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I agree that this should be permanent, but they haven't even tried to make HU permanent, so I would say that this is most likely going to be a recurring event.
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That Specialist rework was disappointing.
Game balance is severely out of whack.
The First Order now all lose by default, the CIS is even worse off now, and even worse the GCW maps have all been crippled. Phase 3 of Hoth, for example, has been turned into phase 4 of Kamino, they do not have enough heroes to break through the opposing WWs. Yoda spam is now even worse.
Here is what happens on every map:
Geonosis: Didn't get this one, probably still hampered by the ATTE balance, heroes don't mean much on this map anyway.
Kamino: Bad map before now even worse now that phase 4 they only get 2 heroes.
Theed: Droids can't get up the stairs same as before, even if they did get past phase 2 Yoda spam being worse now and there not being enough heroes to break through the WWs the CIS won't be winning here.
Kashyyyk: Yoda and WWs hide in the Turbotank and win, nothing changed here
Yavin: Phase 4 WWs and Yoda hide in the command center and win, not enough villains to break through
Hoth: As stated before Phase 3 of Hoth has been turned into Phase 4 of Kamino
Mos Eisley: Again not enough Villains to break through into the U-Wing area on the final phase, Yoda spam seemed extremely worse here throughout the entirety of a match.
Death Star: If the DS get their heroes first they win or the LS gets theirs and the DS will never stop them and their WWs for the rest of the match.
Endor: Same as DS, DS has 0 chance on the final phase now
Jakku: The First Order loses
Takodonna: The First Order loses
Starkiller Base: The First Order loses
Crait: The First Order loses
There is little incentive to play now given this hit to the game's balance, the First Order have no heroes that are good for this mode, Yoda spam is even worse, and the DS doesn't have enough villains to push through the final phases.
I would guess because if there was a choice of two versions the chance that trooper fodder availability severly dropped and then the Hero Seal Clubbers would whine and whine a salt river?
We'll see who's whining a salt river when this event comes to an end.
No. I wanted a Star Wars skinned Battlefield game.
I find the heroes/villains and enforcers the least agreeable aspect of this game. A bunch of guys who I played Battlefield with jumped in on the 2015 game with much excitement and didn't make it a month because they got tired of getting killed by heroes all the time.
I didn't really last much longer though I did come back after all the DLC was out and dirt cheap. None of them even looked sideways at this one.
I tend to think there are more players who aren't here because of heroes.
No this is battlefront with was a star wars that started as a game based on Battlefield . We come here to play trooper gameplay.
We play Empire at war to to play a star wars strategy game.
And we play Kinect star wars to Dance!!
Battlefront 2 , Battlefield and more.
See all of your problems are about Heroes....and I'm noticing that Troops are FINALLY able to fight out these objectives with vigor and balance. Heroes step into SUPPORT and that they have been doing quite well. You're not able to just cream into the room with Rey, Luke and Yoda playing up the killz...now you have to play hard and dont be afraid to sacrifice that Hero for the 18 troop army which is having an intense full scale battle with you now.
It's a breathe of actual tactical gameplay for GA. Not the same old, same old...and it is rewarding to win battles now.
When were the Star Wars Battlefront games ever about the heroes? ... Trooper combat has always been the focal point of the series as far as I’m concerned. With this event, Battlefront 2 has finally taken a step towards that.
I'm pretty sure its only this game that has such a heavy focus on heroes.
Battlefront 2 , Battlefield and more.
Edited for language. - EA_Cian
If they could make GA any worse.... then this it is.
The one map I had time to play was Geonosis, and yes, it went all the way to the end.
DICE why can’t I use my AT-ST on Kashyyyk I paid £90
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You can play them all, but on different maps. Or in arcade... Bottom line, Eras event rocks, you’ll live.
Hold on just a minute, are you trying to say Yoda can’t clear an entire room by himself? Because that is categorically not true no matter what way you try and slice it. Rey can certainly give it a good shot, most heroes and villains can.
my experience as well. The extra, unique heroes are simply replaced by armies of identical vehicles, enforcers and aerials that for a regular trooper serve the same role of farming you until you likewise upgrade to a better unit. The whole "trooper combat" meme isn't happening because the mode isn't designed for it.
Except that yet again the lightside variants are superior (WW and Jet trooper > all) and grants them yet another advantage.
Meanwhile I'm still playing hero and farming troopers basically all game every game. It's just that those games seem to rarely ever get to P3/4. I win as LS early and then lose as DS the next round early as well.
Huh? You've NEVER seen Yoda taken out entering a room with enforcers, heavies, assaults and officers?? What are you on about? That's a ridiculous statement. Sure we've seen Yoda's (and other Heroes) clear out a room all by themselves, and I've seen just as many times they tried (even Yoda) and couldn't hold off all of the ammunition coming their way.
Where in my post, which you quoted, does it say "Yoda cant clear a room"..??
All the way to the end and neck to neck is what I've been experiencing. Some upset "full time hero farmers" in here have claimed they weren't even going to try it out and are just complaining about their heroes and how horrible it must be when Battlefront has a focus on Troop combat. Shocking isn't it?
“You're not able to just cream into the room with Rey, Luke and Yoda playing up the killz...”
Gonna move the goal posts like usual Salacious?
Moral of the story is Yoda can happily take on a room of enforcers and troopers purely because of the fact that most of them are trash against him. The super battle droids are useless, let’s not kid ourselves. You’ll only get a good player using slowing effects like Palpatine.
I'm just going to skip this weekend.
Thank you.
Oh boy....
I was saying that for THIS WEEKEND ...all three of those characters (meaning hero teams of 3 or 4) can't rampage on an objective together and steal the show like they've done thousands of times.
Goal post is where it always has been...you misinterpreted.
You have a funny way of generalizing how "invincible " super gewd Hero players are....and I dont know why you're going on about it.
You’re quite right, my mistake, you won’t see all of them going on a rampage.
You’ll just see Yoda and the Wookiees do it instead, or Finn and the Wookiees.
I should know because literally every map I’ve played with those characters available is what it has become so far this weekend, and personally I love it. Means I’m pretty much invincible throughout, and Palpatine/Bossk still mashes most everything, possibly even better now there are less other heroes to stop him, and the frankly shocking targeting of heroes means most just carry on shooting at everything but the threat.
There’s no carrying the FO though, they’re pretty much written off as trash without hero support on their maps. Bit of a shame, but heyho, sacrifices needed to be made.
So thank you for the weekend, actually, the farming has been most enjoyable!
I only have the weekends to play and when i think i can upgrade Dooku and get a nice killstreak, i need to play a lot of maps to get lucky and go to a Prequel map...
stop ruining my game, EA...
Your weekend was ruined because some people were having trouble getting their immersion on.
And this is where I gotta mention what HU fanatics say everytime...."get over it, it's just for this weekend, you'll have the rest of your precious lifes time to go back to doing the same tricks over and over, it's not like this weekend was your last chance to ever play what you want."
And you've had all the hero craziness you could have asked for already for every single day since this game was released over a YEAR ago. You're feelings are hurt because this weekend is a challenging type of event and you cant just keep cheesing your way to winning (i.e. relying on hero play as your bragging rights in a shooter)? ....3 different events have catered to SUPER HERO insanity, and I love the HU event, and you know there is more on the way. Its embarrassing to see some of you devote your time to hating on a 3 day event.
I enjoy HU everytime it comes out because it's all out hero insanity. But I wouldn't want it every single time I played GA and it's tossing all balance and good competition out of the window.
If only there was GA...HU GA ....and Era Tailored GA ...this would be an amazing game that we were all playing and having our own fun with...no need for any of you to get mad about modes you dont care about. We'll have what we all needed. GEE...similar to BF2015 where there were a few 20 vs 20 modes with different styles and restrictions on heroes.
Peace!
When you realize you've been projecting this whole time.
And oh yeah, this comes from someone that thinks heroes unleashed was awesome.
What the ROADMAP should look like for 2019/2020:
“Season” 4: Episode IX
“Season” 5: Rogue One
Go for it man, I enjoyed it, except on the ST maps. FO had no chance.
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That Specialist rework was disappointing.
'tis ok ... doing my garden while waiting for the next heroes unleashed ....
I probably will tomorrow and Sunday. Thanks for the heads-up!
What the ROADMAP should look like for 2019/2020:
“Season” 4: Episode IX
“Season” 5: Rogue One
What about AT-STs on Crait, Jakku, and Takodana?
What the ROADMAP should look like for 2019/2020:
“Season” 4: Episode IX
“Season” 5: Rogue One
I've seen the FO win several times tonight already...just as you said At-Sts, Flametroopers and 15+ troops can make a difference. The Hero crutcher's may be mad that Heros aren't always turning the tide this weekend, but I haven't seen any "broad generalized" statistics in the matches yet to declare heroes "useless now" on certain maps or "FO has no chance"..."matches keep steam rolling in the first phase". I haven't seen anything consistent like this at ALL during this event and I have to wonder if these proclaimers have even played it yet...or if so more than two matches?
I found it very frustrating. And not because I wasn't getting a hero....I think it's because I felt I had nothing to play for. Never in 3+ hours saw a hero available. I could be an enforcer or a tank....woooo.....I'm max level for almost everything but vehicles and heroes and honestly no need to play those until thier respective xp weekends. I realise I sound contradictory, but it's not that I wanted to be a hero, it's that I never had a choice. Maybe another situation for a good argument for a hero queue?
Again...glad for those of you that wanted this. I'll give it another shot or two this weekend but it wasn't fun for me and I don't really have a desire to put much more effort into it. I really was hoping I'd like it but I never saw the balance others are talking about. It was still 3+ hours of steamrolls and spawn camping.
Well as Dash says....play to win, heh.
True. I'll gladly take that victory screen over anything. But when you are on the bad side of a steamroll....well, at lease I can get some xp for this or that hero. Maybe it is a conditional response, but when out of all these choices laid out on the spawn screen I never once saw more than 2 additional units lit up, even with enough bp for heroes multiple times over, it got old really fast.
Once I had the game tell me phasma was available. By the time the spawn screen loaded, she was gone. Sorry, but I found it boring and also not a true era lock. More like "slightly more appropriate cross era".
First thing I did when I woke up today was to take Jakku as first order. My contribution was to burn people from behind cover.
We had a Kylo that held West all by himself. Not sure what the opposition was doing.
Yoda and PTKenobi doesn't looks good in OT era, young Lando and Han neither.
Young Luke, Young Leia and Young Han also looks bad in ST era.
It also doesn't help that the new hero is from PT era, so yeah i'll only stick to PT maps this weekend.
Yeah it's not quite the ...ideal...line up. It does make me wonder how cool it would have been if the ST and OT had older skins for Luke, Leia and Han. Plus I'd love an Old Obi Wan skin with his hood up for the OT maps. I wish those young Han/Lando skins never showed up or I would have them a Kessel default skin just for HvV....that was silly "content" to make people pay for anyway.
But the best thing we take away from this is seeing the uses of the specific heroes on specific maps...and the two at a time makes for more troops pushing and a bigger feel of a Star Wars battle going on...with Heroes acting as team leaders and occasional backup as opposed to their own mass horde playing their own version of BF15 HvV.
But I still wish we had a HU GA (I really love that mode too)...an Eras GA...and Vanilla GA. This game would cease to have such rivalry between players wishes and the playerbase would most likely increase and sustain for a good while.
They need to ditch regular ga, keep this and whichever hero mess the heroes unleashed fans prefer.
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