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Star Wars Battlefront II |OT| The Circle is Now Complete
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I tried it again last night and my technique of chilling at the corner of the map without a flashlight and then bolting for the shuttle without even turning it on is still working as often as it's failing. I'm surprised. I'm honestly not an especially tactically-minded person and I've never gotten deep enough in any game to really explore the meta or anything. I guess I'm just being cheap, lol.
Think im about done with this game. Matchmaking is infuriatingly terrible, and overpowered heros in every mode is just killing any sort of fun i have.
Heros need to go back to being on a timer or taken completely out of non hero modes.
Heros need to go back to being on a timer or taken completely out of non hero modes.
Absolutely loving the game. I think I'm gonna do something I've never before done (simply because I don't play multiplayer games often at all and when I do I'm casual as heck) and start looking up vids on how to improve my abilities, especially with heroes and starfighters.
I played the Naboo hangar HvV map for the first time yesterday. I've been playing since launch.
Are we expecting a bunch of skins, a couple new heroes, and at least a new map from the new movie to release next month?
Can't speak for Xbox but on PS4 I never have any problems getting into any mode. The longest I've had to wait is... maybe 30 seconds? Hopefully X1 is similar.
I play on Xbox One regularly, and never have trouble finding a game.
This is the current map rotation for Blast:
- Hoth
- Kamino
- Jakku
- Yavin 4
- Bespin
- Jabba's Palace
- Crait
- Naboo
- Mos Eisley
- Starkiller Base
- Endor
- Kashyyyk
- Death Star
- Takodana
Although they made it slightly easier to find a specific map with the latest patch, I still hope they somehow manage to add a proper map selection.
My god, 2v2 hero mode is the least fun thing to ever be in a Battlefront game. Wait 2 minutes for the lobby to fill up. Wait 60 seconds for the game timer. Play for 30 seconds. Wait for 5 minutes because your teammate dropped and has to be replaced. Play for 30 seconds if you're lucky. Wait for five minutes again because another teammate quit, etc.
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The June content drop better be meaty and they better talk about Conquest or the "tweaked Supremacy" they are working on or I'm totally done.
I feel like every time there is an update coming up, this is what we say. Yet we continue to play after the disappointment.
Ok, see you in August/September/whenever the fuck Geonosis drops.
Random aside but you asked me on PS4 messaging the other day if I was... Jeff something-or-other and I said yes but in hindsight I'm not 100% sure I knew what you were asking, lol.
I was JeffZero on GAF, if that's what you were asking. And Jeff O'Connor on TrekBBS. (And now I'm announcing all this stuff publicly because ???)
It took them 6 months to drop 2 skins and a small map which is remade from SWBF1.
There is no realistic way we are getting a Conquest mode or any meaningful new large-scale mode. There's a skeleton crew left working on this game making $20 skins to salvage as much cash as they can to funnel into Battlefield V.
I know that the post release content hasn't been overwhelming, but this is just bullshit.
PintSizedSlasher will eventually actually tell me *why* I'm wrong.
Maybe there's an entire page of hidden content in the most recent patch I missed. Shouldn't be hard to point out.
Maybe there's an entire page of hidden content in the most recent patch I missed. Shouldn't be hard to point out.
Ok I'll quote you again:
Is that all they've done in that timeframe? No, it's not.
If you want to bitch and moan about the game and it's developer, be my guest, but please state the facts while doing so.
Is that all they've done in that timeframe? No, it's not.
If you want to bitch and moan about the game and it's developer, be my guest, but please state the facts while doing so.
Sorry, let me fix my post
In 6 months:
Basic XP-driven progression system
Skins which were in the game files since launch (have been visible in cutscenes from launch)
Minor bug fixes and a bunch of new bugs
Two $20 legendary skins and a small remade map from SWBF1
Ewok mode
Did I miss anything
My bad for missing the progression system, since it had no effect on me as a day 1 player
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See? That wasn't so hard?
Still missed a few things, but you're getting there.
And for the record: it's nowhere near the amount of content I would liked to have seen by now, but it's better than the game being abandoned after The Last Jedi season. Something you were shouting from the rooftops after the launch debacle.
Still missed a few things, but you're getting there.
And for the record: it's nowhere near the amount of content I would liked to have seen by now, but it's better than the game being abandoned after The Last Jedi season. Something you were shouting from the rooftops after the launch debacle.
Sorry, missed the small Bespin map re-use as well.
I was hardly the only one saying that, and I'm still not convinced it's wrong. I guess we'll see if the game ever actually gets another season's worth of content.
Because in 6 months that has yet to happen
I was hardly the only one saying that, and I'm still not convinced it's wrong. I guess we'll see if the game ever actually gets another season's worth of content.
Because in 6 months that has yet to happen
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^Administrator's Palace is the perfect size for 20v20 5 flag Conquest.
Honestly my only problem is with the game modes. I hate GA and Strike, so all I really play is Blast, HvV, and SA. I just want a more open ended 20v20 mode.
Honestly my only problem is with the game modes. I hate GA and Strike, so all I really play is Blast, HvV, and SA. I just want a more open ended 20v20 mode.
If DICE treated this game like they treat Battlefield this would already have 4-6 new big maps, and tons of weapons and new abilities. Battlefield 4 at this point already had 3 DLCs out each with 4 new big maps, with new modes and tons of new weapons, those were the good old days :( They slowed down on map releases with Hardline and Battlefield 1, but even then those 2 games already had at least 4 new big maps/new modes/new weapons and getting close to their second DLC.
Even the BF2015 season pass had already given us way more content at the same point in time than what we're getting with BF2, and that is insane considering what a bad deal content wise those BF2015 DLCs were when compared to anything in Battlefield.
I already miss season passes, and I can't believe I'm saying that, but the alternative has shown us to be much much worse.
Even the BF2015 season pass had already given us way more content at the same point in time than what we're getting with BF2, and that is insane considering what a bad deal content wise those BF2015 DLCs were when compared to anything in Battlefield.
I already miss season passes, and I can't believe I'm saying that, but the alternative has shown us to be much much worse.
To be honest I feared the lack of season pass would cause this. There's just no churning out heaps of free content without a strong MTX stream.
I'm personally fairly satisfied with how much content I'm getting for my buck but I'm also only like two or three weeks into playing. I don't tend to stick with games for terribly long, either, so I'm sure I'd have stopped playing by March if I'd begun at launch. Maybe even February!
I'm personally fairly satisfied with how much content I'm getting for my buck but I'm also only like two or three weeks into playing. I don't tend to stick with games for terribly long, either, so I'm sure I'd have stopped playing by March if I'd begun at launch. Maybe even February!
They had the potential for an insane MTX stream if they had just stuck to cosmetics from the get go.People are already plopping down $20 for the Leia and Lando skins, imagine if they had had a couple skins for each character / class / ship. They'd be rolling in it.
But they had to go full dipshit and make the game P2W instead.
But they had to go full dipshit and make the game P2W instead.
They should have done a season pass but just for skins so you got like 2-3 skins per season, that way they could have made some money upfront and could have put that towards developing new content. Alas they picked the easiest thing to do which was to charge for lootboxes and tied the progression system to it which is what landed them in this mess in the first place. It's a shame because the game as it is right now is pretty good and if it had launched like this I doubt there would have been as many people complaining.
The Fortnite model would have worked wonders but that's not practical or going to happen at this point.
I don't want to beat this horse to death because it's not productive and it seems like virtually everyone agrees, but it's still incredible to me how awful Hero Showdown is. Takes forever to find players, it's only one one map (which I love but gets old fast, especially with the same starting positions), you do the in-round changeover thing, then someone just quits and you have to wait to balance teams. It's all the garbage of HvV but with more loading times and less gameplay. It also seems to have the worse players of all time in it, I haven't died in the last hour I've been playing, even against multiple 1v2s when I'm a bad character matchup (it won't balance if the round has already started). I also haven't been able to the challenge done for having Iden and the Emperor team up at the same time and get a kill :/. It's low impact since I'm not even playing with game audio on now and I'm just listening to podcasts determined to get this challenge done, but it's real stupid.
Edit: Also the 100 credit bonus for winning doesn't seem to apply in this mode, and most actual rounds are so quick that I'm getting literally 100-120 credits for a whole match despite being way on the top of the board, and with load times/team rebalances this it's literally 100-120 credits for like 15 minutes. Why.
I don't want to beat this horse to death because it's not productive and it seems like virtually everyone agrees, but it's still incredible to me how awful Hero Showdown is. Takes forever to find players, it's only one one map (which I love but gets old fast, especially with the same starting positions), you do the in-round changeover thing, then someone just quits and you have to wait to balance teams. It's all the garbage of HvV but with more loading times and less gameplay. It also seems to have the worse players of all time in it, I haven't died in the last hour I've been playing, even against multiple 1v2s when I'm a bad character matchup (it won't balance if the round has already started). I also haven't been able to the challenge done for having Iden and the Emperor team up at the same time and get a kill :/. It's low impact since I'm not even playing with game audio on now and I'm just listening to podcasts determined to get this challenge done, but it's real stupid.
Edit: Also the 100 credit bonus for winning doesn't seem to apply in this mode, and most actual rounds are so quick that I'm getting literally 100-120 credits for a whole match despite being way on the top of the board, and with load times/team rebalances this it's literally 100-120 credits for like 15 minutes. Why.
I would buy that for how dumb/hilarious it is (credits not real money).
In other news I have completed literally one match of Hero Showdown across 4 separate tries/lobbies in the 30 minutes since I made my last post. Guess I'm not getting the emote or the two HH challenges done lol. Back to Fortnite, fuck this.
Yeah, the canon thing is straight up fabrication. I thought BF2015 was already proof that EA/DICE cared nothing at all about canon, and BF2 was straight up nonsense in that regard.
So my biggest gripe with Blast: The Spawn points. I know that due the size of the map and number of players, it can be unavoidable. But playing on Endor map or the Crait one, there will be at least two instances where I spawn in and then get shot in my back. It's very frustrating. I imagine that kinda shit is less prevalent on Administrators Palace for example but damn.
I've been getting absurdly lucky, I guess. Nobody has left on me in Hero Showdown yet. I'm having a terrific time with it and prefer it to Heroes versus Villains. But it's clear many folks are dealing with quitters and I can see why that would sap the fun.
Did they flip a switch today or something? Playing Hero Showdown on maps other than Jabba's Palace all of a sudden.
Yeah, some maps still have some questionable spawns, but overall it's way better than a couple of months ago.
I never really liked HvV, but I'm actually enjoying Hero Showdown. Not as chaotic as HvV and matches seem way more tactical because of that. And as for the quitters: I think that for a large part the daily challenges are to blame. People come in to do the challenges and as soon as they're done they quit out. It should get better once these are out of the way.
Yeah, some maps still have some questionable spawns, but overall it's way better than a couple of months ago.
I never really liked HvV, but I'm actually enjoying Hero Showdown. Not as chaotic as HvV and matches seem way more tactical because of that. And as for the quitters: I think that for a large part the daily challenges are to blame. People come in to do the challenges and as soon as they're done they quit out. It should get better once these are out of the way.
Yeah, it's a neat mode... on paper. The waiting is pretty awful and I don't think the map particularly suits it either. As for the challenge, it's get a kill as Iden and the Senate, they don't have to be together. I got the challenge after doing like 10 games of it. I couldn't get a kill as the Senate to save my life... very frustrating. Iden I knocked out in about 20 seconds XD
The real kicker was the kills with Luke and Rey on the field... thing is so patchy about tracking it and Luke still needs a buff to his saber combat, his glowy stick is quite ineffective compared to Rey and Yoda.
You would only see this amount of content with a season pass. But kids complained about paid maps and would rather waste money on pointless skins. And in the end nobody is buying this skins in Battlefront 2 lol
So here we are with a game lacking drasticly in post launch content and support. But "free DLC11!!" right?
It's also pretty easy to forget how bad the split player base affected BF2015. It was really tedious to find games in anything other than the base game or the very latest DLC which was an awful experience for latecomers.
People in that Battlefield V thread mentioning how DICE probably has a complex and well thought out roadmap for that game ahead.
(They're probably right)
I'm assuming they'll have their A team onboard for that one.