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

[VincentHanna]

Star Wars Battlefront's multiplayer beta runs at 900p on PlayStation 4 and 720p on Xbox One, according to a pair of online reports.

I hope the pc version is 1080p , but its a bigger download so hopefully yes

Lolz - Like any PC game you can set the resolution to whatever you want (within reason)

And a bigger download will probably mean higher quality graphical assets (Higher texture resolution etc) but not the resolution you set on your PC.

 

[antijoke]

Soooooo looking forward to playing this on my 980Ti with 16Gb RAM and I5-4690k.

 

[Seanspeed]

Why are they running it at 1.2Ghz?

To ensure that the gains you're seeing are from core scaling alone.

They are also running it at 720p to make sure GPU limitations aren't interfering.

Again, I was really mostly joking about needing to upgrade. It's just nice to see that DICE have coded the game that it actually does scale performance with more cores, particularly above 4.

If you check out the link I posted above, it shows the game running very well on a large range of hardware.

 

[weyland yutani]

Time to upgrade those CPU's boys!

That's pretty awesome to see.

2500K which is well over 4 years old now - again no issue in game so no thanks.

 

[valkia]

They should have scrapped this

Lol what?

 

[foster grant]

More ram lol.....It's enough trying to tell the Mrs I need a new flicker free Monitor lol

 

[Ayahuasca]

I'll see how it performs on my 3770k, 8gb ram and TX first before making any hasty purchases.

 

[Nexus18]

Why are they running it at 1.2Ghz?

And @ 1280x720

lol.......

The alpha ran amazing for me on my setup in rig with max settings (except no MSAA) so hopefully the beta/final will perform just as well.

 

[HazardO]

4.4GHz 3930K and 16GB RAM here!

Maybe my rig will be good for BF5 as well (Might need a new GPU setup by then though)

 

[Thesnipergecko]

Time to upgrade those CPU's boys!

That's pretty awesome to see.

I think I'm covered

 

[snips86x]

How big is the beta?

 

[Thesnipergecko]

How big is the beta?

About 10.5GB to download.

 

[MissChief]

One positive, if this doesn't sell well (although I can't see it) then the price will drop fairly quickly on the key sites. Anyone know where the best deal is at the moment? I'm not adverse to flying to far flung destinations to get it.

 

[stument]

You enjoy that complete stomp Dave?

 

[Sega Mega Dave]

It's been that long since i've played any games properly, nevermind an FPS. I'm all over the place.


That said it looks gorgeous i'll give the game that. Seems fun too.

 

[foster grant]

Would I be able to run the game on " Monitor 2 " ..im asking as some game i have dont allow that option ?

 

[VincentHanna]

Battlefield 4 and Hardline both allow you to do that.

I imagine it's the same.

If not, you'll have to make your secondary monitor 'primary' before launching the game.

 

[foster grant]

Yes I play BF4 and HL as 2nd monitor...so fingers crossed

 

[Twirlywoos]

Typical frostbite engine

- Rubberbanding
- Kill assist of 100 and yet you die
- Tiny objects should be more feared than Imperial Troopers because they can cause you damage (and no I didn't walk over a sink hole which I found out causes damage also)
- Invisible walls behind some rocks
- Can't see anyway to join on friends (Anyone know how to?)

Thank God it's 3rd person view otherwise the headglitching would drive you crazy so there is no chance of that from what I've played.

Apart from that it's a fun shooter but don't expect large levels of PTFO from random players who just want to be sharp shooters. Luckily the terrain makes it difficult for them to be bush wookies so they have to be closer to the action.

 

[VincentHanna]

Any sniper on BF4 is pretty much not PTFO

And there's loads of those.