Not in my experience. I've rarely been able to find matches outside of GA (the main mode) and even that has been difficult at times. Maybe things have changed in the last couple months though.
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Star Wars Battlefront II |OT| The Circle is Now Complete
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Saw the deal where you get Battlefront 1, 2, and the Hoth costume pack for $7.50 on PSN.
Super tempted to get that one but I also have a decent laptop so I don't know if I should get it on PS4 or PC.
Super tempted to get that one but I also have a decent laptop so I don't know if I should get it on PS4 or PC.
Unless you want to show up to a party that little to no one attended, you should go for PS4.
Standard stuff from EA/Lucasfilm they're always slow approving the Community Transmissions, for Dooku they didn't even release an official picture of him until after the update was out.
https://makingstarwars.net/2019/03/whats-the-status-on-a-star-wars-battlefront-3/
They're usually pretty accurate when it comes to Star Wars leaks. So no Episode IX content for Battlefront 2 and Battlefront 3 is not currently in development.
As much as BF2 got hammered at launch and it's reputation tarnished it still sold a bucket load of copies because it's Star Wars. They'd be crazy to pass up such easy money by advertising the game featuring some more content from IX when the new film comes out; especially as there is no BF3 planned.
They really need to add some customization to the Empire and fix the gender locked classes already.
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They've been sucking this "prequelmeme" dick for a long time now. I really hate it, damn GenZers who actually really like the prequels.
Yeah that skin is really dumb that's just them trying to appease reddit who seem to just love memes.
anakin is too strong i believe he's breaking the game, for example i was at the basement and anakin was in the 1st floor he used that explosion technique i died in the floor below and i was far from him, and its a pain in the ass to kill him
edit: not just that time i pĺayed a bunch of games and it sux to play against him
edit: not just that time i pĺayed a bunch of games and it sux to play against him
I believe they've already confirmed Anakin will be getting some balance adjustments in Tuesday's update.
I hope they don't nerf him too much, he is pretty mandatory for light side to have a fighting chance in Heroes vs Villains.
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Aaand they ruined it.
One map and Clone Wars only. How fucking hard is this to get right?
Imagine working on a new game mode for an entire fucking year and having 1 map to show for it.
And here I was expecting TWO maps and ready to be disappointed by that lmfaoooo
It really can't be more obvious. There are either literally only 5-10 people left working on this game or it's seriously just the most incompetent bottom of the barrel DICE devs shuffled on to SWBF2 to keep them away from Battlefield.
Also, no starfighters.
And here I was expecting TWO maps and ready to be disappointed by that lmfaoooo
It really can't be more obvious. There are either literally only 5-10 people left working on this game or it's seriously just the most incompetent bottom of the barrel DICE devs shuffled on to SWBF2 to keep them away from Battlefield.
Also, no starfighters.
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Im more upset about no starfighters in what is supposed to be the largest scale mode.
Its amazing that Battlefront is Star Wars skins on Battlefield done well,
the Battlefield company gets control of Battlefront and suddenly they don't even know how to make Battlefields anymore.
I'd be a bit more angry had Battlefield not been garbage since 4 as well
the Battlefield company gets control of Battlefront and suddenly they don't even know how to make Battlefields anymore.
I'd be a bit more angry had Battlefield not been garbage since 4 as well
No starfighters is awesome, nothing worse then being targeted by ships when you're a Hero and there's nothing you can do about it.
One map for the new mode is wack though, it's gonna be fun for like a week before it gets old. This was my main multiplayer game for a long time, glad I moved on.
One map for the new mode is wack though, it's gonna be fun for like a week before it gets old. This was my main multiplayer game for a long time, glad I moved on.
What? I love that they are putting in AI Bots on both sides, it made the battles so much more epic feeling in both Battlefront game and Titanfall.
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I play multiplayer to play against real people, not bots. Even way back playing the original SWBF and SWBF2 online on the PS2 only the noob servers turned bots on (we also had a lot more control over our experience than we do today...).
Dunno I played on PC and most of the servers had bots on including the last few that remained in the waning days of the game.
Tried to play again today the same thing, anakin dominating all games... sigh... i will wait until they fix him, the game sux now to play its not fun anymore
Total incompetence.
The lack of starfighters and only one map is the worst, but the former makes sense since DICE didnt develop the starfighter part of the game. The latter is just the usual DICE Battlefront team incompetence we've seen since 2015, where no matter how low your expectations are, they always manage to dissapoint them.
As for bots, I have no issue with them, in fact, they shoud be added to all the other game modes so that they can be playable again.
Yeah. For all the great work the DICE artists did on their two games, the people in charge were quite possibly the worst possible people to be there. How the heck did they miss the point this badly.
The lack of starfighters and only one map is the worst, but the former makes sense since DICE didnt develop the starfighter part of the game. The latter is just the usual DICE Battlefront team incompetence we've seen since 2015, where no matter how low your expectations are, they always manage to dissapoint them.
As for bots, I have no issue with them, in fact, they shoud be added to all the other game modes so that they can be playable again.
Yeah. For all the great work the DICE artists did on their two games, the people in charge were quite possibly the worst possible people to be there. How the heck did they miss the point this badly.
This is more like Titan mode from BF2142 or Carrier Assault from BF4. There are conquest-style capture areas, but the goal is to destroy the enemy ship rather than to simply hold the majority of the posts.
It sounds like the game mode that 2015 should have launched with, but it's much smaller in scope than anyone wanted. You can tell by almost all of the DICE replies to the subreddit being "No".
Never played either of those. Doesn't sound like what I was hoping for, so I think I'm done with BF II.
Let's not forget that we didn't get a good look at Dooku until after the update was already out lol. 🤷♂️
Either they completely forgot how to make good games. Or the ppl that made the great Bad Company 2, BF2 : Modern Combat & BF4......are no longer there. Cuz i agree. They've made 4 bad games in a row now. And in a short amount of time. I try to force myself to buy these games and enjoy them. But the gameplay is just so disappointing and the opposite of fun. I played their old games for years after launch. Now i drop their games after 2 months.
EA, like so many other publishers, have looked at the GaaS model as an excuse to release unfinished games at full price and they've just totally kicked themselves in the balls on the execution.
Yep. He was already nerfed into the ground with Anakin, this is just the final nail in his coffin.
Weirdly though they quoted melee and blaster block stats for him, so maybe they gave him a block and forgot to put it in the CT notes?
Which raises the question: why was that edited out?
Theory: That was originally planned but EA has since decided to end or at least further scale back the ongoing support of Battlefront 2 following this update.
Or:
There was a last minute change so as not to hint at future updates until the roadmap is out, hence Ben's frustration at that line being edited out. He wouldn't have hinted at more maps if it wasn't happening.
The only thing that would make sense would be if they were letting him use block finally but it doesn't look like that's the case. They even removed his stamina card in one of the updates for a health card so you can't even equip that to offset the nerf.
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I am still miffed we don't have modes like Drop Zone and Sabotage. They were the two best small modes from the 2015 game.
So whats everyones impressions of the new mode? I tried to play it this morning before work but it crashed twice in a row as soon as the match started....
Bravo DICE...
Bravo DICE...
So whats everyones impressions of the new mode? I tried to play it this morning before work but it crashed twice in a row as soon as the match started....
Bravo DICE...
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/b5rmi8/new_game_mode_is_broken/
Ok, here are my thoughts on the new mode / update after about 1.5 hours playing it.
Also, that 1.5 hours corresponds to a single round. Not joking. There is no overtime / overall round timer. It literally goes until one team kills a capital ship.
Anakin remains hilariously OP, especially during the 2nd phase, which I'll get into in a second.
Behold:
This is the result of a 1.5 hour match between two decently evenly matched teams. During this match I got to call in the new ARC Trooper and really like them, they have a very effective wallhack ability and the dual pistols shred at close range but leave them vulnerable at long range. The long range power shot is pretty weak and hard to aim, which makes them firmly a close range unit.
I didn't have a chance to play the droid side at all because I literally need to take a break and go eat after that single match, but the Droid Commando seemed to be a very powerful and popular longer range reinforcement.
Heroes now cost 4000 BP in this mode, and since you get tons of BP for just capping objectives, as well as the same amount of BP for killing AI units as regular players, you'll be racking up a ton of BP and being able to call in plenty of reinforcements and heroes. The AI in this mode seem adequate, they will sprint, bunny hop, and dodge, but they will not dodge spam against saber heroes and obviously overall are still not as effective as actual players.
The 1st phase is the large scale open mode. It plays like conquest from Battlefield, there are 5 cap points and the team that holds >=3 starts building up tickets. This is the most fun map in Battlefront 2. It feels great to encounter a chokepoint or heavy battle near an objective and actually be able to flank around or go after a different objective instead of having to plunge headfirst into grenade and sentry spam. The classes all seem to work well during this phase.
When one team builds up 50 tickets, a boarding phase begins where you have the opportunity to get as many regular troopers onto transports before the time runs out. This will add extra tickets to your team during the Capital ship phase.
The transition to capital ship phase is where things get kind of rough. There is a forced cutscene, after which you are now limited to only being on the capital ship, which plays like a much more traditional linear and chokepoint-heavy Galactic Assault map. You have to capture 1 of two possible computer consoles, and then plant 2 bombs to win.
If at any point the attacking team runs out of tickets, you get another forced cutscene and then are back on the ground playing the open ended Conquest mode to try to board the capital ships again. Whatever progress you make during this phase will be saved, so if you capture the computer console and plant 1 bomb to 50% and the other one to 70%, that will carry over if your team manages to win the Conquest phase again and make it back onto the enemy capital ship.
During the transitions to and from capital ships, you get dumped back to the character selected screen and will have to re-respawn, which means even if you were a hero or reinforcement before the phase switch, those battle points are refunded to you and your character is now up for grabs again.
Also, that capital ship phase is when Anakin is really stupidly overpowered. I was literally clearing entire hallways and getting 10+ kills with his charge up 360 degree force push, and then almost immediately afterwards his 360 degree force choke would be charged and I would get another 8-10 kills when the enemy team regrouped for another charge.
Given that there are only a few hallways to each objective, the enemy team had no choice but to keep trying to run at me and get behind me lol.
Also, that 1.5 hours corresponds to a single round. Not joking. There is no overtime / overall round timer. It literally goes until one team kills a capital ship.
Anakin remains hilariously OP, especially during the 2nd phase, which I'll get into in a second.
Behold:
This is the result of a 1.5 hour match between two decently evenly matched teams. During this match I got to call in the new ARC Trooper and really like them, they have a very effective wallhack ability and the dual pistols shred at close range but leave them vulnerable at long range. The long range power shot is pretty weak and hard to aim, which makes them firmly a close range unit.
I didn't have a chance to play the droid side at all because I literally need to take a break and go eat after that single match, but the Droid Commando seemed to be a very powerful and popular longer range reinforcement.
Heroes now cost 4000 BP in this mode, and since you get tons of BP for just capping objectives, as well as the same amount of BP for killing AI units as regular players, you'll be racking up a ton of BP and being able to call in plenty of reinforcements and heroes. The AI in this mode seem adequate, they will sprint, bunny hop, and dodge, but they will not dodge spam against saber heroes and obviously overall are still not as effective as actual players.
The 1st phase is the large scale open mode. It plays like conquest from Battlefield, there are 5 cap points and the team that holds >=3 starts building up tickets. This is the most fun map in Battlefront 2. It feels great to encounter a chokepoint or heavy battle near an objective and actually be able to flank around or go after a different objective instead of having to plunge headfirst into grenade and sentry spam. The classes all seem to work well during this phase.
When one team builds up 50 tickets, a boarding phase begins where you have the opportunity to get as many regular troopers onto transports before the time runs out. This will add extra tickets to your team during the Capital ship phase.
The transition to capital ship phase is where things get kind of rough. There is a forced cutscene, after which you are now limited to only being on the capital ship, which plays like a much more traditional linear and chokepoint-heavy Galactic Assault map. You have to capture 1 of two possible computer consoles, and then plant 2 bombs to win.
If at any point the attacking team runs out of tickets, you get another forced cutscene and then are back on the ground playing the open ended Conquest mode to try to board the capital ships again. Whatever progress you make during this phase will be saved, so if you capture the computer console and plant 1 bomb to 50% and the other one to 70%, that will carry over if your team manages to win the Conquest phase again and make it back onto the enemy capital ship.
During the transitions to and from capital ships, you get dumped back to the character selected screen and will have to re-respawn, which means even if you were a hero or reinforcement before the phase switch, those battle points are refunded to you and your character is now up for grabs again.
Also, that capital ship phase is when Anakin is really stupidly overpowered. I was literally clearing entire hallways and getting 10+ kills with his charge up 360 degree force push, and then almost immediately afterwards his 360 degree force choke would be charged and I would get another 8-10 kills when the enemy team regrouped for another charge.
Given that there are only a few hallways to each objective, the enemy team had no choice but to keep trying to run at me and get behind me lol.
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