Being live streamed for the reveal right now: http://www.starwars.com/ The game is being developed by DICE and published by EA. It uses the Frostbite 3 game engine like Battlefield 4 and Battlefield: Hardline. The game will be released Nov. 17th, 2015.
Aye it's awesome, really ass kicking. It's the PS trailer too. I just hope it'll be developed for PC, but it's a "take my money" here. Loved the battlefronts and i like DICE (not so much Visceral tho).
^^^This^^^ If people preorder and it is shit they're not allowed to complain. I have absolutely 0 expectations for this game. I'll check out the gameplay later today if it is still available.
I heard from a friend that it doesn't have a campaign. I won't take his word for it, but I know a lot of people would like a campaign.
Ya I heard that too. Not surprising since the first 2 Battlefront games also didnt really have campaigns either.
I agree. I really hate EA... But they still publish as lot of my favorite games. So I tend to get them anyway. Dragon Age Inquisition was pretty nice except for poor PC controls. And then we got BF4 launch
Since this uses the FB3 engine and is similar to Battlefield in many ways I do expect the launch to go much more smoothly than the BF4 launch did now that Dice and EA have learned a lot more about making and publishing games with the Frostbite 3 engine. But I do hate that I will have to use Origin to play this. Their PC launcher is one of the worst things ever to exist. It even beats out Blacklight: Retribution for worst launcher.
If you are going to buy the game at least don't preorder it. Wait for the suckers to put out the reviews and see if its worth it.
all my expectations where dashed when I was told no space combat D:... that was like my Favorite part of Battlefront 2, doing the epic like titan style combat, with the two large ships flying into the docking bays, with troops, having to fly as like wingman for the transports etc, have good guys on turrets to take down attackers gah it was amazing whyyy.
Ya I was pretty disappointed about that too. I kinda expected it though, being the same engine as BF4 and Hardline and from the same dev's as BF4. They have never been a space game developer and the engine wasnt exactly designed for space combat. There would need to be some significant additions and modifications to the engine to allow it in Frostbite 3. Still, if the maps are big enough (doubtful) then the aerial combat could still be fun. Id guess it will be right about the same as flying in BF4 though, with maybe a couple extra things to fly in.
it was one of the best parts about battlefront, I don't know if they at least plan to keep some sort of troop transport in the game? Like transport craft to drop people off on sites etc. Like how you do in Arma, this is a totally null/void feature in Battlefield style games, deploy fast fast fast, die deploy roughly same place again! Steal whatever vehicle you need to get to where you want to go then throw it in the ditch! woo.. no D:
Well so much for this game. I despise match making systems. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/09/02/star-wars-battlefront-servers/#more-311851
Yep saw that a day or two ago. There goes any hope that it can be a good game to play in the FPS division.