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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’ve mentioned it before, but the single player campaign is worth this price. I frankly couldn’t stand the multiplayer, but the single player story is simple and fun, and has a surprising amount of content. Gorgeous graphics.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I just started playing. The normal shooter PvP was also not my favorite, but do you really think the same of the space battles? I love it a lot.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, that’s a good point. The space battles are really solid, I forgot how fun they are.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Only thing I miss compared to the old BF2 is landing in the enemy ship to sabotage and the conquest mode. Otherwise, I find it solid. There is a pve arcade and pve large scale battles, both are quite fun to spend time in

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's hard not to like them. Shooting down enemies is not a slog and you don't get sniped it 1 shot, dying is not as bad because you can just jet back to the action in 5 seconds anyways, and who could possibly hate piloting an X-Wing with the intuitive controls?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Despite steam page description

    Works on steam deck pretty flawlessly

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Some folks on here said they have problems with the EA launcher on Linux. Is the steam deck different or did you just work around it?

    https://www.protondb.com/app/1237950

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is this game worth getting for a single player experience in the Steam deck?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Does this still have a wild amount of drm and extra launchers?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Does this still have a wild amount of drm

    If I’m not mistaken Star Wars is still owned by Disney, of course it’ll have many many many layers of DRM.

    and extra launchers

    In my experience it’s only the EA launcher that it needs. it works on Linux despite all the bullshit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Fuck miramax

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    It's worth it for the price.

    General:

    • Explosions / killing / respawning
    • Lots of Star Wars location and sound-design fan service

    Campaign;

    • Gameplay is fun, but simple. The most complicated part is just reading the controls in the settings menu since the game doesn't tell you how to do one of the first things in the first mission (the button you need is 3)
    • Story is basic but it works well as a sequel to Episode 6 and a prequel to The Mandalorian.

    Multiplayer:

    • Take turns being on offence / defence
    • Keep playing the same class / hero character to unlock more abilities for that class / hero character
    • Servers are populated, even for niche locations

    Replayability:

    • Depends
    • If you like regular FPS games, you might get bored of it in 10-20 hours
    • If you like playing the same game over and over again to slowly grind up new things, you'll probably play it for 100+ hours

    Other stuff:

    • Purchase through steam
    • Running the game downloads and installs the EA launcher (but you can log in using your steam account, no need to create new ones)
    • As far as launchers go, the EA launcher is tiny, surprisingly fast, isn't annoying and doesn't get in the way of anything (only setting you'll change is turning off the autolaunch when you start your pc)
    • Achievements work through steam
    • Invite friends through in-game party system. This can only see your friends on the EA launcher, but you can import all your steam friends in the EA launcher in a second and you only have to do it once.
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This is a solid game for how cheap it goes on sale regularly. I mean it's pretty old now, but still.

    Multiplayer can be fun, but there are a lot of bots. The Galactic Conquest mode (the Clone War one that's more like the classic BF games) can kinda drag for a really long time in some matches, but it's still pretty fun to jump in and start blasting.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    There are only bots in Supremacy which do drag on for a long time, there are no bots in the Galactic assault mode which is more linear battles with 3-4 phases.

    As I've said in other posts when sales come up for this game, it was designed as a slog, you have to grind to get good weapons and "star cards". Hackers will pop up in Galactic Assault here and there but are relatively absent in Supremacy.

    Campaign Ai is garbage, story is o k a y at best.

    Fun game, toxic community, 8 years 3k hours, will be playing till the servers die

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I initially got it for the story lol. Well, I think it was on Games With Gold a few years back and that's how I got it.

    Either way I enjoyed the story for what it was, trying to bridge the gap between OT and ST, and thought it didn't do a terrible job at it.

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