Star Wars: Battlefront 2 players are using elastic bands to cheat their way to credits

Falchion · Nov 25, 2017

He thirst for Luke and Vader is real.

Loreth_94 · Nov 25, 2017

I did a similar thing in FFXV. I ran in a circle for like 8 hours too max my survival skill. Though that was for a game I enjoyed, not too mention one that is single player.

stan423321 · Nov 25, 2017

Now that I think about it, TF2 has a prevention against the "elastic" solution though not necessarily the robot one, it forces you to acknowledge drops before you get more. And Valve publicly disclosed introduction of this, so it's weird EA didn't attempt something similar at launch.

mclem · Nov 25, 2017

Nirolak said:
Do people in the UK actually eat lollipops on those sticks?

I only ever see them with ice cream here.

Iced lollies, which I don't think are much of a thing in the US? Very prevalent here. Frozen fruit (or other) juice on a stick

Animal Liberation Ⓥ · Nov 25, 2017

mclem said:
Iced lollies, which I don't think are much of a thing in the US? Very prevalent here. Frozen fruit (or other) juice on a stick

They are prevalent here in the US as well. Welches, Dole, etc., all make them.

Avitus · Nov 25, 2017

MAX PAYMENT said:
Doing the challenges would be faster.

The challenges don't pay out that much.

You get a total of 1,275 Crafting Parts by completing all Challenges in the game. This, is ALMOST enough for you to craft 3 Star Cards from Rare to Epic (a cost of 480 Crafting Parts)

You get a total of 1,035 Crystals by completing all Challenges in the game. This is enough Crystals to get you just over 5 Trooper Crates.

If you average 1,000-1200 credits an hour idling, that's ten times more efficient than these challenges.

Blame the devs.

stan423321 said:
Now that I think about it, TF2 has a prevention against the "elastic" solution though not necessarily the robot one, it forces you to acknowledge drops before you get more. And Valve publicly disclosed introduction of this, so it's weird EA didn't attempt something similar at launch.

Valve hired the dude that made the original TF2 idling program and took away most of the rewards that were given out. Smart.

DrScruffleton · Nov 25, 2017

Seriously? They didn't prevent this? It's impossible to do this in say overwatch. You have to actively be engaged once in awhile in combat or you'll get kicked.

mas8705 · Nov 25, 2017

I'm counting this as another slap in the face to EA if you have players going to such extremes to farm for credits because of how little players can earn in matches regardless if they were one of the best or one of the worst. EA apparently has no idea how to distribute credits if people can do this and earn just as much as those who are actually fighting.