Took me about 6 rounds to get to 50 kills. Finn rules.
Thank god my Phasma epic wasn't tied to her staff
Thank god my Phasma epic wasn't tied to her staff
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Star Wars Battlefront II |OT| The Circle is Now Complete
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The HvV challenges were nice if only to see that mode populated with ACTIVE players. Got the challenge in 5-6 rounds. Was absolutely wrecking fools with Chewbacca and Maul. Overall, though, the sides don't seem particularly balanced. Villain blaster heroes are nowhere near as good, on the whole, as the Heroes. Had a Kamino match where the Heroes went full blasters and just absolutely melted us without even breaking a sweat. Hopefully that will improve when rolling gets its day under the nerf bat.
Real tired of maverick team-mates not regrouping and just trying to go ham on 4 guys at once and losing us the game, though. A post kill reset would really help bring some additional balance to it... or even an on-screen message saying "REGROUP!" might wake some folk up. Yeesh XD
Real tired of maverick team-mates not regrouping and just trying to go ham on 4 guys at once and losing us the game, though. A post kill reset would really help bring some additional balance to it... or even an on-screen message saying "REGROUP!" might wake some folk up. Yeesh XD
I got the one that makes her droid rotate faster. Which is great, except I don't fully get what that implies, because it took me a long time to figure out that thing occasionally shoots people as well as sending out shocks. Presumably the rotation makes shocks more frequent?
I did also get a rare crate with a Blue staff ability that reduces all her cooldowns after you kill 5 people with her staff strikes. That's absolutely never ever going to happen in any multiplayer game, but I did try it in Arcade and it was fun to go all "star wars kid" on some bots. Her staff one hits most troops with the exception of the heavies. But its too easy to miss, even on bots, all it takes is for someone at point blank range to roll once or just back away enough for Phasma's geriatric cane twirl to completely whiff and leave you open to tonnes of damage. Satisfying as fuck when you get the combo though, at least one of the strikes will hit people behind you as well.
I normally don't play HvV but because of the challenge I had some amazing matches yesterday. If the mode works good and teams are balanced, it can be great fun. But I had trouble finding players. Anyone else?
I also think that blaster heroes are better than jedi heroes, but it seems like most players prefer the jedi heroes. There were at least 2 if not 3 in my team with me picking Finn or Phasma. And the players using jedis aren't any random newcomers but players with legendary star cards most of the time. So the balancing doesn't seem too bad.
Switched back to maining heavy in trooper-combat. I leveld up his shield and the defender card. Both are great IMO. Still leveling the last gun which is a beast on small maps. I am using the third gun on bigger maps.
My favorite mode is still Starfighter Assault. I got my Fighters to all legendary cards and I only need one more for my Bombers. I learned to love almost all of the hero ships. They are all useful. Yet Slave I and Millenium Falcon really are slow and can be easily shot down by faster ships because you simply can't shake them. It's especially worse with Slave I because of not so great health. Rey & Chewie Falcon is a pure tank with the repair-skills leveled up.
I also think that blaster heroes are better than jedi heroes, but it seems like most players prefer the jedi heroes. There were at least 2 if not 3 in my team with me picking Finn or Phasma. And the players using jedis aren't any random newcomers but players with legendary star cards most of the time. So the balancing doesn't seem too bad.
Switched back to maining heavy in trooper-combat. I leveld up his shield and the defender card. Both are great IMO. Still leveling the last gun which is a beast on small maps. I am using the third gun on bigger maps.
My favorite mode is still Starfighter Assault. I got my Fighters to all legendary cards and I only need one more for my Bombers. I learned to love almost all of the hero ships. They are all useful. Yet Slave I and Millenium Falcon really are slow and can be easily shot down by faster ships because you simply can't shake them. It's especially worse with Slave I because of not so great health. Rey & Chewie Falcon is a pure tank with the repair-skills leveled up.
Played a few rounds HvV and it's the same story that plagues the other modes aswell: matchmaking leads to an uneven expirience. I love that mode nontheless. If there is balance it's simply amazing (same for other modes). Controls are supertight and they did a pretty good job with animations, postures etc... don't have problems to find matches on ps4.
I prefer lightsabers simply due to the fact that the rest of the game is firearm heavy, basically for the sake of variation. They are naturally the most iconic characters in the SW universe and without question the most popular pick among heros or villains. Personally i pick them up because i like dodging, jumping around, blocking, force abilities and hey lightsabers are lightsabers. Don't think that non lightsaber heros are that much better. I think they are balanced pretty well as far as it's possible. For me the lightsabers are slightly better, but it's only my opinion.
I love the versatility of this game.
I prefer lightsabers simply due to the fact that the rest of the game is firearm heavy, basically for the sake of variation. They are naturally the most iconic characters in the SW universe and without question the most popular pick among heros or villains. Personally i pick them up because i like dodging, jumping around, blocking, force abilities and hey lightsabers are lightsabers. Don't think that non lightsaber heros are that much better. I think they are balanced pretty well as far as it's possible. For me the lightsabers are slightly better, but it's only my opinion.
I love the versatility of this game.
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I agree. Doesn't help that people don't care about playing the objectives. I still need three more wins ...
Hoo boy. I played a bunch of HvV last night and I was put into some bad teams. Granted, I'm not the best either, since the vast majority of my time is spent in Starfighter Assault, but nobody on my team stuck together for the first like 6 matches. While the other team had all purple cards and everyone stuck together into a nice compact unit. It wasn't until my final 2 matches that I was placed into a team that knew how to team. And when that happens, HvV really shines. I just wish the first 2/3s of my night wasn't me wanting to throw my controller across the room.
PS. Darth Maul really needs the ability to deflect blaster shots.
PS. Darth Maul really needs the ability to deflect blaster shots.
Still better than having two AFK-farmes, lol. But I only had that one time a few weeks ago. Yesterday everyone was playing.
Looking forward to more HvV this evening. I only hope I don't get a shit-card from the box for my Phasma. Her staff-skill seems absolutely useless agains jedi-heroes? And it's hit or miss against trooper-class enemies. I barely use it. But her bot and HP+ skills are awesome.
How are people still able to AFK farm?
Today is the first time I see people successfully doing it without being kicked out since DICE implemented the fix.
(PS4)
Today is the first time I see people successfully doing it without being kicked out since DICE implemented the fix.
(PS4)
Was there any patch in the last weeks? Any word for future content? A roadmap? Will they reactiviate the microtransactions?
The silence is killing me. I hope they don't let the game die after the TLJ-Season.
So the next season will probably be prequel era inspired season. What are the chances they'll drop a prequel era map you think? Fingers crossed for Mustafar.
If it's prequel-era they will probably add a new ground- and starfighter-map and new heroes (Obi-Wan and Grievous? I also want Dooku and Anakin!) just like with older DLC. Mustafar would be cool, yes. Also the Villains need more hero ships. It's 4:6 at the moment.
I'd rather have Geonosis for ground battle and literally anything for Starfighter Assault. That mode needs more maps.
Yes Starfighter Assault needs more maps. I am fine with the content, but I fucking love this mode so much. If they decided to only do Starfighter Assault updates in the future I wouldn't even be mad, lol.
I want Geonosis but on the off chance that they're secretly working on a true nonlinear conquest game mode I'd be ok waiting for Geonosis to launch with that.
But I can see them making a simple Walker Assault on Geonosis with the clones defending those 6-legged walkers seen in AotC.
Honestly they could do multiple Prequel seasons. George Lucas went nuts with the CGI so Prequels are full of scenes and planets that could be used for a video game lol
But I can see them making a simple Walker Assault on Geonosis with the clones defending those 6-legged walkers seen in AotC.
Honestly they could do multiple Prequel seasons. George Lucas went nuts with the CGI so Prequels are full of scenes and planets that could be used for a video game lol
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I'd like another planetside Starfighter Assault map... preferably not another prequel era one, though. Save it for Bespin, dawgs.
Again, EA, if you're listening, I got sixty bucks here waiting for a full game of Starfighter Assault, dudes. Just sayin'.
Again, EA, if you're listening, I got sixty bucks here waiting for a full game of Starfighter Assault, dudes. Just sayin'.
Prequels have so much to offer, especially when you also include Clone Wars. They won't run dry on source material, lol
She is but she's still not an overly mainstream Star Wars character.
This is like the most requested non-fix related thing on the Reddit too.
I'd love to see it happen but I'll remain skeptical for now.
I'd especially love it if they had a Rebels skin. Those two white sabers would look so good.
I guess I'm not into the idea of a Geonosis map cause I wasn't too much of a fan of the original map from the Pandemic games. Also another barren wasteland map isn't too enticing. If not Mustafar, I'd like pretty much any other map. Utapau, Felucia, etc. A Cato Neimoidia star fighter assault map would be tops.
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Im at like 34 of the 50 Hero kills and I really cant wait to be done with this challenge. Half the time it feels like some of the abilities dont really work properly or are wonky. I finally found a bit of a groove playing as Vader last night (I was the absolute bane of the existence of a Han Solo player for a whole match) but everytime I went to do the choke it would launch the person about 50 feet away. It didnt seem to matter if I was holding the button or just tapped it.
Other observations I found
-Phasma is hot garbage against heroes. Her gun simply doesnt do enough damage. The staff attack is laughably useless.
-Maul is OP as fuck
-Is there a card for Luke to use force push twice in a row? Had one player just hang by cliffs and use double force push to knock people off.
-Finn's lock on ability is OP as fuck. (was the only way I was able to kill Maul players)
-Saber blocking works whenever it feels like working. (no, im not talking about when you have no stamina)
-The hit detection with saber users is goofy as hell. While playing as Vader and attacking Han, there were times where he would be standing right in front of me (not rolling) and the saber strikes would miss but while he was running away, well out of saber reach, I would land hits. There was once where I killed him that I felt bad because he was a good 15-20 feet away from me and the saber swing never came close to him but registered as a hit and killed him.
This mode really does feel messy as hell. They threw all the heroes together with no attempt of balancing it or really even designing a proper game mode. Theres some fun to be had for sure (laughed my ass off when I sent the Emperor into low orbit with Han Solo's detonite charge) but this is barely better than the old BF2's HvV mode that was a total cluster as well.
Other observations I found
-Phasma is hot garbage against heroes. Her gun simply doesnt do enough damage. The staff attack is laughably useless.
-Maul is OP as fuck
-Is there a card for Luke to use force push twice in a row? Had one player just hang by cliffs and use double force push to knock people off.
-Finn's lock on ability is OP as fuck. (was the only way I was able to kill Maul players)
-Saber blocking works whenever it feels like working. (no, im not talking about when you have no stamina)
-The hit detection with saber users is goofy as hell. While playing as Vader and attacking Han, there were times where he would be standing right in front of me (not rolling) and the saber strikes would miss but while he was running away, well out of saber reach, I would land hits. There was once where I killed him that I felt bad because he was a good 15-20 feet away from me and the saber swing never came close to him but registered as a hit and killed him.
This mode really does feel messy as hell. They threw all the heroes together with no attempt of balancing it or really even designing a proper game mode. Theres some fun to be had for sure (laughed my ass off when I sent the Emperor into low orbit with Han Solo's detonite charge) but this is barely better than the old BF2's HvV mode that was a total cluster as well.
Wookiee in strike are essentially 3K point heroes. You basically just have to wait until you have 10 games as Rebels / Resistance / Clones to get your 10 guaranteed wins thanks to Wookies lmao.
Got my 50 Hero kills in 3-4 games of HvV. If you're playing as the bad guys, get Maul, Boba, or Bossk.
If you're good guys, gotta lock down Han, Lando, Chewie, or Finn. Easy kills all around. Han's sharpshooter and Finn's aimbot are nuts, especially if you have a Chewie on your team and you wait for them to stun grenade someone, it's a guaranteed kill. Also, Han's detonator will ragdoll enemies. I got a triple kill when 3 half health enemies tried to mob a Yoda and I just lobbed that bad boy in the general direction and airburst it.
Got my 50 Hero kills in 3-4 games of HvV. If you're playing as the bad guys, get Maul, Boba, or Bossk.
If you're good guys, gotta lock down Han, Lando, Chewie, or Finn. Easy kills all around. Han's sharpshooter and Finn's aimbot are nuts, especially if you have a Chewie on your team and you wait for them to stun grenade someone, it's a guaranteed kill. Also, Han's detonator will ragdoll enemies. I got a triple kill when 3 half health enemies tried to mob a Yoda and I just lobbed that bad boy in the general direction and airburst it.
Also, if you get into a situation where a group of enemies aren't aware of Vader, he HURTS. His basic saber attack with his middle ability active does disgusting amounts of damage. If you manage to choke a group of heroes and then start swinging on them while they're still getting up you can clean house.
Vader is going to be an absolute monster when they get rid of roll spam i-frames. Gonna be like the ending of Rogue One on a regular basis.
Vader is going to be an absolute monster when they get rid of roll spam i-frames. Gonna be like the ending of Rogue One on a regular basis.
Phasma is great on HvV if you're playing as a team. Find a good spot to hide and pop the droid. It survives until someone takes it down or you die, and it has a pretty effective stun. If you can position it around a corner where your opponents can't see it, it makes for some easy kills.
On her own, though, she's not great. Her damage output is pretty low and the staff is hilariously bad.
On her own, though, she's not great. Her damage output is pretty low and the staff is hilariously bad.
I've never had a problem with Jakku. Takodana with that first point is tough, but I would say Kamino is equally a pain.
Jakku Phase 3 is a nightmare.
Kamino 1st Phase used to be Takodana-level but people caught on to Officer squad shield and now I see it go to Phase 2 almost every time.
I still only see Attacker wins on Takodana with grossly mismatched teams. Same with Jakku.
Kamino 1st Phase used to be Takodana-level but people caught on to Officer squad shield and now I see it go to Phase 2 almost every time.
I still only see Attacker wins on Takodana with grossly mismatched teams. Same with Jakku.
So pretty much every time they come up on the rotation then? :)
You're absolutely correct. I play as Han and Bossk. People laugh when I pick Bossk, but then I'll win with 25+ eliminations. Phasma, Finn, and Lando are great too. I've seen people do well with Leia and even Iden. I think it just requires some time to learn to play to each of their strengths (Phasma's droid, Lando stun, etc).
Han's detonite charge is great. I use it to consistently knock Boba out of the sky or hurt tanks like Vader. I use the air burst card and have it maxed out. If they get knocked by my air burst, I then follow up with a shoulder charge and finish off with a blaster shot or 2 to dome.
I mean like super super unmatched teams lol
Had a lot of servers where we will be steamrolling on every other map but still tie on those two.
Jep, for me Kamino is the worst. I don't have nothing against Takodana honestly, it's a little bit too small for my tastes, but that's it. Jakkus last phase is garbage, but i can deal with the rest.
For Blast i love Takodana and Tatooine the most. The rest is good. Kashyyyk a nightmare.
We need a Felucia map (esp if there could be a night variant) very badly.
Jakku is easily the worst map IMO.
I generally like the bigger maps with vehicles more than the trooper/hero maps only. There should be different modes for that.
I generally like the bigger maps with vehicles more than the trooper/hero maps only. There should be different modes for that.
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This game has such an awful dichotomy. When it's good it's really fucking good, when it's bad it's some of the worst shit I've ever played.
They really need to work on getting the ratio to like 90/10 instead of the current 60/40.
They really need to work on getting the ratio to like 90/10 instead of the current 60/40.
I can't hate on Death Star 2 cause of how great it looks. When I first passed by the area where the main lazer fires, I was blown away by that.