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Star Wars Battlefront |OT2| I am altering the OT. Pray I don't alter it any further.

Not Spaceghost

Spaceghost
Oh man so I finally unlocked the AC180 pistol, the one that replaces your hand with the configurations.

At first I was skeptical because I figured "what's the point when I can just carry a cycler rifle, ion rocket and whatever with whatever gun I want instead?"

But holy shit, that sniper attachment feels like the strongest sniper in the game because of how fast you can swap to it, and the blast attachment just annihilates groups!

I think the best part is you feel like a total bad ass using it, you go from a sniper to a full charge blaster and when that thing is spent you're using it like a holdout blaster. It's really satisfying to play with.

Working on unlocking the bryar next, but getting these last 9 kills as han solo is proving to be a pain in the ass.
 
Not entirely sure what's going. Game just feels off.. hit detection, movement is janky as hell and rolling is a death sentence as you'll just end up where you started almost 90% of the time now.

It's as if I am playing on a 2 bar connection but they decided to give everybody the impression that you're on 4 bars.
 

MADGAME

Member
Not a Rogue One spoiler, but I will tag just in case. Did anyone else notice in the movie when the Shore Trooper
threw a thermal imploder type grenade
but it looked exactly like the
sonic imploder
from the game?
 

Hagi

Member
The load times are pretty bad on this even just doing simple menu transitions, very strange. I've been having fun with it though. Doubt I'll ever be able to unlock the Shore Trooper.
 

deim0s

Member
Anyone know what's "Defense Event" from Jabba's mission requirements?


@Hagi
Yeah what they did to this game is weird... It's like they still load the map when you leave the session.
 

Toa TAK

Banned
Anyone know what's "Defense Event" from Jabba's mission requirements?

Defend the uplink in Walker Assault is one way. If you're the Rebels, standby the uplink as it's already activated and kill enemies, if you're the Empire, kill Rebels by the uplink as it's deactivated.
 

deim0s

Member
Defend the uplink in Walker Assault is one way. If you're the Rebels, standby the uplink as it's already activated and kill enemies, if you're the Empire, kill Rebels by the uplink as it's deactivated.

Ive done that didnt trigger once, re-read it again and the proper name is Generator Defence Event.
 

Hagi

Member
Anyone know what's "Defense Event" from Jabba's mission requirements?


@Hagi
Yeah what they did to this game is weird... It's like they still load the map when you leave the session.

Even just moving around the main menu is cumbersome. Hopefully the sequel is more snappy.

Had my first try of the Death Star dlc and can't say I like the whole escort R2D2 but the space battle is nice. Seemed like when we got to the escort part the imps just kept getting hero after hero and we got our ass handed to us. Doesn't help that nobody actually moved R2 very far.
 

deim0s

Member
Then you need to play Sabotage and defend the generator in that.

Thanks.

Edit: welp, no one plays that mode. :(

Even just moving around the main menu is cumbersome. Hopefully the sequel is more snappy.

Had my first try of the Death Star dlc and can't say I like the whole escort R2D2 but the space battle is nice. Seemed like when we got to the escort part the imps just kept getting hero after hero and we got our ass handed to us. Doesn't help that nobody actually moved R2 very far.

Actually the Death Star foot mission is nice, lots of death around... Just like I imagined it would be.
 

Mattdaddy

Gold Member
I upgraded to a 4k tv and a ps4 pro and now this looks like pixelated turd. Can I fix that or is that just how its gonna be unless they pro patch it?
 

Enthus

Member
Rogue One releasing means I've basically been obsessing over Star Wars even more recently. I actually came up with a list of costumes I'd love to see in a potential sequel since I had nothing to do while waiting for some updates to install. Right now it's exclusively Imperial as that is what I have the most knowledge of, but I'd love some more Rebel inclusions.


A New Hope
TIE Pilot
Imperial Gunner
Imperial Technician

The Empire Strikes Back
Snowtrooper Commander
AT-AT Commander
AT-AT Pilot

Return of the Jedi
AT-ST Pilot

Rogue One
Shoretrooper Squad Leader
Hovertank Commander
Hovertank Pilot
AT-ACT Driver
Imperial Ground Crew

The majority of these costumes simply reuse existing assets that are already in the game, as is common in costume making.
 

OldMan

Banned
AT-AT-Helmet-and-armor.jpg


so casual
 

Vanillalite

Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Got the Season Pass as a birthday/Xmas present from the Wifey this weekend.

We said we weren't gonna spend a bunch of money on each other this year and spend it on the kids/home improvements instead. So she got me this along with us all going to see the movie today.

Boy child is happy since he can play it too.

I must say the 3 pronged approach adopted in the DLC of varying mission structures like first space battles then on the ground is great. Should have been there from day 1, but it's still a great idea!
 
Krennic is a lot of fun to play for sure, but I think that Armor Breaker needs a very slight tweak. Too easy to just straight up dominate with it. Jyn Erso is a lot of fun as well. I love her blaster utility and it's just fun to use, but the sonic imploder (in general) is a wasted ability and needs some tweaks to be made even slightly useful. I haven't had much chance to use her melee ability because as a blaster based hero, the whole point for me is to NOT get in close quarters combat the best I can. Doesn't seem like a very useful ability for her which sucks.
 

Roussow

Member
Played the game around launch and only ever played the Jakku free dlc, with the season pass on sale I was thinking about jumping back in for a bit. How's the playerbase in Australia on PS4?
 

HF2014

Member
Waiting for a Xmas special on PC to get the ultimate edition. Wondering something, do a lot of player play on Origin? Match making is good? Are cheater flying everywhere? Just wondering.
 

Vanillalite

Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Noob question for GAF

Do you have to select individual DLC packs to play those levels or are those maps Incorporated if say I just select 40 man to queue?
 

TriniTrin

war of titties grampa
Ultimate edition is 20$ (16$ with GCU) at best buy. You can trade in the game for 12$ at Amazon making it only 4$ for the season pass code!
 
This game is a lot of fun casually. It's absolutely worth $20.

I can't play it for hours but I can pop it in occasionally and have an hour of fun still, even a year later.
 

Toa TAK

Banned
Aw that's a bummer, my friend wanted to see if he could try out some of the DLC modes before he decided to drop the money for the season pass.

They've had a free trial weekend for each DLC at this point. Did he just pick it up recently?

They'll likely have one for Rogue One in the future.
 

LoveCake

Member
Krennic is a lot of fun to play for sure, but I think that Armor Breaker needs a very slight tweak. Too easy to just straight up dominate with it. Jyn Erso is a lot of fun as well. I love her blaster utility and it's just fun to use, but the sonic imploder (in general) is a wasted ability and needs some tweaks to be made even slightly useful. I haven't had much chance to use her melee ability because as a blaster based hero, the whole point for me is to NOT get in close quarters combat the best I can. Doesn't seem like a very useful ability for her which sucks.

Krennic is pretty good to play in the Death Star R2-D2 mission, but I have to say that I cannot get on with Jyn Erso at all, she just seems very under powered to me and also her weapons :/ I don't know how I will get the 30 kills required for the Hutt mission.
 

Toa TAK

Banned
Krennic is pretty good to play in the Death Star R2-D2 mission, but I have to say that I cannot get on with Jyn Erso at all, she just seems very under powered to me and also her weapons :/ I don't know how I will get the 30 kills required for the Hutt mission.

I feel you. Jyn's a huge letdown compared to Krennic. Especially when her grenade is the most worthless in the game, her alternate fire pistol is already available to us and much more useful beyond the blaster rifle attachment, and her melee is just a step back from Dengar's.

It's a huge bummer, while on the other hand, Krennic is so much fun.

Jyn's easily the weakest hero in the game, except, maybe Lando.
 

LoveCake

Member
I feel you. Jyn's a huge letdown compared to Krennic. Especially when her grenade is the most worthless in the game, her alternate fire pistol is already available to us and much more useful beyond the blaster rifle attachment, and her melee is just a step back from Dengar's.

It's a huge bummer, while on the other hand, Krennic is so much fun.

Jyn's easily the weakest hero in the game, except, maybe Lando.

In the Hero modes to try and rack up kills for the Hutt Mission, I am finding it impossible, the other hero's just round on whoever is playing as Jyn and she just cannot sustain the hits, and with her basic weapon the hits don't seem to do much damage, and the melee is non-existent, the only way I have found to kill is the rapid fire, but trying to get hold of any basic Storm Trooper players is a joke as you have already been killed or get shot to death trying to find some, the only way is to have Jyn in a normal game mode like the Death Star R2-D2 or Cloud City and Death Star Sabotage modes, in open wide areas/maps Jyn is no good.
 

Not Spaceghost

Spaceghost
I've always been under the impression that vader was one of the weakest heroes in the game purely because he has almost no way to leave a bad situation. I still feel like Dengar is ridiculously powerful.

They've had a free trial weekend for each DLC at this point. Did he just pick it up recently?

They'll likely have one for Rogue One in the future.

Yeah like 2 days ago lol.
 

Toa TAK

Banned
In the Hero modes to try and rack up kills for the Hutt Mission, I am finding it impossible, the other hero's just round on whoever is playing as Jyn and she just cannot sustain the hits, and with her basic weapon the hits don't seem to do much damage, and the melee is non-existent, the only way I have found to kill is the rapid fire, but trying to get hold of any basic Storm Trooper players is a joke as you have already been killed or get shot to death trying to find some, the only way is to have Jyn in a normal game mode like the Death Star R2-D2 or Cloud City and Death Star Sabotage modes, in open wide areas/maps Jyn is no good.

Oh my bad, I already have all the Hutt Challenges completed. lol But yeah, I ended up doing just that, jumping into Heroes vs Villains and quickly choosing Jyn.
 

LoveCake

Member
Oh my bad, I already have all the Hutt Challenges completed. lol But yeah, I ended up doing just that, jumping into Heroes vs Villains and quickly choosing Jyn.

How did you get on with killing as Jyn though, any tips?

I have kills 4/30
Sonic Imploder kills 2/5
 

Toa TAK

Banned
How did you get on with killing as Jyn though, any tips?

I have kills 4/30
Sonic Imploder kills 2/5

Just playing through Heroes vs Villains, quickly choosing Jyn when I could and run around finding Stormtroopers instead of dealing with the Villains head on. It's not much, but I ran around with the Blaster Attachment.

As for the sonic imploder? Good luck! I have no clue how I got that one.
 

LoveCake

Member
Just playing through Heroes vs Villains, quickly choosing Jyn when I could and run around finding Stormtroopers instead of dealing with the Villains head on. It's not much, but I ran around with the Blaster Attachment.

As for the sonic imploder? Good luck! I have no clue how I got that one.

I will just keep at it.

I am disappointed that there is no new skin for level 100 on the Rebel, what are the chances of them adding anything?
 

Toa TAK

Banned
I will just keep at it.

I am disappointed that there is no new skin for level 100 on the Rebel, what are the chances of them adding anything?

I highly doubt they'll add or even patch anything at this point, but they did retroactively add variant skins for the Empire when this latest DLC came out for the season pass owners.

Everyone else is getting it on Tuesday.
 

LoveCake

Member
I highly doubt they'll add or even patch anything at this point, but they did retroactively add variant skins for the Empire when this latest DLC came out for the season pass owners.

Everyone else is getting it on Tuesday.

They must be looking at patching some of the issues in the latest DLC, but the skins is very strange to me, there is no way to identify players at level 100 when as a Rebel, also it doesn't give anything to aim for either, the Empire 100 skin is nothing to write about either.
 

Plasma

Banned
I've started playing this again with the DLC it seems like it's come a long way since launch, I just wish it was getting a pro patch.
 

GeeTeeCee

Member
I just got back from watching Rogue One (no spoilers).

While I like the DLC, there's so many other maps and locations that would have been great for Battlefront. Heck, the DLC doesn't even really do justice to Scarif.
 
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