Star Wars Battlefront 2 Leak Leads to EA Clamp Down

Looks like a nice movie. Wonder if it will have some gameplay as well.

Kidding aside, I hope this turns out well. I've been very close to buying the first one on many occasions.

It will need a really solid single player to get me on this. I know that it is primarily intended to be MP but I didn't really enjoy the MP of the first one as pretty as it looked.

Because they said "All eras", I'm really holding out for Clone Wars. 501st BOIIIISSSS

Aside from the obvious gripes about content amounts, I think one of my biggest bugbears with the first was how much time I just spent running from place to place. I never played the original series so have no idea if they're comparable in that way, but with this one the maps were so big (Hoth in particular) that having the jetpack was an absolute requirement - not great when you needed to level up to 13, I think it was, before you could add one to your loadout. Totally ruined the pacing for me, especially those times when I spent what felt like an age getting back into the heat of things after respawning only to get taken out by a sniper or something and had to do it all over again.

Anyway, I hope they don't repeat that. /moan

I hope they keep couch co-op.

I agree with the run from spawn point gripe here. That also made me avoid Battlefield.

All the pieces are there to make a fantastic campaign if they can put the effort in, so hopefully they have learned from last year's mistakes. Can we also have some more VR levels? That one mission is so much fun

I enjoyed the first one for what it was, but it could have been flushed out more. Adding the campaign and seeing the new videos has got me excited for this. Have to figure out what I can afford this year, good grief the games just keep on coming.

Couch co-op and a decent sp campaign or no buy from me this time. First one was far too content lite

Looks awesome!

it's looking good and from what i can gather the Story takes place after Episode 6 but before 7 and the fact that the multiplayer covers all eras is fantastic, i loved running around as a Clone Trooper in the older games (always seemed to hit targets easier with them over Stormtroopers, plus the Prequels are awesome YES i said the Prequels are awesome COME AT ME BRAH!)

also i wonder if any The Last Jedi content will be in then game? of course knowing EA that will probably be DLC

@get2sammyb Speaking of things you aren't a fan of - seems to be a lot for a guy who spends his entire adult life writing about video games - I saw a couple of things yesterday thought you might get a kick out of.

First, Chris Hemsworth looking like he's auditioning for the part of Kratos in a GoW movie based on the new game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7MGUNV8MxU

Second, a real (I think) tv show looking like it's based on Nathan Drake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa_NE1SQnf4

You need to expand your horizons bruh

I am not a multi player fan but i played first one and i really like it
but i dont like star wars at all
this looks great and i think it has campaign and story mod
any way is that what emmy works on ?

Oh, on topic -

That's a trailer? A teaser trailer maybe, but that quick cut up weirdly edited thing did nothing for me except give me a headache.

I hope the campaign is good. I liked the first one but it got boring very quickly.

@get2sammyb Well at least you like football otherwise they'd have to deport you. I've noticed over the course of my long life a distinct separation between video game and sci-fi geeks on 1 side and sports fans on the other. Nobody has time for both. You're the exception who likes videogames and sports but not sci-fi geeky stuff. I like all 3, so I'm always behind on sci-fi and videogames b/c sports is live or nothing. Finally started inFamous 2nd Son last night. Even my kids are calling him Nathan Drake and they've never even played an Uncharted game. They have played PSASBR though and know who he is.

When is someone going to make a true AAA StarWars title for current gen, & not just another game wrapped in a SW frock?

Hopefully Dice put together a semi interesting story for its single player campaign. I doubt it, though.

Ea needs to not be the only one allowed to make Star Wars games.
Cometition is good.
Remember all the games Star Wars used to get?
Bounty Hunter, Racer, Rogue Squadron, Jedi Knight!
Countless hours spent on each one!

@get2sammyb
I was under the impression that was canned? I'm holding out for the spiritual successor to KOTOR (& not another force unleashed..)

I'll probably pass on this. The first one grew so old so quick, and i'm still enjoying BF1, which is a rarity for an online FPS to stay in my rotation. Between that and overwatch, i think i'm good for awhile.

@get2sammyb It was that casual and simplistic gameplay that left me bored very quickly. It felt like a game of style over substance, a game you would happily show your non-gaming Star Wars loving friends but then as soon as they left, switch to ANY other FPS game to actually sit down and play. It felt like a game for FPS noobs, those that had never played an FPS game but liked Star Wars, rather than a proper FPS game that happened to be set in the Star Wars universe. The fact it lacked much of what made the original BF games great didn't help either. Even they had more depth, more tactical game-play etc in the one area they shared.

Now they have made the game for beginners, I really hope they step it up and make a much deeper game for FPS gamers...

@get2sammyb I still play this with a group of friends and we still have a lot of fun. I sometimes join them on their Twitch streams. The biggest thing for me with the current SWB is the lack of balance. They included gimicky items that unbalance the game. And the way they split the player-base with the DLC content. The DLC queue system is pretty poor design.

I'm looking forward to seeing how they manage this next game.

Thank god, while the movies aren't amazing the prequel era is WAY better to play!

@get2sammyb Kids? wasn't the game rated as 16 (UK). EA has Plants vs Zombies for them. To a degree, I can undersrand wanting to keep it accessible for a casual audience, those buying it for the Star Wars licence however this also isn't the first ever Battlefront game. I know many years have passed but there is also a lot of people who remember those fondly and I am sure a number were pleased that Dice were handling this. The originals had some similarities to Battlefield like classes, vehicles, large scale maps etc so it seemed a good fit too.
Its not just 'Star Wars' fans that would buy this. A number of fans of Dices games, and of the FPS genre too - of course they could also like Star Wars. I wonder how many of those that bought Battlefront were unfamiliar with the genre compared to the number who played the original BF games, Dice's Battlefield games and other FPS games too. Based on sales of CoD for example and FPS's in general, I am guessing not a lot. Its not like they couldn't have put in a 'Combat Training' mode and geared this towards newcomers to the genre, had some 'beginners' lobby only available to players up to a certain level or made something more of the Horde mode as a learning exercise. Maybe the waves could have more objectives that teach newcomers what the game modes are, how to use the vehicles properly, the role of classes, etc - at the 'easy' level. Point is there are ways to introduce new players to a genre without annoying the majority who are not new. Not every game-mode has to be 'hardcore' only either and they could have offered a 'stripped down, no classes, more casual type play list too. I don't think anyone would have 'lost' interest in Star Wars and not bought the game if it missed the film release window - in fact they could have given the game the Battle of Jakku Maps at its launch to boost map count. Chances are if it had more depth and content, it would have been better received and kept its player base longer too.
Anyway, lets hope they learned from that with SW:BF2

@FullbringIchigo last jedi is pre order dlc unfortunately says at the ebd of the trailer

@SKC_Diamond oh i missed that but i guessed as much

the first DICE battlefront was rated 16 by PEGI, but T (teen) in america, which is roughly the bbfc equivalent of 12.

A 10-12 hour campaign, space battles, no stupid card system and a class system may get me interested. I enjoyed the first one but still thought it was missing a tonne of content

Mleh.
Unless this one includes an offline single player mode ( and it wont most likely ) I wont be interested.