No.3074 [Last50 Posts]
How do you feel about it troopers?
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No.3075
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No.3076
not surprising the shit EA pulled. i wonder how many canceled pre-orders it took for them to change up the credit cost for jedi lol.
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No.3077
>EA does something they know will piss people off
>Causes a huge uproar about it
>Bargains the fanbase down to something slightly less evil but still evil as fuck
>"See? EA listens to the fans!"
>Reddit retards fall for it
If we could just get people to stop falling for this shit, literally everything would be improved.
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No.3078
>>3077
>>Gaming in <Current Year>.
You can't man, the Nexu is out of the bag. We'll just have to see this ship down.
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No.3079
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No.3081
>>3075
Less shit than the previous one, but still a waste.
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No.3086
>>3081
All apart of the plan. Gamers are so dumb they'll buy 6 shitty games to finally get what they want after the 6th year where amazingly EA listens to us. It makes sense from a business model point of view, its not like nu-Wars fans would boycott anything nu.
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No.3087
>>3086
I didn't think EA ever thought that far ahead. If you're right, we're in for some dark times.
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No.3088
>>3087
>>3086
>>3081
not that guy but the way cashgrab 2 is playing out, it feels like the crates and borked progression was added on more recently, i don't recall it being this bad in the beta.
what really grinds my gears is the retard who decided credits would be given through time played in the match rather than score. it legit doesn't matter how good you do, you still only get 200-300 credits per game.
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No.3090
YouTubed the single-player campaign. Cynicism fully validated.
>Advertised as "a new perspective from an Imperial perspective that rationalizes and humanizes their efforts
>You spend all of 3 missions fighting as Inferno Squad.
>In between two of them, you switch to playing Luke driving the recurrent "there is always a choice" stake into the resolve of a named Imperial character.
>You then defect and join the Rebellion/New Republic because Sheev has to exterminate loyal worlds because mysterious evil raisins.
>More than half the story of this """Imperial""" campaign has you killing Imperials by the hundreds.
>The whole campaign is 4.5 hours long if you don't keep dying.
>The remainder is being jewed out consumers with planned DLC installments
The only good points in the whole thing are pretty graphics and good voice acting (including Billy Dee Williams reprising Lando), but I'm in the market for a video game not a CGI short film with interspersed FPS minigaming. Also tbh the very last mission surprised me by allowing Kylo Ren to be cool.
I expected the "twist" but not for it to be so quick and dominate the whole narrative. It still spaghettis my meatballs.
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No.3091
>>3090
>Sheev
Is he still voiced by Sam Witwer?
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No.3093
>>3091
It sounded like him based on what I remember from The Force Unleashed and Rebels. The voice acting, graphics, and whole "cinematic" package aren't bad. Of course, they can't make up for the campaign brevity, lack of squad management and involvement like in Battlefront II (2005), and bait-and-switch defection scenario.
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No.3095
>>3093
>lack of squad management and involvement like in Battlefront II (2005)
Are you saying Battlefront II (the real one) had all that?
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No.3097
>>3091
yes witwer still voices sheev, and also voices maul.
i like his maul voice more, the sheev voice sounds a bit ridiculous at points.
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No.3098
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No.3099
>>3093
I fucking hate defection scenarios now. Fuck EA.
>>3095
It had some.
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No.3100
>>3099
*I mean, why can't I just fight and die for the Empire?
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No.3103
>>3095
In BF2 '05, the protagonists of the campaign were the 501st collectively and you selected from the squad classes like in a multiplayer match. With BF2 '17 you have to remain with the specific character for a level. It makes sense for stages where you play a Hero but they didn't plan for something like swapping perspectives between Inferno Squad members throughout a mission. Guess they couldn't since they decided to break them up an hour into the campaign.
>>3098
Witwer voices Maul in Clone Wars and Rebels.
>>3100
Wish I knew. All of the Star Wars games with unequivocal Dark Side paths made the most bank. It might be politics among creatives or it could just be lack of effort and consideration that goes with having a contract for 10 straight years protected from competition for a license.
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No.3105
>>3103
What's more, those 501st were loyal to the Empire all the way to Hoth. And they hated the Rebels for what they did to their brothers. Hoth was their finest hour and greatest revenge.
Do you remember charging up the central peak on Felucia after blundering through blinding mists? Do you remember frantically dodging blaster fire and tank-hunting in the trenches of Kashyykk? Or fighting inch-by-inch through the bloody corridors of Cloud City? Or the desperate defenses on the rails of Kamino's Tipoca City? EA sure doesn't.
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No.3106
>>3103
instead of swapping classes you just swap weapons from those boxes in the maps. it's cinematic, durr.
except you don't get much choice in weapons, lol.
also, they may have 10 years, but they've already wasted 3-4. other licensed games are still being produced outside EA like the lego ones.
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No.3107
>>3105
>Or fighting inch-by-inch through the bloody corridors of Cloud City?
cloud city wasn't in battlefront 2, unless you had a mod.
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No.3108
>>3107
It wasn't? Huh. Could've sworn it was. Shit was brutal, I know my memory hasn't failed me on that. Now I miss the first Battlefront, and the vicious siege/castle chase shenanigans on Rhen Var. Hah, now that was a fun game too.
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No.3109
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>>3108
>>3107
And dammit, that post made me feel like a broken-down old buffer being gently reminded that something didn't happen the way he remembers. I'm not even thirty. Bah!
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No.3114
The man who created the freemium model for Star Wars: The Old Republic after its subscription-only model failed had an episode of Twitteria about BEAttlefront II's loot box debacle. It seems that EA thought that since cash shopping worked for TOR that all they needed to do was come up with some kind of microtransaction scheme, no matter what it was, and it would stick.
http://dulfy.net/2017/11/15/swtor-former-swtor-dev-damion-schubert-talks-loot-boxes/
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No.3116
>>3108
Those levels were added onto the Xbox version. PS2 didn't have them
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No.3117
>>3116
Yewp, had the PS2 version. Now that's a way to run exclusive content.
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No.3118
>>3114
>Let’s talk lootboxes, and how annoying it is to watch AAA publishers fuck them up from the perspective of someone who has to design to them. (1)
>I’ve been working in Free-to-Play games for 4 years, and loot boxes are pretty crucial to that business model working. But it *is* possible to do them ethically, and they are super easy to fuck up. (2)
>The number one mistake that I’ve seen in F2P games is devs who don’t understand that NOT SPENDING IS NORMAL PLAY. Most of your customers will NEVER give you a dime. (3)
>The Zynga Facebook games that used to spam your feed were a success if they had a conversion rate of 2%. That’s right – a successful business model if 98% of your population never drops a dime. (4)
What this means, though is that the non-spendy version of the game is the NORM. The game that you see as a non-spender is what 90%+ of your customers will see. (6)
>Dungeon Boss on mobile failed because what those people saw was a game where spending was absolutely mandatory. That view of the game killed the game. (7)
>Because that 90%+ of the population is your game’s virality (also known as “word of mouth”). If your free players (or in the case of Battlefront, box spenders) have a negative reax it can kill word of mouth, tank reviews, etc. (8)
>Some ppl think that game devs don’t care about keeping that 90%+, but that’s not true. Most of these games NEED those non-spendy players because they’re multiplayer games. (9)
>In MMOs, you need ppl so that dungeon queues will fire. In PvP games, you need enough people to make a match – and matchmake them with appropriate enemies. (10)
>This is much more true in AAA games where the PvP is synchronous than in mobile games where the PvP is against offline opponents frequently (see the core Clash of Clans game) (11)
>So what Battlefront got wrong was to put content that people consider core behind a hugely long grind path. They missed that this would be seen as the ‘normal’ game. (12)
>And one more thing: once you go into microtransactions, players start suspecting they are your motives for everything. (13)
>So even in the scenario was a game designer that (for example) accidentally put an unlock behind an 80 hour grind because he fat fingered it, or because he just likes grinds or hard games, players will assume the company is making a money grab. (14)
That’s because in a lot of cases, the players are correct. Bringing >microtransactions into things erases the benefit of the doubt. (15)
I still am a huge proponent of Free to Play because I’m a big hippy. I *like* the idea that 98% of my population can play for free. (16)
>And a lot of research has been done to find that most heavy spenders (‘whales’) are people who like spending and don’t feel manipulated into it. Think high-powered lawyers with too much spare cash lying around. (17)
>I’m pretty fine with those guys paying a lot of money so that a whole bunch of kids w/o money or credit cards can play my games for free. (18)
>In talks in the past, I’ve compared it to the old Patron system in Renaissance times, where kings and rich dudes would subsidize art so everyone could enjoy it. (19)
>But still, good MTX design is an art. It requires designers to be equal partners with Product Managers to come up with something that is perceived as fair and is celebrated. (20)
>People like @JimSterling would disagree, but the difference between Overwatch & Battlefront is stark. People CELEBRATE new skins being added to the former. (21)
>When a new Magic or Hearthstone set comes out, people CELEBRATE the opportunity to spend more. Same for a new FIFA season. (22)
>This is important. MTX will fail if it *doesn’t feel good to spend*. It will fail if it creates a poisonous environment around the game instead of excitement. (23)
>Anyway, I need to hit the road to a convention, but these thoughts have been rattling around my brain for a few days now. (fin)
>Fuck, I said “Dungeon Boss failed” above. I meant Dungeon Keeper. Dungeon Boss is my game, and we did pretty good actually.
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No.3119
>>3118
speaking of cashgrabs, they suspended microtransactions for the time being
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No.3120
>>3119
>>later date
Aw, I wish they'd kill themselves quicker.
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No.3122
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No.3123
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No.3127
>>3109
damn that yoda looks good…the rest…vary greatly in quality
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No.3128
>http://archive.is/he6Hr
>Disney might take the license from EA because of the microtransaction backlash
God, let this happen.
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No.3129
>>3128
we can hope, trooper. god knows why they were given exclusive development in the first place, you'd think the jackasses would have done research and a poll or two before signing publishing rights away.
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No.3131
>>3127
Yis, and the vocal performances vary wildly as well. Obi-Wan is the worst, meanwhile you've got Corey Burton as Tyrannus.
>>3128
This could be a ray of hope for the franchise's future in vidya, if nothing else. I miss all those old tie-ins.
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No.3132
>>3131
>>future in vidya
Remember that kid's MMO Disney made with all the ep7 characters in it? It lasted only a few months before it was shutdown. Whether Disney or EA they can't stop squeezing the customer for extra on-top of the purchase price.
Whatever video games they make or allowed made will have to have an in-game economy. If it didn't Disney would have kept Lucas Arts making all those Star Wars games already in development.
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No.3134
>>3132
And yet, Disney is the entity which cares about its image. They may wish to distance themselves from future micro controversy.
As for the Lucasarts shutdowns, I think that has more to do with wanting products they have a stronger legal claim to.
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No.3135
>>3134
>stronger legal claim to.
part of the lucasfilm purchase included lucasarts, they owned everything ever published under their catalog.
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No.3136
>>3132
The way I see it
>Disney makes their own game company
<Disney finds another AAA company
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No.3137
>>3129
They were given the license because they had cash and that's it. Disney doesn't give a fuck about vidya, they just want to make money off it. They only stepped in this time because it got big enough to be reported by other non-game news sites.
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No.3138
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No.3139
>>3137
And hurting their brand image. Only Disney is allowed to do that.
>>3135
In that case, the best I can guess is that like the EU, they don't know what to do with it.
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No.3140
Microtransactions are profitable and work. Even after Reddit le downboated the damage control to hell, EA's stock and profit margins rose. This business model will continue to proliferate as long as it pays dividends, which it does for both AAA titles and the indie scene.
I don't think there's any going back. Even if there's another market crash, the successors will base their plans on what the data shows is most profitable.
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No.3141
>>3140
Well. I want to fight you on this one. But unless some enterprising /v/fag can find the figures to refute you, I guess we're stuck looking at the truth here. I guess this depresses you as much as it does me.
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No.3142
>>3140
Someone on twatter pointed out that Star Wars is a big enough cash cow that no matter who had the license, they'd likely attempt the same scmmy tactics EA did because they wouldn't be able to resist milking it for all it's worth.
>I don't think there's any going back. Even if there's another market crash, the successors will base their plans on what the data shows is most profitable.
I'd parrot the whole 'vote with your wallet' slogan, but it's been proven that uneducated casuals or uncaring idiots will buy these games regardless of the scum that devs shove in.
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No.3143
>>3141
Yes, I'd largely prefer the era of expansion packs and semi-sequels like that. I get by now just with patience and distraction. I have a backlog still in the last generation of games, so by the time I get around to being interested in anything at present some complete edition is made bundling everything at a discount.
>>3142
You can do microtransactions or piecemeal development through DLC schedules intelligently, which is why newcomers are starting to pick up the slack in fighting games that Capcom, Konami, etc. aren't doing so well satisfying.
EA of course is one of those too big to fail abominations that doesn't need to learn how to do them tolerably because they just buy up popular IPs and bleed 'em out.
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No.3144
>>3142
>Someone on twatter pointed out that Star Wars is a big enough cash cow that no matter who had the license, they'd likely attempt the same scmmy tactics EA did because they wouldn't be able to resist milking it for all it's worth.
this is unfortunately true, no matter who bought star wars it would become the single greatest milking in history. i like to think, however, that had george left it to 20th century fox, it would be somewhat decent.
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No.3145
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No.3146
>>3145
mostly because they were the ones star wars started with, and i miss the fanfare.
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No.3147
>>3142
>Someone on twatter pointed out that Star Wars is a big enough cash cow that no matter who had the license, they'd likely attempt the same scmmy tactics EA did because they wouldn't be able to resist milking it for all it's worth.
True. If Disney decides to sign a SW exclusive contract with another video game company it will be either Activision or Ubisoft and they'll do the same.
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No.3148
>>3147
>>Disney signs contract with Ubisoft
Oh how much I want that to happen. The shit will be so unbearable, normies may even back out.
Personally I think Disney is going to BioWare to try and pull off a KOTOR in their new lore.
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No.3149
>>3148
(at least) 5 SW open world games
but seriously with For Honor, The Division, R6S, Mario Xcom… they could make some good SW reskin of these games (while acknowledging/fixing the flaws of each of them).
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No.3150
>>3148
BioWare is currently owned by EA, so if Disney pulled their license they'd need to get somebody else to make a game set centuries/millenia BBY.
>>3149
Best case scenario there: A For Honor version of the Hundred-Year Darkness.
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No.3153
>>3149
honestly we just need a modified no man's sky. replace all ships with star wars ships, add in proper player models, add lightsabers and guns, and you're pretty much set.
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No.3154
>>3149
>>The Division but its Star Wars
I can imagine the microtransactions and colorized loot.
>>3150
>>BioWare is currently owned by EA
Even better. Now it makes much more sense that Disney will pressure EA to have BioWare make something.
>>3153
No Man's Sky uses Unity. Jedi Knight Academy's source code leaked out, its already got Tie Fighter driving code.
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No.3155
>>3154
>I can imagine the microtransactions and colorized loot.
The microtransactions in The Division are only cosmetic. You can't buy the crates with real money (only the in-game currency earned by doing missions).
A Star Wars reskin of the Division where you play as a member of a squad of clone commandos. Your job is to clean the streets of numerous cities in the SW universe.
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No.3156
>>3155
a repcom/impcom game set in the outer rim would be dope.
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No.3157
The Minster of Justice says the mix of gaming and gambling is "dangerous."
Last week, Belgium's Gaming Commission announced that it had launched an investigation into whether the loot boxes available for purchase in games like Overwatch and Star Wars Battlefront 2 constitute a form of gambling. Today, VTM News reported that the ruling is in, and the answer is yes.
The Google translation is a little sloppy, as usual, but the message is clear enough. "The mixing of money and addiction is gambling," the Gaming Commission declared. Belgium's Minister of Justice Koen Geens also weighed in, saying, "Mixing gambling and gaming, especially at a young age, is dangerous for the mental health of the child."
http://archive.is/z7GOE
HAW HAW HAW
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No.3160
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No.3167
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No.3883
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No.3885
>>3095
It was basic, but if you used the d-pad you could tell troopers to follow you or hold position. I think there was an "attack there" button too.
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No.3896
>>3885
There were mods which repurposed some of the AI code to make the commands be more useful. Such as on PC in the campaign when you have the desired object you'll see AI players form up and follow you in space or land, that code was rewritten to be called for that scenario. Mods were neat in the classic Battlefront 1/2 since each map was essentially a giant script using "resources" which they themselves were scripts calling on engine functions.
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No.3906
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Ahhh, the nostalgia. Intro is cheesy, but appropriate.
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No.3908
>>3906
It truly shows how memorable a story can be with great writing, all is needed is a narrator and some footage. I remember playing the demo I got from an Xbox magazine, it was just the Utapau level with a space battle and you could go on Xbox-live with. Just that was enough to hype for release. You knew what you were going to get, the classes made sense and they each had a purpose. The gameplay was non-linear in that any control point could fall at any moment if your enemy desired to flank.
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No.3909
>>3908
funny thing is eafront 2 has skins for the clones and rebels and such, but it's not currently in-game. fucking shame, it would be great to have a squad made of multiple units.
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No.3912
>>3908
It didn't need to be a profound and layered story for me. I remember BFII fondly because it fulfilled a personal niche in my fan passions by letting me follow an Imperial perspective from the very start to the very finish in something that wasn't an RTS game. The campaign includes the founding of Vader's Fist through to the Battle of Hoth. Most other Star Wars games with Dark Side or villain options railroad the player in the protagonist faction until two minutes to midnight.
It's the single greatest issue I have with BEAttlefront II. Not the lootboxes, the balance, the level design, or any object points about its quality as a game. The campaign mode was billed and shilled from top to bottom as something that tried to rationalize and humanize the Empire's heroes. It didn't just fail to do that with a defection event less than two hours in, it proved that those teasers and interviews were outright lies. As far as I'm concerned, false advertisement. Not a twist, but a bait and switch.
Naturally I expected that nobody in charge right now would stand for a consistently Imperial choice in a big budget project and YouTubed everything instead of parting with my shekels. Somehow, though, it still pisses me off. I guess expecting that somebody is going to pull a fast one doesn't detract from the disgust that they would try it in the first place.
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No.3915
>>3912
I'm with you there, man.
That was the one thing I was looking forward to, getting an Imperial story, it was the one thing I thought they could do right, it was the one thing that could make me give EA some money, but no. No they just had to piss in that well too.
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No.3916
>>3912
>Naturally I expected that nobody in charge right now would stand for a consistently Imperial choice in a big budget project
Tie Fighter was a great game for actually painting the rebels as the scum they were and systematically eliminating them for the Emperor.
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No.3921
anyone know if ultimate pack for battlefront 2, the good one, got updated?
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No.3926
>>3912
Don't forget that Star Wars is now a Disney product and like any other Disney IP, the bad guys aren't allowed to have a lot of character development because they fear that people might enjoy them more than the perfect heroes designed by commitee.
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No.3932
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Another near-forgotten glory.
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No.4029
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>>3906
Fuck it, here we go.
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No.4030
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No.4071
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Wanna perk up your old friend? Here you go.
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No.4229
>>3090
>>You then defect and join the Rebellion/New Republic
FUCKING CALLED IT
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No.4502
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Walkin' in a winter wonderland~
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No.4512
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And to think, this is closer to what we could have seen.
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No.4513
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No.4530
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>>4513
I know.
WELCOME TO GEONOSIS, KRIFFER
I love enormous, chaotic blitzes like this.
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No.4543
>>4530
That mod looks badass. I haven't played BF2 in years, but I remember sniping the shit out of some Geonosians.
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No.4594
>>4530
Well fuck. Now I have to get back into this.
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No.4633
>>4512
>>4530
This shit.
This shit right here.
This is why I will never feel the want to give EA any money for their half-baked turds.
We should totally try set up a gamenight.
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No.4665
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>>4543
Damn bugs. They're especially annoying in the open, where you usually can't see them until they've hit you at least once.
>>4594
>>4633 (checked)
How shall we do that?
Also, anyone played the Movie Battles Mod for Jedi Academy? The Gunner/Jedi balance sounds incredible.
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No.4666
>>4665
>How
i happen to admin the old /v/ bros star wars group, this could be a good way to revive its activity.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/vbrosbf2
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No.4668
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Well shit, tripsman, that was easy. Though I'll have to get back onto Steam and my old comp to take part personally. How about we extend the invitation to /v/?
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No.4669
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No.4671
>>4668
>How about we extend the invitation to /v/?
could do that yeah. btw i gave that "battles of the storm" mod a playthrough, it's alright. the objectives are a bit silly, i'd rather it be fuckhuge conquest, like xl mode.
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No.4681
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>>4671
Coolio. Maybe there's an option to do that, or else can prod the mod team about it. Speaking of fuckhuge conquests…It's bootiful.
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No.4684
>>4681
>statue
is that the fat prick from jedi academy?
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No.4690
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>>4684
You tell me. I've never played that one, unfortunately. What does he have to do with Dantooine? Does most of this map come from there and Star Wars Galaxies or summat?
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No.4697
>>4690
hot damn that geonosis looks tight.
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No.4700
>>4666
>>4665
I think the first thing we might want to consider is maybe updating this handy thing with some more must-have mods, the more variety the better.
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No.4703
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>>4700
Alright, dubsman, but do you mean the littler mods too?
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No.4709
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No.4714
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>>4709
Be useful and suggest something else then, nigger.
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No.4717
>>4668
>give starwars to valve
>they makes battlefront III
Wewlad
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No.4719
>>4714
>suggest something else then
like a real server?
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No.4722
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>>4719
Alright, how do we set one up?
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No.4724
>>4029
>It's a good thing we were wearing helmets. Because none of us could bear to look her in the eye.
shit
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No.4756
>>4722
That shouldn't be a problem. Just open your ports but who wants to put their IP address on the dank web? Or instead rent a server and do it that way.
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No.4762
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No.4770
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>AT-XT
Now that is a name I have not heard for a very long time.
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No.4775
so what are the good star wars games
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No.4776
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>>4775
Here's five of them, you lazy nigger.
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No.4848
>>4775
>>4775
most are good tbh
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No.4957
>>4029
From the comments, a possible end:
>Were we prepared for what stood on the doorstep of the Rebellion? Of course not. Were we informed of our impending doom upon the horizon? Not a chance. It seemed the age of the Empire was growing weary and withered under its new orders. The survivors of the 501st were earning more wrinkles than medals these days and at the hand of Vader, we were growing more fearful than ever before. Our victory on Hoth was just a mere celebration to what lay before us as we touched down on the unforgiven forests of Endor. As we waded through the blood soaked rivers of the rebellion, our blasters hanging loosely in our hand, we fired upon the forces across the water, each round a fallen brother. Waves after waves of Rebellion troopers climbing through the forest. With nothing to combat them, we sat and waited for death to pick us off the ground.
>Thankfully, he never had the chance to, yet. Solo dead, Leia slain and Luke tortured, the rebellion would be soon to follow. It seemed that the Empire, after struggling efforts and endless exposures of merciless hostility was finally granted the satisfaction it deserved. No one knows of the fate of the rebellion, some say it's been starved and quelled, others say it's already nurturing a new generation of active extremist scum, but honestly, I'm just happy I had the chance to fight for a justified cause. The clone within me is slowly dying, and it won't be long until the rest of me goes with him. Hell, I'm getting too feeble and weak to pick up a blaster, never mind stepping forward on to the front lines. I often wonder what will be the future of the Empire, will it be crushed? Will it continue? Who knows. Yet, as I lookout across a new wave of Imperial Troopers, each face more determined than the last, I can be certain that our new brothers will carry on where we left off, as newly constructed troopers of the 501st and as fresh faces of imperial determination. But more importantly than any of that, as family of our fallen. This, is how the rebellion should have ended.
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No.5008
Switching to a different game and mod.
HAHA, TIME FOR SHEEV!
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No.5009
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No.5026
>>4029
>defend the library
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No.5035
>>5026
Just go an Engineer and repair the bookshelves.
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No.5059
>>5035
Not many people ever tried that because it doesn't make sense. If a clonetrooper with a space blowtorch could restore ancient jedi texts we'd have another EU character on our hands.
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No.5060
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No.5061
>>5059
I guess, I just usually main Engineers and try to slice/repair everything I can, results can sometimes be pretty good.
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No.5103
>>5035
the blow torch is so fuckin slow on the bookcases that the next wave of jedi spawn in the meantime
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No.5108
>>3906
That was such a great campaign
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No.5112
>>5103
You don't need it on full, you just need it to take them that couple of extra seconds to get the job done, if there's one thing that campaign taught me it's that a couple of extra seconds is all the difference.
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No.5119
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No.5971
Uh. What am I looking at? Did some dagos throw together an Empire at War mod, or is this for something else?
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No.5972
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No.5985
>>5119
>>5971
>>5972
What the fuck is even going on anymore? Why does the first minute of this look cornier than Wolfenstein?
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No.6308
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No.6801
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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No.6802
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>>6801
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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No.7219
>>6802
>>6801
Reminder that the Commandos are nothing more than just a cameo on Kamino now along with one guy with amnesia thanks to Disney and Lucas and no one will ever go back for them…
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No.8103
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>>3906
From the same maker. Not even about the lootboxes, this game was garbage beneath all that.
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No.8111
>>8103
Fuck I hate e-celebs, but this guy is probably someone I can see as being a pretty cool dude irl. He did a pretty good job explaining EA's bullshit and BF2's plot.
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No.8452
>>8103
Just when I thought Disney Wars couldn't get any worse after TLJ, I go and find out the plot of Battlefront II.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Contingency
Sweet fuck, this is the stupidest story/evil plan I've ever heard.
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No.8456
>>8103
>that subtle reference
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No.8482
>>8456
Which one? There were many.
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No.8498
>>8482
i'm referring to the gif i posted, it's within the first 3 minutes.
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No.9461
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No.9471
>>4776
>posting Razorfist
I'm surprised no one here has flipped their shit yet.
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No.9472
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No.9474
>>9471
>>9472
I don't know either. There's a whole thread devoted to his Depths of Deep Space Nine series on /trek/, and aside from some grumbling, most don't seem to mind it.
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No.9475
>>9472
>>9474
From my experience on other boards most seem to shit on him whenever he's mentioned. Personally, I'm ok with the guy though I disagree on some things with him.
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No.9476
>>9474
>>9475
Yeah, I can't say I agree with him on everything either but I've been following his "Depths of DS9" series as well Nice to see another crossposter. A bit normalfag on some things but he's certainly entertaining.
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No.9905
>>5119
Why is Captain Lance from Arrow in this game?
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No.10009
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Fuck. If only you could bundle a bunch of these custom maps together for ease of download.
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No.10158
>>10009
Well, couldn't you?
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No.10164
>>10158
I have no idea how to do that.
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No.10239
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Here's another mod map, in any case. Clone Wars meets Jedi Civil War.
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No.10774
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I have not the foggiest idea where that music's from, but the map is great and so are the custom skins.
FOR GENERAL KOTA
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No.11377
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Now if only the Republic had Juggernauts too.
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No.11598
>>3074
Looks purdy, is fun until you realize that teamwork doesn't actually exist, merely the illusion of it. Its just the same generic lone wolf gameplay done a million times + pitiful attempt at team play with the x2 battle points, officer and some heavy abilities…
That plus the loot boxes, which we've already bitched to death about.
(Sometimes I pretend to be an actual b1 battle droid and march slowly toward the enemy line with my standard issue blaster rifle in hand, busting filthy organics left and right. I then proceed to get in the top 5 of the scoreboard.)
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No.11599
>>11598
I didn't buy it, my parents bought it as a Christmas gift thinking I'd want it, and I couldn't return it :/
I appreciate their generosity (love em so much), but I even fucking told them how awful BFII was going to be during Thanksgiving.
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No.11685
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>>11598
>Sometimes I pretend to be an actual b1 battle droid and march slowly toward the enemy line with my standard issue blaster rifle in hand, busting filthy organics left and right. I then proceed to get in the top 5 of the scoreboard.
Embed related
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No.11812
http://thrawnsrevenge.com/forums/index.php?topic=7042.0
Well then, I think I've finally found a forum friendly to our ideas (provided there's no sperging about da joos).
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No.11813
>>11812
>a forum friendly to our ideas
>"If anything ISIS is more comparable to the First Order"
wew
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No.11824
>>11812
>an entire forum made up of Hope
C-Can this be true?
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No.11827
>>11813
Works for me. They're both crazed remnants of past glories willing to reach across the racial spectrum of mankind to recruit.
>>11824
Well, it's based around a mod about the EU Imperial Civil War. I'd say that will naturally magnetize for Star Wars fans who like the good old stuff.
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No.11835
>>11813
>>11827
Speaking of ISIS. A lot of nu-fans claim they hate the old lore mainly because of the Vong (and sexism, but that's another can of worms), but they hate them for all the wrong reasons, claiming that "they're obviously an offensive caricature of ISIS and Muslims written from the perspective of insensitive western males, so I'm glad Disney killed off Lucas's shit". There's even articles on the matter. http://archive.is/LUCKJ
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No.11838
>>11835
Clickbait journalists need to go away
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No.11840
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>>11835
<Don't make offensive portrayals of muslims! Seriously, you guys, that's not cool!
>didn't mind the idea when it was just space Amish or Crusaders
Every time I see this "argument," I see an utter coward unwilling to address the elephant in the room.
>>11824
Speaking of that mod, we're set to see the Eriadu Authority under Delvardus and the Greater Maldrood under Treuten Teradoc make their way to playable with the upcoming update, and maybe Zsinj as well. If not, then Zsinj's Empire and Blitzer Harrsk's Zero Command are next.
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No.11841
>>11840
>Speaking of that mod
So there are still things worth looking forward to in this day and age.
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No.11842
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>>11841
They'll be releasing their 2.2 update by the end of the month, final testing is ongoing right now. So get your foot in the door while you can.
AHA!
We are getting the Empire of that mustachioed maverick as a playable faction in 2.2. Counting him, we have
>The New Republic
>The Imperial Remnant (arguably the most significant in-game faction thanks to the Era System)
>The Pentastar Alignment of Powers
>Warlord Zsinj's Empire
>The Eriadu Authority
>The Greater Maldrood
>The Duskhan League (doesn't come out of isolation until later, of course)
>and finally The Empire of the Hand for some truly alien opponents
Eight playable factions in total, each with their own unique unit lists and playstyles. How do you like that?
Did I mention that he's also done a Sins of a Solar Empire version, and that he's working on a Fall of the Republic mod? Kriff yes we have somethings to look forward to.
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No.12198
>>11841
Mods are truly the saving grace of gaming in these dark ages.
Even if there are awkward moments
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No.12384
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>>12198
Welp, we may be getting some community growth under this mod. Mark your calendars, troopers, the 29th is Empire Day!
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No.12447
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For any CoH fans, there's a really good-looking Star Wars mod in the works for it. They just released their very first playable alpha. It's only infantry right now, balance is out the window, no vehicles or basebuilding, but it still looks really promising.
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No.12521
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>>12384
Text summary: http://thrawnsrevenge.com/forums/index.php?topic=7367.msg70096#new
We haaaave an update, and a roadmap to the future.
Things to expect:
Imperial Civil War 2.3 - Q4 2018
Primary Goals:
- New Playable Faction: Corporate Sector Authority
- Additional units for warlord factions (including the Assertor)
- More fleshed out storylines in existing galactic conquest scenarios
- Begin new designs for Hapan faction
- Ground overhauls begin (gameplay and art)
- Skirmish overhauls
- UI overhaul
Imperial Civil War 2.4
Primary Goals:
- New Playable Faction: Hapes Consortium
- Continue ground overhauls
- Continue fleshing out storylines
General goals for Imperial Civil War: (These will be done as we go)
- Redo EotH ground and space assets where necessary (all ground vehicles)
- Improve New Class Modernization Project art assets for New Republic (Nebula, Endurance, etc)
- New and updated models/textures for all ground props
- Review all text entry structures, add more useful information for both lore and gameplay (weapon loadouts, lore holocrons, etc)
- Continue introducing new abilities
- More tactical random events
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No.12658
http://thrawnsrevenge.com/forums/index.php?topic=7379.msg70185#new
>Unfortunately, while most of the testing process has been going very smoothly and we've made a lot of headway, some people have started to report save crashes in the beta, so in the interest of making sure the mod is as stable as possible, we have decided to move back release by two weeks to April 12th in order to try to look into it more. We will continue running the beta off of our forums for the time being, so those who do want to help test can do so there.
>We're sorry for the delay, but we want to make sure once the release happens, it's as good and smooth as we can make it.
Kark. Oh well, I've seen much worse delays.
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No.12704
>>12658
I can enjoy 2.1 for a few more weeks.
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No.12734
>>12704
I'm staring at your flag right now. How do you play those blue bastards? Sure their ships can practically melt hardpoints and laugh off tons of individual hits with their shields… but they're made of paper once those go down. I had the humbling experience of watching a bunch of dreadnoughts and light cruisers tear Stent to pieces in moments.
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No.12747
>>12734
tl;dr I just spam Ascendancy-class star destroyers and hyperspace them all around the enemy fleet with the help of a pathfinder ship. Individually the ships are weak so I counter that by spreading around as many as the pop cap allows to reduce the enemy's ability to focus them down. It almost feels unfair, but then again the remnant do have much bigger ships and several times the planets so I don't feel that bad.
I don't know if there's a lore reason to back this up but Empire of the Hand are all about numbers.
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No.13082
Hey, did one of you niggers get into the ICW discord? Because some cheeky fucker is shitposting the main dev himself.
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No.13087
>>13082
Nonsense. We are just harmless and insignificant shitposters with no evil intent. Not like we're doing anything sinister behind the scenes.
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No.13088
Just how stupid is Operation Cinder? Because it sounds pretty fucktarded to me. How can anyone happily defend this crap and the awful storyline of BFII among other things?
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No.13168
>>13088
It speaks for itself, dubsman. Both Sheev for ordering and the Imperials for actually obeying it.
>>12747
Got an answer back:
>EtoH is pretty strong
>I feel like their fleets are the best against almost everything
>It's just how you use your ships
>Syndics and phalanx's are your shields
>Then have have some ascendancies and peltasts in the back to give some support with fighters and long range firepower
>Your ships Are glass cannons
>EotH also gets the most out of the station turning ability
>You can optimize your Visvia shots that way
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No.13174
>>13168
>I feel like their fleets are the best against almost everything
>You can optimize your Visvia shots that way
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No.13475
>>13174
>>12704
How do you like it now?
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No.13476
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No.14177
>DLC confirmed
>its fucking Solo: A SW Story memes and sheeeit instead of Clone Wars or anything else worth a damn
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No.14183
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No.14196
Well fuck me, I went through my entire vidya backlog. Is Nufront 2's arcade mode worth torrenting?
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No.14199
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>>14183
The news is all over the place on every gaming news site and youtube man. And I don't feel like giving their sites hits
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No.14209
>>14199
fair enough, i looked it up and man that's just sad.
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No.25097
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Do any of you remember the rush of sheer hype you got from watching this trailer?
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No.25099
>>25097
>the glorious silver age
How I miss it…
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No.25105
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>>25097
I still remember seeing the trailer for Empire at War on the 2003 Clone Wars DVDs. What is it about those old game trailers that does a better job of actually selling the product than anything companies have put out these days?
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No.25114
>>3074
I had the misfortune of playing about 10 hours of this game over the past weekend.
Even after a fucking year of development this game is one-hundred-percent garbage. Absolute shit. The P2W aspects are largely removed but it doesn't even matter because the gameplay is so fucking shallow and repetitive. The TTK is so short that in most cases who wins a firefight relies entirely on who gets the first shot in. The balance is completely off. Character progression gives higher level players flat stat bonuses that set them above new players. Some star cards and abilities are explicitly better than others and some of them are overpowered to the point where you feel bad using them.
In many ways it feels worse than the last shitty Battlefront that EA put out, which is really fucking saying something. There is virtually nothing redeeming about this game.
People just want a Star Wars version of Battlefield - solid gunplay, fun vehicles, and huge combined arms maps that faithfully recreate the Star Wars setting - but that apparently is beyond the grasp of EA/DICE. Instead what they deliver is a visually appealing but completely soulless 70GB monstrosity with worse gameplay than a F2P Korean shooter from 2003. It plays and feels like a mobile game that somebody put in a PC game's skin.
Oh, I almost forgot - there's also the singleplayer campaign. EA/DICE, in their infinite wisdom, looked at their mostly-white-male customer demographic and decided that what the players REALLY want is to play as a distractingly ugly mystery-meat minority woman, whose dialogue and character development are frustratingly simplistic and entirely uncompelling. What's worse, they advertised the campaign as allowing players to experience the struggle between the Rebellion and the Empire from the Imperial perspective - which turns out to be a fucking lie because you switch sides about four missions in (proving once again that blacks, women, and especially black women are chronically disloyal and cannot be trusted). Racial concerns aside, the plot of the campaign is stupid beyond words and whoever wrote it should be fired. It makes no sense, feels rushed and is disappointing.
In closing, fuck EA and fuck DICE. They haven't made a good game in almost a decade and I expect all subsequent games from them to be even worse.
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No.25115
>>25114
Post worth screencapping
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No.25116
>>25114
That campaign is one of the more insulting things that came out dealing with the Galactic Empire…is what I would say when nu-Wars is shit across the board. Even so, Operation Cinder made no fucking sense at every point in the decision-making process.
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No.25118
>>3074
typical shitty cashgrab. IT's BFV but with more wamens
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No.25125
>>25105
At least for these two, "a sense of war" coupled with skilled editing.
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No.25129
>>25115
already on it boss
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No.25132
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>>25125
>a sense of war
enjoy this, anon
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No.25151
>>25132
This is but a taste of the chaos you could have on that map, but it was a delicious sample. I must figure out how to get it working in my own copy. Thanks.
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No.25157
>>25114
>the plot of the campaign is stupid beyond words and whoever wrote it should be fired. It makes no sense, feels rushed and is disappointing.
The story was written by a former gamejourno.
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No.25158
>>25157
It was written by the Spec Ops: The Line guy, wasn't it? That brought it's own disappointment to the table, finding a star like him crashed to dust.
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No.25169
>>25116
>"The Death Star is destroyed and the Emperor is dead. What do we do?"
<"Let's gather the remainder of our fleet and use it to protect our vital industrial worlds, from which we can rebuild and rearm ourselves."
>"Ha ha no that's retarded, let's just use like fifty of those mining platforms from JJ's Star Trek reboot to blow up our most faithful and devoted planet that is also home to our premier officer training school"
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