00:03I'm Paul Kesslin, Multiplayer Producer here at DICE, working on Star Wars Battlefront 2,
00:07and this is Galactic Assault on Naboo.
00:14Walker Assault in Star Wars Battlefront,
00:16the kind of next evolution that we had of that game mode, is Galactic Assault.
00:20They're both 20v20 game modes.
00:22This time around we learned a lot from Walker Assault in the first game.
00:25We saw a lot of people really responded to the narrative storytelling that happened
00:30as a nice recreation of the Battle of Hoth, our own interpretation of it in the first game.
00:36We saw that players really responded to that scenario specifically,
00:40and we started thinking about how do we expand on that concept of these iconic battles
00:45that happen in places that people are familiar with,
00:48and give people a bit of that slight narrative context throughout a game mode.
00:55Here in Naboo, it's very much the expectation that at one point Naboo was under siege,
01:02and now you can kind of get a feeling for what that could have been like.
01:06On the clone side of things, you'll be able to get access to the AT-RT,
01:09which acts as a really good anti-vehicle.
01:12It's short, it's mobile, it can move fairly quickly,
01:15but it's meant to try to take down that tank,
01:17so you can imagine squads of those trying to go battle against the tank.
01:20Through the battle point system, you'll be able to access these things,
01:23just like you would the Wookie warrior or a B2 super battle droid.
01:28Or if you wanted to do expanding on vehicles, there are star fighters available that you can have on this
01:33map,
01:33so you can kind of have that trinity of air, ground, and then troopers as well.
01:39Naboo has a section where it's very open, so there's a lot more open air gameplay,
01:45and then when you get inside the palace, there's a lot more close quarter combat,
01:48and it's a lot more hectic there.
01:50But the intent is to not always be super intense everywhere,
01:53but have a good amount of intensity in all locations.
01:58So we'd prefer to not have meat grinders as much as possible,
02:01so some places will allow for that naturally due to the,
02:04going back to the Star Wars authenticity that we have in some of these places,
02:10that's just how they're built, because they're not built for combat, right?
02:12So that is a challenge that we work around in some places,
02:15but we try to find ways to balance against that.
02:18In the open beta, you'll have access to four heroes.
02:20We have Han and Rey on one side,
02:24and we have Boba Fett and Darth Maul on the other side.
02:27So Rey is somebody that we see people, she's a bit more tactical,
02:32so people with Darth Maul understand that, okay, he's a brawler,
02:36he's going to get in there and fight.
02:37Rey is a bit more tactical, you know, she has abilities that allow her and her allies
02:42to try to work a bit more well together.
02:45So you don't play her the same way, just because she has a lightsaber
02:47doesn't mean you need to run in and try to just hack everybody with it.
02:52You know, she's weak herself, but she's able to, again, bring things to the table
02:56and just try to enable the team a bit more than just doing everything yourself.
03:01So people that have figured that out and play her a bit more conservatively
03:04are really effective with her.
03:08Well, that was a sneak peek at Galactic Assault on Naboo.
03:10I hope everybody enjoys it, and we'll see you out there in the open beta.
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