The beta will also feature a Tatooine-set 'survival mission', 'where you and a Rebel friend must fight back waves of Imperial forces'.

Also that footage has more anti-aliasing than God's beard, so don't expect these kinds of results unless you have 48 GeForce Titan Blacks. It's the map they showed off at E3 in July, like so:Ĭan it really, truly, honestly look like that in practice? It's wonderful to behold, but maybe that won't be the case when you've got 12 guys queuing up for a Scout Walker or the Rebel Alliance screaming 'noobs' at each other. It's a 40-player map, and includes the option to play as Luke Skywalker or some guy named Dave Vader. Said beta, due early in the month for PC and them there console whatnots, will feature the Hoth-set Walker Assault level, so I'm praying all AT-AT itches will be scratched. If I can just hang on until October, when the Battlefront Beta will be released, maybe I'll be OK. Oh God now I've opened an eBay tab and typed 'AT-AT' into it. I don't care about the characters, though. Whether that will be aided or undermined by the looming marketingageddon of The Force Awakens I don't know, but I do look at images of DICE's Star Wars: Battlefront and think 'yes, those are science fictional battles I want to be a part of.' It's the industrial look of the ships and structures that does it, a sweet spot between functional and stylised that the prequel movies totally bungled. Nostalgia inexorably returns, God help me. This means I'm starting to find it vaguely appealing again. I've felt so little about Star Wars for so long now, and had so much distance from a fictional universe I threw myself into in my late teens that it no longer feels quite as over-exposed and cynical as it once did.

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