Star Wars: Squadrons Dev Tracker

Pilots,

The following are the server-side balancing changes we've made this week:

Starfighters & Components

We’ve taken our first pass on both the B-wing and the TIE defender in this balancing update. In the event we’ve over- or undertuned certain aspects of each starfighter, we’ll make further tweaks in the coming weeks.

The B-wing was struggling to get to objectives, so we’ve increased its mobility to be closer to the other starfighters while flying directly at a target. You’ll see some large percentage changes below because of that. B-wings will be able to boost more frequently but the boost charge will deplete faster when power to engines isn’t maxed out.

• Increased boost charge rate by 100%
• Increased boost loss rate by 500%
  • Boost loss rate now 50% higher than other starfighters
• Increased boost activation cost by 100%
• Decreased maneuverability penalty ...

Nice. :)

Fear not, our telemetry is always available up through the previous day, and we check it regularly. :)

Don’t get me wrong, the defender is gradually gaining more of an edge in survivability (a bit at mid tiers, more so at high tiers) as more pilots figure out how to squeeze max performance out of it, and I’m not saying we’re going to ignore that. It’s just not priority one.

Top priority for us is faction-to-faction balance and any skill-agnostic balance issues. At the moment we’re seeing a New Republic edge in both modes (only a tiny one at high skill tiers, largely thanks to the defender, but a bit bigger at low tiers).

Once we’re confident things are back to ~50/50 across all skill levels then I’d like to look at tweaks to more skill-level-specific problems, like making the B-wing more viable at higher skill levels (currently telemetry shows it being quite good at low tiers, but losing value at mid and mostly gone by high) and/or making t...

Yeah. From the onset, we've been clear that this isn't a live service. We've actually supported the game a fair bit longer than expected, too, haha! At some point, the team has to move on to the next projects that are waiting for them and that point has now arrived.

First one already went live!

Yes! We're taking it week-by-week so we don't over nerf/buff anything. We're going to watch how the A-wing changes we did this week impact things and then base our next tuning change on it.

This week's balancing: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsSquadrons/comments/lifd4k/balancing_update_12_february/

Pilots,

The following are the server-side balancing changes we've made this week:

Starfighters & Components

To bring the A-wing’s performance more in line with the other starfighters without impacting its role as an interceptor, we’ve made the following changes to it across the board. The A-wing should now require more skilled power management to use and be more prone to trading or losing in jousts.

• A-wing shield capacity decreased by 20%
• A-wing shield overcharge decay rate increased by 100% to match TIE defender’s

Heroes of the New Republic! Stalwarts of the Galactic Empire! Pilots, one and all.

We’re so glad to see how much you’ve been enjoying Star Wars™: Squadrons. Over the past few months, we’ve brought you a few surprise content drops, fixed bugs, added custom matches, and made balancing tweaks to the game. All the while, we’ve been having a blast watching the wonderful community-run tournaments you’ve been putting on, like ...

What do you mean?

Goose blasting will be buffed by 20%

This is pretty much it, yeah. No further content additions or changes are planned. We do have some balancing we're planning to do, though. More on that soon!

No dice, sadly. The video incorporated a clip and music from another movie, so we couldn't get clearance to show it. (as anyone who's posted to YouTube can attest, copyright law is a pain in the butt)

Sorry!

Oh, I know you! You were from Bungie. Big fan!

Nice. Looks like how 'Hunted' could have ended, if Titan never came back for Grey.

Fantastic work!

I will! (And I hope things are better for you now)

Passed along to the team <3 Thank you so much.

Educating your fellow pilots on proper flying formations and classical pieces? I can respect that.

Pilots,

The following are the bug fixes and changes we've made in Update 4.2.

See you in the stars, pilots.

General

• Fixed an issue where aim assist would not function as intended when firing lasers at a player who is drifting.

Custom Games

• Fixed an issue where music would overlap for a spectator in Custom Games
• Fixed an issue where the Flagship's health and shields would not display correctly on the tactical map.

Social

• Fixed an issue where text chat could stop functioning when using a controller.

Starfighters & Components

• The TIE defender's Concussion Missile cooldown has been increased from 2.3 seconds to 6 seconds.