Star Wars: Squadrons (2020)
Review | 2021.11.27
Rewind 19 months:
Omicron seems to be taking off worldwide and while we have some idea of what to do with pandemics now, if this variant resists vaccines we could be in pretty bad shape. If the markets are any indicator, people are worried that this will break our already stretched finances/medical staff/supply chains/public calm.
So let's escape all that and talk about streaming, books, video games, and fish.
Infopost | 2020.10.10
A little starfighter chat and then my next iteration in trading. I passed pilot level 15 after maybe a dozen dogfights and fleet battles, that doesn't intrinsically mean much except in the context of unlockables. I have most of the mods I want, leaving a few to acquire for tuning and experimentation. And I've acquired some fun cosmetics like the Twi'lek skin and some neat fighter paint jobs. I'm pretty happy with the rate of unlocks, though it'd be neat to have more variety in cosmetics.
Review | 2020.10.03
I'm a few hours/levels into Squadrons and I'm pretty happy with it so far.
The first ninety minutes were kind of slow. I had the game queued up for launch time, but I guess Win 10 is a hard requirement and we're not yet in the age of a game platform checking beforehand. Or presenting anything more descriptive than a linking exception.
I guess, among other things, dxgigetdebuginterface1 is required for crossplay. Eventually I got going, and it looks like this:
Preview | 2020.06.19
The Star Wars: Squadrons gameplay trailer dropped, he's my read.
Storypost | 2020.06.15
Having bigger fish to fry, I hadn't really touched the media room in about ten years, aside from swapping some electronics and furniture. It seemed like a modest house project was in order when we hit reopening stage 2.5. The plan centered around repainting a darker, more cinematic color and moving the audio wiring from being exposed to hidden behind moulding.