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[Summer Haze]

What the hell, no campaign? And I am almost sure that there will not be an option to play battles against bots, like in the old Battlefronts. I just knew it. I was worried ever since I have known that EA got the rights to SW and that DICE is developing the game.

I am SO pissed right now.

Screw EA. Screw DICE.

I'm baffled by how many people are baffled that a MP-focused game such as this features no campaign.

 

[HariKari]

"Game Engine footage"

hah

 

[deltacanuckian]

What?

BF2 had a campaign called Rise of the Empire.

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

Rise of the Empire -- as it's been stated multiple times already -- was just re-purposed multiplayer maps with voiceovers/cutscenes in between.

 

[Rootbeer]

wow this stream is pixelated as hell

 

[Steel]

All the campaign was for BF2 was multiplayer maps with bots.

With modified objectives and enemies, space battles with more than one captial ship to swarm, etc. Also a narrative.

 

[qa_engineer]

Dat PS4 logo

 

[mysteriousmage09]

please stand by we are experiencing technical difficulties.

 

[throwawayname]

wow this stream is pixelated as hell

xbone resolution

 

[dekline]

I can't see shit

 

[Pattycakes]

RIP stream

 

[Hedon]

I'm baffled by how many people are baffled that a MP-focused game such as this features no campaign.

Reminds me of the Titanfall outcry. Multiplayer game is a multiplayer game.

 

[Atlas157]

PS4 marketing confirmed.

 

[FHIZ]

Well, they fucked this one up.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

All the campaign was for BF2 was multiplayer maps with bots.

Well, no. It was story driven, had cut-scenes and was pretty damn fun to play.

Reducing it to same maps as MP with bots is ridiculous.

 

[impact]

gonna do whatever I have to to run this at 1080p 144fps

can't believe I'm hyped for an EA shooter ; ;

 

[Dreadnought]

Aaaand stream is down

 

[Summer Haze]

Stream is experiencing technical difficulties.

 

[BTM]

Holy fucccck!

 

[ironcreed]

No fucking way in hell will it ever look like that.

 

[Lotto]

HNNNNNGGGGG, TIME FOR WORK THAT WAS AMAZING

 

[SargerusBR]

That was running on PS4? :O

 

[throwawayname]

Wasn't the stream 1080p yesterday during the panel?

 

[Pattycakes]

trailer up on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwWLns7-xN8&feature=youtu.be

 

[Kane1345]

Crap no gameplay. PS4 marketing confirmed

 

[chubigans]

That was awesome, wow.

 

[FHIZ]

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwWLns7-xN8

 

[Chezzymann]

Never seen so much hype for technical difficulties

 

[deltacanuckian]

Sullust looks cool as hell. Those graphics were nuts. Like... Wow.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Rise of the Empire -- as it's been stated multiple times already -- was just re-purposed multiplayer maps with voiceovers/cutscenes in between.

That doesn't matter. It was a campaign, let's stop pretending that it didn't have one by reducing it to being nothing more multiplayer maps with bots.

It had a story, it had cut-scenes. It's a story driven campaign. Ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

 

[Distresssss]

No fucking way in hell will it ever look like that.

None of it was actual gameplay. Just "in-engine" footage. No reason to think less or more.

 

[Coffee Dog]

I'm baffled by how many people are baffled that a MP-focused game such as this features no campaign.

It's almost as if campaign wasn't a problem ten years ago in the previous multiplayer focused game.

 

[daveo42]

Yeah, there is def some marketing partnerships between Battlefront and Sony.

Trailer exactly as it was described.

 

[Kriken]

And the stream crapped out :/

At least the action looked nice

 

[Gwarf]

Let us hope the game doesn't release as broken as the stream...

I'm still hyped anyway!

 

[Steel]

Technical difficulties for the stream? Seems like foreshadowing...

 

[mcz117chief]

wow this stream is pixelated as hell

Honestly, I couldn't make out anything :/

 

[DTKT]

Was the scale on that AT-AT just wrong? It seems way too small.

 

[NightShift]

I am laughing like a madman right now.

 

[ShutterMunster]

Lame they showed "game engine" stuff that is almost certain to end up being a poor representation of the final look of the game. Did anyone else have the stupid "I'm sorry we're having technical difficulties" bar split through the middle of their screen?

 

[Burger_Baron]

Awww, no gameplay footage.

 

[Chubzdoomer]

40 players max is a joke. I was expecting massive battles with 64 players at the very least, and possibly even hundreds. Even the old Battlefront games supported 64 on PC.

The lack of a campaign doesn't bother me one bit, though. Campaigns in these games are never good, ever.

 

[SilentRacoon]

Battlefront 1 had more than four planets, on the PS2, in fucking 2004

Battlefront 2 had space battles, once again on the rickety ass playstation 2, as well as more than four planets, in 2006.

stop making excuses for this shit. I'm not asking them to move mountains, I'm asking for things that were expected a decade ago.

Just because something did it in the past doesn't mean it should be on on every game that follows, it's a different developer with a different focus and goals, you just can't expect them to just cram every single feature from previous entries into their game. A good example is just how lackluster Bloodborne multiplayer design turned out compared to Dark Souls 2, the team just had a different vision that didn't turned out quite as good.

 

[DrGonzo615]

Eh more "game engine" BS.....showed less than Battlefield trailers. I mean it was a cool trailer but just show us gameplay!

 

[TimFL]

Not actual gameplay.

 

[shadowsdarknes]

Sony marketing rights!

Woot!

 

[Nabbis]

I wonder how much money they blew on that in engine footage.

 

[deltacanuckian]

That doesn't matter. It was a campaign, let's stop pretending that it didn't have one by reducing it to being nothing more multiplayer maps with bots.

It had a story, it had cut-scenes. It's a story driven campaign. Ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

The absolute most barebones "story-driven campaign" possible.

 

[Rootbeer]

Being streamed from an iPhone confirmed

 

[ironcreed]

Not buying it. Marketing flash trailer. It will look great, but no way will it look like that.

 

[Yurikerr]

Boyes confirming that what people saw at celebration was ps4 footage:

https://twitter.com/amboyes/status/589119023125692416