It's no DL-44 or A-Wing issue, but dangit, it's mine.
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Star Wars Battlefront |OT| Here's Where The Fun Begins
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It's no DL-44 or A-Wing issue, but dangit, it's mine.
Braag
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As fun as the game is, there are a few things that annoy me so much that they put me off from playing the game at times.
The matchmaking is completely fucked, the game doesn't seem to try to balance the teams in any way which means most of the time one team dominates the other completely. In my 33 hour playtime I've only rarely been in a game where both teams seemed to be on about same level and the match felt really tense.
Also there's no way to choose a completely new game when you enter a mode. Once you push the game mode you wanna play, the game instantly throws you in some random game which 90% of the time means you'll end up taking someone's place who rage quit few minutes before the match is over since your team is getting fucked so hard by the enemy team.
And once that match is over, a new one begins with same people on the same teams which means your team is most likely going to get obliterated again. Being able to scramble the teams would help situations like this because eventually most people from your team is going to leave anyway since your team is losing so hard and in the end there's just you and one other player fighting together against the entire enemy team in a battle you can't win.
The matchmaking is completely fucked, the game doesn't seem to try to balance the teams in any way which means most of the time one team dominates the other completely. In my 33 hour playtime I've only rarely been in a game where both teams seemed to be on about same level and the match felt really tense.
Also there's no way to choose a completely new game when you enter a mode. Once you push the game mode you wanna play, the game instantly throws you in some random game which 90% of the time means you'll end up taking someone's place who rage quit few minutes before the match is over since your team is getting fucked so hard by the enemy team.
And once that match is over, a new one begins with same people on the same teams which means your team is most likely going to get obliterated again. Being able to scramble the teams would help situations like this because eventually most people from your team is going to leave anyway since your team is losing so hard and in the end there's just you and one other player fighting together against the entire enemy team in a battle you can't win.
CloudyTuba
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So what are the big differences between the TIE Interceptor and the regular fighter?
The difference between the X wing and A wing is pretty clear and supposedly in this game the interceptor is the Empire's equivalent to the A wing. Doesnt seem all that special, though. Just a TIE fighter that is more pointy. Doesnt feel all that much faster or more maneuverable, but maybe I'm wrong.
The X wing seems to have balanced speed/power while the A wing in theory is supposed to be much faster and more maneuverable but with less firepower (though right now it seems to have speed and firepower). Since tie interceptor has the four canons I would actually prefer it to take the X-Wing's spot of speed/firepower balance and have the regular TIE with only two lasers be the faster one with the weaker lasers. Makes more sense to me.
Just sort of rambling.
The difference between the X wing and A wing is pretty clear and supposedly in this game the interceptor is the Empire's equivalent to the A wing. Doesnt seem all that special, though. Just a TIE fighter that is more pointy. Doesnt feel all that much faster or more maneuverable, but maybe I'm wrong.
The X wing seems to have balanced speed/power while the A wing in theory is supposed to be much faster and more maneuverable but with less firepower (though right now it seems to have speed and firepower). Since tie interceptor has the four canons I would actually prefer it to take the X-Wing's spot of speed/firepower balance and have the regular TIE with only two lasers be the faster one with the weaker lasers. Makes more sense to me.
Just sort of rambling.
Braag
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The scout trait is amazing, being able to stay off the enemy radar is really important. Though I tend to change it to bodyguard in bigger maps due to everyone using homing missiles.
seems like a reasonable expectation, but i'd like to be surprised..
"hey, we know there are balance issues and a patch will be out soon" would be a good start..
Yeah, team balancing seems non existent in this.
Maybe it is when a fresh batch of players start off in a few rounds, but once one team keeps winning more as the other players on the other team leave because they lost a match, that starts the ball rolling for the good players staying on the winning team and the losing team always has new players (good and bad) coming in, seeing they are getting destroyed by the team full of good players and quitting out, and the cycle repeats until there isn't enough players to start a game on the losing team.
I stayed on the losing team through a whole map cycle to see how it works, and yeah this is my conclusion. I even got the most kills on the losing team a few times, more then the winning team! But not one single win. 8 games on WA, so every map played twice (rebels and imperials).
Is this how it worked in the beta? Did players complain they wanted to stay on the same team of players each round?
Maybe it is when a fresh batch of players start off in a few rounds, but once one team keeps winning more as the other players on the other team leave because they lost a match, that starts the ball rolling for the good players staying on the winning team and the losing team always has new players (good and bad) coming in, seeing they are getting destroyed by the team full of good players and quitting out, and the cycle repeats until there isn't enough players to start a game on the losing team.
I stayed on the losing team through a whole map cycle to see how it works, and yeah this is my conclusion. I even got the most kills on the losing team a few times, more then the winning team! But not one single win. 8 games on WA, so every map played twice (rebels and imperials).
Is this how it worked in the beta? Did players complain they wanted to stay on the same team of players each round?
Valdfellgar
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Hey, friend and I are trying to get our Battlefront on (PC Version) and for some very odd reason we don't appear on each other's friend's list, can't "readd" each other, and definitely can't play Battlefront together.
Anyone else experiencing this trouble?
Anyone else experiencing this trouble?
The smaller modes are some of the most fun and balanced in the game. It's where I spend the majority of my time.
I'm pretty sure players never get swapped around. That's why if you're clearly on a terrible team it's better just to quit out and find another game. Most of the time you'll end up on the bad team since of course people leave more often when they're losing.
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It's aight.
Well done
Jinjo
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Yeah, once you find a team that wins as imperials on WA, stay the fuck in it for as long as you can lol.
It's literally impossible to beat a DL-44 in close combat unless you're against an absolutely woeful player.
poppabk
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The jawa shotgun wins pretty much every time. Of course it is just about useless if you aren't pretty much in melee distance.
I have to say I hate the kill streak nature of the traits, I always think it's a bad idea to make better performing players even better by buffing their stats, especially as they likely already have an advantage due to their unlocks.
Interfectum
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I was half asleep last night playing Battlefront and I was still easily one shotting people with the DL-44. Shit feels like easy mode.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
the weird grind im in trying to unlock heroes in the card game by playing the main game really makes me wish they had integrated the base command game into the game proper. The way the two things feed into one another really adds the metagame hook that Battlefront proper sorely lacks
Thanks, bro!
I hope so. It's a classic game mode as far as I'm concerned.
How is that mode?
Is it that one that is like supremacy but with three points and tickets?
Interfectum
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There's too many uninteresting modes. Seems artificial padding for "content." I'd rather they cut most of the modes and enhance the most popular ones.
i think you're right, but nobody would agree on which modes to keep. its tough to remove modes once you've put them out there. maybe they could just use stats to ditch the least played modes .. droid run and hero hunt would be my guesses
DrGonzo615
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Yep Droid Run and Hero Hunt have no thought put into them at all. Total throwaway modes.
almost a carbon copy of. battlefield conquest.
two static bases, i think, and four points or so to fight over
I think it ends in like 10 minutes
Four new modes in the season pass
huh. strange approach imo ..is that 16 modes total? hope they new ones are good anyway. maybe one will be the fabled "private/custom match" mode!
PintSizedSlasher
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So....... they're still giving this as reply to questions about DLC:
https://twitter.com/eastarwars/status/684782741297102848
https://twitter.com/eastarwars/status/684782741297102848
Oof, "coming weeks?" Just tease something, hard to spend $50 blind.
are we assuming there will be no new patch until the first DLC drops?
PintSizedSlasher
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We'll know in the Coming Weeks
You're joking, right? Hero Hunt I get because it's sorta broken, but Droid Run is just Domination, a classic mode in any shooter. For the most part, the modes in this game are all extremely interesting and play very different from one another. Just because you might not like them does not make them "throwaway".
The entire round of Droid Run doesn't matter up until the final minute.
Anton Sugar
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It's loosely based on Domination, but has a horrible victory mechanic, same as Hero Hunt.
I agree the scoring could be tweaked. However, a throwaway mode to "pad content" it is not. Comments like that tend to come from people who think the game should have 15 WA maps and since it doesn't, the game is barebones.
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