Star Wars: Attack Squadrons

Nelly · 18 Dec 2013 at 11:40

Website Link: http://www.starwarsattacksquadrons.com/ (Sign up to be a beta tester on the front page.)

Hexus Preview: http://hexus.net/gaming/news/pc/63873-star-wars-attack-squadrons-first-details-video-trailer-released/

Star Wars™ : Attack Squadrons is a free-to-play online space combat game where players customize iconic Star Wars™ ships and engage in high-velocity 16 player dogfights in fabled Star Wars locations.

FEATURES
Intense PVP Action:
Battle online in 3 PVP game modes
Free For All: Fight for glory in 16 player death matches.
Team Dogfight: Join a team and decimate the enemy team.
Base Defense: Defend your base or coordinate an attack on your enemy’s base.

Ship Customization
Upgrade and personalize your ships as you collect and modify them to your own specifications.

Team Play
Team up with your friends and develop a community of Starfighter Pilots.

Rewards
Earn points after successful matches to unlock new items and upgrades.

Regular Updates
New ships, items and upgrades every month.

Raumarik · 18 Dec 2013 at 11:41

Got an e-mail about this yesterday, looking forward to giving it a try

Clav · 18 Dec 2013 at 11:47

How have I not heard of this!?!? Could it be as good as X-Wing vs Tie Fighter I wonder

Flibster · 18 Dec 2013 at 11:47

Online only? Sorry. Not interested.

Shame.

Nelly · 18 Dec 2013 at 11:52

Clav said:
How have I not heard of this!?!? Could it be as good as X-Wing vs Tie Fighter I wonder

Nothing since Wing Commander came close to X-Wing, and Tie Fighter for me, loved those games, so addictive.

20 years ago...! Omg lol

'Wes · 18 Dec 2013 at 12:10

Hmm, very interested in this and bad news for Galactic Starfighter.

Imy · 18 Dec 2013 at 12:10

I'm guessing this is going to be a pay-to-win setup?

Xcept1 · 18 Dec 2013 at 12:16

This has some potential! I do miss the old Star Wars flight sims!

Sleepery · 18 Dec 2013 at 12:18

16 players is a bit disappointing.

Xcept1 · 18 Dec 2013 at 12:26

Sleepery said:
16 players is a bit disappointing.

Whaaaaaaaaat. Good grief I should read and not get excited about everything Star Wars. Just lost a lot of interest now!

evilmatt · 18 Dec 2013 at 12:56

Xcept1 said:
This has some potential! I do miss the old Star Wars flight sims!

Prepare to keep missing them, this looks like a multiplayer-only freemium take on Rogue Squadron sadly. There go the chances of seeing a proper X-Wing style flight sim for another few years

Kainz · 18 Dec 2013 at 13:06

It'll be a diabolical mess fuelled by fanboys and P2W etc. PvP means it'll be occupied by crybabies wanting for instant class/ship balancing the moment they get owned by someone.

I pretty much burst out laughing the moment I read "Intense PvP Action".

Raumarik · 18 Dec 2013 at 14:21

Kainz stop whinging and pew pew! Get pak and a few others and we can have a laugh.. pretend it's freelancer (which I still have the CD for..)

lokiss · 18 Dec 2013 at 18:01

Well if you can find it and get it to run, rogue squadron on the pc still holds a light.

If not do the right thing and pick up a cheap gamecube and a copy of rogue 2.

Not much hope for attack, be half the game of the above.. unless online is you're thing.

233 · 18 Dec 2013 at 18:18

as long as I can go imperial and they offer a TIE/Hunter i'll be a happy man

eekfek · 18 Dec 2013 at 19:08

I'll stick to the 24 player PvP Starfighter battles in SW:ToR for now

let's hope this game plays as good as it looks !

Ur round next · 18 Dec 2013 at 22:14

Anything to do with star wars im in

Totality · 19 Dec 2013 at 09:32

X-Wing Alliance from over 10 years ago looks better than this! 16 player dogfights?! Lame.

Devlish · 19 Dec 2013 at 09:42

Shaping up to be yet another SW themed disappointment.

neoglow · 19 Dec 2013 at 11:07

Awesome, good find. Just signed up.
It was only yesterday I reinstalled classic X-Wing.