{"id":3446,"date":"2017-10-09T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2017-10-09T14:08:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T14:08:31","slug":"star-wars-battlefront-ii-open-beta-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3446","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Battlefront II &#8211; Open Beta review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Beta will be over in 4 hours, it revealed the actual gameplay this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my humble opinion.<\/p>\n<pre>This game is aweeeesommme, beautiful \r\nand set to become one of the best shooters ever.<\/pre>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3448\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3448 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/STAR-WARS\u2122-Battlefront\u2122-II-Multiplayer-Beta_20171008232334-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/STAR-WARS\u2122-Battlefront\u2122-II-Multiplayer-Beta_20171008232334-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/STAR-WARS\u2122-Battlefront\u2122-II-Multiplayer-Beta_20171008232334-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/STAR-WARS\u2122-Battlefront\u2122-II-Multiplayer-Beta_20171008232334-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/STAR-WARS\u2122-Battlefront\u2122-II-Multiplayer-Beta_20171008232334.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">STAR WARS\u2122 Battlefront\u2122 II Multiplayer Beta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ok, now I can calming look at the facts.<\/p>\n<p>EA are masters are drip feeding the player with rewards and achievement hunting. This feeds the brain, builds and sustains a global gaming community that will be here for at least 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to home in on your play style or class is a brilliant move and should harvest the best of COD or Division players.\u00a0 I&#8217;m leaning towards the Officer class as I probably won&#8217;t get enough game time for the other classes.<\/p>\n<p>Seems that the key to success is to work with a squad with dedicated roles and voice chat. Otherwise, you run around with randoms hoping they play the objective rather trying to rank up.<\/p>\n<p>Biggest complain I see so far is the lack of teamwork in a team orientated game.<\/p>\n<p>Helldivers succeeded because of serious close-knit teamwork gameplay.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3449\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3449 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/STAR-WARS\u2122-Battlefront\u2122-II-Multiplayer-Beta_20171008232516-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/STAR-WARS\u2122-Battlefront\u2122-II-Multiplayer-Beta_20171008232516-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/STAR-WARS\u2122-Battlefront\u2122-II-Multiplayer-Beta_20171008232516-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/STAR-WARS\u2122-Battlefront\u2122-II-Multiplayer-Beta_20171008232516-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/STAR-WARS\u2122-Battlefront\u2122-II-Multiplayer-Beta_20171008232516.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">STAR WARS\u2122 Battlefront\u2122 II Multiplayer Beta &#8211; Officer job is the life for me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My problem will be how to play without life interruptions as well as finding a good crew to join regularly.\u00a0 It is a brilliant <em>&#8216;do not disturb, I&#8217;m gaming&#8217;<\/em> title because once you get over the beauty of the game you must focus to achieve anything.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, this means at least 30-50 min of undisturbed gameplay per session.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few of the streamers I follow even bother to join the Beta and these were the hardcore StarWars types. I think the thoughts are that this would be more like Battlefront One but bigger.<\/p>\n<p>The gameplay is better, the scale is bigger and the audio is epic Movie scale. I got so distracted with running through leaves and watching birds fly away.<\/p>\n<p>I can sense there are lots of surprises in store for the full release.\u00a0 Makes me want to return to PC gaming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>90 Days without any <span class=\"st\"><em>Myasthenia gravis<\/em> (<em>MG<\/em>)<\/span> symptoms<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Beta will be over in 4 hours, it revealed the actual gameplay this weekend. Here&#8217;s my humble opinion. This game is aweeeesommme, beautiful and set to become one of the best shooters ever. Ok, now I can calming look at the facts. EA are masters are drip feeding the player with rewards and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3446\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Wars Battlefront II &#8211; Open Beta review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[103,94],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-love-and-happiness","tag-money-and-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}