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Out on November 18. Will feature about 30% of what was in the previous two Battlefronts but it's DICE and it has photorealistic graphics so woohoo.

More seriously, OPEN BETA starts in a couple of weeks. (http://starwars.ea.com/starwars/battlefront/news/star-wars-battlefront-community-update-4)

Oh, almost forgot. Origin + EA  :heartbreak:

Looks great but didn't I read that this was multiplayer only?

Yeah, Battlefield-ish. But kind of more arcadey... err.. or something.


You'll still get reamed probably though. EA and all that. They've probably refined their RMT shit even more.

Well, yes. Totally. This is a multiplayer game.

Let me rephrase: Battlefront 1 & 2 could be played single player against AI bots. I gather this one doesn't give you that option - or am I mistaken?

It won't have a campaign at least. Don't know about bots.

But considering they're making the game only playable on EA servers (probably so they can ream you, as I said above), then I doubt you could even configure your own private game with bots either.

I see. I am not sure. I know there's no single player campaign, but I have also read that there is an offline co-op mode so it sounds to me like bots are in.


EDIT: Star Wars: Battlefront’ Will Have Offline Single Player Using Bots (http://gamerant.com/star-wars-battlefront-offline-single-player/)

I stand corrected then.

This game could potentially cause me to break my "no Origin"-rule :X

Not me.  I'll get it on PS4.

no server browser. no thanks.

It'll probably be the first thing I use my PS4 for besides Destiny and the occasional romp through Los Santos.

The server browser thing bothered me at first but then I realized none of the multiplayer games I play these days has a server browser, and even in Counterstrike now the majority of my games go through the matchmaker. It would be nice to have a choice, but eventually I don't mind anymore. Matchmaking allows me to just hit "play" and be on a match from start to finish without having to worry about being in one that has already started or it's about to finish or where a bnch of players just left or the whole server is emptying up and whatnot. Not saying it's better, just saying it has its perks.

It's one of those things that in practice makes gaming more easily match my actual life/schedule, but it is also one of those things that makes me realize I'm never going to recapture those days playing CS 1.6 on a local server with the same 20 people every day.  Those were good times, but hitting play, playing for 20-30 minutes and logging off also can be good times.

Open Beta (for everyone, for free, wow... is this Origin starving for attention?) beginning October 8th.

I know they have been doing Opne Betas before with the Battlefields and Titanfall, but I still thin it's weird. Unless your product is THE BOMB (and Titanfall wasn't), such a free for all beta will just convince some people on the fence to NOT buy the game at release.

Let me just get this straight, you guys are pining the loss of DICE's server browser? Has it ever been good (honestly, I haven't BFd since 2)?

This game makes me wish I didn't hate playing online shooters.

This game is going to be weird for me, because Battlefront 1 and 2 I played competetively (and I was THE shit, let me tell you), but that was a different day and age and probably the last real serious online shooting I have done.  An elegant game of a more civilized age, one might say.  I think I am in for a rude awakening.

The beta for Battlefield Hardline just made me actively dislike the game, and yes, it probably contributed to the game's utter failure. It's just not a good game. I'm guessing that Star Wars, however, will be a lot better and an open beta is just going to move a lot of units.

Wait, they got rid of the server browser in your web browser? So does that mean the server browser is in-game again (which it should have been all along - fuck Battlelog) or there just isn't a server browser?

I think there isn't a browser at all for public servers, the game system just matches you itself. It's a good idea if so. It provides full servers instead of a lot of 5/16 matches ,ensures you don't get jackasses with 3 second latency on your team, and (conveniently) hides how many/ few servers are actually running.

Nice to hear about the open beta. My son's been dying to play this every time he sees an ad on YouTube or the TV. If it's any good I may have to actually beef up his system so it runs well.

wat


The fucking atmosphere is so damned good it almost makes me forget what a total load of crap it would be playing pubbies. Dammit.

You try teaching a kid about ad blocking, then we'll talk.

Well, I was smart enough to get a cat instead. Though you have a point, he refuses to install an adblocker.

They just have different priorities that we do, I guess.

I'm confident that my boy won't give any shits about this game, either.

I refuse to touch the kid's machine unless it won't start. Then they get to watch as I fix shit. Let them learn how to manage & break their machines themselves so some other poor tech professional doesn't have to deal with ineptitude later.

Charge them for service out of their allowance.

Hardline was so phoned-in it wasn't funny. From what I've read about the Battlefront game, it sounds cut down and shit. Now, it might be one they are planning a billion DLCs for, as they did with BF4, in which case it might turn out decent. Provided the DLCs actually improve the game.

Open Beta should start in three days. In the meantime, I just found out something that I am not happy with: while the game allows you to play in 1st or 3rd Person View, the 1st Person is severely gimped as -on top of limited awareness due to the restricted field of view- you will have weapon recoil which is ABSENT in 3rd Person View. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSFQgJK0ZeY&feature=youtu.be&a) Wtf?

What about 2nd Person View?

You should investigate that for us. I look forward to your report.

As long as it is balanced for lean...

If you experience weapon recoil, turn to page 29.

Can I dolphin dive in my AT-AT. That's all I really care about.

Hardware specs have been released:

recommended specs:

16 GB RAM
AMD Radeon R9 290 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 class GPU (so basically 4 GB of VRAM
Intel Skylake Core i5-6600
40 GB hard disk space
broadband internet
Windows 10

minimum specs
8 GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 7850 or GeForce GTX 660
Intel Core i3-6300T
Windows 7 64-Bit Edition

So I guess DX-12 only and 64 Bit OS because of the 8GB RAM requirement

64bit OS should be expected as the standard for everything, so yeah.

It's been the baseline for most new machines since Windows 7 came out. You couldn't run more than 4gb of RAM on a 32 bit system and that's nothing these days.

8GB is basically poor-people RAM in 2015.  The Master Race is a harsh... mistress?

Extensive preview. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzOJCSFSoNI&feature=em-uploademail)

That video makes it sound really bad.

Only if you're big into shooters. I'm not and was worried it'd be like CoD/ Battlefield in which case I wasn't interested. I like not having to worry about 'leveling up' or bullet-fall or any of the other super-refined super-focused for-fans-only features of those games. The more arcadey flow and feel has me considering a purchase now where I wasn't before.

Yeah, this looks like my kind of shooter.  Which is to say that it doesn't look super serious.  Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare was the last shooter I played for any substantial period of time and this looks like it could scratch that same itch.

Tritto.

Um, quadritto.

Turns out you self-heal completely as long as you don't take damage for 7 seconds.

7 second self heal with a 9 second cooldown on grenades.

Horrible ideas everywhere.

I would not be surprised if that heal gets adjusted down to 3-4 sec once this sneak peak beta thing is over.  Grenades should be fine given the fact no one likes grenade spam.

No one likes grenade spam? haha, I do!

What are you going to do about it? Go to a different server? Go to a private server?! Good luck with the match making bullshit!

What I've seen on Twitch so far looks awful. Its incredibly repetitive and reeks of every design theme that makes console shooters so abhorrent (constant re-spawning, magical hp regen, pretty mediocre actual shooting, cooldowns on everything, feeling of endless pointless meatgrinder). Its early but it certainly made an awful first impression.

I'm sure it will sell well but I don't think this is a game that has any real staying power or future and it didn't look to have a goddamn thing that I would hope other games would steal going forward.

All I'm hoping for is it's better than Battlefield Hardline, which was fucking awful. In an arcade-y Star Wars shooter, the magical HP regen doesn't bother me. Cutting down on grenade spam REALLY doesn't bother me.

Preloadng is up on Origin. 10 GB.

Staying power? What is this combination of words mean? They sell boxes and reputation, buy favorable reviews, and use both of those things to promote the next iteration of shooter.

So beta is starting today but EA, in their infinite wisdom, decided against a day early predownload for the unwashed masses on the PS4 at least. So once the beta hits the PSN servers for download which it has not been offered in the PS Store yet (unless you pre-ordered and have a key - which means the downloader is there, just not available for the free beta download yet), I expect those servers to melt about 4 minutes later, and fully expect this is part of the stupid ass plan. 7g on slower connections and releasing the download on the start day of beta - good planning, unless it is to stress test the download servers. Almost guarantee some people don't get finished with the download until tomorrow night.

Watching a few streams, I am not too put off by this though. Looks cool, but as was said above... nothing spectacular other than the star wars skin.

EA's infinite wisdom allowed the PC users to pre-load the beta yesterday, but this morning you can't pre-load it. ... the fuck?

Traditionally you can't preload betas on any console.

However, it's the 8th, and you still can't even start downloading it yet on either console as of 9am PST. Stupid.

I am in. Lovely engine, scales very well and I have a steady 60fps on a two years old PC. The game seems very enjoyable, somewhat better than what I feared after the most recent videos. More Team Fortress than Counterstrike, but that's not a terrible thing.

I couldn't remember my Origin password so I didn't preload it.

Link because the UI was made by morons and youll never find it yourself:

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/star-wars-battlefront-beta/cid=UP0006-CUSA02941_00-BATTLEFRONTBETA0

I grabbed it at work on my account and remotely made my PS4 download it. That type of tech I really appreciate when it works.

I don't get the hype.  The game play I've watched looked pretty generic.

Well, it's open beta for only a couple of days. No harm no foul.

For myself, this is the demo that will tell me whether to purchase or not. I am not throwing $60 at something I am on the fence about. Normally, on the fence is a no buy with me, but if I get to play a few games and see? yeah... why not? And given the utter looney tunes way they rolled out the downloads, I didn't want to spend the bulk of my demo time downloading at peak internet traffic time in my area and have to lose and evening.

Chances are very likely I pass on the game given it is very generic and repetitive, but there is a possibility I might not mind if the game holds my attention and keeps me coming back.

I'm interested because I suck at Shooters and I hate the SRSBZNS shooters that have popped-up to be the kings of the hill. Quirky, fun, fast and unoriginal is A-ok with me if I have fun. I never had fun in Battlefield or CoD. I did in Quake & Unreal.

I get it.  I loved BF1942 and have been waiting for a game to grab me like it did.  I'd be interested in hearing what you think of this title.

The hype is STAR WARS ORIGINAL TRILOGY. Pardon me.

Seems their servers are struggling. I can play the Single Player assault mode just fine but any time I try Multiplayer it just loads forever, never starting the game. Yay EA.  :awesome_for_real:

The Single Player was fun and looks gorgeous. I want to see what it's like against people rather than bots, though.

So I spent an hour watching some guy streaming this.


The good:

Clean graphics. After BF4's "visuals", the bright colours and easily identifiable enemies are a pleasure to look at.

Light vehicle pick-ups (ATST, the Tie Fighters, etc) aren't as bad as I thought. ATATs being a moving objective helps give focus for both teams.

Appears to have fast load times.

Primary weapon + three perks loadout system isn't terrible.

Good sound design.


The bad:

Superfast health regen.

Spammy weapons. Suits the SW mythos I suppose, but with almost no recoil on even the "LMG" types, its all spray and pray even at long range.

Player respawn system appears to be similar to BF4. Players pop in right on top of people who are getting shot.

Not a big range of weapons and gadgets, yet.


On the whole it doesn't look too bad, but it is also very barebones.

 Got in on the ps4 and confirmed I must play on pc or nothing.  Two matches and I didn't hit anything. Died 47 times and 0 kills.  I literally can not aim.  I have no fucking clue how these assholes Are headshotting me on the move like they are. Jebus. I'm old.

My exact experience. I'm terrible at Destiny, too. Which is why I really didn't like that game. Console shooters just don't jive with me.

This game is pretty though.

Very floaty. Movement feels all wrong. Shooting feels like i'm moving around one of those jump ropes that has little plastic sections on it. Hard to describe.

Not a fan.

Tried it for an hour and can't recommend it. Cooldown for sniper, cooldown for grenade, power ups floating as holos on the floor (wtflol) this is really not good enough after the good stuff in BC

See, I liked all of that in the single-player on the PC. The "Floaty" part felt like Dark Forces redux. No issue there for me as I hate ultra-precise because I'm not sitting down playing for 8-10 hours a day honing my reflexes.

I definitely like the Sniper and Grenade CD as it stops some obnoxious shit that FPS fans love to do to scrubs like me. Overall the game feels very arcadey rather than simulator which is fantastic. I love arcadey games. I just need to see it in MP action to really decide.

So far my verdict is "The FPS game for people who suck at FPS Games" If it keeps the "noscope 360 headshot" people (as my son says) out, that's fine by me.  :awesome_for_real:

I like the cooldowns. I also don't mind the floating powerups, but utterly dislike the transformation into a vehicle. That part sucks and it's probably the only aspect I am disliking so far. :uhrr:

I'd rather have a class system than the power up stuff, but I understand that is not how this game is going to be. I like to specialize and dislike the random power-ups I find on the battlefield. I run over to them and then it is a gamble as to what you get.... this time, infantry turret! this time thermal WTFLOLO grenade! this time vehicle turret? I get the idea that if you put icons on them, people will actively avoid the dumb ones so this works to avoid that. But if you have shitty power-ups people actually avoid, you should probably take them out of the game.

The vehicle transformation I can live with...It is a cheap way out, but I am ok with it.

Flying is pointless - you do loops or figure 8s and loldogfight other flying things. They could take the flying out of the game and I doubt it would make a difference overall.

This game like most other BF games, is horrible on the spawn points. In theory they should work, but getting insta-gibbed as soon as you pop up is frustrating. At least there is no increased spawn timer for repeated deaths.

It is chaotic fun for a weekend, and I doubt I throw money at this based on what I have played. Can't say I would buy it on bargain bin price later given the game population would be slim by then. Live and die by the online.

What Merusk said + freaking Star Wars.

Played this last night with a few beers and had a great time.  The audio is really fantastic and I think I even heard a few Wilhelm screams.  The visuals are equally amazing.  Cooldowns are fine.  Fast respawns are fine, though I think they need to do some work on respawn locations.  The theme is brilliant.  I actually said "Is that Darth fucking Vader?" out loud while playing and it gave my wife a chuckle.  Then Darth fucking Vader cut me down like the filthy rebel I was.  In fact, the entire Hoth battle was like a dream come true.

My complaints are few.  The UI looks cheaply made and it breaks the theme.  Some of this comes from the fact that it was clearly designed with consoles in mind, but the appearance, in general, is just bad and looks like it was slapped together.  Using the right mouse button's aim function for anything other than sniping is useless.  In fact, my performance was markedly improved after I just stopped using it and just started running and gunning everything.  Also, I really miss classes.  If this was just one step closer to the original Battlefront games in that regard I think they'd have me for a day one purchase.

I like it.  I'm not sure if I $60 like it though.

If you look at this like a serious dudebro shooter, you will fucking hate it. It is LCD fun floaty arcade shooting and it's actually pretty fun. I have no problems with the powerups, grenade and sniper cooldowns, etc. I would say that the sniper rifle (the cycler) is a bit weird. It's not a one-shot kill unless you get a headshot or your target has already taken a hit. So one exploit/trick is to start shooting with your regular weapon and when you have a good bead/have scored a hit on the target quickly switch mid shooting to the cycler. Since your default weapon and the cycler are both on the #3 by default, it's pretty simple. BAM, instakill, no scoping or headshot required. I haven't gotten to play as one of the Jedi yet, but I have been mowed down by them plenty. They make for a fun bit of variation. Piloting the X-Wing/A-Wing/Tie Fighters is actually really simple - it does not require "skills" like the Battlefield fliers.

And maybe it's just my childhood speaking but tooling around in an AT-AT/AT-ST and wrecking shit is just... FUCKING... AWESOME. It may be some of the most fun 90 seconds you'll ever have and it's over way too soon. I'm not sure it would have the same effect if it were not Star Wars themed but it is so there. I also don't know how long before that gets old.

Which is where the negatives are. I don't know how much longevity this has. Once the initial OOOO STAR WARS wears off, the actual gameplay seems a bit thin on the ground. Now, this can certainly be alleviated by new maps, and if EA is smart, they will have already had a team working on the first $15 expansion before this sees the light of day. If it's just a one and done game, I don't expect there'll be much of a community to play it with once it reaches the more doable price of $30 (no way I'm spending $60 on this). Their matchmaking is fucking horrible. To play with my friends, everyone has to enter the game and be invited to a party, and then one person joins a game which sends an invite to the party. Only sometimes, not everyone can see everyone else that's in the game meaning they have to quit the game and then re-enter and hope they get seen by a person in the party. And even when in a group, sometimes it just throws the first 2 or 3 who accepted the game invite into the game even if the server fills up after that, meaning 1 or 2 people in your party are left in the queue with their thumbs up their asses. It also doesn't seem to do any sort of auto-balancing and sometimes people from the same party will end up on the other side with no way to switch sides in game. This is basic, community-building QOL stuff and I assume it's this way because LOLBETA but that shit better get fixed quick.

Close your eyes and pretend this doesn't have a Starwas theme. How does the game stand up without that crutch?

It's shovelware.

edit: skip my post and see the one above me.

It absolutely doesn't stand up without the theme.  I won't disagree with that.  If you don't have some affection for Star Wars you're probably not going to find the fun here.

It does have the Star Wars theme though, and if that contributes to whether or not the game is fun for someone it's a valid reason.  Especially since the audio and visuals are very well crafted and fitting for the theme, apart from the UI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnJc9oVXI6I

:awesome_for_real: It really is a Battlefield game.

What's even worse is when you pickup the hero or vehicle powerup, activate it and in the time it takes the animation to fire, you get one-shotted from across the board by some dickhead named pwnernaut.

True story, bro.

Awesome.   

The sounds and environment are fantastic. I loaded up the survival mission single player when I finally installed just to get a feel for the shooty bit and movement and was just mystified by the level of detail on the game and I am on a PS4. Having the sandpeople howls in the background and the blaster sounds... yep. Sold on that. Not sold on the gameplay part though. It does what it do, but it does it so basically that it is forgettable.

And that video clip made me smile to no end.

Okay, okay, they MAY be on to something here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnqtUAg4hkw

You guys know that I'm easily entertained. These videos are going to give me a heart attack.

Apparently I'm easily entertained as well.  That was hilarious.

I am dying laughing at that. Because I can totally see being the poor sap blasting the shit out of Skywalker impotently only to exhale heavily when he gets the boot.

already are wall hacks and aim bots.. Was fun while it lasted.

Really that's the strongest reason to avoid what is an otherwise fun genre. People are broken.

i'm having fun on Hoth, but I doubt I'd play it past the weekend.

Just played 2 rounds of the tutorial stage and 3 of Hoth on PS4 ...after I got past the STAR WARS!!!!! of it, it just seemed like unrewarding, spammy, weak combat. Getting a vehicle was down to luck, the TIEs and AT-STs seem to control like shit, and somehow there are already X-Wing fighter Aces out there that just fucking destroy me.

I'm very happy the beta came out though. Just saved me a hundred bucks based on the graphics and STAR WARS!!!

The dominance of the Empire's ground forces is determined by how good the air games are actually. So...yeah your TIE pilots were obviously not up to par and the X-Wings got the game = rekt for Vehicles. If the Snowspeeders/X-Wings weren't checking you, that usually means gg for the Rebels since the Chicken Walkers can only be countered by focus fire & Anti-Vehicle turrets. If the game actually allowed squad leaders to 'call out target' ala BF3, it'd be a less of a problem for Rebels to coordinate.
It's how Battlefield games are actually. At least the skill ceiling for the air vehicle isn't as high as Battlefield.

I've been playing Battlefield since the beta for 1942. This, comparatively, is beautiful garbage.

I agree, but the problem is that compared to Battlefield 1942 all the other Battlefield are beautiful garbage.

42 really was the best. Though I imagine playing on private servers and competition with a decent clan colors my vision of that. The elements were so much more balanced (nade spam aside), slow planes that you could shoot down if you hit the engine with the regular MG, slow enough it was relatively easy to line up a snipe shot on the pilot, etc. It was the last game I put in that much time, BF2 was a great game but the air game got ridiculous.

Instead of spending money on this, I spent it on Armored Warfare. So my gaming budget is depleted.

It had a great gameplay balance too on most maps. A nice mix of intense firefights around key spots, but because the weapon lethality was slightly lower than say counterstrike, it wasn't just a grinder, but also ways for a good player to go commando and make a huge impact. Then they hired a bunch of people off that stupid Desert Combat mod which was popular because they cranked up the weapon lethality and super weapon factor (air planes that dominated map), and the whizbang factor won out over more subtle balance.

Ah, yeah DC! Forgot about that. Definitely what killed it. We lost a lot of our clan to DC servers, too; so it actually knifed 42 itself. 42 played a lot slower, and that helped tactics out a lot.

There were some great plane maps that were a lot of fun to fly (I was a pilot/engy mostly) and encouraged dogfighting and using the combos of dogfighter/bomber.

I played all last night and this morning. Had a lot of fun but with this single game mode I'm not convinced to buy. I find it entertaining but it's certainly not a game I'd put a lot of focus on. Especially with FO4 coming out at the same time.

Also, wtf is up with the guys able to get 44+ kills and only 3 deaths. I'm ready to believe the aimbot claims since there's only ever one or two guys that can do that while the rest of the teams are down at the 15-20 kill range with far more deaths.

Imperials = AT-AT you just grab those power-ups over and over again and it is god mode for a certain time limit. Orbital strikes, AI and AArmor guns to AoE anything moving. Not hard to get up into that range and beyond.

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/829607/daily/90/Turretcannon_negwt.jpg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIhx33faJ1Q&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrWl4XJ1pT8

So, so wrong. 1942 was magnificent, true, but unless you live your entire life with nostalgia-tinted glasses, you should be able to recognise that many in the franchise have been great games as well. DC (mod), BF2 and 3 - both flawed in different ways but still great, BF4 a good but not great game, and BFBC2, which was the best in the line since 1942/DC despite a misstep in the class system.

Desert Combat was fantastic. I was no good with planes myself, but I was fucking good at taking them out with direct-fire stingers.  :awesome_for_real: I understand that a lot of people didn't like the changes to the base game that DC brought in, but I always found it equal but different. Of course, we played a lot of both DC and 1942 with 2-3 players in the same room, so I enjoyed the benefits of teamwork and friends in both, so coordinated base attacks and defence along with things like little bird drop-offs were the usual order of the day.

Seriously, fuck everybody that came up with or uses that.

Also, 2042 was the shit.

Truth 2.0. (after the fix, of course).

I'd actually rank them as BFBC2 > BF2 > BF2142 > BF4 > Everything else > BF3

BF3 was such a goddamn disappointment.

I played a bit of this tonight and it just seemed like a whole lot of meh.  Not good but really bad either.  Maybe my apathy is related to my general GAFF for fps these days.  I use to play them heavily.  Now I can't play them for more than an hour or so before I'm bored.

FPS needs a hook for me. It's why CoD bores me yet BF attracts me (vehicles). Even Destiny has a hook (the MMORPGFPS) as well as Borderlands (in co-op) for the RPGFPS. Battlefront should scratch the Battlefield itch, but the vehivles and levelling are badly implemented, so it's more like CoD for me.

Got in this morning. Multiplayer is fun I thought. I hope they have a single player campaign like Battlefront 2 though. Definitely scratches the Star Wars itch.

1. Rebel troop pick up random power up.
2. Gains Orbital Strike. Will never drop on death.
3. Wait for phase 1.
4. Blam. (https://youtu.be/aIBfXJk_6b8)

That was a huge problem through this demo cycle. Too many kids playing the troops and not the objectives. I got the OS power up 2 times as a rebel and spent it on the AT-ATs each time. Other people, not so much...they'd carpet 2-3 troops running around the uplink stations. Made me sad, more so because no coms were working for PS4.

There really just is not enough here to justify spending coin on it, and I am talking about the whole package - all the maps that are coming. Just too thin on gameplay for me that more maps and silly objectives just do not make up for.

Yeah, objective gameplay is great on teams and sucks in public. See it enough in WoT and other games where there's an objective and kids just want to deathmatch. "Oh, that light tank trio suddenly capped us because we were all ignoring base. Shit."


No single-player campaign. If you check the SP bit you can do survival waves, private matches or the tutorial. That's it for the SP game, this is all about the MP.

I agree it's not worth the $60. If it were $40 I'd be ok with it but not at this price point.

More, how is that even fun?

Yeah the more I played this the closer I'm coming to agreement with this. It looks and sounds gorgeous, the action is fun but it's the equivalent of a popcorn movie. Nothing really to keep me coming back.

Not sure how to break it to my son that galactic conquest mode is not in this game. Legitimately he might cry. (SW BF 2 was the first computer game he ever played)

It's not. But these are the same people that need to win at any cost, so it was never about the fun for them anyway.

As someone who tends to like to takes games "seriously" and try to win, I honestly don't think this is it.  I think they get a kick out of ruining the other guy's game.

I take them, "seriously" and try to win too, but I'm not going to resort to cheating to do it. And while shitting on someone else's game is probably part of it, it's not the whole thing. They get a little ego boost from being able to break the rules.

This is out, and a lot of fun. I still think it doesn't have much longevity unless you are a teenager or younger, and it is incredibly annoying to know so clearly that we pay 60€ for half of the game, as the rest will be released for another 40€ over the next 6 months as "DLC". But it is a tight, very polished and beautifully looking arcadey shooter. Bonus happiness for the speederbike section on Endor which is the 3D tribute to the old Return of the Jedi isometric arcade game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4tHb1VadU4) as there are a few signature fallen trees that are there for very appreciated nostalgia reasons.

Not sure how I feel about dropping $110 for this (base game + DLC/season pass BS). It looks great, but EA nickle and dime tactics are still in full effect here.

Especially not 110$ for a game that, if my calculations are correct, you won't be playing anymore in a couple of weeks. Maybe if you have kids...

 :why_so_serious:

I spin up TF2 again every once in a while. Fills my FPS itch for a bit.

If there was a single player campaign in this that looked and sounded this "Star Wars" I'd have been all over it. The catch the look and feel of the Star Wars universe really well. The sound alone is incredible.

Same. The multiplayer only leaves me cold, even if I do get to do the Battle of Jakku early.

I do not give a single rat's ass about Battlefront, but holy fuck: http://imgur.com/a/ib8nW

It's too bad you can't play graphics.

Sure you can, I bet lots of people here bought Giants: Citizen Kabuto at launch and "played" it.

Dude that game had amazing gameplay and if you weren't talking shit to someone on Roger Wilco while you were throwing them across the map with kabuto you were Doing It Wrong.

Whoa, that's pretty incredible.  I wonder if it's slideshow gaming at that point though.

Yeah seriously. That is what I would consider next gen graphics. Wonder how many video cards had to melt to bring us this information.

Says on the page he had a 30-40 FPS drop with it turned on, so I'm suspecting something 980 or above to get it playable.

I want to see a video.

It's the same guy who did the GTAV Hyperreal mod. No video posted for Star Wars yet, but here's a GTA vid from the Reddit thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=kHujc-XgtF4

It looks great when standing still or in screenshots but breaks-down in motion.

I don't know if it's the same mod, but here's a video of a highly realistic mod in movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGyaR2sSBkA

Game is so bad the stock price is taking a huge hit:

http://www.thestreet.com/story/13392474/1/electronic-arts-ea-stock-retreats-gamestop-slashes-star-wars-battlefront-price.html

Ya, but then someone finally released the 4K video mod:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGyaR2sSBkA

Good lord.

A fucking week after I bought the game to appease one of my housemates.  He seems to love it, though.

It's cute. Just, no longevity whatsoever. Meaning, it's enjoyable one or two nights. With friends. Good friends.

Should have been another Jedi Knight or single player game with this as MP mode. SW fans buy lots of garbage but DO generally expect some sort of experience that lets them feel heroic, not just bro shooter v. 12.2. 

FYI this very game is free to grab for a couple days on GOG.com (http://GOG.com), scroll down about 3/4 on the main page. Multiplayer base wars are the shit.

Exactly. I would have bought it. But if you tell me it's mostly multiplayer and no real story or SP campaign? Forget it. I'm not paying you to be lazy.

I will say this, the battle of Jakku is Awesome. Watching a star destroyer slowly crash into the desert surface while a battle rages both above and all around you is amazing. Is it worth the price of the game? Hell no, but it's awesome.

I dunno. Maybe just because of the coming movie or my lifestyle doesn't support the deeper games this season, but I'm enjoying the shit out of it. They totally nailed the Star Wars feel, more because of the SFX and backdrops than anything else. I wish more things were destructible, and that I was better at flying, but otherwise I've already gotten more than my money's worth even if I never pick it up again after Ep 7.

Its a fun casual game to mess around with on weekends to kill a couple hours. not much depth but it so damn starwarsy I can enjoy it enough for what it currently is and feel I got my money out of it. I however am not doing the season pass unless I see something pretty spectacular.

These basically sum it up for me.  I played it a few nights, had fun, never really hooked me.

It did really make me want a new Rogue Squadron game that looks this amazing.

Finally caught this the other night. The Command Ship going down is awesome. Have died a few times just watching it :-)

Like I said after the beta, it's not a bad game it's just not a $90 game, or even a $60 game.

Fixed that for you. I think my sweet spot on this game, sans any DLC is about $10.

I'll take it if they give me 12 hours free over xmas.  :awesome_for_real:

I ended up caving and buying this against my better judgement. It was discounted down to AU$50, making it effectively $25 each for my wife and I each (I do the family sharing thing across the two PS4s we have). Makes it much easier to potentially get somewhat of our money's worth for it...

Son bought it for PS4 with his Christmas money. Played the hell out of it for 4 days and hasn't touched it in two now.

I continue to wonder how the hell you play FPS games on dual sticks, because I can't aim for shit with them.

I got this for my brother-in-law for Christmas.  I pondered not getting it due to poor reception/reviews, but I don't like him anyways, so I still got it.   :why_so_serious:

I'm guessing most prefer to just run around in vehicle / turrets.
Those sticks are really good for those.

Perhaps. He doesn't care for either, just wants to be the Heroes and fuck shit up so he plays the Heroes vs. Villains mode the most.

Even then I find myself having to point out he'd be far more effective actually, y'know, aiming rather than flailing about with a lightsaber until he's shot down by a non-hero a minute and a half into play.