On the other, they’re nothing if not a tease. On the one hand, they’re perfectly serviceable and give you and a friend the chance to enjoy the game’s beautiful settings together. My feelings on Star Wars Battlefront’s co-op offerings are complicated. Hopefully, with the Season Pass content there will be more of a bone thrown to co-op players, but I remain skeptical. This might make the matches more interesting, but without any extra ways to progress your character, it feels like a hollow reward. Defeating the map on certain difficulties, finishing without dying, or finding all of the collectibles in a single match will get you more stars, but once you've cleared all five challenges, there aren't any more progression bonuses to gain.ĭefeating a map on the highest difficulty also allows you to create a custom loadout for use on that map. It's also fairly disheartening that there's no way to play as a Hero in the co-op modes, other than the tutorial mission that teaches you how to play as one.Įach Survival map has five stars you can earn to get some extra credits to use towards your unlockables. It doesn't matter if you're on Hoth or Endor, once you've gotten a few rounds in, you've seen everything the mode has to offer. The problem with Survival is that each level progresses in the same way. Once you've held on to the drop pod for a sufficient amount of time, it'll spit out a selection of power ups to assist in the coming rounds. Periodically, drop pods will be deployed in the map and you'll have to race the Imperial forces for control of it. You'll also face probe droids, and every few rounds, an AT-ST or TIE Fighter gets thrown into the mix. Eventually, you'll face shock troopers who use heavy blasters and have greater armor, troopers with a personal shield and jetpack, snipers, and even one that can cloak itself and launch a surprise attack. You begin with a shared pool of two lives, and it's not possible to revive a teammate, so careless play will be punished.Īs the rounds progress, the types of Stormtrooper that get thrown at you get mixed up a bit. It's a nice way to preview some of the later abilities. Before starting, players can select one of two preset Star Card hands, and select from all of the blasters whether they've unlocked them or not. Survival mode is, as you might expect, a wave-based mode where you and a friend fight off Imperial forces for fifteen rounds. I don't see a real reason to co-op the training missions unless you've got a friend on your couch who also needs to learn the ins and outs of the control scheme, so let's talk about Survival mode. Battlefront supports two player co-op either locally or online in two modes: the five Training missions, and the four Survival maps. Which brings us to the co-op, of which there isn't much.
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