Today is the day that the Star Wars Battlefront beta begins, young Padawans – but what time exactly will it hit the PlayStation Store? Well, details are always subject to change, but judging by the title's Twitter account, it looks like EA Games has a rough idea of when the server stress test will be available on the PlayStation 4. And we've parsed all of the information, so you don't have to.
In Europe, the beta will be available to download and play from 16:00PM CEST, which means that you're looking at 15:00PM BST in the UK. And over in North America, it'll be ready to go from 13:00PM ET in the United States and Canada, so around 10:00AM PT on the West Coast. In other words, you've only got a few hours to wait.
Of course, given that this is an open beta, it's going to put a humongous strain on both the PlayStation Network and DICE's servers, so we wouldn't be surprised if there was some turbulence over the course of the day. Naturally, we'll bring you updates on Push Square if there are any problems. Otherwise, we hope to see you on the frontline a little later on.
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Looking forward to having a few blast on this not a big SW guy but this looks sweet
Still no sign of it on the store.
Anybody know where exactly it'll be? I tried on my New Zealand account to get it downloading early but can't find it
@itshoggie Glad it's just not me. Hopefully it's just running a little late.
Available here in the UK: https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-gb/games/star-wars-battlefront-beta/cid=EP0006-CUSA02940_00-BATTLEFRONTBETA0
Perfect timing for this guy's birthday.
Up now on the Irish store, let's see if those download speeds really did improve
@itshoggie I'm not getting great speeds, but one has to imagine that everyone is hammering the servers right now.
@get2sammyb yeah I've just over 500mb done since, might try the pause/start method but sometimes that makes it slower :-/
Speaking of the pause method, it just dropped my time from 3 hours to 16 mins, on 1gb now
@get2sammyb Where is it in the NA store?
I'm at work so when it shows up on the US store in an hour I'll download for me to come home to tonight.
I'm looking forward to trying with the intention to buy if I enjoy it. I'm still not sold on it from what I've seen at the moment so I hope this makes my mind up for me either way.
I can't wait. Hopefully some of the server stress will be sorted out by the time I get home from work - or it could get worse cause very one else also got home lol.
@Tasuki It's out now here: https://store.playstation.com/#!/cid=UP0006-CUSA02941_00-BATTLEFRONTBETA0
@get2sammyb Thanks Sammy I looked for it earlier but couldn't find it. Downloading it now so it will be ready for when I get home. Any idea how big the file is?
Anyone else having connection problems? Hav downloaded the beta, but hav been waiting half an hour for it to connect
turned this off after one single player game and a couple of MP attempts. I don't know what I was expecting this game to be but it just wasn't for me. Sorry EA
@Tasuki it's 7.2 or 7.6gb i thinkm8.
Just downloading it now. I hope there is nothing lacking that I will find disturbing.
Just downloading now, very slowly
@get2sammyb since when was playstation now added to the dash and become a subscription service?
@carlos82 It has always been a subscription service. And it was added after the beta last year sometime.
@Tasuki I meant in the UK, because here we had to pay to rent games individually and we had to go into the playstation store to do so. Now it's on the dash and a monthly subscription which is better and I guess more in line with what you've had for some time
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