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d_FireWall



23 Aug

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Originally posted by Heavyweighsthecrown

I wonder if he is referring to the default era-locked weapons that they all have the same stats. That's got to be it right?

Coming from someone that used to be an SA main, this indeed always felt very stupid to me.

On Starfighter Assault, every ship has different stats and 'guns' and different abilities between eras. The Rebellion Fighter (X-Wing) is very different from the Republic Fighter (ARC-170) for example. So you have much more variety. Whereas on the ground modes, a CIS Assault is 100% identical to a Rebellion Assault - same stats, same guns, same everything. I never quite understood why both types of gameplay are balanced so differently, other than being made by different studios, they still would have to be cohesive.

edit: Omg Dennis replied to me.
I have waited a long time for this moment my little green friend.

This. So much this.

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Originally posted by 02Alien

It's possible he means stupid from a development perspective rather than a balance/gameplay one. It's possible they didn't design the system well and so they'd have to redo it in order to add new weapons.

This.


29 May

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I'll be around EA Play to answer questions and hang out in general. Just let me know if you want to meet up.


18 May

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Originally posted by generalslywalker

I don’t think 3D modelers were in charge of raising the level cap

Confirmed. They were not.


06 Apr

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Our audio team aren't happy with the current execution either. Expect these lines to be updated (quite a lengthy process though).


27 Mar

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Originally posted by jamezbren2

No offense to Dennis, but I was hyped when I heard that voice at the start of the community update

None taken. An honor just to share the stage with a legend :)


26 Mar

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Originally posted by killer9mm

u/d_FireWall Would it take a lot of resources to update current Arcade AI to the new and improved one that is in Capital Supremacy? :)

Yes, unfortunately. So we need to look at different ways to satisfy the PvE-itch. :)

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It's an important milestone for the team. Our older AI has been showing its age for a while now and been preventing us from creating PvE experiences on dedicated servers (allows for matchmaking and online cooperative experiences) which will be helpful going forward.

They certainly behave a lot more like classic bots playing multiplayer than the idle state, stealth-supportive AI from other games. But my impression is that's not what we need them to do anyway. Just run around and capture Command Posts like old times. :)

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Originally posted by VoteRepublicanAgain

Hi Dennis, I’m glad you’re back on Reddit for at least 1 day. But can you answer or update us on some things? You said some things from over a whole year ago that are still not in the game & we don’t have any updates on them.

One of those was you said that an “assist counts as kill” feature is coming to the game & it’s not here yet sadly. Another is you said that a stats screen is coming but that is also not here sadly. And of course, more arcade content.

Also, new weapons & new star cards were promised to us for the free post launch content yet we haven’t gotten anything. They were promised to us from all the way back in the middle of 2016 when the game was announced actually & we’re almost a quarter into 2019 now.

Can you explain the difference between "assist counts as kill" feature that you're thinking about and what's currently in the game please?

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Originally posted by briandt75

Very true. I hadn't thought about that.

The large scale PvE mode has taken longer than I had hoped, for sure. I did mention we've been prototyping dual wielding and transformable robots back then and one of those things made it into the ARC trooper, so far.

The launch fiasco put us back approximately 6 months (we were supposed to launch the Clone Wars season before Solo, not after) but since Geonosis I feel the content updates has been pretty solid, although we're always striving to get better.

So I call BS on the 80% has been wrong - I'd say 80% of what I've said we're working on have been delivered already, and some have taken longer than usual.

Good to hear from you again briandt75.

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Originally posted by JohnBob89

If they can continue to support this game and add good content, more command post maps especially, and whatever decent new content, I wouldn't mind paying for some of it here and there. I know they can't just keep working forever on this game when it's all free for us. I'm not trying to invite them to rape our wallets just cuz they can. And obviously they aren't trying to do that anyways. But I want this game to succeed, and lately they've been doing right by alot of us I think, not perfect of course but they are trying.

If there ever is another battlefront, they maybe could just do a season pass like Battlefield 1 had or other FPS games. Instead of trying microtransactions with a free season pass. :/ I appreciate the hard work they continue to put into this game though. They aren't far off from this game being what alot of us wanted to begin with. Just need more command post type maps, and a few other things, some offline content and a conquest mode where you conquer each...

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I feel like the industry has moved on from paid map packs and frequent sequels, although they certainly did well for us back then. It's taken us a while as a studio to figure out what that means for our franchises - a frustratingly long while in some cases - but ultimately we want to be in a place where our games are worked on for many years after launch and profitable enough to support everyone working on them.


25 Mar

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Originally posted by pweicks

I think this is basically F8rge saying that they’re not currently considering development of BFIII at all. I find what few rumors there are concerning BFIII very hard to believe, even though I really hope they are true. But really, if they were actually working on BFIII in some way right now, I don’t think he would have bothered to comment on this post. I think he’s trying to do us a favor and “hint” that these rumors aren’t true. If they were true, he wouldn’t worry about it and would just allow us to continue to speculate and believe in these rumors.

We're working on Battlefront II and only that. We're far from done on this one.