Star Wars Battlefront: 10 Crucial Tips & Tricks You Need To Know
9. Own The Active Reload
One of the more minor influences Gears of War has had on the latest Star Wars experience, active 'venting' takes the place of magazine reloads in the name of authenticity, so choosing your shots carefully is more important than ever. Yes, there's a positive trade-off in that you no longer have to scavenge areas in a desperate search for ammo, but overheating in the middle of a firefight is pretty much a death sentence - well, unless you master those vent times that is. As you fire you'll notice that beneath your reticle a red bar fills up. Once it overheats you'll have a brief opportunity to circumvent the cool-down process altogether and fire off a whole new volley of shots, but if you miss the prompt don't be surprised to find yourself hunched over in the corner of the Mos Eisley cantina lamenting past mistakes.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
