Gave it a go. Very pretty game but it is quite uninspired. Not to say it isn't fun with all the usual MP silliness but I have better games to play if what I played represent the core of Battlefront.
Hoth is as everybody says: An unbalanced mess if you play a the Rebels. You'll lose most of the time but as Thursday said, it is winnable. The round that I won as the Rebels, it was the last minute of play with both AT-ATs at at least 50%-75% health. Their shields go down which cued our shambles (?) of a team to unload on the AT-ATs. While we do that, an A-Wing managed to tow the distant one down. Somehow after the distant AT-AT fell, our combined firepower toasted the remaining one. Everybody was shocked that we somehow won. Comments like "WAT" flooded the chat. Part luck and part on the skills of the A-Wing pilot.
Thursday mentions teamwork being the key to winning Hoth as Rebels but I just don't see much of anyway to coordinate. In Battlefield games, you go with a squad and squad leaders and such can mark down targets/objective. No talking or typing needed. As of this moment, it's as if the entire Rebels side is counting on the players knowing the metagame for Hoth. The full game might make the whole complaint moot though once everybody is decked out in proper gear and know the general flow of what you should do. Still though, no way to really communicate effectively. I guess I can spawn in on my partner and cover his back...
But yeah, silliness! Being Vader is pretty damn badass. Anybody who sees you early one just runs or put up a futile fight up till the team can muster a group to take me down. The only downer is that Vader doesn't do force lightning. It should be fun if I can try Luke but I'll try to avoid being stomped... Downing a jedi/sith is equally as fun. They go down quite fast if faced with a turret. Grenading them is fun too. I managed to do that to a timid Vader before I took a pot shot which ended with a flying lightsaber to my face.
Other silliness... jetpacking and sticking an AT-ST. I kind of want to try it on the AT-AT...