At EA Play 2018 DICE announced what is coming to Star Wars: Battlefront 2 later this year: New planets, new heroes and villains, but most of all – THE CLONE WARS!
DICE Design director Dennis Brannval announced at this year’s EA Play event what the community can expect from Battlefront 2.
Currently the game is in the middle of the Han Solo Season – the second the game. New content update is landing on 12th of June with new game modes, maps, appearances and more.
Later this Summer a new squad system will be introduced to the game. It will allow you to team up much easier and play the game with your friends.
A new Starfighter mode is finally being added, allowing you to dogfight with your hero ships.
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A little later in the year DICE is going to introduce a new large-scale sandbox experience. It will be focused around capturing command posts and attacking and taking out capital ships.
Following a huge demand from the community, DICE finally confirmed that the CLONE WARS era is coming to Star Wars: Battlefront 2. It will deliver new planets, heroes, villains and more. Among the first things introduced was, of course, the planet Geonosis – featuring multiple levels, including the largest levels ever built. Among the new Heroes and Villains are General Grevious and Count Dooku, who will face Obi-Wan Kenobi and his padawan Anakin Skywalker.
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Dennis didn’t forget to mention the colossal screw up in the beginning with the microtransactions-invested progression system and how difficult it was for the studio to bring their heads up and come out of the mess with a better and completely redesigned system.
On the day after the presentation, Ben Walke posted a “Community Transmission” message on the forums and Reddit. Below is its full text.
Hello there!
Since joining the team back in March I’ve had conversations with many of you about favourite characters, movies, eras and more. We’ve shared experiences that range from the first time we saw a Star Wars movie, playing with action figures and our enjoyment at playing previous games. It’s this passion and enthusiasm for both Star Wars and in turn the Battlefront series that has been clear to me since day one.
Throughout the community, one of the common threads of discussion we’ve seen is that we don’t listen. I can say with total honesty that we have heard you, but we have failed to deliver upon your expectations. We know it’s not good enough, we need to do more, and we will do more.
We are committed to improvement, especially within communication. With the release of the very first Community Transmission it was said that it was the start of improved communications within our community, but we want to take this further, and we will, that is our promise to you. This all starts at the end of the June when we’ll be posting a roadmap of the content that is coming over the next few months.
Passion and enthusiasm are a good way of describing the Star Wars Battlefront II community. But no topic of discussion has received as much passion and enthusiasm behind it as Clone Wars. Today, as debuted at EA Play, we can officially confirm that more Clone Wars content will be arriving into Star Wars Battlefront II.
We know that for many of you reading this, you will be as excited as we are to play as Obi-Wan Kenobi and General Grievous. These two iconic foes are going to need a planet suitable for them, so where better than back where the Clone Wars all began, Geonosis.
The Clone Wars is a Star Wars era that is packed full of iconic characters, so it would be a shame to leave it to the Negotiator and the General. Joining them on the Battlefront will be Sith Lord Count Dooku as well as, Anakin Skywalker.
We are also working on a large scale, non-linear game mode, which we know many of you have been requesting. Many of you have also been requesting ways to play with friends easier and our new squad system will do just that.
In July we plan to add Hero Starfighters to the game, a great take on Hero vs Hero gameplay, but in starfighters. We know that many of you have been waiting for this one.
Right now we’re still focused on the Han Solo Season but we’ll be back to talk more about the Clone Wars, and the future of Star Wars Battlefront II at the end of June.
I wanted to take this moment to say that we’ve been incredibly humbled by your support, the constant stream of feedback and ideas. We are here because of you, so thank you for joining us on the Battlefront.
In the Clone Wars television series, the second season starts off with the quote “A lesson learned, is a lesson earned”, which is perhaps a rather nice way of putting it.
We’re still at EA Play this weekend so if you are in attendance please do check out Extraction on Kessel, stop by and say “hello there”.
We’re looking forward to the future of Star Wars Battlefront II and working hand in hand with the community. We’ll be talking to you all again soon.
