Star Wars Battlefront II |OT| The Circle is Now Complete

Did some experimenting with this guy offline in arcade mode.

So, it's a one hit kill as long as they are in range - Offline.

And zero damage at all online? Or not enough to make a difference at least? Not sure if a glitch or just a complete oversight.

Also, Brawler Card doesn't seem to reset cooldowns for shit when you get a melee kill. Offline or otherwise.

jesus christ

been feeling reeeeally slimy now that i've gotten the Y-Wing upgraded pretty nicely. work horse of the rebellion indeed.

Decarb said:

Fly at the slowest speed possible. My left stick is forever jammed backwards. It gives you more time to react and improves your maneuverability.

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This.

Though I've still found it a bit harder to keep track people in BF2 compared to BF1, but I haven't put a ton of time into Starfighter mode in BF2 yet.

LOL this freaking game.

I just fell off the Map in Heroes vs Villains and I just kept falling forever. No one could kill me. Nice play testing there, EA.

Okay, that's cool that there's heavy acknowledgement of the Aftermath trilogy all through this thing but [second to last mission]

The third blaster for assault is vastly superior to the first two.

Decarb said:

Fly at the slowest speed possible. My left stick is forever jammed backwards. It gives you more time to react and improves your maneuverability.

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Oh I actually do do that, but still my issue is when people lock on me or get behind me... It just seems when guys are on me there's no shaking them no matter what I do.

Those playing on Xbox x and pro please play this game with HDR off. It looks miles better. HDR implementation for this game is fd up. Even EA acknowledged the HDR is fd up.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Battlefront-2-hdr-bug-ps4-pro/td-p/6423554
This game is beautiful with HDR off.

I hate that the starting weapons are shit, and you need to complete X amount of kills before unlocking it, and then doing X amount of stuff to unlock gun attachments.

It's also annoying how the Star Card slots are locked. I mean, Star Cards? Sure, but the actual friggin' slots? Why??

It's like penalizing new players by having them suffer through hell before being able to equip the good stuff or something.

Also, Daily Crate should include a Star Card or two. Not just a super small number of scrap and credits.

It's a shame, really, since underneath all the progression BS, it is a fun game, and in theory should be better than the 2015 version. Silverlining here is, EA will most likely end their mad moneyhatting of anything for now. I mean, I doubt they'll do this for Battlefield 2018 unless they want the same bad feedback.

Speaking of, so there's no EA exec that'll get canned? Wouldn't surprise me if true. I'm now not sure whether John Ricitello is worse or better than Andrew Wilson. I mean, the dude got $70m in bonuses. IN FUCKING BONUSES. But nope, let's close Visceral.

Man the blurrg with improved shot is so good, 2 shot kill pretty much.

Starkiller base is a dumpster quality map. Ive only played Yavin 4 once and have never played Death Star 2 but this fuckin garbage map keeps coming up in rotation. One of the shittiest maps in recent memory. Overall im enjoying the game tho despite the trash progression

Got some good matches of Galactic Assault in today!

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Would love to play with some of you guys on PS4!
Feel free to add me. Just say you're from Reset in the message

Starfighter assault is just cool, except when the match ends early in victory. I haven't used a star card yet, and I end up middle of the leaderboard by playing the objective some, and picking off ships here and there. When I'm about to bite it I spam my abilities, occasionally I'll take someone down with me.

One thing I like is that the challenges all run concurrently. The timed challenges aren't quite there yet though.

Gunslinger said:

Those playing on Xbox x and pro please play this game with HDR off. It looks miles better. HDR implementation for this game is fd up. Even EA acknowledged the HDR is fd up.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Battlefront-2-hdr-bug-ps4-pro/td-p/6423554
This game is beautiful with HDR off.

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Yeah the hdr turns on and off randomly, felt like i got flash banged in my own house the other day as it flashed pure white light in my face for 5-10 secs.

TheTylerDurden said:

Dumb question from someone that doesn't own the game.

In the beta I tried flying around in multiplayer, and I found my ship nearly uncontrollable (PS4). I tried inverted on the stick, and that helped a bit. But I just found myself ALL over the place.

I didn't feel like I had much control at all. Is there something obvious I might have missed? In spite of everything going on with this game, if they decide to do something like heavy discounting to get the game back on it's feet I might consider it - and I love flying ships, but this is something I kinda need answered before I would even consider it.

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Maybe try the Southpaw layout which swaps the sticks. As a fan of OG Rogue Squadron, I couldn't get used to moving with the right stick.

Also they have a Starfighter sensitivity setting you could mess around with. But that might just affect aiming when you hold down the left trigger.

Just don't fucking get Starfighter Assault. I can take fighters down but I mean I don't understand how people survive.

I really would like to see some of you post a video so I can get some ideas.

Every match against the greatest pilots in the world..

TearablePuns said:

Got some good matches of Galactic Assault in today!



Would love to play with some of you guys on PS4!
Feel free to add me. Just say you're from Reset in the message

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Same username there?

MissCauthon said:

I am mainly a heavy player and god damn you people that decide to stand in front of me and block my shots and damn all the kills ive got stolen puts me to cry. Working on a guy and some random comes in shoots the guy and gets the kill i get the assist. Grrrr.

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I've watched people. They're doing this to steal your kills because they're stuck throwing spitballs with those base weapons. Why waste time trying to kill someone when you can let others soften a target up first?

Drewton said:

The Bespin level of the campaign is so far the only level I don't like.

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There's a Bespin level? Christ, the map rotation in this fucking sucks.

ETA: Oh, campaign.

Is HDR borked on just the Xbox One X? Its funny, after the rocky launch I would have sworn this would have shown up on both Live and PSN Black Friday sales but nope. Im not buying this game full price. No way.

JHFerry said:

Is HDR borked on just the Xbox One X? Its funny, after the rocky launch I would have sworn this would have shown up on both Live and PSN Black Friday sales but nope. Im not buying this game full price. No way.

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It's broke. See my post 4158. Play with it off the game looks beautiful.

pikaviz said:

I was going to buy this game until all the microtransaction furore kicked off. In the meantime I've got my Star Wars fix from going back to Battlefront 1 and I'm kinda digging it again.

So my question is, should I stick with BF1 while we see where BF2 goes? Or shall I get involved with BF2 now. I'm a bit dubious of the price plummeting after all the bad press it's had. Plus it seems to have been designed around loot boxes so the pace of progression sounds glacial without them.

[Ninja edit: I'm on base PS4]

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Go for Battlefront 2. Fantastic game if you see past the progression system. Lootbox vicenda is overblown. The progression system is the real black sheep. Game is simply great.

Culgan said:

Yes I am aware, that's what I did eventually. But I only had 1 officer card for about 10 hours and I wasn't even able to upgrade it to the second level or so until I hit rank 5 or 10

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I'm confused by your wording here, there's a half chance you still are not aware. Sorry if I'm mistaken, it's a confusing system I'm not trying to be rude.. Are you saying it took 10 hours for you to find out you could craft additional star cards for your officer? Then you facepalmed, and now you're good and have all 3 slots and a wide selection of level 1+ cards?

Well after a pretty full day with the game I think I finally get it. This damn game is so much fun!!! I think the officer class is a bit op though. Freaking pistols are ridiculous.

Seductivpancakes said:

The third blaster for assault is vastly superior to the first two.

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Tried it yesterday and IMO it's worse than the A280. But my A280 is fully upgraded and the 3rd Blaster not.

I think we'll get some news on the progression changes next week.

They probably had no plans to change it so its taking a while for them to even release news about it.

As for the future of the game, I don't think we're going to get even a fraction of the content they were planning to release before the MTX got removed.

It's gonna be that TLJ stuff in December and that's it.

There are rumors floating around the official forums that EA is contemplating two ways of implementing MT's. First is cosmetics only, second is the option to buy shortcuts to the starcards (like you could in the first game). Could be tales from someone's ass, but you never know.

Razgriz-Specter said:

yes piss off the people that actually supported it.

I didnt even personally buy it yet and if they did that I would never touch an EA game again.

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The angry mob unfairly put this game to 69. It isnt bad at all gameplayvise.

Man I love this game but fuck whoever thought that progression system is good. What the fuck dice? You need to grind an ungodly amount to unlock weapon attachments and new weapons.

I would actually be tempted to spend money if they offered cosmetic stuff that actually looked cool.

Knowing Lucasfilm, I wouldn't expect much in terms of cosmetics tho.

Would love some skins. Gimme Bespin Luke, ANH Leia, Jango

Man this game just makes me sad. The game itself is so much fun the freaking progression and EA greed ruins it. This game was easily 9/10 IMO from gameplay and fun factor alone.

I would love to see DICE implement a social space similar to Destiny or Call Of Duty WWII.
Players could goof around, "board" ships that would basically be lobbys for game modes, have pod racing, or speeder racing as a side activity.
And I would also like raid type of quests/missions, where you could co-op with some players and head out on a small scale star wars adventure.

This game is good, no doubt about it but it could have been just so much more. A wasted opportunity IMO.

2Bee said:

I would actually be tempted to spend money if they offered cosmetic stuff that actually looked cool.

Knowing Lucasfilm, I wouldn't expect much in terms of cosmetics tho.

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There is so much shit they could do for the heroes alone. They could of released loot boxes with a shit load of cosmetics in and no one would of batted an eyelid.

Luke has to get an old man skin at some point surely?

This game is easily a 9/10 for me.
The lootcrate debate gets the reviews, not game. Personally i think it's not fair to diminish a game that is perfectly functional and content rich (and fun!) right from the start to only lootcrates, lootcrates, lootcrates. Reviewers failed to distinguish from various aspects and crucified the game itself. On the otherside it maybe shook up EA to change this practices...

HellforLeather said:

Starkiller base is a dumpster quality map. Ive only played Yavin 4 once and have never played Death Star 2 but this fuckin garbage map keeps coming up in rotation. One of the shittiest maps in recent memory. Overall im enjoying the game tho despite the trash progression

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Starkiller base is absolute shite. I loathe that map. I only get that and Death Star 2 mostly. Map design is not great in this game which sucks. It feels like we somehow took a step back from 2015 in that regard. Lots of murder corridors with endless explosions.

I don't think I've ever played the endor map and I've been playing for a while lol.

Jakku spawn snipes are a joke.

Nephilim said:

This game is easily a 9/10 for me.
The lootcrate debate gets the reviews, not game. Personally i think it's not fair to diminish a game that is perfectly functional and content rich (and fun!) right from the start to only lootcrates, lootcrates, lootcrates. Reviewers failed to distinguish from various aspects and crucified the game itself. On the otherside it maybe shook up EA to change this practices...

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I agree with this. I suspect my review, which will focus on gameplay rather than loot crates, etc., will get a lot of hate.

Most reviews forgot about the game and just went with the hate.

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I don't think I've ever played the endor map and I've been playing for a while lol.

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Only time I've ever gotten to play it, my internet got laggy as hell for some reason, so I had to tap out after just a minute.

Also, I don't see how emotes can be amusing in this game given we're not even allowed a 30-second in-map grace period prior to a match start to dick around like to the first game.
I agree that a social hub coulda been useful.

Fuchsia said:

Starkiller base is absolute shite. I loathe that map. I only get that and Death Star 2 mostly. Map design is not great in this game which sucks. It feels like we somehow took a step back from 2015 in that regard. Lots of murder corridors with endless explosions.

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I think the maps are far superior this game. The reason there's so many choke points in the maps is because the maps that had the choke points and that funnelled players in the first game proved the most popular by far. I played the BF1 right up to the end it was always blatantly obvious which maps were liked and which weren't. DICE clearly learned a lot and applied that to this game.

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Starkiller base is a dumpster quality map. Ive only played Yavin 4 once and have never played Death Star 2 but this fuckin garbage map keeps coming up in rotation. One of the shittiest maps in recent memory. Overall im enjoying the game tho despite the trash progression

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Yeah I agree, its probably my least favourite. It was coming up in my rotation yesterday a lot too. They're obviously lumping all the players into certain maps to start off with at the moment so they can test them.

MMarston said:

Okay, Kamino is easily the worst GA map.

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No way it has to be Jakku.

excaliburps said:

I agree with this. I suspect my review, which will focus on gameplay rather than loot crates, etc., will get a lot of hate.

Most reviews forgot about the game and just went with the hate.

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I think the point reviewers are trying to make is if you give this a good score than people will buy it and nothing will change.

EA will just continue to push the envelope until we finally take a stand. This is where we are now. We gamers have had enough and it's getting worse and worse. Just take a look at the state of need for speed.

It sucks that such a beautiful game is being dragged through the mud but EA has no one to blame but themselves.

It amazes me that when being a heavy amd going 1 on 1 vs someone with 100 health can still take you out.

The spread on the 2nd weapon is awful.

Tonight I will try that explosive shot and sentry-heal for my Heavy. To be honest the more I play Assault the more I dislike the Heavy, but I want get those 150 sentry-kills for the trophy and unlock more guns. It's a heavy grind but it somehow is still motivating for me because the gameplay and atmosphere are so godly.

Also how are you guys handling your crafting parts? In think upgrading to epic cards isn't worth it at the current rate you get crafting parts and if you are - like me - interested in playing more than one or two classes. So I went with upgrading to blue cards max. I only upgraded my Assault for now. Guess I will invest some parts into my heavy next and I also have to upgrade my Fighter for space battles. I got rather lucky with my bomber and got some good cards from crates.

MarkMcLovin said:

It amazes me that when being a heavy amd going 1 on 1 vs someone with 100 health can still take you out.

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Even more baffling when you have your shield up ... Heavy needs some buffs. He feels too weak and clumsy overall.

Plasma said:

No way it has to be Jakku.

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I dunno, my team has had plenty of leeway in Jakku, even as FO.

Kamino's opening chokepoint has been an immediate game ender in most matches on it.

Duane said:

Okay, that's cool that there's heavy acknowledgement of the Aftermath trilogy all through this thing but [second to last mission]

Spoiler

why are they calling him Temmin "Snap" already? He doesn't have that nickname yet, does he?

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I can't remember exactly when, but I'm sure he gets that nickname during the trilogy.

The Dude said:

Just don't fucking get Starfighter Assault. I can take fighters down but I mean I don't understand how people survive.

I really would like to see some of you post a video so I can get some ideas.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq3Du4oStfc

Not my best since this was my 3rd or 4th SA match ever (I mostly fly in GA) so I didn't go after objectives. But you can see that slowing down your fighter all the way to minimum gives you all the time in the world to lineup your shots.

2Bee said:

I don't think I've ever played the endor map and I've been playing for a while lol.

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in Battlefront 1 you could choose which map you would play in walker assault. I dont understand why have they removed this feature from Battlefront 2

Hoth is the worst for me. The first section is ok but after that it becomes hard as the attackers.

Starkiller base is prob my fav. I like pretty much all of them though.

The Dude said:

Just don't fucking get Starfighter Assault. I can take fighters down but I mean I don't understand how people survive.

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The repair-droids are great to extend your life. Also try to fly into crowded space like asteroid fields or debris or very near to surfaces of big ships. Use your boost. Make rolls and turns to lose follower. And then there is quite a bit of luck involved. A good player will chase you down anyways and there is always the possibility to get chased by more than one player. And it depends on your ship type. Bombers can take some damage but they are an easy target. Interceptors are the hardest to hit because they are very quick.