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8 years ago

Is this game still in Beta?

Product: Star Wars Battlefront II
Platform:PC
What is your issue related to? General
Summarize your bug General complaints and improvement suggestions
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? Paeleth
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Can you tell us the date (MM/DD/YYYY) that you saw the bug? Today, yesterday, last week, last month and last year
What time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM) All the time
In what game mode did the bug occur? Galactic Assault
What is your time zone? ECT - GMT + 1:00
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Playing the game
What happens when the bug occurs? Bad gaming expirence
What do you expect to see? Changes
Please select your region Europe
AMD or Nvidia Model Number Nvidia STRIX GTX 1080

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Dear EA!

Where should I begin?
Is this game still in Beta? Seriously, did you even try this game yourself. Oh wait, you can’t, because it crashes all the time…

But once in a while, I am able to “play” a few rounds, before it crashes again. And even then, it cannot be said, that I was “playing”. That is more suffering than anything else…

Whenever I try to join a server – if it actually works – I it takes so long to find one, that I could prepare a sandwich during waiting. At least the sandwich will not be wasted, because I can easily eat it, while waiting for the almost empty server to fill up.
It is faster to quit – the game crashes – restart the game and rejoin another server than waiting.

Once I made it in a game -finally- I am greeted with a 2172 fps loading screen, yes twothousandonehundredandseventytwo frames per second! What a waste of resources.

Now that I can finally play the game I am forced to “enjoy” all these things:

1) The scoreboard:
Why is there no ping counter? Are the numbers too high for 8Bit values?
Why is there no K/D listing?

2)Scoring system:
The current scoring system is purely unfair. You get an insane amount points for killing people, even if you are miles away from the objective. There should be a limit on kill-score for each objective-score you earn. The objective score should determine how high your overall score can get. It is not fair to award berserking players with heroes, just to let them go wild even more.
Kill-Assists, for that reason, are a very good means to say: “at least you tried”. Make them count as a kill for players who dealt a moderate amount of damage too! It is very annoying to have a random player steal your kill because he gets the last shot on the enemy.

3)Statistics:
How hard can it be to let the players see their game statistics you are already collecting?
Do you think I cannot handle the amount of kill assists I have?

4)Cheating:
Honestly, cheating is a very big problem in this game. How can players with modified versions of the game even launch it, let alone play online?
If you think counting on other players to report hackers is a good way, then surely you guys do not know how real life works.

5)Damage Model:
The Melee attack is far two weak! Not only should it deal 100+ damage, but it also should make it impossible to shoot while getting punched in the face. It works for heroes, so it clearly is possible.

Lightsaber-Heroes even have an aimbot! That is ridiculous.
If your enemies gets somehow pushed away from you while you are hitting them, you teleport after him!

6)Unbalanced Units
Why do you get extra health for using the vanguard?
The Blurrg with it exploding shots is clearly overpowered!
The Battle Command should not give you more health, it should only fill up your health immediately.
This is even more true for the Fortify ability the Enforcer has!

Rey is dealing too much damage, compared to other Heroes.
Chewbaccas stun grenade is just unfair. He already deals a lot of damage.

7)The Maps:
How is it, that when flying the Tie-fighter on Crait, you cannot see the holes in the ground? Instead they are covered with some sort of ugly texture.
There are so many obstacles on all the maps where you cannot jump over them because they are a millimeter to high or you get stuck behind them, because the hitboxes are clearly wrong.
The hitboxes on all the maps are so bad in general, that you cannot fly a starfighter without crashing somewhere immediately after spawning even if you are meters away from the obstacle.

Why did you remove the X-Wing on Tatooine? Bring it back at least in later phases!
Why do the rebels have one more Starfighter on Hoth? As the Imperials you cannot even spawn a Starfighter because you get immediately killed.

After I finally got through all this torture and I want to play another round, why is there no voting screen to choose between a few maps for the next map to play?

Just to emphasize the seriousness of this post:
All the above mentioned is based on real experience, I and any friends have while trying to play this game. I am not raging because I get killed all the time but because I DO all these impossible KILLS. In fact I am the one finding these exploits in this obviously broken game.

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I have reached over 200h now and after playing so much, I still find a lot of new bugs and mistakes that EA have put in this game.

1) One of the more annoying bugs that occur when I try to play with my friedns is that we sometimes can't mute each other in the multiplayer-groupe and its pretty annoying especially if we are talking via another voice chat client. We get an echo.

2)Hackers! They * me off. Although they are a problem in every game, somehow this game couldn't find a good way to deal with them. I have unfortunatly read a lot of articles about hackers on this forum and this is just sad, that the developers still don't do anything about it. One of the main problems is the anti cheat system of this game,it is a joke. Couldn't they have used "Punkbuster" or "BattleEye" or at least another programm that scans you data for a 3rd party software?

Sometimes you get killed in such a way that you can't really tell if the person who just eliminated you is a hacker or a skilled player(with luck) or just bad connection. (I've played a lot of Battlefield too) So i dont get why they cant at least implement some kind of spectator mode, where you can follow this particular person to chek if he is cheating or not (you can see by his movements). I consider myself as a good player and get most times a lot of kills. The problem is that I m accused everytime as a hacker and get reported.

3)Balance. I had a lot of games where one side had better players then the other team and that lead to an unbalanced game (GA/SA/HvsV/Blast/Strike). Mixing up the Teams after every "unbalanced game" woulnd't be a bad Idea i guess^^

4)Shown challanges (after game) The most time in the end menu of a round it shows me random challennges that i couldn't have done that round. It would be better if you could select what challanges will be shown, so we dont have to write them down (like me ) or check them in the main menu after every game.

After the last patch (1.2), most times you it doesn't show your progression at the end of a round. You have to wait until next round just to see the progression you've made the round before.

16 Replies

Dacen_Thren
8 years ago
You, dear sir (or madam, or other), are my new hero. If I could accumulate enough Battle Points, I might even play as you.

Seriously though, I cannot agree with everything you wrote, but in general, you hit the nail on the head with many of your complaints. Especially the focus on kills for everything that is of importance in this game (Battle Points, Score, Credits, Milestones) - a game that was promoted as being objective-based - is absolutely ridiculous. It takes me weeks (literally, go check it, EA) to unlock weapons and weapon mods, because bringing down an enemy to 1% of their health doesn't net me a kill - that goes only to the lucky guy who stumbles into them in the end, knocking them dead. Attacking or defending the objective gives me what exactly? A warm handshake from my team? Not even that.
And the hitboxes... oh my Midichlorian, the hitboxes... I cannot even tell you how many times I have crashed my starfighter into ten meters of vacuum next to some space debris.

I could go on, but you covered it pretty well. Kudos.
Paeleth
8 years ago
Thank you for your support^^
Anonymous
8 years ago
I've stated this before, my belief that everyone has been in an non disclosed by EA Dice "open game development" such as PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds. Based on this forum's imperial evidence of bugs, glitches, exploits, server, network, failures and essential game - player disconnects.
WishMaster2020
8 years ago
You are very incorrect. This game is in pre-alpha. I play it with friends and will continue to do so on hope that it improves and gets better with additional content. But unfortunatley the longer time passes the more I realize EA created this to make money, not to make a game worthy of its license. If they corrected functionality and added interesting and innovative game modes (battle royale for example, not that they should add battle royale but that they should try something new and fun... NOT JETPACK CARGO WHICH IS A BROKEN RAGE FEST lol).

Again, please EA and the actual game studious, Criterion... make Star Wars Battlefront great again!
Anonymous
8 years ago
well that explains, why EA could not test this game properly. it is not stable enough to even test it! hilarious!

The game is really unstable though. every time I launch it, I wet my pants, because I am afraid it is going to bluescreen any moment.
I already gave up on hoping for a crash-free day. By now I have collected 30 crashes only in februrary! its so frustrating
check out my bug report...
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/EASWBF2-Game-Crash-0x887A0006-and-0xC0000005/m-p/6632737/highlight/true#M8497

Agreeing on the rest as well- EAs primary goal with this game seems to make money. providing a good game is somewhere at the end of the list...
I would be so happy if all the rumors were true and disney was going to pull the start wars licence from EA, because they obviously do not deserve it!
Anonymous
8 years ago
@WishMaster2020

Okay I will agree to that as well. With this many game breaking exploits, glitches, bugs, and still a high percentage of them are not fixed its quite logical that we the "consumers" were lied to! And yet no compensation can be awarded unless its by EA or other Judicial means.
Anonymous
8 years ago
I want to add one thing:

the in game friend grouping (on PC platform) is complete garbage!
I am talking about the group that you can create in the top left corner...
Not only does the invite not work in most cases, but the built in vioce chat is so annoying!
There seems to be a mute button, but most of the time it does not work!
But why is there even an auto-activated voice chat??
@EA in which century do you live??
In 2018 people use proprietary programs (like discord) to talk while gaming, not that stupid crash thats build in!
Alliecat7803
8 years ago
Did you play the "Beta" last summer? If you think about it, the Beta Galactic Assault was only on ONE map, out of all the maps they had available. ONE Starfighter assault map. VERY limited hero availability. Only a fraction of the available vehicles (no AT-AT or AT-ST, for example). The Beta was very glitchy, and I have to say I was overly-optimistic that the bugs were going to be addressed before launch. The fact that they gave us so very little in the "Beta" shows just how unprepared they were to launch the game on time. It's no wonder the game was so full of bugs at launch. This is such a crying shame, because there is so much potential for this to be the most awesome game out there. But when the awesomeness is tucked in between one crazy bug after another, it's no wonder they are getting bad press. I feel really bad for the devs who have probably put their heart and soul into designing an amazing game, only to be thwarted by unreasonable deadlines, insufficient staff, and a hierarchy that is probably more interested in money than in a great game (lots of us have worked in soul-sucking jobs like that before, I am sure). Can you hear the conversation? Dev: "Boss, I don't think the gaming community is going to be happy with this progression system, and the game is too buggy to launch." Boss: "Do as I say, minion! We launch next week and will rake in millions!" Dev: "May the wrath of ten thousand gamers fall like an orbital strike upon your head!" Boss: "The orbital strike is too glitchy to do any damage...bwahaha!" Ten thousand gamers: "WRATH!"
Anonymous
8 years ago
I do not think the game is rushed though...
since EA got the licence from Disney in 2013, they only developed 2 games... I would say that is plenty of time for game development. And I am not asking for much, just for one game that is actually done properly with well thought of features and is optimized enough to run smoothly.
However, I am not sure whose fault the current situation is...
Obviously, all the loot crate BS is purely designed to rip off players and I am not blaming the engineers who programmed this feature on the request of their boss.
But all the other bugs and instability issues with the game just show how badly the game is programmed! I do not want to question the quality of EAs development Team (DICE, Criterion, Motive for this particular title) but I have a hard time believing, that these are professionals...
Konman456
8 years ago
@Paeleth for President.
I thought about asking about when the Paid Beta was going to end but didn't want to stir the pot. Thank you @Paeleth for stirring the pot.
After Playing the Quake Champions closed beta I can say there is a noticeable difference in gaming companies. For instance, in answer to the lag issues in SWBF2 we now have a bar meter and a flashing note saying our connection is slow and it may affect game play. So, even when my connection is not slow the message from EA is that the game issues are my problem. Great approach EA. The game, and/or Origin, seems to be seeing a break in internet connection when there isn't one (see photo) and, instead of engineering a solution, blames the gamers. Thx. The new patch even added an issue for me where when I enter a match, every single time, I get about 20-30 seconds of heavy lag in addition to the current issue moving me left and right and backwards and killing me.
I haven't been lucky enough to have problems in the game favor me in kills but I have, dozens of times, shot players to where they kill me even though I've brought their health down to 10 or under. Some nerfing seems to be needed.
Keep Jetpack Cargo, it's phat.