Thawtz on Battle Fart

That's what I call it.

I have very little time left in the trial period on battle front 2. It's as usual a star wars cluster fuck. Brilliance mixed with garbage.

I'm glad the tolkens are gone. That was among many things a huge issue with me. Getting the hero meant just finding a random tolken, so some idiot little punk kid would be the hero and waste it. But yeah many issues with BF 1 that I'll try to get to here.

They have wisely added back multi colored laser fire. I was just wondering why in a star wars freaking game were lasers all the same color when star wars features so many kinds and it would help you know who's shooting from where. So now as I've played today, there was a nice ability to figure out which team was shooting at you... good change.

Now getting the goddamn higher grade characters and heros is where I have an issue... Basically to get the hero you have to be some kind of juggernaut bitch and mow through the other team getting tons of kills and objective score until you reach 6 or 8000 goddamn points. I haven't played the hero ONCE, good grief. Almost got to 6000 but no the match ended. Matches are too short and the whole phases and sections thing is all kinds of stupid. You die because the phase changed and the map forces you to leave an area. How about not doing that, and letting us goddamn have time to leave or choose to stay and get killed, whatever. It was just unbelievable how the stage killed me more than the other players. I'm getting skilled, and figuring out how to survive battles, but oh no, phase change, map count down to death, better run! shit.

Doesn't feel like a star wars game. Watered down halo/call duty/battlefield. I'm so over EA having the license to make this. They've long since proven they don't understand star wars and are making expensive skin mods to battlefield, nothing more, nothing less. I gave them a pass on the first game. It was them getting their feet wet and figuring things out, fine. This time, they've learned nothing. The maps are bland rehashes of everything that came before, nothing new except maybe kamino. But they ruined that map with the phase time limit making you have to move indoors instead of playing on the superior outside map, why did they do that shit?

Agreed that the game is basically a grenade fest on the close quarters maps. It's just wait, get killed by random grenade thrown from nowhere. That's the game in those maps.

Just really standard issue lazy map design, nothing truly utilizes the vast infinite possibilities of star wars, granted I've not yet truly played them all and doubt I ever will. People have been saying the naboo map fails to be chosen every time they play, and it's true. Why the hell can't we choose our maps?

Why can't we play in friends lists and squads? Is it the end of the world to add interactive elements to the map, collapsable buildings, you did it already with bf4... Bridges we can blow up to stop the other team. It's star wars, that's kinda what it's always embodied little traps and tricks and sarlacc pits.

So you can't skin the characters to your preference so it feels very detached, boring and impersonal, that's something that you'd think they'd put in after it being damn bare bones in the first one. But no. And who knows how much money they'd make if it was pay to buy new skins and emblems whatever you want... skins is big business in gaming, so dumb.

Overall it's a game that needs a steep learning curve to figure out and adjust to. It's tough on you just for being a star wars fan and wanting to have a good time and that's wrong of them to do. It should be about celebrating star wars, not making you pissed off about how crappy the design and game mechanics are, or how much you can't afford to upgrade anything while other players have the best stuff and stomp all over you.

Just a bland game with some smidges of brilliance here and there and the concept of being able to upgrade through experience points this time is a good one, but too damn slow and awfully designed, the idea that the hero goes to the best players with the most points is wonderful now, but good luck having any time to enjoy it since the matches are short as hell...

Too bad the maps are ass, the phase system is ass, the costs for things is ass. It's a mountain to climb just to become the rocket dude and then you die in no time flat. He should be a mini tank for f's sake. They didn't care...

That's how i feel about this game. THEY. DIDN'T. CARE....