New Battlefront playlist

[Kilo]

Just played some on a friends account.

It's very meh...

Infinite nades, no reloading (everything is cooldowns in this game). Gunplay is meh. Instant regin by hiding for 3 seconds. No teamwork stuff from Battlefield (Medpacks, Ammo, Defibs, etc). Pretty close to instant respawn. Everything is powerups/pickups.

It definitely has captured the Star Wars feel though there's that I guess

[Jokerle]

watching the beta vids makes me very sad.

Auto-aim for flying + super annoying 3rd person camera. wtf

dice lead designer "Hey, I suck at map design and jumping over obstacles, let's make jetpacks for everyone, k?"
lead game designer: "Jetpacks? cool done. What else?"
caretaker: "I like energy shields..pew pew pew. So cool in phantom menace"
lead game designer: "Cool, done. What else"
secretary: "Erik is on vacation and cant work on AT-ATs"
lead game designer: "Just put them on rails we already have jetpacks and energy shields... Think we're good, ship that fu ck"

[Nix]

Infinite nades

D:

[Gwynzer]

The game is just honestly incredibly crap through and through.


I'm baffled as to why they included the 2 person max (wtf) coop. You can only play the easiest difficulty, and it only goes up to 5 out of supposedly 15 waves. Like... who is playing that and going "omfg I'm now sold" (and believe me an this is them advertising their product, "testing" is an objective but not the primary purpose of this beta).

Walker assault is just so horrendously broken it's unbeleivable.

And everything else about the game is just... bad. So bad... I think the only positive thing I have to say about the game is I like being able to redirect blocked blaster fire as a hero. Even then, everything else about the heros sucked.

[RazY70]

The game is just honestly incredibly crap through and through.

Yep. That about sums it up for me.

[Divine-Sneaker]

As expected then?

[King6moh]

Maybe I had a different experience than others here but I actually found it quite enjoyable. Played with a few friends and it seemed fun enough. Not sure if it justifies the price but that's just because of the locked 2 modes I suppose. Seemed to get repetitive after a couple hours of playing.

Definitely not as Battlefield-esque as I thought it would be so maybe not fair to compare it to BF4/BF3.

Didn't get the flying but I have always been terrible with air vehicles.

Dunno. No one else felt this way?

[matsif]

my expectations were below 0 and DICE has managed to disappoint. had they just completely reskinned BF4 and changed nothing else it would have been a better game.

it felt like playing something like old school Quake or Unreal Tournament, but less fun. absolutely no skill in shooting, completely run and gun with nearly no COF and no recoil. unlimited grenades on a cooldown. tons of stupid pickups (including everyone's favorite auto-tracking rocket, but it even tracks infantry! just aim and click!). flying is horrible, there's no reason to even touch the keyboard except to fire your missile. the only thing that felt decent was the AT-ST, and even that was awkward. heroes are brokenly stupid, I stood in a doorway with Vader and got a 12 kill streak just reflecting shots at me.

the map design is just dreadful. hoth has no cover and the rebels don't get any ground vehicles to go against the AT-STs, just A wings and X wings and snowspeeders. turrets suck as well. sullust is just a ton of valleys and slightly higher cliffs and without a jetpack it's awful to play on, nevermind drop zone just being a bad game mode. throw in no one playing the objective because the game is made for the lowest common denominator of bad player and all the game modes go to hell (I had 1 win with rebels on hoth, and that was against just a bunch of terrible players on empire).

then there's the typical frostborked hitreg being bad, kill trades, kills behind cover, and all that fun crap. weapon balance is garbage as well, faster fire rate almost always wins and once you can get the heavy blaster you are basically unkillable unless you are getting sniped. oh by the way everyone can get a sniper rifle (on a cooldown) at level 2, which you get in 1 round of walker assault.

yet all the review sites are citing how great the game is. there's no substance to the game, basically no teamplay mechanics, and the rest of the game is made simply for the most casual of play. it's made for a 10 year old with an xbox to play for 30 minutes before dinner, not for anyone looking for an immersive star wars experience or a gamer looking for even a lightly competitive environment.

this game isn't worth more than $20 and honestly with how much there is should just be free to play.

[Jokerle]

there's no substance to the game, basically no teamplay mechanics, and the rest of the game is made simply for the most casual of play. it's made for a 10 year old with an xbox to play for 30 minutes before dinner

Well said. Though the visual porn is impressive.

[Fields]

People were harsh on hardline for being a reskin of BF4, rightfully so, but this game is just as much a culprit as hardline was. Seriously, besides the fact that it's star wars themed, this could easily be a cheap DLC pack for BF4.

I'm not interested in the game at all because I don't much care for star wars, but it's at the very least a horrible deal for the consumers who will buy it. From all the details I can find on the game, it looks like multiplayer only, and you're basically paying for BF4 with lasers. Consider how badly this game has been cut at the knees in the transition from BF4 to Batrfront before you consider buying it. It's a quarter the game BF4 has become at triple the price (20$ vs 60$ usd for the standard edition). These licensed games always end up being such an IP exploitation. Reskin an existing game, give it some sweep cuts and sell millions of copies to starwars fans. I hope anybody who buys it at least does their research, knows what they're getting into, and doesn't mind killing bots all day in an online only game.

And Like I've been saying since the start: I would love too see this game be good. The scifi genre is infinitely more exciting for me than modern military. But all I see when I watch gameplay footage is a hot steamy loaf of garbage. On top of that, the things I really disagree with like AI opponents and chopped down player numbers, and matchmaking only, are design choices that have 0 chance of changing no matter the level of public outcry.

Have fun, guys; I'll definitely sit this one out.

EDIT

Spoiler: show

Gave it a few rounds play through and yeah, as a game it's pretty mediocre. It's not even really bad per-say, just very shallow and dull. There's no real incentive to work as a team, the gunplay is pretty weak, and the spawns are almost worse than BF4 with players spawning behind me half the time. Everything in the game is designed to remind you that it's starwars, and this obviously took front seat to good game design. I'd like to see a game like this crash and burn, but it's gonna sell like crazy because it's StrWrrrsss. If MGS ground zero has shown us anything, it's that popular IP games like this sell no matter how overpriced or crumby they really are.

[Jokerle]

it looks like multiplayer only, and you're basically paying for BF4 with lasers.

If only...I would buy it then. It is actually several flip rolls backwards in game design and modern teamplay mechanics.
It is COD in SW costume and stupid jetpacks.

[Th30ne]

How you feel when your on the imperial side on Walker Assault!

Spoiler: show

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[ZebraPeps]

How you feel when your on the imperial side on Walker Assault!

[elchino7]

Battlefront can be summarize in:

ADAD while spamming my infinite ammo weapon (#BetelgeuseMasterRace) in 3rd person with almost perfect accuracy. Top it with some nade spam, jetpacks and personal shields.

[A Docile Sloth]

*sniff sniff*

*sniff sniff*

Is that micro transactions I smell?

Would have liked to see the heat decreasing accuracy than triggering a cool down but w/e.
Would like to see some kind of choice over where I spawn.
Would like to see a way to pick my battle buddy.

$60? I'm a nope out of there...

NOPE