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In theory a decently coordinated team can down one AT-AT in the first bombing run as long as they save the Orbital Strikes that they find. I believe I did not get my point across properly - my main gripe is the spawn point disparity between imp and rebel sides, when the latter are prone to get chain killed quite a few times. This is not so often found in the imp side. It actually only happened once when the rebels had a group of four good players on the first hill at the start of the scenario, and they were hammering down on the imp spawn points like they were a Orbital Bombardment by themselves.

To an extent, the Rebels can mitigate getting "chain-killed" by spawning on their Partners.

Oh and destroying the turrets. That's a big beef I have with the game, that Imperials can utilize the Rebel turrets.

 Kanluwen wrote:
To an extent, the Rebels can mitigate getting "chain-killed" by spawning on their Partners.

Oh and destroying the turrets. That's a big beef I have with the game, that Imperials can utilize the Rebel turrets.

And that only makes the fact that Rebels can't use AT-ST's slightly more annoying than it already is.

 Kanluwen wrote:
To an extent, the Rebels can mitigate getting "chain-killed" by spawning on their Partners.

Oh and destroying the turrets. That's a big beef I have with the game, that Imperials can utilize the Rebel turrets.

Destroying turrets is something I am sure other Imperial Players got upset over. In games where my friends and I had air superiority over the rebels I would fly over and take out any turret I could while hitting ground targets. Mostly so the Rebels couldn't use them against the AT-ATs, but also in part to make it so our guys wouldn't just sit in them.

Also Kan, as the weekend went on I started getting more and more wins as the Rebels, so my earlier gripes about balance kinda tapered out. It can be difficult to win as the Rebels as you have mentioned, but ultimately makes victory that much sweeter.

 Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
To an extent, the Rebels can mitigate getting "chain-killed" by spawning on their Partners.

Oh and destroying the turrets. That's a big beef I have with the game, that Imperials can utilize the Rebel turrets.

And that only makes the fact that Rebels can't use AT-ST's slightly more annoying than it already is.

To be fair, the AT-STs are a power-up specific to the Imperial players.

The biggest thing I submitted as a "follow-up" when I got an email asking for feedback was that Rebels needed some ground vehicles put in--or they need the T47 available from the first wave on.

Or Smart Rockets need to be made a card rather than power-up.

I would agree with rockets being a card.

The spawn points are kindof janky, especially when you've died but the map thinks its transitioned to the next 'phase' and you spawn out in the middle of nowhere.

Also I'd argue that the Heroes could be a bit tougher

Was looking forward to this title, but watching the gameplay videos it just looks like call of duty/battlefield in a starwars skin. None of the sandboxy charm of the original. No space battles, no swarms of bots, on the rails At-Ats, no mods, x-wings and ties in the battle of hoth (really).

No dramatic approach in snow speeders (dodging at-at fire). You can't even use them till right at the end and you need to disable the shields first. (if they don't get blown to pieces by tie fighters (rolls eyes).

People complain that the rebels can't win... Well the idea is that the imperials get at-ats, but being arrogant imperials, don't realise the rebels can use a humble speeder to trip them up. None of that dynamic is in the game.

Why can't Hoth be just a timed mission anyway (instead of having to knock out the at-ats) . The rebel objective was just to hold the imperials off, not destroy there invasion force.

EA will still sell bucket loads though. People like cod...

Have you ever actually played COD/Battlefield?

Because this wasn't those.

I have to admit, I was pretty skeptical of this game due to their whole (baffling) way of talking more about what's not in this game, versus what really is. I downloaded the beta on my PS4, and my wife and I loaded up the survival mode, damned if we weren't both smiling the whole time. I wish they didn't cut you off half-way through the survival (we only have one out of four survival maps, really?), but that said, it was fun. The versus mode is pretty damn imbalanced (opinion!), but it sure is fun. I worry that the game won't quite be worth the sixty dollars, but my wife and I are going 50-50 on it, and I'm pretty darn sure I can get thirty dollars worth of enjoyment out of it.

I'm kind of miffed that the season pass is fifty, so I'm going to have to see some serious proof that it's worth that kind of cash before I buy it.

Don't call it a beta, call it a demo instead.

 LethalShade wrote:
Don't call it a beta, call it a demo instead.

Er no. This was in fact a beta, to stress test their dedicated servers and to find a few kinks here and there that cropped up(for example, if you stayed in the AT-AT until the timer ran out you would not be able to do anything except move forwards and backwards). The game comes out in about a month(November 18th), unlike most of the beta-demos where it shows up two weeks in advance.

I can say that the beta did deter me from buying the game though. I enjoyed it, but it's not meant for me.

Have you ever actually played COD/Battlefield?

Because this wasn't those.

Im 50/50 on this.

I havent played the Battlefrotn series at all.
I do however love the Battlefield series (really enjoyed all of them), been playing since 1942.
I loathe CoD and everything it is.

Will this be for me then?

I liked it the more I played it in the end which is probably a good sign for the full game.

 Ratius wrote:

Have you ever actually played COD/Battlefield?

Because this wasn't those.

Im 50/50 on this.

I havent played the Battlefrotn series at all.
I do however love the Battlefield series (really enjoyed all of them), been playing since 1942.
I loathe CoD and everything it is.

Will this be for me then?

Do you want a casual game that you can just fire up, play for a bit at a time and not really worry about strategy beyond "Pew, pew! Lasers!"?

If so--Battlefront might be your bag.
If you want a game where teamwork is basically mandatory and lone wolfing is punished, then Battlefront will not be your bag.

 Optio wrote:
I liked it the more I played it in the end which is probably a good sign for the full game.

Going to agree with this. Also I must be crazy because I had way more fun with Walker Assault than I did with Drop Pod. I did 2 games of Walker Assault with each faction (4 total, naturally) and went 4-0, so that probably had something to do with it. Still, some games were close, some games were slaughters, but all games were enjoyable.

Did I miss a way to play in third person instead of first person? I admit to not checking the controls really extensively, but I always preferred third person in the original battlefront games.

The new one does have 3rd person. I believe it's on the D-pad on Xbox, no idea what it is on other consoles.

 Ratius wrote:

Have you ever actually played COD/Battlefield?

Because this wasn't those.

Im 50/50 on this.

I havent played the Battlefrotn series at all.
I do however love the Battlefield series (really enjoyed all of them), been playing since 1942.
I loathe CoD and everything it is.

Will this be for me then?

It's nothing like Battlefield, old or new. I played the Beta for a bit and instantly went back to BF4.

I lone wolf it. I don't care about my teammates, unless they're friends and we're playing over a headset, phone or sitting in the same room. Online people I don't know? I can't/won't depend on them. Battlefront has always been for me about seeing how good a kill count I could rack up before being blown away by a thousand laser bolts. And running around in the most infamous shiny white armor in the history of cinema. Screw the rebs. I'd be an Imp every time if I could. Even if I stuck out like a sore thumb on every map (barring Hoth).

3 new modes introduced:

a) Heroes vs. Villains: 3v3 heroes plus 3 regular units per side, winner is who has most heroes at the end or is the last side with a hero.

b) Training: Sandbox training.

c) Dogtag grabbing: kill an enemy, take dogtag...errrr...token. First to reach 100 wins.

Are they going to announce any actual mission like Hoth or are they seriously going to release any interesting content solely via DLC?

 Sigvatr wrote:


Are they going to announce any actual mission like Hoth or are they seriously going to release any interesting content solely via DLC?

It's EA. They don't sell games. They sell game engines and then charge for the content later

 Kanluwen wrote:
Do you want a casual game that you can just fire up, play for a bit at a time and not really worry about strategy beyond "Pew, pew! Lasers!"?

If so--

Then play Halo. Or Call of Duty/Titanfall, or Battlefront.

These are all casual games that have low skill-entry requirements, but are made with enough competency to also have deeper mechanics for hardcore players to indulge in and get an edge over their opponents.

I would recommend Battlefront 4 to anyone who's a massive Star Wars fan and doesn't care about the quality of the game so long as it brings that delicious Star Wars fix. The caveat is that I'd also recommend waiting until it's 30 bucks for the "Game of the Year" edition that has all the DLC included.

Am a massive starwars fan, has been a passion of mine for the last 31 years, a New Hope was the first film I ever saw as a very small boy. But that aside I went it to the beta looking at it as shooter before a Star Wars game.
Yes they have a hell of a lot to tidy up and missed out on some good ideas from the others but I had fun the more I played plus my 3 year old loved shooting storm troopers with daddy, so if I can share my love of Star Wars with him then I'm all in. Ps loved the Xmas advert too.

New trailer. How does this game look even more awesome every time I see it?

 Paradigm wrote:
New trailer. How does this game look even more awesome every time I see it?

...

Commencing wife-negotiations...

That trailer makes me wish even more for proper campaign, Palpatine and Ackbar speaking throughout the thing makes it seem awesome!

Just a random thought as well, I wonder if we will have a survival mode with a pair of stormtroopers resisting a rebel attack instead of vice-versa? That could be pretty fun...

 Commander Cain wrote:
That trailer makes me wish even more for proper campaign, Palpatine and Ackbar speaking throughout the thing makes it seem awesome!

Just a random thought as well, I wonder if we will have a survival mode with a pair of stormtroopers resisting a rebel attack instead of vice-versa? That could be pretty fun...

No info on that yet.

Should we arrange a list of origin usernames for combined Dakka?

My Xbox live name is the same as here. I'll jump on battlefront with whoever to play.

So the extra $10 goodie bag sounds worthless. Time to drop back down to a standard pre-order. Still hyper excited for release date.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
So the extra $10 goodie bag sounds worthless. Time to drop back down to a standard pre-order. Still hyper excited for release date.

Serious question here:

Why would you preorder the "Deluxe Edition" to begin with? It's been very clear that it comes solely with early access to weapons since the preorders went up.

I know right? I've been waiting about 7 years for this game. Pretty sure I can wait another week for all the content...

That being said I highly approve of the fact that there are no real preorder bonuses as I hate them with a burning passion!

Also I don't think this got posted yet.