Battlefront 2 a PAY 2 WIN Nightmare?

You might want to take a second peek at them. I think the main reason they didn't seem overpowered, is that nobody was able to buy them, so you didn't run into someone with all tier 4. Instead, most people had like 1 or 2 tier or 1 or 2 per character, and that was it.

If you look at the stats, some of them absolutely get very powerful by the top. For example, imagine running into a bomber with +40% health, +100% defensive ability AND -40% primary overheating...compared to your say +10% health and +15% defensive ability.

It gets worse too. Gaining cards in-game is painfully slow in the beta, but it will be WAY worse at live. In the beta, they have it turned up so that Tier 2 is the most common. When that goes to tier 1, OUCH.

Also, there will be substantially more star cards to get. I don't know if existing characters will have more, but at the very least, there will be way more characters: 12 more heroes ( Not sure if hero vehicles are counted in this 14 or are separate. Currently, only Han and Boba have star cards. None of the vehicles did ), more weapons and their mods, cards for the special characters and vehicles. So, it will take way longer to start getting repeats ( this is where you get the crafting materials from ), and you'll be way less likely to get one you want.

As far as the crafting mats: You only get about 1/4 of the value out of repeats. Crafting T1 costs 40 crafting parts, but you only get 10 from a T1 duplicate. It also gets way worse: T4 is 480!!!! I have spent a lot of the past 4 days playing the beta, with the boosted drops, completed all of the challenges, and I still have only ever gotten about 200 crafting mats.

All of this ignores the cosmetics that come in the same system. There are lots of those that aren't in the beta...so you'll get way less actually useful stuff as well.

At around 2 hours of for 1 crate, you're looking at MONTHS of hardcore grind just be close to what a rich person is...but he's still noticeably better than you. ( If you look at the cards, tier 3 to 4 usually has the largest increase in power...typically a 10-15% improvement over T3. ) Don't even think about grinding out everything to tier 4. <shiver>

To put some more of this into perspective, I added up all of my cards, of those available. ( Ignoring cosmetics, extra weapons, and weapon mods...this is just star cards. )

STILL missing: 24

T1: 12

T2: 19 ( This really shows how they have it turned up for the beta. It's not that I've passed T1 overall, as you can see I'm still missing 24 )

T3: 2 ( Seriously...imagine when this is T2 )

T4: 1

If we take a rough standard improvement of 10,15, 20, 30% per tier card, then divide by the total, I have a strength of about 8.2% .... versus a rich kid that would get the full 30%. I tend to sit near the top in most matches, but richie rich would have to be pretty bad to lose to me with that kind of advantage.