As a FPS fan and playing Battlefield since Bad Company and averaging over a 3/1 K/D ratio, I am STRUGGLING to kill any body more so at a distance.
This game blows and here are my reasons why.
Gun mechanics
There is absolutely no benefit burst firing your blaster over holding down the trigger, just actually makes no sense. DICE have always supported this type of shooting style since Bad Company but they implement that same philosophy into this game. Using this technique would allow users to kill more enemies at a distance and making the blaster that more accurate. I've tried zooming in while in 3rd person shooting at people at a distance with no avail.
Hero system
When the first trailer debuted for this game, DICE praised its fans that you can play as your favorite hero or villain but yet I've only played as a hero twice, a villain three times and I've flown the Millennium Falcon three times in 67 matches that I have played. It amazes me how fast people find these once the round starts and through out the round. I wish that DICE would've marked these hero pick ups on the mini map so you can find them a lot more easier.
Bots in Fighter Squadron
Why have bots in this game mode if they're not going to transfer over to your stats as kills? It defeats the purpose of having these bots in the game mode. Take them out so I can take out the opposing team where it actually matters in the stats. The most kills I've got in a round of killing actual gamers are 7 but more than likely I kill more bots than I do human players about 90% of the time.
3rd person trumps 1st person
Why offer 1st person in this game when they very well know nobody is going to use that viewing angle. Switching from 3rd person to 1st isn't going to give you more of an advantage.
Customization and only 4 planets
Very lack of any customization and stormtroopers with no helmets on is the stupidest things they brought into this game. Why couldn't they add armor, war marks, paint, etc on the stormtroopers? Also I play Walker Assault about 75% of the time and playing the same 4 maps over and over gets really boring and repetitive.
Thanks for your perspective. I've been waiting to hear what people think about it before I buy.
A couple questions for you - first, on the hero system, it seems kind of fair to me. I mean, they're clearly overpowered additions with limited play time when you do get them. I averaged out that basically in the 67 matches you've played you've gotten a hero power 11.7% of the time. I'm not saying that's a lot, but if that chance were increased (and the powers shown on the mini map) wouldn't that make it so a hero was active a lot? It seems like good balance to me and adding more opportunity would make the powers less thrilling when you do get them, no? I mean, the core gameplay is basically FPS.
Second, I've almost never played a video game by choice in 3rd person because I find first person more user friendly. I don't like the clutter a 3rd person gives me. Do people really just play in 3rd and what's the advantage in your opinion?
My complaint about the Hero pickups is that I wish it would show up on the mini radar to make it easier to find them that's all. Other than that it is pretty balanced. What's really nice is once you pick it up you have an option to pick which villain or hero to be.
With the option with having 1st person or 3rd person is better field of view. You can see your enemy a lot better around corners and stuff. Now when you play Endor with all the trees, shrubs, etc it's a lot harder seeing everything in 1st.
I think the number 1 problem with this game is the hit detection. Far more times when I'm shooting my target, it gets to the point that my gun over heats right after I kill the target or I don't get any assist points even though it showed that my shots were registering. This same problem along with lag, rubber banding and net code plagued Battlefield 4 for close to a year and guess who designed Battlefield 4.......DICE the same developer that made Battlefront. Hell for a few months there was a known issue that if you had a horrible ping you were going to have a better advantage to those who had a good ping.
There are several topics on the Star Wars EA forums both in PC and PS4 sections complaining about the hit detection. I know I'm not a noon when it comes to first person shooters but I can not for the life of me buy kills in this game. Most of the time I barely get 3-5 more kills than deaths. Lots of gamers are complaining that these hit detection problems are only happening on the bigger player count rooms when again was another issue with DICE on Battlefield 44 until they finally fixed it almost a year later forcing players to play in 16v16 rooms rather the 32v32 rooms.
You don't have the option to find servers especially those servers in the US only which is another fail on DICE's part.
I knew there would be problems with this game because of DICE's track record but I didn't think I would ever struggle to kill anyone in this game. Those who played the beta said it was a lot easier killing their target than in the retail version.