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Star Wars Battlefront is current-gen only (PS4/XBO/PC)
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CarbonFire
Member
That'd be like asking them to ditch Origin for Steam. They're 100% married to the idea, for better or worse.
CountAntonius
Member
Mad Season
Banned
Good
Ricky Ricardo
Member
Not necessarily. TitanFall launches normally through the desktop, without needing Battlelog. I'm hoping Star Wars BF will do the same.
Respawn is not EA owned though.
Oh, sweet. I'll probably pick this up then. Maybe I'll even get into the multiplayer (I tell myself this every year about a different game. Never do it).
SmackAttack
Member
Nice to hear, just please be good.
CarbonFire
Member
Battlelog is a DICE thing, not necessarily a whole EA thing. I just expect DICE to have it for every game from here on out, because it sidesteps their long held issue of releasing absolutely broke-ass server browsers, and having to wait for a game patch to fix them. It would be nice if battlelog were better integrated into their games though.
SeventhSon
Member
Current gen confirmed for having finally started.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
As I said in the other thread, I'm excited to see what a game powered by Frostbite 3 and DICE's artists/engineers can look like when the hardware ceiling is raised and limitations reduced. I'm quite fond of the engine, its performance and rendering, and think both Battlefield 4 and Inquisition are gorgeous. Handles foliage so much better than most other engines, love the way the environment is lit, and yeah. Gorgeous engine with the right art, gonna be swell to see Star Wars familiars rendered.
Gnome Scat
Member
Good, don't need last gen holding us back.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Excellent. Now confim the game is third person.
Battlefront will get its own Battlelog, most likely integrated into same page with MoH + BFs.
Uprise are developers of Battlelog for DICE/EA and on that site it mentions that particular service coming for Battlefront.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I'm sure it'll have a third person option, but given the original PR I believe first person is the priority. Worth remembering this isn't exactly Battlefront III, but DICE's vision of Battlefront.
shinobi602
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Check DM.
Hidden One
Member
PRAISE THE LORD
Well then I can't play it so that's fun.
texhnolyze
Banned
It's coming this holiday 2015 and I still have no idea what kind of game it is.
ChimpanzeeThat
Member
Why can't you play it?
Every time I try to play a game that uses Battlelog it comes up with an error that says "Game disconnected: something went wrong" and it never loads the map. Happened in BF 3 beta, BF 3, BF Hardline beta. I tried every suggestion I could find on it and nothing works.
Every once in a while I'll get a bee in my bonnet to play Battlefield and look for new solutions and it never works.
Not sure if it means anything, but the canon timeline in the paperback edition of A New Dawn places Battlefront after A New Hope but before Empire:
twilitezoner
Member
any chance of an alpha or beta release for this game mid summer?
LegalEagleMike
Member
good to know. Also thanks for reminding me that I need to get that book.
We'll see if this is on the newer version of Frostbite that uses PBR. That should elevate the lighting even more.
Could be that the game is still too late because Frostbite got PBR support in mid 2014, so that's ~1.5 years of production. Could be close.
This. I would put money on there being no 3rd-person, not as the standard Stormtrooper/Rebel or whatever anyway.
Maybe when you control a Jedi or something.
Safest bet is Battlefield: Star Wars Edition.
So just get a console version.
Maybe if I have one of them by the time it comes out but if it plays at the jittery 30 fps like some of the other BF games on console I'm definitely not. Can't do those console shooter framerates, it makes me actually feel ill. I couldn't play most of the Killzone games for the same reason.
veloxStrix
Banned
We are well over a year into the PS4 and XB1, they are current gen and they have been the current gen since the day they came out.
One look at the early concept footage in the video from last E3 and it's pretty clear that this was never going to be on last gen consoles. Honestly I'm surprised that the lack of last gen versions is news to anyone.
texhnolyze
Banned
block tower
Member
so im not technically literate, humor me; what would be the dramatic difference between what was possible using the Frostbite 3 for cross gen game and using the Frostbite 3 for a current gen game only? like what would be the obvious differences between Battlefield 4 and Star Wars Battlefront on current gen consoles ?
For a start, it should be optimised from the very beginning to take full advantage of the extra power. One would assume higher resolution output and textures, more stable framerate, extra effects etc. Basically it'll look better and play smoother. The way BF4/HL on PS4/X1 were meant to be.
Those games were built with the old gen in mind, so the game had to run well on the 'weakest' platform then scale up accordingly. Now they can stretch their legs a little.
block tower
Member
so just optimization, no large gameplay or graphical improvements?
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
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Gameplay-wise, we might see more on-screen so more vehicles, more players etc. Nothing too different.
Graphics-wise, a decent but not huge step up from the precedent set by Battlefield 4 / Hardline. The extra performance should mean overall it's a smoother experience.
The biggest difference will be in asset quality. The assets won't have to be designed to fit into less than 512mb of RAM any more.
Star Wars Battlefield
block tower
Member
i see. cool cool
It's DICE... you can't possibly have picked up a better developer to hand this game to. (multiple developers have already failed making this as well)
Large scale vehicle/infantry combat, DICE is unrivaled in that regard.