STAR WARS™: Squadrons — patch notes and updates
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| Balancing Update - 6 May | 2021-05-07 | Pilots, The following are our final server-side balancing changes we’re making: Starfighters & Components Overall, things are looking good across both factions, with the Galactic Empire having a bit of an edge for victories over the New Republic in Fleet Battles. To even out the win rates a bit more at the top tier of play, we’re tweaking the X-wing and the Y-wing to make them slightly more agile, allowing them to better challenge Imperial starfighters and objectives. Reduced X-wing boost activation cost by 12.5% Reduced Y-wing boost activation cost by 18.75% May the Force be with you, pilots. We’ll see you in the stars. |
| Balancing Update - 7 April | 2021-04-07 | Pilots, The following are the server-side balancing changes we've made this week: Starfighters & Components Three key starfighters are getting rebalancing this week to provide a healthier meta at high and top tiers of play without negatively impacting the wider playerbase. TIE defender The TIE defender is a powerful starfighter when it comes to power management and reducing its energy pool too much risks invalidating what makes it unique, so for this balancing pass we’re making rapid power management a bit more costly without nerfing its stats too hard. Additionally, we’re reducing some of the ammo it has available, allowing it to still funct |
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| Balancing Update - 15 March | 2021-03-15 | Pilots, The following are the server-side balancing changes we've made this week: Starfighters & Components In our previous tuning, we tested out a tweak to the TIE defender to reduce the viability of rapidly boosting for certain techniques. This week, after much feedback from the community and data from games, we’re applying the same to all starfighters except the B-wing. We will monitor the effects of this change to see if further adjustments are needed. We’ve also tweaked some components that deal with targeting and visibility to give more impact and importance to the timing of their use without decreasing their effectiveness in key moment |
| Free Cosmetics | 2021-02-26 | The Empire’s day has come. Decorate your Imperial starfighters with these free cosmetics! |
| Balancing Update - 24 February | 2021-02-24 | Pilots, The following are the server-side balancing changes we've made this week: General Matchmaking improvements to reduce time to find a match while retaining balance No matchmaking changes were made last week as we were monitoring changes from the week prior Skill Rating penalty added when leaving from the Fleet Battles lobby This will go live on 25 February after a brief downtime Starfighters & Components After last week’s tuning, the TIE defender is performing more in line with our expectations but is still overperforming at the top levels of competition. After listening to feedback and comparing it to our data, we’re reducing the shiel |
| Balancing Update - 17 February | 2021-02-17 | Pilots, The following are the server-side balancing changes we've made this week: Starfighters & Components We’ve taken our first pass on both the B-wing and the TIE defender in this balancing update. In the event we’ve over- or undertuned certain aspects of each starfighter, we’ll make further tweaks in the coming weeks. The B-wing was struggling to get to objectives, so we’ve increased its mobility to be closer to the other starfighters while flying directly at a target. You’ll see some large percentage changes below because of that. B-wings will be able to boost more frequently but the boost charge will deplete faster when power to engines |
| Balancing Update - 12 February | 2021-02-12 | Pilots, The following are the server-side balancing changes we've made this week: Starfighters & Components To bring the A-wing’s performance more in line with the other starfighters without impacting its role as an interceptor, we’ve made the following changes to it across the board. The A-wing should now require more skilled power management to use and be more prone to trading or losing in jousts. A-wing shield capacity decreased by 20% A-wing shield overcharge decay rate increased by 100% to match TIE defender’s |
| Pilot Briefing: Balancing & Beyond | 2021-02-12 | Heroes of the New Republic! Stalwarts of the Galactic Empire! Pilots, one and all. We’re so glad to see how much you’ve been enjoying Star Wars™: Squadrons. Over the past few months, we’ve brought you a few surprise content drops, fixed bugs, added custom matches, and made balancing tweaks to the game. All the while, we’ve been having a blast watching the wonderful community-run tournaments you’ve been putting on, like The Calrissian Cup! It’s been fun for us to take a step back and be fans of your work, so thank you to all the community members who’ve been arranging and flying in those matches. As we settle into the new year, we wanted to ma |
| Update 4.2 Release Notes | 2021-01-19 | Pilots, The following are the bug fixes and changes we've made in Update 4.2. See you in the stars, pilots. General Fixed an issue where aim assist would not function as intended when firing lasers at a player who is drifting. Custom Games Fixed an issue where music would overlap for a spectator in Custom Games Fixed an issue where the Flagship's health and shields would not display correctly on the tactical map. Social Fixed an issue where text chat could stop functioning when using a controller. Starfighters & Components The TIE defender's Concussion Missile cooldown has been increased from 2.3 seconds to 6 seconds. |
| Rejoice, Pilots! | 2021-01-05 | Read up on all The High Republic era content coming across the galaxy |
| Pilots! New Holiday Cosmetics are now available, free for all players! | 2020-12-22 |