Star Wars: Battlefront II (The villagers are outside with pitchforks and torches)

Forgot to mention, the game has locations and characters from all eras. Original trilogy, the prequels and the new trilogy going on right now. However, they mixed everything in the game, it's actually "cross-era" so they put Rey and Han in the same map fighting together alongside with Boba and Darth Maul. Completely disgusting decision if you ask me. Wouldn't be so hard to limit characters to certain maps and stuff? To keep the lore consistent at least. Droids wouldn't fight alongside Imperial forces, because that never happened; and fucking clone troopers can't have the assistance of Han Solo, that's completely messed up.

I'm expecting a negative review from AJ. I was watching him play with Del and OJ. They were calculating how many craftables would be needed to get all the enhancements, etc for the weapons and chars. How much and how long it would take. I dropped in, in the middle of the discussion and it doesn't sound good. AJ was trying out all the classes; the officer class seems totally useless and weak.

I've been playing the Beta due to having early access, and so far I can say that the game is really fun.

Probably not.

Couldn't even be bothered to buy the Ultimate Edition of DICE SWBF for $5... Which surprised even me.

At least this game has a storyline/campaign. I might demo it...

Star Wars as a franchise has become massively depreciated for me. It is one of the biggest surprises, personally, in my life.

Getting older is weird.

I tried the Beta, and I already uninstalled. For starters, it's not my kind of game, with TTKs so low. Add in that starter guns suck and I was raging after 3 games. It does look nice, but also really cluttered. Too many lights and effects.

Actually, I should have tried starfighter mode before uninstalling, but I'm not gonna buy the game anyway so I cba to reinstall.

 You beat me to it. Yep, that's what I expected. I'm also expecting counter arguments; Joe's talking about the beta, it won't be that bad when the game releases, etc. 

I was watching BM playing this earlier on the Naboo map and he was also shooting down some aspects of the game play.   Overall, I can see the graphics and sounds are good. 

I'll be waiting for Joe's (and others) review / gameplay on the SP which I'm interested in. Will the story be good?  

Seems like the grind for the loot crates will be insane lol. Reminds me of having to play 20 games of GoW4 just to have a "chance" to get anything good. You'll be spending an easy 20 hours + just to get scrap to do anything with it too.

I decided to play a little of the beta because a) Star Wars, and Its free Not usually my kind of thing, but star wars

I tried some of every game mode (well, the ones that were available anyhow) and like... I have some thoughts:


The graphics, visuals and sound effects are AMAZING

The controls are quite... bad

Trying to move a clone trooper/droid feels closer to trying to move a bus with their speeds, and aiming is sluggish and bah. The weapons are also pretty bad, the only gun I actually managed to get a kill with was the sniper-thing the specialist has, and thats basically because I was stood up on a balcony and people were trying to come through a door and I was like pew pew pew pew pew pew and I killed a few of them that way, but other than that the only kills I got were with grenades... which blew me up too. The camera feels bad too tbh, and like... Id have expected that it would have been possible to zoom like down your weapon... that would have been good instead of just zooming into your weapon but having exactly the same viewpoint.

Playing as Darth Maul (in the arcade mode) is kinda meh, I cant find the block button haha

Flying starships is wonderful They all feel great, the combat is great, again the controls are kinda meh but its just so awesome I dont really care I actually LOVED being a pilot and had lots of fun, it was the first thing I tried actually... it took me a few moments to realize I was actually playing with real people, idk why. Whenever I died, it was either because of Y-Wings or from hitting things, which is unusual... youd think fighters would kill me more than anything, but it was ALWAYS Y-Wings.

In both ground/space levels I think a weak point were the objectives. I cant really say why, but I just didnt like the way they were done. I dont know whether it was my fault or idk something else, but I only won one game and that was in space. The objectives felt impossible to do when I was on the side who had to do them, and when I was on the side that had to stop them being done they felt impossible to stop. Especially in space, I just wished that the objectives werent really there so I could just fly around as I wanted and explore the map without constantly being needed to do something. It also felt like the bombers were the only things that could be used to complete objectives, rather than having objectives suited for the different classes, like destroying a number of fighters for the fighter/interceptor classes to make them more useful.

Im still not sure how to unlock more things either. I bought some crates with credits (which are faarrrr too expensive, fyi) and didnt get anything useful whatsoever. I wanted more weapons but idk where to get them...

I couldnt play the ground battles at all but I did ok in space, I think the amount of people I killed in comparison with the amount of times I died was ok-ish??? I definitely killed more than I died, but I did some stupid things haha

Not sure whether Ill buy the game or not, but I really quite enjoyed flying starships

I played the beta, and here are some thoughts:
- Looks pretty (BF1)
- I was expecting more players per game, like 32v32 (20v20, 8v8, 4v4)
- The controllers for the starships are TRASH
- The SP campaign looks promising
- Heavy trooper mustard rice
- feels like BF1 (but way more, uhm... downgraded, with the gameplay i mean), well it was made by DICE after all.
- 3 person perspective can be as good as bad (idk how to explain this)

i give it 6.5/10, just my humble opinion tho', keep that pitchfork out of my sight.

Well people like Battlefront and they’ve been waiting for a game like this. Apparently they don’t care.