Star Wars Battlefront

[heychadwick 11,357]

I haven't had a chance to play much in at least a week, if not two (vacation).  I hope to play some more soon.

 

Well....guess on the vehicle....the App that tells you stuff had a bit where it tracked how many kills you got with various vehicles.  At one point, it had Y-wing there.  So, my guess is Y-wing.

[DariusAPB 6,925]

I hope Y-wing, and it does fit the Death Star...

[Crabbok 9,869]

TIE Advanced seems to be coming in the Death Star update... but can't see any new rebel ship.

[Suriel 619]

Bought new SSD, installed Win 10 and Battlefront, crashes on start up. Well f..k...

[McFoy 672]

Bought new SSD, installed Win 10 and Battlefront, crashes on start up. Well f..k...

Is that your SSD on Jakku?

[Suriel 619]

 

Bought new SSD, installed Win 10 and Battlefront, crashes on start up. Well f..k...

Is that your SSD on Jakku?

 

 

Reinstalling Origin helped. Now I remember how bad that game is.

Edited July 19, 2016 by Suriel

[heychadwick 11,357]

New updates for Battlefront.

 

Free Game Update: New Skirmish Mode

 

Looking to enjoy epic battles offline by yourself or with a friend? Starting on July 21st, check out our new offline mode Skirmish. This new mode will offer players the ability to play across two of Star Wars™ Battlefront's™ most popular modes, against AI, on a difficulty level of your choosing. Take to the battlefront in Walker Assault or the skies within Fighter Squadron. Experience this new mode with a friend using the coop split screen option. With multiple locations that span the Star Wars™ universe, we hope Skirmish will give players a new way to enjoy Star Wars Battlefront.

 

Skirmish Modes:

Walker Assault:
Gameplay offering: Ground battles, Vehicle, Air Combat, and Hero Combat
Take on the massive Imperial AT-AT's that are descending upon the Rebel strongholds in an epic game of attack and defend in this 40 player mode.
Maps: 7
Player Count: 1 or 2
Total Count: 40
Difficulty: Normal, Hard or Master

 

Fighter Squadron 
Gameplay offering: Air Combat and Hero Vehicle Combat
Take to the skies and dogfight in some of the most memorable Star Wars vehicles including X-wings, TIE fighters, the Millennium Falcon, and more.
Player Count: 1 or 2
Total Count: 10
Difficulty: Normal, Hard or Master

Edited July 21, 2016 by heychadwick

[heychadwick 11,357]

New Hutt Contract - Stinger Pistol

 

Jabba is back with another Hutt Contract for players to unlock.

 

 

abba is back with another Hutt Contract for players to unlock. The Stinger Pistol is the first charged Star Card that is an actual weapon which can be freely fired during the card’s active time. While not as strong as a primary blaster, it can be fired freely, is immune to Sabotage and delivers Stinger Damage to enemies, which will continuously burn off health until the effect wears off or the soldier is defeated.

Name: Pistolier

Type: Charge Card

Unlock: Stinger Pistol

Cost: 3500

Bounty: Get 15 Kills with Scout Pistol

Get 25 Kills with DL-18

Name: Pistolier II

Type: Charge Card

Unlock: Stinger Pistol (Black)

Cost: 8000

Bounty: Get 5 Kills with Stinger Pistol

Get 30 Kills with DH-17

Get 30 Kills with SE-14C

Stinger Pistol Tips

Dev Tips

Try to hit as many enemies as possible, since the stinger damage doesn’t stack multiple times on the same soldier.

Stim pack creates immunity to the stinger shot, and a Bacta bomb is the perfect way to get out of certain death.

[heychadwick 11,357]

LIVE EVENTS CALENDAR

 

 

JULY 21ST New Hutt Contract

A brand new Hutt Contract will make its way to the battlefront, visit Jabba for more details...

 

 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19 TO SUNDAY, AUGUST 21 Bespin Open Trial Weekend

 

Explore the Cloud City of Bespin with a free trial weekend. Visit iconic locations shown in the movie, traverse the platforms, bridges, and regal white hallways of the Administrator’s Palace, to the dark, industrial corridors of the Carbonite-Freezing Chambers. You can even take to the skies in a Cloud Car.

 

*Star Wars Battlefront for applicable platform (sold separately), internet connection, EA account, and for console players, an Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus account required.

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 30 New Hutt Contract

A brand new Hutt Contract will make its way to the battlefront, visit Jabba for more details...

 

 

SEPTEMBER 12TH TO SEPTEMBER 18TH Bespin Open Trial

Explore the Cloud City of Bespin with a free trial weekend. Visit iconic locations shown in the movie, from the platforms, bridges, and unforgettable hallways of the Administrator’s Palace, to the dark, industrial corridors of the Carbonite-Freezing Chambers. You can even take to the skies in a Cloud Car.

 

*Star Wars Battlefront for applicable platform (sold separately), internet connection, EA account, and for console players, an Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus account required.

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 TO SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Death Star Double-Score Weekend

 

Double your score this weekend to celebrate the launch of the Death Star expansion for Season Pass owners.

Explore the Cloud City of Bespin with a free trial weekend. Visit iconic locations shown in the movie, traverse the platforms, bridges, and regal white hallways of the Administrator’s Palace, to the dark, industrial corridors of the Carbonite-Freezing Chambers. You can even take to the skies in a Cloud Car.

 

*Star Wars Battlefront for applicable platform (sold separately), internet connection, EA account, and for console players, an Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus account required.

[heychadwick 11,357]

 

New Heroes

 

The developers also confirmed the upcoming heroes as Bossk, and one we know you've all been waiting for, everyone's favorite co-pilot, Chewbacca. Chewie has been one of the most requested heroes and we are excited to see him team up alongside current heroes including his partner, Han Solo.

Space Combat

 

There are all-new maps, with combat taking place in space outside the Death Star, and inside the walls of the ultimate weapon. 

 

Multi-Stage Gameplay

 

Test your skill by taking off and flying through a trench on the surface of the Death Star.

New Vehicles + More

 

You do get to see a Tie Adv. in the artwork for the expansion.  I do like the idea of multi stage gameplay for the flight aspect.  It would be cool to have more depth to the fighter expansion.

Edited July 21, 2016 by heychadwick

[DariusAPB 6,925]

oooh. Fighter battles on master...

[Dagonet 7,246]

Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, it seems I'm not working on the Death Star Double Score weekend!

Though that thursday we come home from the holiday to Mallorca, so I'll of course be busy enough. 

[ViscerothSWG 3,940]

Have they said if bounties can be unlocked in skirmish?

[DariusAPB 6,925]

I don't think skirmish unlocks anything. I id load it up on fighter squadron, go straight to master and win 200-16x. I admit though that I had to play properly, had to use the falcon and had to go for objectives both friendly and enemy. This said I used both X and A wings.

 

 

50 kills.

Edited July 22, 2016 by DariusAPB

[Dagonet 7,246]

For the life of me,I'll never understand why updates are so large. If we'd update our software like that at work we'd never be finished.

[Admiral Deathrain 5,232]

For the life of me,I'll never understand why updates are so large. If we'd update our software like that at work we'd never be finished.

Its on console, right? Its pretty expensive to do patches for console, which is why devs usually throw everything in there. Which means, if they redid a few textures that adds up quickly given the resolutions games have these days.

[DariusAPB 6,925]

I kinda hope they port the DLC maps over to Skirmish too. I am really enjoying it.

 

Will this game compete with Eternal Crusade, BFGA and Subnautica*? probably not but it's back to being a good laugh.

 

 

 

 

 

* If this game had Co-op, it would be all i play ever. Seriously, look up Subnautica, it is amazing.

Edited July 22, 2016 by DariusAPB

[Dagonet 7,246]

 

For the life of me,I'll never understand why updates are so large. If we'd update our software like that at work we'd never be finished.

Its on console, right? Its pretty expensive to do patches for console, which is why devs usually throw everything in there. Which means, if they redid a few textures that adds up quickly given the resolutions games have these days.

 

 

I doubt it is more expensive than the security updates for our datacenters, to name but one thing. .

This single update was 12GB. That's just reissuing the entire game, not a patch.

[heychadwick 11,357]

I didn't get to try it.  I forgot about updating my Xbox until I wanted to play it.  It took forever and then it was time to get to the game store for X-wing.  

 

Oh, you can only get bounties through online play.  No private matches.  

Edited July 22, 2016 by heychadwick

[DariusAPB 6,925]

I actually really like it. I tried a couple games of walker assault too, one as imp and the other as reb. I swear i spent most of that as han solo fighting desperate battles against literal hordes of stormtroopers.

 

Basically it's not a reflection of true multiplayer, as the bot types are more r less the same. - they swarm you, rarely use special stuff except for the odd ATST and fighter. But man, that's ok. It makes you feel like it's a pitched battle.

 

 

I do see them using multiple grenade launchers and shields quite a bit. Sometimes the pulse cannon. I figure they use the "default" loadouts for the skirmish.

Edited July 22, 2016 by DariusAPB

[Dagonet 7,246]

I didn't get to try it.  I forgot about updating my Xbox until I wanted to play it.  It took forever and then it was time to get to the game store for X-wing.  

 

 

Same here, though I had to get to work instead of gaming.

[ViscerothSWG 3,940]

For the life of me,I'll never understand why updates are so large. If we'd update our software like that at work we'd never be finished.

Its on console, right? Its pretty expensive to do patches for console, which is why devs usually throw everything in there. Which means, if they redid a few textures that adds up quickly given the resolutions games have these days.

 

I doubt it is more expensive than the security updates for our datacenters, to name but one thing. .

This single update was 12GB. That's just reissuing the entire game, not a patch.

This update was only 3.8gb for me. Do you not have season pass?

[DariusAPB 6,925]

Said 12 gig for me but was done in ~ half an hour.

I see this with steam quite often, I reckon it means 3-4 gigs compressed, taking 12 gigs space upon install.

[Dagonet 7,246]

 

 

 

For the life of me,I'll never understand why updates are so large. If we'd update our software like that at work we'd never be finished.

Its on console, right? Its pretty expensive to do patches for console, which is why devs usually throw everything in there. Which means, if they redid a few textures that adds up quickly given the resolutions games have these days.

 

I doubt it is more expensive than the security updates for our datacenters, to name but one thing. .

This single update was 12GB. That's just reissuing the entire game, not a patch.

This update was only 3.8gb for me. Do you not have season pass?

 

 

Nah, I'll get that this weekend I guess, the promised upgrading seems to be worth it.

[Admiral Deathrain 5,232]

 

 

For the life of me,I'll never understand why updates are so large. If we'd update our software like that at work we'd never be finished.

Its on console, right? Its pretty expensive to do patches for console, which is why devs usually throw everything in there. Which means, if they redid a few textures that adds up quickly given the resolutions games have these days.

 

 

I doubt it is more expensive than the security updates for our datacenters, to name but one thing. .

This single update was 12GB. That's just reissuing the entire game, not a patch.

 

Silly me from bad internet zone thinking of 4-5GB 12GB isn't large, thats gigantic! Yes, it might not be more expensive (it probably isn't), but games publishers like to cut cost on such things. There is a fixed cost for every patch you release (+ probably linear scaling price for data volume). Which means making more small patches is more expensive than one large update idealy timed together with your latest DLC pack. We are talking about EA. You already bought the game, so they don't care if you need to download their stuff overnight.