Also, it's Star Wars. The biggest franchise on the planet, and one that's considered pretty kid friendly.

The biggest franchise on the planet

Order 66 disagrees

Well played.

The ability to purchase crystals in-game will become available at a later date, only after we’ve made changes to the game.

The ability to purchase crystals in-game will become available at a later date, only after all this fucking whining has stopped and you've all bought the game anyway.

Translation:

Fuck all the people that play games differently to whinging Reddit shits, I guess.

Fuck all the people that play games differently to whinging Reddit shits, I guess.

Fuck all the people that play games differently to whinging Reddit shits, I guess.

Fuck all the people that play games differently to whinging Reddit shits, I guess.

I think this is absolutely brilliant. Consumer Power! It probably won’t change the system too much and predatory loot boxes alwill return in some form but other publishers will take note of this shit show.

One example: at every respawn, players land on the map in a group of four, but BFII does a poor job communicating how those squads could or should work together beyond "fight together for more battle points." (Battle points (BP) build up throughout a given match and are spent solely within combat to temporarily access higher-level characters and vehicles.)

For instance, should squadmates defend or buff each other in specific ways? The few powers that dole out valuable assists—like shields and "leadership" shouts—give zero rewards. It's also unclear during combat when those "doubled" bonuses actually accrue. And unlike Battlefield, BFII fighters can't have a leader "point" to a particular objective or zone and receive bonuses or boosts for focusing on it. The result: you quickly feel like a lone wolf out there, and the class-specific trappings lose importance.

Without those organic nudges, the online game, in practice, melts down to murder-hallways. This is, in part, because of some ho-hum level designs that encourage boring, non-strategic play, but also because players rack up more BPs when they put bullets into their foes. BPs drive your ability to temporarily climb into an X-wing, a TIE fighter, a walker, or the shoes of a legendary Star Wars character like Chewbacca, Yoda, Darth Maul, or Emperor Palpatine. Everybody wants to do that!

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When players hop into a flying craft, either during specific BP-fueled moments on Galactic Assault maps or during the dedicated, ships-only Starfighter Assault mode, the feeling at first is nothing but awesome. DICE's Frostbite engine does a wonder with richly detailed spaceships, ridiculous draw distances, and probably-not-scientifically-accurate lighting effects.

The mode rarely surpasses that first-blush wonder, however, with incredibly mild control and attack options for each ship. These just aren't satisfying dogfights beyond basic, solid arcade-level thrills. Evasive maneuvers like loop-de-loops are practically impossible, and your best hope is to unlock the correct evasion-minded Star Cards through the course of gameplay. Meanwhile, when you board a flying craft during Galactic Assault battles, the results are weird. You don't get any special flight-specific objectives while you're up there, and many of the ships have nothing in the way of ground-specific attacks or perks to help with the objectives on the ground. You're mostly up there trying to awkwardly hit ground targets (with no radar system to help) and trading fire with enemies who made the same foolish BP purchase as you.

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The speed at which cards are doled out in the course of standard gameplay is agonizingly slow. You'll need to play 7-9 matches to earn enough of BFII's "credits" currency to afford the most expensive, 4,000-credit loot boxes, which then contain a mix of unique Star Cards, credits, and crafting parts. (I break down the game's pukey soup of currencies and other economical issues here, but we're already in bad-news territory when I have to direct you to a freaking glossary to understand what's going on.)

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This sucks from a sheer gameplay perspective, in which you can expect a higher-card player to do things like regenerate health faster and have wider grenade radii. But it also sucks from a "welcome to BFII" perspective because average battles play out like an advertisement for the game you wish you were playing. As I've previously said, good multiplayer shooters with progression systems are at least kind enough to set new players somewhere near their mathematical maximum. You eventually unlock alternate styles and options, which typically keep the game fresh. But, in practice, BFII taunts players with a severe gap between "one tier, one card" and "three near-max cards" players.

There isn't en eye-rolling smiley big enough for this pish.

Not everyone has the time to grind their way through a game. There's nothing new about the loot system in BFII, babies are just crying because it's Star Wars (and EA, to an extent). Now they think they're fucking crusaders or something, when in reality nothing - nothing - is going to change.

I'd rather prefer for there to be no grind at all. Level multiplayer battle field, and that. (AFAIK, current multiplayer darling Pubg has no such game play unlocks, only outfits. This is a better system)

Whiney fucking cunts killing video games. Jeeeeeesus

Whiney fucking cunts killing video games. Jeeeeeesus

It's OK, they said the graphics are great so it's still a good game for incredibly shallow Star Wars fanboys.

Not everyone has the time to grind their way through a game. There's nothing new about the loot system in BFII, babies are just crying because it's Star Wars (and EA, to an extent). Now they think they're fucking crusaders or something, when in reality nothing - nothing - is going to change.

And I'm not saying loot boxes are a good idea - I don't hate them, but I hope they end up in every game either.

[...]the stuff in the boxes doesn't give you an advantage against other players.

Why not?

That’s so perfect in the way he points up towards the quoted text.

My theory is that it's deliberate on behalf of the filmmakers.

The text is at the bottom of the gif....?

The quoted text. That which the gif is in reply to.

But if you think that the uproar is "for the good of the little man who can't help but spend all their money gambling on digital boxes" you're horrifically naive.

Presumably you mean the creator of the gif and not George Miller?

No I mean the filmmakers. I don't think the creator of the gif had any say in framing the shot or directing Tom Hardy.

Because anyone buying a game later than everyone else and playing online is already going to be at a disadvantage skill-wise. Them having better stuff makes that gap even wider.

That's not loot-crate specific, though. What about games that give you stuff as you level up?

Frankly I don't understand your position in the slightest

and it comes across like you're either just being contrary for the sake of it or because you actually bought the stupid thing and feel some need to defend that.

People feel 'entitled' to be annoyed by it because they fucking are entitled! Either by dint of wanting to actually play a game that isn't trying to fuck them in the wallet while they do or because they would like to purchase other entertainment in the same medium that will not also try to fuck them in the wallet because it's been normalised here.

(or even £70 if they're a lunatic)

this is people wanting to spend £50 on a game and be safe in the knowledge that they won't then have to constantly battle systems designed to make them want to spend even more money on top of that.

Grim… is Ronnie Wrongman from Rongton, Illinois. Bamba is Dwight Wright from Rightsville, Tennessee.

Grim... I think your position is that you want to have the option of skipping grind by paying money.

But how is that preferable to being able to skip grind without paying money. That way everyone can skip grind, regardless of their disposable income.

I own a copy of the game. I am a game owner. I am the victim of this game's mechanics. By Myptical law, my opinion is of greater value than anyone else's.

Sad troll is sad