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[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's worth it for the price.

General:

  • Explosions / killing / respawning
  • Lots of Star Wars location and sound-design fan service

Campaign;

  • Gameplay is fun, but simple. The most complicated part is just reading the controls in the settings menu since the game doesn't tell you how to do one of the first things in the first mission (the button you need is 3)
  • Story is basic but it works well as a sequel to Episode 6 and a prequel to The Mandalorian.

Multiplayer:

  • Take turns being on offence / defence
  • Keep playing the same class / hero character to unlock more abilities for that class / hero character
  • Servers are populated, even for niche locations

Replayability:

  • Depends
  • If you like regular FPS games, you might get bored of it in 10-20 hours
  • If you like playing the same game over and over again to slowly grind up new things, you'll probably play it for 100+ hours

Other stuff:

  • Purchase through steam
  • Running the game downloads and installs the EA launcher (but you can log in using your steam account, no need to create new ones)
  • As far as launchers go, the EA launcher is tiny, surprisingly fast, isn't annoying and doesn't get in the way of anything (only setting you'll change is turning off the autolaunch when you start your pc)
  • Achievements work through steam
  • Invite friends through in-game party system. This can only see your friends on the EA launcher, but you can import all your steam friends in the EA launcher in a second and you only have to do it once.
[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Despite steam page description

Works on steam deck pretty flawlessly

[–] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

pity about that denuvo crapware.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I was on the fence about it but this random advice from the Internet pushed me over. Thanks!

You're welcome! = 3

Watch those wrist rockets

[–] truxnell@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah I'm sold to, thanks internet stranger!

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’ve mentioned it before, but the single player campaign is worth this price. I frankly couldn’t stand the multiplayer, but the single player story is simple and fun, and has a surprising amount of content. Gorgeous graphics.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just started playing. The normal shooter PvP was also not my favorite, but do you really think the same of the space battles? I love it a lot.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, that’s a good point. The space battles are really solid, I forgot how fun they are.

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Only thing I miss compared to the old BF2 is landing in the enemy ship to sabotage and the conquest mode. Otherwise, I find it solid. There is a pve arcade and pve large scale battles, both are quite fun to spend time in

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's hard not to like them. Shooting down enemies is not a slog and you don't get sniped it 1 shot, dying is not as bad because you can just jet back to the action in 5 seconds anyways, and who could possibly hate piloting an X-Wing with the intuitive controls?

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is this game worth getting for a single player experience in the Steam deck?

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

It's worth 4 bucks at least. I don't know how good it play on SD though, but the campaign is a nice singleplayer shooter

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

This dude says it works fine on Steam Deck fwiw

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/19937755

[–] vala@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does this still have a wild amount of drm and extra launchers?

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Does this still have a wild amount of drm

If I’m not mistaken Star Wars is still owned by Disney, of course it’ll have many many many layers of DRM.

and extra launchers

In my experience it’s only the EA launcher that it needs. it works on Linux despite all the bullshit.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago

Fuck miramax

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

The screenshots and two trailers make me confused whether this is even the game I thought it is from the title. I hate that it doesn't show any gameplay outside of a short scene in the second trailer.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is a solid game for how cheap it goes on sale regularly. I mean it's pretty old now, but still.

Multiplayer can be fun, but there are a lot of bots. The Galactic Conquest mode (the Clone War one that's more like the classic BF games) can kinda drag for a really long time in some matches, but it's still pretty fun to jump in and start blasting.

[–] Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There are only bots in Supremacy which do drag on for a long time, there are no bots in the Galactic assault mode which is more linear battles with 3-4 phases.

As I've said in other posts when sales come up for this game, it was designed as a slog, you have to grind to get good weapons and "star cards". Hackers will pop up in Galactic Assault here and there but are relatively absent in Supremacy.

Campaign Ai is garbage, story is o k a y at best.

Fun game, toxic community, 8 years 3k hours, will be playing till the servers die

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I initially got it for the story lol. Well, I think it was on Games With Gold a few years back and that's how I got it.

Either way I enjoyed the story for what it was, trying to bridge the gap between OT and ST, and thought it didn't do a terrible job at it.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they die you'll have https://kyber.gg/ to keep going

[–] Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh wow I played on those servers when they came out, didn't know they were still up! Thanks

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

You're welcome !

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

A month ago I watched this video (9 min) which paints quite a positive light on Battlefront 2 - after the very negative reviews and community feedback after release 8 years ago.