It is hard to believe that I once liked Galactic Assault
Months ago I would have said I liked galactic assault (I would have sifted though my all my replies but I'm too lazy) but looking back I find it hard to believe that I said such thing.
Every map favors the defenders/light side so heavily it feels so pointless to even try sometimes, Phase 2 of Naboo, Phase 4 of Kamino, Phase 3 of Endor, Phase 2 and 3 of Hoth, just about every phase on Yavin, Phase 3 of Crait.
The wookiee warrior just so broken in this mode, constant throwing of room clearing grenades in the choke points the attackers have no choice but advance through (if they want to win that is).
I have been on some pretty bad teams that have been just getting ran over but someone simply picking Finn makes us win at the end.
I'm convinced that the only reason the light side loses in this mode is because the darkside was just too incompetent and I don't mean that in a mean way I'm just saying that wookiee cheese combined with Yofinn is just so unstoppable.
Mos Eisley, Death Star 2, and Kashyyyk are the only enjoyable maps I ever play on and I think that is kinda sad given that this is supposed to be the flashship mode for this game.
i really can't wait for the new conquest like mode to come, this game very much needs it. I hope it doesn't have chokepoints.
Every map favors the defenders/light side so heavily it feels so pointless to even try sometimes, Phase 2 of Naboo, Phase 4 of Kamino, Phase 3 of Endor, Phase 2 and 3 of Hoth, just about every phase on Yavin, Phase 3 of Crait.
The wookiee warrior just so broken in this mode, constant throwing of room clearing grenades in the choke points the attackers have no choice but advance through (if they want to win that is).
I have been on some pretty bad teams that have been just getting ran over but someone simply picking Finn makes us win at the end.
I'm convinced that the only reason the light side loses in this mode is because the darkside was just too incompetent and I don't mean that in a mean way I'm just saying that wookiee cheese combined with Yofinn is just so unstoppable.
Mos Eisley, Death Star 2, and Kashyyyk are the only enjoyable maps I ever play on and I think that is kinda sad given that this is supposed to be the flashship mode for this game.
i really can't wait for the new conquest like mode to come, this game very much needs it. I hope it doesn't have chokepoints.
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GA seems to biased to the LS as a whole, but not just when they're on ''defense'', but offense too.
As I mentioned in another thread:
Mos Eisley and Kashyyyk are more fair than all of those maps, but them two have at least one hardpoint, that being Bazaar and Clone Juggernaut tanks that can go wrong very fast if WWs' and heroes camp in there.
Whereas if we look at DS maps, their maps do offer a lot of options for its attackers to flank and attack the objectives. They don't have any chokepoints or any of that mess in which you couldn't just flank around and avoid them unlike the LS maps.
They have more flanks, cover, and sometimes even a height advantage (first phase on Endor), and the defenders don't necessarily have better positioning and / or cover than the attacking team, let alone a lot of cover when they re-spawn and make it back to defending the objectives.
The only advantage they have over attackers are close up spawns, and that's really only it. They don't have terrible map design helping them out or flanks which are too predictable by them (Death Star II is especially the case). Their maps by design far easier to overcome than the LS maps. They are the only and most ''balanced'' GA maps in that entire game mode.
Apologies for not using the proper terms but I've forgotten them at the moment. I hope I make sense.
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Casual man, been saying this since beta, now that the new has worn off many/most of the players I know are seeing how spam based and casual this game really is. GA like most of this game does away with any skill needed and favors some type of spam, be it health stacking, wall hacks, grenade spam, shock/stun, the list is long.
This wasn’t done by accident imo and was designed from the ground up for the weekend casual sw fan, that’s why 99% of every great/good player I know has left this game. Maybe conquest can bring back a little of what they had in battlefront 15, personally I’m ready for a totally revamped battlefront 3.
I am also looking forward to Conquest as well. It should be really fun. But I am sure there will be things people will not like about that mode as well. I don't mean to sound like a downer, but each and every mode has its ups and downs.
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New mode cannot come soon enough, hope they dont blow it.
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Part of me thinks that they have just given up on this mode and are just focusing on the new big mode that is coming, I see no point in making new maps for such a terribly designed mode.
I don't mind the amount of heroes, the absurd 5 wookiee warriors (which are better then some heroes in most cases) is what just destroys this mode.
I can sorta understand why heroes hide in this mode, 200BP speeder bikes hunting them, 5 million wookiees running around with nuclear shotguns, and being marked on the map isn't helping them much.
Also the lag. The laaagggg
Why they chose GA over conquest for the flagship game mode during the development of the game is... like... completely insane.
What GA suffers from is the fact that only one side has objectives, it shouldnt be attack vs defence, both teams should have something to push for and something to defend
I just have a hard time trying to have fun when I know how a match is gonna end before it even starts if we know that the enemy team is at least competent.
Me, @TonyGoombah1 , and @EventHorizionOH go through the same cycle almost everytime we play. Play a match, get wookiee cheesed, wookiee cheese them back, and then leave.
That gif i posted is very true, I'm usually not salty about this game but when it comes to GA i really lose it sometimes, just ask those 2.
Choke points are not fine when one team has an enforcer that is light years beyond the other team's. Why do wookiees get an atomic hand grenade when Death troopers get a glorified flashbang, B2s get a bottle rocket, and Flame troopers have a fire version of the specialist's shock grenade.
Well with the wookiees the darkside is getting steamrolled constantly
Agreed.
Blast, Starfighter Assault, and HvsV became... and remain the primary modes I play. Sadly Blast & Starfighter Assault are the only game modes I have a chance to find close nail biter matches.
Close games don't exist in GA except for Death Star 2, that is the best map for it.
I have a handful of close games each week on GA, but just a handful. I don't think they're ever going to figure out matchmaking at this point.
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Limit the heroes to one at a time per side, and limit the Enforcers to two at a time (and maybe improve the other Enforcers' explosives). Then it'll be awesome again.
It's not a matchmaking issue, as long as one side has the wookiees then that side is the one that wins.
Not if they were replaced.
Knowing the developers I'm sure they will still give the replacement a thermal imploder.
Agree fully.
Sadly Death Star II has become the Spawn Camp or Steam Roll Map... I dont think I've ever played a match that ended on 2nd Phase. It either ends at the first or last.
That is sorta my issue, I maps I like but it is either too easy or I get a terrible team. I get plenty of the maps I hate though...
I would say it's more complicated than just the Wookiee and the matchmaking (like Finn and Yoda, as you point out, amid a number of other factors), but what's the solution then limiting ourselves to the Wookiee? Just removing the detonator nuke? Limiting the number of Enforcers?
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I've been saying replace the WW for months now, I thought it something would replace it within a few months but here we are. The thermal imploder must go but reducing the amount of enforcers should probably also happen.
I honestly don't care that it isn't getting new maps, I wouldn't enjoy a mode that essentially exists simply to level up wookiee warriors
Yeah the only "Galactic Assault" maps I've found to have even the slightest chance of a close match... Yavin IV, Kamino, Kashyyyk, and Naboo.
Switched to "Blast" and noticed Takodana is GREAT in "Blast" and sucks for "Galactic Assualt"... then started noticing I could find more close games in that mode. It might only be TDM, but still close outcomes.
"Starfighter Assault" I've had too many to count matches that were decided by the last ticket or percentage of health. I've had a dozen 0 - 0 matches where the game kind of hesitates before it puts up DEFEAT or VICTORY
Kamino, Yavin, and Naboo aren't really close matches, just that the wookiee cheese comes in and steals victory from a darkside team that deserved it.
If anything lightside should be balanced with weaker units because of the ability of their heroes to buff the team with things like extra health, speed, damage, wallhacks etc, but their enforcer is ridiculous, blowing up roomfulls of troopers at a time, and being able to solo DS heroes with Overload spam at half (or less) of the cost. Even their ariels and air vehicles are slightly better.
Meanwhile the darkside's heavier ground vehicles, which should be an advantage, are rendered irrelevant by the currently broken Ion Torps
I still play it because I like the large scale, but it is an unbalanced mess that almost always results in steamroll after steamroll. Walker Assault from BF2015 even worked far better, generally (once AT-AT health was adjusted to match each map).
+1
I enjoy everything GA has to offer and love the variability. I haven't noticed any difference between attackers winning too much vs defenders winning too much. It's always been balanced in my experience. I would definitely say more content is needed though. At this point, the maps are becoming stale. Even 1 extra map would rejuvenate the mode, imo.
That sounds way too much like having the in-laws over for dinner lol.
You have to choose to have fun...by drinking...
I wouldn't know, because I never married/dated, and I don't, and would not consider drinking. I am only 20.
Drinking makes you unable to make choices competently. I choose to be happy, without the help of mind numbing helpers.
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Couldn't agree more. It's still the only mode for me. It needs new maps. Yeah I'm not excited at all to get a new mode that has one or two maps. Even if it's the best mode of all time it will become stale to me. I like extraction but been there done that after a couple days.
They need to be like Operations from Battlefield that can last over 1 hour.
Battlefront 2 , Battlefield and more.
I just got through a match where I was on Crait as a Resistance trooper. Man, it was infuriating. At Phase 2, the enemy team had Emperor Palpatine (who spammed his lightning and flew around everywhere), Bossk (who used his gas grenades and proximity mines to blow us all up at spawn), Darth Vader, and Kylo Ren. We couldn't even hold the hangar entrance for a minute and couldn't defend our generators. Hero spam just makes GA not fun for an infantry player. It destroys the balance as well. Limiting Heroes to one per team would just make it so much better.
I only play it to get my fix for large star wars battles, and our queen likes killing regular troopers. This was definately a downgrade from supremacy and Walker assault.
Yeah, they really messed up by not including other 20v20 game modes, especially without heroes.
Agreed. Battlefront 2015 has several large modes, and they were (and still decently are) populated with players. I think BFII should also have several large modes catering to different experiences players want. One of them being large-scale infantry.
Our glorious leader is excellent at slaughtering even the wookiees. Is nothing Pulse cannon or TL-50 burst to their fat furry face can't deal with.
Problem is they're so cheap that any rebel goober with functioning brain can get enough BP in first stage to just spam wookiees for the rest of the game.
Every one you make into a carpet Is immediately replaced by another with reset imploder and overload cooldowns.
Yes killing the hairy abominations is quite fun with our Queen. Their pelts make fine trophies
Though as you said DICE made them cost pocket change BP and the map favors them all the time. DICE doesn't seem to care that they are ruining this mode because they have barely done anything about them since launch.
love this. Should be an unlockable outfit at 40k (80k gets crown, belt full of lightsabers and Billy Dee's Colt 45)
IMO Wookiee should simply be removed and replaced outside of Kashyyyk (which can be balanced around them)
With few exceptions (Chewie), during GCW era Wookies were slave labor loyal servants of the Empire
Traitors shouldn't have a big guy anyway. Not their style. Their speciality is hiding and running away.
How about the return of this old fellow, instead?
Yeah, annoying turds, but all the more fun to kill them.
Oh and Clones could get a generic Jedi, clone commando or Arc Trooper.
So this is just another nerf thread.
If what you're saying is true that wouldn't be the case.
Maybe I'm lucky, but I play plenty of games on the dark side where we stomp on the light side.
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On the Yoda/Finn combo, their buffing of teammates either need to be nerfed slightly or made so that they don't stack (e.g. 260 health from presence + 120 from Big deal + 100 from officer battle command means WW's could have up to 1000 HP) because that combo plus a couple Officer's and a couple WW's on Kamino or Naboo is unbeatable for even the very best Dark Side teams with the best heroes.
80,000 Credits for this skin, I'd even buy crystals for it.
I'd even use real money on a skin where they add the hair style that she has in my Profile picture
I want to give DICE my money but they need to give me Iden skins first.
The wookiee menace must be replaced, Bothan spies sound good but I'd even take giving them salvaged B2 super battle droids at this point.