milestones playing as a class/unit/hero unlock more slots and give crates), make lootboxes rewards for ranking up and improve the credit rewards based on your performance instead of being a fairly flat rate based off of time the game will be in a much better spot. Honestly if they can fix up the progression system to be way more streamlined and directly influenced by what you're playing (i.e.

I can't stress how good this game looks and feels. Galactic Assault feels amazing when you invade significant planets like Naboo, Kashyyyk, Death Star II and more. In particular the Starfighter Assault mode is probably the best flying combat game you can get, and a real blast (hah) to play. There's a lot of really good stuff in there. The main issue here is that you're sorta having to gamble on them seeing how much they can salvage, and they're starting to set this weird precedent where they release games really badly and then spend the next months slowly making it what it should have been like on release.īattlefront II has a lot of potential. After the 4 DLC packs and patches he oversaw in the first game, pretty much every major complaint and issue had been addressed which could feasibly be done within the scope of the game including vastly improved customisation, a new Skirmish Mode, multi-stage objective based modes, Space Battles and major overhauls of units and modes. Basically this means that, much like EA Battlefront I, Dennis will be likely making a bunch of radical changes over the course of the next few months. The good news is that one of the great designers of DICE, Dennis Brännval, who was overseeing all the stuff that turned out great (classes, maps and modes, etc.) was recently promoted to be the Full Design Director of the game, which has brought in the three weakest points of the game under his control (Progression, Lootboxes, Customisation, Singleplayer).

You CAN manually make cards for your units with 'crafting parts' which you do actually get a fair quantity of, but all in all it's a really frustrating system. It's basically really messy, confusing and convoluted. The ability to get new things for your characters, vehicles and heroes is almost completely detached from how much or well you perform as them, instead relying on you to collect 'Star Cards' which, as you get more upgrades and unlocks things.

The whole lootbox thing isn't a problem because of the money, and isn't really pay to win either (the deluxe edition that costs $20 more however gives SIGNIFICANT advantages by immediately giving you powerful guns that pee all over the default variants, and take a lot of playing to unlock), but the problem is that the progression is intimately tied into what is essentially a chance system. Star Wars Battlefront II is a visual treat, has some decent gameplay feel and some really awesome moments. It really depends what type of game you're into.

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