The first Jedi armed with a laser-noodle?

[Pfelpensson]

Every enemy can block Cal's lightsaber. A B1 battledroid with a bayonet. A random grumpy beetle. Every single weapon, enemy, and random animal is now apparently beskar infused to the point that the lightsaber is the least effective melee weapon in use.

Every enemy can launch attacks that are unblockable by Cal's lightsaber. I suppose this is consistent with everyone being all beskar all the time, but having literal headbutt attacks that are unblockable by lightsaber? Charging headfirst into a lightsaber should be just about instantly fatal for most creatures, but in this game's version of the Star Wars universe headbutts grant invulnerability.

All this is to say, the combat is low-key unsatisfying; there's little feeling of being a powerful force user armed with an iconic weapon, and more of a sense of being an unwitting flagellator in a marauder gang's BDSM scene.

[steedless]

Play Jedi Outcast or Academy instead

[twiggy]

its the same issue with the new god of war games, youre the god of war yet you can still easily die to weak scrub fodder. bad game design

[Crimzon]

Gotta balance them op jedi somehow. Beskar for all.

[Colourful Owl]

Originally posted by twiggy:

its the same issue with the new god of war games, youre the god of war yet you can still easily die to weak scrub fodder. bad game design

Please enlighten us to what is good game design. We all need to learn from your obviously superior knowledge of game development and mechanics. You obviously know so much, that your creating and selling multi-million $ games, creating even more profitable franchises and winning more awards then all of these games combined.

[𒆜Nurse☩With☩Wound𒆜]

Sorry this is what disney does to make the money.. They dont care about a good story, or even something that carries over.. welcome to Star Trash.. Face it , Fail Wars has been nothing but a ' action figure ' an ' license ' printing machine for decades.. Sadly the sheep cant help it, an will gnash their teeth about how amazing everything is.. Nah.. HUFF more.. HUFF HARD...

[Cairan]

If you want to play a "Jedi Powerfantasy" then just play on the easiest dificulty setting. Combat isn't challenging on that difficulty since enemy blocks mostly don't matter and you will slice right through them.

[Pfelpensson]

Originally posted by Cairan:

If you want to play a "Jedi Powerfantasy" then just play on the easiest dificulty setting. Combat isn't challenging on that difficulty since enemy blocks mostly don't matter and you will slice right through them.

That would fix the overpowered marauders and insects, but the boss fights/purge troopers/jedi/etc are decently satisfying at the current level. The frustration is that *every* enemy behaves like it's specifically trained and equipped to fight Jedi - that every marauder who typically preys on prospectors is just a reskinned purge trooper rather than presenting a unique challenge.

[Pfelpensson]

Originally posted by steedless:

Play Jedi Outcast or Academy instead

Both great games back in their day

[wojti225]

Another person complaining that gameplay doesn't fit lore.
If you want to have this experience install one hit mod and erase entire block of enemies. Of coure also find a way to phase through walls, because lightsabers can cut through them.
Now tell me, is it fun?

[Fast Pooper]

It’s a Dark Souls ripoff made by Western devs despite all the “Star War” trappings. Play it on story mode and experience the wonderful story of modern Star Wars.

[Blackwolfe]

It would have been incredibly boring if you'd just oneshot most enemies.

[BluesyMoo]

Originally posted by Pfelpensson:

Originally posted by steedless:

Play Jedi Outcast or Academy instead

Both great games back in their day

They're still pretty good for light saber action: One hit kill / dismember regular enemies, no one simply blocks your saber with a random ass piece of metal / skull. This does not make the player overpowered, as the enemies' attacks are quite lethal as well.

[Pfelpensson]

Originally posted by wojti225:

Another person complaining that gameplay doesn't fit lore.
If you want to have this experience install one hit mod and erase entire block of enemies. Of coure also find a way to phase through walls, because lightsabers can cut through them.
Now tell me, is it fun?

The way it is works for purge troopers and dark jedi; using the same mechanic for random marauders is not just lore breaking, it's also not that fun. The boss fights are easier than the random trash mobs.

Essentially all of the LucasArts Games era Jedi titles managed to do this better - enemies were deadly, but not because they were damage sponges with unblockable headbutts.

[Mathias Giovanni]

Originally posted by Pfelpensson:

Every enemy can block Cal's lightsaber. A B1 battledroid with a bayonet. A random grumpy beetle. Every single weapon, enemy, and random animal is now apparently beskar infused to the point that the lightsaber is the least effective melee weapon in use.

Every enemy can launch attacks that are unblockable by Cal's lightsaber. I suppose this is consistent with everyone being all beskar all the time, but having literal headbutt attacks that are unblockable by lightsaber? Charging headfirst into a lightsaber should be just about instantly fatal for most creatures, but in this game's version of the Star Wars universe headbutts grant invulnerability.

All this is to say, the combat is low-key unsatisfying; there's little feeling of being a powerful force user armed with an iconic weapon, and more of a sense of being an unwitting flagellator in a marauder gang's BDSM scene.

Play story mode.