Working on a star wars, 40k and ww1 game at the same time seems too much for CA, ffs weren't these the guys that couldn't even devote more then a skeleton crew to tw3, their main cash cow? And the whole studio got downsized recently?
Feels like trying to juggle too many things at once, i expect nothing except disappointment. Also predict they will all take place on single planets, would like to say no space combat but for SW at least feels they would make a token effort to include it somehow even if its basic af.
I fail to see how TW SW could be such a DLC treadmill. It has two factions, empire and rebels. If you do new shit SW it still has two factions just with less characters people like. If you do old republic star wars it has two factions. If you do prequel SW it has two factions. How much DLC can you sell with any of these time periods? Do they really think people will buy a whole DLC just to add Chewbacca to the game or something? At least with Warhammer and 40k you have dozens of different factions/races to churn out content for. Maybe if you really stretch the bounds of lore and logic you can include some extra factions like other SW games have but I still don't see how its anywhere near as good as TW with this.
I also dread to imagine how bad space combat will be, whether it comes in 40k or SW. The last time CA tried to do something new we got WH3 sieges.
Seeing recent TW trends, the answer lies in faction/lord packs.
I'd expect chewbacca and other star wars mains to be in the default game (making people pay extra to play luke skywalker and friends might work in f2p gacha titles but surely they wont have the balls to do it here, right?) but this still leaves no shortage of characters they can pluck from, whether it be from current disney shows or bringing back characters from the eu (mara jade), which would probably earn them enough nerd cred people will be sucked into getting it.
Groguu+ mandalorian dlc! Play as legendary leader mando with exclusive mandalorian units as he takes charge of the mando rebel faction! Mando units are heavy ranged infantry with jumpack ability giving them a movement speed bonus for 30 secs!
Ahsokha dlc! Ahsoka joins the rebellion leading the knights of ahsoka , complete with exclusive ahsoka rebels, ranged light infantry with a bonus against other ranged infantry.
If they throw in clone wars stuff they are set for life, there's like 99999 clone legions with their own colors and quirks like 40k sm chapters, along with their jedi generals. That's a lot of potential milking from SW nerds if they can sink their hooks into those.
