Battlefront III

[Ar-Sakalthôr]

Battlefront hat in den letzten paar Monaten auch ein paar kostenlose Updates erhalten. Ich glaub das waren einmal die Skins für Luke, Han und Leia(dieser wurde durch die Communityaktion freigeschalten), einige neue Maps und die göbsten Balanceprobleme wurden behoben.

Der kostenpflichtige Outer Rim DLC erscheint laut EA und Dice am 22.3.16
Hier noch der Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77CMcPbLeKs
New heroes, maps, mode, weapons, star cards and more. Fight among the factories of Sullust and battle within Jabba the Hutt's palace on Tatooine in the Star Wars™ Battlefront™ Outer Rim digital expansion

[¡KT!]

Ändert leider auch nichts daran, dass das Spiel mittlerweile schon fast tot ist. Auf dem PC spielen es aktiv vielleicht 3k Leute. Zum Vergleich, Battlefield 3 spielen noch etwas über 10k Leute.^^


Mfg

[Ar-Sakalthôr]

Ändert leider auch nichts daran, dass das Spiel mittlerweile schon fast tot ist. Auf dem PC spielen es aktiv vielleicht 3k Leute. Zum Vergleich, Battlefield 3 spielen noch etwas über 10k Leute.^^


Mfg

Deshalb ruhen noch meine Hoffnungen das EA und DICE einen Singleplayer Modus einfügen. Damit wenigstens noch einige die es Spielen wollen auch weiterhin spielen können. ^^

[Ar-Sakalthôr]

Star Wars Battlefront Bespin DLC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFLJlDH0E7k

Hier nochmal der Link zu den Ankündigungen von EA und DICE zum Battlefront DLC und einer Überraschung zum Star Wars tag am 4 Mai.
Battlefront Forum
DaumenDrück für Singleplayer inhalte.



MfG Lord Sauron der 5000.

[Ar-Sakalthôr]

Star Wars Battlefront DLC Details


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtGZ7gyUS1Y


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdImAgo8CXI

[Fine]

Battlefront ist mir ehrlich gesagt inzwischen einfach zu langweilig geworden.

Viel interessanter hingegen finde ich folgendes Projekt:
Galaxy in Turmoil

Schaut's euch mal an. Ist sehr vielversprechend.

[Eru]

Das sieht tatsächlich mega gut aus, nicht nur grafisch, sondern auch von den Modi her, die sie anscheinend planen. Ich würde mir allerdings nicht allzu große Hoffnungen machen, dass dieses Projekt jemals ein gutes Ende finden wird.

Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass Disney zulässt, dass parallel an den in Entwicklung befindlichen Star Wars-Spielen bei EA (die ja aktuell die Lizenz für Star Wars-Spiele besitzen) an so einem Projekt gearbeitet werden darf. Vor allem nicht wenn es aussieht wie ein waschechtes Konkurrenz-Spiel zu den lizenzierten Produkten bei EA.
Die Seite scheint ja auch heut erst aufgesetzt worden zu sein, im Forum gibt es nur wenige Topics und das Developer Diary ist auch erst spärlich. Glaube LEIDER nicht, dass das Projekt Früchte tragen wird.

Sieht aber alleine durch die paar Screenshots schon 100x besser aus als Battlefront 3. Alleine durch die Klonkriegs-Ära.

[Ar-Sakalthôr]

Star Wars Battlefront News: Hero Buffs & Nerfs, Vehicles Soon & More!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_IBQyFYVZI



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1gdfuiZU18

Sieht aber alleine durch die paar Screenshots schon 100x besser aus als Battlefront 3.

Das EA Battlefront ist kein eigenständiges Battlefront, sonder ein Remake, welches durch mangel an Inhalt untergehen wird.

[Ar-Sakalthôr]

Mehr News zum 4 Mai

Celebrate the Star Wars Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfzEQ8-UrUs



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nib2ja2-JEw


Ich kanns kaum erwarten bis der Bespin DLC draussen ist. Endlich wird eine Sternkarte eingefügt welche auch mal Verbündete unterstützt. Die 4.444 Credits kommen wie gerufen.

[Ar-Sakalthôr]

May the 4 be with you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RifZOODY2p4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3gkJCNJCgY

Hier dann nochmal die Change List:

Below are the patch notes specific to PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One for the May client update.

General:

    Added a system which allow players to see if an enemy currently has a charge card active by adding an icon above the enemies’ health bar.
    PC: Made it so that combat roll triggers on press, and not on release.
    PC: Pressing enter will now open the chat channel.
    Vehicles: Resolved an issue which would make players invincible after attempting to enter a vehicle.
    Vehicles: A timer has been added to Imperials exiting vehicles. Before they could instantly leave certain vehicles.
    Vehicles: Increased the time to enter a speeder bike from 0.3 to 0.5s.
    Combat Roll: Performing a melee attack at the same time as a combat roll will no longer break the animation.
    Combat Roll: Resolved an issue in which players couldn’t see another player performing a combat roll.
    Combat Roll: There’s now a 1.5s cooldown.
    Deluxe Edition: Resolved an issue in which the upgraded version of Ion Torpedo was awarded instead of the regular version.
    General: Various tweaks to the auto balance and matchmaking systems.
    General: Updated various error messages used in game.
    General: Updated the localization to resolve various text bugs.
    General: Resolved various clipping issues.


Stability:

    Disconnect: Fixed an issue in which players were getting disconnected after observing another players profile in the social hub while playing In game.
    Disconnect: Pressing the up arrow in the private match lobby would cause players to disconnect to the menu if they hadn't visited the game modes screen.
    Crash: The player will no longer crash when observing the Shadow Trooper diorama figurine.
    Crash: Resolved a rare crash issue which could occur if a player joined another server while waiting in the in-game lobby.
    Crash: Resolved a crash issue which could occur when reaching max rank and getting to the End of Round screen.


UI:

    UI: The issue with score and credits being displayed as 0 = 0, has been resolved. Now the correct amount of score and credits obtained will now be displayed in the End of Round flow.
    UI: Resolved an issue which would occur when a player is Rank 60, but the End of Round flow would display the rank as 59.This also resolves other various desync issues with stats.
    UI: Soldiers heads aren’t obstructed anymore in the appearance menu by the unlock price.
    UI: Removed a blur effect that was present over the soldier in the deployment screen on certain levels.
    UI: The kill card will now show which trait card the enemy currently has equipped.


Weapons & Star Cards

    Personal Shield: Players can now use the shield at the same time as the Jump pack.
    Personal Shield: Players can now swap weapons at the same time as the shield is active.
    Charge Cards: The duration timer would be decreased by half when standing close to the shipment in the game mode Extraction. Now it's only the charge card cooldown that is decreased by half when standing close to the shipment.
    Dioxis Grenade: Added a new scoring event for when you deal damage.
    Dioxis Grenade: Now the player will not be able to inflict self-damage when throwing a Dioxis Grenade next to a vehicle and then entering it.
    Dioxis Grenade: Increased the inner radius from 3 to 4m.
    Dioxis Grenade: Increased damage ticks. Increased inner radius damage from 6 to 7. Outer radius damage increased from 4 to 5. A total of 12 health will be dealt each tick when standing in the inner radius.
    DLT-19X: Removed a moment penalty that would occur when zooming in.
    DT-12: Raised rate of fire from 180 to 220.
    Relby-V10: Raised max damage from 24 to 25.
    RT-97C: Lowered weapon sway, Min 0.25 to 0.2, Max 2 to 1.5.
    Blaster Cannon: Increased inner explosion radius from 1 to 1.5m and the outer explosion radius from 1.5 to 2.5m.
    Blaster Cannon: Increased explosion damage from 25 to 34.
    Active Cooling: Made the fields slightly wider to make it easier even on the harder levels
    Ion Detonator: Will explode on impact instead of after a delay.
    Ion Detonator: Lowered inner explosion radius from 6 to 2m and the outer explosion radius from 7 to 4m.
    Ion Detonator: Lowered the damage multiplier towards soldiers from 0.5X to 0.4X.


Heroes:

    UI: Hostile orbital strikes will no longer appear in the blue color while playing as a hero. Now a red color is used.
    Darth Vader: Players killed by Darth Vader’s deflection will now correctly see his image in the kill card.
    Darth Vader: Players who are currently being choked will not be able to interact with ingame objects, such as uplinks.
    Darth Vader: Increased the damage output on Darth Vader’s Force Choke ability. It also now removes the effect of Adrenaline Stim.
    Leia: Trooper Bane ability will now pass through shields.
    Greedo & Nien Nunb: Other players are now unable to spawn on them when they are being attacked.
    Greedo: Resolved an issue in the UI for the confidence ability which didn't update correctly once the confidence decreases.
    Greedo: Changed Confidence 1 damage multiplier from 1.4 to 1.3. Confidence 2 damage multiplier from 1.9 to 1.7. Confidence 3 damage multiplier from 2.8 to 2.4
    Nien Nunb: Increased Proximity mine cooldown from 8 to 9s
    Nien Nunb: Decreased Rapid Pulse Canon damage multiplier to AT-AT from 150% to 100%
    Nien Nunb: Increased turret Lock Time from 0.8 to 1
    Nien Nunb: Increased Turret Unlocking Time from 0.2 to 0.25
    Nien Nunb: Decreased Augmented Turret damage from 22 to 20
    Nien Nunb: Decreased Turret damage from 15 to 14
    Luke: Increased Health from 925 to 1050
    Luke: Increased Blocking time from 4 to 6s


Game Modes:

    Outer Rim: Increased the frequency of Extraction being played in the Outer Rim playlist from 50% to 75%. Two rounds of Extraction will now be played every other round.
    Hero Hunt: Resolved the issues which allowed there to be two heroes at the same time.
    Hero Hunt: Resolved a rare issue in which the interface would not appear after spawning in as a Hero in Hero Hunt.
    Hero Hunt: Removed the hero selection wheel. Now only showing the score and appointing the top damage dealer to become the next hero.
    Heroes Vs Villains: Decreased rounds required to win from 5 to 3 rounds if played in the Outer Rim playlist
    Heroes Vs Villains: Decreased time until first round starts from 60 to 30 seconds
    Heroes Vs Villains: Decreased time between round end and next one begins from 30 to 10 seconds
    Fighter Squadron: Resolved an issue in which you could spawn in to a different vehicle type in Fighter Squadron if you deploy in exactly at the same moment as another player does it on the opposite team.
    Cargo: Decreased time limit from 15 to 10 minutes if played in the Outer Rim playlist
    Power-ups: Fixed various issues with Power-ups being unreachable or blocked by the Environment.
    Spawns: Fixed player spawns across all modes on Ice Caves & Swamp Crash Site.
    Walker Assault: AT-AT health tweaks
    Sullust 31000 to 35000 = +12% Increase
    Jakku 35000 to 50000 = +30% Increase
    Hoth 30000 to 40000 = +30% Increase
    Endor 60000 to 80000 = +30% Increase
    Tatooine 33000 to 40000 = +20% Increase


Stats & Progression:

    Stats: Resolved an issue in which players didn't get any stats after completing rounds of Hero Hunt in certain instances.
    Stats: Players should be able to observe all unlocked diorama figurines correctly when looking at another players profile in the social hub. Before only multiplayer based figurines would appear unlocked.
    Hutt Contracts: Some descriptions and criteria have been made clearer.
    Hutt Contracts: Updated the Criteria for DT-12, Relby-V10, and Scatter Gun to not require 15 kills in a round but rather 15 kills in total.
    Hutt Contracts: Unlocks obtained during a game round will now become instantly available and will not require the player to leave the server to access them.
    Diorama: Greedo Diorama criteria has been updated and now requires 7 unlocks. All players who have completed the 7 criteria pre-patch will have the diorama figurine automatically unlock next time they play and finish a round of multiplayer.
    Accomplishments: Changed the required amount of kills for the various weapon related accomplishment streaks from 10 kills to 7 kills.
    Scoring: Changed the term "Killstreak bonus" to "Combat Streak"
    Scoring: Increased various objective based scoring events and decreased various combat oriented scoring events.

Hier noch die ChangeList mit Developer Comments

Developer Comments:

    Vehicles: Resolved an issue which would make players invincible after attempting to enter a vehicle.

This occurred after we deployed an update that protects a soldier from being killed at the end of the call-in sequence and they have moved into their vehicle. If the sequence fails there wasn’t a signal sent back to remove this protection.

    Personal Shield: Players can now use the shield at the same time as the Jump pack.
    Personal Shield: Players can now swap weapons at the same time as the shield is active.

These were unintended effects of some changes we made to the core behavior of the shields. Switching weapons and using the jump pack should absolutely be possible. We are also listening to feedback regarding the charged cards as a whole, and have for the coming Bespin update implement a mean to actively turn the card off. This means you can manually disable your Charge card to push it into cooldown sooner, if no one is around you or you need to fire regular blaster bolts rather than Ion.

    Dioxis Grenade: Added a new scoring event for when you deal damage.
    Dioxis Grenade: Increased the inner radius from 3 to 4m.
    Dioxis Grenade: Increased damage ticks. Increased inner radius damage from 6 to 7. Outer radius damage increased from 4 to 5. A total of 12 health will be dealt each tick when standing in the inner radius.

Overall we were immensely satisfied with the results of the Dioxis grenade, and how the weapon became a denial weapon rather than simply another way to quickly dispatch enemies. With that said, we agree that the weapon was somewhat lacking and the above changes were made with this mind. Again it’s not to make it an exceptionally lethal weapon, but it will cause some more harm as well as rewarding you with points for damaging soldiers who are inside the gas field.

    DLT-19X: Removed a moment penalty that would occur when zooming in.
    Active Cooling: Made the fields slightly wider to make it easier even on the harder levels

The DLT-19X is a widely discussed weapon. When we designed the weapon we were aware that it was not going to be a weapon that would be for everyone. There were however points of valuable feedback that we felt was important to take into account. Firstly, since the weapon overheats with each blast, the Cooling Flush skill game have been tweaked slightly to lower the difficult level on the two highest levels. Lastly, being closer to a sharpshooter rifle, the DLT-19X initially received a movement penalty even when zooming. In hindsight this didn’t feel in line with how all of our other blasters are built, so we opted to remove it. The challenge is already quite high with the weapon, so it should be as reliable as you’d expect from similar weapons, such as a T-21B.

    Ion Detonator: Will explode on impact instead of after a delay.
    Ion Detonator: Lowered inner explosion radius from 6 to 2m and the outer explosion radius from 7 to 4m.
    Ion Detonator: Lowered the damage multiplier towards soldiers from 0.5X to 0.4X.

This started as a fix where the Ion Grenade wouldn’t hit the Shipments Squad shield though we researched its behavior further. Initially it was built as a grenade that reacts to vehicles, droids and gadgets and then explode on the ground a few second later if it wasn’t triggered. As our core combat loop rarely see the Ion Grenade being used as a mine, we reworked it slightly to explode on impact. It’s effectiveness against vehicles and droids is unchanged, but it can now also be used more reliably against soldiers if needed. It’s naturally not as effective as regular grenades, but now it provides more versatility than before.

    Combat Roll: There’s now a 1.5s cooldown.

This was actually a bug and the 1.5 seconds is the intended gameplay. We’re looking at adding a visual cooldown to know when your combat roll is available.

    Luke: Increased Health from 925 to 1050
    Luke: Increased Blocking time from 4 to 6s

We’re happy with the speed changes to Luke, and the nerf brought him down to the same level as other heroes. He was a little bit low though so we increased his health but also wanted some skill to be involved in his survival and brought up his blocking between the original value and Darth Vader’s.

    Greedo: Changed Confidence 1 damage multiplier from 1.4 to 1.3. Confidence 2 damage multiplier from 1.9 to 1.7. Confidence 3 damage multiplier from 2.8 to 2.4

Greedo’s not in a bad spot but he became too powerful against heroes when gaining confidence. This change should make him more balanced and bring him to average numbers.
Keep in mind this bug fix : “Greedo’s confidence levels cooldown’s would not reset properly on a kill, only on non-lethal damage.” It now properly reset on every hit, lethal or not. Which by fixing intended Gameplay, buffs Greedo.

    Nien Nunb: Increased Proximity mine cooldown from 8 to 9s
    Nien Nunb: Decreased Rapid Pulse Canon damage multiplier to AT-AT from 150% to 100%
    Nien Nunb: Increased turret Lock Time from 0.8 to 1
    Nien Nunb: Increased Turret Unlocking Time from 0.2 to 0.25
    Nien Nunb: Decreased Augmented Turret damage from 22 to 20
    Nien Nunb: Decreased Turret damage from 15 to 14

Nien Nunb could really punish an AT-AT if left alone, so we’re taking down the damage multiplier to 100%.His Turret was also too powerful, so we’re changing locking times and damage to give more chance to escape it and stay alive. The change should bring him down closer to other heroes, we will monitor the result and see where he stands for next patch.

    Outer Rim: Increased the frequency of Extraction being played in the Outer Rim playlist from 50% to 75%. Two rounds of Extraction will now be played every other round.
    Heroes Vs Villains: Decreased rounds required to win from 5 to 3 rounds if played in the Outer Rim playlist
    Cargo: Decreased time limit from 15 to 10 minutes if played in the Outer Rim playlist

We're noticing high activity for the Outer Rim playlist with healthy matchmaking across all regions. However, we are seeing a trend where players tend to abandon a playlist most frequently during games of Heroes vs Villains, with Extraction games being the least frequently abandoned by players. As a result, we have upped the frequency of Extraction games being featured in the playlist while tweaking the end conditions of other game modes in the Outer Rim to further decrease the waiting time between Extraction games.

    Hero Hunt: Removed the hero selection wheel. Now only showing the score and appointing the top damage dealer to become the next hero.

We like the excitement provided by the hero selection wheel, but agreed with the feedback that players felt extremely frustrated from not getting picked as the hero despite having the highest chance on multiple occasions. This change should retain the excitement of the selection process while ensuring the game mode still fairly rewards the player that does the most damage to the heroes.

One addition:

    Walker Assault: AT-AT health tweaks

Sullust 31000 to 35000 = +12% Increase
Jakku 35000 to 50000 = +30% Increase
Hoth 30000 to 40000 = +30% Increase
Endor 60000 to 80000 = +30% Increase
Tatooine 33000 to 40000 = +20% Increase

[Ar-Sakalthôr]

Offizieler Bespin DLC Trailer

Nach langer wartezeit, haben EA und DICE den lang ersehnten Trailer zur Wolkenstadt Bespin angekündigt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5HMUAlxkws


Und gleich mit dazu eine Analysis was alles neu hinzukommt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F61Q3my-seg


Ich freue mich schon riesig auf das DLC.
MfG Lord Sauron der 5000.

[Ar-Sakalthôr]

So hier mal wieder eininge Updates. Vlt. auch mal was interessantes zu den Weltraumkampf.

Death Star

EA und DICE haben auf der SWCE einen Teaser Trailer zum kommenden Death Star gezeigt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQ6y2CYDog


Dazu kommt neu in dieser Woche noch der Skirmish Mode, in der man gegen Bots im Kampfläufer Angriff und Jägerstaffel spielen kann.


Bespin News

Hier der Trailer und einige Videos dazu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5HMUAlxkws


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvEkQwcsfFM

MfG Lord Sauron der 5000.

[GhostDragon]

Die meisten die ich kenne (die Battlefront gespielt haben) sind nun alle beim Overwatch spielen.
Battlefront ist wirklich viel besser geworden innerhalb der letzten Patches, doch finde ich es immer noch nicht unterhaltsam genug um es über längere Zeit zu spielen (einfach keine wirkliche Langzeitmotivation, level ups etc reichen mir nicht, das Gameplay muss mich am meisten motivieren).

[Ar-Sakalthôr]

Ich stimme dir in vielen Punkten zu. Battlefront ist nach dem Bespin Update das geworden was es hätte schon sein sollen. Fokus auf Partnerplay, Teamspecialkarten, etc. Der Death Star bringt nun auch das lang ersehnte Space Battle mit.
Battlefront ist eindeutig ein Spiel welches spätestens nach dem realse vom Rouge One DLC aussterben wird. Oder wenn nächstes Jahr Battlefront 2 (vorraussichtlich Ep. 7-9 sein wird) rauskommt.
Für Ottonormalspieler ist es durchaus unterhaltsam für einige Stunden. Wenn da nicht die inkompetenz mancher Teammates wäre.... Allerdings muss man es wirklich mit Freunden spielen, sonst wirds schnell öde.

MfG Lord Sauron der 5000.

[GhostDragon]

Im Prinzip das selbe wie bei Overwatch, schlechtes Team = 0 fun und auch Frust.
Man verliert ohne etwas dafür zu können, die pure Inkompetenz einiger Spieler grenzt schon an trolling (ist in beiden Spielen so^^).
Da gibt es Helden in Overwatch die speziell für abwehren von Invadern/Flankern gespielt werden, doch eben diese erfüllen ihren Job nicht, puff keine Chance mehr da man von allen Seiten überannt wird.
Eben dies ist mir auch oft in Battlefront aufgefallen, viele spielen einfach drauf los, ohne jegliche Koordination oder Taktik, keiner Erfüllt seine Aufgaben so wie er sollte (jedenfalls oft, hatte deshalb auch selbst einige Ragequits, was soll ich machen wenn meine Leute den Killcount hochtreiben oder einen Punkt nicht verteidigen können , da sie sich einfach flankieren lassen....).
Ich bin vielleicht kein Überpro, doch das ist schon grenzwertig was einige Spieler momentan veranstalten....