Supplemental Boosting Guide

[da-Noob123]

When I first started boosting SWBF, I had to do a lot of research on various things to know what to do for various trophies so I decided to create this thread to help others. (It is always a good idea to read through the trophy list and the PSN trophy guide to familiarize yourself with the trophies and their requirements- too many times I have seen people go Hi I'm new, what do we do...)

 

When first starting the game I highly recommend completing all tutorials and then each single player  mission on Normal difficulty. Also, I recommend watching a collectibles guide for each mission to get extra credits, I used Powerpyx's. Note you only need all collectibles from one mission for the corresponding trophy and credits earned from single player modes do not count towards 25,000 credits trophy. By playing each mission you will be familiar with the map when you go for the master playthroughs. I recommend doing co-op for the survival master missions, for the no death and under 35 minutes completion trophies go for this on the Hoth map. YouTube has multiple videos showing camping spots that still work if attempting this solo.

 

Next when starting the multiplayer,  I recommend playing fighter squadron until you reach rank 15. By this time you will have plenty of credits to start buying star cards and  hutt contracts. I personally bought every hutt contract as it gave me something to work towards on the grind to rank 100 but this is not necessary for 100% trophy completion. A note on kill boosting, Hero Hunt is the optimal mode to get hero kills and Blast for regular weapons/ grenades. Keep in mind some heroes use weapons tied to the dlc weapon kills trophies i.e. Lando, Jyn, and Krennic - I'd wait until I had the corresponding hutt contract with the requirements for their kills such as 20 kills as Lando (might as well make it 30 for the  X-8 kill trophy).

 

4-player boosting 

 

The bulk of trophies only require 4 players but they are also very to do by yourself in real matches. Personally I did as much as I could  on my own before boosting the ones I was having issues with,  looking at you Hero Hunt.

 

Typically speaking you will all meet on a dead server for whatever mode you are playing. To change servers go to settings,  EA, then you can cycle servers- Asia or Australia are usually the deadest. Then pick the game mode, if doing the dlc when hovering on the icon for say Bespin,  click square and it will bring up the modes specific to that DLC. I am not going into each trophy individually but more what to do for the corresponding modes when boosting. 

 

Hero Hunt - whoever needs the win should get the most kills (game ends when 50 kills by one person is reached or when time expires and the current hero is finally killed). The game randomly picks the first hero so they should get the number of kills they need for either the win or hutt contract/ trophy, after that the next person who needs to grind hero kills will kill them to become the next hero. Note heros cannot be picked back to back so it can't go Luke and then Luke again and remember to stay under the kill total for whoever needs the win, each round changes between heroes and villains. 

 

Pod Capture - The 10 kills when an enemy is capturing a pod is tricky. The kill has to be made while the other player is holding the square button - this can work on neutral as well as claimed pods.

 

Heroes vs Villains- not much to say here.

 

Blast - let one player get the most kills and others go for kills afterwards for whatever they need.  Also, make sure you let time run out, there have been numerous reports that reaching 100 kills will lead to the trophy not popping for whoever has the most kills. *HuntingFever has kindly informed this has been patched.*

 

Fighter Squadron - fly up to the top of the map and you basically go into idle, whoever needs 10 kills will shoot you down,  repeat. Do the same with the Slave I and Millennium Falcon. 

 

XP Boosting 

 

Method 1 - Droid Run 4-6 players

 

Two players to a droid, follow the droid and hold square the whole time (or wrap a rubber band around the button). You can kill farm with others if someone doesn't want to xp boost as well.

 

Method 2 (Preferred method IMO) - Pod Capture 4 players 

 

Capture the first 2 pods so the score is 1-1, you do this because when time expires the game will continue infinitely until the next pod is captured. When pod 3 lands you just stand next to it and hold square frankly you can walk away and just let it go. A fourth pod will land for the other 2 players after a time or they can just farm kills. 

 

A random can mess up either mode easily but it is recommended to wait for them to decide what to do. Some will just kill in which case back out and look for another server,  some will leave, and rarest some will want to join.

 

I'll post more later my thumbs hurt

 

 

Extraction - of the DLC's, this one is easiest to boost as you only need 4 players to get it going. It is also the best mode to get 5,000 objective score as a hero, the first token will spawn 30 seconds or so after the game starts. Grab it then head to the cargo and just keep activating/ deactivating it until the trophy pops. I don't think the second hero token spawns until the first checkpoint is reached, same for villains token.  For wins just do not activate the cargo and let the clock time out for an Imperial victory- farm kills I guess. 

 

12-20 players

 

The 3 other DLC modes all require 12 or more players to get a match going, this in itself is a big challenge but if you manage it basically just let the Imperial side win the first round so you don't have to do all 3 modes - well 2 for Sabotage.

 

Walker Assault/ Turning Point/ Supremacy 

Only real reason to get a boost session in these modes would be to farm AT-ST trample kills and the tow cable kill if you can't get it legit. Fewest number needed is 16 to start a Turning Point on Bespin...

 

Think that covers most of what I consider to be useful information,  for those curious I have spent nearly 70 hours on the game and am rank 78 - I have xp boosted maybe 15 levels. Only need 25 trample kills,  2 more Battle Station wins, and rank 100 then I am done! Not sure if I will play SWBF2 as 1 was rather boring. 

Edited October 4, 2019 by da-Noob123
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[HuntingFever]

They fixed the Blast mode trophy years ago so reaching 100 kills won't stop it from popping.

[da-Noob123]

1 hour ago, HuntingFever said:

They fixed the Blast mode trophy years ago so reaching 100 kills won't stop it from popping.

Oh that's good to know,  thank you. 

[DeathSquidGames]

Prob an old thread. But is boosting these trophies against EA's Code of Conduct / Terms of Use?

 

 

[da-Noob123]

3 hours ago, DeathSquidGames said:

Prob an old thread. But is boosting these trophies against EA's Code of Conduct / Terms of Use?

 

 

I never heard of anyone getting hit with the ban hammer for it.

 

SWBF is an old game, typically devs don't watch for boosters this far into the game's life cycle. Even SWBF2 is probably not moderated anymore if it ever was.

[DeathSquidGames]

12 minutes ago, da-Noob123 said:

I never heard of anyone getting hit with the ban hammer for it.

 

SWBF is an old game, typically devs don't watch for boosters this far into the game's life cycle. Even SWBF2 is probably not moderated anymore if it ever was.

I have heard about it for other games, but not SWBF.

I have only boosted for that game and the old Red Dead, because the servers were pretty much dead and it was full of hackers. So I found legit players and we did the trophies together.

Do you know Sony's stance on it?

[da-Noob123]

11 minutes ago, DeathSquidGames said:

I have heard about it for other games, but not SWBF.

I have only boosted for that game and the old Red Dead, because the servers were pretty much dead and it was full of hackers. So I found legit players and we did the trophies together.

Do you know Sony's stance on it?

The only game I have personally been afraid of being banned on was Killzone 2 even though when I boosted it was a  good 5-6 years old. I had just read a lot of warnings but by that time Guerilla Games had released KZ3 and were probably working on KZ Shadow Fall so no real danger there.

 

I  don't recall ever seeing anything about Sony themselves taking action against a booster. I typically play SP games vs MP ones and have never been banned. Rule of thumb, the newer the game, the more likely a ban will occur. Though to be honest, this gen I have not really heard about any games that were well known for banning boosters.

[DeathSquidGames]

9 minutes ago, da-Noob123 said:

The only game I have personally been afraid of being banned on was Killzone 2 even though when I boosted it was a  good 5-6 years old. I had just read a lot of warnings but by that time Guerilla Games had released KZ3 and were probably working on KZ Shadow Fall so no real danger there.

 

I  don't recall ever seeing anything about Sony themselves taking action against a booster. I typically play SP games vs MP ones and have never been banned. Rule of thumb, the newer the game, the more likely a ban will occur. Though to be honest, this gen I have not really heard about any games that were well known for banning boosters.

Yeah I have heard about bans for that game. It does seem that the developer cares less when it is around the 5 year old mark.

 

The only thing I see in Sony's TOU is: "You may not cheat, exploit or use any bugs, glitches, vulnerabilities or unintentional game mechanics in PSN Services or any of its products or services to obtain an unfair advantage."

Though this is kind of vague, and people can interrupt it in a 100 different ways. Such as "Unintentional game mechanics". Some could think that is would be unintentional to say capture and recapture a pod with a friend to get XP. Some would say that it is "breaking" something in the game to capture the pod once and gain a huge amount of XP.

I have looked up boosting bans in the recent years, and none really have popped up. But I think I may stick with just playing without boosting from now on. I did do Red Dead (PS3) and SWBF. So nothing I can do about that now.