• Walker Assault | 40 players | Heroes, Vehicles | This is the meat and potatoes of the game. It's like a reverse rush mode: two AT-AT walkers (one on Endor) make their way to the other end of the map to destroy the Rebel base, and the Rebels have three phases to destroy the walkers--either with heavy firepower or T-47 airspeeder tow cables. Between phases, the Rebels must keep a pair of uplinks online to queue up Y-wing bombers. The more they queue up, the longer the walkers are exposed to firepower/tow cables.
  
• Supremacy | 40 players | Heroes, Vehicles | It's similar to Conquest, but you can't snipe a control point from behind enemy lines. It's more of a tug-of-war flavor.
  
• Fighter Squadron | 20 players | Heroes, Vehicles | Aerial dogfighting mode. Tokens are scattered near the planetary surface to cool down your abilities, repair your HP, and claim one of the hero ships. Right now we've got the Millenium Falcon and the Slave I; possibly more in expansions, but we don't know yet. Periodically an enemy transport will appear and make its way across the map. Destroy for extra points.
  
• Blast | 20 players | It's team deathmatch. More of a blast than it sounds like (har-har)
  
• Drop Zone | 16 players | King of the hill mode that can turn hairy once more escape pods start dropping down.
  
• Droid Run | 12 players | Two teams of six try to claim three gonk droids running around. Not dissimilar from Destiny's zone control.
  
• Cargo | 12 players | Capture the flag.
  
• Heroes vs. Villains | 12 players | Heroes | Three heroes and three soldiers team up to face their counterparts on the other team. Whoever loses all their heroes first loses the round. Heroes can respawn as soldiers.
  
• Hero Hunt | 8 players | Heroes | Seven soldiers team up to hunt down one hero. Soldiers become the hero when they defeat them, and whoever reaches a set score first while playing as hero wins the game.
  
• Turning Point | 40 players | Vehicles | The Imps defend against Rebels attempting to claim their way through 4 waves of zones. Rebels gain 3 minutes to the countdown whenever they claim a waypoint and can move on. A wave can be lost if just one waypoint within it is claimed, so you've gotta keep on your toes as Imperials. This mode is new with the free Jakku DLC and only has one map available
  

Jedi Knight Luigi fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Jul 5, 2016

• The map is cluttered with stuff but is wide open enough to where you can get shot from at least three different directions from any point on the map. And don't count on your squad of AI dipshits to cover your flank.
  
  
• Regardless of whatever faction you choose, your friendly AI soldiers are bullet sponges that can barely manage to kill an enemy and your opponents are like a notch or two below facing an MLG Counter-Strike squad with aimbots. You can turn off the firendly AI soldiers, but this obviously makes you a much bigger target and grants the enemy 20 points immediately every time they kill you.
  
  
• You die in 4 shots, it takes an eternity for your health to recharge, and you barely have time to pop a shield in your 'Escapist' class (don't even bother using 'Grenadier'). Even if you do, a couple enemies can quickly blast through your shield and still kill you if you don't find cover fast enough.
  
  
• Enemies can throw grenades with incredible accuracy, kill you quickly from across the map, use portable shields, use gun turrents to kill you almost instantly if they have any kind of line of sight on you, and hit you from any little nook and cranny they see you through that you wouldn't think a shot could travel through.
  
  
• Spawns are even a problem here since I've spawned right in front of a full group of enemy soldiers and right in front of a guy with a Smart Rocket out in the open. You can't kill these guys without them getting the rocket off first.
  
  
• If you manage to dig into a position where your allied soldiers can manage to take cover and you let the enemies come to you, you'll very easily be overrun when squads of 8-10 soldiers come at you with Shock Troopers/Heavy Gunners (which immediately rip you to shreds; good luck trying to damage them while moving in and out of cover without getting shot in the back). If you somehow manage to survive that and get to around 50 points, the game goes into "gently caress You, Buddy" overdrive and sends even more enemies after you including Jumptroopers. At this point, the enemy team is going to steamroll you as you desperately try to stay alive and find cover while they get enough remaining points to win the match. This is incredibly easy for them to do, which brings me to my favorite point of all:
  
  
• The matches in Missions play out like KIll Confirmed from Call of Duty: When someone is shot down, they drop a token which has to be collected for your team to get credit for the kill. In Battlefront, normal enemies give 2 points per token while Heavy Gunners and your soldier give out 5. Here's the problem: The enemy doesn't have to collect the token to receive points for the kills. You have a very small window of time to run over tokens your friendly guys drop and stop the enemy from collecting them, but if they so much as stay on the ground for more than a few seconds, they automatically get credited to the enemy team, which is beyond frustrating, and makes missions like these just about impossible. And did I mention one of the objectives for each mission is to win the match with the enemy team getting 39 points or less?
  

Charles Martel fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Nov 25, 2015

Siets fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Nov 25, 2015