I played a bit after all. Unfortunately, what's in the beta is not all that exciting. The only SP/Co-op mission available is basically horde mode (aka, "Survival") and the gameplay is not very varied. In fact, it amounted to defending pods from time to time. And can you even have two weapons in this game? I kept trying to cycle to my pistol like in BF2 but I couldn't, what led to awkward situations where I would be reloading while people blasted me up close and personal (is there melee?). So I switched to MP, "Drop Zone" mode. It was a CTF Conquest mode but with pods (like Survival) and it wasn't at all balanced; we didn't get a single pod. In short, if this is a demo intended to market the new Battlefront it's a very poor one. I've had way more fun with BF2. Heck, I even had more fun with Titanfall. In fact, if Titanfall had included a way to play co-op against bots, that's the game I'd be playing right now.

Sticking to the trenches works best, at least for me, because every time I get on a hill I get sniped and I mean every single time. I found the gunplay to be a lot better than Battlefield 3 and 4's, but still not as tight as Bad Company 2's. The sniping was awful in 3 and 4. If it makes you feel any better, I went negative all but twice in the beta (Walker Assault is pretty much all I played, I played the other two modes once each), there is just times that you are screwed from the spawn.

The AT-ST's are what are so god awful for me, I usually back out when it is my turn to be Rebels because I don't like dealing with them, they need nerfed hard.