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5 years ago

VR Performance Very Bad = Makes Me Sick, Headaches. Why is it so bad?

Product: Star Wars: Squadrons Platform:Steam-PC Please specify your platform model. PC What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? DeltreeZero Are you playing in VR? Yes Which VR Platform are ...

DeltreeZero

5 years ago

@matirish I too got my refund for this predictable farce of an EA release on steam. Glad to hear it runs better somewhere (origin), but I won't be purchasing this title again until it actually works as advertised. I am eternally exhausted of waiting for already released titles to be fixed enough to even be played. The complete absence of play testing on display here is so unfortunately common, I can't believe these people work for one of the richest, largest, disgusting corporations in business today. As usual, I feel completely ripped off, lied to, and cast aside as if it didn't matter at all that I was sold total garbage instead of a working product. I have no idea why I continue to hope for a functional release from EA in 2020. Maybe if it had some predatory gambling mechanics to fill old Bobbers filthy rich pockets with even more unfathomable wealth, someone at EA would have seen to it that this game released in an even barely playable state. Sickening. As usual.

matirish

5 years ago

@DeltreeZero Yes I agree. I feel your pain, especially that I'm a huge Star Wars fan (I'd say you are too, by looking at your avatar) I invested in the new card and bought Hotas for this game. I was Red-Five-ready and then all those glitches happened. I was beyond frustrated, but then I read the forums and moved to Origin, which solved most of the problems. It's not perfect but playable. I'm sure they will fix it this week, in the meantime brace yourself. May the force be with you.

DeltreeZero
5 years ago
@matirish the original trilogy and the games from the Lucasarts era and slightly beyond help form the foundation for the definition of sci fi for me. The continued lack of care that goes into these titles is so frustrating for me as an old school star wars lover, as you just can't get star wars games anywhere else. I keep rolling the dice with EA, and the result keep coming up snake-eyes. This was supposed to be the VR experience of a lifetime for someone who has played other flight sims for so long, unable to do so without uttering occasional lines from space battle action sequences featured in the first 3 films, waiting year after year for something that would actually fulfill the fantasy that has seemed so within reach, but never fully real and true. Now I wait, again. Only this time I have to scroll past videos online and news stories all talking about how fun it is, loadouts and tactics ect, and although I broke my solemn vow to never pre order, I payed up for a broken experience before the game was even released, while so many others are doing just fine in pancake land, wondering what the big deal is. I do love star wars, and this release feels more insulting and careless than most. They put more work into a scrapped microtransaction nightmare for that garbage battlefront game than they did into what I consider the panultimate goal of a star wars flight sim in late 2020: making someone feel like they are in the cockpit of a classic star wars spaceship, and providing a fun star wars flavored time, and getting paid to do so. Unfortunately, that is not what star wars squadrons is right now. Cheers.
- matirish
  5 years ago
  @DeltreeZeroI don't want to act as a devil's advocate here, but EA Motive made it clear that this project was not nurtured like the previous ones. EA did not want to invest infinite credits into this so, Motive worked with a limited budget. Considering the abundance of headsets, graphic cards etc, it's hard to get everything optimised at the start. I also played the old school games back in the day when I was a kid and I can assure you that this is the best Star Wars flying experience ever created. Also the story and characters are all well written and acted. I take a bow to Motive for doing this game in VR. They could have just released the pancake version, but those developers love VR as much as we all do. Let's give them some extra time to polish the experience. It's worth it. And DeltreeZero remember don’t give in to hate. That leads to the Dark Side. All the best.
  - Jackrabbit710
    5 years ago
    @matirish Once fixed yeah it’ll be amazing. Can’t wait to dig in