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EmmyV7's avatar
5 years ago

Game dying off already for my friends and I

So, real quick this isn't a "rant about the game" I'm being serious and since there's CMs watching this I thought I'd help to try and save the title.

Right now we're already seeing tons of repeat names in dogfight, Ranked Fleet battle already became way too "Meta" to be fun right around Xmas, and now the strange non-dogfight meta strats are seeping their way into every match. Ion+Mine, turreting in place with the turret-class fighters like B wing/ Y wing or Tie Def/bomber class. Lots of no-move tank strategies and basically not dogfighting anymore in dogfight mode, now it's about picking the most meta gear in every match. Regardless of your opinion on the matter, what it results in for real life pilots like me, who have been waiting for a TIE fighter sequel for decades, and for friends who really wanted to play this for a SW Flight sim, is we're completely turned off to even bothering with goofy gameplay.  Luke Skywalker didn't earn his flying fame by spinning in place and * bombs and turrets. Poe Dameron's Takodana dogfight wasn't impressive because he had his buddy farm NPC Ties in a corner while he suicide rammed a star destroyer with rockets, and the behavior seen in what is, unfortunately our ONLY options for gameplay (Custom games offer no rewards to unlock stuff, thus are not really played by folks and you can only shoot your buddies and call it fun so many times.) 

As such, it's getting harder and harder, already for me to gather people together to play the title. Most people think about tanky overshield builds, bombs and martyrdom planes, and tell me they're not really interested in "Sky of Duty" as much as they thought they would be. 

Which, stinks because if I want to fly my TIE, this is it, or I go back to my TIE 1994, and frankly setting up HOTAS for DOS box isn't fun. If folks like us leave, that's going to only leave your meta-spammers, and new players come in, only to face oddball meta, most will not learn that meta, and leave, and it's dead at that point. 

Please either move the title away from forced PVP/meta, or provide outlets for actual dogfighting. Either, or preferably both, would keep the game going, it's toast otherwise. 

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