BATTLEFRONT (by DICE)

Falthyron · 07-10-2015 11:36am

The PC pre-load is now available. I am currently downloading it. 10.8gb.

VinLieger · 07-10-2015 11:51am

Everything ive seen so far = meh.

4 maps, only 2 of which allow the max amount of players, what the hell have they been doing all this time? Apparently the levels are also designed to be long and thin instead of massivley open to avoid the empty feeling having only 40 players in each fight will create. Also limiting PC players to 40 is a fvcking joke.
Talking to alpha players the party system is nonexistent and you need to be lucky to play with your friends.

Ill play the beta to get that star warsy feeling but definitely wont be buying at launch, if things improve ill see about picking it up next year once the majority of maps bound to be released as DLC have gone down in price

Wizard! · 07-10-2015 12:01pm

Same here. Probably will continue to play with BF4, while waiting for BF5. I may buy this after a year with an offer, just for the shake of Star Wars.

Noxin · 07-10-2015 1:18pm

While this is somewhat OT - Anyone know if it would be worth upgrading to Win10 for it? I'm running 8.1 atm..
Has there been any massive difference with gaming in general?

I could do with a CPU upgrade too but if I want to go top range it means I'd need to change mobo and ram also. Too much for this time of year

Dcully · 07-10-2015 1:51pm

If i were you i wouldnt hesitate upgrading to win 10, its free from 8.1 and you can always revert back but why would you,it works great.
Some say performance increases,for me without doing benchmarks its hard to say, my rig was performing great before and after win10.

Noxin · 07-10-2015 3:48pm

Cheers D. What I'll do is see how things run tomorrow in beta. Depending on how it goes, I might go and update the day after. I just don't want the annoyance of doing it now :P

Watched a video just now from xFactorGaming and it looked better than the previous few I've seen. A bit faster paced. He played in 3rd person only during drop zone. Not sure if I liked that but I can see why you would. It would always give you a slight edge when looking around. Anyway, looking forward to trying it out.

Noxin · 07-10-2015 6:53pm

Anyone able to pre-load from origin to any drive other than C? My C drive is pretty limited atm so I was hoping to put it on my other SSD. No option to change drives though...

==sorry for double post==

Skerries · 07-10-2015 7:13pm

dreamers75 · 07-10-2015 7:48pm

Noxin wrote: »

Anyone able to pre-load from origin to any drive other than C? My C drive is pretty limited atm so I was hoping to put it on my other SSD. No option to change drives though...

==sorry for double post==

yeah in Origin settings point your games to another drive, later if you want a differnt origin game on C point it back for that etc:

eyeball kid · 08-10-2015 10:16am

Anyone know what time this will be available to download on the PS4?

Wizard! · 08-10-2015 10:37am

Noxin · 08-10-2015 10:41am

Running a 970 myself. I'll be happy enough with 70+ fps I think. I may get a 2nd 970 in the future too if the price drops.

The Red · 08-10-2015 10:44am

Same as you Noxin.. jesus feels like I only got the 970 yesterday and thought it was futureproof for a while at least... its already waaaay down the list for modern gaming cards now..

Might need another one too..

Noxin · 08-10-2015 10:51am

The Red wrote: »

Same as you Noxin.. jesus feels like I only got the 970 yesterday and thought it was futureproof for a while at least... its already waaaay down the list for modern gaming cards now.. Might need another one too..

Only got mine a few months back as anything better (980 / TI etc..) was just a massive increase in price. The 970 was a good choice for the time. Now I wonder if I should have just spent more too.
Meh.

Wizard! · 08-10-2015 11:01am

Ι think those benches are in Ultra settings. Playing the campaign @ 70fps, is nice.
If you play competitive online, then no need for ultra settings. You go for the medium and >120fps

Noxin · 08-10-2015 11:25am

Wizard! wrote: »

Ι think those benches are in Ultra settings. Playing the campaign @ 70fps, is nice.
If you play competitive online, then no need for ultra settings. You go for the medium and >120fps

Used to do that for BF4 on my old 670. Once I got the 970 I upped to ultra on MP too and it was so much sweeter. Not sure if I could go back

The Red · 08-10-2015 11:43am

Oh I would never use Ultra on BF4. I use medium on every thing except Mesh: Ultra, AA off and AO off etc.. I need that 120+ fps..

I have come down in settings in BFront too to get that high rate.

Im digging Battlefront. Its fun no doubt but it will NEVER have the longevity of BF for me.

Noxin · 08-10-2015 12:06pm

The Red wrote: »

Im digging Battlefront. Its fun no doubt but it will NEVER have the longevity of BF for me.

Did you have early access to the beta? I thought Origin was saying it wasn't open untli 2.30 or so this afternoon. I'm stuck in work either way :mad:

weiland79 · 08-10-2015 12:28pm

Is this an open beta PS4 or is there a code I will need?

SterlingArcher · 08-10-2015 12:38pm

Noxin wrote: »

Only got mine a few months back as anything better (980 / TI etc..) was just a massive increase in price. The 970 was a good choice for the time. Now I wonder if I should have just spent more too.
Meh.

Haha wouldn't panic yet. Tweaks and what not be made. Patches. Yadda yadda. benchmarks, I've seen a few they differ for lots of reasons.

Play the game yourself and ignore benchmarks I say.

The Red · 08-10-2015 12:44pm

Noxin wrote: »

Did you have early access to the beta? I thought Origin was saying it wasn't open untli 2.30 or so this afternoon. I'm stuck in work either way :mad:

Ah yeah I got a early access code. I was also in the Alpha build.

I will REALLY have to play it to death before I can make up my mind if Ill get it on or just after release.. as I said, its great fun but there will have to be a lot more added to it, to add longevity.

eyeball kid · 08-10-2015 12:45pm

weiland79 wrote: »

Is this an open beta PS4 or is there a code I will need?

I think its open, no need for a code.

psnKOB79LFC · 08-10-2015 1:13pm

VinLieger wrote: »

Everything ive seen so far = meh.

4 maps, only 2 of which allow the max amount of players, what the hell have they been doing all this time? Apparently the levels are also designed to be long and thin instead of massivley open to avoid the empty feeling having only 40 players in each fight will create. Also limiting PC players to 40 is a fvcking joke.
Talking to alpha players the party system is nonexistent and you need to be lucky to play with your friends.

Ill play the beta to get that star warsy feeling but definitely wont be buying at launch, if things improve ill see about picking it up next year once the majority of maps bound to be released as DLC have gone down in price

I agree, seems like an old fashioned shooter or a game my kids would play. It is the One Direction of the gaming world.

The Red · 08-10-2015 1:23pm

I would argue that if either of you have not played it yet, you might want to wait and give it a go?

Noxin · 08-10-2015 1:25pm

The Red wrote: »

Ah yeah I got a early access code. I was also in the Alpha build.

I will REALLY have to play it to death before I can make up my mind if Ill get it on or just after release.. as I said, its great fun but there will have to be a lot more added to it, to add longevity.

According to a few streamers I watched yesterday, this beta has very limited content. They already have plenty more available for the actual release.
I wouldn't want all content here. Just want a taste to see if I'll go and buy it. :pac:

Battleflag · 08-10-2015 3:27pm

Game is out now on Origin. Played some Drop Zone and it was great fun, the graphics are great. Can't find any any games for Walker Assault yet though

eyeball kid · 08-10-2015 3:50pm

Think its out now on the PSN as well.

Dcully · 08-10-2015 4:10pm

Achieving 80-100 fps everything ultra GTX970 @1080.
Dropped a couple of effects like hbao to achieve consistant 144 fps for my new gsync 144hz monitor, it looks glorious and is buttery smooth.

I meant to say im running 8GB of good DDR,imo you dont need 16GB or anywhere near it.
Only 2 weeks ago pc gamer and a few more tech sites claimed no game on the market needs more than 4GB ram [no i dont mean video ram].

dreamers75 · 08-10-2015 5:55pm

Im liking this its like Battlefield 4 without added on bollox, its just simple shooting fun.

Riesen_Meal · 08-10-2015 6:14pm

Anyone else with BF4 installed on PS4 notice that when you hover downwards on the start icon that the Battlefield menu music plays?

Noxin · 08-10-2015 6:28pm

Very much enjoying it the last 2 hours.
GTX 970 as well. Generally same as D with 80-100 on ultra. If I drop down to high I get an easy 120+.

It really looks beyond beautiful. Blows BF4 gfx out of the water.

Only gripe is that so far - no one on my teams have been ptfoing on Drop Zone. Very annoying when I seem like the only one :P
Lvl 4 atm. Give me one more for jet pack

Dcully · 08-10-2015 6:48pm

Went 59-3 there now, people running around like lemmings = easy meat ,it really is an objective based game so far.

Wizard! · 08-10-2015 7:15pm

I don't know if there are bugs, but experienced some strange things...
For example, there was a guy sitting still, I "emptied a magazine" on him, mostly headshots, from 3-4 meters away, and he lived, while I was dying with the same weapon in 4-5 shots. Of course I do not know the upgrades someone could use, except the shield, which was not activated.
Looks good though, but needs work.

Noxin · 08-10-2015 7:18pm

biggest annoyance so far - Vehicle sensitivity.

Set it low for the turrents - Can't do $hit in a fighers, set it high for the fighters, barely touch mouse and you're swinging 720 degrees in a turret.

adamshare01 · 08-10-2015 7:22pm

Battlefront 2 was, and still is, an epic game. Must have put 100's of hours into it on the Xbox.

Kiith · 08-10-2015 7:44pm

The game looks stunning. Really captures the feel (and sounds) of Star Wars.

johnny_ultimate · 08-10-2015 8:01pm

Played an hour or so there. I could see the standard Drop Zone become a wee bit tedious if there's not a whole lot of map variety. It's nice and fast paced, but maybe lacking that special something.

Walker Assault is a whole lot more dynamic, although fairly overwhelming first time about. It definitely nails the look and feel of the original trilogy, and the more complex map keeps everything moving. It did take me a few turns to figure out how to actually do anything without getting destroyed by an AT-AT though

Plays really well on PC, and their lobby system at least at this stage seems impeccable. It seems to be constantly matchmaking in the background, so by the time I'm done messing around in the menus there's usually a full game ready to go. If they can maintain that, it will be impressive - feels very painless at the moment (eagerly awaits inevitable pain).

eyeball kid · 08-10-2015 8:45pm

Hurry up and download dammit!

VinLieger · 08-10-2015 9:58pm

Played about an hour of it there and i do not see what all the fuss is about, what am I missing? Do you need a group of 40 players who know what they are doing to have a good game?

Mad_Dave · 09-10-2015 9:03am

Was slightly concerned by the system requirements, but my fx6300 and r9 270 runs it at a comfortable 60+fps on High preset. Looks great too.

Played a few rounds of drop zone, seems fun so far.

Wizard! · 09-10-2015 9:42am

VinLieger wrote: »

Do you need a group of 40 players who know what they are doing to have a good game?

In all Battlefield style games, yes, you need players who know what they are doing. Not 40, but at least a good squad.

bennyc · 09-10-2015 10:14am

fecking cannot get this loaded, only getting black screen then an error that game has stopped, so far I have updated GPU drivers, reinstalled Origin, deleted and downloaded game. fairly pissed, I only reimaged the PC a few months ago so don't fancy doing that again.

I see some talk of this online , have tried forcing it to windowed mode and still same.

Any other suggestions ?

VinLieger · 09-10-2015 10:37am

Wizard! wrote: »

In all Battlefield style games, yes, you need players who know what they are doing. Not 40, but at least a good squad.

So they made a game that requires co-ordination but theres no guaranteed way of joining a server with your party and ending up on the same team

Noxin · 09-10-2015 10:57am

Recorded every game I was playing yesterday. Logged off for an hour. Back on. Wen't completely HAM in Drop Zone - going 17-0 can capping and defending 4 pods practically solo and guess what? I forgot to record it

The Jet Pack, nade and pistol combo is hulla strong on that map.

Riesen_Meal · 09-10-2015 11:23am

bennyc wrote: »

fecking cannot get this loaded, only getting black screen then an error that game has stopped, so far I have updated GPU drivers, reinstalled Origin, deleted and downloaded game. fairly pissed, I only reimaged the PC a few months ago so don't fancy doing that again.

I see some talk of this online , have tried forcing it to windowed mode and still same.

Any other suggestions ?

Was working fine for me on PC yesterday, then I updated the GPU driver and it stopped working, had to roll back the driver and it was fine then after, yet the driver was specifically updated for Battlefront...

Mr Freeze · 09-10-2015 11:31am

Very surprised with how good this beta looks, even on the XBOX one, I was expecting it to be disappointed.

I was very pleasantly surprised.

My only complaint is I found the A-Wings and Tie Fighters had to control. But thats just me, I am crap at aerial vehicles in BF type games anyways.

psnKOB79LFC · 09-10-2015 12:03pm

Works a dream on PS4 so far, graphics are unreal, a real step up "next-gen" some might say. Dropped old gen has definitely helped I think.

Actually a very good game but I do have some issues with certain aspects:

<> it is a lone wolf game entirely, no real interaction with team-mates and something I find kind of shallow

<> not having a penalty for 3rd person hip-firing is a flawed game design... shooters should promote aiming and this doesnt

<> the heros are the most annoying thing in the world... yes it even beats the AC130 from BF3/BF4. I can't stand them and wish they were removed or nerfed to oblivion.

<> I struggle with having just one class and having no secondary weapon (of sorts)... just seems like all I am doing is playing, killing, respawning etc. Gets a little tiring. Also the option of respawning as "engineer" or "support" to take out vehicles isnt there meaning I feel I am not as involved in the drama, merely a peripheral figure

Overall more positives than negatives and I will buy it. Will I be dying to see new maps...not really as the gameplay isn't diverse enough anyway, the new map is just a backdrop. Will i be playing it in March 2016? Probably not.

BlitzKrieg · 09-10-2015 1:05pm

Its sh*t sh*t sh*t sh*t sh*tty sh*t game.

I'll admit I wasnt too sold on battlefront for most of its build up. But I still tried the beta, I try all the betas and I've been pleasently surprised sometimes, others I got what I expected.

This I got worse then expected.

Simply put the gameplay is a massive step back in terms of Dice this goes so far back, even further then the original 1942, this is codename eagle shooting mechanics.

The maps in the beta are awful little to no sense of shape to them and very bland.

Dont get me wrong, everything is pretty and looks authentic star wars but as a map dull dull dull.

But the biggest crime is just how awful the game mode walker attack is.

It's a bizarro poorly thought out version of Rush

lets see

firstly there is no sense of space because the walkers practically start on top of you so the defenders get no time to actually mount a defence before the empire are spawning on top of and behind you, if anything the best Rush maps have thought us that between mcoms you need that small gap to reset the line, that doesnt happen here so you end up far too often with rebels in the wrong area or pinned back.

secondly the design of just letting loose on the walker for a set period is flawed because it ends up being a mess of people just shooting with guns or tryng to find something bigger becoming a turkey shoot for smarter empire players who just aim for any player focusing on the AT-AT

the air side of the game suffers from the same issues battlefield has where airpower can end up with nothing to do but then becomes crucially important at other times, inconsistent.

Really what Walker Attack needed was a very firm division drawn between stages like with Rush

It should go

Walker approach defend stations for specific period

-Failure fall back

-Success all players for both sides spawn in ships for a period with empire in tie fighters and rebels in a mix of a-wings and some snow speeders with 2 players. Snow speeders can try and take down a walker in a single pass or all players can just focus on deducting as much hp as possible vis lasers/missiles

-air attack ends-

-defenders spawn on the new defend line, attackers on new attack lines for stage 2

Repeat the walker approach with the next set of stations

-attackers win move to line 3

-defenders win you can do air battle again or they could spice it up and have a different setup like an actual assault on a At-At like how Luke actually did in the film (a more interesting way to use the hero system perhaps?

Back to line 3 repeat

attackers win perhaps Vader hero final assault for a bonus victory points

defenders win line 3 game ends with an attacker victory but survival points for defenders

Really if the game is playing with fewer players then it needs to be more firmly designed. Its why Rush always had fewer players then Conquest in battlefield because its more firmly defined, its also why it often turns to a mess when its player count is upped to 64. Walker attack is trying to be more complicated then Rush and has fewer players but it is not being as firmly and clearly defined as Rush instead its a mess of power ups, heroes and mechanics that are counter productive.

the current system is a mess and simply not focused and not fun.

I'll be giving this one a wide pass.

dreamers75 · 09-10-2015 1:41pm

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

I'll be giving this one a wide pass.

Stop trying to play Battlefield and play Battlefront instead, if your looking for BF style gameplay you are playing the wrong game.

This is Battlefront 3 so the only comparison that should be made against it is from Battlefront 2.

Battleflag · 09-10-2015 1:48pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

This is Battlefront 3 so the only comparison that should be made against it is from Battlefront 2.

Actually this is Battlefront, not Battlefront 3. They rebooted it so they could give Battlefront their own spin rather than continuing what Pandemic Studios created.

I played a few hours yesterday and enjoyed it, it looks incredible but I felt some what bored after a few hours. Maybe that's because the content is limited and everyone uses the same guns but won't know for sure until the full game is released

BATTLEFRONT (by DICE)

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