Even tho i prefer sith and empire. and well the DS as a whole. i am so happy that all of these rebels and other characters that we needed (had) to farm for other events are being able to be used. Not to mention the amount of LS toons that are relevant or worth using are about 2 to 3 times more of them

There is no reason this had to be one way or the other. They could have arranged the table starting from each side moving towards a final battle in the middle, allowing you to play LS defending Hoth and DS advancing on Hoth. This seems ridiculously obvious, and I am a bit flummoxed that they didn't think of this. So much for "every toon matters." And I say this as a primarily light-side player who has most of the toons needed for specific missions. The way they set it up works just fine for me, but I'm not at all surprised that so many folks are irritated right now. This is the biggest game content addition since raids were introduced, and to effectively exclude an entire faction is just bizarre and tone-deaf.

Well Battlefront II you play as a team of imperial/FO soldiers so..... expect them in this game

"Swordd;c-1236656" wrote:There is no reason this had to be one way or the other. They could have arranged the table starting from each side moving towards a final battle in the middle, allowing you to play LS defending Hoth and DS advancing on Hoth. This seems ridiculously obvious, and I am a bit flummoxed that they didn't think of this. So much for "every toon matters." And I say this as a primarily light-side player who has most of the toons needed for specific missions. The way they set it up works just fine for me, but I'm not at all surprised that so many folks are irritated right now. This is the biggest game content addition since raids were introduced, and to effectively exclude an entire faction is just bizarre and tone-deaf. We are in the same boat, and I feel the same way. There has been too much light side/Rebel love. I like light side, and I'm sitting pretty well for this, and I understand that the nature of the movies means that there are more named Rebels.But the light side tilt is hard to defend.There are 16 (soon to be 19) more light side toons than dark. Even the B and C list light side factions (like Jawas, and Ewoks) have important uses, good synergy, and special events. While the dark side sports some of the worst factions in the game. (Nightsisters, Seperatists, Bounty Hunters, Tuskans, etc)And I had the same idea about starting a board from opposite sides, using both, and meeting in the middle. That would have been great. Not trying to steal your thunder with that idea, but as you said it's "ridiculously obvious."Not trying to be too critical of this game mode yet. It looks like a lot of fun. The rewards look great. I'm excited to get into it. I'm 90% positive looking at Territory Battles. But I hope that this marks the end of Rebel love for a bit, and the beginning of some major dark side reworks, character additions, and at some point a dark side focused Territory Battles map. And that's coming from someone who has been desperate to see Mace get a beastly rework for over a year.

"Swordd;c-1236656" wrote:There is no reason this had to be one way or the other.There's no reason anything has to be anything, sure. But there's plenty of reasons why you should do something, for example making this a light sode event this time.Light is popular. Like, way more popular. Way, way, way more popular. Star Wars is the story of the Light Side beating up the Dark Side and taking its lunch money. Sure, Dark Side is cool and edgey in a "Zach Snyder makes the best movies so dark and grin" kind of way. But it's the losing side and it's the evil side. Why wouldn't the first Battle be Light-oriented?

I don't know about everyone else... /sarcasm/ but my first free and unlocked characters were Light Side... the Dark Side characters came a little later.No need to fret, they will release a Dark Side TB in the future. And for the (I'm guessing/speculating this figure) 25% of the player base that focused on Dark Side, are the ones upset that first TB is LS. IF YOU were the developer, you would target the largest audience for success initially, i.e. the other 75% of the playerbase that has strong LS roster. Hence it's less impactful to upset 25% instead of the 75%.Once both LS and DS TB are in full effect this will be a non-issue. And the same for new players who won't have a bias that they expect the game to conform to their imposed character focus. Also, imagine the uproar from the 75% about how the required DS take much longer to farm than most of the LS. Everyone would suffer the less rewards and much longer ramp up time to be prepared for a DS TB.

Why Light Side is the perfect decision for TB.

slugbahr
8 years ago
Yes.
This game is about resource management and making the correct and necessary choices in that regard.
My eyes have been opened - my resources should have been going into those toons all along. I've been making poor resource management decisions until now.
NicWester
8 years ago
"Billcarson66;c-1255411" wrote:
I'm personally thrilled to waste, i mean intelligently invest hard earned resources in Pao, Brody, Ugnaught, etc...

Well what the hell else were you using them for, huh?
billcarson1966
8 years ago
@NicWester I was being sarcastic....right before TB started I was hoarding arena/cantina/GW tokens for future good toons, now I'm wasting them on the aforementioned disasters with no other use but deployement/platoon.
PyrrhusRex
8 years ago
"Billcarson66;c-1255532" wrote:
@NicWester I was being sarcastic....right before TB started I was hoarding arena/cantina/GW tokens for future good toons, now I'm wasting them on the aforementioned disasters with no other use but deployement/platoon.

Each guild only really needs 5 or so of each of those characters at 7*, and they can still be L1 G1. So there's no need to feel like you need to "waste" resources on them all, really.
billcarson1966
8 years ago
But it's gonna be random every time. Our phase three needed 3 PAO's in ONE platoon out of the six in just one territory. That makes it possible to need a lot.
billcarson1966
8 years ago
The way they should have handled the first one was part of the territory you play DS, part LS, with platoons for that part using the corresponding alignment. Then future TB's could be LS or DS. Just like the early capital ship challenges. That would let you work up to it.

In the hoth example important DS toons could be Veers/snowtrooper/stormtrooper.

All that being said...I have enjoyed TB. I just disagree that LS only is/was good to start with.
emvedebe
8 years ago
"Billcarson66;c-1255603" wrote:
But it's gonna be random every time. Our phase three needed 3 PAO's in ONE platoon out of the six in just one territory. That makes it possible to need a lot.

That's not a LS problem though, 3 NS acolyte's in 1 out of 6 platoons would suck aswell.
billcarson1966
8 years ago
True...I still stand behind my capital ship challenge scenario
BTTripleZero
8 years ago
"leef;c-1255606" wrote:
"Billcarson66;c-1255603" wrote:
But it's gonna be random every time. Our phase three needed 3 PAO's in ONE platoon out of the six in just one territory. That makes it possible to need a lot.

That's not a LS problem though, 3 NS acolyte's in 1 out of 6 platoons would suck aswell.

Ground platoons don't use Dark side characters.
emvedebe
8 years ago
"Bulldog1205;c-1255759" wrote:
"leef;c-1255606" wrote:
"Billcarson66;c-1255603" wrote:
But it's gonna be random every time. Our phase three needed 3 PAO's in ONE platoon out of the six in just one territory. That makes it possible to need a lot.

That's not a LS problem though, 3 NS acolyte's in 1 out of 6 platoons would suck aswell.

Ground platoons don't use Dark side characters.

pao isn't DS.