Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Orderplucked Cal Kestis from his backwater refuge on Bracca and he has been on the run from the Galactic Empire and its Force-sensitive Inquisitors ever since. Cal’s found a semblance of ‘home’ in companions he’s stuck to rather than in any one place with the Stinger Mantis, which once doubled as the crew’s recreational vehicle, becoming little more than a forgettable means of transportation inStar Wars Jedi: Survivor. The sequel, however, introduced the idea of at least Cal and Greez Dritus settling down in acantina on Koboh populated with lively NPCs and engaging activities.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s sequel may decide to throw that concept out the window as well if Cal, the Stinger Mantis crew, and the Hidden Path’s anchorites all take shelter on Tanalorr, that is if Greez doesn’t end up actually going through with his plight on branching Pyloon’s Saloon into a cantina chain. Nonetheless, it would be unfortunate if the recruitment of NPCs, live music with selected tracks, and holotactics were not reprised forStar Wars Jedi’s last entry. Holotactics in particular should return as it’s essentiallyStar Wars Jedi’s Gwent, and it already comes designed with natural longevity in mind.
Star Wars Jedi’s Holotactics is Basically an Enemy and Creature Bestiary
Behaving like a spin on dejarik,Star Wars Jedi’s holotactics is a gridless, holographic battle simulatorbetween two opponents’ selections of the enemies and hostile fauna. Players can select holographic units from the available catalog of enemies they’ve scanned.
Every available unit has a predetermined amount of battle points that are required to spend on them to play them, and players only have a set amount of battle points to spend each round. That means players can choose a handful of units that cost less and hope to outlast their opponents’ units or elect to toss in one exceptionally powerful unit at the cost of all their points right away—so long as they outmatch their opponents’ selection, they move onto subsequent rounds.
AnAT-STcosts a whopping 25 points, for example, while a lowly shiverpede only costs four points, and higher-point units are commonly the more efficient option in holotactics unless players would like to reserve points for later rounds.
Holotactics Can Represent New Enemies Debuting in Star Wars Jedi’s Upcoming Threequel
Interestingly, because holotactics revolves aroundBD-1 databank scansof enemies discovered and felled throughout the game,Survivor’s sequel can continue iterating on the tabletop mini-game with whatever new enemy types it introduces. Rancors notably weren’t added to holotactics, for instance, and the sequel would have an easy layup by including them this time around. Moreover, theStar Warsumbrella is teeming with droids and creatures that Respawn’sJediseries hasn’t touched on yet, even in its post-Clone Wars era.
It’d be incredible for Cal Kestis to battle nexus in the lastJedigame if only to wield them as a unit in holotactics, and perhaps a Gorgara-like chirodactyl orOggdo Bogdo-like oggdocould appear as a nostalgic unit with an exceedingly high battle point requirement due to its omnipotence and ferocity.
There will inevitably be new enemies in the nextStar Wars Jediinterwoven between endless swarms of stormtroopers, and there’s no better way to celebrate them than to have players scan and apply them to holotactics. Holotactics itself could be improved by having more meaningful or unique rewards associated with each opponent Cal plays against, but as for its basic design it has arguably already perfected it and needs only to continue peppering enemy types into it to hopefully make rounds more dynamic and tactical.
