Looks like they're doing the stupid Titanfall/Evolve thing where there's just "scenarios" you can play solo. There's no actual single player campaign, because it's not like the Star Wars universe has any sort of lore or scenarios that people would want to be able to play all by themselves. Luckily, they WILL have it be available offline, so when the servers inevitably crash on Day 1 you can still at least play with Bots.
I'm ok with this just like I was in Titanfall and Left 4 Dead. I'm sure I would be fine with it for Evolve too but I haven't played that outside of the beta so I can't say for sure. Many gamers get mad when single player games tack on a multiplayer mode yet they want every multiplayer game to tack on a single player mode. I have no problem with a game just being a multiplayer game.
I think both the Call of Duty and Battlefield franchises would be just fine if they chose to stop making single player campaigns and just put those resources towards more multiplayer content. I can't remember the numbers but I remember hearing a statistic about the percentage of Call of Duty players who never launch the single player campaign even once and it was pretty staggering.
Titanfall choosing not to include single player was fine with me because I am one of those people who never plays the campaign in Battlefield or COD. Advanced Warfare is the first one I have even tried in years and I never finished it's short campaign. The bigger problem with Titanfall is that it was lacking things like Frontier Defense at launch that would have kept the community engaged longer. With all the Season Pass content available now it is a completely different package than it was when it came out.
Also, they FINALLY abandoned that stupid Browser based matchmaking and will do it all within game. They're not using Battlelog and instead will have a completely independent system.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/4/18/84...front-will-have-offline-singleplayer-wont-use
This is a huge plus. The web browser based server selector for Battlefield 3 on PC was so terrible. I just got error after error when trying to join a match. It turned out to be an issue with my origin account being the same one I used on PS3 where I had Battlefield 3 Premium. I didn't have Premium on PC but it kept trying to put me into Premium servers. I only played BF4 on PS4 so I can't say if the implementation got any better but I'm glad to see that they killed that terrible idea.
I hope you weren't a fan of the Space battles in the original BFs, because they're not in this game...
And here's a few other things missing from this newer version that the old one had..
It sounds like this will just be a Battlefield with a Star Wars skin. Again, I'm kind of okay with this. The Battlefield 4 formula works and it feels epic when you are in the big conquest matches. I was originally kind of disappointed in the lack of space battles but now I think it makes some sense. People fighting on the ground while other people are completely out of sight in space may as well be playing two different games. In the Battlefield games people on the ground can take out people flying in vehicles and still play a big role in the fight. How is someone on the ground going to affect a fight between people off in space though? the scope just seems too different to connect them in a meaningful way.
There are still going to be X-Wings and Tie Fighters you can jump in and fly. You just have to stay within the battle area. It sounds like they will basically be like the helicopters and jets from the Battlefield series.
I do think it's kind of mind boggling that they would limit the player count to 40 when Battlefield 3 and 4 both easily handled 64 players on PC. I'm wondering if this is a console limitation that wont be true for PC players. The PS3/360 versions were always limited to 32 players so it wouldn't be the first time they had a different player count for PC and console. If this limitation turns out to be true this is the first truly disappointing news I have heard about Battlefront so far.
I'm still looking forward to this game. I'm not going to let some bullet points in a reddit thread ruin it for me until there are actual game reviews and we can see the game for ourselves. This is a good reminder that pre-ordering isn't always the best idea unless you get some actual benefit for doing it. I think it's also a good reminder to try not to get caught up in the hype and let your expectations get out of hand for any big releases. If you build it up too much it will be a disappointment no matter how good the product actually turns out.
