I finished it. It's a solid 7.5 / 10. Replayed the final act a bunch of times, did a champion difficulty run. It was fun while it lasted, then I got to the Arcade challenges and just quit playing because god they are incredibly challenging to get the gold medals on, so much I gave up in frustration after doing a few of them and realizing how absolutely strict the timing was. Didn't bother with the online because it doesn't interest me though, but the campaign was fun enough.My main gripe with the games is the actual racing courses aren't all that interesting or good. They're very bland and basic and the game really needs some larger / longer tracks in a sequel.Another thing is the podracing events on the standard courses are horrible because the speeds are so different and it doesn't work as well with them. Really makes me miss playing the original Racer games, the courses felt much larger and the settings were much more interesting. I want to be racing through a city or some other industrial setting, not just outdoor environments. I don't care for any of the nu-wars references either, though I never watched the nu-wars movies. What did you guys think?
another thing I didn't like is all the podracing stages were just 6 racers. I can't remember how many people you raced in the older games but it felt like a lot more than 6, and the podracing levels just felt very small and short too. Like even the boonta eve level is so much longer / larger in the original episode 1 racer game. Also there's so many more podracers from those games, and you only get 5 other guys other than Sebulba. Like where is Mawhonic or Aldar Beedo? My favorite racer in episode 1 racer was Ebe Endocott too. He had the coolest podracer.
>>750722228so the main point of the game being the racing and it has boring and bland tracks?thanks for saving me my money anon
>>750722556they're not awful, just feels like the original racer games had so much more variety. There's 6 planets with different environments and a few different types of tracks on each. Each planet has different hazards, the first one lava, the second cold, the third acid, the fourth heat and a lot of obstacles from the crashed ships on jakku, and the final one choke / dust. The levels are fine, it's just It needed more environments that were more interesting.
another thing is the podracing just kind of sucks compared to the regular speeders in the game too. They're just much more fun to race. except the skim speeder, that thing just sucks. I only ever did one run with it and never used it again, the speeder bike and landspeeder are a lot more fun to play.
>>750722228My biggest complaint is the the build autism. You either maxx out ramjet and just hope you get good ramjet parts and basically just play a different game or you just play meme builds where you harass people in the middle of the pack or deal with hooligans. I had a good afterburner build, but it was suffering til I got the parts up to what I needed to make it viable. The arcade is honestly the only part I like because it's all pre-arranged. Some of the challenges are retard easy and some require very specific lines and techniques and it's annoying being off by +0.10 or some shit.
>>750722979Specifically shit like the Bike Ace challenge being awful and the magma drift precision driving one being nightmare fuel. It took me over 9000 attempts to get it just right and it felt dirty after, but then some of them you do like -10 second below Kestar Bool you wonder wtf he was smoking.
Oh ya and bike is gay, speeder is ok and skim speeder feels like PEAKthe pod racers are mid except for "your custom one" when you can get it up to like the speed of sound (on earth).
imagine this game also not even supporting racing wheels or HOTAS setups or even VR
>>750722979afterburner builds kind of suck, and yes the ramjet is king but there's plenty of other builds.I liked an autopilot build with concussion mines, once you get the surge / overcharge autopilot fully upgraded and 3 concussion mines, get lucky to get ability reload such that the mines can be spammed, and if you're even luckier you can get the part that gives you energy with every takedown.Such that you just need to get in first place, hit the autopilot and spam the mines, and you will be getting 20+ takedowns and infinite energy and just spamming mine after mine after mine. >>750723135I just gave up on the arcade stuff. I'm not gonna replay something 1000 times to get the gold medal. The timing requirements are just insane, and yet some of them are very easy to gold and others legitimately nearly impossible. I had enough of being off by like a half second over and over again.
>>750723346>spam mines>hit my own minesOops.
>>750722228>Didn't bother with the online because it doesn't interest me though, but the campaign was fun enoughMultiplayer tour is where the real game is tbqh.
It's definitely a 7/10 tier game. The controls suck and you have to rebind them through another tool like steam input or whatever. It doesn't have vr/wheel support like someone else saidThe tracks are kind of "simplistic" in some ways. Crait is probably the only one that consistently gets me hitting walls at 700kphOther than that, it was still worth it. Felt like I got good value from it, but I'm mildly disappointed.
I liked it a lot, but yeah, track variety could have been better and I wish there was a 4th act that mixed in nerfed podracers with the other vehicles or something. Replaying the last act over and over on Champion became tedious with all the story stuff.Should have been a $40 game.
>>750723852The worst part about replaying the 3rd act is having to do the same podracer races. They should have made them skippable after doing them once. Also, you're incentivized to just lose to kestar in the final race if you want to do another run since you get thousands more credits doing it that way instead of just starting with 2000. I got all the achievements except the arcade gold one, not gonna bother with it.
webm related was a fun build I had yesterday. I could just spam mines endlessly every few seconds, the entire map would get littered with mines.
>>750724254do NPC retire from a race if you take them down enough? I've never actually tried doing it
>>750724298I don't think they do, they just finish with times like 1+ minute later than you if you keep taking them down enough.
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>>750724639I don't get why you can't refuse her dinner request at the end of the sp part 3.
