SW Battlefront: Automatic Weapons & Slugs Return!

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SW Battlefront: Automatic Weapons & Slugs Return!

Automatic Weapons!? Slug Weapons!? Disney Canon! Heck yeah! It's about time. The Prequels went hard for semi-auto, intermittent bursts, composite beam, and one or two droidekas thrown into the mix. But now. Disney throws down the glove. It's boom time baby! Pew pew pew. And? I should note that personal energy shields see a return here too. Sexy. Thanks Battlefront Beta. You dun good.

Large pics from the beta item selection menu follow. The short descriptions are Factory Gold.

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Power Up Weapons

Not found in menus per se but can be seen in gameplay footage:

• Proximity Mines - Grenade like explosion triggered on close enemy approach
• Thermal Imploders - Thrown grenade like explosion with a much much larger radius of effect
• Smart Rocket - Rocket Launcher
• Ion Rocket - Anti-Vehicle Rocket Launcher
• Ion Mounted Turret - Smallish Anti-Vehicle Emplacement that fires Ion Rockets at slight intervals automatically
• Orbital Strike - Turbolaser barrage in a medium radius at your chosen location
• Traits/Killstreaks - More kills, more power to your primary blaster
• Ion Shot - Lasers turn blue and deal more damage to vehicles and shields

 

[Eralam]

That looks a lot like the Destiny menus. Damn, I wish I had a PS4 right about now.

 

[Krux Mullarus]

I dont care what people say. I bet this game's gonna be AWESOME even without space battles.

 

[Cristina Zeitlin]

A couple of times while I was playing, I was able to get my hands on the TIE Fighter, or X-Wing, or A-Wing special power ups that you can grab from time to time. ​

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I am very happy that the Starfighters are much easier to control than they were in Battlefront and Battlefront 2. ​