Worth it just for single-player?

[CatraGirl]

Is there a campaign? A mode against bots? Anything? Is it worth it just for SP, or is it just MP and basically dead?

[Alcom (I'm trans, lol!)]

<opinion>The singleplayer campaign is lame.</opinion>

There are fleet battles with and against AI.

For multiplayer, there are often custom matches you can join. You can still get Dogfights during peak hours, and there are community events for Fleet battles on Friday, Saturday, and Monday.

[Hazen]

I've only played less than 2 hours - basically, the prologue and one mission. It's kind of fun for a short burst of adrenaline/eyecandy. It's pretty twitchy though, and tricky to "fly".

I tried using HOTAS. About 30 minutes of my play time was trying to configure the controls...
And using HOTAS was too floaty imo.

It might play better on keyboard and mouse or ideally a controller it seems.

[Nim]

Originally posted by Hellcat:

It might play better on keyboard and mouse or ideally a controller it seems.

Mouse and keyboard is awful, super floaty.

As for the campaign, all I played was the prologue and the first mission before I gave up over the **** controls. The prologue was fine, but then it makes you interact with each of your teammates individually so they can vomit their backstory on you, which is some really lazy narrative design IMHO.

[thorvindr]

Not worth it in any event, and especially not worth it for the terrible single-player campaign.

EDIT: Worth the $1.99 sale price, just so you can see how awful it is. And who knows: you might actually like it. In my opinion, two dollars for a Star Wars game is always worth the gamble.

[PowerPaladin]

Hey Jill,

The campaign is so-so.

The real value of the game currently lies in the competitive scene. You won't find many games that can do flight/space sim Esports like Squadrons can.

[HuskyDynamics]

Campaign is iffy, good eye candy but the story is rather predictable and just kind of uninspiring. If you've got some friends you can set up custom private matches (either co-op vs AI or PvP) which I find to be pretty fun; otherwise you'll be limited to either solo-vs-AI fleet battles, the infinite queue for multiplayer fleet battles, or the PvP dogfight mode where you'll be finding players who are either brand new or have hundreds of hours in the game, no in between.

[PowerPaladin]

Originally posted by HuskyDynamics:

Campaign is iffy, good eye candy but the story is rather predictable and just kind of uninspiring. If you've got some friends you can set up custom private matches (either co-op vs AI or PvP) which I find to be pretty fun; otherwise you'll be limited to either solo-vs-AI fleet battles, the infinite queue for multiplayer fleet battles, or the PvP dogfight mode where you'll be finding players who are either brand new or have hundreds of hours in the game, no in between.

This has gotten better since the sale. People just have to continue trying fleet battles (which is a big ask since there aren’t a lot of people on, I know).