The new Star Wars Battlefront game seems to have been quite popular in its beta stage if the numbers released are any indication of its popularity.
The number of people who played the beta during its run was around 9.5 million across all the three platforms that had a version active, with a combined playtime of 1.6 billion minutes. That's a lot of blaster fire and thermal detonators sailing around a battlefield of players.
Playable 'hero' characters Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader have each been spawned just under 6 million times, while 783,392 walkers were taken down. The most popular Star Cards from those that were available during the beta (and that wasn't a lot) were the Cycler Rifle, the Thermal Detonator and the Jump Pack, in that order.
While popular, the beta did have its problems with an inbalance of power between the sides that led EA to admit that it was too easy for the Empire side to win and some rebalancing would need to be done to fix it. Mind you, that's one purpose of a beta - to identify these things before release (although it was kind of obvious).
Digm tried out the beta and while fun he didn't feel like the game offered much in the way of uniqueness. What about you? Did you get to play and what did you think?
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