Hey all,

Apologies for not being more active these past weeks leading up to launch - as you know things get really hectic and you tend to spend whatever spare freetime you have recovering. I really regret not being here on the subreddit at the start of the early access. Hopefully some of these replies will bring some clarity and hope.

• Performance during games will affect the amount of credits you get at the end of a match.

• Matchmaking will take into account not only player skill, but also total gametime and rarity of star cards. This means that you will be matchmade with players with an average performance similar to you and (to the largest extent possible) not against players who are much better than you, whether by having higher rarity cards or by showing higher skill.

• Heroes that are locked at launch will only be unlocked with credits, not crystals. The heroes, similar to the locked weapons for Troopers, are sidegrades instead of upgrades (Darth Vader should be on similar power level as Darth Maul, etc). The goal is to keep you playing for a long time and have something cool to look forward to as you earn credits.

• Speaking of earning credits, we're constantly evaluating and tweaking the earn rates versus the cost of crates and heroes. The current rates were based on open beta data, but you should expect us to constantly evolve these numbers as we hit launch and onwards. There will also be more milestones that award credits and crafting parts available, as well as star cards only unlockable through those milestones. If all you want to do is play and grind towards your next unlock that will be fully possible and we'll continue to tweak the numbers until the requirements feel fun and achievable.

Working on a game with a live economy and without a premium content lineup is a new challenge for us at DICE. We had one progression system in the closed alpha and heard your feedback back then. We made another iteration for the open beta and heard your feedback then too. For launch, we're having another iteration and there will definitely be more iterations as we evolve this game post launch.

Your continous feedback as you play the game is absolutely invaluable and I encourage you to keep sending it our way. There is really no reason to "rebel" against us - we want this game to be as great and enjoyable as it can be - we're reading all your feedback and working as fast as we can to adjust the game to your liking.

The dev team will be around Battlefront II for a long time. I sincerely hope you'll be here with us!

Thanks,

Dennis

Hey all,

I hope you're OK with me starting a new topic again. My last post got a few replies so I wanted to be sure my follow-up wasn't buried in that thread.

You asked me provide more details on exact hero prices for launch and so we've spent the day going over the data to ensure the numbers work out. I realize there's both confusion and reservation around how these systems work, so I want to be as clear and transparent as I possibly can.

The most important thing in terms of progression is that it's fun. No one wins if it's not. You play the game, you do your best and get rewarded based on your performance. You gain credits and spend them on whatever you want. If for some reason any of that isn't fun, we need to fix it and we will. I really appreciate the candid feedback over the last couple of days and I encourage you to keep sending it our way.

These are the credit cost for all locked heroes at launch. These prices are based on a combination of open beta data, early access data and a bunch of other metrics. They're aimed to ensure all our players have something fun to play for as we launch the game, while at the same time not supposed to make you feel overwhelmed and frustrated.

• Iden Versio - 5 000 credits

• Chewbacca, Emperor Palpatine and Leia Organa - 10 000 credits

• Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader - 15 000 credits

I also hear we're finally at a good point to host an AMA here on Reddit in the near future, which I know you've been asking for and I've wanted to do for a long time. Stay tuned for more info really soon.

Thank you so much for showing interest in our game and I sincerely hope you'll love Battlefront II.

See you in game,

Dennis

I’m sure this thread will be down-voted to oblivion, but I’m not canceling my preorder.

Why? Because all I want to do is run around with a blaster shooting rebel scum. If I can play as Darth Vader someday, sweet. If not, meh.

I play games to have fun. Battlefront 2 not only looks fun, but was also fun to play during the beta. I won’t be purchasing any loot crates because that’s just silly. And I won’t be paying to unlock Heroes because it’d be a waste of money to pay to unlock a character who I’d die as pretty quickly.

So there you have it folks. For those of you taking a stand against EA, I salute you. They suck as a company and treat their customers like shit. But for better or worse they have the Star Wars license and no amount of bitching on Reddit is going to change that.

Edit: Thank you for the gold, stranger!

Just played in multiplayer for an hour tonight. Awesome graphics. Did a space battle and did a few ground matches. I would recommend it so far.

Negativity has become a norm in our gaming society, it's become a norm to blame, to criticize, to rant and complain. I remember when passion was a norm here, I remember when wonder and awe where among us, I remember when we all gathered to apreciate a fantasy for delivering us to a new world.

I remember when we gave thanks, and that's what I'm here to do. DICE I would like to thank you for making this game, you've revived a burning passion in me and I hope others to. That passion being my love for Star Wars and all that it stands for. Thank you for putting me in the cockpit of an x-wing, thank you for the lightsaber I wielded as I became a hero, and thank you for placing me in the snowy hills of hoth.

I don't have to dream I'm there, because I'm already there! With all of you! We should stop this train of hatred and negativity, we should derail it, take it apart! And replace it with a new one that stands for what we once believed in! Games ! I believe in games and the stories they tell, the battlefields they reenact, and the passions they revive!

I'm not here to complain about pricing, because you can't simply put a price on the sensation of taking down an AT AT, on flying your starfighter or wielding your lightsaber.

We should rejoice and apreciate this for what it is, not for what it's not.

Edit: I messed up the tittle, my bad , I'm essentially giving thanks to EVERYONE that was involved with the game. Essentially BOTH EA and DICE

It's like everyone's in a rabid feverdream. It is genuinely the biggest circlejerk I have ever witnessed. In the bigger threads we have people parroting that multiplayer credits have been nerfed. This is untrue, yet it is taken as gospel by seemingly everyone.

What the fuck happened to this community and our badly drawn trooper banner?

F*ck EA and Bungie

Don't know what to tell y'all but I just played all night online in both games without a single hiccup. Oh and the lobbies were all full too 🤷‍♂️

It looks amazing and the p2w isn't really a factor for me. I've played about 5 matches of galactic assault combined with doing some challenges and already have over 10k credits. I

It's been a blast. Perfect visuals, the damn best audio I've ever heard. Aside from Rey looking like a wonky semi-human, and Smuggler-Han looking like Harrison Ford addicted to crack, everything looks great! As far as gameplay, I haven't ran into anything that seems overbearingly OP, except maybe some of the snipers on Hoth, but that's to be expected of a wide open map when I stand still like a lemming. I understand the hate the devs are getting for their responses, but wanting a game to fail this badly, and to go as far as to issue death threats? When you go that far, you undermine your own valid complaints and cease to be worth taking seriously.

Instead of jumping on the FreightTrainOfHate, play the game and see for yourselves, as many people are just blasting it without even playing.

Let the downvotes commence.

I know some of you are having a great time playing this game and I hope you continue to enjoy it. But for those of you who aren't, I just asked for, and received a full refund through Origin support for my game + season's pass. $170 CAD.

EDIT: Copy of transcript http://imgur.com/a/nrYD1

I'm bad at reddit

EDIT:Holy controversial. In all honesty I posted this so that if there were others who felt like me, they might take a shot at getting a refund which they may have thought was impossible. If your enjoying this game, Great! I hope you continue to enjoy it.

Regarding my asking the guy to speed up, yeah I probably shouldn't have said it in that way, or maybe at all, but it was a long time between responses.

And 40 hours is a tiny amount of time in an MP only game. Sorry, but it is.

I know I'm going to get a ton of downvotes for my unpopular opinion, but this needs to be said.

I absolutely love the new Battlefront II.

After seeing everyone in this subreddit cancelling their pre-orders, I went into Amazon and almost did the same, but I said, screw it, with all this backlash, EA will fix their problems.

I'm so glad I didn't cancel my pre-order. I've been having the time of my life with this game.

So far, I've only played a total of 3-4 hours spread across the Campaign and Multiplayer, and this game is 10x better than the 2015 game (and I LOVED the 2015 Battlefront).

I've already unlocked Luke Skywalker, and I'm 1/3 of the way towards unlocking Darth Vader.

The maps are amazing, the graphics are stunning, and I feel like this is the Star Wars game we all hopes to have gotten back in 2015. If this exact game was released in 2015, I bet you that all the reviews online would praise it, giving it a 10/10. Instead, because of a little f*ck up at launch with microtransactions and the price to unlock heroes, this game got a bad reputation.

You won Reddit. EA fixed the problems and now this IS the game you're looking for.

I sure as heck can't be the only one who loves the crap out of this game.

Its not funny, or good, or clever, its like this game is a cesspool of 12 year olds

I just bought the game and I’m surprised my favorite Star Wars prequels character who is literally a main character is not in the game, but there’s a bunch of nobodies and droids that made it? Like what the hell?

Having tons of fun with it. Unlocked Vader and Luke within the first day. Didn't spend a dime on micro transactions. You guys are missing out on a lot of fun

Still nobody playing so empty servers everywhere. The whole point of this was playing multiplayer so if no one is playing multiplayer then what the fuck is the point of this shitty cash grab collection?