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DarthD.U.C.K. wrote:i dont agree with deathstar being dlc for battlefront 1!
just kidding, it is possible or the screenshot could have simply been taken during the developement of swbf2 when the cps were still green and the unitmodels different, i guess welll never know

Fusion wrote:Oh, and does anyone else think that Death Star really could have been a DLC map for Battlefront I? I mean, it did have the first game's sides and animations, plus it wouldn't be the only DLC map for BF1 that made it into BF2 (Jabba's Palace). Also, considering how rushed Pandemic was (14 months), they could have just shunted it over to the new project.

• The menu interface was waaaaaay different. Clips from the movies were shown full screen behind the menus, and the loading screen featured some cool promotional art
• You can "build" the rolling log trap. The files actually still exist in the Endor assets. (log_gate.odf) Neat fact, the Ewok catapult also exists in the assets (end_weap_ewok_catapult.odf).
• It was three classes to a side. I've only played it once, but the rebels had a soldier (looks close to how he does in SWBF1), a rocketeer (the same, but he's a white guy), and a wookie
• The left trigger changed your weapon, right trigger fired. B changed the weapon's mode (if it had a secondary mode. I only played as the soldier, but he had a rifle, pistol, and thermals
• Grenades were on the primary trigger. You could hold down the button to wind up the throw.
• The rifle's secondary mode was a charged fire. Kinda cool
• Prone was buuuuuuuggy. Crouching was easy, going to prone would reset the camera. Once you were in prone it was the same as it normally is.
• The lighting system was definitely primitive
• The HUD is pretty different. Reinforcements are in the upper right, weapon stats in the lower right. It works okay. The shipped hud is still better
• Friendly CPs were a light blue color, as seen in development screenshots
• The XBE is encoded in big endian, so there's no ripping ODFs and whatnot

Fusion wrote:the PC beta was really just the 3 maps from the final game and was only used for server testing.

• The main menu, like the SWBF1 demo, has full screen clips from Star Wars movies, this time focusing on space battles
• Utapau doesn't seem different structure-wise, though as people pointed out before gunships appear at the end of the mission (do they in regular campaign?)
• Friendly CPs are green instead of blue, yet another SWBF1 artifact - and probably more proof that the development team ran on a sort of "SWBF 1.5" while working on levels.
• The hud is waaaaay different. It's not necessarily any better or worse, though.
• Space flyers cannot roll. It's possible they hadn't changed the flyer code by the time the demo was built. Even though the demo was technically released the same day as the game (The Ep 3 DVD came out the same day as SWBF2) I would bet this is a playable E3 demo or something to that effect, and it just got dropped right onto the DVD as a bonus.
• The one space objective I had time to complete was to destroy two vital systems. Both were in the hangar itself instead of further into the ship. The timer ran out on me, so I don't know if you can get into the ship after beating those objectives.
• Space hangars overall have a different layout