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@darwinning: No doubt the gameplay will be padded by some kind of herb collection as well.

Wait what? UBISOFT is doing this? This actually looks fun but omg if there is herb collection in this game... I'm not sure why eagles would collect herbs but... yeah. I've seen things!

This game makes the movie "Hackers" look like a gift from god. Ubisoft is going to have to pay me to play this steaming pile.

So long as the game isn't piss easy and doesn't copy batman style combat with 60% of the game's content being herb collection then I'm down. #thirdpersonshootersarecrap

@hayt: Those interface issues you mention do seem to be a setback don't they? When I compared the game to Battlefield I meant it seems like the pace of the battles, spawnkilling, gunplay, etc is samey. For example, players standing around waiting for another enemy squad to spawn just barely out of view or not out of view at all and right in front of them so they can indulge in mouse-click-whack-a-mole. This is the kind of thing that I used to be okay with but after sinking hundreds of hours in the Battlefield franchise and with the problem only getting worse with each game in the series, I just don't want that kind of experience anymore. It's like DICE doesn't really have a vision for their games beyond sandbox hi jinx. And all I see when I watch footage from Battlefront is sandbox tomfoolery.

@mikemcn: I totally agree with this. This game looks like it plays exactly like BF3 and 4.

Those games were designed around giving the player the freedom to do whatever they want. The side effect being that the recent Battlefield games feel like a meat grinder rather than a true battle with sides trying to work together to achieve victory. In BF3 and BF4 avoiding being spawn killed is a significant gameplay mechanic and it seems to be the same in Battlefront based on the video above. In BFBC the maps were better suited for the pace of the frantic fighting of the series and I truly hope that DICE is trying harder with Battlefront to make the pace of the battles more fluid. Like, I know it's really cool to strap C4 to a helicopter and dive into the enemy base and dmg their vehicles to fuck with them but it eventually get's old and frustrating. I know that whatever plan DICE has for this game, if they give players the level of freedom that they gave them in the new Battlefield games, then I'm gonna be a sad boy (man). Yes, I did actually just advocated for less player choice. In the context of this style of competitive game, I feel it's reasonable.