It is about time your generation stopped co-opting stuff from mine. Yours has Howard the Duck to cherish as it plays silently on a flat screen in a cafe in fucking shoreditch whilst you eat your Rice Krispies after using a selfie stick to take a fucking photo of yourself in a onsie raising a fucking spork to your idiot lips you bunch of Web 4.0 fucking twats and your blue trombones.

Mirror's Edge wasn't a buggy mess.

Love you Mali.

Really struggling to muster up much enthusiasm for this at all. I think I'm finally over Star Wars.

Aaargh, beta closes on the 12th.

Cheers Zaphod!

I've just got BT infinity fibre sorted, currently getting 30mbps so hopefully the download won't take tooooo long.

It dawns on me that I hate Battlefront/Battlefield's unlock system. It's so. Fucking. Slow.

You start off with one gun. One. I played for about two hours and I had two guns. Two. Just two.

CoD knows that the key to sustained interest is the joy of unlocking; lots of unlocks in fairly quick succession, and leaving the top tier weapons or attachments for a long grind which is never that grindy. Battlefront/Battlefield is like pulling your fucking teeth out. You can almost feel EA chuckling as you finally level up to Rank 3 (fucking rank 3), rubbing their filthy hands together, knowing that they have microtransactions brewing so you can buy the top tiers without having to commit tens of hours to unlocking a few more ranks. "And we didn't even have to make a campaign! MWAH HA HA HA HA. £55 quid please." ... "AND ANOTHER £30 to save you a 100 hour grind to get a nice assault rifle. MOOOOHAAAA HAH HA HA."

You're three years older than me.

Pewpew star wars!

Is it just Battlefield with a Star Wars jacket?

Actually four, but who's counting.

Huh?

Huh?

Read the post he quoted.

I think we're having "ignore" issues

Who is "he"?

This is the kids' first FPS, and they've absolutely loved it. I've been told I have to buy it...

I'd agree with you Nik - the flight is a bit finicky to get used to, some people have clearly been practising. The Hoth map is good fun - fairly frenetic silliness, with lots of vehicle pickups, emplacement weapons, powerups etc, and the ability to share your partner's cards means you can play with some of the unlocks for a bit. The unlock progression has seemed fine for me.

I read some commentary on the Hoth map, and some chap said that the rebels lost every single time - a few games I've been in, where players actually properly defended the uplinks, and then all poured the fire on the AT-ATs when the y-wings deliver their ion blasts, we've won. But that relies on people not being campy snipers (which the current weapon mix dissuades, which is good).

The feel and sound of grenades going off nearby is brilliant, the weapons are proper star wars pewpew - absolutely loving it.

Don't.

Buy it a month before the actual game is released and beat the rush!

Please stop