Star Wars: Battlefront new footage

[Dread Rlyeh]

Pre-load for the beta is active now, but the beta itself doesn't unlock until...looks like Thursday, according to the counter.

And yes, it's downloading as I type this.  ;D

October 8th, 12 P.M. (dunno what TZ) mine says.

[Tpek]

The beta was supposed to open half an hour ago, and in fact the origin website states it's available, and yet whenever I try to launch it I am told it's not.
Seems we have a failure to communicate. :P (or more correctly the guys at origin that posted about it being available did not communicate with the guys responsible for clicking the launch button)

[Tpek]

Seems to have be up now (and as of 30 mins ago).

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I've just tried out the single player mission.  God damn this is a nice looking game!

[Jarhead0331]

Yes...it looks spectacular. Wish the MP maps were also available in SP for the beta. Oh well...

[Freyland]

I'm really looking for feedback on how things would go with 3 PC's on a LAN... bots, mission variety, co-op or versus.  I dont want to spend $180 if we really cant enjoy it fully.

[undercovergeek]

is it a GPU burner?

[SirAndrewD]

First impression.  Looks good, runs smooth.  I honestly got killed a lot just because I stood there and admired the view. 

Game play wise, very meh.  It'll help when I know what I'm doing, but so far it's a bit too frenetic for my taste. 

Single player wave mode is awful.  Very intensely boring.

[Dread Rlyeh]

is it a GPU burner?

not really - as mentioned, looks good and seems pretty optimized though I haven't tried out the frenetic MP. 

The primary weapon variety looks like trash though.  Blaster 1, Blaster 2, MG Blaster, etc + some sort of sniper rifle.  There are jump packs and a couple grenade types, but kind of underwhelming.  Anyone know how feature complete (wrt weapons) the beta is compared to release?

[SirAndrewD]

Second impression. 

This is a console game.  While running smoothly and very well optimized for my PC with max settings, everything else just feels like it was designed without PC control schemes in mind. 

Flight is horrible.  It's mouse and keyboard unless you have a game pad, and attacks are bound to number keys and special maneuvers are tied to the F keys.  I haven't tried to rebind, so I don't know if it's possible.  Trying to control throttle with W and S, steer slowly by constantly dragging my mouse over and over and actually accomplish anything is really difficult.

Control issues bleed over to the ground game too.  You assign weapons and grenades to "card" slots, and the attacks are also bound to number keys.  Again, I'm sure these can be rebound, haven't tried.  Even rebound though, trying to use abilities and specials with four separate keys really feels like something only a gamepad can do cleanly. 

I switched to my 12 button mouse and it helped a bit, although I lost the DPI of my G700s.  I'll give it a try again with some of my G700 buttons rebound.

I can't imagine any rebinding fixing flight though. 

Lots of hacks and cheats out there too.  The banning was coming hot and heavy. 

I'm going to try more and give it a fair shake, but right now I'm not regretting my decision not to preorder.

[Dread Rlyeh]

This is a console game. 

Just got back from multiplayer and I was going to post something along these lines.   This doesn't even reach the Titanfall bar.  It's dumbed-down console trash.  Get drunk, plug in a controller, run the HDMI to your big screen or projector, usb dac --> stereo and you can enjoy all the mindless fun without the 20 fps.  Or you can just get drunk and watch some old u-boat documentary. 

[Jarhead0331]

Were you guys expecting ARMA 3?

[SirAndrewD]

This is a console game. 

Just got back from multiplayer and I was going to post something along these lines.   This doesn't even reach the Titanfall bar.  It's dumbed-down console trash.  Get drunk, plug in a controller, run the HDMI to your big screen or projector, usb dac --> stereo and you can enjoy all the mindless fun without the 20 fps.  Or you can just get drunk and watch some old u-boat documentary.

Yeah.  I was getting my butt handed to me at first.  Then I stopped playing methodically and got a few rounds where I led in kills.  Essentially I just quit trying to aim down the sights (it doesn't improve accuracy) and did a lot of frenetic run strafing, chucking grenades as soon as they were available.  That served much much better. 

Pretty much optimal for a drunken night on the PS4 with your controller. 

Oh, and AT-AT combat is ridiculously unfun.  On rails, inaccurate, and with a very short timer.   The AT-AT is essentially just a temporary power up.

Were you guys expecting ARMA 3?

No.  But this doesn't feel much like Battlefront 3.  Or even a Star Wars translation of Battlefield. 

[Dread Rlyeh]

Were you guys expecting ARMA 3?

I was hoping for something like Battlefield + SW.  Not sure where I got that crazy idea in my head.   

[mirth]

This series has never been about a deep tactical experience. It's always been run around and blow crap up, in a Star Wars wrapper.