Xbox One owner here, I feel a little let down about this game running in 720p, but aside from some balancing and hit detection issues I had lots of fun.

I enjoyed this game, but probably because I'm a big Star Wars fan. I can see how someone who is just focused on gameplay would have issues with this game. I'm not getting it....because Fallout, but if it's not a yearly release I might pick it up in the summer. If the community is still playing.

Not a well thought out article.

The guns all feel the same?

#1 No they don't.

A. You have a fast shooting, close range pistol
B. You have a long range machine gun
C. You have the default assault weapon which seems average at everything...decent power, decent fire rate, decent range
D. You have another assault weapons which has more power and a better then average range.

These weapons most certainly don't feel the same. They feel completely different.

2. It's a beta, which is limited to rank 5, I'm sure there will be more weapons.

The point about movement is correct, there are some areas which you should be able to move over or jump over and it doesn't work. That's annoying, but it's something that still can be fixed before launch. Plus there are some interesting pathways that can be found. I also noticed some areas where the AT-ST's should of been able to handle stepping down off a hill but it wouldn't.

The melee attack does usually take two hits, but if someone is injured, it can kill with one. There also might be bonuses from above or behind, but maybe not. I've seen this in many games, so I don't question it or think it's off, it's just not the CoD way for melee.

Also the reason melee is there is simple, sometimes it's very useful in certain situations. For instance, it's great on those who are using the shield to capture or remove the Y-Wing fueling uplink.

Balancing is another tweak that can be made, but as I said days ago, when people know what they are doing they can quite easily win, in fact you can take both walkers down in the first Y wing raid, let alone after all three.

The key is knowing what you are doing, saving orbital strikes, getting a lot of Y wings to air raid (the more you have the longer time you have to do damage, and yes it can literally be a couple of minutes). Use your ion grenades, use turrets, use ion shot, use your regular gun and aim for the neck or the underside.

The third wave you also get to use Snow Speeders to use the tow cables and it's entirely possible for ONE Snow Speeder to take out BOTH AT-AT's alone.

It can be tweaked, but when people actually know what they are doing you can win 3-4-5 rebel rounds in a row as of right now with current rules.

I've topped the charts way more the four rounds. You can easily get something like 64-5 if you use the AT-AT's, AT-ST's, and can aim well and use the on board orbital strike of the AT-AT that resets about every 25-30 seconds.

Hell I've topped the charts on the rebels side as well. Even got 1800 objective points in one round and should of had more lol. Hell I've had rounds where I got all three awards at the end.

The ships aren't killing you very often, it's the AT-AT's and AT-ST's and turrets which are more of a threat. Yeah sometimes you can find a pilot with some skill, but he is fairly limited.

Became mundane? Did the author try all the different things you can do?

Then did he realize that this is a beta with limited modes and maps? With limited amounts of weapons? With limited amount of star cards? The game is going to be much bigger then what we just saw, as ANY game if you play one mode with one map over and over again, will diminish in value, but it's also the one map that will be drilled into your had at launch and you'll be happy to see it when it comes around.

Overall the author doesn't think things through. The problems are either
A) He's wrong (the guns simply don't feel the same)
B) Tweakable
C) Will resolve itself when the full load of modes, maps, weapons, star cards, etc... are available, as any critic should realize playing one map over and over again is an unnatural situation, but in this case it holds it's own. I bet this map will be the Operation Locker/Metro of Battlefront.

Thus where does the whole 'needs serious work' come from? A lack of understanding the reality of the situation. Doesn't look like it needs serious work. Looks like it needs some tweaking and that's about it.