People are pissed about 'Star Wars Battlefront II' loot boxes

The Star Wars Battlefront II beta kicked off this weekend and players discovered a problem: the loot box system is horrible.

Loot boxes in Battlefront II are how players obtain new abilities and crafting materials to make and improve weapons, although it takes hours of playing to get a single loot box and the items inside are completely random. Of course, if you want to speed up the process to get better stuff, you can always spend real money on loot boxes.

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YouTuber AngryJoe posted a video outlining how terrible this progression system is, doing some math to show how long it might take to unlock every gun in the game, as long as there are three weapons per class in the shipped game (two more than in the beta). Read more...

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