Pick up my sci-fi novel series, The Earthborn Trilogy, which is now in print, online and on audiobook. It would be nice to get another sneak preview of Battlefront 2 before launch, but at this point, we may just have to wait for release and hope it’s in better shape by then.įollow me on Twitter and on Facebook.

Some of the issues seem to be getting addressed, but I still worry about a progression system that is almost entirely rooted in loot boxes, and the existence of some of these crazy powerful Star Cards that seem like they have the potential to unbalance the game no matter how you earn them. It’s hard to know exactly what to make of this without seeing the final system in action, and I suppose that’s only possibly by buying and playing the final game at release. There’s also a note about a requested mode where Star Card values are flatted to make for a more level playing field, which would solve pretty much every pay-to-win problem itself, but also negate much of the reason for the loot box economy to exist in the first place, so I wonder if that mode will actually exist at launch. The post also makes reference to buffing flametroopers, to changing Strike rules to nerfing the Specialist’s Infiltration ability. It…sounds more like a traditional shooter, but loot crates do still feel like the backbone of the upgrade economy. Many of these changes seem to reference some sort of XP/Milestone/Rank system that was nowhere to be found in the beta at all, so I guess we’ll have to see how it works once it arrives. And you must rank up to reach the higher levels of unlocks on your Star Cards, and rank is no longer determined by how many Star Cards you have, it seems, which was a chief complaint about the beta.

It seems weapons are being pulled out of crates and are unlocked the old-fashioned way, by playing with a specific class. You can only upgrade or unlock them if you have reached a high enough rank, which is determined by playing the game. How to Rank up fast in Star Wars Battlefront Tips & Tricks I upload Star Wars Battlefront news updates, rank tips and more content so make sure you subscri.

And lastly, you have to earn the right to be able to upgrade Star Cards and unlock most Weapons.

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