**** Star Wars: Battlefront ****

xGBHxPegasus said:
Still undecided whether to purchase this or not. :(
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Same. I'm sure it will be a fun game (I tried the beta) but the main question for me is 'for how long?'

Most of my mates are getting it but they're also the type that drop £50 for a new game and play it only for a few weeks. EA's scheduled DLCs are already putting me off. I hate that these publishers are pushinng out games that will cost £100+ for its complete experience.
 
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Same, you just know that they will have cut a ton of the game out just for DLC purposes :(

JamesM said:
I played the beta and found the balance to be pretty much spot on. It's an ATAT, i'd expect it to blast everything in sight, whether the pilot is new to the game or not.

The game needs to cater for everyone. Making it so that the only people who can use the ATAT are the ones who spend hours and days honing their ATAT skills is pure stupidity.

Simply popping your shield or jetting out of the danger area seemed to work well enough for me.

It's also not like they can sit in the thing the entire game either, just racking up the kills, unlike BF4 where you can sit in a tank or jet the entire game racking up 30 kills in 5 minutes.
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That is why this game will fail, DICE have the exact same thought process, "he is a jedi, he is suppose to be able to rekt everyone", "it's an ATAT, tie fighter etc. they are suppose to be killing machines", yes it is faithful to the films/star wars universe but it does not make for good fair gameplay, look at all the complaints in bf 4 about the aa when the game first came out, it ruined a lot of maps especially for aircraft.... Same goes for the ac130 in BF 4 and more so BF 3, a lot of people avoided the BF 3 armoured kill DLC pack because of the stupidly OP ac130.

I don't disagree with the second line, however, as mentioned they could do some basic things such as increase reload time, decrease the spread for damage or/and even add more cover for the rebels. I don't have a problem with it in endor as you have a ton of cover so if someone runs straight into the ATAT then it is their own fault but on Hoth, you don't have a choice unless they have changed the map design.... Yes you can jetpack out of danger or/and use your bubble shield etc. but once that stuff has gone, what do you do then?

Yes, that is a good thing that they did with regards to the limited time spent with it, although in the alpha, I remember being able to just go and pick up another ATAT token, rinse and repeat.... Also, being a little bird, attack/stealth jet, tank, aa & attack boat whore in BF 4 and someone who could rack up a kill streak to the likes of 70+ by the end of the round, I could never ever get 30 kills within 5 minutes....
 
Xire said:
Cheers, will give it a go tonight.
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you'll still need a vpn to host the software. I've used softether in a windows environment but the linux side client wasnt great. Hope the server side for linux is more polished. Failing that openvpn will do the trick.
 
Nexus18 said:
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Same, you just know that they will have cut a ton of the game out just for DLC purposes :(



That is why this game will fail, DICE have the exact same thought process, "he is a jedi, he is suppose to be able to rekt everyone", "it's an ATAT, tie fighter etc. they are suppose to be killing machines", yes it is faithful to the films/star wars universe but it does not make for good fair gameplay, look at all the complaints in bf 4 about the aa when the game first came out, it ruined a lot of maps especially for aircraft.... Same goes for the ac130 in BF 4 and more so BF 3, a lot of people avoided the BF 3 armoured kill DLC pack because of the stupidly OP ac130.

I don't disagree with the second line, however, as mentioned they could do some basic things such as increase reload time, decrease the spread for damage or/and even add more cover for the rebels. I don't have a problem with it in endor as you have a ton of cover so if someone runs straight into the ATAT then it is their own fault but on Hoth, you don't have a choice unless they have changed the map design.... Yes you can jetpack out of danger or/and use your bubble shield etc. but once that stuff has gone, what do you do then?

Yes, that is a good thing that they did with regards to the limited time spent with it, although in the alpha, I remember being able to just go and pick up another ATAT token, rinse and repeat.... Also, being a little bird, attack/stealth jet, tank, aa & attack boat whore in BF 4 and someone who could rack up a kill streak to the likes of 70+ by the end of the round, I could never ever get 30 kills within 5 minutes....
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Thing is though many of those things are counterable with smart play and/or teamwork but most people don't want to put the effort in.

I don't really include the AA in there :P the MAA can sit on the edge of a map as a 1 man infantry wrecking machine which runs counter of what BF4 is supposed to be about and also IRL you'd struggle to use it in that way while configured for anti-air work. Though that said when my brother and a couple of friends are on we can totally wreck the MAA's day with a javelin/target paint crew but try getting randoms to do that...
 
Rroff said:
Thing is though many of those things are counterable with smart play and/or teamwork but most people don't want to put the effort in.
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dice did it right with bf1942 and bf2
but since then havent designed around that fun factor their own series use to have.
since they lost the fun factor thier games tends to tank like bf hardline did and more to come.
 
flopper said:
dice did it right with bf1942 and bf2
but since then havent designed around that fun factor their own series use to have.
since they lost the fun factor thier games tends to tank like bf hardline did and more to come.
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Bad Company 2 was the last one for me. I enjoy BF4 now, but it's just constantly a cluster ****.
 
PooKer said:
you'll still need a vpn to host the software. I've used softether in a windows environment but the linux side client wasnt great. Hope the server side for linux is more polished. Failing that openvpn will do the trick.
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So if I purchase this from the Mexican store via vpn do I have to use a vpn to play every time?
 
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