Tried it last night.
First things first:
OMG SO COOL CONTINUOUS NERDGASMS ALL THE TIME!!!!111oneone
Performance in my dual 290X setup is great. There's no Crossfire profile, but it works if we force it through drivers (AFR for sure). The performance scaling with the 2nd GPU is enabled is very good but it's not terribly stable. There's flickering in the menus, and I noticed some texture flickering once or twice (which went away if I restarted) etc.
With Crossfire enabled I was getting very stable 60FPS VSynced at 2560*1600 (virtual resolution) + 125% scaling (3200*2000?) with everything on Ultra and TAA. (Yeah a complete overkill for my old 24" 1920*1200 screen, but I was trying to see how far I could go and I'm planning on getting a 34" 3440 x 1440 screen.)
I ended up disabling Crossfire because with only one 290X I still get solid 60FPS VSynced at 1920*1200 + 120% scaling + TAA + Ultra.
I don't get the same "complete absence of jaggies" but there's no annoying flickering in the menus.
The game seems balanced - as long as you're level 4 or 5. People on lvl1 don't get grenades nor the sniper nor the jetpack and that's a huge handicap. Fortunately, a mediocre player (like me) can get up to lvl4 with ~3 hours of gameplay.
Like the Battlefield series, piloting the spaceships with keyboard+mouse is pretty terrible. Plus, maybe I'm doing something wrong but it seems that every time I'm piloting a Tie Fighter or A-Wing, the thing keeps does random barrel rolls, which is pretty irritating. Riding the AT-ST is awesome, though.
I have to say the thing I like the least is the "teleporting" to vehicles. It's just way too arcade-ish and I can't stop thinking DICE did it this way out of sheer lazyness (or lack of time, of course) instead of a well-thought gameplay advantage. Battlefield (and earlier Battlefront) titles have this great vehicle interface/gameplay they should've brought to Battlefront entirely.
In Battlefront 2, I could enter the Snowspeeder in a hangar that was being assaulted by imperial forces and use the turbo blasters to chew on the attacking troops before flying away for some dogfighting action. All that is gone now, and it's such a shame.
