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Though it’s a shame that DICE still haven’t been able to get up to 1080p on the PS4, the game still looks quite stunning.
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While a big deal was made about not having “aim down ironsights”, both the A280C and E-11 have a scope attached which you can very quickly look down, which effectively negates that point. You can still hit people and deal damage from quite a distance, but you’re much better off switching to the Cycler Rifle for a single shot or trying to close the gap. There’s really not much recoil to either of the default blaster rifles, but they’re still not that great at long range and require you to land several hits for a kill. First it’s the Thermal Detonator grenade, then the Ion Shot mode for your primary weapon that’s more damaging to vehicles – and therefore not particularly useful in the soldier-only Drop Zone – the Cycler Rifle as a cooldown-based sniper, Jump Pack, Personal Shield and more.īut you can get a hang of the first person combat and the weapons a lot better in this closer quarters situation, or playing the horde mode Survival on Tatooine against AI enemies. This is really the training ground, and over the course of the first few matches you unlock new guns and abilities to put in your “hand”. It’s a smaller scale affair at just 8v8, but as escape pods drop at random points amidst the volcanic rocky outcrops that make up the map, the battle can quickly shift back and forth in the race to capture five pods. The vast majority of the game will be spent ground pounding as a regular soldier, and that’s emphasised in the Drop Zone game mode. You can either spawn back at the main spawn point or on your buddy, but without squads of four or five and being able to pick who to spawn on, you’re much less able to hold down a single position with a small group, and that changes some of the flow of the game. However, there’s also less inherent teamwork since squads have been reduced down to pairs of buddies.
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Perhaps because of this, it currently feels very easy for the Empire to just march towards a win against an uncoordinated, inexperienced and scrappy Rebel team, who can’t hold down the uplink points and don’t understand how to damage the two AT-ATs coming their way. It will take experience and a bit of luck to be in the right place at the right time in order to step into the boots of Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker, for example, and there’s a whole layer of air combat between AT-ATs, TIE Interceptors, Y-Wings and Snowspeeders that you can be blissfully unaware of if you don’t take part in it. You really do need to get to grips with the game a bit before diving in – if you’ve not ranked up and unlocked a few guns and abilities beforehand, the game pops a little warning advising you to do so – but even then, there’s a lot to take in an a lot that will be missed on first inspection.