Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2025?

On Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:17:48 +0300, Anssi Saari
<anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
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What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2025?

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Amusingly, with the freshly released second DLC they added two
no-brainer features: you can now shoot your blaster while riding your
speeder bike. You can also keep a pickup weapon as long as it has ammo
and even assign a hot key to it. Good things to be sure but feels
stupid, why wasn't that possible to begin with? Made me wonder if in the
future more weapons can maybe be picked up or you might even be able to
ride someone else's speeder bike.

I always got the impression that the primary purpose of the speeder
bike wasn't transport but for those awful racing mini-games scattered
across the map (in typical Ubisoft fashion). After all, the assumption
was that if you wanted to go from place to place, you'd just use the
fast-travel. Meanwhile, the races were all about speed and not
shooting your opponents, so no need for blasters there. It just didn't
occur to them that people would be revving across the landscape
picking fights.

I didn't have as much fun with "SW:Outlaws", although apparently one
of my major complaints --the too-frequent crashes-- had more to do
with Nvidia than Ubisoft. Supposedly, a major patch (and new drivers)
solves most of those issues. I figure I'll give the game another shot
one of these days but I'm in no immediate rush. I found the game too
generically Ubisoft to want to rush back any time soon.