UPDATE 2! Star Wars Battlefront: X-Wing VR Mission Teaser Trailer Plus Recap and Game Development Video from the EA Play 2016 Conference

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Electronic Arts is ready to show off their lineup of new games at their EA Play presentation just before E3 starts – and with it, they bring information on their Star Wars titles.

 

 

Information on EA’s Star Wars games will be highlighted in cyan. All times are in CST, PM.

  • 3:08 – The show begins. Opening remarks are made.
  • 3:12 – It’s announced that an hour of Battlefield 1 gameplay will be streamed after the event ends.
  • 3:14 – Titanfall 2 multiplayer is shown off. Respawn Entertainment, the developers of the game, will also be working on a Star Wars title.
  • 3:17 – Titanfall 2 gets a trailer for its single-player campaign.
  • 3:19 – EA’s Sports games are shown off, with Madden NFL 2017 leading the pack.
  • 3:22 – EA announces plans for E-Sports opportunities for players of their games.
  • 3:27 – Mass Effect: Andromeda is displayed, with the developers promising to make the game the most in-depth experience in the history of the series.
  • 3:31 – EA promises more updates for their existing titles. Star Wars: Galaxy Of Heroes and Star Wars Battlefront are both set to get major updates.
  • 3:33 – EA reveals major opportunities for charity.
  • 3:34 – FIFA 2017 is brought to the forefront, revealing a story mode.
  • 3:45 – EA Originals is a program that will help independent developers create new games.
  • 3:46 – Fe, a nature-based platformer, is the first game announced to be a part of the EA Originals program.
  • 3:51 – Star Wars takes center stage.
  • 3:52 – DICE and Motive Studios are working on Battlefront 2 for a 2017 release date; the game will feature content from the new films. The Visceral Games title gets a 2018 release date. Criterion Games is helping with another project.
  • 3:53 – A behind-the-scenes look at development of Star Wars games are shown.
  • 3:56 – Battlefield 1 finally takes center stage.
  • 4:02 – Battlefield 1‘s trailer is fully shown.

And that’s a wrap! We’ll be sure to keep you covered as more details on EA’s Star Wars lineup come out.

 

UPDATE!

 

Here’s the video shown at the presentation, giving insight toward what’s in development with the new Star Wars games.

 

 

 

There’s quite a bit shown off in the 3.5-minute video, so let’s go in-depth to see what this reveals for the major Star Wars games in development:

    • Concept art of a space battle involving the Millennium Falcon, TIE fighters, and an asteroid field is shown.
    • A virtual reality game involving X-wings in development. Whether this is a feature for Battlefront or a new game is not clear.
    • DICE: Some footage of the Bespin expansion is being shown for Battlefront. One developer hints that both the Prequel Trilogy and the Sequel Trilogy will be represented in Battlefront 2. Motive Studios and Criterion Games are also assisting in development of Battlefront, and quite possibly its sequel. Bossk will apparently be a playable character in the Death Star expansion, and the trench run will be recreated in-game. A VR mission exclusive to PlayStation 4 players will be made available before the end of the year.
    • Motive Studios: Concept art suggests that the company’s contribution to Battlefront will involve the vehicles of the Sequel Trilogy.
    • Respawn Entertainment: Motion-capture work for lightsaber battles are shown. Given that EA has said that the game will explore an era that the other games they’ve developed haven’t yet approached, it’s likely that the game will either be set in the Prequel Trilogy era, or possibly even a game set earlier than that.
    • Capital Games: More promises to expand the already-large roster of playable characters in Galaxy Of Heroes.
    • BioWare: Work on The Old Republic is put on display. Involvement in Star Wars projects beyond The Old Republic is also teased, as the company is interested in telling stories beyond the game they’ve been updating extensively.
    • Visceral Games: Doug Chiang is assisting the development team with the game with an abundance of artwork. A very early look at the game is shown. One of our sources has repeatedly insisted that the game will be based around Han Solo, and with a 2018 release date in mind, it’s very likely that this could be true.

 

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UPDATE 2!

 

First teased during yesterday’s Electronic Arts press conference, PlayStation VR is getting a Star Wars experience called Star Wars Battlefront: X-Wing VR Mission, which looks to be pretty much exactly what it sounds like. The video reveal trailer can be seen here courtesy of IGN.

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

87 thoughts on “UPDATE 2! Star Wars Battlefront: X-Wing VR Mission Teaser Trailer Plus Recap and Game Development Video from the EA Play 2016 Conference

  • June 13, 2016 at 12:10 am
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    The Visceral Game quick preview looked awesome !! Definitely a story mode based game.

    • June 13, 2016 at 1:49 am
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      They got the writer who left naughtydog, I feel like this game is going to be amazing story wise.

  • June 13, 2016 at 12:40 am
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    Respawn showed some sick lightsaber combat mocap accompanied by prequel era music, very interesting. Rest sounds epic too, looking forward!!

  • June 13, 2016 at 12:47 am
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    Did I just see a Bossk model designed for Battlefront?

    • June 13, 2016 at 8:36 am
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      yup

  • June 13, 2016 at 1:07 am
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    judging by the YT comments, there’s an even more complainer and demanding branch of fans than Star Wars fans – star wars videogame fans.

  • June 13, 2016 at 1:37 am
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    I was pretty disapointed that we didn’t see at least a trailer for Visceral’s game.

    • June 13, 2016 at 5:30 am
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      Probably saving for d23.

      • June 14, 2016 at 1:37 am
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        It probably won’t be that long – the expansion comes out around the end of the month for season pass players. I think they’re saving the trailer (which is evidently finished, based on the footage they’ve shown) for when E3 actually starts.

        – Pomojema

  • June 13, 2016 at 1:55 am
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    I wish it wasn’t so far away, but these all look awesome. The biggest missing piece so far IMO was a story-focused star wars game that retains solid gameplay. Will these be that? who knows, but it looks like thats at least the goal this time around. Its also nice to hear that games will start exploring more time-periods like the sequel and prequel trilogy. Say what you will about the films themselves- but the ships and droid designs of the clone wars era would be a ton of fun to play as in a free-for-all game like battlefront. Thats part of what made the original “battlefrontI II” so fun, just the large amount of SW content.

  • June 13, 2016 at 3:11 am
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    What about a Jedi knight reboot on a sandbox game type based ? i heard about a GTA-like SW ? Is this that Han Solo game from Visceral ?

    • June 13, 2016 at 5:28 am
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      From the looks of what was shown the Visceral title looks like it might be filling that void, and the one made by the loss of 1313.

  • June 13, 2016 at 4:38 am
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    I’d rather have a good star wars game than a rushed one but damn …. have to wait till 2018 for a new game?! (I don’t count battlefront cause it’s the same thing that’s out already)

  • June 13, 2016 at 7:04 am
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    Occulus Star Wars fighter combat? Ummm..one please!

    • June 13, 2016 at 5:04 pm
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      25 please!

  • June 13, 2016 at 10:11 am
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    I just want to shoot some motherfucking battle droids with my DC-15 in the next Battlefront game

  • June 13, 2016 at 12:32 pm
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    I just want ONE video game centered around lightsaber combat and lore of the jedi and sith. That all.

    • June 13, 2016 at 6:55 pm
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      Looks like Respawn will at least give us a lightsaber game.

    • June 13, 2016 at 8:11 pm
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      I’ll go ONE further and say I’d like to see a ONE game that, with the significant hardware and software improvements in the Kinect 2, delivers on some of the real promise that Kinect Star Wars showed. Won’t happen sadly. Because gamers are stupid.

      • June 13, 2016 at 8:50 pm
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        I think this more likely reason:
        I’m solo, I’m Han Solo,
        I’m Han Solo.
        I’m Han Solo. Solo.

        • June 13, 2016 at 9:40 pm
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          And it’s a real shame that was the biggest component of the package and the game forced you to play that minigame. Or wait, it was one tiny part of the whole package and no it didn’t.
          .
          Anyways, I said ‘the promise’ of that game for a reason – the duels were promising, jumping into the quad guns was a blast, and Rancor Rampage was a ton of drop-in-drop-out fun. The real problem was two fold I think. First, the game couldn’t decide what it wanted to be. Was it a co-op adventure? Well, the story was uninspiring and wasn’t long enough in that case. Was it a collection of party games? Well, there wasn’t enough variety of those. It couldn’t commit to either, and so is pretty mediocre at both. The second problem was that the Kinect tracking was occasionally hit and miss, and especially problematic if the game was trying to track little kids. The whole thing plays like a great proof of concept for a real SW Kinect game.
          .
          As far as “gamers are stupid” I was referring to the idiotic outrage over the Kinect sensor and this baffling belief that MS was going to be collecting video of gamers in their soiled undies, stuffing their faces with Cheetos. It all happened around the time it became obvious that the CIA and FBI had been lying about not collecting data on citizens of the US, but for the insane conspiracy theories about MS and the Kinect to work you have to take some pretty gigantic leaps of logic in terms of data transmission and that MS would spend the money to staff some secret command bunker with people watching your every move. The Kinect is a really cool piece of hardware, which I actually use regularly. The K2 is even better, but sadly the stupidity around the launch means we’ll never see much development for it.

      • June 13, 2016 at 10:57 pm
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        Just read that SW has been moved over to Playmation which I think will go the way of Infinities considering I found Black Widow/Hawkeye at Ross for 90 percent off. At least Lego Dimensions is still going strong which is probably where it’s going next.

      • June 14, 2016 at 6:04 am
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        Eh, I won’t go as far as to disagree with you for I haven’t tried out the Kinect 2, but the times I played on the first one were not great.

        • June 14, 2016 at 7:11 pm
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          Not for everyone, just like any aspect of gaming (I will never have any interest in a sports game outside of baseball for instance), but personally I’m on something Kinect every other day. Once tuned, the thing is generally very responsive.

  • June 13, 2016 at 1:52 pm
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    Hmm, I’m sensing that there could a ton of content prepared for Star Wars by next year, right?

  • June 13, 2016 at 2:28 pm
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    Sabines Starbird rebellion symbol in the wall next to the Imperial banner on the right!

    • June 13, 2016 at 5:03 pm
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      Oh…what if this is a realist-looking Rebels game? That would be pretty sick. Or at least coming across a character or two would be cool.

      • June 13, 2016 at 8:38 pm
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        Maybe that is just an Easter Egg, but you never know. 😀

      • June 13, 2016 at 10:56 pm
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        It’s pretty fucked up that zero Rebels games exist unless you count the defunct Infinities.

    • June 14, 2016 at 4:00 am
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      No, Sabine is the like the Jar Jar of Rebels; utterly pointless.

  • June 13, 2016 at 2:47 pm
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    Doesn’t really look like Han Solo in Visceral’s game footage. Kind of reminds me more of Starkiller actually. But then again, I’m not that familiar with the back Ehrenreich’s head so they could be using his likeness for the character model. I like the look of it though. And how about that giant BB-8 head in that bottom image? 🙂

    • June 13, 2016 at 7:28 pm
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      Thought that, but then immediately remembered that 1313’s early footage used a stand-in model before marketing was ready to reveal that the player character was actually Boba Fett.

    • June 13, 2016 at 7:58 pm
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      Its probably just a placeholder model, but I’m secretly hoping that the player character is NOT Han Solo. I want new characters that become fan favorites like the Kyle Katarns and the Revans of the old EU. If I want a Han solo story I can watch the movies or read the comics, or the novels, he is getting an entire movie just focused on him! I don’t need a videogame tie-in. Just give me a fun original story in the SW universe please.

      • June 13, 2016 at 8:08 pm
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        Although…aren’t those banners in the Mos Eisley-looking setting FO?

        • June 13, 2016 at 8:19 pm
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          I hope your right! Bring on the sequel era games! lol.
          Its hard to tell from the image but it looks like the seal itself is the imperial logo rather than the FO, but it is definitely inscribed in a diamond shape like the FO rather than the usual imperial circle. Peculiar.

          • June 13, 2016 at 8:30 pm
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            Honestly I think it looks almost like the sith empire logo crossed with the imperial one.

          • June 14, 2016 at 9:38 am
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            that flag’s the new canon empire flag. We saw them in rebels too.

  • June 13, 2016 at 4:29 pm
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    For people that aren’t aware, the guy in charge of the Respawn SW game is the former head of Santa Monica Studios. He made God of War 3. So expect some AWESOME action.

    • June 13, 2016 at 5:29 pm
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      Let’s hope so!

  • June 13, 2016 at 5:45 pm
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    Jade Raymond can executive produce me anytime.

  • June 13, 2016 at 6:50 pm
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    EA controlled?

  • June 13, 2016 at 7:07 pm
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    I best start putting some cash to the side…..

  • June 13, 2016 at 8:50 pm
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    At least we got to listen to more John Williams’ music, which is always a good thing.

  • June 13, 2016 at 10:54 pm
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    Three ones I’d like to see……

    Another Rogue Squadron type of game, Maybe involving the Rogue One crew if there’s any dogfighting action though there doesn’t look to be so far.

    A KOTOR style RPG during the OT time period.

    A new Bounty Hunter-esque game possibly set in the ST era since there are a surprisingly woeful number of games set during that time.

    I really think what the new trilogy needs is more games and good ones to better flesh out the universe, The PT might not be everyone’s favorite but at least it produced a few decent games.

    I mean so far I count that bonus level in Battlepods, That mobile game, the Lego adaption, and the Jakku level of Battlefront representing TFA which is a ridiculously low number for a new SW film. They need one with original characters too rather than just relive the film stuff.

    • June 14, 2016 at 6:01 am
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      I wouldn’t expect too much ST games yet. Battlefront 2 is all we will get for a while. (In terms of major blockbuster titles).

  • June 13, 2016 at 10:58 pm
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    How long since the last DLC arrived? That’s how long Battlefront has been completely unplayable for me. Massive lag already on the main menu screen, so much that it takes minutes to finally be able to select “Multiplayer”. Once there, it becomes unresponsive and -5 frames per year. No help to be had. I curse you EA especially because I’m now lusting for that bounty hunter-esque game

    • June 14, 2016 at 11:49 am
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      Buy a new computer.

      • June 14, 2016 at 11:52 am
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        That’s what I did…to play Battlefront.

  • June 13, 2016 at 10:59 pm
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    KOTOR had a formula that worked. It had everything and was a great success with fans still begging for more…so.. Why the f have we not had one for over a decade?

    • June 14, 2016 at 1:41 am
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      Because TOR, for all intents and purposes, was meant to be that sequel in concept. In execution, that didn’t quite work out, but they’re pushing on with it because they invested so much in that title.

      – Pomojema

    • June 14, 2016 at 7:21 am
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      Because Disney hasn’t wanted to touch the pre-phantom menace era with a ten foot pole, canon-wise. TOR the MMO game was already out during the transition so they just let that run its course without much comment. I hope with this promise of the first jedi temple in episode 8 that we can finally get some Old Republic stories and maybe even another RPG of that formula!

  • June 14, 2016 at 1:19 am
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    Why have they not even bothered to make a movie-based game for TFA? We got Episodes 1 & 3 plus several games based around AOTC so I don’t get why they decided to just forget TFA. I understand games take longer to develop these days, but shouldn’t that have been first on their list once the movie was announced? I know movie-based game generally suck, but some of the SW ones have been alright.

    • June 14, 2016 at 1:33 am
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      Because video game tie-ins to movies are generally rushed to fit a deadline and usually aren’t good. On another note, it doesn’t really add anything to the canon.

      – Pomojema

      • June 14, 2016 at 6:09 am
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        Probably a fair comment. But I remember really enjoying the PC game for The Phantom Menace.

      • June 15, 2016 at 12:53 am
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        Nor did Battlefront, Lego Star Wars, or Battlepods.

    • June 14, 2016 at 5:08 am
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      Yea I agree. I really would love to play a force awakens style game. I need more Kylo ren and snoke!!

    • June 14, 2016 at 7:16 am
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      I guess for now we will have to settle for the lego version…

    • June 15, 2016 at 12:53 am
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      I’d like to see one done in the 16 bit style of the old SNES games for the OT. Accuracy to the film be damned!

      • June 15, 2016 at 3:52 pm
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        Those were great! I would totally play that

        • June 17, 2016 at 10:48 am
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          They sure were, I even prefer some of the MIDI versions of the tracks.

  • June 14, 2016 at 3:27 am
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    Personally, I would like to see more games set before the Prequel era. Heck, any books, films, and comics set before the PT would be most welcome.

    • June 14, 2016 at 7:12 am
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      Agreed! Disney was trying so hard to forget about the prequels leading up to episode 7, but hopefully now that the box office of Force Awakens are secure we will see more era-spanning content. I need more droids!!!!

  • June 14, 2016 at 4:02 am
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    Imagine if we got a Yoda game. It would have alot of yips, flips, laughs, and hmms!

  • June 14, 2016 at 5:09 am
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    Cool! It all looks good! I knew bossy was gonna be a character for the Death Star. He’s my favorite bounty hunter. Need Kylo ren in the next one!

  • June 14, 2016 at 5:31 am
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    Remake the best of the old LucasArts Star Wars games. X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight. Such fantastic games.

    • June 14, 2016 at 7:05 am
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      an HD remake of Jedi Knight would make me as excited as I was for the Force awakens! That game WAS the majority of my childhood 🙂

    • June 14, 2016 at 7:53 pm
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      Yeah right on ! With HD & VR. I’m in ! They left the trench run out for now, but it’ll be in there for sure !

  • June 14, 2016 at 5:57 am
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    I hope it has an amount of depth on par with a full game, but I have a feeling that this won’t be a meaty experience. Just a tech demo.

    • June 14, 2016 at 7:03 am
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      Agreed, but even if it is only a small amount of content, if it is well received then it is a proof-of-concept for a full game or at least being built in as a big part of battlefront II

    • June 14, 2016 at 7:12 pm
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      Sounds like 1 mission, and only for PS4. And the internet gave a collective shrug.

  • June 14, 2016 at 6:07 am
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    VR…X-Wings…this is what I have been dreaming about ever since I was a small child singing to my mom about getting me a Star Wars game.

  • June 14, 2016 at 9:30 am
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    uhm, pardon me but what stands for vr? and if this is a battle with pnly one star destroyer… why not more?

    • June 14, 2016 at 11:05 am
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      Virtual Reality.

      • June 14, 2016 at 5:13 pm
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        I have to assume you need a special thing to play it right?

        • June 14, 2016 at 5:37 pm
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          Yeah I believe it look like a giant version of night-vision googles.

          • June 15, 2016 at 9:30 am
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            sounds pricy.

          • June 15, 2016 at 6:14 pm
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            Yeah and I’m concerned it might be a gimmick, like 3D.

          • June 15, 2016 at 10:00 pm
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            There’s no doubt in that.

        • June 14, 2016 at 7:31 pm
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          Yes

  • June 14, 2016 at 5:03 pm
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    That VR thing better not be on rails or there will be a riot. If it turns into a full game, this could be the thing that gets me into VR. Oh…and PC and full joystick/throttle support, or riot.

    • June 14, 2016 at 7:06 pm
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      Well, if it’s a DLC for the PS4 version of BF, then it should be as open as the the other missions, no?

      • June 15, 2016 at 12:46 am
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        Yeah, but the AT-AT is on rails, so it’s not like it’s a stretch to worry about it. I think it has to be fully-playable, though. Otherwise it would end up looking like an arcade rail shooter, which is not what Battlefront is going for. That said, I REALLY hope this gets expanded into a full game with full PC and HOTAS support.

        • June 15, 2016 at 2:50 am
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          XB Scorpio launch day!

    • June 15, 2016 at 3:19 pm
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      I’m with you there. I’m not a video game player, but I’d jump back in if this turned into a real VR piloting experience. Rail shooters are a drag, and I wouldn’t even bother if that’s what this turns out to be. That all being said, I’d be happy with an old LucasArts X-Wing/TIE Fighter rerelease.

  • June 14, 2016 at 7:33 pm
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    Here I am just wishing they would have kept SWG, made it F2P with the chance to sub… (Pre-CU / NGE)

  • June 15, 2016 at 3:35 am
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    Stay on target… Stay on target!!!

  • June 15, 2016 at 9:53 am
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    I have u now. Porkins!!!

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