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AgentOtaku

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I've never really played any of the Battlefield games other than that one XBLA one (1942?) and a little bit of Bad Company 2. It's interesting seeing how polarized people's reactions are to a lot of the details coming out of the reveal. I might check it out but I'm really actively turned off by any pre-modern setting so it's probably not going to be for me at all regardless of it's quality.



I don't think that was the intention going in, but EA most definitely took away some things from the BF2 debacle. Which is probably (?) for the best for that game, at the cost of this one :(



This is what continues to baffle me about how they've handled BF2 post-launch. I was so sure that they were going to throw everything at BF2 both to make sure to keep the license, and I also thought that it would make more financial sense for them to throw resources at it to turn it around for positive word of mouth and ultimately more money. Games have recovered from abysmal launches (R6, D3, etc), but they completely didn't do that here. I still stand by my statement it would have made more financial sense for them to turn things around, but I'm guessing this was a management fuckup?

It's super depressing. I've gone back to BF2015 lol. Long-term I'll probably still grind out all of the milestones (I only have the new score-based ones they added not done) because I'm OCD and feel compelled to because I've already come this far and I did the equivalent in BF2015, but yeah. The leaks to this point being accurate suggests nothing super meaningful is coming with Solo part 2 next month, and I can't say I have any confidence in whatever they deliver for season 3. We're 7ish months out and still no stats, squad spawns, notable glitches since launch not fixed, a ton of other things and the content pipeline looks bleak. This game was SO promising.

On a related note they're going to eat an incredible amount of shit at this EA Play after that one suit showed the trailer last year about how much more content BF2 had over BF2015 and they listened etc. In hindsight that's gotta be one of the worst fuckups lol.

Completely agree and I've found myself actually going back to BF2015 too,lol
 

Spartancarver

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Completely agree and I've found myself actually going back to BF2015 too,lol
What's the population like on PC?

BF2 is straight garbage at this point. Literally *cannot* find a balanced GA match. Only reason I'm even trying is I have no other shooter that's even remotely interesting to play at the moment. The drought of games is keeping this turd on my SDD lmao
 
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Gleethor

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Dot Matrix with stereo sound
I'd be cool with them jerryrigging an SA map out of Scarif, Bespin or Death Star 1 from BF1. Or GA Walker assault on Sullust or Scarif. Not really interested in anymore recycled small maps, especially from planets already in the game.
 

Spartancarver

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LOL finally found a fun balanced server and I get the sound cutout bug that requires a game restart within 2 matches. That bug's been there since Day 1

What a trash tier DICE squad this game got. Literally the D team. Can't make this shit up.
 

AgentOtaku

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What's the population like on PC?

BF2 is straight garbage at this point. Literally *cannot* find a balanced GA match. Only reason I'm even trying is I have no other shooter that's even remotely interesting to play at the moment. The drought of games is keeping this turd on my SDD lmao

Don't know about PC, but tried it on PS4 and Xbox today and had no problem finding any matches :)
 

egg

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Oct 26, 2017
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Anyone wanna play on ps4? I can do party chat or discord and I play either of the hero modes & galactic assault.

psn: touchedmyself
Lol.
 

Spartancarver

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Just realized, nobody on the DICE C-team left working on this game is actually probably even capable of making a proper Conquest map. So many of the GA maps devolve into nade hallway chokepoint bottleneck massacres because that's probably the extent of their map-making ability.

Battlefield 4 still have a decent community going? I need to move back to a real shooter and Battlefield 1's shooting mechanics were irritatingly casual as far as BF games go.
 
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As I've said before, there is a good chunk of maps from this game and the 2015 game that could work well for Conquest with minor modifications.

Mos Eisley, Kamino, Death Star II, Kashyyyk, Yavin IV, Administrator's Palace, Biopic Labs, Scarif, Outpost Beta, Judland Wastes, etc.
 

Spartancarver

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As I've said before, there is a good chunk of maps from this game and the 2015 game that could work well for Conquest with minor modifications.

Mos Eisley, Kamino, Death Star II, Kashyyyk, Yavin IV, Administrator's Palace, Biopic Labs, Scarif, Outpost Beta, Judland Wastes, etc.

I agree, but when you put it in the perspective of there are still massive bugs that have been in the game since launch, something as simple as the challenges not working half the time, and then looking at the quality of some of the new maps like Takodana and Jakku, and how chokepoint-heavy almost every other map is....this is not the output of a particularly competent team
 

MAX PAYMENT

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Just saw solo. Despite it feeling kind of generic, I really liked it for what it was.

I really hope we get some good content next month.
 

WillyFive

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As I've said before, there is a good chunk of maps from this game and the 2015 game that could work well for Conquest with minor modifications.

Mos Eisley, Kamino, Death Star II, Kashyyyk, Yavin IV, Administrator's Palace, Biopic Labs, Scarif, Outpost Beta, Judland Wastes, etc.

Absolutely. The people at DICE they picked to be in charge of Battlefront however will do everything in their power to not do this, for reasons only they can imagine.
 

Ironchimp

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Just completed the campaign it was nice to playing as multiple characters but it very short as soon as you start enjoying playing as hero it was over to quickly. The team mates AI was so bad they hardly fired their weapon and when they did there shot thin air...

Its a shame everything seems half arsed i hope who ever gets the next star wars license actually cares about creating a game for the fans.
 

Bauer91

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I've very rarely played GA but it finally clicked and I'm actually having fun with it now. How close was this match?

 

Plasma

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Three against four in HvV but we only need one more to win and the opposition need six and we still didn't win because my remaining two teammates just keep rushing them on their own when they're the target. Is there something in my settings that I can switch on so I don't keep getting matched up with these complete idiots.
 

Bauer91

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Nice work with bossk. What cards do you use?

You can actually see them in the beginning of the video. It's the cards I use in HvV, most likely not optimal for GA. I use both cards that upgrade the mines and the card that makes the smoke heal you.

That match was incredible because we were down to 1 last kill before we lost just as I planted the bomb! It was funny because I entered the match mid game, when a few top players had ~8k points already, but I ended up first.
 

Gravemind IV

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Ah I remember this game's promises. "Change will be a constant" they said. Season 2 coming soon! (back in january, mind you). We're now 6/7 months in and there's been barely any content of worth.

Makes me shudder for how they will handle BFV.
 

Spartancarver

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Ah I remember this game's promises. "Change will be a constant" they said. Season 2 coming soon! (back in january, mind you). We're now 6/7 months in and there's been barely any content of worth.

Makes me shudder for how they will handle BFV.

Nah, BF V has the actual good DICE team behind it.

They stuck the amateurs on this game and let the Star Wars name carry it as far as it could
 

MMarston

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Nah, BF V has the actual good DICE team behind it.
There's also no way they're going to do their own baby dirty either.

I enjoyed Star Wars Battlefront 2015 a lot, but having played Battlefield 1 lately which came one year right after the former game, there is just leagues more effort evident in that game even when you take out all the premium stuff.
 

Fj0823

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I guess Lando, Han, Chewie and
Maul

Are getting new skins?

That last one explains the need to release the content in June, to avoid spoiling people
 
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Ever since the last update the game has been routing my connection through the Singapore datacenter on PS4. I'm not alone, a bunch of other people are reporting the same issue.
 

Plasma

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I guess Lando, Han, Chewie and
Maul

Are getting new skins?

That last one explains the need to release the content in June, to avoid spoiling people
I think Han will be getting two somebody found a text string for Han's Corellian appearance in the game files so it's probably what he wears at start of the film and the other one will be his brown jacket appearance.
 
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WyLD iNk

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Here, duh.
I have one for Lando I got from a crate.

I am also terrible because I spam emotes on kills in HvV. I am scum :(

I love watching guys like you, then. I was playing against an all-epic carded Bossk the other day. Guy kept spamming emotes when he killed me. Half the time, he wasn't paying attention and would get pasted by one of my teammates while he was showboating.
 

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I love watching guys like you, then. I was playing against an all-epic carded Bossk the other day. Guy kept spamming emotes when he killed me. Half the time, he wasn't paying attention and would get pasted by one of my teammates while he was showboating.

Yup, that's me all over. Usually some uncarded guy comes and smokes me. Just makes it all the better XD
 

MrDaravon

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I have maybe about 60% of the hero emotes from buying hundreds of thousands of crates pre-2.0 lol. I had all the trooper emotes which is why I haven't been really fussed about getting on for those challenges. That said I'm home today and the Fortnite weekly challenges got pushed to Thursday, so decided to play this game proper for the first time in a bit and try to knock out all of these Hero Showdown challenges that are all up at the same time. I actually got a competent teammate and we've just been rolling dudes for like 45 minutes, it's pretty great. I still stand by my statements that HvV/HS are garbage BUT with a good/competent team it's an alright time. The problem is that doesn't usually happen in these modes.

Honestly if they just added team rebalancing and squad spawns I'd be pretty happy at this point, some of the QoL updates have been pretty good.

Edit: haha, got off HS since I got the challenges done and that baller random sent me a friend request. You're not on right now are you Bauer? This guy was doing the most ridiculous shit as Lando I've seen. I think between the ~8 or so games we played together we died a total of like 4 times.
 
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Spartancarver

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Lol so apparently the patch broke Palpatine's chain lightning and re-broke / failed to fix Maul's throw

AAA developer, I'm sure they'll crank out a functional conquest mode any day now
 

adj_noun

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Finally hit 50 this morning to coincide with the hotfix.

Achievement stuck at 98%.

Welp.

edit: finally popped at random before a match. Yay!
 
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Bauer91

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I have maybe about 60% of the hero emotes from buying hundreds of thousands of crates pre-2.0 lol. I had all the trooper emotes which is why I haven't been really fussed about getting on for those challenges. That said I'm home today and the Fortnite weekly challenges got pushed to Thursday, so decided to play this game proper for the first time in a bit and try to knock out all of these Hero Showdown challenges that are all up at the same time. I actually got a competent teammate and we've just been rolling dudes for like 45 minutes, it's pretty great. I still stand by my statements that HvV/HS are garbage BUT with a good/competent team it's an alright time. The problem is that doesn't usually happen in these modes.

Honestly if they just added team rebalancing and squad spawns I'd be pretty happy at this point, some of the QoL updates have been pretty good.

Edit: haha, got off HS since I got the challenges done and that baller random sent me a friend request. You're not on right now are you Bauer? This guy was doing the most ridiculous shit as Lando I've seen. I think between the ~8 or so games we played together we died a total of like 4 times.

I did play earlier today but that wasn't me, my PSN ID is the same as my username here. I usually get terrible teammates anyway...
 

Bauer91

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Jeez, they broke a bunch of abilities with this update... I can confirmed I've experienced some of these, list is from reddit:

  1. Boba Fett's "For the Hunt" won't scan enemy troops. It rarely will. Fortunately though it's other functions do still work and are incredibly useful.
  2. Darth Vader's "Force Choke" - Vader can get stuck in the animation and / or enemies choked will jitter / fly about like crazy.
  3. Bossk's "Predator Instinct" - Whether or not the Heat Vision will work is 50/50. Due to the Blue thermal vision it makes it really difficult to see enemy players who aren't highlighted, giving them opportunity to sneak up on you and possibly killing you.
  4. Yoda's "Unleash" - most of the time this ability does work, however a lot of the times it will refuse to block for unknown reasons and you will take damage from the front. The actual push sometimes won't register damage or knock back enemies either, making it two separate things you have to look out for.
  5. Lando's Thermal Blaster - sometimes won't properly highlight enemy troopers, similar to Bossk - this one isn't as big of a deal but still an issue.
  6. Luke's "Push" and "Repulse" - while I personally have not experienced this, I've seen plenty of posts on this sub that indicate that these abilities do not work consistently.
  7. Darth Maul's "Saber Throw" - said many times before, the hitbox for Mauls throw is incredibly tight and unforgiving. Though this may be getting fixed in the hotfix tomorrow.
  8. Finn's "Undercover Team" and "Deadeye" - the problem with Undercover team is that sometimes rarely it won't highlight enemy players. Deadeye's issue is that it will sometimes target enemies that you do not want to target. Example being that if you're engaging in a close enemy, sometimes it will target the one behind him instead for no reason.
 

Spartancarver

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Yup, have experienced both sides of the Vader glitch and the Bossk glitch a bunch
 

MrDaravon

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Except for #1 and #8 I've been having all of those issues for literally months/since launch. #1 was working fine for me in Hero Showdown but I'm not sure if they're referencing it specifically not working against troopers and not heroes.

Edit: Decided to play for a few hours across GA/HvV and had a good time for a bit, but then lack of team rebalancing and incompetent randoms quickly reminded me why I largely stopped playing. GA lobbies where the top 5-8 players are on the same team and it never rebalances is garbage, and HvV just has incredible swings based on player skill/competency (since it's a much smaller playercount).

Still cannot emphasize how strongly I feel about them needing to cap the amount of health heroes can regain on kill. I watched a Darth Vader on Yavin in GA without exaggeration 100% carry his team through the first 3 phases while my team did fucking nothing. Then I finally got to be a hero on the last phase, killed him and 7 other heroes as Chewbacca. I wound up dying to the same guy who had picked Vader again, then he carried them to victory. It's fucking stupid. I still think a timer is a bad idea (unless you add to the timer with getting kills/score but even then ehhh), but they've got to do something to limit certain heroes being able to just completely curbstomp for very extended periods of time if you're competent. Wookie Warrior still needs to be nerfed (I solo'd a Bossk and Phasma earlier with one and killed both of them), all other special units need to be buffed, and I think they need to reduce hero cost a bit to correspond with lower possible health regen at 50% or something.
 
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Moai

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im having luck using the specialist gun, the one that makes bleed damage. i actually managed to make heroes back away and run from me, but i need some players back up because it does nothing to regular troops. people are not used to being attacked by it so maybe when i hit them they freak out and run, no one wants to die as a hero in this game, they prefer to run.