Battlefront 2?

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2005-10-30 04:00pm

So, I saw Star Wars: Battlefront 2 in Gamestation today, which was a bit of a suprise, since I didn't think it came out until sometime in november.

Has anyone played it? Any good?

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-10-30 04:05pm

Weird, I thought it was November 1st (tomorrow).

Was it on the shelf? (I've seen at GameStop that they'll actually receive them they day before but not put them on the shelf until the day after)

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2005-10-30 04:10pm

Yeah, they had loads of copies on the shelves for PS2 and Xbox.

Equinox2003 · Post by **Equinox2003** » 2005-10-31 11:41am

My local shops don't put it out for sale until the 1st either, but I'll get
my hands on it this coming weekend. YES!!

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-10-31 01:24pm

I've got it on pre-order.

They called me to tell me it was in yesterday though.

Post by **Kuja** » 2005-11-01 09:04pm

I played it in the store today, Mygeeto and over Coruscant. I like the new Clone Commander with the machine gun and the starfighter controls have improved DRASTICALLY over the last game.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-11-01 09:19pm

ah, nabbed a DVD copy for PC from Gamestop (had it on reserve), installing it now...

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-11-01 09:21pm

It's nice but the AI-troopers still have the IQ of a shoe

Edit:but the hero-class is really cool.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-11-01 09:42pm

I bought it today, but it constantly crashes and freezes my computer.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-11-01 11:35pm

plays like battlefront 1, only smoother.

Oh, and playing as a hero is massive fun.

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2005-11-02 10:48am

What's offline play like? The first one got really old really quickly if you didn't have inline play, which was what put be off.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-11-02 02:07pm

offline campaign is pretty sweet. some RPG elements to it, you can earn medals over the course of a campaign, but in Battlefront 2, those medals actually do something.

You have to get 5 of a medal to enable the associated bonus. After that, the more medals you have, the lower the activation requirement is for that medal.

My personal favorite right now is the flechette gun for the engineer class. Boosts your damage pretty nicely. I suppose I'll try to get the rifle bonus, extra damage and 3-round bursts for the soldier class seems good.

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2005-11-02 02:08pm

Got it on Saturday. Never played BF1, so can't compare them. All I will say is that thus far, the Rebels and the CIS have yet to get a look-in.
For the Chancellor/Emperor! (delete as applicable)

I'm liking the Clone Commander and the Dark Troopers so far and offline play seems amusing enough. Plus, I've answered the immortal question:
Who wins? Leia as of ANH or General Grevious?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2005-11-02 04:05pm

Got it yesterday, just finished the space battle over Kashyyyk. I hate the space flying because of the whole 3-d aspect. I need a horizon to refer to. Consequently, I'm a shitty pilot. Oh well.

One thing I've noticed is that The game LOOKS good graphically, but it doesn't chunk out nearly as much as, say, BF2, even on high vid settings. Kudos to Pandemic. Lessee...

Gripes? Sound. the sound is like...undersaturated. It sounds like you're listening to shit that's really far away. even explosions really close to me are really far away. Maybe it's just me.

Overall, I'm enjoying single player, and will play through it all the way, just in case it unlocks something in Multiplayer. We shall see! I sure hope we get a trench run in this one. sheesh.

Bromma_Herman · Post by **Bromma_Herman** » 2005-11-02 06:04pm

Man, I do like the 501th Campaign. Too bad u cant load and play the missions after you completed them. Space Combat rocks.

But if I get my hands on the guy who put the ISD Hangar on the rear of the ship or the guy who turned the VSD into "victory class star frigate", things WILL get ugly (if you cant stand insults)

nickolay1 · Post by **nickolay1** » 2005-11-02 06:59pm

Overall, how does single player stand up to the first Battlefront? I'd certainly like to know, as I'm...obtaining it now.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-11-02 08:57pm

nickolay1 wrote:Overall, how does single player stand up to the first Battlefront? I'd certainly like to know, as I'm...obtaining it now.

Battlefront 1's single player was like cocktail weenies, decent but unfilling.

Battlefront 2 is like a fully loaded hot dog fresh off your grill.

It's single player campaign is much more linear than BF 1's, and each missions starts and ends with a video log from the 501's trooper you play as.

nickolay1 · Post by **nickolay1** » 2005-11-02 09:48pm

Excellent. Is a lot of flying involved? I particularly liked flying TIE fighters in the first, even when I was on the opposite team (I'd have to make mad dashes toward parked fighters while under heavy fire at times).

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-11-02 10:12pm

there's several flying missions. You can skip them, but they're worth playing, even if it takes a while to get the hang of it.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-11-02 11:08pm

This game is fucking kickass, but I cannot play for more than 15 minutes before it simply dumps me to the desktop, and then I have to restart my computer to get it to load up again. What the fuck is going on?

nickolay1 · Post by **nickolay1** » 2005-11-02 11:38pm

I'm having such issues as well, though only during the flight missions so far.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-11-02 11:41pm

That's weird, I've played it several hours straight with no issues.

nickolay1 · Post by **nickolay1** » 2005-11-03 12:34am

Now I crashed/froze at the end of a rather long ground combat mission. Time to wait for a patch.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-11-03 01:00am

I haven't had any instabilities.

What version are you running? DVD-Rom or CD-Rom?

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-11-03 01:38am

Matt Huang wrote:I haven't had any instabilities.

What version are you running? DVD-Rom or CD-Rom?

CD-ROM for me, sadly.