Hitting it on the Yellow bar will cool-down your weapon and give you a short period of time where your weapon can not overheat. Successfully timing and hitting reload on the Blue bar will automatically cool-down your weapon. You can either wait until the bar fully disappears, or you can press the reload button on the Blue or Yellow bar. However, if you fire your weapon until the bar is full, your weapon will go into an overheat mode.Ī bar will show up with three colors: Blue, Red, and Green. You can "reload" to wipe this bar whenever you would like. The period of time before your weapon overheats is marked by a white bar that shows up whenever you fire your weapon. Your weapon essentially has unlimited ammo but can overheat when fired too long. Instead, there is a cooling down and overheating system in place. In Star Wars Battlefront II, there is no ammo that needs to be picked up for your weapon. Star Wars Battlefront II's hip-firing is a bit more forgiving than other shooters so use this over aiming down sights when up close and personal. While this choice is all preference, firing from the hip in both POV's is extremely effective for close quarter situations. Players can choose between playing in First Person or Third Person while being an infantry unit. Keep an eye out on your objective and work together with your teammates to complete that objective.
Some modes have you protecting a carrier or destroying said carrier and some modes you must steal and extract secret plans. Running around and killing everything you see is cool and all but it won't result in a victory if the other team focuses on the objective.
The attacking team needs to complete a series of objectives such as destroying a command ship or destroying bombers while the defending team must prevent these objectives from being completed.