Battle Front II Review.

[Mongoose]

Droidekas need to be unlocked? How? Capture a certain control point or something?

The only thing the Seperatist had for them was the Droideka. The SBD was simply too slow and weak, the normal BD was weak and not worth much...

No, it's fairly simple. Just get eight points(Onekill =one point, One control point = 5 points IIRC) and you can use it

I guess they thought that there were too many elite units around

BTW, the game seems rebalanced in other ways. I've noticed that on kashyyyk, the CIS has Five tanks, VS only two repbulic tanks. I think that the CIS tanks are stronger, but they can't move to the side...

Not that i've played the level much, just once in instant action to look at the starting weapons.

NOTE: Playing LAN MP on ceratin levels, the AI will not use the tanks. Hoth? Yes. Kashyyyk? No. but thats not a problem online or with a large number of People in a LAN game...

EDIT: Here is a screen shot of a campaign space battle. The current objective is to destroy the rebel transports before they escape yavin 4.



dat il learn em teh bust da deeth starr!



I thought that i would add afew more. This was made possible by the new sprint feature

On one hand, there weren't any human defenders to stop me, just the Weak AI(Instant action). On the other hand, if it were online, i would have had human players helping me.:D

Starting in the Hanger:



Taking off:


Flying low to avoid the fighters:


Almost there....


In!


Heading to the defense mainframe...


The droids don't like it when you land in their hanger...


I'm at the auto defense main frame...


The gun ship has been avenged!



Going to need an enemy ship.


Heading home:

[Papewaio]

So did you get your ticket validated...

Nice screenies... what is your rig setup?

[Mongoose]

I think they tried to tow my ship with a rocket launcher

System specs?

512 MB of RAM.

Windows XP, service pack 2.

NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz. Speed: 2389 MHz.

Runs great But some users say that it dosen't work on perfectly good machines, and that it's a console port with bad controls.

i actaully like them more then in BF1, but you can change them. Not much lag, but i've gotten small 4 seconds spikes, but they don't happen very often. So far only once or twice. But, them again, only playing iwth the defalut video options. Im not usre why you want want to trun them up though, the game looks great even with the more advanced stuff turned off. Shadows are very good at bringing a game to a lagging, painful halt...


EDIT:
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Supported Operating Systems
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To be able to play STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT II, you must have Windows
2000 or XP installed and configured correctly, and your computer
hardware must be DirectX 9.0c compatible.

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Minimum System Requirements
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Computer
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Required: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible computer

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CPU
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Required: Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+
Recommended: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2800+

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Memory
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Required: 256 MB RAM
Recommended: 512 MB RAM

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Graphics Card
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Required: 64 MB 3D Graphics card with Hardware Transform and
Lighting (T&L) Capability
Recommended: 128 MB 3D Graphics card with Hardware Vertex and
Pixel Shader (VS/PS) Capability

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Sound Card
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Required: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible Audio Device

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CD-ROM
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Required: 8X Speed CD-ROM drive
Recommended: 16X Speed CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

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Input Device
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Required: Keyboard and mouse
Supported: Joystick or Gamepad

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DirectX
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Microsoft DirectX 9.0c is included on this CD. You will be
prompted to install DirectX during the installation of this
game if this or a more recent version isn’t already properly
installed on your system.

NOTE: DirectX may require the "latest" updates for your
operating system. This may also include the latest drivers for
your motherboard, sound, and video hardware.

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Installation
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Installation requires 3.77 GB of free hard drive space. We
recommend that you have an additional 500 MB of free space
available after installing the game for save games and
Windows file caching.

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Multiplayer Support
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2.4 GHz or faster CPU recommended for Dedicated Server.

Internet/LAN: Supports 2 to 64 players

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Internet Connectivity for Multiplayer
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Required: DSL, Cable, or faster connection

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Video Cards Supported
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For a list of supported video cards at the time of release,
please refer to the Troubleshooting Guide

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From the read me file. Note that "Minimum System Requirements" Means that "It will run the game for 15 minutes, lag for 10, and then CTD

[Kraxis]

My dear... That looks mighty good.

I'm watching Episode VI now... Perfect moodsetter to look at this.

I love that there are turrets ready and so on... But can you fly the capitals and control the big guns, or is that seperate? Damn I would always be an ISD rudderman. "Helm, take us towards that Rebel Cruiser, it is weakened, lets finish it off." "Yes Admiral Kraxis."

Those spots on the capitals you can see while a clone, are they weakspots or the compartments (if they are that doesn't it mean long hallways?)?

I like the fact that now you can't just bail out and return to the fight on the ground... Now you die when shot down. I really hate it when I finally shoot a plane or helicopter down in BF I, Vet or II, and they just bail out and escape after blasting half my team to bits.

[Mongoose]

Kraxis


No, you can'tI don't think that The cap ships move muc anyway. The smaller ships do though. How ever....

Did you see the room in the screen shot where i was taking out the auto defense main frame? it has afew computers, those aren't there for eye candy. Funny story...I was playing BF1 as an AT-ST on endor, when i saw afew ewok traps. i was thinking "Haha!! those morons wasted time on pointless eye candy! the traps don't add to the level at at all! I can just alk right past them and nothing will happen."

*BAM*



Anyway, back on topic, there are afew computers that you can use, just like a turret on one of the land levels. It brings you to a turret on the ship, either one of the main cannons or a smaller gun. If You use them right, you can take down enemy fighters. Some fire slow, so they can only really attack shuttles.

Note: If you see an enemy fighter launcing a missle at you, get out of the turret! If it blows up, you are going down with it.

Noe two: You can't capture CP's on captitla ships. you CAN knock out the systems on them and make getting out of the hanger a living hell for the pilots though.


One thing i realized is that Space battles are fun at first, but can get slightly repetive after awhile. they are mostly the same(The levels differ from each other a little, but not very much). Though they get boring in instant action, Playing against humans never really gets old

The AI is still weak.Again, Not a problem when you're playing online. The SP campaign seems to have a little scripting, and the levels are (un)balanced set to make it hard(On elite)

[Mongoose]

Kraxis


No, you can'tI don't think that The cap ships move muc anyway. The smaller ships do though. How ever....

Did you see the room in the screen shot where i was taking out the auto defense main frame? it has afew computers, those aren't there for eye candy. Funny story...I was playing BF1 as an AT-ST on endor, when i saw afew ewok traps. i was thinking "Haha!! those morons wasted time on pointless eye candy! the traps don't add to the level at at all! I can just alk right past them and nothing will happen."

*BAM*



Anyway, back on topic, there are afew computers that you can use, just like a turret on one of the land levels. It brings you to a turret on the ship, either one of the main cannons or a smaller gun. If You use them right, you can take down enemy fighters. Some fire slow, so they can only really attack shuttles.

Note: If you see an enemy fighter launcing a missle at you, get out of the turret! If it blows up, you are going down with it.

Noe two: You can't capture CP's on captitla ships. you CAN knock out the systems on them and make getting out of the hanger a living hell for the pilots though.


One thing i realized is that Space battles are fun at first, but can get slightly repetive after awhile. they are mostly the same(The levels differ from each other a little, but not very much). Though they get boring in instant action, Playing against humans never really gets old

The AI is still weak.Again, Not a problem when you're playing online. The SP campaign seems to have a little scripting, and the levels are (un)balanced set to make it hard(On elite)

EDIT: I should also add that you can tell the bots(On land levels) what to do, but it's really hard to use.


*Edit*GAH! I meant to edit the other reply, not quote it!!!!!! GAH!

[Kraxis]

Ahh I suspected as much. Though I would of cours have loved to park my ISD outside their hangar, just waiting to blast their shuttles to bits.

You can't board the frigates with shuttles?

And do you have lots of hallway battles inside the cap ships? I mean are there little hallways between the rooms or are they directly connected? Can they get confusing to navigate?

You mentioned that Droidekas are unlockable after six kills, is this also how Jedis are included?