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Star Wars Battlefront announcement - DICE

I'm a huge fan of Star Wars and today they announced what can be the Game. Guess ill have to buy a pc after all.

In their pre-E3 press conference today, Electronic Arts Inc. announced the production of a new entry in the Star Wars: Battlefront franchise, currently titled Star Wars: Battlefront. It is being developed by DICE, creators of the critically-acclaimed Battlefield games, and will utilize the Frostbite 3 engine. As one of the world’s premier video game developers, DICE has the talent and expertise to deliver a Star Wars experience like no other, while pushing the boundaries of what is capable in a video game.

See the teaser trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmo-YYoHnGs

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Yes yes YES!!!!

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star wars franchise : now owned by the walt disney company

developed by : dice (owned by ea, creater of the crappiest shooter ever ; bf3)

publisher : ea

can it get any worse ?

sorry lec :=)

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lol X, I know the playability will not be great, far from it, but the graphics will look amazing thats for sure. Ill buy that game for that and to fly a Tie Fight

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star wars franchise : now owned by the walt disney company

developed by : dice (owned by ea, creater of the crappiest shooter ever ; bf3)

publisher : ea

can it get any worse ?

sorry lec :=)

BF2 really sucked but BF3 is really sick if you have a good comp.

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They better have the snowspeeder with the tow to trip those ATAT bastards!

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oh yes, its sick ;-)

heres a little, very incomplete and preliminary list i continously made and updated while playing bf3 from october 2011 to may 2012

90 % of those issues, game structure flaws and design shortcomings still havent been fixed, and never will

enjoy :-)

- 500+ bugs
- bad netcode
- client side hit registation
- no voip
- no battlerecorder
- no mod tools
- no commander mode
- no tutorial
- no ingame timer possible
- no ingame player voting system
- no ingame player to player messenger
- no way to explore maps and practice on empty private home servers
- not possible to move around / free roam on empty ranked servers
- not possible to train / play alone on unrank serv …2 players required to start
- no patch / game version available ingame or in origin or battlelog
- no official channel for upcoming updates, only short, hard-to-find scattered tweets
- not possible to reset your profile’s stats
- 3 apps to play one game: bf3, origin, webbrowser
- poor mouse support
- poor joystick support
- no separate mouse sensitivity for vehicles, infantry, planes, etc
- not possible to change name while in-game
- player names only a maximum of 16 characters long, should be 24+
- clan tags only a maximum of 4 characters long, should be 6+
- no special symbols in names, only brackets, underscore, hyphen
- no built in screenshot key function
- commo-rose missing many vital commands
- map load times too long …. background loading at end of current map could reduce this
- only limited weapon info …. damage, accuracy, reload speed - should be added
- no option to “add buddy” ingame ( will highlight a selected player on minimap, scoreboard, chat, kill box, etc. )

Graphics :

- depressing colours and environments … everything looks pale grey / pale brown … no true red, green, blue, yellow
- blue filter / low colour temperature on all maps
- most maps look the same
- no windows xp / directx 9 support – xbox 360 is basically a dx9 machine, so this could easily had been done
- no real “low” graphics settings to get high frames per second
- not state of the art directx 11 graphics ... looks like 2007 graphics
- some objects are highly detailed, others aren’t
- no way to control ranged graphics details: bushes and grass pop up of the ground, etc.
- tree animations looks shaky and overdone
- unrealistic human animations

Sound :

- poor ingame audio positioning
- too hard to hear enemy footsteps / vehicle sounds
- ambient sound is repetitive
- ambient nonplayer gunfire should be removed

Battlelog

- battlereports are often unavailable
- not possible to delete friends and non-friends battle feed on your own profile
- not possible to send private messages to non-friend profiles
- not possible to send messages to offline friends
- weapon info; rate of fire, ammunition, etc. is incorrect for many weapons, and not updated when weapon specs are changed in patches
- battlelog forum missing almost every thinkable basic / standard feature : pictures, view count, sorting, bbcode gui, favorites, views, rating, advanced search, subscribe, posts per page, etc. etc.

Battlelog server browser :

- no queues for entering full servers
- 300 servers browser cap
- server browser needs to be scrolled down after refresh to show all servers
- can’t join servers by typing ip
- ip of servers not showing
- filters missing : unranked servers, ping, tickets, full server, player respawn time
- no options in server filter, not to pick an option
- not possible to see ticket setting in server settings
- not possible to see current round scoreboard for a specific server
- not possible to see total number of bf3 players worldwide
- not possible to see total number of bf3 servers worldwide
- no option to “blacklist” servers (the opposite of favorites)
- not possible to sort / categorize favorites
- can’t write own comments about specific servers
- server map rotation info on battlelog doesn’t show if maps get played one or two times
- many servers show up twice

Admining :

- No freecam or trackcam for admins / players means that admining is ruined, it’s virtually impossible to detect :

• glitching
• exploiting
• cheating
• hacking
• teamwounding
• deliberate teamkilling
• friendly vehicle damaging
• idling / afk’ing in vehicles
• wasting vehicles
• friendly vehicle destroying
• vehicle stealing when repairing
• vehicle whoring
• vehicle blocking
• player blocking
• spawnblocking
• taxiing to aircrafts
• taxiing with aircrafts
• mining main uncap base
• etc. etc. etc.

Server setup :

- not possible to set up servers on home computers
- no lan support
- no adjustable teambalance, only +- 1 per team
- not possible to control number of vehicles, extra vehicles, etc

Game modes :

- in reality only three modes, conquest, rush, tdm
- no new and original modes
- no capture the flag
- some vehicles only available in rush mode

End of round / postgame

- 60 second pause after round end, before starting to load next map… should be defineable down to 5 seconds
- no victory ceremony / top player board
- user menu not available
- loadout customization not possible
- no chat

Maps / Levels / Game environment :

- only 9 maps at launch, should be 15 at least
- almost no maps with hills, mountains, gorges, valleys
- virtually no sea warfare, no true sea maps, no driveable ships
- no maps with loads of aircrafts for huge air battles
- no maps with loads of tanks for huge tank battles
- maps are too small
- only aircrafts can use the entire map, land vehicles and infantry are limited to the center only
- centered flags on all maps
- 5 flags on seven out of nine maps
- no maps with captureable mains
- no maps where one team controls the majority or all flags at start
- no maps where the both teams control some of the flags at start
- no maps where one or both teams have no main bases
- too few vehicles on most maps
- air vehicles are able / allowed to enter enemy mains, land vehicles, infantry is not
- carriers can’t be damaged, destroyed
- no special spawnpoints : parachute spawn, flying plane spawn, etc
- few or no vehicles spawn at flags
- no bomberplanes, no artillery
- no map edit tools

Game view / Game cams :

- no freecam
- no trackcam for following individual players
- only one external vehicle cam
- no chasecam when being non-driver / pilot in vehicles and aircrafts

Ingame 3D markers / tags :

- markers over both friendly and enemy infantry and vehicles too small and too hard to notice
- flag markers and other 3d icons are constantly visible and often in the center of the screen where aiming is needed, there should be an option to turn classes of markers, or all markers, off

Ingame mechanics :

- being able to see some enemy infantry (spotted) on the minimap is the lamest feature ever
- not possible to see time passed during a round
- minimum respawn time is 12 seconds … should be adjustable down to two
- while dead, spawn menu, user menu, loadout, is unavailable until 12 seconds has passed
- automatic respawn in main when selected spawnpoint is unavailable
- black screen up to 2 seconds after respawn
- when you get revived, weapon gets autoswichted to handgun … should be the weapon that was last used
- it’s not possible to remove or reduce the 25 second round start delay where players are locked in position
- out of bounds black screen should be removed, should be warn sign only
- only one teamswitch every second round, should be one per round
- no option to scramble / mix teams during a round
- all vehicles have unlimited ammo
- altitude ceiling of 1 km for aircrafts too little, should be 2+
- when hitting the altitude ceiling, aircraft gets stuck for ten seconds
- no unguided bombs for jets
- no rear view mirrors for jeeps or any other land vehicles
- one player can completely block teammates in narrow passages, ... player pushing has been disabled
- parachutes only 90 degrees directional controllable, not 360
- no shooting while sprinting
- no autosprint toggle, key has to be pressed all the time
- no key-free run / sprint toggle
- no keybind for bipod
- 5 meter fall to water kills you
- no underwater swimming
- no leaning
- some fire from burning objects do damage to infantry, others don’t
- not possible for players to see map rotation ingame
- the flashlight blinding effect in broad daylight is overdone and ridiculous
- irnv scope is idiotic and overpowered
- can’t pull dead players into safety before reviving
- no horns on jeeps
- no grenade cooking

Destruction / Object interaction :

- less destruction in battlefield 3 than bad company 2
- no terrain / ground deformation
- some things disappear when destroyed ... others don’t
- only some buildings are destructable
- some parts of buildings can be destroyed, while other identical parts of the building can’t
- some non enterable vehicles are destructable, others arent; cars are, forklifts, excavators aren’t
- some things can be moved around when shot at or bumped into ... others of same size and shape can’t
- player corpses are unmoveable

Squads :

- max squad size of 4 is too small, should be 5 to 8
- not possible to select / invite squad members
- not possible to expell / kick / ban squad members
- not possible to choose / vote for leader
- not possible to name / rename squads

User menu :

- all menus are too small for pc resolution … its obvious they are designed for lowres consoles with gamepads
- no support for mouse wheel in scroll down menus
- keybindings take too long to clear ... no way to clear all keybindings at once
- user menu not available when dead and waiting to spawn, and not available after end of round
- all bars / sliders : mouse sensivity, soldier look sensivity, stereoscopic depth, master sound volume, brightness, motion blur amount - should have a number number values too … a bar / slider is too imprecise

Spawn map :

- way way way too small
- not clickable with mouse
- too hard to distinguish between icons … better colour coding needed
- spawn map not available when alive, and only available 12 sec

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wtf crap game

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Bf4 comming soon 2013

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Re: Star Wars Battlefront announcement - DICE

oh yes, its sick ;-)

heres a little, very incomplete and preliminary list i continously made and updated while playing bf3 from october 2011 to may 2012

- no tutorial

You seriously need a tutorial?

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Re: Star Wars Battlefront announcement - DICE

the best thing in Battlefront 1 was trying to kill Jedis (Count Dooku and Mace Windu ) on Bespin (Cloud Platforms or something) by pushing them down on other hand, i think BFront2 was unplayable game, they mess it up with it

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Anyone know what the required specs will be? I'm probably going to need a new PC

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Re: Star Wars Battlefront announcement - DICE

Anyone know what the required specs will be? I'm probably going to need a new PC

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Re: Star Wars Battlefront announcement - DICE

Anyone know what the required specs will be? I'm probably going to need a new PC

What are the specs of your computer?

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It is pretty old. Actually, it is very old lol. The ram is maxed out and the video card is pretty much the best I could get for an AGP.

P4 1.8 GHz
2gigs of RAM
Radeon HD 3650 AGP

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It is pretty old. Actually, it is very old lol. The ram is maxed out and the video card is pretty much the best I could get for an AGP.

P4 1.8 GHz
2gigs of RAM
Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Yes you need a new computer for that game play you can get a better console like PlayStation or xbox.
Is easier and you don't have to check every time you specs of your computer

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We have a playstation. I just don't like shooters very much when I don't have a mouse!

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We have a playstation. I just don't like shooters very much when I don't have a mouse!

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Playstation is more for race games and grand theft auto

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We have a playstation. I just don't like shooters very much when I don't have a mouse!

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Playstation is more for race games and grand theft auto

Bullshit

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Re: Star Wars Battlefront announcement - DICE

i tried to play the latest call of duty at my friends playstation, it sucks to aim with joystick lol, it takes some days to get used to it, but with mouse aiming is much much faster