There’s a new attack strategy making the rounds in Star Wars Squadrons, and some are saying that it could break the title’s online multiplayer metagame. Players have been taking to the stars in EA’s new Star Wars dogfight simulator, which is already regarded as one of the best games to come out of the franchise’s modern era after a lengthy string of disappointments and cancelations.

Despite the PC version of the game having some serious issues with bugs and crashes, fans have praised Star Wars Squadrons for its fast-paced gameplay, rewarding plot set during the final days of the conflict between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire, and the occasional nod to the classic Star Wars PC games of old. Aside from the great single-player content, players can go head-to-head in online multiplayer, flying their customizable spacecraft in either 10-player Dogfights or team-based Fleet Battles. Unfortunately, some of these players have uncovered a new strategy that is tipping the scales of battle in a somewhat unfair direction.

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GameCrate recently detailed a new multiplayer flight formation in Star Wars Squadrons called the “Mosquito Strategy,” an Imperial-based maneuver that is proving to be virtually unstoppable to rookie players and battle-hardened veterans alike. During a Fleet Battle, one team member jumps into a TIE Bomber with the Rotary Cannon weapon equipped, then flies right under an opposing Alliance Frigate’s shields. Stopping right next to the ship’s hull, the player then diverts all power to their fighter’s engines, then transfers that power to their lasers so that the Rotary Cannon remains overcharged as it tears the enemy frigate apart. The opposing team can try to counter the Mosquito Strategy by trying to intercept the Bomber before it can take out their frigate, but this means having to withstand its over-powered Rotary Cannon, making this maneuver difficult to stop even for players who know what is going on. Players in the game's subreddit have been sharing counters to the Mosquito Strategy along with builds to make it even more powerful.

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Naturally, there is a rising concern about players using the Mosquito Strategy to gain an unfair advantage in multiplayer rounds of Star Wars Squadrons. Not to mention it ruining the game's goal of recreating the feel of classic Star Wars dogfights, which are traditionally centered around skilled pilots chasing and strafing at each other rather than one TIE Bomber camping out in front of a massive capital ship and single-handedly blasting it into scrap metal with its overpowered auxiliary weapons. Not even iconic space jockeys like Han Solo or Poe Dameron could pull that off in-canon, and one could argue that it breaks the illusion of battling in the same universe to have that happen so frequently in Squadrons.

It has been suggested that the Mosquito Strategy can be addressed in future online patches by reducing the Rotary Cannon’s effectiveness against capital spacecraft or increasing the power of a frigate’s turbolasers at close range. In any case, it seems that the Mosquito Strategy could pose a problem for Star Wars Squadrons’ multiplayer metagame. Nothing kills a player’s enjoyment of a game quicker than being taken down by an online opponent using a cheap exploit, especially those who are just getting into said title due to being a fan of the franchise that it is a part of. This is something that the developers of Star Wars Squadrons might wish to consider as the game’s online component maintains its already large and dedicated player base.

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Star Wars Squadrons is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Source: GameCrate