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[JNA]

Reading that was draining. Cynicism just doesn't jive with me.

The minute I heard "only 3 planets, no space combat", my hype pretty much deflated almost completely. And of course, DLC up the wozzu. Probably DLC space combat just watch lol.

God damn you EA.

 

[SargerusBR]

ALTHOUGH, would Bobba Fett being on Jakku make sense in the timeline? I am not sure when the battle of jakku takes place in regards to Return of the Jedi

1 year after ROTJ

 

[Tubie]

I'm wondering if the PC community for Battlefront will be a ghost town?

- Anti-Origin sentiment (Gabe or bust)
- Anti-EA
- BF4 anger
- Battlefield Hardline low PC stats

It will do fine, the PC community simply rejected Hardline it seems.

BF3 Stats

BF3 has 5k players on PC right now.

BF4 Stats

12k (27k peak in the past 24 hours) for BF4.

BFH Stats

3.5k (7k peak) for BFH.

 

[HariKari]

It will do fine, the PC community simply rejected Hardline it seems.

It's a bad game and not a huge leap over BF4. No reason to switch. Plus all the lingering bad feelings over how bad BF4 was at launch.

Battlefront will do fine, certainly better than Hardline, so long as it's not a technical trainwreck.

 

[Sorc3r3r]

yes

I'll repost this from way earlier while I'm back here. This is most likely one of the Jakku maps.

This grab reminds me the old days of pit figher or the first mortal kombat, looks good but the whole illumination is wrong,it gives to me a deep uncanny valley effect.

 

[darth_infamous]

The planet with Boba Fett is Tatooine, not Jakku. You can see a sandcrawler in the background.

 

[matrixman92]

The planet with Boba Fett is Tatooine, not Jakku. You can see a sandcrawler in the background.

I dont think sandcrawlers are exclusive to a certain planet

I do think its Tatooine though

 

[bigDave]

what about that star destroyer being "destroyed" by squadrons like Titans in 2142?

 

[superjona]

Splitscreen? Unexpected, but awesome.

 

[Kathian]

I'm wondering if the PC community for Battlefront will be a ghost town?

- Anti-Origin sentiment (Gabe or bust)
- Anti-EA
- BF4 anger
- Battlefield Hardline low PC stats

People use Origin and its actually a good customer experience (superior to Steam in that regard). Anti EA is as much on any platform; same with BF4 anger. Meanwhile Hard line didn't sell well on PC because it was poor value proposition and the beta was quite unambitious feeling.

Battlefront will do very well. So happy to hear no SP. No doubt we'll see some SP DLC but I've wanted devs to just go all in on multi player for these games.

 

[EASTC0AST_GH05T]

cracked and preorderd the game immediately from the PS Store even though the game is like 7 months away.

 

[Kathian]

cracked and preorderd the game immediately from the PS Store even though the game is like 7 months away.

Preordering digital content to me is certainly 'cracking'.

 

[EASTC0AST_GH05T]

Preordering digital content to me is certainly 'cracking'.

going all digital this gen, no waiting in line to buy a disc and no waiting on the mail. I also use my PS vita to remotely connect to my PS4 to play my digital games on the go.

 

[Wil348]

I would have pre ordered the digital version had the box art not been absolutely stunning. Seriously, one of the best game box arts I've seen this year.

 

[EASTC0AST_GH05T]

I would have pre ordered the digital version had the box art not been absolutely stunning. Seriously, one of the best game box arts I've seen this year.

hey I appreciate the box art in my digital library. I have a friend who also goes all digital but he is still attached to collecting game cases so he buys game cases from online to collect.

 

[Katana_Strikes]

I would have pre ordered the digital version had the box art not been absolutely stunning. Seriously, one of the best game box arts I've seen this year.

What's the box art look like?

 

[Memorabilia]

Lol, 40 players. Next-gen indeed. I suppose Jaguar cant keep up.

20 v 20 may be more of a deliberate design choice than hardware limitation. BF4 is at its best up to about 32 v 32. To my taste, 64 v 64 matches are simply too hectic to be much fun most of the time...

 

[Skyzard]

New maps are going to be DLC?

Hope it doesn't kill the userbase and excitement like with most games that do that, 8ish maps with 4 different types of environment doesn't sound like it's content packed, even less so with no campaign.

 

[Ashes2Bashers]

No ADS..This makes me more than hyped for Battlefront..

 

[Marvel]

Looks like I'm never going to be a Hero/Sith then, as good as I am at BF games it's never enough to score 1st place usually.

Sad.

 

[Gamezone]

I am very interested in this game, but will most likely not buy it at launch. Not after the shit show that was BF4.

They are going to push this out before christmas, even if its not done by then. We all know that.

 

[Messofanego]

What's the box art look like?

 

[EASTC0AST_GH05T]

 

[EatChildren]

I love that it's an in-game model. You can see the vertices

 

[Always-honest]

g]

I see bomberman.

Anyway, pretty cool that they use the real helmets. There is some stuff drawn onto it with a marker. It's crazy but cool that they went with that.

 

[Azdoune]

Does it have music?

 

[EASTC0AST_GH05T]

Does it have music?

nope just silence =(, no epic music with the theme which is kind of a bummer. Good thing there is spotify. I have been using that to listen to Star Wars Soundtracks

 

[Warablo]

I'm very meh about all this right now. I think I was hoping for Battlefield clone.

 

[Rosur]

most of the info so far has got me hyped for Battlefront, now just hoping they test the shit out of the servers so they don't fail on launch (but this is gonna be a 2mill+ launch so can see it still failing).

 

[pieface]

No ADS? Lame.

No gameplay footage out yet?

 

[Turkoop]

just let hope the best, I'm sure DICE will not dissapoint us

 

[EASTC0AST_GH05T]

I'm very meh about all this right now. I think I was hoping for Battlefield clone.

why hope for a clone if it could end up being better then a clone?

 

[Rosur]

No ADS? Lame.

No gameplay footage out yet?

not yet doubt we will see some until E3

 

[MilkyJoe]

not yet doubt we will see some until E3

Didn't a tweet go out yesterday about game play footage and the dude said it was still rendering and will post it when done? Or did I dream that?

 

[tokilamockingbrd]

Why would Battlefront be a ghost town? It will be massive on PC, like BF 3 and BF 4 was, but i expect bigger.

Anti-Origin sentiment is really very small % of players.

agree while I don't like Origin it does not prevent me from playing games on it. That said this is a day 1 purchase for the PS4 for me.

 

[Wil348]

What's the box art look like?

It's that poster/banner that was leaked on Thursday with the crashed Snowspeeder and AT-AT's.

 

[PreFire]

60 fps? Gimme gimme

 

[DOWN]

Looks great, but I only pre-order when they have those "spend $100 or more, get $15 in your PSN wallet" promos and if one doesn't happen before launch, I preorder the night before release.

 

[the_batman]

i read some posts somewhere that there isn't an ADS, (aim down sight), mechanic? is that true? if so, no that sucks.

 

[WillyBear]

Does anyone have a version of this high res picture without the logo? I'd love to have this as my wallpaper but without the logo :s.

 

[SuperEpicMan]

Has anyone worked how maps have been revealed, because so far we have seen maps of:

Hoth
Endor
Jakku

 

[pa22word]

I'm wondering if the PC community for Battlefront will be a ghost town?

- Anti-Origin sentiment (Gabe or bust)
- Anti-EA
- BF4 anger
- Battlefield Hardline low PC stats

Yeah, after titanfall I'm pretty much done buying AAA console shooters on PC. The PC gaming community seems to have moved on for the most part, with almost every game becoming a ghost town after a month or so.

I mean I think the game sounds like fun, but who knows if the community will be active enough to support it and it's knowingly insane DLC map pack racket.

 

[pieface]

Wait, so there is ADS! Yay!!!

 

[cyberheater]

Wait, so there is ADS! Yay!!!

What's ADS?

 

[jesu]

I'm very meh about all this right now. I think I was hoping for Battlefield clone.

The clone factories where closed after the Battle Of Endor due to an economic crisis.

 

[EASTC0AST_GH05T]

What's ADS?

aim down sight?

 

[tensuke]

No space battles? Dafuq? That was the coolest in BF2, flying out of your ship, attacking other ships, boarding them and destroying systems, etc.

Really soured my hype for BF3.

 

[cyberheater]

aim down sight?

Sweet. Thanks.

 

[Ark]

Yeah, after titanfall I'm pretty much done buying AAA console shooters on PC. The PC gaming community seems to have moved on for the most part, with almost every game becoming a ghost town after a month or so.

I mean I think the game sounds like fun, but who knows if the community will be active enough to support it and it's knowingly insane DLC map pack racket.

That's because Titanfall was lacklustre for the PC community.

BF4 is still going strong long after its release.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Reading that was draining. Cynicism just doesn't jive with me.

I'm not even going to bother. PC Gamer pissed me off yesterday. Their assumptions (lol only 4 maps) created dozens of pages of unfounded bitching.

I've preordered and I am excited, nothing short of this being secretly laden with microtransactions will deter me.