Gaming Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) & Battlefront 2 (2017) [Mod Approved]

This recent?

 

About three weeks ago. I've gone to only playing Ewok Hunt, where starcards don't matter.

 

It's criminal that this is EA's stewardship of the SW franchise. They should give every single player, especially those who paid full price, a refund.

 

Such a shame....

 

I really don't like hating on the game, since I overall think that it's an okay one. It mostly works and lets you kill some Star Warsy things. It's a shooter, so my expectations of that genre aren't high to begin with. The single-player campaign was very nice.

Having typed that, "mostly", "some", "high", I find these words sum up the game in the end pretty well. The first two words leave you hoping for something better, or more, and the latter is the state which by now is the requirement for fully enjoying the game, as well as how you would find the EA suits in their ivory tower.

There's long been a scuttlebutt about the SWTOR development team being small in size, and the development of the game has for a good while now followed a certain pattern. Things take a really long time, and when it gets here, it's not too big of a content update, and the things the players are asking for are not going to be in it. Now, the rumour is that the DICE team is also a small and reduced in size. The content updates are coming in slow, they're very insignificant, and the things the players want or need the most in the game are not in it.

It just seems to me that the more you hear and see of the game being developed(?), the more troubling its future looks. The worst right now for me is seeing the new community manager trying to give the players the answers to their questions, trying to keep us in the loop, and at the same time being held back by whatever shackles are holding him. There's plenty of "the higher ups have been informed of this", "they do know about this", "I'd love to help you, but I can't do anything" in his responses now. It suddenly makes sense why community managers under EA change so often.

I don't think I'd say no to that if it were possible. It's hard to find reasons to support something like this. EA really hasn't done any services to Star Wars during their tenure. I just wish the next chapter in SW gaming wasn't still years away. Excluding small miracles.

 

Update: And now that I jumped on to something that isn’t Ewok Hunt, I have noticed many of my heroes, classes, etc. have dropped by about 5-10 levels and more purple star cards are now blue again.

Just...HOW?!

 

Well, at least arcade has decent ground and starfighter modes, so I'm pretty much covered. It's unfortunate we probably won't be getting Galactic Assault or some form of large mode in it, but I'm mostly happy. Same thing happened with the 2015 game. Soon as Walker Assault was made available on it's arcade, I was very rarely seen on the multiplayer.

 

Its an ea/dice game. Thats how.

 

Looks like rank issue is fixed.

 

Performance is completely inconsistent from round to round. There's so many glitches. Just horrible. I really can't stand that EA and DICE got away with this level of failure. And we subsidized it.

 

New content is releasing June 12. A map based on Kessel and Extraction returns. The Falcon under Lando is here, along with his droid.
Will EA be showing this off at E3 instead of the actual content we all want? Wouldn't put it past them, but they need to show more new stuff with it.

 

I've only seen the Solo movie once, so please forgive me if I'm missing something.

Spoiler

I'm trying to understand how you could factor the Kessel Run into a multiplayer game. Is it like a retcon for the purposes of the game or something?

 

Well. That's enough content for like a day. Ohhh can't wait..

 

Should maybe have been a bit more specific. The Mines of Kessel. No idea if the mines themselves appeared in the movie, but that's the map we have.

 

Hate Extraction..

 

I'm just excited for the new skins and a new map.

 

A new map is certainly long overdue.
Though there is only one potential skin that might show up this season that I'm looking forward to.

 

http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/06/06/star-wars-battlefront-2-season-2-solo-content-detailed

#BETTERTHANNOTHING

 

Awesome, a new map to experience stuttery lag and game breaking glitches on. This game is like owning a Ferrari with bald tires. All show, no ability to use it's potential.

 

Still, no new map for Galactic Ass....

 

Which is hilarious considering they show what looks like a huge battle in the promo for the Kessel map. Staged BS.

 

This thread is tiresome.....

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I'll *dab* on that.

 

That mode is beyond miserable to me...

 

Which is crazy considering I used to really enjoy Walker Assault in BF 1. It was a simple formula, but it worked well. So the idea of bringing multi staged objectives that go beyond just turning uplinks on/off sounds great on paper to me. It should be the evolution of the original Walker Assault mixed with ideas from BF 1's DLC modes.

But something got lost in the translation. I feel like the map design is at least part of the issue. The maps tend to concentrate everyone into very tight areas, so they do not feel quite as expansive as the WA maps, even though they are. Every stage reminds me of the final stage of BF 1's Turning Point mode, where all 40 players got pushed into one small area and it was just a ton of explosive and vehicle spam. You put a bunch of players in a tight space, add some vehicles, and a four heroes/villains, flash bangs, poison gas, explosive spam, etc. it causes the game to lag and stutter, just gets plain unstable. It's a mess, and the chaos is not sustainable fun.

The very staged "battles" they show in their game promos are just not representative of the actual game. It's as different as slicing an apple up into very measured wedges, and hitting an apple with a hammer. Lol...