I don’t expect Odyssey will give me what I want. But I also think I’d be better-served writing about that in the Elite thread.
I gave the original Battlefront demo a go, because it sounded like it was what I wanted. On the other hand, Star Wars is supposed to be about personal heroism, I guess, so it’s not unreasonable that a hero should be able to best a tank.
This isn’t to say that in a more conventional game, a soldier couldn’t defeat an armoured unit. But it would require that tank to have inadequate infantry support, the attacking soldier have specialized kit, AND have a high degree of guile or stealth as well. No number of assault rifle equivalents should be able to shoot up a tank, let alone an APC or the scifi equivalent thereof, but that’s likely a game design decision and not a lore one.
How’s that for veering off topic?
Haha, no need to worry about that. I tried Star Citizen two years back when they had a free-access weekend. My computer may have been a trifle long in the tooth at time but was still no slouch. All the same, it was astounding how poorly Star Citizen ran. You may be accustomed to the measurement “frames per second” (FPS), well, I had SPF. I think it took me five minutes to walk to the airlock at the end of the hallway, and another ten minutes of blundering on the docks to find my ship and climb inside.
And that’s when I quit, never to go back. If the purpose of the demo was to encourage sales, it failed utterly in its mission and cost it (my) money instead.
IF WE PRESUME that these proposed gameplay elements will get finished, one expects computing power will have caught up enough to make it playable. On the other hand, I also kind of expect a George Broussard situation (Duke Nukem Forever) where the engine keeps getting upgraded and no computer is capable of running it well, should it ever get released at all.
I am a fool sometimes, and I am sometimes pretty free with my disposable income, but I’m not that free, and I’m not that much of a fool. I like what Star Citizen is promissing. But there are many more immediately-gratifying options I can spend my cash on now.