Star Wars: Battlefront

Well, now Walker Assault on Hoth is significantly more balanced. Don't know if they made tweaks, but it wouldn't surprise me.

The thing is... Now I feel like... even though the matches (that I've played) seem very close... I feel like you can't really tell on offense if you won or lost based on how well your offense was doing... or just how well or poorly the defense did. If people were saving up their orbital strikes for the walkers... was there really that much you could have done about that?... Especially since the respawn time is damn instant - They tell you to stop them from firing at your walkers at all cost, but you kill them and they respawn instantly and are usually able to fire at the walkers within a second or 2 later. It seems like killing them makes almost no difference unless they actually try to defend themselves... which, sadly, they shouldn't... because that's more of a waste of firepower than just clicking respawn....

And what really feels questionable to me, on offense, is that the defense activation the stations for locking on, as far as I can tell, only increase the length of time the walkers are vulnerable because the moments of vulnerability happen whether they activate them or not.  Could they win a match without even successfully achieving 1 "lock"?... because it frickin' happens anyways?.....   Is it like this because they don't want defense to feel like they aren't getting anywhere, even if they aren't playing well?.... ugh

And again... once everybody on defense learns what they're doing... will offense almost always lose?

This is why attack/defend maps don't really feel right to me... even in TF2.  A decent offense can always* beat the defense.  Hell, got medics with Ubercharge in TF2?  There ya go.  That's why competitive matches are based on which offense can win the fastest...  It's just unfortunate and is why I prefer modes where both teams can be either offensive or defensive.

Season Pass with 4 expansions also announced. (It's not actually called "Premium!" )  But it's still $50 of course.

No idea if Jakku is included in those 4.

Lol, get a leg up!

So I guess there are actually emotes on the F keys or d-pad. But I only noticed the automatic ones I'm pretty sure. The game's too fast to bother wasting time with them anyways really.  No cooldown time in this game whatsoever (practically).

The chanting makes it...

Been playing quite a bit of Hero Hunt. In people's first impressions they kept saying they hated it or that it was pointless, but I've found it rather fun, even if I lose. It's frequently frustrating, but somehow still kind of fun for me. It's I believe 8 players vs 1 hero at a time. The initial and perhaps main frustrating part is that you have to be the person who gets the final hit on the hero to become the next hero. Grenades and other explosives are helpful in this regard. But also, most of the maps that are good for the hero are extremely close quarters. Getting the last hit AND staying alive are extremely difficult. You get the last hit and die at the same time, the next hero is given to someone else.

Vader, Palpatine, and Skywalker (mostly) are close quarters. Han, Princess Leia, and Boba Fett are mostly long-ish range, but can still kick put at close range if you're snappy and know what you're doing. Even so, Leia.... is very difficult to survive with. And that's definitely putting it lightly. But it can be done... kind of.

Vader and Luke are probably the easiest to get a good hang of. Han is pretty dang powerful as well. And a good Boba player? Can absolutely demolish....

But Palpatine... is probably the most confusing (and... interesting) to a new user. I haven't even figured out how all his abilities work yet... though I've rarely gotten a chance to test him well. And yet... we just had a round on the map that's probably the best/easiest one for close quarters heroes.... The damn guy got all 50 kills in the whole match with Palpatine... and it was sad. Palpatine and Leia both have drops of some sort and I honestly don't even know for sure what they are. I think they're health? Also... I'm starting to suspect that if one of these that are dropped by them is taken by a friendly player... they then switch to the enemy/heroes' team?? I think that's what's going on.... but I'm still quite confused about that.

I did actually manage to have a decent moment with Leia that I think won me the match by one kill, however. Though I had been Luke in a previous life.

Oh and, not directly related, but one of the maps has ice caves (in addition to the snow). The audio direction and reverb on that map is... orgasmic..... omg. Explosions, laser fire, and hero voices pinging and reverbing off the ice.... omg....

The rainy map with good close quarters can be somewhat terrifying as well... if you're outside and things get quiet and you just hear Vader or Palpatine inside verbally bashing and ripping through other people inside single handedly.... with just you and the calm rain outside.  Their voices get (about) appropriately muffled, which definitely makes the effect.