Post by Blade Runner 07 on Jun 6, 2017 20:53:19 GMT -5
I don't mean to make the upcoming Battlefront game share a thread with it's predecessors criticisms, but this is in hoping Battlefront II is much better. I just want to be excited for the first serious Star Wars game in over a decade to cover all the bases, but I'm worried. Do load times bother the hell out of anyone else?
I mean games that have long and frequent load times. I'll just be straight forward here. The load times in 2015s Star Wars: Battlefront suck. Well, compared to most other shooters.
I originally picked up Battlefront about a year ago on a deep discount, after DICE announced an offline skirmish mode. Let's get this out of the way. The games is a shallow, casual shooter experience for people that just want to play out their biggest Star Wars battle fantasies. Battlefront does that well enough, but I don't find myself playing it nearly as much as I would like to given how much I enjoyed participating in these epic battles against AT-ATs and Tie fighters when the game was new.
I've come to realize a big reason I'm not playing Battlefront alot more than I would maybe like to, is because I feel like I'm sitting in a load screen or lobby as much as I'm actually playing the game. While this is particularly noticeable in multiplayer, it's even an issue in the single-player portions of the game. The offline skirmish and co-op missions I bought the game for!
I had the day off and decided to run a little test. I loaded up several of the other first-person shooter games I had and recorded the times from launch, to having control of my character in-game. I did this three times each to get an average and only to the most convenient single-player option. Nothing that should require connecting to a server. I skipped all cut-scenes and blazed through the menus as fast as possible to get each games fastest TTA (time to action) just to point this out.
Here are the results:
Game: min:sec
Perfect Dark 00:45
COD MW:Remastered 1:14
COD Advanced Warfare 1:21
COD Black Ops II 1:22
COD Infinite Warfare 1:24
Far Cry 3 1:21
Halo Reach 1:27
Halo 4 (via MCC) 1:28
Fallout 4 1:53
Star Wars Battlefront 3:10
As you can see, from my consoles dashboard to gaining the ability to shoot things in-game the wait times between Battlefront, and every other first-person shooter I tested are night and day. I know it's a pretty shallow test pool but I'm hoping all this work was for nothing, and I'm sitting in the majority section of people who want to shoot storm troopers alot quicker than the current title allows.
It might sound dramatic but if Battlefront II doesn't have it's load times at or under the two minute mark, it's going to be hard to justify a purchase anywhere near MSRP. That's just my opinion. It's been a long time since we've gotten a serious (not lego) Star Wars game that wasn't plagued by long and frequent load times. Like. 12 years. Since the first Battlefront 2.
It's something that really annoys me. I sometimes can't decide what to play and starring at menus and loading screens for more than a couple minutes has me second guessing if starting the game was even worth it. You just can't jump in and get that quick fix the same way you can in other games. It's practically impossible to be playing the game within 3 minutes of startup. If it was TV it would be enough to turn the channel or forget what your watching.
As if waiting anymore than more than a minute and a half to play a game from startup is too long.
I mean games that have long and frequent load times. I'll just be straight forward here. The load times in 2015s Star Wars: Battlefront suck. Well, compared to most other shooters.
I originally picked up Battlefront about a year ago on a deep discount, after DICE announced an offline skirmish mode. Let's get this out of the way. The games is a shallow, casual shooter experience for people that just want to play out their biggest Star Wars battle fantasies. Battlefront does that well enough, but I don't find myself playing it nearly as much as I would like to given how much I enjoyed participating in these epic battles against AT-ATs and Tie fighters when the game was new.
I've come to realize a big reason I'm not playing Battlefront alot more than I would maybe like to, is because I feel like I'm sitting in a load screen or lobby as much as I'm actually playing the game. While this is particularly noticeable in multiplayer, it's even an issue in the single-player portions of the game. The offline skirmish and co-op missions I bought the game for!
I had the day off and decided to run a little test. I loaded up several of the other first-person shooter games I had and recorded the times from launch, to having control of my character in-game. I did this three times each to get an average and only to the most convenient single-player option. Nothing that should require connecting to a server. I skipped all cut-scenes and blazed through the menus as fast as possible to get each games fastest TTA (time to action) just to point this out.
Here are the results:
Game: min:sec
Perfect Dark 00:45
COD MW:Remastered 1:14
COD Advanced Warfare 1:21
COD Black Ops II 1:22
COD Infinite Warfare 1:24
Far Cry 3 1:21
Halo Reach 1:27
Halo 4 (via MCC) 1:28
Fallout 4 1:53
Star Wars Battlefront 3:10
As you can see, from my consoles dashboard to gaining the ability to shoot things in-game the wait times between Battlefront, and every other first-person shooter I tested are night and day. I know it's a pretty shallow test pool but I'm hoping all this work was for nothing, and I'm sitting in the majority section of people who want to shoot storm troopers alot quicker than the current title allows.
It might sound dramatic but if Battlefront II doesn't have it's load times at or under the two minute mark, it's going to be hard to justify a purchase anywhere near MSRP. That's just my opinion. It's been a long time since we've gotten a serious (not lego) Star Wars game that wasn't plagued by long and frequent load times. Like. 12 years. Since the first Battlefront 2.
It's something that really annoys me. I sometimes can't decide what to play and starring at menus and loading screens for more than a couple minutes has me second guessing if starting the game was even worth it. You just can't jump in and get that quick fix the same way you can in other games. It's practically impossible to be playing the game within 3 minutes of startup. If it was TV it would be enough to turn the channel or forget what your watching.
As if waiting anymore than more than a minute and a half to play a game from startup is too long.