BATTLEFRONT (by DICE)

Varik · 20-04-2015 8:19am

5uspect wrote: »

You're going to be firing laser blasters in a STAR WARS game.... FFS

There's still recoil in star war.

Only weapon drift where the weapon moves so as to obscure the target is not present in 3rd person, camera bouncing around and your aim being affected is still there.

TerrorFirmer · 20-04-2015 9:18am

miralize wrote: »

The key differentiator tbh is that this isn't Battlefield. Same devs & engine, but thats about it. I think 40 is a good compromise, given the graphical fidelity of the game so far.

I know, but the older Battlefront titles had 64 player on the PC as well. If it's 40 players in the new Battlefront on PC as well as consoles, that means either smaller or less populated maps. Quite disappointed with the player count. Hoth and Endor 64-player in Battlefront 2 were epic.

I am amazed that the 3rd person inclusion isn't bothering people. It is basically going to be a shoot em up with firing from the hip and no recoil.

No chance that people will use first person when playing via 3rd person. Flawed game design

Battlefront has always had the option of 3rd and first person. In the previous games there was recoil and for any sort of accuracy aiming down the sights was essential.

Dades · 20-04-2015 4:49pm

mozattack wrote: »

I am amazed that the 3rd person inclusion isn't bothering people. It is basically going to be a shoot em up with firing from the hip and no recoil.

No chance that people will use first person when playing via 3rd person. Flawed game design

This sounds like something the designers would take into account, no?

Venom · 20-04-2015 11:45pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I know, but the older Battlefront titles had 64 player on the PC as well. If it's 40 players in the new Battlefront on PC as well as consoles, that means either smaller or less populated maps. Quite disappointed with the player count. Hoth and Endor 64-player in Battlefront 2 were epic.

I'm more concerned there is no flight or single player along with the fact Dice and EA are well known for nickle and diming there playerbase

Pedro Monscooch · 21-04-2015 1:03am

I do love the inclusion of split screen co-op for some modes. Looking forward to learning more about this game than any other.

PedroBear · 21-04-2015 7:41pm

Battlefront will NOT use Battlelog.

Praise the lords, there IS a God!

DeWinterZero · 21-04-2015 8:14pm

PedroBear wrote: »

Battlefront will NOT use Battlelog.

Praise the lords, there IS a God!

Yay, I'll have to launch the game to find out if any of my friends is playing the game or if any of my favourite servers are in use. :eek:

PedroBear · 21-04-2015 8:19pm

DeWinterZero wrote: »

Yay, I'll have to launch the game to find out if any of my friends is playing the game or if any of my favourite servers are in use. :eek:

I'm over the moon.

I hated the bloody thing from the word "go!". You never had to launch the game to see friends....doesn't Origin have this information available to you before you start up an application?

DeWinterZero · 21-04-2015 10:23pm

PedroBear wrote: »

I'm over the moon.

I hated the bloody thing from the word "go!". You never had to launch the game to see friends....doesn't Origin have this information available to you before you start up an application?

Not quite, you can set your origin to not report when you're online. Plus even when you can see someone, you don't know what game type that person is playing.

Besides, my browser is open most of the time, much easier to switch to an open tab than launch Origin and start clicking about the place.

5uspect · 21-04-2015 11:36pm

In fairness battlelog was pretty decent for the most part. Launching the single player from it was a bit daft, but I only ever did that a couple of times.

dreamers75 · 21-04-2015 11:48pm

Have to agree Battlelog turned into a very handy feature for BF.

PedroBear · 23-04-2015 12:33am

Do You Even Squat wrote: »

I need to update my console to get the new battlefront (still have ps2). Any suggestions on which one i should get? honestly, im not trying to start a war, just need help on which one to pick

PC.

The Red · 23-04-2015 12:53am

Yep, PC. Seriously.

Kiith · 23-04-2015 11:31am

Did they announce some really bad news yesterday or something? Reddit went a bit mental this morning, and i can't seem to find out why (in work)

jumbobreakfast · 23-04-2015 12:17pm

Might have something to do with someone comparing the amount of content to Battlefront 2:

Summarised in an article here (translated from German)

TerrorFirmer · 23-04-2015 4:34pm

Only 40 players seemed strange to me, but now confirmed that no player controlled AT-AT's this time around either!

Not overly worried about the maps, as the same was true for BF4 and BF3 at launch, as long as they're tightly designed it'll be fine - never played the vast majority of maps in Battlefront 2 to be honest, there was just a handful of excellent ones.

Lack of space battles is a bit of a bummer. Thought they said we would be seeing land to space battles at some stage earlier on. They were good fun in BF2, they weren't limited to space, you could board and attack enemy ships. Great fun. Possibly be a DLC in the new Battlefront?

PedroBear · 23-04-2015 5:29pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Lack of space battles is a bit of a bummer. Thought they said we would be seeing land to space battles at some stage earlier on. They were good fun in BF2, they weren't limited to space, you could board and attack enemy ships. Great fun. Possibly be a DLC in the new Battlefront?

Ah, sure don't you know....

EA.

Venom · 26-04-2015 2:21pm

PedroBear wrote: »

Ah, sure don't you know....

EA.

Even worse is that Disney and EA have a 10 year exclusive deal for new Star Wars games :mad:

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 28-04-2015 5:11pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Only 40 players seemed strange to me, but now confirmed that no player controlled AT-AT's this time around either!

Not overly worried about the maps, as the same was true for BF4 and BF3 at launch, as long as they're tightly designed it'll be fine - never played the vast majority of maps in Battlefront 2 to be honest, there was just a handful of excellent ones.

Lack of space battles is a bit of a bummer. Thought they said we would be seeing land to space battles at some stage earlier on. They were good fun in BF2, they weren't limited to space, you could board and attack enemy ships. Great fun. Possibly be a DLC in the new Battlefront?

That's exactly the problem. The game could (and in my opinion should) ship with space battles on day one. It is an integral part of the Star Wars universe and central to many of the most memorable scenes from the movies. The inevitable release of the space battles on DLC is just shameless greed on the part of EA. That's not even the worst part though. The worst part is that the masses will still hoover up whatever ****e EA decide to put in the day one launch and will then pay extra for DLC content that should have been included from the start.

EoinHef · 29-04-2015 4:18pm

May not have to wait for Battlefront to get a Star Wars fix......

.ak · 08-05-2015 1:45pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Now in fairness there are tons of good Star Wars games.

Battlefront
Battlefront 2
Dark Forces
Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight
Jedi Knight 2
X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter
Rogue Squadron
Republic Commando
Knights of the Old Republic
Knights of the Old Republic 2
Empire at War
The Force Unleashed
The Force Unleashed 2

Now those are just the really good ones that were critically/commerically well received. There are plenty other 'decent' ones that just weren't great, but all of the above were very good Star Wars games.

Jedi Knight 2 & X-Wing Alliance... probably my favourite two games of the last decade!

dreamers75 · 15-06-2015 10:14pm

yup buying it

Wossack · 15-06-2015 11:17pm

presume its going the titanfall route of AI canon fodder - as no way that was just 20v20

Noxin · 15-06-2015 11:50pm

Loving that trailer. 100% buying it!

EoinHef · 16-06-2015 9:49pm

Is it me or does everything look really slow moving in that trailer? Not that im against it but just looks very slow

Noxin · 17-06-2015 10:59am

EoinHef wrote: »

Is it me or does everything look really slow moving in that trailer? Not that im against it but just looks very slow

That trailer is "acted out". It's not a proper gameplay trailer imo.

As in, if you stick full teams of randomers against each other, the gameplay will be very different.
Also it's console. Turning always seems slow on consoles compared to the quick whip of a mouse turn.

neasyerac · 17-06-2015 11:50am

This looks amazing. The sound effects are going to be spectacular, Specially that grenade with the whomp kinda sound.

Dcully · 19-06-2015 10:22am

Looks pretty and all , wonder how **** the netcode wil be.

Varik · 19-06-2015 11:28am

Dcully wrote: »

Looks pretty and all , wonder how **** the netcode wil be.

Haven't played hardline but 4 has been impeoved a lot.

Also they'll have Disney looking over their shoulders.

Pedro Monscooch · 20-06-2015 12:12am

Hardline had a perfect launch on all platforms bar one Xbox One DDoS attack for lolz etc.

http://www.polygon.com/2015/3/18/8242477/battlefield-hardline-down-xbox-one-ddos-multiplayer

I'm personally most excited for split screen co-op missions if only to share the experience with my brother. It looks so authentically Star Wars and looks like it plays just as a Battlefield game.

dreamers75 · 26-06-2015 5:20pm

Star Wars™ Battlefront™

Join the Closed Alpha – Only on Origin for PC

game4it70 · 26-06-2015 6:00pm

^^^^
link to apply

:pac::pac::pac:

Spear · 01-07-2015 9:13am

Alpha preload is open.

The Red · 03-07-2015 9:27am

Played a bit of it last night and I have to say Im quite impressed.. the sound.. dear god the sound is amazing..

Fun gameplay, amazing visuals of course, nice set of gadgets and battle pickups..

Long ttk tho. and couldnt fly ANYTHING to save my life..

Not a Battlefield beater by any stretch but then its a totally different type of fps.

game4it70 · 03-07-2015 5:00pm

The Red wrote: »

Played a bit of it last night and I have to say Im quite impressed.. the sound.. dear god the sound is amazing..

Fun gameplay, amazing visuals of course, nice set of gadgets and battle pickups..

Long ttk tho. and couldnt fly ANYTHING to save my life..

Not a Battlefield beater by any stretch but then its a totally different type of fps.

I keep crashing at the start most of the time :mad:
I managed to play for about 5 mins in windowed mode but my old lamps make it to hard to see on such a small window. :P
It was fun albeit brief though.

The Red · 03-07-2015 5:16pm

Hmmm, I havent crashed once... I see on the forums there is a lot of crashing issues.

game4it70 · 03-07-2015 5:29pm

The Red wrote: »

Hmmm, I havent crashed once... I see on the forums there is a lot of crashing issues.

Just luck of the draw i think,hopefully there will be a fix before the alpha is finished.

dreamers75 · 04-07-2015 3:44pm

Its quite good, dont like the speed to the recharge you can get someone to 1 health and hes back to 100 fairly quickly.

Only issue really is add more damage to the weapons.

Skerries · 08-08-2015 12:50am

http://i.imgur.com/N87lc7U.gifv

Noxin · 27-08-2015 9:16am

Was curious if they would release a premium version for this but according to their community update yesterday they won't.
Standard and Deluxe only. Not even a collectors edition.

Varik · 27-08-2015 9:31am

Noxin wrote: »

Was curious if they would release a premium version for this but according to their community update yesterday they won't.
Standard and Deluxe only. Not even a collectors edition.

Seems odd, could add an extra 100 to price and just have an early realese of some episode 7 toy in it.

28-08-2015 12:07am

Skerries wrote: »

http://i.imgur.com/N87lc7U.gifv

For a second I thought it was a weird glitch where an online player rag dolled.

Not an out and out Star Wars fan in the normal sense(watched the films a few times but not counting the days to 7 or the like) but my god I'm hyped for this game.... More than FIFA and football games were always my thing.

I guess that's as much to do with Dice than Star Wars.... Have pumped over 700 hours into BF4 and that's as a lone wolf.
If this can replicate all that's good about BF4 and add some more, this should be my game of the year.. Even above Fallout, and id class 3 as my favourite game of all time.

Wizard! · 03-09-2015 4:46pm

It was on my wish list, but now it is a "maybe". With all those silly changes they did to BF4, I do not trust them anymore.
They have no clue how the game is going to be, and they constantly make changes according to random input from players.
If SWBW is like that, I might as well go play CoD...

Noxin · 04-09-2015 8:55am

Only one way to find out. For now that's beta. I've not pre-ordered anything yet so next month will decide for me

Need something new. BF4 is dying for me. BLOPs3 beta didn't do it for me. Dirty bomb is ok but I tend to only play a few games and log off again.
Still play planetside 2 a bit though.

Want something shiny :P

Wizard! · 09-09-2015 8:51am

http://www.pcgamer.com/ea-details-star-war-battlefronts-drop-zone-mode/

Drop Zone is similar to a King of the Hill mode, in which teams do battle to capture a control point and then defend it from their enemies.
But the control points in Drop Zone are pods that fall from the sky, and the trick is that teams won't know where they'll be until they land.
EA said the mode "is all about action and quick thinking":
Pods must be defended, but teams who stick to them too tightly risk getting hammered by an Orbital Strike.

Victory will go to whichever team captures five pods, or controls the most when the ten-minute time limit is up.
The process of claiming them is brief, but if neither team is able to hold one long enough to get the job done, another pod will drop, giving them something else to fight over (and presumably breaking the stalemate).
Once captured, pods will open up to provide "Power Pickups" to the team that claimed them, but again, there's an element of risk: While you're waiting around for one to open, other pods, possibly containing better stuff, will still be dropping.

Dcully · 05-10-2015 7:50pm

Quite a lot of new gameplay videos surfacing tonight from some get together of youtubers in sweden with dice i believe.
I must say it all looks very underwhelming, game looks to have serious lack of depth and looks far too arcadey for my liking.
I enjoy me some cod every now and then so im not adverse to some arcade shooting, more than anything though im not liking the 3rd person view in a game such as this.
Keen to play the beta before forming a proper opinion.

Wizard! · 06-10-2015 9:31am

Exactly my thoughts.

Noxin · 06-10-2015 2:08pm

Seriously can't make up my mind with what I've seen either. Some looks good, some looks awful.
Bring on the beta so.

Wizard! · 06-10-2015 2:54pm

16GB recommended... It gets better and better...

https://www.origin.com/en-ie/store/buy/star-wars-battlefront/pc-download/base-game/standard-edition

Minimum PC System Requirements
OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or later
Processor (Intel): Intel i3 6300T or equivalent
Memory: 8GB RAM
Hard Drive: At least 40 GB of free space
Graphics card (NVIDIA): nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
Graphics card (ATI): ATI Radeon HD 7850 2GB
DirectX: 11.0 Compatible video card or equivalent
Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection

Recommended PC System Requirements
OS: 64-bit Windows 10 or later
Processor (Intel): Intel i5 6600 or equivalent
Memory: 16GB RAM
Hard Drive: At least 40 GB of free space
Graphics card (NVIDIA): nVidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB
Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
DirectX: 11.1 Compatible video card or equivalent
Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection

Dcully · 06-10-2015 8:04pm

Plenty of live streams on twitch of early beta access.

http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Star%20Wars%20Battlefront

BATTLEFRONT (by DICE)

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