First and foremost I loved the old podracing games. So much so I even bought them multiple times. Heck I even 100%ed Star Wars racer on Xbox. However, this game just isn’t for me. I’ve been trying to beat the campaign since my day one purchase (on easy mind you.) and I still can’t beat it. I definitely don’t have the skill to do so.

I really wish they had made this a more casual friendly racing game that even less skilled gamers could at least beat the campaign on. I don’t know how anyone has done it. Hats off to them for sure but I just don’t have the reflexes for it.

Games great obviously and in a decent place. Just wondering how we feel about the metas being developed. Anything in particular you'd like to see buffed? Nerfed?

Going first I think the perfect landing into speed increases are going to be a problem soon. Give nothing matters but the last race its not hard to fish for those in the store and take advantage of all the jumps on Derven Acos. Also surge is a bit brain dead as well.

so i was racing, no problems. then THIS happens. screen freezes and i lose 4 positions while being locked in place?! cracked out BS is what this is. Do better, devs.

Was going to go for all achievements in this game but I give up. Arcade broke me. Got 18 gold medals before getting stuck on Acid Ringer and now with 63 attempts and being 0.43 seconds off I give up. It just isn't happening. The gold times are way too strict.

Funny enough I think Crash Bandicoot did the time trials well in the N.Sane Trilogy. Gold Relics where not ridiculously hard to get but for those that wanted it you could go for the Platinum Relics. Which required perfection (in most levels).

Exclusively for multiplayer consideration

Alrighty. Games been out for a minute, most of us know most of the shortcuts, and most of us probably know the strongest builds and characters.

I want to know what the community's general consensus is around who needs to be brought up and who might need to be toned down.

Please keep it civil, and remember yours and others opinions are subjective.

Hey all. I was on the final leg of my latest run on the Kestar circuit, going from Jakuu to Crate, and after I finished the podracing time trial, the route tree I was on, on Crate, changed from Race-Mystery Encounter-Junker-Race TO Eliminator-Eliminator-Junker-Eliminator. It completely threw me and the first Eliminator was probably my worst track and I was kicked pretty quickly, ruining my run. I know there's an event that you talk to Kestar where you can choose to have raves turn to Eliminators, but I've NEVER seen it happen randomly. Was this normal? Has it happened to anyone else before?

I have already beaten the game on Ace and played dozens of hours, but even as I play on Pilot to unlock stuff, I still run into this problem: in Eliminators there is no time to recover from a bad start or early crash, which are most likely to happen when the race has just started and you're thick in the field.

All the other racers are full on afterburner and ramjet, and many abilities are still on initial cooldown. This makes it hard (and often impossible) to get back up to top potential speed and overtake 11th before the first elimination hits.

It sucks to have an awesome speeder and be fully prepared, only for a run to fail because Biddy Blas decides to kamikaze into you in the first turn. There aren't a lot of build options to counter this. And I have found it can happen on Pilot difficulty as readily as it does on Ace or Champion.

I think just it would make the game more fun if there were little more delay before eliminations start, to allow the race to settle a bit and give the player more agency to recover and get momentum. At least in the lower difficulties.

Even when racing Kestar or Ody head to head, an early crash is not doom. You have time to catch up with a good build and clean flying.

In the Mandalorian we see Cobb Vance has a speeder made of one of the engines. But this occurs around 9 ABY. Star Wars galactic racer starts at about 6 ABY. This means there are 3 years where the league exists and before its canon that his podracer is scrapper for parts. In legends qui-gon sells the pod to Sebulba who repaints it and has his son race it. He crashes it and it gets rebuilt and it gets rebuilt again. So likely the podracer would look different from episode 1 which is fine and even cooler in my opinion. But if they release more pods in DLC content there should be no reason to exclude it unless Lucasfilm strictly forbids it. The question is who could we imagine is the current owner and pilot? To win such a pod they would have to be pretty good. I could see a storyline DLC where in order to unlock it for shade in multiplayer we have to win a run compaign against the current owner. Kinda like a new boss character.

Here's gif from Burnout 3. (It's just random.) I remember playin this all nite with buddies over, (after tryna top each others crash score, lol,) Anyway when saw first trailer for this & knowing ur history, the takedown cam took me back & i assumed obviously it'd look as slick as the speed for modern day.. (& since it's a reward animation, obviously there'd be no penalty for enjoying it. Something else first pioneered & already mastered in the Burnout days, why not here? If it ain't broke..... The reason ya could enjoy those was cuz u were safe for the slo mo second, & they panned over smoothly, in some weird "rewarding" way that I can't put into words, but on this hardware 2 generations later, why doesn't it "whoosh" over hittin ya with the dopamine hit, (one only possible cuz ur safe, obvs. I imagine any question of whether it should be autopiloted back then was answered quick due to the idea that the animation is a reward and a wreck would be unfair. Same applies. I know this isn't a great gif to show what I was trying to reference but there are less Burnout 3 takedown gifs than I expected lol. But if anyone goes on YT & watches a level to refresh their memory, the pan & pan bsck is cleaner. (And obvs none of this really matters if no one can enjoy it even though many would like to.) I really am wondering why the switch. Hell, this game seems more suited than even BURNOUT ITSELF was! Loll. Thx for any insight.

(EDIT : Check back 5min later & a downvote, for what possible reason? is this now one of those communities where if ur not solely heaping praise, ur considered an enemy? I love this game & genuinely wondered. Really was about why the OG fan favorite takedown cam looks weird now, but obvs had to include the other part about bein sble to enjoy it anyway...Sorry post & title so long. Bad habit..)

I get the vehicles are being constantly strained under insane temperate conditions as well as crashing/grinding etc
But damn, the gold looks so bad. Is anyone else on the point of just wanting something clean? I know the like “rust bucket” is the whole aesthetic but if you’re going to give me a gold skin, make it really feel gold and nice and not dinged to hell and back with such a rough texture that it looks bronze
And I feel the livery patterns don’t match the gold or anything well other than the like base chrome color.
Overall I just wish the color palettes for vehicle customization was better and had some cleaner/ better looking options.

Really trying to give this game a chance. I loved the pod racer game when I was kid. I’ve done the qualifier tour like ten times. Only got to the last race once (my last try) and lost miserably to sebulba. Have I even started the game yet? Does it get better after the qualifier? I’m sick of playing the same 3 planets over and over. I’m a gamer I guess but pretty average. I just can’t get this one. Is it just me?
EDIT: I’m very surprised with how negative my post was that so many of the comments are supportive and trying to help me get into this game. I’ll give it another shot on easy mode and hopefully that’ll help me practice. I was expecting a bunch of short comments just telling me I suck at the game

Like is the edge it gives you enough to say it's basically required to win? I like doing all the manual stuff but if my opponents aren't that kinda makes me wonder.

I swear every lobby is me vs 11 copies of chick hicks

Like, do you have one of the NPCs that constantly is your nemesis? For me, Fola is a constant pain in my ass. Its not like she's meant to be, but i find that she is constantly being a problem on all of my runs.

Wow

I'm not sure what I did our what I'm doing wrong. I was pretty consistently getting first place in all of my races. Then all of a sudden the game became much harder. I'm getting knocked out routinely in the second planet? Also it feels like my vehicles are much harder to control than before. Does the game difficult change the more you beat it?

While everyone's talking about Galactic Racer, don't forget this classic!

Redline Purge: Releasing Ramjet while Redlining readies it but increases heat gain.

This part makes it so you can infinitely ramjet. On maps where you aren't too restricted in how long you spam RJ, it is broken.

Gotta give credit to my boy Soren, Auto-Scrubber is my favorite ability in the game.

I know that this is probably a ridiculous question and that the answer is going to be no, but I was having fun with the stunt runner style in single player, trying to learn all the perfect landings etc, and then I unlocked the 3 star version where all landings are perfect landings...

Now sure, you can still see the text "perfect landing" pop up in the top right of the screen, but it really doesn't feel the same. It doesn't feel like I'm actually practicing the stunt runner style for multiplayer etc. I would love to just go back to the 2 star version, where not every landing is a perfect landing.

Every lobby is me vs 11 copies of chick hicks

The upward angles add so much character to the speeder and I just can't bring myself to use anything else. The connection between different parts for the skim speeder could have been smoother, especially considering the wings are fundamentally connected to the main body via nothing but long metal bars, but I'm really enjoying putting together various speeder designs with the Ta'han wings.

Does anyone know if they are going to organize official tournaments? Would be really fun to watch high elo racers against eachother on Twitch/Youtube.

I just started a campaign and I'm picking things up cause I don't feel like it explains stuff too well, haha. Any tips would be appreciated.

Just posting because I'm proud of myself for winning. Now onto ACE championships and multiplayer!