Happy Friday - Starwars Battlefront Demo is live for all

By Cubanboy, in X-Wing

About a year or two ago there was this game in development called Star Wars: Attack Squadrons. It was a dogfighting game with an arcade feel. Not as technical as X-Wing, but still looked and sounded great. It was easy to figure out also. I was in the beta from round 1 and I fell in love with the game. I'm not always "good" at all video games, but this game I was instantly great at. I was always in the top 3 of scoring every round, usually #1. Sadly, the game was shut down after just a few months of testing.

It was less then a year ago, it was utterly broken, the aiming had super auto aim (friends and I actually tried not to hit people and still did, basically if someone was behind you and you had no teammates, you died), power creep on rank ups, confusing rank ups, terrible loot system, and had latency issues through out. That is why it got shut down. Battlefront and it share only one thing in common, their name sake.

I am excited for the ship only map, just a heads up though, unless you are locking on for missiles or going at an opponent straight on, don't keep a lock, you will never hit them.

edit: quoted wrong post, just got up :)

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Not really that different at all. The m14 is a garand with a different feed system and different (but still relatively large 'battle rifle' calibre in the 30-06/7.62/7.92 realm) calibre. Its a direct development of the m1

Lot of parts commonality too. Its not *completely* different or you would not be able to service one with the other for a lot of parts.

Then I guess the fact my GMC 2500HD has the same Duramax 6.6L diesel engine as the military Humvee...they must be the same truck.

Sorry, different guns. Otherwise, if they were so similar that they are the same, please find some proof that within the past 15 years a US serviceman in combat was shooting an old Garand. By your logic, there should be plenty of photos of guys holding M1's right next to guys holding M14's. Afterall, in your eyes they are the same gun with a different feed system.

No you said *completely* different.

Clearly they are not as they have massive parts commonality.

Its a different magazine feed and calibre.

The what do i know eh? Its not like I write articles on firearms for a living or anything.

The m14 is a development of the m1. You know this.

Hey crab, you on xbox or ps?

Xbox One - I'm Crabbok on there. I use the same name for all of my internet activity. Facebook, Youtube, Xbox, Twitter, pretty much everywhere.

But there is no space in battlefront.

Not in the Beta, but the full game is going to have a ship-only mode, so I'm sure at some point we'll have a space map. Might be a DLC, or a new spinoff mode with a Star Destroyer and Mon Cal, and each side is trying to blow up the other, so you can chose to dogfight or go for objectives. Man this game is going to be epic.

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About a year or two ago there was this game in development called Star Wars: Attack Squadrons. It was a dogfighting game with an arcade feel. Not as technical as X-Wing, but still looked and sounded great. It was easy to figure out also. I was in the beta from round 1 and I fell in love with the game. I'm not always "good" at all video games, but this game I was instantly great at. I was always in the top 3 of scoring every round, usually #1. Sadly, the game was shut down after just a few months of testing.

It was less then a year ago, it was utterly broken, the aiming had super auto aim (friends and I actually tried not to hit people and still did, basically if someone was behind you and you had no teammates, you died), power creep on rank ups, confusing rank ups, terrible loot system, and had latency issues through out. That is why it got shut down. Battlefront and it share only one thing in common, their name sake.

I am excited for the ship only map, just a heads up though, unless you are locking on for missiles or going at an opponent straight on, don't keep a lock, you will never hit them.

Huh, I don't remember the auto-aim being that powerful at all. I do however, remember that game being very fun and the first dedicated Star Wars flying game we'd gotten in over ten years, so I was pretty ticked when it was shut down.

I know. Is Noone make xwing vs tie fighter with all the new vr tech?

Valkyrie looks amazing. I'm surprised to be honest

Not really that different at all. The m14 is a garand with a different feed system and different (but still relatively large 'battle rifle' calibre in the 30-06/7.62/7.92 realm) calibre. Its a direct development of the m1

Lot of parts commonality too. Its not *completely* different or you would not be able to service one with the other for a lot of parts.

Then I guess the fact my GMC 2500HD has the same Duramax 6.6L diesel engine as the military Humvee...they must be the same truck.

Sorry, different guns. Otherwise, if they were so similar that they are the same, please find some proof that within the past 15 years a US serviceman in combat was shooting an old Garand. By your logic, there should be plenty of photos of guys holding M1's right next to guys holding M14's. Afterall, in your eyes they are the same gun with a different feed system.

No you said *completely* different. Clearly they are not as they have massive parts commonality. Its a different magazine feed and calibre. The what do i know eh? Its not like I write articles on firearms for a living or anything. The m14 is a development of the m1. You know this.

Oh I see what you're hung up on. Try to look at it from a practical use, not technical. The M1 is nothing more than a showpiece of history. The M14 still has practical use in today's military. Just because one was derived from the previous design, does not make them the same gun, nor does it mean they are completely different (from a technical standpoint). But when it comes to the practical use, they are two completely different guns. I don't know about you, but I sure would not want a semi-auto with only 8 shots and a miserable way to reload. Watch your fingers when pushing in that next clip of rounds. And my biggest dissapointment, how do you mount a scope without modifying the gun or mounting some ugly bracket off the side.

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Still see the newer one as the lesser one. Not to say that BF 2 was perfect, didn't care much for the space battles. Call me strange my favorite was the first one.

So yeh the graphics were better but you really got to be RETARDED to have worst graphics than a game from 2 console generations ago. But yeah so far better graphics but lacking on the gameplay and just about everything else.

Now if they start selling emotes like micro-transaction I will NEVER pick up this Piece of Sith, Jabba the Hutt approved Scheme.

Easy fix, buy the standart edition, buy DLC if it is good, never worry about the bs. You can ignore animations, skins, etc.