This game will be dead in 2 months

I have a little tip for people . Turn the Yaw and Pitch sensitivity up. Somewhere between 75 and 80. It will help. I also feel that the standard Tie and the Interceptor should get a DPS boost with their standard blasters, or the cool down on their counter measures should decrease by like 3 seconds.

While you might be right that this game might fail faster than expected, it will be for entirely different reasons.

1) Controls are totally * up right now, even after the latest patch. This game was sold to the flight sim crowed owning HOTAS Systems or at least above average joysticks, but controls are totally tailored for console controllers. Getting punished for playing the game the way it was ment to be (aka with a proper Flightstick, still the game feels like stearing a sluggish 40 tons truck in space while actually flying an Interceptor class. And that's with 0% deadzone, 100% sensitivity settings) feels incredibly bad and will probably shoo away a lot of players. In comparison, flying in Battlefront 2 feels so many times more fluent, even when stearing with mouse/keyboard, than flying in Squadrons does with a flightstick.

2) TTK is completely off. The good old games like X-Wing, TIE-Fighter, X-Wing Alliance made one thing right (the last one even in multiplayer)- the number of hits required to take down an enemy was 100% predictable. E. g. with fully charged lasers an X-Wing needed 3 hits on a regular TIE Fighter. While I can see why they couldn't make shieldless imperial ships too squishy for balance reasons, it's just plain stupid to chase an already damaged TIE with an A-Wing with overcharged lasers, still pumping hit after hit after hit in it, yet it won't explode.

3) The loadout system. Sooner or later there will be a common meta, making most possible choices meaningless since everyone will use the same loadouts anyway. They'd rather sticked to the road they took with implementing the energy management system of old and let us manually link lasers and switch between laser and ion canons on ships that support those. Add AA-missiles for Interceptors, 2-3 anti-capital ship choices for bombers and allrounders and you got the same result. 

If they'd get this 3 things right, than it might be interesting to talk about game modes, matchmaking, new maps, ships, etc.

Until then, they'd better get the basic stuff asap, or it won't matter.

Game will possibly be dead on consoles in a few months.  Will probably live on in the PC world due to the modding community infusing life into the game for years to come.

This game could be in trouble in a few months. But it will likely get a surge of new players around Black Friday and another surge around the holidays season. A few items that could make this game stand out would be:

- A RANKED Dog fight system is needed.

- I agree with the original post. A 10v10, 3v3s, etc would be cool.

- I'd like cross play to be CONSOLE only.

- Last bit certainly not least, DLC content with new maps, customizations, ships or a new faction (Scum) would be HUGE. I would definitely pay $20 to get a new faction down the road.

All that being said, is the timing of this games release poor? Being so close to a NEW gaming system? I'm sure developers would prefer to make games in the new system.

Some good complaints on this thread, lol.

I want to echo ONE of them. I sympathize with a lot of them, but this is the ONE thing screwing this game up the most:

"1) Controls are totally * up right now, even after the latest patch. This game was sold to the flight sim crowed owning HOTAS Systems or at least above average joysticks, but controls are totally tailored for console controllers. Getting punished for playing the game the way it was ment to be (aka with a proper Flightstick, still the game feels like stearing a sluggish 40 tons truck in space while actually flying an Interceptor class. And that's with 0% deadzone, 100% sensitivity settings) feels incredibly bad and will probably shoo away a lot of players. In comparison, flying in Battlefront 2 feels so many times more fluent, even when stearing with mouse/keyboard, than flying in Squadrons does with a flightstick."

But here's the thing (and I think the person who posted this comment gets this, but others don't): It's not about what input you are using! Flight sticks, Mouse, and Controllers could all be balanced just fine; I think they actually did a pretty good job balancing the inputs. The problem is the ROTATIONAL INERTIA! That's why it feels like you are steering a dump truck or a barge - at least it feels like that COMING OUT OF TURNS AND AIMING. It is just too dang hard to turn hard, aim, and shoot, in that sequence!

Everyone is going to think their Input choice has it bad and the other have advantages. I think most of that is illusion. The real problem is the rotational inertia. They just overdid it. It should be a factor of 1/3 or 1/4 of what it is - coming *out* of turns anyway. (Yeah I know it should be the same going in and out of turns, for realism sake, but the frustrating part is coming out of turns.)

It does seem to be a function of "Maneuverability" - as it seems to be worse on the bigger ships. So, hopefully it is something that the developers could tweak on every craft, without having to make any changes in the game engine itself.

Fixing Rotational Inertia would make me want to play this game a WHOLE lot more. I am just missing that satisfaction of shooting the enemy at will. Wouldn't need aim assist if we could just aim in the first place!

Disagree.

Theres lots of console players and MMR will eventually separate people into brackets.... if Devs can release a patch to stop (or penalize) leaving.

Also the 5v5 or 5vAI helps keep lots of games going with a small population.

Flight simulators always have always been a niche genera - youre setting yourself up for disappointment if you think squadrons is going to explode.
Small, dedicated groups is what keeps games going... not filthy casuals that come and go.

There is no purpose to looking away to the future, the horizon.

Failing to keep your mind on where you are.

Enjoy the game in the moment, why bemoan about when numbers may inevitably drop? I still play games several years old with thriving, if smaller, player-bases. It's not as if there are many similar games. 😉