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So I haven’t bought any of the DLC and I don’t have a PS+ subscription. I selected to play a single player hero battle offline and it let me play as Dengar! What gives? Is this a temporary promo (I hope not)? Or are they letting everyone have the new heroes for free now? Either way it’s cool to finally get something new in the single player!

Fwiw I googled for an answer and came up empty handed.

canofhumdingers said:

So I haven’t bought any of the DLC and I don’t have a PS+ subscription. I selected to play a single player hero battle offline and it let me play as Dengar! What gives? Is this a temporary promo (I hope not)? Or are they letting everyone have the new heroes for free now? Either way it’s cool to finally get something new in the single player!

Fwiw I googled for an answer and came up empty handed.

Probably either a temporary promo or a glitch. Or maybe they let people dick around with DLC heroes in offline content? I don’t know really, Google came up with nothing for me.

Well poo, I was hoping it was permanent. Oh well. Glad I caught it by chance. It was fun to play as Lando and Dengar. Nien nub was kinda lame and I didn’t have a chance to try Greedo. But of the three I did play, Dengar was by far the most fun.

I never saw a message explaining it, so thanks for the info. I DID see the news that they’ve got more single player content coming. It sounds like one mode might actually be an offline flight combat level so those of us who don’t play online can FINALY fly something other than an X-wing or snow speeder.

Also, the Death Star DLC apparently has a space battle level. Sounds like that might be awesome.

So the new update came out today. It has two new offline single player/split screen co-op modes. It has fighter squadron which is an aerial melee game. FINALLY I can fly all the ships! - well, you still have to buy the dlc to get the ships that come with those levels I guess, but at the very least you can fly the X-wing, a-wing, TIE fighter and interceptor, Slave 1 and the Millennium Falcon! Yay!

The other game mode is called walker assault or something. Basically an imperial force with a couple AT-ATs is attacking a rebel force who is trying to defend. You can play as pretty much anybody, be any of the heroes, activate and use any of the vehicles, etc. its essentially the most complete gameplay mode where both air and ground forces are all fighting in one area and everything’s available.

So pretty much they gave us the option to play offline in the two game modes I’ve been wanting the most since day one. Awesome! And there’s like 5 or 6 different maps to pick from. It took 6 months from release, but we finally have the game I was looking for from the beginning.

If anyone has the season pass, can you confirm whether the DLC heroes, maps, and ships are useable in these new offline modes? I’d actually probably buy the DLC if I could play it offline.

No I don’t play online, and there’s others on this board that don’t either. I’m not interested in paying a subscription fee and I really don’t enjoy playing against a bunch of kids half my age who beat the snot out of me. I’m in my 30’s with a family of four and I don’t have the time (or the desire honestly) to spend to get even decent enough at these kind of games where online multiplayer even becomes fun. Much less good enough to actually be competitive. I just want to plug in for 20 or 30 minutes once in a while and have fun blasting away at stormtroopers, driving an at-st, or flying the millennium falcon.

I did try the free two day trial and it only confirmed my position. I could hold my own in the aerial dogfights (I usually ranked in the top 25%), but I’ve always been pretty decent at flying games. But in the ground combat I routinely got absolutely trounced. I rarely made it more than a few steps before I got killed. I NEVER got the vehicle or hero power ups (if I stayed alive long enough to even get to one, it was always either snatched up by someone else right before I got to it or I was sniped to death trying to activate it). It was not fun at all. Just frustrating. And then my account was bombarded with all these incomprehensible messages and invites and such that I wanted nothing to do with. Maybe I’m old fashioned but I’m just not interested in making friends with random people across the globe just because we both play a video game. Real life is busy and full enough.

But offline I can play well enough against the bots that I often get the vehicle or hero I want and get to have fun with it. And I even win a match here or there. I really enjoy the game and I’m happy that now I can play what I personally consider the two most fun game modes without having to pay a subscription or deal with all the headaches and frustrations of playing online. Video games are one of the things I do for my (admittedly rare) “me” time when I want to relax and escape for a bit. For me they are the polar opposite of being social, in a good way.

And I’m obviously not alone b/c the news item made it sound like this update was due to fan demand.

Yeah I don’t have time or skills to build a gaming pc and consoles are WAY less expensive than buying a decent ready made one. Plus I much prefer veging out on the big comfy couch in front of my giant tv as opposed to sitting at a computer desk. (Though I’m sure those in the know will probably come tell me u can play the pc version on my big tv and comfy couch too). In the end, consoles are just way more convenient for me.

Thanks. Disappointing to hear they didn’t include th DLC maps into the offline update. I really would’ve liked to play bespin and the Death Star in particular. Oh well, saves me $50.

Tyrphanax said:

Just hopped in for a round to test my graphics card (been having issues with drivers recently in that my PC BSOD’s whenever I open Photoshop or Maya so I had to roll back, which causes performance issues with games).

Had a lot of fun, got to play Boba Fett versus Han Solo for some of it, which was great, but I can’t see myself playing much more than that, which makes me sad, because it looks amazing and is enjoyable at its core.

The second one better be a massive improvement.

I only played the open beta, but from what I played it seemed really fun. I played it with friends, so that probably helps. I think the major issue is with the lack of content, because it’s a fun game. But it’ll only stay fun for so long until you run out of things to do. I’d kill for a remaster of Battlefront 2.

Ugh that Ronto scene.