'Even the lack of classes could be forgiven assuming there's enough customization to recreate those classes and their roles but there isn't enough information publicly available currently to account for that.' As of now, they are not,' one Redditor argued.

'The loss of space battles, the linear on-rails AT-AT and the reduced number of maps and locations are perfectly forgivable as long as the core tenants of the series are intact. I expressed relief that Darth Vader and Boba Fett would be making an appearance, since it suggested that Battlefront might be more than a mere Battlefield clone. In my own preview of Star Wars Battlefront, which was based on the footage shown during Celebration, I was reasonably positive in my impressions. The new narrative is that Battlefront's scope has been crippled by DICE - a perception that isn't likely to go away any time soon.

DICE has since clarified that there will be 'more than eight' maps across four planets, but in some ways, the damage has already been done. Some readers also interpreted a series of tweets by DICE to mean that there would only be four maps. No sooner did the first previews go live that fans began to grumble about the lack of space combat - a beloved fixture in previous games. The debate over the Battle of Jakku DLC is but one issue that DICE has faced in the aftermath of the unveiling of Battlefront. In this project, I've never heard anyone say,'Let's not do this for launch so we can do it as DLC instead.' Ever,' a developer under the name DICE_TheBikingViking wrote. 'Please don't make me break what I can and cannot say, but if you think there's anything we're not including in the game to save it for DLC, I can tell you you're 100% wrong.

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