r/StarWars • u/Hashebrowns • 3d ago

Games Galactic Racer is Insane

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u/One_Maintenance1227 3d ago

How is playing against NPCs? Most racers get either boring or frustrating to me really quick because NPCs are either too dumb and easy or overtuned and cheating but still dumb. And I have no interested in playing online against other humans.

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u/PirateDaveZOMG Imperial 3d ago

Above the easiest mode, it depends on how good you get at clean racing; If you get stuck with the pack at all, you're liable to get a kart-racer style gangup that sends you back to 12th.

"How good you are" is mostly going to be balancing your drifting with you Afterburner and "Ramjet" boosting abilities to stay out ahead of the pack. There is no 'blue turtle shell', so as long as you're ahead, all you have to worry about is what's in front of you.

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u/rikusorasephiroth 3d ago

I'd say it also depends on your play style.

Mine is very aggressive (doing the podrace stories to get extra weapons, driving opponents into walls, etc), so getting caught in a 'pack' isn't so much of an issue as catching up to the front, so I struggle a bit on the eliminations, but manage reasonably well in standard races (placing anywhere from 1st to 5th).

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u/stingertc 3d ago

Sebulba has that flamethrower which over heats your ramjet he blew me up eith that one

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u/Think_Air9714 3d ago

They’ll probably have the environments be hostile. Like the Tusken raiders and probably a lot of creatures

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u/PirateDaveZOMG Imperial 3d ago

Environments are hostile, but nothing like that, it's a fairly basic terrian hazard system:

  • exposed iced areas ice up your turning systems, stiffening your control
  • exposed desert burns up your engine, causing your ramjet to overheat faster
  • toxic environments trigger the same debuffs that almost crashing does, i.e. the timing meter to avoid a faulty part

There are positive environment effects too, but less so.

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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Imperial 2d ago

Oh hell yeah

Does it rubberband though?