Star Wars Battlefront III

[Syt]

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwWLns7-xN8

Coming to PC, PS4 and X1

[Sophie Scholl]

Yeah.  That looks amazing.  Hopefully it pans out.  I need to get my Y-Wing fix.

[lustindarkness]

I've been keeping track of this for over a year. Already had told The Wife I would be getting the PS4 for this game. Today when the trailer came out it was almost like yesterday's movie trailer.

[Berkut]

I cannot believe that is game footage!

[Syt]

It's in engine footage, so I'm guessing they're using a lot of custom assets/animations that might not necessarily be in the final game, and it might either be done on a monster rig, or pre-rendered, or both.

Also: no space battles, 40 player limit.

The trailer looks awesome, but I'll be kinda cautious till gameplay footage is shown.

[lustindarkness]

It's in engine footage, so I'm guessing they're using a lot of custom assets/animations that might not necessarily be in the final game, and it might either be done on a monster rig, or pre-rendered, or both.

Also: no space battles, 40 player limit.

The trailer looks awesome, but I'll be kinda cautious till gameplay footage is shown.

PS4

[katmai]

Tie in with new new movie you say?

The Hollywood Reporter

Graeme McMillan
April 17, 2015
A new trailer for the videogame Star Wars: Battlefront has been released, showing impressively lifelike footage of a battle on Endor during the events of Return of the Jedi. But it turns out that the game also will be a destination for those looking for advance information about Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The new trailer, released Friday to coincide with a presentation about the game at Anaheim's Star Wars Celebration, not only shows a battle between Rebel forces and the Empire on Endor — including a cameo by a certain Dark Lord of the Sith — but also scenes of conflict on Hoth and Tatooine. However, it's been revealed that a future DLC for the game will be titled "The Battle of Jakku," named for the planet seen in the new Force Awakens trailer.

The free DLC, available Dec. 1 for those who pre-ordered and Dec. 8 for everyone else, will debut the eponymous battle, which is described by developer Dice as "a pivotal moment" in Star Wars mythology that happens "just after the victory for the Rebel Alliance at the Battle of Endor." According to Dice design director Niklas Fegraeus, "These events lead up to that massive wrecked Star Destroyer that you saw in the [second teaser] for The Force Awakens."

It's another sign that Lucasfilm's revised approach to Star Wars canon and spinoff material, made public last year and best described as "everything counts," is being taken seriously. The Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens line of novels and comics has already been announced, giving important information about what happened between Return of the Jedi and this year's movie. And now it appears that Battlefront will be doing the same.

Star Wars: Battlefront will be released for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC on Nov. 17, with the "Battle of Jakku" DLC following the next month.

[Caliga]

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwWLns7-xN8

DROPPING FUCKING LOADS

[MadBurgerMaker]

[Caliga]

 

[grumbler]

Best. Gif. Ever.

[Syt]

The previews for this game have left me pretty cold. There's streams on Twitch, but while it looks nice it also seems to be so ... bland?

Anyways:

Minimum PC System Requirements

OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or later
Processor (Intel): Intel i3 6300T or equivalent
Memory: 8GB RAM
Hard Drive: At least 40 GB of free space
Graphics card (NVIDIA): nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
Graphics card (ATI): ATI Radeon HD 7850 2GB
DirectX: 11.0 Compatible video card or equivalent
Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection

Recommended PC System Requirements

OS: 64-bit Windows 10 or later
Processor (Intel): Intel i5 6600 or equivalent
Memory: 16GB RAM
Hard Drive: At least 40 GB of free space
Graphics card (NVIDIA): nVidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB
Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
DirectX: 11.1 Compatible video card or equivalent
Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection

[crazy canuck]

[katmai]

Gonna try out the ps4 open beta this week, see if it holds my interest.

[Syt]

I've tried the beta for an hour or so.

It looks nice and sounds nice. And it's reasonably fast paced.

It still leaves me a bit cold. I'm not the world's biggest FPS fan and accordingly, I sucked badly, though I presume if I spent more time with it and learned the maps by heart I might be able to become slightly less sucky.

And I still feel "meh" about it. Not sure I like the equipment unlock system. And despite all the bells and whistles it feels decidedly not epic. The Hoth battle is the biggest with 20 v 20. It's fun running through the trenches, but I dislike that vehicles, or special weapons (orbital strikes, squad shields, LukeSkywalker (I think?)) are power ups you pick up on the battlefield, unlike old Battlefront where vehicles would spawn in certain locations, e.g. Snowspeeders in the Rebel hangar. The auto-heal if you don't take damage for a couple of seconds is also weird.

It also looks like the game might launch with 4 or 5 planets/maps with various game modes on them? Consider me underwhelmed (and the Sullust barren rock map is rather bland/boring).

Oh, and as you may know there's no server selection - the game will try to put you in with similarly skilled players (think World of Tanks), but as n00b with no equipment I had to go against guys who were at least Level 4 with several unlocks (grenade, sniper rifle, jump pack).