YMMV / Star Wars: Squadrons

• Awesome Music: Along with the ever-present theme of the Force, the trailer remixes the second part of an iconic chase theme, "The Asteroid Field" from The Empire Strikes Back.
• Ass Pull: Lyndon Javes and his badly damaged X-Wing survive crashing directly into the Durasteel-armored Starhawk. How? He knows the Starhawk inside and out. It's implied that he smashed into one of the large empty interior sections, but his X-Wing still being spaceworthy afterwards seems... unlikely.
• Crowning Moment of Funny:
  • Some of the cosmetics. Take your pick, there's a GNK droid figurine ("Gonk. Gonk. Gonk."), Tuggtar tributes...
  • The official EA Star Wars account captioning a linked tweet to Shen's Databank entry with "The helmet stays on." Hey, one man's kink...
• Fan Nickname: Rogue Squadron IV, due in part to the game being a Spiritual Successor to the Rogue Squadron trilogy.
• Game-Breaker:
  • The bomber class' Heavy Rotary Cannon. While it requires a small windup time, its fire rate is insane and does more damage than a proton torpedo. With good aim other ship classes and large warships don't stand a chance. Taken up to eleven with the TIE Bomber and its power shunting, though the Y-Wing is just as capable. It has, however, been nerfed to reduce the bomber's maneuverability while firing.
  • The so-called "boost gasping" exploit allows skilled players to use the game's drifting mechanic almost endlessly, making it extremely hard for a less-skilled player and even the AI's automated turrets to keep them in their crosshairs. In a match between players who know how to use the technique versus those who don't, it will almost invariably become a one-sided slaughter in favor of those using the exploit. The worst part is that developer support ceased after the exploit became popular, so it'll never be fixed or nerfed.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: One of the main criticisms about the story mode is that it feels like it ends before enough can happen and the conclusion is of the And the Adventure Continues flavor. It's mitigated by the price ($30 USD) and the multiplayer modes included.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Voltron: Legendary Defender fans were pleasantly surprised to find that two of their rebel squadmates are voiced by none other than Pidge and Acxa, and you can set your character voice to Lotor.
• Moral Event Horizon: Go here.
• No Problem with Licensed Games: Despite some issues with the PC port that were later patched out, Squadrons is well-regarded as a fun Star Wars games. Not only is the gameplay well-regarded for being tough and challenging, but many fans also enjoy the VR support, which, when combined with the solid sound design and graphics of the Frostbite engine, and the attention to detail in cockpit/interior designs, helps bring the classic starfighter fantasy to life. Many fans of the X-Wing and Rogue Squadron games, in particular, found Squadrons to be a worthy successor as a space-combat Star Wars game.
• Porting Disaster:
  • The opening week of the PC version has been nothing short of a catastrophe, as many players reported major issues like the game being locked at 30 FPS no matter how strong their rig is (with only a temporary fix that's not readily available on all machines), high CPU usage in the first five to ten minutes of launching the app, and some HOTAS detection problems as early as the tutorial mission. Steam and Epic Games Store users were prevented from even playing online at all, forcing them to wait for a patch to be deployed.
  • The game also had a conflict with certain video cards that otherwise ran the game just fine that caused the game to get stuck on an infinite loading screen upon entering Mission 9, regardless of any settings, making it impossible to finish the story. This was resolved with the Mandalorian cosmetic update.
• Spiritual Successor: The title, the presence of Wedge Antilles, the gameplay and the emphasis on the pilots being aces pretty clearly posit the game as a direct successor to the classic Star Wars flight sim games such X-Wing, TIE Fighter and the Rogue Squadron series (all have been branded Legends since 2014).
• Tear Jerker:
  • Javes defecting to the Rebellion. He clearly regrets teaching Kerrill to be unquestionably loyal to the Empire, and when Kerrill discovers his betrayal, she immediately tries to kill him. Javes asks you and Kerrill to forgive him while the two of you risk your lives trying to stop him.
    Javes: You hear me, Terisa, but you don't understand me...
    • Years later, when Sloane assigns Kerrill as Javes's opponent, reasoning that she knows him well enough to understand how he works, Kerrill responds that if that were true, she would have eliminated him before he defected.
    • Also take into account that Kerrill was an orphan, so she most likely saw Javes as a Parental Substitute.
    • When Kerrill meets Titan-3 again, she's also bitter that Javes's betrayal got her Reassigned to Antarctica and would have been the end of her career had it not been for her former mentor's return.
  • Vonreg's personal beef with the Rebellion is that they killed her brothers in combat. Then also remember that her descendant, who could quite possibly be her nephew or even her son, also dies in vain. Ouch.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Kerrill and Titan Squadron don't find out that the Starhawk prototype turned out to be fine. Or at least fine enough to have the last laugh.
  • Those who criticize the game for having a short campaign argue that it could have easily been extended to the Battle of Jakku, for instance.
• Underused Game Mechanic: According to feedback from multiplayer games, no one was using the B-wing.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Many fans were taken by surprise with the reveal that Hera Syndulla is in the game, albeit in a supporting role.
  • Grand Admiral Rae Sloane makes her animated debut in the game, having previously appeared only in novels and comics.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The in-game cutscenes, which are generated by the game engine rather than being pre-rendered videos, yet look nearly photorealistic at times.

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