.
It was an amazing game, I played the hell out of it back in the day. A few of these developers are familiar with that title, since the cotpicks looks just like they did back then, and I am sure the line "Balance of Power" said during the trailer was no coincidence.
Durwood Hicks : X-Wing Alliance was better than X-Wing vs TIE Fighter.
Ahh the Etheric rudders. Named by Tim Zahn when he wanted to explain how the x-wings maneuvered in space. (If memory serves)
Yub Yub, commander.
Thats correct
FINALLY SOME POSITIVITY ABOUT THIS GODSEND OF A GAME
WingedDynamite i know right? I guess it’s very tailored to starfighter lovers, but it’s clearly not a half baked game as some youtubers are calling it.
Right! Plenty of casual dumbshits mad it’s not a battlefront 2 update or open world shooter/saber game
@@NUUvs4kt Starfighter lover here,. its DEFINITELY not for me.
Ehhh I wouldn't say positive, since it's Disney canon you will have very little in ship variety, I wish games would mix Disney and legend's content for more variety of vehicles and equipment but since Disney hates legend's and wants to erase all traces of it that will never happen
@@MacerXGP why not?
"Well this is certainly interesting!"
*Ewok Bobblehead*
"Shut up and take my credits!"
Just from the first images it's pretty much the spiritual successor to the X-Wing series
I don't think any of them have played that from the way they were talking.
its far faster paced, still it does look like that I may even pre-order
@@kinggoten It does, looks more like a Rogue Squadron with certain X-Wing elements to me.
Remember XWA had no unlock system, thank god.
The support ship also behaves very differently in XWA it can only reload your missiles.
Do like the return of the laserbanks though.
No no, it's the replacement of the x-wing' tie fighter and rouge squadron game's, since Disney dispises everything from legend's and the Lucas era they are trying their best to erase everyone's memory of anything to do with that time in star wars.
@@delta2372 "Disney despises everything from Legends/Lucas era, they are trying their best to erase everyone's memory of anything to do with that time in Star Wars."
Yeah that's why they still have all the old Legends books in print, all of the old Legends comics are readable on Marvel Unlimited, and all of the old games are available on Steam. Hell, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy just got released on the goddamn Switch. The persecution complex y'all foster is truly one of the dumbest things I've borne witness to.
This gave us an important thing I always thought we needed more of: capital ships firing missiles
TFA had an opportunity to have had the FO switch to maining SAMs/doing a missile vibe for whatever in-lore reason they wanted but chickened out.
There's room for the shield meter in the TIE so I hope I can have a Thrawn modified interceptor.
Some TIE's like Vader Black Squadron (those from Death Star) did have shields and hyperdrive. It was optional equipment what could be installed on TIE/LN in case of elite units.
No one else gonna point out that fleet battles is basically the OG bf2’s space battles minus interior fighting/boarding?
To this day, no SW video game has come close to fulfilling space combat as OG BF2
Yea it's a bit sad there won't be any interior sabotage...
The original is available for cheap on Steam... we are still playing this game...
Patrick Buerke You must have never played X-wing Vs. TIE Fighter. THAT is the standard by which all other combat simulators are held against.
OG BF2 was cartoony even in comparison to Rogue Squadron 2 and 3.
@@streetfightinmanrs Yeah it was basically battlefield flight models and detail.
I played a toooon of XW: Alliance as a kid growing up. Loved messing around in the Skirmish modes.
Excited to see Sloane on screen. Looks like shes giving imperial orders, at least a few of them
@@ВладиславДараган-ш3ф thrawn was hyperspace jumped with ezra and the purgill at the end of rebels, and sabine + ahsoka only start looking for him after the battle of endor
So essentially, sabine and ahsoka will be looking for them at the same time (in universe) as the campaign is set
The Section 31 guy?
Владислав Дараган : Admiral Thrawn is MIA.
@@ВладиславДараган-ш3ф Thrawn as ruined by the garbage that was Rebels. I wish Filoni never touched anything tied to SW again :(
As important as the Original Trilogy is, I wish the Clone Wars era was in this game.
Me too, but I imagine the whole first person only mechanic would be hard to do for the droid fighters
Nah, go much further back in time to the Sith Wars.
Ingrid Mace they did it in battlefront 2 EA pretty well
Im good with OT, with the prequels im more sold with ground battles.
@@ingridmace2530 they did it for battlefront 2 it’s just a more holographic looking hud
#AskEck
Between Admiral Thrawn of the Star Wars Expanded Universe and Captain Sheridan of Babylon 5 who was the best military strategist?
Thrawn cloned himself an switched places sometime before the feral ewoks killed his clone.
There was no investigation to see if he was dead obviously because there we was dead.
Then he went home at some blueTang an later came back as an embassy to the Republic, under his real name.
Who compares to that?
Grand Admiral Thrawn of course.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Sheridan, but I attribute his success to superior instinct and Thrawn’s to superior intellect. In a straight strategic fight Thrawn will win, however, Sheridan wouldn’t get killed by his own bodyguard.
The hit markers when ships explode are similar to the explosion image used for the Death Star plans in A New Hope.
I saw that. Great touch.
This is basically an updated Tie Fighter.
I was thinking the same thing. It looks so much like the X-wing games, or X-wing vs Tie-fighter.
I hope it is, i'd love to play t'ha game with propper graphics, would be cool if it was vr compatible
@@YourArmsGone Funnily enough, the narrator uses the term "Balance of Power" at the 10:49 mark.
I loved those games too...there's actually nothing new here. Every time he says "I wonder..." or the like about something in the cockpit it just means he hasn't talked to anyone that played those games.
It REALLY isnt. It REALLY, REALLY isnt. Just because its a starfighter game doesnt mean it lives up to those games at all.
The tie bomber took two hit points of damage flying through the debris of a recently destroyed rebel fighter
It is the same with the old X-Wing/Tie Fighter game. If you have shields you can just fly through debris but your shield you take a hit.
"In other Star Wars games you can fly right by a star destroyer not really too much to worry about" Rogue Squadron 2 and 3 would beg to differ. I'm pleased to see the power management mechanic and 3d wireframe of your target, its nothing new by any means, Freespace is the earliest example of it I can think of, but glad to see it none the less.
Well again this game is to make people forget those games ever happened along with everything else from legend's and the Lucas era
I was looking for someone that pointed that out, try flying close to a star destroyer in XvT, you'll see if you last long, especially alone in the harder difficulty setting, plus near some places you get your weapons jammed too
Delta 23 no, it’s to make money, and people were already forgetting those games. This game might bring more interest to the star fighter genre of Star Wars games.
ISDs in X-Wing Alliance would chew you up even if you came in a Y-wing or a B-wing. He seems to think they only have turbolasers and not hundreds of point defense guns just waiting for a foolish pilot to *try* to take out the shield generators. They even would shoot down your missiles and torpedoes forcing you to get close which puts you in range.
The original 1993 X-wing game (and subsequent games) had the exact same resource management mechanic shown here. It was a staple in space fighter sims throughout the 90s, back when the genre was most popular. Super glad to be seeing a revival of that - I'd have expected EA to give us a much more watered down experience, in all honestly.
For the power bars you were talking about:
Blue = Engines
Red = Weapons - the two |'s on the side of the triangles appear to me to represent weapons, also the TIE hud only has red and blue power bars, which would imply engines and weapons)
Green = Shields - In the HUD's of the ships with shields, shields are green, , also the C icon on the power bar represents kinda a shield around a ship, and as mentioned above the TIE ships had no green bar power bad because they had no shields.
Looks a lot like xwing gameplay! That's a good thing!
Hey, I know you! You're the captain of the IRW Aquila!
This is exactly what I was thinking. I miss my old X-Wing Alliance game...
@@SoremRasmussen well this game is made to make you forget that relic as disney hates everything from the Lucas era
@@delta2372 Dude. Give it a break.
@@delta2372 And yet the took everything from Tie Fighter and Alliance. the SLAM engine was on the Missile Boat. Plus it got this X-wing player interested.
Can we please mention how the TIE Fighter cockpit window is wrong?
Oof I just noticed that
Edit: actually, I think that might be based on customization. At 19:04 you can see the correct version. I would assume one of the upgrades might change the way the cockpit looks. That’s certainly caught my attention
If your specialty is fleet and large capitol ships stuff, my thing is the fighters, and this looks excellent to an x-wing veteran.
What I want for pilot customization
For the rebel pilots:
•old clone wars era pilot armor(phase 1 and 2)
•different bounty hunter armor
(Like what obi wan wore when he faked his death or what Leia's wore rescuing han)
•different alien species: ithorians, zabrak, twlek, rodian, kaleesh, duro,harch,etc
For imperials:
•different sqaudron markings
•experimental pilot armors
•special forces
•royal guard pilot armor(and royal guard tie interceptors)
There are different species for the rebel pilots, go to 16:10.
People who wanted a Battlefront II update instead:
BFII Community: FLYING IS FOR DRIODS!
Theoret1cal Squadrons isn’t exactly OT though, it’s more so in between OT and ST. I’m just glad we’re getting a new game exploring that time inbetween
@EckhartsLadder
14:10 actually shows how we will control the shunting between the energy - it is arrow key (left, right, up, down). It is visible in all the other cockpits as well, but here it is completely obvious. That is why you cannot make head or tail out of the pictograms. Because they do not mean "shield, engine, weapons" but they show arrows. Lore-wise, it would make sense to have 4 buttons in the cockpit as well.
Left arrow = engine power (blue)
Up arrow = weapons (red)
Right arrow = shields (green/turqoise)
down arrow = reset to nominal
blue/red colours also match the SW Galaxies layout...
This is completely the same way as it is in for example Elite Dangerous.
Moreover, 17:20 "nimble deflector" seems to hint at a possibility to shift energy between each shields (nimble will shift it faster), I reckon conversion shield will do something with that too. It is also hinted in each of the cockpit of the shielded ships. (TIE Reaper = two little arrows next to the shields)
This also in line with SW Galaxies and all the shout outs during space battles in movies.
The legends new republic insignia was canonized in the mandalorian
To bad all the awesome ships the new republic made aren't, actually disneys treatment of the new republic is stupid as awhole
Wrong, it was stolen. Either its all legit or none of it is.
@@fightingirish5755 So because it originated in legends the new cannon is stealing it? That is a pretty weird way to look at it ngl.
Fighting Irish I see you are also going around to different comments spreading your dogmatic viewpoint.
@@supergkop5678 I do agree with him saying it's stolen as the disney canon has been lazy and outright boring, everything is so nerfed and outside a few ships there aren't any good news desgins, only the U wing and tie reaper are actually cool designs and arguably the ressurgance ISD but everything else is either hideous or from the original film's
The drift manoever at 9:30 is called a Shelton Slide and was introduced to space combat games by Wing Commander I.
DAMN YOU DID THIS FAST AF
Not even 30 seconds into the video he clearly says, “i got the footage early”
Good to see you finding some more of what you enjoy in the new content. I know after ROS came out there was a lot of other stuff that happened and came out that you were struggling with enjoying. Glad to see it man
seems like ui and stuff is HEAVILY influenced by the X-Wing/Tie Fighter series
the devs are fans of those games
That Icon on the small radar screen is prolly just a "defend this target" or something that represents your OBJ
I've been dreaming for this ever since the ship combat in BF2 died down
YES!
Switch deflector shield to double front! Lock the S-Foil in attack position, we are going in!
Also, I really want a Gonk power droid rather than an Astromech.
My classic star wars were always the x-wing and tie fighter series and I'm overjoyed that this is looking more and more akin to that game right down to the power management format. I can't wait
So it's kinda like lost stars on how the story is being handled
Yo I though I was the only one who read that book lol
9:30 I think it's called an aleron roll in X-Wing miniatures 2.0 but check DGA I might be wrong
I'm immediately setting up a clan that uses callsigns, squad maneuvers, and will bring glory to the Empire.
Sign me up!
I love how the power management and shield control mechanic is literally straight from the old X-Wing / TIE-Fighter series by Lucas Arts
EA once again exaggerated what a game features. You can't have "massive fleet battles" with 10 starfighters, 4 frigates and 2 capital ships. That's a minor skirmish at best and it won't capture that Star Wars feeling unless they toss in another 30 or so AI star fighters and some more frigates and vessels. As for the "strategy"... well, the choice of offense, defense or support class is just barely "strategic". We're talking Team Fortress 2 levels of planning where you just have a HWGuy, Medic and an Engineer to guard the base. So yeah, very little thought needed. Fortunately, SW:S doesn't have any competing multiplayer starfighters games or else I'd not bother to buy it.
Exactly, EA needs to pump these numbers up.
16:25 When I saw that ewok, that was my first thought.
Lieutenant Kettch's reporting for duty, sir.
Yub, yub, Commander.
What would be cool to have is something similar to the Post Stall Maneuver from Ace Combat 7 that can be done but requires a specific speed limit and aircraft. What do you guys think? I'm sure not many people know what I'm talking about but if you do search up the Post Stall Maneuver from Ace Combat 7
won't work in space due to the lack of an atmosphere or gravity,
@@RomanHistoryFan476AD I Think you are missing the point......also they literally are flying like they are in the atmosphere. But the PSM was a instance based effect that required precise speed and angle of attack.
Eck: The yellow dot in the center of the aiming screen is the area you can see in front of you. Things at the edges of your "radar" are behind you.
Look at 6:44. The red dot to the very left of that center dot is the Tie Bomber that just took a missile hit in front of you. It's the exact same radar display used in the older video games.
This games already looks amazing
As long as they brought back the classic “missile lock” sound effect I’ll be happy
Oh god no. I can hear it. I can see it jittering around behind me on my radar! I was an Obi Wan not a Skywalker when it came to avoiding missiles.
KMCA779 flying is for droids
Its be nice to see an almost battlefield 1 style behemoth, where one guy can control the ship you have to defend for some time
Yeah I am a bit sad, because player piloted cruisers, or battleships, or whatever bigger than fighter is my most wanted feature in EVERY big fps.
For once EA did a good job wasn’t hyped but now I am
Let's hope it's really that good. If everything will be fine, this will be the first game on my buy-list.
I've been burned before. But I'm cautiously optimistic.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
just play LucasArts game X-wing vs Tie Fighter to see what we will be getting it has SLAM engine on the Missle Boat and Tractor Beams on the Tie Defender. All the ships that have shields can be adjusted forward or back, you can use shield energy to boost lasers or engine speed or vise versa. Also look at the X-wing game and Tie Fighter game, BTW Tie Fighter is the best Star Wars fighter sim with a great story that also includes you working with Vice Admiral Thrawn to save the Emperor from the Traitor Admiral Zaarin. Game comes with a story book following the recruit you play as all the way up to the rank of Emperor's Hand if you do the secret missions.
And is also the only single player star wars game I know that is 100% centered around the Empire and shows their point of view. You know, the thing they were bragging about when they announced Battlefront II's campaign and then the campaign only had 3-4 missions as an actual Imperial.
And its also the game that introduced the Tie Defender, lets hope we can see one at least in campaign.
the maneuver at 9:25 is a zero gravity mechanic used first in the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series and again in the expanse sifi show it was also attempted in Babylon 5 however special effects were limited and failed. the idea is thrust engines dont need to keep burning once desired speed is reached until something slows it down. so that means that a spacecraft can continue on its coarse then using maneuver thrusters at full power as main engines are off to spin the ship to face what ever direction wanted but still moving in the original direction inertia was taking the spacecraft.
Still no B-Wings :(
But other than that, dang I wanna play this. totally playing this on my VR headset.
Ikr, probably putting it in alongside the TIE Defender in a later update, soo excited
Yeah and meanwhile they will never add E and K wings..... sigh I'm never gonna get to fly those
@@delta2372 don't worry you just wait a week or two for the modders to do their magic
Yep.
I am preparing my PS VR and waiting for this fucking hypin' game.
It must be SO COOL IN VR.
I played No Man's Sky in VR and it was AWESOME!!!!!!!
11:18 Eck the red one is weapons. Shields is green. Also I think that middle one with a triangle with three lines below it is proton torpedo (Edit: ok apparently it was "seeker warheads")
Yeah, you can tell which management bar represents which system, as they're all color coordinated. The speed is the same color as the speedometer. Weapons the same color as the laser charge display. And shields the same color as the ship health's shield indicator (most is green, but I think I saw a cyan one in there too, and the power management bar was the same different color).
This is the starfighter game I have been waiting for! Also...
"All wings report in..."
"Red Two reporting in!"
Red Five standing by!
“Gold Three reporting in”
(Just putting some variety to the squadrons we have here)
6:44, that’s the radar I believe. The cockpits seem to be just like the old X Wing series (TIE Fighter and XvT included)
EA play was depressing, i'm never getting that 50 minutes back
yeah aside from that one trailer, it was NOT worth it
This and skate 4 was all they had. Skate 4 is amazing but they showed nothing. This looks interesting but not enough to fill ea’a usual game release density
The gunship that you mention at 7:14 looks like iden versios carrier from the battlefront 2 campaign.
"Yub yub, commander."
If we don't get Ewok pilots, Ima riot.
yes
Well, that joked cracked me, even after years I'm still smiling on it.
Roan Novachez from Jedi Academy could tell you how that would work out... at least until you got your Ewok a Jawa co-pilot! Utiini!
@EckhartsLadder The shield icon on the HUD denotes a capital ship. The shield will most likely be in the fleet battle mode when you lose the fighter battle and must defend your friendly cruisers. The large red box icons are either enemy capital ships of the flagship.
this is the game I've always wanted
Now I can finally do all the crazy maneuvers that the Vipers do in BSG.
When he's talking about the shields and blaster energy it's a mechanic straight out of the old X-Wing and TIE Fighter games in the mid 90s. And it's clear Eckharts has never hear of those games.
Actually all the things he says "I wonder..." about the cockpits is already known to anyone who played those games. He should just ask an older mate.
I know, right! Kids these days. I was sitting there correcting him the whole video. This is pretty much X-wing vs. Tie Fighter updated with new graphics and some gameplay tweaks. I am sooooo in.
I’ve been begging him to crack open those games to play, now would be a good time to request it
6:33
I assume that it is a minimap and the individual icons resemble your team's capital ships, the enemy's capital ships, or main objectives.
Anytime the icon is in the center of the screen, the pilot is facing the ship or objective, and anytime the icon is on the edge of the screen it means the ship or objective is to the side or behind you.
Please dont call it a minimap 😂. Its a radar display, very common in space shooters.
I am so unbelievably hyped for this game now
Don’t be it’s ea
I was cautiously optimistic upon watching the trailer, but after your breakdown I'm genuinely excited. Never stop never stopping, man. It's not rambling when it's informative.
I'm glad TIE Fighters are finally a threat again. Before this they were only intimidating in A New Hope before legends slandered them into the worst ship in Star Wars.
well they were designed to keep the galaxy in-check, and the average person in the galaxy couldn't do shit to a TIE Fighter.
So they 100% make sense as a mass-produced, highly effective, fighter... against things that are completely unable to stop them. I.e. 99.9% OF THE GALAXY.
There are supposed to be. They are one of the cheapest Starfighters
Doing the drifts and crazy manoeuvres would be down to the inertia dampers. Trying to go that fast and pull those moves, would result it a red/black out without them.
There is no such thing as legends. It’s True Canon. F Disney
13:16 Do I see the A-wing's laser cannons with some vertical gimbal there? Nice.
I want shields on a Tie Fighter. Let’s make Thrawn’s vision a reality
Shields were only on the defenders, not the regular TIEs. Maybe they could bring an option for that in with another option for the New Republic too but I wouldn't hold my breath because the TIE Defender was Thrawn's baby and he was trying to sell the idea to the emperor while tarkin and krennic were selling the death star to him. Then Thrawn disappeared. That's why we never see them beyond rebels.
This may not be possible for the fleet battles, but what if you could rearrange your capital and support ships? Moving them around into different fleet positions and compositions? Possibly replacing a certain frigate or capital ship for another? This could compliment your squadrons strategy and loadout. This could all be done in that prep phase inside your capital ship that they showed beforehand.
I’m not sure how I feel about the trail the star fighters leave behind them, I understand if they’re making a sharp turn and you see the trail but I’m not a fan of seeing the trail in space, besides that the game looks amazing!!!
Only in an atmosphere or a nebula.
Yeah that’s what I mean
I think it's probably there for gameplay purposes, giving you a visual sense of enemy vectors at distance for you to lead your shots since I presume they aren't going to give you a smart targeting reticule that gives you a shot-leading estimate.
The sim elements they describe in this make it sound like a lot of things are going to be more manual, so the game is going to have to communicate information to the players differently.
They're contrails from the main thrusters. Not the same as the condensation from the wings of aircraft.
In response to your question about if looking around your cockpit without VR would work: In Elite Dangerous they get around this by having you click in the left joystick (I play on PlayStation) to toggle head gimbaling or standard flight controls. It works pretty well from my experience although VR players would certainly have an advantage