Ok where to start .....
Just over a year we found out that Battlefront would be coming to Next Gen consoles and PC and was to be made by possibly the leading team just now in first person shooters DICE. Battlefield 4 but Star Wars is what everyone defo thinking.
However with every passing day we find out something new with this and it just upsets me more and more.
So to get the ball rolling we will talk about the things that are either confirmed from the horses mouth or can be safe assumptions going on the info we have.
First thing is first No space battles ... yes this will be a battlefront game without ship space battles BIG SHAME.
Next to this is limited to a max of 20 players (yes the biggest game mode they will have will only support 20 players in a team not 32/48 like we were hoping for.
No Squads !!! yes thats right you go in with 1 player and only 1 other player that you can spawn and work with .... seriously !! No squadding up with your budies ....... battlefront .... made by DICE .... no squads ?!?!?!?!
No character class' .. yup thats right no support medic etc... which will mean that there will be a best class , weapon gadget set up and most will run with that ... yawn.
No ADS !! yup were expected to have a massive scale battles but cannot accurately aim down our sites ... hip firing guys over 100m away
Walkers will be set on rails ... yup thats rite you dont get to control this walker which means it will either be destroyed very easily via an exploit or if it aint then players will avoid the rails and render it useless after a while.
Objective points ie MCOMS and such can be destroyed by explosive damage .... yup that huge flaw that existed in Bad Company 2 comes back so no matter how good at defending or organised you are random grenades or rpgs fired from miles away can destroy the objective and you lose ... great just great.
this is briefly what i can remember no doubt i have missed things. anyway discuss if these are things you are or aint looking forward to.
As a massive BF and Star Wars fan it greatly saddens me that it appears that EA will be coining it in from loyal fans (suprise suprise) Dice break up that relationship with EA they will kill your reputation.
Star Wars Battlefront :(
posted on 20/5/15
yup .... shocking company if only folk would boycott their products the whole gaming community would benefit. the worring thing is when teams like Ubisoft start thinking their business plan is a good idea. Thankfully the UK has been one of the first countries to show a decent drop in pre-order sales the sooner we can sort out the whole "pre-order for this skin/map pack/character" that is actually on the on the orignal disc bull$it the better. Its a case of yup thanks for your 60 quid now give us another 15/20 quid to unlock the stuff on that disc .... unnaceptable
posted on 20/5/15
ps meant to add to the original post that due to the maps holding a max of 20 a side you can forget having dogfights with multiple vehicles ... it will be 1 tie fighter/X wing per map (same as hardline) defo .. if it was more than 1 then the ground battle wouldnt exist !!
posted on 20/5/15
I can see where you are coming from, but at the same time we have only seen 5 minutes of in game footage and a bit more in in engine footage so i would suggest to relax and at least wait to E3 when im certain we will see a lot more. However lets talk about some of the issues you bring up.
Space battles were never gonna happen so i dont really see the issue, also would have cut a large group of player population including this type of content, as a good percentage of battlefield players dont enjoy vehicle combat and lets be honest space battles in StarWars have usually always been done well and done a lot, go buy Rogue Squadron or X Wing Vs Tie Figher off gog if you want space battles. This of course does not mean no ties, x-wings etc.
Could you link where you saw/heard walkers on rails please, not heard or seen that.
Also in battlefield there have never been that many air units, so yes only 20 vs 20 but have you any idea on the map types etc or what they are trying to do in game? Nope, so relax just a little, you seem to making seem a lot worse than it is with out seeing.......well anything!
Same with the class system, wait for some better confirmation before going over board, what is a medic? He is the same base unit with specific weapons. Why cant you choose your own tools? Ta da a medic, or a heavy guy etc as they choose specific weapons and abilities.
I can understand feeling a little disappointed at the moment with some things but all the critics who have seen the game are pretty positive about it, so lets wait for E3 and a bit more info before giving yourself a hernia. I have enjoyed DICE games for many years and I trust in what they wanna do.
posted on 21/5/15
You can fly the millenium falcon in this game
I heard you can also aim down the sights if using a long range weapon
posted on 21/5/15
Pretty sure it came from the dev's Simon (walkers on rails) put it into google there wil be loads of references to it. The biggy for me is no squads .... seriously ... your telling me that a DICE battle game wont allow me to squad up with my buddies
thats damn near a game breaker in itself.
In regards to te space battles i meantlike they had in the original battlefronts with the space stations things ding the space battles but integrating it with regular infantry combat just like they did in previous incarnations quite easily.
It appears they are gonna coin it in of the name sadly, if any other developer came out and told us that they are bringing out a a massive battle FPS star wars shooter then told us no squads, no ADS max 40 players (MAX there wil be game modes with far less). objective MCOMS or equivalent can be destroyed by explosive damage.... then in this day and age they would get laughed at. Im not ruling it out but i have very little faith after having this info
posted on 21/5/15
Well still think you are going a little ott for little info, and as i thought its just the atats which are rallied and atst are fully playable which in reality does sort of make sense. Atats will be like the hercules in BF3, and depending on the situation could end up a really great mechanic as lets be honest "irl" atats are incredible slow and no one really would want to pilot them. Now imagine we have the hoth mission and we do objectives for taking down the atats - that sounds really cool to me.
posted on 21/5/15
comment by Simon West (U1830)
posted 2 minutes ago
Well still think you are going a little ott for little info, and as i thought its just the atats which are rallied and atst are fully playable which in reality does sort of make sense. Atats will be like the hercules in BF3, and depending on the situation could end up a really great mechanic as lets be honest "irl" atats are incredible slow and no one really would want to pilot them. Now imagine we have the hoth mission and we do objectives for taking down the atats - that sounds really cool to me.
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apologis Simon thats what i meant the ATAT's will be on rails. I do see the things that would be great but trust me it will be great for two or three attempts with it being on rails there will be ways to exploit them and the game mode will not last (IMO) but as i said the fact u cant squad up with ur buddies is almost a game breaker for me.
Please believe me that i want the game to be awesome i really do love Star Wars, loved Battelfront and have easily, EASILY put in over well over 1000 hrs on all the BFS's (im scared to find out exactly how much time !) Our squad (CTUx) have played FPS's together for over a decade now with about 80 odd members if we cant squad up ill cry !!
posted on 21/5/15
No squads delboy but partners, which might also be the case you are more likely to be with 1 friend than 4, so again i see the reasoning. Other than that just grab an external vc software, dont see how no squad = game breaker.
posted on 21/5/15
comment by Simon West (U1830)
posted 9 minutes ago
No squads delboy but partners, which might also be the case you are more likely to be with 1 friend than 4, so again i see the reasoning. Other than that just grab an external vc software, dont see how no squad = game breaker.
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Cos we like to fill our whole team up with our clan ... ie 32 players of CTUx in the one team (our best games are actually when we get a full CTUx lobby ie we have both teams filled with our players... awesome close competitive games) any idea how much of a pain in the ar$e it will be to get our clan in the same game now if u can only buddy up with one person. and im sorry no squads for a battlefield like game IS a gamebreaker for us. We cant play in the same game then we will find a game we can play in (we wont be the only clan that will think like this) a 2man squad is just not good enough for us (might be better for the casual pick up and play gamer but not for full time clans like us.
posted on 21/5/15
rite well thats 5 oclock coming up im outta here .... ciao !!