Star Wars Outlaws doesn't let you free aim and fire from your speeder because Massive didn't want you to "feel as if you can ride in and assault people"
Star Wars Outlaws doesn't let you free aim and fire from your speeder because Massive didn't want you to "feel as if you can ride in and assault people"
Star Wars Outlaws doesn't let you freely fire your blaster while riding your speeder bike, and now we know why
Destiny had the same thing... If you could shoot from the Sparrow there'd be no reason to do anything else.
Perfect example of how hopelessly out of touch these suits are. Normal humans see a speeder and think "oh nice, hoverbike thing that's sweet". These executives watch the movie, see that the bikes are used sparingly pretty much only during chase scenes and think "oh chase scene, that's what people love about speeder bikes, the chase scene."
46But it’s called Star Wars Outlaws.
41Disney outlaws.
14Star Wars In-Laws
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Just reduce accuracy while in a vehicle?
40Why the fuck theme it around bounty hunters then?
30It's around Kay, who is a scoundrel , not a bounty hunter. VERY different.
5One of the definitions of scoundrel is "A wicked or evil person; someone who dies evil deliberately." Bounty hunters can be scoundrels too.
If Key was an actual scoundrel it would've made the game much more entertaining. The unconfident scrawny teenager Kay is now doesn't fit in with the outlaw world at all.
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The point of an RPG, especially one that involves shooting is you let the player pick their own moral take on how to play the game. You don't choose FOR them.
Put real consequences in the game if the players choices actually matter. Don't nerf the game mechanics for no reason.
19I figured there was enough already to complain about, but if this is now what we’re complaining about, I start to think the game isn’t as bad as it’s being made out to be.
13It really isn't a bad game.
I'm 7 hours in and having a blast (pun intended). It's an alright game if you're not into SW, it's an awesome game if you are. Reminds me a lot of Hogwarts Legacy, the game didn't bring anythinbg new to the market, but it's fun if you're into the theme.
There have been a few technical difficulties but nothing as bad as games I played before, which got much higher ratings and didn't get blasted for it as hard as people do with this game.
People just really let their hate for Ubisoft take over and jump on that social bandwagon for internet points, even though the game plays barely like any other Ubisoft game I've played in the past 30 years.
I bet later today Metacritic user reviews will be flooded with people who haven't even played the game and just base their entire opinion on a few buggy game clips.
5Honestly, about 5 hours in and I love it. More depth than I expected. Actual stealth with multiple mechanics around it. The gang rep system. It's great. I have mixed feelings on Kay as a person, but I'm curious to see where it goes.
Fun fact, you can still shoot on the speeder once you fill your adrenaline by driving a bit crazy, then you do a red dead slow down, target selection style shooting.
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Is unnecessary for me, I suck at driving the speeder.
ETA I figured out 2 things, one is I had a setting that was making one key press count as full throttle instantly, the other was if you hold down right mouse button then that let's you control the camera instead of it fighting you constantly.
8The other part of this decision is just that if we made it so that you can free-aim and shoot from the speeder then we'd also have to then make the speeder drive nicely when you're not looking forward, which is actually a really hard thing
- Fredrik Thylander, lead gameplay designer
Is this guy for real?
4It’s pretty shit on controller to have to drive and aim at the same time. Keyboard also has its issues as you only have wasd for movement.
12I mean, go ahead and implement it if you think "That's pretty hard to do, so we opted not to put significant development resources into one feature" is a poor excuse. If the team is working under pressure already, they'll have to prioritise and I assume this got shoved down the lst.
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So? That's literally how game design works.
4Frankly it's not even a big deal. There is still the special ability that lets you shoot multiple targets like Red Dead, but I basically never use it.
I don't really got the impression that the main character is the kind that does random ghetto drive-bys from a speeder.
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