Multiplat Star Wars Battlefront 3 - Beta/Pre-Launch Thread

[Jatz]

Can't wait for this. Luckily, I have several games I have to get through first so the wait doesn't seem that bad

 

[Quivorir]

So you can wait for it?

 

[Jatz]

Well I want it to sit on my to do list but I can probably wait, yes

 

[JordanWCE]

http://makingstarwars.net/2015/02/tons-star-wars-battlefront-rumors-links-star-wars-force-awakens/

Here is a huge Star Wars: Battlefront list of rumors I received last week. This contains a lot of information on the game and how it will interface with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, not to mention the game itself:

• The story of Star Wars: Battlefront’s campaign will span pretty much the entire Star Wars saga.
• Star Wars Battlefront will feature segments in which you play as both the good guys (Old Republic, Rebellion and Republic) and bad guys (Separatists and the Empire). It was specifically stated that there will be a small portion of prequel trilogy content. You will participate in a couple of battles from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and the space battle above Corsucant from the beginning of Revenge of the Sith.
• The majority of the campaign will take place during the original trilogy era. All of the battles and settings that you would expect to be there will be playable. It was said that the campaign itself is pretty long when compared to other first person shooters.
• There will be some segments of the campaign which take place between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. There won’t be a lot because in their words “Lucasfilm has a lot of plans for that era.”
• The last section of the campaign takes place before and during the opening segments of The Force Awakens. Don’t expect anything too revealing, because the game is expected to ship about a month before the movie releases.
• For both the Republic (that’s what the good guys are being called in the production here) and Empire sections you will be playing characters that actually appear in The Force Awakens.
• EA/DICE was allowed into Pinewood Studios for a few days to scan and capture props, sets, etc for recreation in the game.
• At one point either during either the portion between episodes 6 and 7 or the portion from the beginning of The Force Awakens a character with the last name Tarkin appears.
• The scale of the multiplayer is going to be absolutely massive with up 64 players participating on each side.
• Space to land battles are absolutely happening, but will only be available in certain game modes.
• There will be a “hero” system in place, where as you play you accumulate points that you can eventually cash in to play as a “hero” character. These characters are extremely powerful and have abilities that are not available to the normal characters that you play for most of the matches. The system is constantly in flux, but as it is now, pretty much everyone have a chance to play as a hero at least once per match.
• The Downloadable Content plan for the game is “extremely aggressive”. Expect up to five DLC packs for the game, with the first coming out before the end of 2015. Each pack will be themed, with the first two or three being exclusively based around content from The Force Awakens.
• The game will ship with several The Force Awakens characters already, but some won’t be added until DLC. Specifically all of the characters in the trailers will be available at launch, as will new versions of the X-wing an TIE fighter.
• Tons of new ships and vehicles.
• The contents of each DLC will contain at least three new maps, new hero characters, and new vehicles/ships.
• I saw a character model for the new Stormtroopers, the model for the new X-wings, and some random models of guns, grenades, and other things like that. However, the most interesting thing was a picture of a screen from one of the employee databases.
• It was as a checklist that the department heads can go through to see whats been complete, whats been bug tested, etc. It was basically just a black screen with lines and lines of text posts, with comments and suggestions under each post. What was most interesting about this is what was listed. This particular screen I saw was for a listing of maps for the multiplayer mode. There was a lot of stuff that you’d expect to see in a game like this like:

Hoth: EP5
Endor: EP6
Alderaan
Corscucant
Yavin: EP4

• Like I said, nothing major. EXCEPT for this listing that I saw

Tatooine: EP1
Tatooine; EP4
Tatooine: EP7

• Now, I know that’s not concrete evidence that the desert planet from The Force Awakens is Tatooine, but I thought it was interesting because I know there was been some debate about that subject.

That is a lot to take in and if the information is accurate, it sounds like a really great experience for Star Wars fans and the links to the new movie sounds pretty good considering how paltry it could be.
Clarification Update: The source contacted me to let me know they simply meant the prequel era Republic when they said “Old Republic.” They did not mean the story from 3000 years before A New Hope. They also said online matches are 64 players, 32 on each side.

Take with a grain of salt, but these guys have posted rumours in the past about the new movie which ended up being true.

 

[Millky95]

http://makingstarwars.net/2015/02/tons-star-wars-battlefront-rumors-links-star-wars-force-awakens/



Take with a grain of salt, but these guys have posted rumours in the pasrt about the new movie which ended up being true.

The lack of the mention of a third person mode is disturbing.

 

[pantskyle]

Fairly pumped to see more of this game.

 

[Vooligan]

Definitely getting this. I reckon more information will be released around May. It seems Disney are planning on releasing a lot of Star Wars movie info for May 4th (SW Day) and I'd say the game info might follow shortly afterwards.

 

[JordanWCE]

The lack of the mention of a third person mode is disturbing.

The lack of news about Galactic Conquest is even more disturbing. It's not Battlefront without it.

 

[manureid]

In!

 

[Vooligan]

In!

That's what we like to hear! Getting Reidy Jr into it to? Does his generation even know what Star Wars is?

 

[manureid]

That's what we like to hear! Getting Reidy Jr into it to? Does his generation even know what Star Wars is?

Yeh, loves it. Although as any good parent would, I steer him clear of the prequels.

 

[Jatz]

Yeh, loves it. Although as any good parent would, I steer him clear of the prequels.

Very wise!

 

[pantskyle]

Prequels are good though

 

[manureid]

Prequels are good though

Meesa thinks pants is cwaaaaazy...

 

[pantskyle]

Meesa thinks pants is cwaaaaazy...

One character does not ruin a trilogy, he was only noticeable in one movie. Was barely in the other two.

 

[Vooligan]

Yeh, loves it. Although as any good parent would, I steer him clear of the prequels.

What prequels?

 

[manureid]

One character does not ruin a trilogy, he was only noticeable in one movie. Was barely in the other two.

I didn't have time to post all of the shitty characters and go over the shitballs storyline that made the best bad guy in movie history look like a whinging, whining, pathetic spoilt little child. But you know...space battles and explosions!!!

 

[pantskyle]

I didn't have time to post all of the shitty characters and go over the shitballs storyline that made the best bad guy in movie history look like a whinging, whining, pathetic spoilt little child. But you know...space battles and explosions!!!

The originals were hardly pieces of art, they are all cheesy and camp.

 

[manureid]

The originals were hardly pieces of art, they are all cheesy and camp.

 

[Vooligan]

The originals were hardly pieces of art, they are all cheesy and camp.

 

[The Big Sauce]

Episode III is a decent movie, I tend to pretend the other two prequels don't exist but EpIII closed it out well.

In a funny way EpIII is a less disappointing closer than EpVI

 

[manureid]

Episode III is a decent movie, I tend to pretend the other two prequels don't exist but EpIII closed it out well.

In a funny way EpIII is a less disappointing closer than EpVI

Except of course for one of the most cringeworthy moments in the prequels (and that includes the Padme and Anakin romance!)

Dammit, now you have gone and got me started!!

Back to Battlefront!

 

[nameless]

I'm both excited and disappointed at the 1st person stuff.

To me it won't really feel like Battlefront as much, more a Battlefield in space - to put it simply.

I hope it works out well though, if those rumours are true, it'll have a lot of content - 64 player battles will be epic!

 

[Vooligan]

Episode III is a decent movie, I tend to pretend the other two prequels don't exist but EpIII closed it out well.

In a funny way EpIII is a less disappointing closer than EpVI

"YOU KILLED YOUNGLINGS!"

"From MY point of view the Jedi are Evil"

 

[The Big Sauce]

Except of course for one of the most cringeworthy moments in the prequels (and that includes the Padme and Anakin romance!)

Dammit, now you have gone and got me started!!

Back to Battlefront!

Ewoks were more cringeworthy than 'Noooooooooo'

I don't think either closer was a perfect film. But I rank Episode III higher than Episode VI because EpVI made some script changes that made it a much more disappointing film in hindsight.