I played about two hours of Battlefront online, and it's a lot of fun. There are a lot of different maps and they all look fantastic. They're not too big to the point where you're walking miles to get to the action, but they're just big enough to not feel confined even though there's 20+ people running around shooting everything. The visuals in this game are some of the best I've seen in any Star Wars game.
It seems there are a lot of noobs online, just standing in place and shooting. If you can get into an enemy spawn point, you can wreak major havoc on them as they are getting oriented.
My main gripe about this game is the character classes don't seem balanced at all. Granted, this may be because people are still getting used to them all, but it seems the regular grunt stormtrooper/rebel trooper is the best class in the game by far. Your standard infantry gun shoots way faster than any other weapon, and you mow down other classes as they fire their inferior weapons.
Snipers appear pretty worthless. I think you only get three shots before you have to reload, which kicks you out of zoom, which is a major pain in the ass.
I never saw anyone as the engineer or medic class, or if they were, they didn't appear to do anything.
The heavy weapons class seems kind of lame. You get 3 volleys from your rockets before you run out of ammo and rockets are mainly to take down vehicles, not groups of enemies. I fired some rockets into a pack of enemies and did about half damage to them. You'd think a powerful rocket launcher which limits you to three shots could kill a guy, but no... it's strictly anti-vehicle. Kind of silly for a class to be only anti-vehicle like that.
I didn't mess around with all the weapons, as these are only initial impressions. The engineer class can plant land mines, which I think I died from one once. The sniper also can call in tactical strikes from the sky with his recon droid, but I never saw this in action. There is a lot of close range fighting and the sniper gets killed easily at close range.
I'd be interested to hear from others who've played this game a lot. Is the infantry trooper overpowered? I seemed to go on killing sprees of mowing down 5-6 guys as infantry, but never as a sniper or heavy weapons.
It seems there are a lot of noobs online, just standing in place and shooting. If you can get into an enemy spawn point, you can wreak major havoc on them as they are getting oriented.
My main gripe about this game is the character classes don't seem balanced at all. Granted, this may be because people are still getting used to them all, but it seems the regular grunt stormtrooper/rebel trooper is the best class in the game by far. Your standard infantry gun shoots way faster than any other weapon, and you mow down other classes as they fire their inferior weapons.
Snipers appear pretty worthless. I think you only get three shots before you have to reload, which kicks you out of zoom, which is a major pain in the ass.
I never saw anyone as the engineer or medic class, or if they were, they didn't appear to do anything.
The heavy weapons class seems kind of lame. You get 3 volleys from your rockets before you run out of ammo and rockets are mainly to take down vehicles, not groups of enemies. I fired some rockets into a pack of enemies and did about half damage to them. You'd think a powerful rocket launcher which limits you to three shots could kill a guy, but no... it's strictly anti-vehicle. Kind of silly for a class to be only anti-vehicle like that.
I didn't mess around with all the weapons, as these are only initial impressions. The engineer class can plant land mines, which I think I died from one once. The sniper also can call in tactical strikes from the sky with his recon droid, but I never saw this in action. There is a lot of close range fighting and the sniper gets killed easily at close range.
I'd be interested to hear from others who've played this game a lot. Is the infantry trooper overpowered? I seemed to go on killing sprees of mowing down 5-6 guys as infantry, but never as a sniper or heavy weapons.
