Recent reviews by bugz893

Hello There! I never really write a review this early but, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this game is good.

First of all: Graphics. They are absolutely stunning for a game that is nearly 3 years old, even in high. I never experienced optimization issues and got stable 60 fps with my 2 y.o laptop in most cases, it only drops when there is too much ♥♥♥♥ going on, like it cant handle the action.

Played some story mode and it is pretty decent, really explains in every possible way how the game works. And the story is not too bad and not too great, it is what you could expect from a modern-era EA game.

It has a Co-op mode for 4 players against AI, but the AI is nowhere near being stupid as, let's say, GTA. I found myself having more fun in Co-op mode than Multiplayer because it never had a balancing issue. And also Co-op mode is the best place to grind, your progress is saved and you can basically unlock everything you want in the Co-op. I'd be committing treason if I didn't mention the constant 2X-3X XP boosts game brings up on throughout the week.

Multiplayer: It's stupid fun, like I cant even describe how fun it is, with all the carnage going on. Sure it takes some time to get used to but it makes you really feel like you are a droid in the Clone Wars. First time I jumped into a game, I was like "No way those are real shots that are fired by real people" so I checked them out with my sniper and gave that Michael Scott impression when he knew his branch was about to shut down in the 3rd season. The game is absolutely still alive and well, contrary to some people saying it's dead, most I had to wait for a match to be found was like 30-35 seconds.

The only issue I have with this game is it's matchmaking. It can randomly give you opponents that are in 3 digit levels when you are just a level 3. A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ human can kill a 7 foot half human-half cyborg war general that yields 4 lightsabers simultaneously with his "broad shoulders". But this only happens rarely, don't you worry. You don't know how the time passes when it is an even match.

IN CONCLUSION:
This game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ piece of art and if you love Star Wars but didn't have a chance to try this one out, definitely give it a go, it will 100% worth it. This is where the fun begins.

An update after 220 hours of playtime:
It's such a shame this beauty of a game lost its live support when it was just beginning to take off after the infamous disastrous launch and bad management by the company that didn't deserve to have the rights of it in the first place. If DICE wasn't forcefully taken away to work on Battlefield 6 by electr*nic arse, this game could've be so much more for years to come. It's saddening for a Star Wars fan to see it is left for dead. Hundreds of thousands signatures are gathered against this decision and by far it is the biggest petition against ea but they do not seem to care and only time will tell, one can only hope.

Here is the link for the petition in case anyone wants to contribute:
https://www.change.org/p/electronic-arts-continue-paid-support-for-star-wars-battlefront-ii

666 hours of playtime, at least 111 hours was waiting for the game to load, the menu to load, the match to load and people to load. There is a thing called "Joining into an ongoing match" in casual that it takes ages to load and makes you want to throw your pc from the top of World Trade Center.

The community is as toxic as the Elephant's Foot, hackers and cheaters are everywhere, and you can't even type the words in chat that some in-game operators say during the game. Once I was on a ranked match and a teammate just picked Montagne (which is an operator with an extendable riot shield that is impossible to damage) and the defuser, then just gave his back to a wall and waited and waited until the round was over, and he did this constantly until we were defending. There's no kicking option whatsoever besides casual and even if there was, the vote needs to be unanimous to pass, so he had a friend and we had nothing to do. Ridiculous isn't it? Still haunts me to this day when somebody picks Monty and the defuser.

I've played this much and I still have operators to unlock, they are not really overpriced per se but you get so little of the in-game currency, "renown". Even after a ranked match that you won by being the MVP, the highest payoff I got was 500 renown solely while the most recent ops cost 25k renown.

Smurfing is another issue that I need to address, high rated players just slam newcomers in "newcomer" mode with their alternate accounts. All of the game modes suffer from smurfing, not just the newcomer by the way. You are one game away from platinum but a silver smurf on the other team just slams you to the ground and gives start to your losing streak towards silver.

Matchmaking is as poor as William Charles Schneider, when you're just trying to have some fun in casual with your gold rank, a diamond player just pops up on the other team and ruins your day. 90% of the time the players on your team is proven braindeads but when they end up against you, they just became gods and make you want to kill yourself.

IN CONCLUSION:
The title should be changed to "Rank Losing Simulator".
Do not play this game.

Can't launch it. Need help but Rockstar's support pages are non-existent. Like always.