Vastly overpowered rebel ships

It’s very situational.

If you equip the TIE Bomber with extra armor, missiles, seeker mines and the long chargup chaingun laser, it becomes almost impossible to take down 1vs1 as it can inflict and tank an enormous amount of damage (even missiles) while remaining almost stationary. You have to disable it first. The TIE Interceptor can also be modded for extra close range firepower and maneuverability. The regular old TIE I find a bit crap in general.

Now if you add asteroids or debris to hide and recharge shields behind, the Rebels have it much easier, but in open spacebattles the Empire have it better, especially if you coordinate with teammates.

Obviously none of this is canon, but after a night of playing I can say that this game takes huge liberties with the Star Wars universe. It’s still a fun spaceshooter and looks amazeballs in VR.

In both battlefront and battlefront 2 the rebel ships were always superior, remember playing battle station on bf2015, as the rebels you could easily clock up the kills with an A wing nevermind an X wing with shield ability

Then when BF2 dropped it was the same again, straight up dog fight again the A and X were superior, only time you got wasted with them is when you focused on an objective as them and took your eye off the tie fighters

It looks like they haven't learned anything from the last two games 

There are more

numerous and

skilled pilots on the rebel side. 

I've been constantly getting told to "git gud" essentially. That it's just my flying and not the fact that Imperial ships aren't worth the credits the Empire paid for. No it's the Rebel fighters being broken.

For your standard X-wing while the damage is lower, it's recharge rate as well as rate of fire are much better. So where the Empire has to boost its power, the X wing instead can just open fire. The X wing as well can just fire longer meaning that for the damage it's output is just significantly better than your TIE. Nothing about the Empire's modifications are good making dogfights a waste of time since if you don't catch them unaware the X wing is going to win every single time. 

But the biggest offender here is the A wing. The A wing for it's faults (if any) can shred enemy starfighters and a fully shielded Reaper before it's guns overheat. A team of them is going to decimate Imperial players. I've regularly seen pilots just give up if they don't just leave since they're just going to loose anyways.

Who thought this was balanced? Imperial ships should hit hard and be squishy to compensate. I feel like they have the right idea but the numbers are all wrong. Like this might've been fine in a vacuum but once the player base has gotten ahold of it, it's abundantly clear what pilots are favoring. The X and A wing are just better fighters compared to your TIEs. You just can't be competitive in an Imperial fighter. 

Lol and there are posts saying empire is better.  They are pretty well balanced tho. I've not won more games in one than the other, but i do think my best matches were as the empire. 

As a rebel pilot, the games I see empire win are the ones where the team is actually cooperating. Teams where 2-3 players are chasing after 1 enemy are a sure sign that the pilots aren’t keeping the bigger picture in mind. The empire team that stayed together as a squadron of 5 with a support ship were extremely tough. I personally think the tie fighters are a bit op, and soak up a bit too much damage for their harder to hit size. 1 or  2 ace players can really swing a match. Many games I play, either myself or another really good pilot are scoring 10-15 kills in dogfight. Other games the empire doesn’t give an inch, and we spend most of the game drawing off 3 of them while the other 4 team members double team the other pair they left without cover. Tactics counts for quite a bit from what I’ve seen. And, who can actually aim and deflection shoot. Can’t forget that one!

When I team up with a buddy, I typically still do end up doing well and winning as Imps - likewise if I go up against a tough team of organised A-Wings then I will definitely struggle. From what I've seen it definitely depends heavily on skill and co-ordination.

That being said, the Imp ability to get max boost/damage output can really swing the tide of a joust in your favour - that was revealed pretty late on in the campaign (specifically just not in the prologue) so I can only assume that others who haven't finished the story aren't using that feature, I personally didn't know it was a thing until I did the Imp Story Mission.

the problem is obviously the shields.

They have weaker hulls.. BUT...  because this game isnt static the shields make all the difference.

In many matches if the player is a decent pilot they will hit and run with an Awing, for instance.  Now an Awing wont take much to kill with focus fire.  but they are moving.   So all you get is a few seconds, maybe, of shots.   Youll bring their shields down - but then they are gone.   By the time you sight them again, their sheilds are back.

Its MUCH worse in the games I play as an oceanic, where im already having issues not doing damage because of latency (today I hit a Ywing for a solid 30 seconds, through 3 laser recharges and they took 0 damage).   Now imagine that against an Awing or even an Xwing thats moving  a good pace.  You just cant kill them.


Its frustrating af.


That said, ive had a few games where imps beat the rebels, and a few games lost as a rebel.  But im also having major ghosting issues in 80% of my games so my contribution is generaly not great.