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What do you guys think of the new battlefront series? I think the old one was better even though I never got a chance to truly appreciate it due to my age. I have thought about it and I think that EA is getting too much criticism for what I think is still a really good game series. So what if the current battlefront games aren't as good as the old ones? you can't make a perfect game every single time.
All in all, I think the current battlefront is very good even if it was missing some important details. Tell me what you guys think down below.

I agree with you. The first new one was . . . meh, but Battlefront 2 is pretty good. Especially since it has the campaign mode.

I agree, I just wish EA had stuck with what it said about it being a campaign focused on the empire. I was really looking forward to being on the bad side for once, and, oh look at that, literally in the 4th stage of the campaign Iden (EA) decides to switch to the rebellion. I think it would have been much cooler if Iden had stayed imperial. Maybe Del could go off to the rebellion and they have to find him and bring him in? I think that would be pretty cool

I think battlefront 2 is awesome! Since it was released it’s been my go to game! I have high hopes for season 2 and EA adding obi wan and grevious!!!! Almost have 100,000 credits ready to be used on season 2 whenever that gets released! :)

The load times on these are flat ridiculous.

The older versions were better, the galaxy at war mode was really fun, there is nothing like that in the new versions. The graphics in the new one is nothing short of stunning, but they need some more modes I think

Cant say I am very good, but I like to play...

Anyone playing on Xbox One?

No, I play on PS4. I've gotta say though, the new limited time, Ewok mode is super fun. It is funner to play as a Stormtrooper than an Ewok though. :D

Haven't played the 2015 Battlefront, but BF 2 has improved, especially after they introduced Ewok mode and made all Heroes available without spending creds to unlock them. I really love the NT-242 ;D I think its milestones were the ones I finished fastest in the weapons section...even faster than the Officer :P Recently had an overall Kill streak of 14 after two rounds of Strike, without a single death :D

your killstreak sounds amazing.
For those who play on PS4 PM me your username so we can play together.
(Let me know you're from here tho  :P)

Yeah, I was stunned :D But that thing can even one-hit a Jetpack Trooper if I get a clear headshot...that was awesome. Enforcers are tougher, though. Needed three shots.

But that's nothing against the Pro players...they get streaks of 20 or more and kills are sometimes at 50 or higher. That's something I can never achieve in a single game. I'm too low :D It's already difficult to get those three front-line kills in one activation...not to mention some others like The Aggressor or that "Kill 30 Heroes with Special Units" thing.

Nickname for those on PC...well, I'm recognizable at first glance :P Three guesses...

Btw: How would they distinguish between PS4, XBox and PC players? I can't really imagine how that should work...

Part of why it's not cross platform.

For those of you on PS4, my username is Rex_7567-3333, send me a friend request and we can play BF2 sometime. just let me know that you are from here (include your username from here)

Made it to the Top 5 itoday...Rank 4...very rare for me, very rare. But I was certified a viable amount of "skill in camping" from my nemesis ;D Had a small battle with another player - I played as Spec, he/she played all Classes. Almost always got him, which gave me a Kill Streak of 12 in the end and a place in the Top 5. That was really cool ;D

Map was Jakku, Mode was Strike.

I am really good at strike. once I had 4 rounds in a row of first place

I'm playing it mostly to level up my classes...slowly, but still faster than in Skirmish or GA :D At least I finished the Spec today, Level 70 with all purple cards. Just the customs and emotes left to farm, then he'll be completely done.

Currently working on my Officer (Level 44)...still need that milestone dealing with kill assists with the jamming device, and some cards. And of course the emotes (are they shred across all classes? I think they are...), customs and the last victory pose.

Heavy and Assault are at 24 and 25, respectively, so these will be tougher....not to mention the special classes, heroes and fighters :-\

wow. that's impressive, what do you play on?

I sometimes play with my brother on ps4 but i don't have PlayStation Plus, i love the NT-242 in BF2

The NT is fun

Does anyone have a good hint for the front-line ability of the Assault class? How do I manage to complete that damn milestone with 3 kills during a single usage? I always aim directly at the head, but none of my shots hit them. Or even kill them. On the other hand, I always get one-hitted when an enemy uses it.

So f***ing annoying to know there will always be some milestones I can never achieve...Luke's push attack ("Hit 5 enemies at once"), Aggressor ("Win Starfighter Assault on Endor, Unknown Regions, Fondor, Endor and Kamino"), Front-Line Medal ("5 times 3 enemies killed within a single front-line usage") or Work Together ("Kill 30 Heroes with Special Units")....

What gun are you using? my CR-2 is really effective at close range, but its not very good outside. use it in maps with a lot of corridors, Starkiller and Death star are its best.

I'm currently working on the A280 milestones, so that's my primary weapon and not really a problem. What I actually need help with is that shotgun of the middle ability which also gives a milestone...I can't really manage to get a single kill, let alone 3 during a single usage :-\

you can practice with that by using the EE-4 in the 2015 Battlefront. its the same weapon.

I haven't played in a few months, but I found center torso shots to be more effective.  Perhaps more pellets on target overcame the head shot bonuses or maybe I just don't engage close enough to get enough lead in the head.  I regularly watch a streamer who's a demon with the shotgun and seems like he only makes body shots.

Don't have BF1, unfortunately. Would Boba's rifle in BF2 work, too? :P

Which still means you have to be close...and since you're warned when an enemy approaches, it's quite difficult to get that near...

At least I got the Jetpack and Jamming milestones today. And I really like the Double XP event, got my Officer from 41 to 52 during the weekend.

Boba's may work, but you could just practice in arcade mode

Will do that :) Had a good round today in Strike. Didn't manage to get the milestone, but at least one kill. Still suspect the Multiplayer guys to have higher armor than the AI in Arcade. Needed three shots at close range. And yes, I aimed at the body :P

If you play arcade with the AI on double heath then its a bit more realistic

That's a really good idea...I never thought about practicing with 2x health.

it also helps to play against a friend with them being enforcer and you being one of the 4 classes. It really helps develop skills for using online

So far none of my friends have it....meaning that kind of practice is not available :P And I don't have added people to Origin yet, so that's not an option as well. However, I actually got a clear one-hit headshot with front-line today on a Heavy Trooper ;D Only one and not three enemies, but still...better than nothing :P

Nice! with the heavy, I found the FWMB-10K to be the most accurate gun, tho it has the slowest cooldown. if you can get all the mods it's pretty good. especially the night vision scope

Yeah, I like the FW, too. And I didn't even have to unlock it because I got it with the Deluxe Edition ;D But I'll only push my Heavy once I finished the Assault and Officer classes. Then the special classes and then fighters and Heroes.

I'm working on my assault rn but it is taking me forever to get the EL16-HFE. I also am trying to get to the NT-242 with my specialist but I'm not really focusing on that rn.

I'm sitting at 193/400 for the EL16 and 193/200 for the CR-2 (although I already have it). Getting better with Assault, although I'm still struggling with the front-line. I think I need to become more observant, right now I'm running in a room, start shooting - and get killed right away because I'm still not close enough :D

And I really recommend focusing on the NT-242, it's a monster of a weapon! I had a great run some time ago, and even my "nemesis" (;D) showed respect and called me a "skilled camper" - I only use the NT ever since I unlocked it. It makes leveling the Spec more than easy.

I like the A280-CFE, it has a high rate of fire so its better for mid-range fighting, I think its a very good weapon

Definitely. High frequency with decent damage...something I miss on the CR-2 :-\ Otherwise it would be a great weapon, too.

the IQA-11 is my favorite tho, I got the bolt speed mod so it does more damage. it has definitely pushed me towards the NT

just got a killstreak of 16 on galactic assault on crait, then immediately got another 8 kills as Darth Maul. ended up placing 6th

For all PC player who experience crashes since the latest patch - disable DX12. I know, it looks horrible without it and you get FPS drops. But all crashes are gone, even Origin crashes related to BF2 crashes.

Played over 3 hours today without a single crash. Yesterday I had roughly 6 or 7 crashes in 3 hours. Every 20 to 30 minutes.

Thanks Racona!

You're welcome :)

The original Battlefront series for the PS2 was great.  Battlefront 2015 was meh, I only bought it with all the DLCs for dead cheap.  Haven't bought the new one yet

so, in an attempt to revive this thread, What is everyone's favorite game mode in SWBF II?

Currently Strike when playing alone and GA when playing with a friend. Use them to level my Assault and Heavy and unlock the last class milestones for Officer. He was at 70 already when they added some new ones - unexperienced, experienced and veteran. Had to do that for my Lv 70 Spec as well...so much time invested in them and then I have to replay them just for those damn miletones :-\

I haven't played in so long, most of my people are around lvl. 40 or so. except for my heroes. I never play as heroes so I'm stuck with them all around 5.
strike is a lot of fun. before all the try-hards showed up I could pretty consistently place top 5. of I miss those days.

Haven't played in so long that I don't know now. Probably the Ewok Hunt though. ;)

as I stated earlier, Ewok Hunt is probably the best mode that is out right now.

Grievous has been added, not sure how I feel about his skills yet.

I need to get back into Battlefront II and even do that campaign. I got Battlefront with my Playstation 4, but I've never been too much of a fan of either. The PS4 is OK, but just that, (I was lured in by the Star Wars bundle, not the system itself) and I like Survival mode in Battlefront, but that's about it. Then I got Battlefront II with my XBOX One because Microsoft was running a deal where, if you bought an XBOX One directly from them, you got free games. So, aside from the Halo bundle I chose with my XBOX One S, I also got Battlefront II and Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection for free. I like the single player battles in Battlefront II, particularly playing as Luke, Rey, Darth Maul, etc. I keep telling myself I need to do that campaign. My big problem with both is that I'm not really into MOBA games, nor do I like having to pay a fee to play online games.

All told, they're not terrible games, but I'm also glad I didn't have to pay for them. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have them.

Going to pick this up soon as long as I have fellow Xbox gamers to play with

I really enjoyed the campaign, definitely worth the time (plus adds a cool new character into the story [not referring to Iden, talking about Shriv]) ;)

all four of my trooper classes are maxed out XD

Sweet. I’ll oick it up, bear with me though since I’ll be starting off from scratch

Don't worry I enjoy helping people.  So PM me and what not.

Will do, give me a day or so to buy and download it. 

I need to try that.

My best heroes (villains) are Rey level 40 [maxed], Vader 40, Luke mid 30's, and Chewie late 20's, After that it's a bit of a mess I'm improving at Maul, and Yoda can be quite useful but the rest are clumped together.

PC, XBox or PS4?

This.  Xbox One for me

xbox one

PC for me...

I like them both, and aside from the extended load times; I think they’re excellent games and I  have never understood the criticism.

To be fair, I’m not much of a gamer, so I play when I can; which is maybe twice a month.


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PS4 for me.

and DPM, you hit the nail on the head, the load times are the only thing I don't like about the SWBF series.

Interesting. Very interesting. . .  ;)

what do you play on TR?

PlayStation 4

ooh. not many people are on PS4 these days. all my friends have Xbox.

If you're playing online, it's usually the wait for all the players to get connected that leads to the load times. I've played other MOBA games, they all have long load times.

True, the thing about multiplayer types of games are people loading which can be affected by internet speed, router, console, location, closest server site to the router, etc.  These all have to do with whether anyone in your team or lobby either drags the party due to loading slow or not.

It's all fun and games until you're in a MOBA and you lose your connection. ::)

That's one thing I hate about online games. I like games that aren't affected by a connection that can crap out whenever it's inconvenient.

I find it seems to be split about half-and-half. I like the look and feel of the PS4s better than Xbox (though I haven't played on an Xbox 1, so I can't just that). Plus PS4 has the new Spider-Man game that I want to play sometime.

My coworker has it, he loves it and just got a DLC for it, says that it's amazing and completely different from any super hero game

I have it on PS4 actually, and it's great. I haven't had a ton of time to play it, but I put in roughly 4 hours the first weekend and it was a lot of fun.

NOOB! I got 7.5 hours! then again I got it Friday before Thanksgiving break so I had nothing else to do

No, I was referring to the Spiderman game. They were talking about that briefly in the last few comments. I'm sorry, I should have quoted them for context.

I think I got Battlefront II around the same time. I pre-ordered it and played it like crazy the first weekend. I've played more of the story than the multiplayer to date, but I've enjoyed it  :)

The wife and I spent most of our time on Black Ops 4 since it came out and any break that we take, we play Assassin's Creed.  I'll have to pick this up since at least Kaz has it on the Xbox One.

ah. ok,
my internet was down the week I got it so I could only play offline split screen and the campaign. I beat the campaign (part 1) the weekend I got it. maybe 2/3 hours. the extra part they added took me about 45 minutes to complete.

I got the elite trooper edition of battle front 2 because it was about 50% off on xbox live one week. After the "pay to play" fuss, but before all the changes.

I preordered BFII and beat the campaign. After that (and Ewok Hunt), I pretty much quit playing it (not many of my friends played it, so I'd play other games with them). I'l have to see about getting back into it.

I stopped around the time Fortnite started getting really popular because none of my friends would play battlefront, so I started playing with them. but now, most of them are getting back into BF II so I'll probably start up that again.

I play from time to time. Hero showdown or Heroes vs Villains is a great place to get XP for hero [villain] characters, Especially the former if you can get a group of four now.

I played a fair amount of Fortnite, but I've never liked the game. I played it because my friends would and I enjoy doing stuff with them, even if it is on a game I don't care for.

honestly, the only thing I really liked about Fortnite was the customization. but I ended up wasting a lot of money on that game. money that could have been spent on things in BFII.

So I'm going to trust none of you are crazy xbox stalkers, my gamer tag is Chaos Kirito anyone who wants to add me go ahead, I'm not much of a talker if you use a mic, I'm just naturally a quiet person, but if I do feel up to talking, I like to joke around. Friendly jokes that is, maybe the occasional possible over use of the F word that rhymes with truck but I don't do major trash talking  unless you start picking on yourself first.

Likewise, will add you.  I'm a trash talker, but only for campers and will talk about anything and everything. I joke around too and don't get offended by anything so feel free to joke around.

Good that we can't meet then..I like Specialist camping :P

I only snipe as Empire on Hoth for phase one, otherwise I like to go for the objectives lol.

Buahahaha.  Hey, if we're on the same thing, I won't take trash to you. I'll call out targets for you to take out

Luckily squading up keeps everyone on the same team.

Yes, one of the few improvements EA made for the game...

Yes! I remember in BFI me and my friend Ben used to play together and every once and a while we'd be on different teams. but we could see each other on the minimap, we got SO may kills on each other.

Cool! Haven't noticed that in BFII though, so I think you're not visible on the other side's radar except for abilities that reveal the enemy. Only on the normal screen you can identify each other by hovering over the character...

I think they patched it in 2

Last online match ever, only playing Arcade now - if I ever return to this garbage. So many cheaters and hackers online, it's insane. Blocking controls over and over again. In Arcade, everything works fine, and in online modes controls don't works anymore. Ridiculous. Hits not getting registered, in HvV enemies spawn just behind you when you're alone and/or the target (somehow only working for them, I always spawn on the other side of the map, not able to join my team and help them or get protected when I'm the target), always matched against a team that is way too overpowered for your team (in all modes, especially HvV - always put against maxed out heroes over and over again, even when we stop and start a new search).

No, definitely the last match ever.

I feel you Racona, but I think I'll try and wait this out. If it ever gets fixed.

I wish I could be that optimistic...what did they actually fix since launch? I can't really remember...

Pay to play (kind of), clone customization, and Vader's choke thingy. and they added Starfighters to Arcade (yippee!)

Okay, P2W is actually a good point. I hated that from day 1...
I don't play as a hero that much, so I never noticed an error in Vader's choke.
Clone Skins is okay for some variation and satisfying personal favours.
Starfighters were actually good when they were released (even I was good, finished 1st as a bomber once), but that also changed.

What I really, really hate about Heroes and Starfighters is that incredibly high amount of XP needed for leveling. You get only 10% of points compared to the 4 Trooper Classes. The other way would be better and would make more sense - since it's much harder to aquire the points, the requirements for the next level should be lower as well so that it matches the effort you need for the Troops.

I don't know about starfighters as I don't play that mode, but they did lower the xp costs for heroes, plus the addition of hero starfighter mode would help in leveling up those ships, but still not something I play, I suck at using ships, hell I'm probably only average at the regular mode but dedication is how I got all my troopers to level 70 and got all the guns unlocked and upgraded lol.

After reading what Racona Nova wrote, I'm glad I never wanted to play Battlefront II online. I tried online a bit with the first time, but I was tired of being killed by kids, teenagers and neckbeards who had nothing better to do but play the game, while I work 40 hours a week to buy stuff like this and enjoy it. (I'm gone from home about 65 hours a week with transit times) Survival and Arcade Modes, for the win. :)

Pay to win is definitely an issue, and I know that was one of the big things EA Games got massive criticism over for BF2. I'm a big RPG fan, so I'm used to doing some grinding to earn stuff, and I can't stand that people can take shortcuts to get it sooner. Cheaters and hackers, meanwhile, have no place in games and should drop off the Earth, for all I care. If you can't win without paying to win, cheating or hacking the game, then you shouldn't even play, in my opinion.

I think online mode has gotten better with the changes, though I do hate the people who wait for hero spots to open up and snipe useage of a character. I also kind of hate the cowards who play not to die as a hero and thus not really playing to win the round. If I'm a hero I try to get in a group of troopers and attack orr defend the objective, but if no one is around I'll wait or hide to keep my ass alive for back up.

If you're not charging full on into the thick of battle, what's the point of playing a MOBA? ;) (not a comment about sniping, but about the cowards)

That's another thing I hate about online play, you never know who you're going to get stuck with. I used to play World of Tanks pretty heavily, and I'd wind up playing with some real winners. ::)

Even on objectives like trying to destroy a large enemy transport ATT or MTT or whatever, I focus on that over well hunting down players. I want to win, if that includes kills so be it, if I die more then I kill and still am on the winning team for winning the objective than yay.

I have found (on PS4 at least, not sure about xBox) that people can't really hack the system, and really to only way to cheat is by hooking up a mouse and keyboard to your console. That is one of the nice things about consoles over PCs.

Yes, exactly. You have to go for the objective, not trying to win the kill count for the round. After all, what's the point of having the most kills if your team doesn't win the round? ::) That's how I play too. If the objective is to capture the enemy base, I'm charging the base. If an enemy player (or AI character) is in the way, I try to kill them. But, I don't hunt them down and ignore the base.

go to youtube and look at this guy called Jongo Phett. he shows a lot of glitches and little things that messed with gameplay. Vader's "Choke thingy" was that whenever Darth Vader would use his Force choke ability, he could move the people he picked up around, with the person being lifted unable to do anything about it, and Vader could drop them off cliffs. It was incredibly annoying because often Vaders would camp corners just to drop heroes off the edges and farm thousands of points.

Force push by Luke, yoda's unleash and Maul's choke throw can push you off a ledge, and Kylo's pull if he has a ledge behind him does the same thing. Also given Vaders takes the most time thus leaving him defenseless, I suppose it's fair.

those just threw people, Vader picked them up and just held them. Doing quite a bit of damage in the process. (enough to kill a specialist or officer) and any stormtrooper or villain could attack the helpless victims dealing even more damage. It was very unfair to light-siders if they found themselves against a competent Vader.

I've been massacred thoroughly by nearly every hero in some way I felt was unfair lol, even as another hero character (though usually because suddenly no one on my team is around)

I hate that when playing COD, random team mates will go off and do their own thing without call outs. When the wife and I play we do call outs which makes for one better experience, imo

I have a general plan for both sides of most galactic assault maps that I stick too, which for someone who wants to get in the mess of things probably isn't always fun, on Kashyyke (i know I spelled that wrong) well all other clone troopers run forward, I go back and get a good vantage point to attack the MT-T's from.

If you know what to call out, call-outs are great. If not, well... they don't work so well.

Exactly

Infinit can just follow my lead!

I love that map. when everyone runs forward I go with them part of the way but then I stop and get millions of points from specialist kills.

Got killed by Grevious today for the first time, and second, and third, and possibly a fourth. But the rebels won Yavin 4 anyway so hahaha to him.

Did you use General Kenobi?

He hasn't been added yet, I was two trooper classes, a armored vehicle which he just got lucky on, and some lag got me killed as Yoda.

In other news just got my Luke to level 40, so he's maxed.

I hate lag, gets me killed in COD as well.


Nice, congrats on that

Makes him my fourth max level hero after Rey and Vader. Though in terms of in game challenges/achievements Vader is the only hero I have to reach veteran points, as that challenge started while I was working on leveling him, and by this point Rey had been finished lol.

Check this out, Kaz.  Looks like Kenobi is here

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbWb7K1RPeM#)

I'll have to check my xbox, but I think that's just a first look video as of yesterday he wasn't in game yet. and they usually do updates on tuesdays

Cool, let me know

Still the same 8 heroes and 9 villains with Grevious being the most recent. Mind you one of the bad guys is the campaign character, who might switch sides in campaign anyway.

Ah okay.  My bad, got excited when I came across this video and thought you would appreciate it.

I am glad they are working on him  :D I need a new good guy to work on with Luke joining Rey as maxed out, and me not being that good as Yoda lol

I have never been able to get the hang of Yoda. I prefer characters like Han and Leia on the Heroes side

Leia's secondary fire on crait is almost sniper like, blasting troopers to death from across the map.

It's SSOOO annoying! I hate Leia on Crait. There is almost nothing the Stormtroopers can do against her.

Apart from staying underground or hiding behind AT-AT legs lol, I do the latter, I hide behind them and pick off the ski speeders with ion torpedoes, great way to rack up points.

I don't use ion torpedoes too often. I usually find a crater and pick off some of the other specialists, or I get my assault with my CR-2 and rush the tunnels

I sure hope Obi-Wan will be added soon. I'll start playing again when I can play as my favorite Jedi. :)

It should be before January.

January?! It should have been added last January

I believe he is listed as a fall character, so really I hope sometime this month or early December. With Anakin and Dooku listed as winter add ons, so a Anakin vs Vader could happen lol, anyway I don't work on the game team or it be different lol.

That would be a weird fight. interesting, but weird.

And by might, I mean it will when they add him lol

(http://i.gifer.com/1wG9.gif)

lol

What I was thinking when you and Kaz mentioned Anakin fighting Vader

Anyway anyone with an Xboxone needs to join team Kazuto  ;)

What? Dooku is getting added too? Sweet!

*Makashi Salute*

They announced four new characters[Grevious, Obi wan, Anakin and Dooku], clone trooper appearances [like the wolf squad colors], other character appearances, a new large scale map in Geonosis and heros star fighter back in July.

Do these require credits to add, or are they free? I'm down either way. If I have to pay, I'll probably just get the season pass. (I'm assuming there is one) I don't see any extras listed in the store, other than "crystals." But, I'm also on the XBOX Windows app version, not the XBOX One.

In game credits yes, Grevious I think was 30,000 or 35,000, but really they give you 500 a day, and if you play they are easy to get. The crystal thing is out for anything outside of appearances. I haven't seen a season pass for Battle front 2, I think all adds on are free outside of game play earned credits.

Cool, thanks for the info. Maybe I should play some, get limbered up for playing as Obi-Wan and Dooku, and earn some in game credits.

Obi wans powers have been revealed, a better mind trick than Reys, his will disable abilities and dodge. A stronger force push than Lukes, and a defensive charge move.

So I have BF 2 now in Xbox One and have been playing it here and there. It’s a bit boring playing it by my self and I beat the campaign rather quickly, both of them.  Anyone who wants to play, let me know.

Also BF 2 is currently on sale digitally for $10.00 in the Microsoft Store on Xbox Live

The Regular version? What about Elite Trooper?
Also I won't be able to do multi player until early December sorry.

Just the regular version. I didn’t see the Elite Trooper one but will look for it.

No worries man, gives me time to get into the game so I won’t be an complete noob when we do play together

I'm only about average myself, just persistent lol

No worries and I'm a noob at it. I typically play COD and Destiny so this is something different since I haven't really played Battlefront since PS2.

I like to think that I'm pretty good at the game but I'm probably around where you are, just above average but still able to whip my friends in offline arcade (that is where I excel, online I get wrecked by the tryhards)


the BF2 controls are pretty close to the CoD BO3 controls.

I have SW Battlefront 2 on Xbox as well, haven’t played in a few months but looking to get back into it over December down time – not brilliant at it but make up for ability with enthusiasm and watching your back by getting shot in mine LOL – if anyone wants a partner up or invite PM me for gamer tag.

Will do, LSG.

I'm going to have to retract everything, I will not be able to play battle front 2 or any xbox game for a very long time as my xbox is broken...

sorry to hear that Kaz

So I went an bought a new one anyway on Tuesday, took about 17 hours from downloading off my internet connection but Battlefront 2 is reinstalled, found out last night Obi wan is now in the game. His force push is a straight path and kind of hard to hit with on other villains so far in heroes and villains at least for me, but over all I like/can use his movement better than Grevious, so someone for me to level lol.

glad you got back into it Kaz. I haven't had a chance to play with Kenobi or Grievous yet but I'm looking forward to trying them.

Finally managed to get my first Vanguard streak. Still 4 left...man, it's really hard to get them.

Yeah it took me forever, needed a star card for a kill streak Vanguard and the health booster card on and then persistence to keep trying, some sneaking around, and just enough luck to hope 3 people were standing near each other and not looking my way.

toughen up is a star card that helped me get that. it starts constantly regening your health for a few seconds, then just get a damage booster card thingy for the gun itself and you're set.

I just used the standard ability without any boosts. Equipped the Improved Scan Dart, though, which helps a lot detecting a suitable group of enemies.

I don't use the scan dart too often. I'm not that good with it. My friends like to use it in arcade though

I only used it long enough to get the in game accomplishment credits for it.

now that I know there's credits involved I'll be using it a lot more

Well, I like it. Together with the thermal detonator. Don't know why, but I'm quite good at throwing. Starkiller Base is good for that - once a door opens, throw one and you most likely get a kill. On Kashyyyk, aim at the higher entrance leading to Alpha, and you may be lucky enough that you get a clone or two hiding behind the walls there.

Open areas are easy, but getting a kill with a throw over half of a confined area's width inside a room is like a hole-in-one...I love that feeling.

I have to correct my post - I liked it. Not returning to this one as long as they don't fix their bugs and create secure spawn points, not accessible by enemies by any means. I HATE it to get killed right after spawning or hiding in my spawn area just because some over-motivated fool chases me. It should be a safe area for the spawners, otherwise they can just throw them in the bin and let us spawn anywhere on the field. There you don't need spawn areas - the whole map is the spawn area.

And no, I will not change my mind or anything, this is totally unfair and one of the most annoying flaws of any game mode. I played this for over a year now, and it happened more often in the last two week than it did the whole year before. The last bits of fun have been swept away.

There are no safe areas in a battlefield, Rac. :P

No, I get what you're saying about the spawn points. Unfortunately, this is an all too common problem in MOBA games. Since the entire map is accessible to all players and NPCs, anyone can get near those spawn points. Though, camping out and waiting for people to respawn is pretty low. Are these NPCs or are you playing online and it's other players doing this?

Only happens in multiplayer modes, especially Strike (which is currently the only mode I play for unlocking most of the Trooper weapons and milestones). Although I had that same experience in a GA game as well, the one with the Venator cruiser - respawned as a fighter, enemy fighter kills me. I respawn, turn around, see him flying toward me - in the same moment I turned around, before I could fire a single shot, that same guy has taken me down again. Respawned a third time - well, do I have to say what happened? After the fourth time, I've quit that game. So it's only in multiplayer, NPCs don't get me that fast or try to get near the spawn areas, even on highest AI settings.

It's called don't play strike, that problem doesn't happen in most default Galactic assault spawns. Strike is far more closed quarters, play something else :P

Strike's the only MP mode where I can compete at least a bit and where I don't smash my equipment every day. Tried GA - horrible. Tried Exfiltration - not a mode that attracts me. Tried Skirmish - even more horrible than GA. Tried SA - good at first, but got worse and worse every time I played it.

Not to mention HvV, HS, SFS...

So, if I understand correctly, you suggest that I give up playing the only mode I actually make some progress in. Which in turn means for me, uninstalling it. I never uninstall a Star Wars game unless my hardware or OS doesn't support it anymore :P

sorry to hear that Rac. The only thing I can say is to get good enough that you can kill the spawn-campers. I will say the combat roll can definitely help get around them.

I say this from my own experiences, Strike is my best mode as well and I dislike most of the others for pretty much the same reasons as you do.

If I sum up the distance I've rolled so far...it wouldn't be so annoying when you roll and roll and in the critical moment, you hit the roll button and nothing happens. Happens almost every time. I can roll 10x in a row when not in combat, but if I need it there, that freaking roll doesn't work which usually leads to another death (same goes for that goddamn Spec melee bug when you used the goggles before).

Anyway, that's not the only thing that annoys me...but I don't want to whine again, need to accept that I'm simply too low for PvP online games. Which has already been mentioned and confirmed on a regular base by other players - "Could you please leave?", "Noob", "Racona Nooba", "Is camping the only thing you can?" (when playing as Spec) and whatnot...so there must be some shred of truth in it.

*backing off and hiding away*

I hate those people. They are the reason so many gaming communities are so toxic. why can't people just pick up a controller and have fun without everyone hating on them?

I guess I'm just more persistent than you because I got all my troops to max through Galactic Assault. If you play the objective and don't give up it yields results even if it takes time. Because I certainly am not that good of a shot.

Yeah, you pretty much summed up why I don't like MOBAs. People are children (some, quite literally.) They do crap like this so that they can "win" the round and get more points, and it just ruins the experience for those of us who just want to enjoy the game.

I've only ever played BF2 in single player, mostly because of experiences like what you described in the first game. I work 40 hours a week, and with travel time I'm gone over 60 hours. I don't want to spend my free time doing crap that's not fun. When people do things like that in MOBA games, they become not fun.

I have been playing a lot of Battlefront 1 lately. I like it a lot better than 2 personally. I prefer no classes, using whatever weapon and cards I want.

Sabotage is a great mode but not many people playing it

I liked one but I haven't played it in a long time. I bought the season pass, but it just took my money and didn't give me anything in game. I haven't played it since, and I won't be putting any more money into it or it's sequel.

Finally reached Rank 50...and Origin (stupid as it is) doesn't unlock the achievement. Any idea what to do? Contact support or is there another workaround to get it?

Edit: Unlocked after I joined another game. Don't know if that was it (I went afk shortly after) or if it had to do with a cloud sync issue I had right after I reached R50, but it's in my list now.

Dooku comes out this month.

someone data-mined his animations and emote names here:

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx52TipVPJ4#)

Lots to read here but in my opinion the originals were better. My cousins, brother, friends and I played the hell out of them way back when and had a great time. I think the original battlefront 2 was ahead of its time in a few ways.
Battlefront (2015) was alright, they just didn't have enough content, but I enjoyed it. There were balancing issues and exploits, sure, but that's with every game. I repped up to 60 if I remember correctly.
Battlefront 2 (EA) however I really don't like. The combat feels dull, and as cool as it is, for some reason it just doesn't feel like a Star Wars game to me. Not to mention their MP character progression system gives a huge advantage to players that stay longer, which is fun for players who've been around for a while, but for new or periodic players, it's not a great time.
In my opinion, skill should always trump benefits/advantages. I don't feel it does in Battlefront 2.
---Why can't they implement a Space Battle system like int he old battlefront? Flying into the enemy ship's hanger, planting bombs to take out vital systems, and balancing it with being able to do so from outside in a ship was well was the best part.

Side note: The space piloting controls are bad. There's so much ship wobble and lateral movement. 2015's BF had it better in that you basically are going forward, can roll, and turn.

Also HvV would be way better with a [[For Honor]] based dueling design. I hope for a day wher characters' lightsaber forms impact your gameplay for real.

Rewarding the players who stick with it, is far better than the pay to win crap. Perseverance is how I leveled my troops.

I agree, their PTW mechanics unfortunately are still felt today

My quest to get the credits to unlock Dooku is a slow process.

when is it not? I haven't even gotten Greivous yet. I've pretty much decided to keep BFII as my offline game to play with friends. I'm pretty much done with online, too many tryhards its not that fun anymore.

Yeah, it's annoying sometimes. I still keep quitting when I notice someone who has abnormally high stats (points and kills) compared to the remaining players - indicates some kind of hack.

But I also accepted that dying is essential part of the game - that made me much stronger in my own gameplay...well, that 3x XP event helped a lot, too ;D I still struggle with Heroes and Starfighter, but GA and Strike are way better now. Just got my first Hero kill with a Special Unit, and only need 2 more Vanguard kill streaks for the achievement - something I always had problems with because I never played with the risk of dying. Since I do, I get much more chances for the Vanguard...doesn't always work, but when you don't accept it and change the way of playing, you don't really make progress.
That's what I noticed and learned over the last months...

Yeah, the credits...I think we still get too few rewards. There should be a bonus for the Top 5 as well. Not much, let's say 50 for #5, 60 for #4, 75 for #3, 85 for #2 and 100 for #1. But that might also attract even more cheaters. Fortunately I saved some credits....currently 560k :P

If I had 3 people to play with, I would just play hero showdown to level up characters and earn credits. That way each team can alternate who wins and what not, since it's a 2 on 2.

Yeah, that would be cool.

What I'd like to see as well is a change of the milestone system. Almost every part of it is related to multiplayer-only, except for the Arcade and Campaign section. However, there is only one specific multiplayer section, the others don't have any indicator that it's multiplayer-only...so what if they change it so that the class, Hero and starfighter milestones are unlockable in single-player (Team Deathmatch and Onslaught) as well? Or change the category names to "Single Player" with the sub-categories "Arcade" and "Campaign" and "Multiplayer" with the subs "Classes", "Heroes", "Starfighters" and "General" to make clear which milestones can be unlocked in Single Player modes and Multiplayer modes. It's quite confusing for new players...I needed a few matches to realise which categories update after Arcade and which after multiplayer matches - that was very annoying because you expect something completely different according to the category names.

I find some of the multiplayer milestones almost too difficult to achieve....hit 5 enemies at once with Luke's Force Push, kill 3 enemies at once with Boba's missile barrage...first you need the battle points (which should be no problem, though), but then you need to run into a suitable group and hope that you don't get killed before you can even unleash any of these abilitie. I'm always outnumbered and almost instantly killed before I can even sum up the overall situation. Which has always been one of my strong points...even in RL.

Oh, and I missed another important thing - server selection for the PC version! I'm so tired of searching and cancelling and being put into empty servers because it always gives me the same map over and over again. I want to choose the game and server myself so that I don't have to wait up to 20 min until a game begins...

I am a very casual video gamer and I just got a PS4 a week ago. Battlefront II is my only game I have, for now. I am enjoying it. Playing online is very new to me. I suck when compared to all these players I play with online during Galactic Assault. I am enjoying the game but I am noticing you have to grind to get anything. Video games were very different when I was a kid.

N64 is still the greatest system ever, in my opinion.

Anyway, I would be interested in playing with anyone who is willing to!

For Luke's force push, yeah it was a matter of finding five enemies that close together that was the challenge, though it is a fairly quick ability to use. Getting the Maul milestone for multiple kills with his spin attack was much more annoying for me, because it doesn't kill that easily unless they are already weakened. I still have no idea how to do the Phasma stick wack milestone, not that I use her that much anyway.

the stick whack you have to actually be touching an enemy, then you have to hit them at exactly the right angle, then it usually doesn't kill them. Phasma is probably my least favorite character in the game for this reason. (and probably a few others I don't want to remember)

That is why i had to finally give this up...having to unlock new characters just finally became too much for me.  I already paid for the game i shouldn't have to grind for simple access.  If people want to unlock extra skins fine that's cool, I'm just a casual gamer not into that stuff, but locking out entire characters is just ridiculous -frankly if you pay good money for something you should get every feature available without restriction - you don't buy a DVD and then have to 'unlock' each section of a movie, games should be the same, all skills all characters up front, you want some extra cosmetic stuff to unlock cool do that, but hiding functional stuff behind grind walls puts casual gamers like me (who might've played 2-3 hours a week at most) off. 

Yeah, I know what you mean. However, I'm fine with the way they reward progress in terms of new weapons (via the milestones) and star cards (via level-ups).

The character release cadence has been a bit tight the last weeks, but normally you have enough time to get all the credits for unlocking, even if you don't play every day. Don't forget, 500 creds are always for free - more or less. You still need to log in and claim the daily crate. And Arcade mode gives you another 100 creds per game (up to 6 games are rewarded, I think). So that's 1k credits per day. Taking into account that chars take about 1-2 months to release, you easily have 35k ready when they release.

Fair enough but i shouldn't have to do that at all, i've already paid for the game, i shouldn't have to zombie log in or play arcade to get what should be covered in the $ price. The fact i would have to has just made me give it up in disgust. Player shouldn't have to plan out things like that, the fact anyone sits there calculating how many free boxes you need to open is an indictment on a perverse game system IMO.

Which is a shame, as it was fun for a while, and new characters/maps breathe new life into it...but yeah...I just personally can't get over the needing to pay for something twice with my time - games should be about having fun now - not building up BS points or credits to unlock what you've paid for already.  The level ups too punish people who can't spend much time leveling characters IMO, if you want to reward players for certain achievements/playing lots give them something like a new skin or special emotes- anything that doesn't disadvantage people who can't do that.

Don't get me wrong, I totally agree that many things in BF require constant playing and it's not a casual game - which I find a bit annoying as well :-\ A fair amount of the rewards should really get redesigned so that even casual players aren't scared off by the time they need to reach a certain point where they can compete with the long-term players. And I'm not talking about P2W or fee-based DLCs, that would be the wrong way!

As for the chars - upon release of BF II most of the heroes were locked. And needed much more creds to unlock. At that point I thought exactly the same like you: I paid for it and don't get access? Seriously? Fortunately EA provided an update shortly after release which unlocked all heroes. However, it doesn't look like the fanbase wants a change of the current system, which is a bit sad because it's still a great game. And with some tweaks (and a bit more bug-fixing) they could even encourage those who left the game to join again...at least that's what I would do.

You're totally right, a game shouldn't disadvantage people who join after release, don't have that much time to play or (regarding P2W) can't/don't want to spend money just for getting better!

Yeah that is the saddest part it is really fun at times, missions and basic mechanics are really simple which i like, graphics/sound are awesome...just poor management decisions trying to incorporate...almost and RPG like progression system in some ways which to me is a very odd choice - but then we all know the real reason was originally cause they wanted to sell the loot boxes to make extra cash then had to tweak it to avoid the backlash...now we're left with a really weird system that puts off casual people which is odd as you'd think that is where the majority of players fit.  I think if there is ever a 3rd one...well personally i would need some serious convincing to get it at this point.

I don't know about other versions, but the milestones in xbox one are all in categories.

They are categorized on PC as well, I just find the system a bit confusing 'cause the milestones only achievable in Multiplayer aren't in that category but all separate in the main "Career" screen - Trooper Classes, Starfighters and Heroes. I'd rather like to have them in the "Multiplayer" category with their respective names to make it clearer.

However, I'm having serious problems with Origin since yesterday. I played "FIFA 19" when Origin suddenly crashed. FIFA wasn't affected, it just ran fine. I finished playing and restarted Origin. Cloud sync obviously didn't work, but that one could be solved after a few attempts and tweaks. What is really annoying is that the "Last played" and "Play time" on both Battlefront II and FIFA 19 aren't updating anymore. FIFA just sits at "Play time 64 h" and "Last played Feb 5, 2019" (which is clearly wrong, just played today and I think it was already in the 70s before that issue). Battlefront is at 728 h and also Feb 5, 2019 although I played that today as well...

Tried everything. Clearing caches, resetting Origin settings, repairing game files, recovered the respective folders through System Restore to the state of Feb 4, even did an Origin uninstall/reinstall - no way, it just won't update anymore. I don't know what to do...Google, Yahoo, EA Answers HQ couldn't really help me.

It seems if they put every single multiplayer milestone in one category that would be massive.

Anyone who has this for Xbox One, Private message me, I am looking to start a hero show down group for leveling, and later for other purposes like Heroes vs Villains and Galactic assault.

No, not in one category. They should maintain the current categories, and then just move them to the Multiplayer category and make them sub-categories of the main Multiplayer category. Just like the tree structures on PC...you have one main folder (categories Multiplayer and Singleplayer) and then you have subfolders (categories General, Classes, Heroes, Starfighters for Multiplayer and Campaign and Arcade for Singleplayer) with their respective milestones. That way you still have the current category system, but a better overview what counts towards Multiplayer and what counts towards Singleplayer.

Something like this:

Daily Challenges (stays as it is)
--> List of Daily Challenges

Single Player (main category)
--> Arcade (stand-alone category now)
-------> List of Arcade milestones
--> Campaign (stand-alone category now)
-------> List of Campaign milestones

Multiplayer (main category)
--> Classes (stand-alone category now)
-------> List of Class milestones
--> General (category "Multiplayer" now)
-------> List of general multiplayer milestones
--> Heroes (stand-alone category now)
-------> List of Hero milestones
--> Starfighters (stand-alone category now)
-------> List of Starfighter milestones

Finally, finally got my 5th Vanguard kill streak today. One of the most awful milestones in BF 2...together with 3 or 4 from the Hero section.

Anyway, I think with the recent updates and character releases it's back on track again. Still not perfect, still much to do, but DICE and EA seem to work more thoroughly now.

Wow...more than one year after release I finally received my "Not the droids" emote for signing up for the newsletter...

And still no CT about the new game mode...

I want to officially state for the record that Anakin is OP and the four abilities is unfair.

I think they made him OP for a reason.

all my time spent playing BF1 and 2 has been spent saying that the villains were more powerful than the heroes. I think Anakin is exactly what BF2 needed to make the teams a bit more balanced.

and he is the Chosen One. I think 4 abilities fits him (if they are a bit confusing to use)

He definitely is. His pull is waaaaay too powerful and has an incredible range, even without maxed star cards.

I played HvV on Kamino a few days ago, being Boba. I managed to land on one of these legs of the tetrapods, so high that nobody could reach it with a jump. Let's say it was about 50m from the ground, could be even more. Anakin was right beneath me, he jumped, but couldn't reach me. He then used his pull while on the ground and - it threw me out of bounds. It was just annoying. No other pull or push ability has such a range, especially not in the vertical direction.

ok, I take it back, a 50m vertical pull ability is kind of overdoing it. Though I do like that there is now something we can do against Boba tower campers.

Yeah, that's the only positive aspect. Actually, it happened again. Today, Hoth, while using his jetpack. He was more or less on max height (which is quite a bit) and Ani could still pull me down...awful.

dang.

on another note, I tried that vanguard thing again last night, dang thats tough

The very first time I played as Anakin in Heroes vs Villains I finished first place and leveled up from 1 to nearly 5. Since his inception he has climbed to my 6th highest lightside hero behind Rey 40, Luke 40, Chewie 32, Obi-wan 32, Yoda 25, and him now at 24. On the dark side Vader is 40, the Emperor 29, Kylo 28, I think Maul is 27.

As for the new Capital Supremacy, my only major complaint is your Hero class and special class soldiers [the ones that cost battle points to use] do not transition between phases, I think if you are alive they should.

Yeah, I think that's the only complaint that I can bring against it.

Yes, but I found out that the standard Vanguard without any boost card together with Scan Dart works pretty well...oh, and you need a lot of luck finding a suitable group!

I think Luck is the main thing you need in this game  :P

I played Cap. Supremacy last night, That game is intense! I think I ended with 70K score.

And skill...I love the Spec, and in the right position you can take out quite a few people without being killed...my highest streak was 29 :P

What I really learned especially during the Vanguard thing is - having 10 or more deaths is no sign of being a noob but rather essential to the game. I haven't played these games before, so I almost crushed my gear every time I got killed ;D But things have changed now :P

just got 1st place in Cap Supremacy. That was awesome!

I have not gotten a first place finish yet, but I have a second place as Yoda and a third place as a combo of characters.

Finished 5th today...my best in CS so far. And I was laughed at because I camped with Bossk on one end of the map ;D Before someone else told him that this is one of several ways you can play him - that made me laugh :D

Actually, I hated him at first...but when you played him a few times, and got him leveled up, he's quite funny. When I camped in that game mentioned above, I got at least 3 kills just because of players running into my traps placed around me :D And they're great for securing Command Posts together with dioxis.

use the ARC troopers and officers only. you can rack up hundreds of points in no time flat.


Bossk is a beast when he tries to hold a command post. (not as good as Skywalker or Dooku, but still pretty good)

Kashyyyk now has a Capital Supremacy map. I'm going to try it this weekend. If anyone plays it before me, tell me how it is

Kashyyyk is fun, but they need to add a capital supremacy map for the original trilogy characters/map and sequel characters/map.

I think Bespin could be a good spot for a more confined version, no vehicles[or cloud cars only], but capturing various parts of the building. And maybe Jakku or Crait.

Bespin would be nice, but they need to make Rebel/Imperial infiltrators first

Imperial and later FO infiltrator could just be the clone in different armor.

definitely would be interesting to see an ARC Stormtrooper.

I played Kashyyyk Cap. Supremacy yesterday, fun map. I really enjoyed playing around the crashed juggernaut. I finally got a hero in that mode (Maul) I think I ended with a 13 kill streak (including a Yoda and Chewbacca) before frikin Anakin crushed all my hopes and dreams with retribution. I ended 4th on my team with 77 kills. Still think I like Geonosis better though

I had a 14 kill streak as Yoda on Geonosis, up on one of the ships, we won so I assume the droid ship lol. And yeah Anakin is way to OP, heck he cost 12 BP in Galactic assault on Crait.

congrats on your streak!

I can never quite get over the picture of Anakin on Crait. just doesn't feel right. I kinda wish the would era-lock the heroes.

Well if they did that, Chewie would become the most used hero :D

why is that?

He's the only character in all 3 Eras

oh yeah. I forgot he was in the sequels. (shows how much I watch them) I'm still not sure he'd be the most played though.

Well with Era lock, more people would be forced to use him in battles, like in capital supremacy. And he's in the sequels more than his appearance in Revenge of the Sith.

True. but he was in the OT more than anything, so I was thinking he'd stay there. and if we are being strict, then Kenobi and Anakin were in the OT and now that I think about it, there are probably not enough sequel heroes to properly era-lock them

Rey, Finn vs Kylo and Phasma, it would be tight at two heroes per side but makes the others have to try harder. Since I doubt they will ever add the older appearances for Luke, Han and Leia. I find it odd they have yet to add an clone armored version of Anakin, yet they did PJ's Dooku...

yeah I kinda wanted an old Luke/Han.

and the second part is just plain stupid. The pjs were in one (albeit awesome) scene, whereas the armor was in 3 frikin seasons.

Get your priorities straight EA!

Even Fin before the jacket was sliced up, and in the black storm trooper undershirt from TFA. It wouldn't be the only sutble difference outfit, like wounded Chewie is a thing, two forms of Kylo and his face scar...

I'm so done with that game - again! Played SA again after realizing I need to catch up and level my fighters....and decided that I'll leave that mode as it is and never play it again, even if that means that I'll not finish the milestones associated with SA.

Nothing, absolutely nothing has changed in there. XP and battle points are way too low, kill count is way too low, death rate is way too high, difficulty is way to high, people are obviously cheating/using aimbots!
For G's sake, how can I get hit and almost insta-killed although people are clearly missing me (lasers, I don't talk about lock-on missiles)? Or you spawn, fly towards the objective, no fighter anywhere around you, and BOOM - killed from behind, 5 seconds after you spawned! Spawn again, BOOM - same thing again! How?? Tell me so that I can understand what's going on!!

And the most annoying - you don't even come near the chance to win, neither as attacker nor as defender. No matter which team I join. I only need two victories - Ryloth and Endor - to finish the last Multiplayer milestone, but it's impossible. Literally.

I don't know how people control the fighters, but they clearly can't do it with keyboard/mouse controls. Changed all settings, sensitivities, everything. No improvement. I have no controller, but I don't think it'll change the gameplay.

Yeah I hate Starfighter.

I can control the ship decently well on controller, but I never play SA for that reason. I think EA has just forgotten about that mode

I mean, I somehow managed to win on Kamino yesterday (which also was impossible months ago) and got to 3/5 on the "Aggressor" milestone, but still...

well, I have barely played that since launch anyways so I can't say too much

When I did play starfighter, I aimed for the objective, because as RN said other players seem to cheat. I'm now just waiting for the next double XP event, since a lot of the heroes I use most [and want to level] are so high up now, the extra xp will make finishing them off easier. Chewie is 33, Obi-wan 34, both I want to get to fourty but it's gotten really hard to make any progress.

SA and HvV XP events come at the end of May, IIRC. The new roadmap is in the forums. We also get a new CS map mid-May.

I hope that new CS map isn't another prequel era one, but probably will be.

Roadmap says existing clone wars era map, so I would say between this month and next they will add Kamino and Naboo Capital Supremacy maps, as that would be all the prequel maps.

personally, I like the prequel maps. I'm all for more of those. I don't really want a OT or sequel Cap. Supremacy until there are OT and Sequel Infiltrators.

The affect of force moves on Anakin when he is doing Heroic might is not consistent, as a Darksider at times I have tried to hit him with force choke throw or pull and it has done nothing, but today as Anakain I got frozen by Kylo...

which is why we need a fix for him. make him more consistant

Oddly enough I think I finished first on both those rounds anyway lol

lol. and congrats on the first places

I still encounter the random loss/breaking of the blocking ability, which EA is either not aware of or doesn't care to fix. And last night Obi-wan lost the ability to jump.

Since Phantom Menace is 20 now, Obi-wan and Maul are discounted down to 200 battle points for the weekend to use in Capital Supremacy or Galactic Assault on Battlefront 2.

As I have yet to try to play, I wonder if this is on all maps or just maps they are in era for.

holy crap! I could start as an officer, boost my teammates, die, and be a hero. I have a feeling people aren't gonna like this too much

People do that all the time, generally for speeders, which I think is selfish cause the team takes a hit if you're on the attack. I also forgot to mention no vehicles this weekend. I think it would give me a chance to practice using Obi-wan against troopers and such.

I don't actually do it too often. usually its when I'm only a few hundred points away from an ARC or something and I want to get it quick I'll spend a life and then go back to playing normally

Well the vehicles were set at 20k and 15k, so still usable I think, but I doubt anyone is going to spend that.

jeez, thats expensive

For the weekend they wanted "boots on the ground."

I mean boots on the ground sounds nice, and I guess that's a good way to encourage it, but why not just take them out completly?

Perhaps it would take a full update to do that, not sure really.

Kamino has been added to Capital Supremacy. Spoiler alert, it's raining.

just wanted to say that I've started playing battlefront 1 (2015) again. for anyone who wants to join in my username on PlayStation is Rex_7567-3333 I'd love to play with just about anyone.

Naboo just got a map for capital supremacy in the recent update. We also got Droidekas, scout clones, a General Skywalker skin, and an actual tank for the republic. This update has definitely been a good one.

Probly a good game..  I was soooo hyped when it was announced, then, when it came out, i bought the PS4 BF package, and played for about 10 mins and returned it  :-\

I absolutely loved BF II (2005).. so i was expecting it to be even better.. it turned out i barely had any characters to select, 2005 had a ton of classes and characters/jedis, and then the maps, you had just about every star wars location and the space version with docking/destroying and starfighting/bombing, you could get in the at-at, at-st, turrets, speeders, anything

I actually bought 2005 a while back and just installed to to my windows 10, but my wired 360 controller is being wacky, ill have to pick up a gamepad.

Loved that game sooo much  :)

I'm not very good at video games at all but I have watched some of the cut scenes and I love the stuff with Luke and Del Meeko.

"I'm not blind, I know what the Empire is capable of but what else is there?"

"A choice."

"The Rebeliion?"

"No. A choice to be better. May The Force be with you, Del."

Jumped back on to check out the "Roger Roger" update last night. Didint have too much time, and captial supremacy usually ends up being fairly one sided so i joined a match.

Holy crap.

So that match lasted two hours, and i did not get to bed at nearly the time i hoped. I was with the droids and i spent nearly the whole thing as a Droideka and i *loved* it. I felt like a kid in front of my ps2 playing BF2 classic in the best ways. The match went back and forth on a losing defense for the whole game. Every time the other team would dominate on the ground, though we'd always successfully hold off at least 1-2 command posts. However, everytime we got to the ship our team would stonewall them; me and another droideka player would stand side by side shields up at the objective choke just pelting everyone trying to rush the point. Eventually, they did win, but not after 2 hours of back and forth. I ended up with over 200 kills, and i was in eigth. The guy in first cleared well over 400 eliminations. That was possibly the best match ive ever had in BF2, and def put into perspective how far the game has come. In its' state at launch that kind of match would NEVER have happened. Just wanted to share that story and a little shout out to the devs for sticking with it  ;D

I'm more under the impression that since the players base is decreasing, cheaters become more prominent. Cheaters were always present, but it's more evident now with less and less "honest" players...which is the reason why I'm not that active anymore. I still play, but it's not as frequent as it was in its earlier days.

I hope that the current milestones are unlockable in that new coop mode as well...it's annoying not being able to push heroes and starfighters in the other modes due to the reasons above...after all, it's still "Multiplayer" - you can play along with up to 3 other players in your team.

Co-op, Instant action, Felucia, and Clone Commandos have all released as of yesterday, and I gotta say they are looking amazing.

Felucia is looking to be one of the best maps for capital supremacy, and the clone commandos are looking plain awesome. Instant action is looking fun, although I wish there were more customization options. I haven't yet seen anything on the Co-op mode yet, I will hopefully try that this weekend.

Saw that, need to jump on later...so many good games and updates this quarter

honestly, this game has gone from pretty meh to pretty good in just a few months. the addition of Capital Supremacy is still my favorite thing to happen, but Instant action and Co-op look very good as well. I'm gonna try everything tonight once I get home from school

So i played the content last night and it 100% brings back all the right memories of BF2 on the ps2. Fantastic update!

Now add the OT and ST maps and Heroes can be levelled easily in these modes and their milestones can be unlocked in Co-op as well (just did that with Ani). I hate the all-PVP modes regarding Hero usage and their milestones are sometimes impossible to get (Luke's "5-enemy-push", Boba's "3-rocket-kill" and some others)...

Got a full group of 4 to play the new co-op last night. 2 Commandos, a Heavy, and an Obi-Wan. Havent had that much fun in a star wars game in a long time. Highly recommend this if you have a group that plays it!

So I decided to hop back into the 2015 Battlefront and I gotta say, I'm enjoying it. It's not as intense as 2 and its nice to be able to play a chill star wars game again.

So, on April 29, 2020, the last update for BF 2 will be released. No more new content after that....

I really hoped that they will bring Starfighters to Co-Op before they leave the game...it's f*cking impossible to level any of the ships (Heroes and normal ships) to a degree that you can at least achieve a little bit in SA...

Looks like I'll be left with several Starfighter-related milestones and one Origin achievement that will never be completed....

Cu*** you, EA, at least some Starfighter content...all the years since it has been introduced the fans called for that, and nothing happened....you added Co-Op to help leveling and developing classes and heroes. Not doing that for Starfighters? Inconsequent, really inconsequent...make a Co-op mode for Starfighters before leaving, that's the only thing that's left to do to make this journey complete.

Sorry for my venting and ranting, but it makes me so sad...

Agreed to all of your comments. I play BFII off and on in mostly co-op a couple times a week to have some stress relief. I haven't been in starfighter assault in a LONG time because it's such a time sump to get levels.

If I could at least win one single time on Endor, that would at least complete my Multiplayer milestones. Already took me 3 years to win a single time on Ryloth. But no, no way to get even near that...and since balancing will never be touched again, there's no chance to complete that.

Will eventually get the Celebration Edition, but then I'm done with it, I think.

I never imagined I'd say it, but...I really finished the "Aggressor" milestone today ;D Finally got my win on Endor - even with a complete game crash just before victory. Luckily I rejoined exactly the same match with the same team while they were still playing, and after a few seconds, victory was mine :D

I never thought I'd make it...

Having played SW Battlefield (if I even remember title accurately more than a decade later) on the original Xbox... I gotta say I will always prefer it for a few reasons. It felt real, like the first true experience of how wild battle in the SW universe is for non-force users. It is terrifying, grueling, and a blaster battle of grit and skill. Especially facing a Jedi and knowing chances are almost non existent to survive. But more importantly it was difficult, just winning some of the battles let alone survivng. Now Battlefront 2 brought back that intensity, but it's sorely lacking in the original's Epic space battles tied to other combat. Someone else mentioned it, Galactic Conquest mode (many battles determining the result of a mini war) had the feel of true SW universe wars. Like losing at a strategic place leaves forces cut off or turns momentum. But most importantly EA removed the BEST part of space battle which I found unforgivable. Having a dogfight in space, disabling cruiser shields, weapons systems, engines... gaining points and the advantage was awesome. Most crucial was that you could drop enemy ship shields and board them! It made combat have great depth, you can get in and turn the tide from within a ship and "disable" it. IMO this was a beautiful aspect of the movies integrated into game to make you have to think tactically and use team strengths. If you are no Anakin in the cockpit, get in there and sabotage the ship like Inferno Squad would/could. I feel EA could have done this so well, but it's regrettable they didn't. Don't get me wrong, combat and Sith VS Jedi lightsaber fights are awesome in SW battlefront 2; but it could have been so much more overall if they integrated these modes/aspects.

  It sounds like you've tried a myriad of ways, and probably toyed around with this by now, but switch up your Cards. Think like an assassin completely self concerned with the goal of the 3 kills in succession. Prioritize opportune visible target 1st, but if they see you coming then whoever is most immediate threat. I use crates, barriers, corners, retreating through doors, ANYTHING that blocks fire for a second to save you and/or lure them into position. Forget the win, team work (unless it serves your purpose), camp, do whatever you have to till opportunity strikes. Lure in 1 or 2, or ambush them in close quarters. But have Killstreak Vanguard, Assault Training, & Survivalist equipped. Maybe use Bodyguard instead of Assault Training if getting that 1st kill of 3 seems impossible. Dodge, crouch behind cover, weaken them with grenades before the kill shot. Get stealthy and move around map to blind side them, flank them, improvise like crazy. IDK what to say but give in to your anger.

Truth. I played solo arcade and still had momentary lag with game freezing for a second mid combat, reminds me of the meme I saw. Luke clashing with Vader, Luke being SWBF 2 players and Vader the EA servers. Priceless.

   I agree whole heartedly. One of the things from SW Battlefield that was great, landing a troop transport inside the hangar of an enemy ship and using it as a spawn. Then if it got too hot in the LZ get back in, fly outside, let team spawn inside ship, fly back in and land on opposite side or clear hangar with transport weaponry. Little is worse than being viciously spawn locked/camped to death. Instantly slaughtered over and over with no safe spawn, or random enemies spawning behind you when you had an area locked and a good streak going.

   Trying soooo hard not to be specific (because I HATE spoilers) but *SPOILER ALERT* he (Chewie) isn't the only one in all 3 eras/parts of the 3 part movie series pairings. There are at least three playable characters off the top of my head that are as well. Technically closer to 5 if you count Luke and Leia. They can't "fight" in Episodes I-III but do make a cameo/exist.

   Truth, a version of Jedi Master Luke Skywalker fighting the First Order in Era locked battles would be epic. Seeing him and Rey together on the battlefield would be crazy intimidating. Why waste time on Dooku's sleep attire and not use the obvious choice of one of the most popular Jedi in history given that you have his character model established in a movie. A "The Last Jedi" version of him would be amazing AND appropriate since they allude to him in the later chapters of campaign addon multiple times anyway.

Can you please explain yourself? 
Palpatine is one that occurs to me.  boba fett?...i dont think he should count.

I dont have the timelines in front of me but as a rough estimation, all heroes in OT would have existed at some point during the prequel era (or close enough to it) and human sequel heroes would have existed in OT era (or close enough to it) but force ghosts and babies do not count for this topic ;-P

Also...
if it has been a year since the last film of the story line and we are on a forum about light sabers can we really call them spoilers?
if not now, at what point can we stop calling star wars related topics spoilers?

  True, I agree with you to a point, and just wanted to avoid the hard bombshell it if possible. In my experience, using that as a reference, I avoided watching Game of Thrones till season 5-6. Binged to catch up, and watched till the end with friends... So I had to avoid social media, the radio, and random convos for years because people call it "ok" after a while. BUT I'll conceed the point here because truth, if one stumbled in here THAT ignorant of the movies it is almost their failing not experienceing the main aspect of franchise. Still many "disowned" or had no interest in last 3 part of movies too. There fore I'll just do it with the warning:
Potential Movie SPOILERS!!!

   Alrighty: I haven't (ironically) seen the last movie Episode IX. Just soak that in for a sec. lol But, had bits ruined for me, thus I use that info. To this extent I was inaccurate on one character I thought about Darth Maul. Not "seeing him" in original trilogy slipped my mind (since he's such a mainstay now). If you remove the twins (since they aren't "playable characters" in essence) in Episode III then w/e but they are technically featured. Darth Sidious is then the obvious choice along with Chewbacca. Of course eliminating force ghosts is logical too, no Kenobi, Yoda, or Anikin/Vader counting in. Almost said Millennium Falcon, since it's not in Episode I-III but appears in prequel Solo, so IDK how to handle that? Then if you factor Solo into the mix, Han Solo counts (I didn't realize I did that subconsciously) and I feel he deserves inclusion. Doing that gives Maul back his spot though in it's own way too. That should cover, and even go beyond what I'd thought originally as far as Playable Characters in BF 2. Didn't even consider BF1. So yea, you asked I answered. If it's confusing, hell I confused myself a bit thinking about it while simultaneously trying to respond. Do what you will with my rant, take it or leave it.

  Getting back to the central topic, I bought the PS4 bundle at launch so played BF2 a lot offline. I therefore share RN's concerns over confusing/unclear milestones. Why would using Assault Class for example not count in any offline modes toward various kill and weapon achievements? It's pretty misleading. Plus a whole new level of frustrating if your connection isn't good enough to "keep up" playing online, therefore they stay out of reach for the sake of earning Achievements/Trophies and resulting credits. Also agreeing that, to that end (the posts that mention casual gamers & losing their interest this way) earning credits sucks. 40k to get one epic looking outfit is in itself a bit brutal. It caps daily credit earning from battles low at around 2k. Many daily challenges require online modes, or pay out on low side 200-500 cr. When I got back into playing (or maybe just cuz I bought deluxe edition originally?) I had access to all the newest characters. Probably just retroactive unlock once they decided to stop putting out new content. Heck, I'd love to play it mostly online, just terribly disagree with PSN going "pay to play" like microsoft and now even nintendo I believe just to play multiplayer. Travesty of supply and demand, neglecting poor folks. I grew up offline gaming, and sometimes best you can do to try and appease your kids is the already expensive system, controller, game... now they look at you like ur stupid for not having internet & getting them a subscription to online play too. It's savage, they feel like Kenny from South Park at school since they cant join in with friends. Good job creating an additional path to the Dark Side EA & Sony. I've got some deep rooted gripes there, so I'll stop short of true anger.

dude...

   Good, bad, mind blown? Almost speechless? You just left me not knowing quite what to say... Other than this is the kinda stuff I love about SW universe. It's depth, especially adding in the "Legends" from books. Or that good ole Darth Jar-Jar fan theory. Wild happenings behind the scenes. The Skywalker Clan almost earns a honorary place in Game of Thrones for how twisted they are... Talk about SERIOUS issues, but again that'd take me off topic so I'll side step that landmine. The addition of Clone Commandos to Enforcer Class was Epic. Republic Commando was (like original SW BF) sooooo ahead of it's time & one of the best videogame stories. Mixed with it's overall feel. Makes it a "new classic" like The Force Unleashed.

Hi guys, is there anyone still playing the first Battlefront? The thing is I didn't have a good PC to play the game and I was dreaming about playing it for years. Recently I bought a good PC and bought the game however I was so disappointed! There are very few people in the servers still playing the game and it's mostly the main game modes. I wanna play the Deathstar mode but there is no one playing this mode. So if there are people in this forum still playing the game maybe you would do me a favor and we could play this mode together? I wanna play it so much!

Sadly after the originals (and the long wait before it's release) that game was a big disappointment to many fans at the time. It also has been out so long that many people moved away from playing it over time, also when Battlefront 2 came out you know how players do their "mass migration" to the sequel. Especially with all these game retailers incentivizing trade ins toward purchasing new titles... Luckily since you're looking for PC Battlefront 1 players there could be some hope... Maybe people here would fire up a copy and play with you too. I enjoyed the survival mode, and some of the gameplay in that game. But I had it for PS4 so I can't join you. If it's cheap on steam maybe people will join in, or redownload it to kick some butt... May the Force serve you well.

One of my favorite games was the original StarWars Battlefront 2.