Getting info from different places. Sounds like it's gonna be a fair bit deeper than Battlefront 2's fighter game. Talk of setting up ships before combat and shifting power between components mid game. A bit like Elite Dangerous?

A whole bunch more info here.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-squadrons-revealed-with-crossplay-single/1100-6478468/

$40 smaller release confirmed.
No microtransactions.
10 hour demo will be available through Access and Origins.

Ship weapons, hulls, engines and shields are customisable and unlocked by rank.
Ship and pilot appearances are also customisable.

2 MP gamemodes so far.
Fleet battles see teams of 5 try take down the enemy flagship.
Dogfight is about taking down as many ships as possible, which sounds like a straight forward team Deathmatch.
Would be good to see variations on them as well like elimination versions.

Here's ya preorder guff.
Better waiting to make sure EA arent dicks I think.

So we have fighter, dual role, bomber and gunship?

LivDiv wrote:

The big two (U-wing and Tie Reaper) are troop carriers so I assume they will be objective based in some way.

where do the troops go? are they loaded up in the prongs like torpedoes in a tube and then fired at the enemy?

Jin Urso. There's one

Jimmy Smits was another one.

On foot bits never work in these type of games. Would be best to cut them out and leave it to just flying ships.

Will wait for proper gameplay footage, but Rogue Squadron, and Rogue Leader (which still looks great) are two of my favourite games, so I'll certainly be keeping an eye on this one.

Rebel Strike suffers from the on foot sections, but the ability to play all of Rogue Leader in co-op makes it geat too.

They should just HD remaster the Rogue Squadron series and release them to be honest.

poprock wrote:

I was thinking how much fun an Afterburner clone with X-wings and TIE Fighters would be. Probably not a cost-effective use of the Star Wars license nowadays though. Any Star Wars game has to be a triple-A title or what’s the point?

I imagine it could be thrown together pretty quickly though - if the overheads are low why not?

ChopperByrne wrote:

They should should HD remaster the Rogue Squadron series and release them to be honest.

Take my money! I wish Factor 5 were still making dogfighting games.

That's yer Thrustmaster flight stick bought. Preemptive order because I'm hedging they'll be flying off the shelves and in short supply with this and Microsoft's flight sim due later this year.

Genuine LOL

Rather like racing games, cockpit view can be a disadvantage seeing threats. In VR, banking while looking up and around (just by turning your head) coupled with depth perception will be the pay off for me.

Looking forward to actual gameplay during EA's showcase at midnight.

Edited my previous comment to clarify the VR centricity.

Appears to be an underside view at the start of this gif, which may straddle the line between immersion and tactical awareness. Looks fracking amazing any which way.

I loved the in cockpit view in bf2 but it was completely and utterly unplayable. That under boob viewpoint could be inspired.