Picking up the basics of Battlefront 2 is fairly easy, and if you're reading this then likelyhood is you already have played the game and know enough about it for me not to need to write the controls down. However there are a few tips that you could probably still learn.

Before you tell me, "but Dwarfade, you have barely any hours on the game, you're still pretty much a noob". I guess you are probably right, although I did play quite alot of the game on playstation 2, and I've played enough on pc to understand the differences, and I would probably be willing call myself good.

However even though there are things that I have still yet to learn myself, I feel that my knowledge of the game is enough to give you a good idea as to what and what not to do.

A final thing to know is that since the main online servers shut down people have had to find their own ways around playing online. The program I mainly use is GameRanger, which is good for playing with up to three friends and sneaking in to premium servers with lots of players on them.

Now, I would probablye to call myself a massive battlefield 4 fan. Now I realise that many people think that Battlefield isn't that great and what not, but I can tell you this, there are many many many similarities between Battlefield and Battlefront. In fact I'd probably be inclined to say that the first Battlefront game was a Pre-Cursor to Battlefield 1942. Mainly being conquestm which I swear came to Battlefront first.

This guide will ultimately focus on the infantry based conquest mode, and the space based asault mode, because they are by far the best modes apart form XL mode. But XL doesn't really need much explaining.

However, that's not why I'm writing this section, I'm writing this section to tell you that this game, in all honesty, is really rather easy. If your computer can run this at 60 fps, then you pretty much won't ever lose, although it still happens occasionally (Please note that I'm talking about the game offline, simply because I just can't be bothered for much else).

Now interestingly Battlefront does what I still don't see many (if any) games doing today, and thats is letting the player switch between first person and third person shooting at will, making the game more accesible for players who like it either way. In my opinion playing the game in third person is better, even though I enjoy many first person shooters.

Another thing that you need to decide is which war you want to fight. Now this might sound quite obvious (which is guess it is), but there are different things about each war you fight, and each side within those wars. Which we will found out about about 2 inches down your page.

Honestly, it's not as diffcult as I'm making it out to be, however, there are certain classes that are specialized for each side. Along with this, it also depends which map you go to, because going to Geonosis as the clones has proven itself quite the challenge for me and my friends on many occasions.

So first of all lets talk about balanced wars within the game. A balanced war (which is a term I've just made up), is a conquest or flag capture game or anything else that consists of the two sides playing and no other units within it, such as the Geonisians that fight with the droids or the Ewoks with the Rebels on Endor. For example, Kamino is a balanced map, along with things like Utapau.

Picking a side on a completely balanced game is easy, pick the side that you like the most. However you shoud also think about the special classes that are on each side, which we will come back to soon.

Picking a side on an unbalanced offline game on the other hand is a rather different story. Infact, even maps like Hoth, which look balanced, are quite heavily unfairly balanced towards the Empire. Generally I like to go for the side that is at the disadvantage, although that is a matter of opinion.

Now I realise that my writing was really quite weak there, but I assure you that the rest of the guide will (hopefully) be far more interesting than this bit.

Picking a side isn't all about balance though, because within each side there are special unts that you can unlock by getting enough kills, and there are the Hero characters as well, who will often make your team win offline.

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Units

One of the most important things I find when picking a side is choosing the side with the special class that suits the map most. I.e, the Imperial Dark Trooper won't do very well within the halls of Tantive IV, but a powerful bullet sponge type class like the Wookie probably will.

Special Units all have there own advantages and disadvantages, making them really quite balanced when compared to other games with similar systems. For example, the Confederate Droideka is extremely vulnerable when moving and can't move quickly at all when deployed, however their deployed firepower is so unbelievably high that it makes up for it. Another example is the Clone Jet Trooper, because while he has almost no health, he can fly and has a huge grenade launcher that makes up for that. The only classes that haven't got much balance are the Wookie, because he's just an OP bullet sponge and the Bothan Spy, who can go invisible and has an (as everybody who's played the game will know) instant face melt gun, that pretty much nothing can beat, apart form some sniping.

// Note the only classes I view as OP are Rebel, hmm //

Heroes

Heroes are a very big part of the game, and the biggest selling point for getting it when it came out in 2005. *so long ago* They pretty much guarantee a victory unless you're playing as Leia, Darth Vader or the Emperor because they are terrible, unlike all the others. Playing as a hero is quite fun, but one thing I've noticed is that it felt so much more rewarding on the PS2. I say this because on PS2 with its massively fluctuating frame rates and zero aim assist it felt like a real achievement, but on PC it basically happens every round. Playing as the hero of your team still is pretty fun though, and when it goes well it's far too fun.

Unlike the rest of the standard units (not special ones), the heroes all seem pretty different and varied. You can go from Jango and Boba fett to Obi Wan to Han Solo, and they all have their own different ways of being played that are alot of fun to learn and master, especially online.


Something for those of you wanting to play online, if you become a hero basically everybody starts going for you, so it is kind of less good

There are many other modes in Battlefront 2, so I'll just focus on a couple.

First there is Space Assualt, which I genuinely love. To me it feels like it truly captures the essence of space battles within the Star Wars universe, especially online when you get locked into epic dogfight, and come out of it with your fighter burning up and desperately trying to get back to the ship so you can replace it.

But that isn't it, you can also go and try to take down their ship, from the inside or out,
and getting that successful bombing run on the other ship or sneakily destroying it from the inside is just another thing I love so so much.

But along with this oh so epic game mode (that I may well do a more extensive guide on), is a fun little joke mode that the creators added in that I didn't notice until realise. This mode is Mos Eisley assault. I never took a second look at it, but I now know that I should have. I MEAN SERIOUSLY, I SHOULD HAVE.

Now you may wonder, "Dwarfade, why?"

And I will now tell you.

It lets you choose any of the hero characters from one side and take them in to battle with the other side of the force. Which leads to some kind of hilarious fights between Han Solo and Darth Maul, just to name one experience I had all too recently. So for you players who have been playing for a longt time and didn't know about it and for those new players who don't care, go try it, now.

Thank you for reading

Dwarfade