EA Play E3 2019 Conference
Welcome to the first draft of what happened today during EA Play E3 2019!! Below are my notes were taken during the conference. I will be cleaning these up as I got along, adding trailers and the like.
Here. We. Go.
Lots of news coming at EA Play E3 2019 with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Apex Legends, Battlefield V, FIFA 20, Madden 20, Sims 4, plus some surprises!
Star Was Jedi: Fallen Order
15 Minutes of brand new gameplay of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order! This will be uncut and include brand new info!
The demo is starting! We will be on the planet Kashyyyk.
Currently playing is Alpha so there will be some bugs, unfinished graphics and some possible jank. Wall running looks amazing, graphics look like Alpha mode lol. So smooth and bad. Or maybe it’s more cartoony? BD-1 is a cool bot and seems to be able to give you health packs at any time.
This seems to be quite far into the game. No HUD showed. Lots of awesome force and lightsaber action, Force Stasis.
HOLY CRAP, HE JUST CUT THAT GUY IN HALF.
Combat looks CRAZY FUN.
Lots of parries and counters. Little bot healed him. Stormtroopers are fighting off giant lightning bugs with flamethrowers. He takes down the flame troopers
Stormtroopers keep righting offbugs of Kasshyyk. Lots of bugs and spiders. They start attacking you after
AH DAMN, GIANT SPIDER OUT OF NOWHERE. You fight it off and kill it.
OMG, That was amazing! You stop time grab a trooper and put him in front of the laser blast.
Lots of really well done saber blasts blocks. Stormtroopers with staff fighting you looks really good and fun.
You Find Wookiees in cages. Alpha graphics of them look so bad, but yes as I explained above, this is alpha footage. Many people in the Twitch chat are complaining that the graphics look horrible but this is alpha gameplay, more than likely 6 months to a year old.
BD-1 is there actually on stage interacting to what is happening on the panel. Benn Hurr is the voice and sound design. He did the original trilogy sounds.
100% canon. Possible Watto cameo in the game. #Watto2019.
Lots more gameplay and news at the EA Play booth and Microsoft Conference tomorrow
Here is the full gameplay video from the official EA Star Wars YouTube channel.
APEX Legends
New Weapon, New Mode, New Legend So Much more.
Jake Fercettti showing off things, 9 people in Legends cosplay. They particularly look quite awesome
Legendary Hunt Event, complete challenges for cosmetics
New skins in store
If you get top 5, you get to face top apex players in the elite queue
Everyone gets free weapon if you log in with the event
Double XP event June 7 to June 9
Lots of extra stuff coming
Legendary Hunt cosmetics as well.
July 2nd Battlecharge release
Season 2 Map event, Meta balance,
New Weapon – Rarity: Gold Weapon Experimental weapon type – named All Star. It is a care package weapon. Can break through doors.
New battle pass – challenge based, daily weekly challenges that stack.
badges and stat trackers removed. Lot more skins, lot more crafting and will be able to craft your own legendary
4 Legendary skin’s in battle pass. Prince of darkness skin, spitfire skin intimidator
iron rampage skin at level 100.
Ranked Mode coming in Season 2 6 tiers, will cap out. Bronze to Apex predator, special matchmaking at higher tiers.
New Legend
10th legend – Watson
Illustrated short introducing Watson. Very Well done!
She is super smart and is master of quantum laser mechanics.
Russian —- ? She looks really cool and adorable as well
Idea behind Watson is kinda of like symmetra? Can create defenses to help the team. Support player.
She is electricy based. Great design.
Lots of cool little idioms and manurisms she has. Her and her father created the arena of Apex. She has been there from the beginning and everyone knows her.
He can place up to 12 nodes of electricity. How ever you want.
Her ultimate shoots down grenades, shields health etc. if you are near the pilon she is super powered.
She is multifaceted. Support, Attack, Defense. You stack ultimates.
WHOA GIANT EYEBALL.
“A Couple of BIG THINGS COMING SOON”
Possible map changes coming soon as well
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Capital supremacy will come to Naboo as a new mode.
Two new reinforcements droidekka, Dx 130 tank for good guys
New skins – general sky walker appearance among more
Next planet – Felucia – capital supremacy and new battle mods
August – New trilogy stuff being announced.
FIFA 20 / FIFA VOLTA
FIFA street new trailer. A return to the street. Looks like we can customize our own character to play in the game along with all the other features that we know about FIFA
With Volta you can do pretty much any of the extra moves that you wouldn’t be able to do in a full game. It will allow for more casual and interesting way to play other than just playing in a stadium. This is a lot more rough and hard playing. Faster play since the arena is MUCH MUCH smaller. You can create a female or male player with any style you want. Hair color, tattoos, hair style, shoes, pants shorts etc etc.
Possible micro transactions on the types of items you can get?
FOOTBALL INTELLIGENCE
It improves the match on the ball attacking and defending.
More time and space on the ball
More physics on the ball, on how the ball would interact with the player
Off the ball, More user control defending, Influence the player to be more engaged with being on 1 on 1s. Smart technical build up based on skill, Better AI to understand the game and how you interact with them.
Composed finishing: mporving fundamental of shooting on the goal
Straight dribbling – reinventing it, more precise control, so you can lure the other player in.
Defensive – the new control pattern system, improve tackling ability.
Penalty kicks – redone, better aiming, more depth, full controller of the speed of the ball. All controlled using the right stick.
Ball – brand new ball physics system. Rewrote how the ball intereacts. More realistic deflects and bounces, spins and arcs.
A lot more Changes that are based on community feedback. One being pace of the Player Character.
Sims 4
Sims 4 Island Living Expansion announced. Mermaid character as well.
Tons of Island wear added
You can walk right into the water. Snorkeling, swimming, wading, boating, jet skis.
Explore alcoves, mountains, volcano’s, lava rocks raining down, Sim touches it and his hand catches fire
Dolphins are the new animal and be befriends with them as well.
Create sand castles as a family.
Conservationist job announced. Can actually take care of the island and keep it beautiful and not full of trash.
Island will change over time and will become more beautiful or dirty and disgusting
Fisherman and Life guard are the new jobs as well.
You can join the festivals that are native to the island
There are island spirits that can either help you and you can get benefits or make them bad and suffer the consequences. You can also become a shaman of sorts to be more in tune with the spirits.
You can fully create your own mermaid with the same creator that you use to create your character.
Lounge chairs, island / Polynesian decor. Create a cabana on the beach or a modern million dollar house on the water.
It Gets Better / Sims 4 / Sims Mobile partnership. Gender Neutral bathroom coming as well as other content with this partnership.
The Sims Moschino – More fashion IRL and in Game for Sims 4. New career for the sub pack. Freelance Fashion Photographer.
New Game pack – Realm of Magic – More info coming later this year, will release this fall.
That about wraps it up for EA Play E3 2019! It was a total blast! You can check out the full conference below!
