Re: Lack of content of Star Wars Battlefront 2

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Lack of content of Star Wars Battlefront 2

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Before BF2 came out it was promised a continous flow of content but i honestly think it is underwhelming and shameful for a Star Wars game.

1.: Skins, voicelines and other pieces of *: clone and trooper skins were an asked and welcomed feature but honestly already Battlefront 1 had customization options, ot should have been in the game as a start and Dice treating this a great addition is BS. Also treating hero skins as game changing huge additions, when in reality they get you excited for 10 minutes. Also why this live service is about gaining voicelines and poses and other little pieces of *. Shameful for an AAA game, an AAA company, and for such a great franchise.

2.: Weapons: why do we still only have 4 weapons per class after almost two years? New weapons were promised and advertised, and again star wars is such a huge galaxy with limitless amount of arsenal and this is how Dice treats it? Shameful again.

3.: Planets and maps.: A continuous flow of new worlds and battles and what did we get. As a start just the most well-known planet which is great fan service, but again we have seen these every time already, left a lot more well-known planets out, also these maps were already in the first game. And how did their live service went? Crait which is most likely was ready and also the game launched that time so we can treat it as a base map. That's it for the Last Jedi nothing else again there must have been other fights in the galaxy it is unlikely that the whole galaxy just gave up immediately. For Solo a small scale map, it kept me entertained for like 3-4 rounds. After that a lot of waiting again with BS prizes then Geonosis and also a * ton of waiting again for Felucia. This is seriously underwhelming and disappointing, so more missed battles and planets again for the clone wars era.

4.: Capitaly supremacy: a welcomed addition as the player base but again only on already existing maps... 

5.: Heroes: i am not that much of a fan of additional heroes or they shouldnt be treated as big updates instead of new maps. heroes is of course is must but when half of the team is not playing the objectives but pushing the hero button in the menu is infuriating.

Honestly if this game wasn't Star Wars but had any otherso we can live for what we love noone would touch this. As a game it is not good at all. Period.

 

It's so disappointing that EA could basically do nothing with the franchise through all these years. Besides the game looking very nice it feels like it was done by marketing specialist instead of game developers. An empty boring demo fir BF1 for full preorder price+premium which didn't worth it for me, and now this better maps design but then they almost don't delive anything even though this wasn't how it was advertised. And because of that i don't care about Dice's comments about their team is now small, or they didn't earn enough revenue or i should be glad that they even deliver anything after it launched. I don't care about excuses because this is not what was advertised and not what i paid for. 

We'll see about about the new Respawn game it is most likely a buy Standard smile (at * last a single player game too), but then again if we are talking about RPGs? What did you do through all these years dear Electronic Arts through with the franchise? where are the real star war rpgs like Kotor was back in the day?

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Re: Lack of content of Star Wars Battlefront 2

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Hey @TheBazaarMonkey 

 

While in your opinion DICE haven't introduced enough new content in Star Wars Battlefront 2, it doesn't mean that they've done close to nothing to keep the game alive and add new stuff into it. I understand that voice lines and appearances might not be a big deal for you, but a big part of the community thinks differently and voices it all over social media. Same goes for Heroes or Reinforcements (if community didn't care about Droidekas so much, they wouldn't be added into the game).

 

Of course, it would be great to get more maps, game modes and weapons, but the reality of the game development is that there will never be enough resources to create and add everything what players want. I'm afraid saying that you personally don't care about those things, will not make them suddenly irrelevant in the gaming industry. Once again, you have every right to feel like Battlefront 2 disappointed you when it comes to adding new content, but it's not fair to say that developers are doing a poor job with adding new stuff, just because you would like to see something different being added into the game.

 

I'm going to shamelessly use one of F8RGE's replies on reddit to compile some of the things, which have been added to SWB2 so far:

 

  • New location: Crait

  • New hero: Finn

  • New hero: Phasma

  • New Progression system

  • New mode: Ewok Hunt

  • 8 new hero appearances

  • Forty new trooper appearances

  • New mode: Hero Showdown

  • Starfighter Custom Arcade

  • New location: Jabba's Palace

  • Leia Legendary Appearance

  • Lando Epic Appearance

  • Menu QoL Changes

  • New menu visual style

  • New milestones for troopers, hero and specials

  • New location: Kessel

  • New mode: Extraction

  • Two legendary appearances for Han

  • Two legendary appearances for Lando

  • Chewbacca epic appearance

  • Lando's Falcon

  • Removal of hologram menu from spawn and mvp screen

  • Timer to Jetpack cargo

  • Added timed challenges on front end

  • New mode: Hero Starfighters

  • Improvements to lightsaber combat

  • Allowed lightsabers to be ignited manually

  • Ability to swap appearances pre-round

  • Hero Showdown QoL improvements

  • Menu QoL changes

  • 41st Clone Trooper Appearances

  • 327th Clone Trooper Appearances

  • Emotes & Victory Poses purchasable with Crystals

  • Naboo Palace Hangar added to Blast and Custom Arcade

  • End of Round screen improvements

  • Squad System

  • Ping site improvements

  • Matchmaking improvements

  • New Hero: General Grievous

  • Squad System improvements (spawn rules)

  • Squad System improvements (squad widget next to minimap)

  • Hero health cards added

  • N-1 Starfighter in Hero Starfighters

  • New Hero: Obi-Wan Kenobi

  • 212th Attack Battalion clones

  • New location: Geonosis

  • New vehicles

  • Legendary appearance for Grievous

  • Epic appearance for Kenobi

  • New hero: Count Dooku

  • Geonosis on HvV, Blast and Custom Arcade

  • Clone Trooper appearance rework

  • New Hero: Anakin Skywalker

  • 501st Clone Battalion

  • Epic appearance for Anakin Skywalker

  • New mode: Capital Supremacy

  • New reinforcement: ARC Trooper

  • New reinforcement: BX Commando Droid

  • Lightsaber combat improvements

  • New location: Geonosis Pipeline Junction West

  • New interior location: Republic Attack Cruiser

  • New interior location: Separatist Dreadnought

  • New AI system for online play

  • New appearance: Count Dooku

  • Geonosis added to Hero Showdown

  • Collection menu QoL

  • Location: Kashyyyk on Capital Supremacy

  • Blocking system for Maul and Yoda

  • New appearance: Leia

  • Location: Kamino on Capital Supremacy

  • HvV Target System removal

  • Increased level cap

  • VO wheel addition

  • Location: Naboo on Capital Supremacy

  • New Reinforcement: Droideka

  • New Armour: TX-130

  • Lightsaber VFK improvements

  • Hero QoL animation change (can now block)

  • New appearance: General Skywalker

New Heroes

  • Finn

  • Phasma

  • Obi-Wan Kenobi

  • General Grievous

  • Count Dooku

  • Anakin Skywalker

New Reinforcements

  • ARC Trooper

  • BX Commando Droid

  • Droideka 

  • TX-130 

New Locations

  • Crait

  • Kessel

  • Jabba's Palace

  • Geonosis

  • Geonosis Pipeline West

  • Republic Attack Cruiser

  • Separatist Dreadnought

  • Bespin

  • D'Qar

  • Felucia (to be released)

Locations

  • Kashyyyk on Capital Supremay

  • Theed on Capital Supremacy

  • Naboo on Capital Supremacy

  • Naboo Palace Hangar added to Blast and Custom Arcade

  • Geonosis on HvV, Blast and Custom Arcade

New Modes

  • Ewok Hunt

  • Extraction

  • Hero Showdown

  • Hero Starfighters

  • Capital Supremacy

  • New PvE experiences (to be released)

New Vehicles

  • STAP

  • BARC speeeder

  • AT-TE

  • Lando's Falcon

  • Iden's Tie Fighter

Appearances

  • Wounded Chewbacca, with Arm Patch

  • Scarred Kylo Ren, Patch over Scar

  • Administrator Lando, Bespin

  • Commander Iden, no Helmet

  • Hooded Yoda, pulled up Hood

  • Endor Leia

  • Endor Han

  • Ahch-To Rey

  • Forty Trooper appearances

  • Legendary Han

  • Legendary Han

  • Legendary Lando

  • Legendary Lando

  • Epic Lando

  • Legendary Leia

  • Chewbacca epic

  • Rare Grievous

  • Legendary Grievous

  • Epic Kenobi

  • Epic Kenobi

  • Epic Dooku

  • Epic Dooku

  • Epic Anakin Skywalker

  • Epic Anakin Skywalker

Clone Trooper Legions

  • Default "Shinies"

  • 501st Battalion

  • 327th Star Corps

  • 91st Recon Corps

  • 104th Wolf Pack

  • 212th Attack Battalion

  • Coruscant Guard

  • 41st Elite Corps

  • 181st Armor Division

  • 41st Ranger Platoon

  • 87th Sentinel Corps

  • Navy Officer

  • 41st Scout Battalion

  • 212th Recon Division 

And this list will only get longer. Hopefully, future content updates for Battlefront 2 will turn out to be more to your liking.

 

/Ataashi

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Re: Lack of content of Star Wars Battlefront 2

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Community Manager (retired)

Hey @TheBazaarMonkey 

 

While in your opinion DICE haven't introduced enough new content in Star Wars Battlefront 2, it doesn't mean that they've done close to nothing to keep the game alive and add new stuff into it. I understand that voice lines and appearances might not be a big deal for you, but a big part of the community thinks differently and voices it all over social media. Same goes for Heroes or Reinforcements (if community didn't care about Droidekas so much, they wouldn't be added into the game).

 

Of course, it would be great to get more maps, game modes and weapons, but the reality of the game development is that there will never be enough resources to create and add everything what players want. I'm afraid saying that you personally don't care about those things, will not make them suddenly irrelevant in the gaming industry. Once again, you have every right to feel like Battlefront 2 disappointed you when it comes to adding new content, but it's not fair to say that developers are doing a poor job with adding new stuff, just because you would like to see something different being added into the game.

 

I'm going to shamelessly use one of F8RGE's replies on reddit to compile some of the things, which have been added to SWB2 so far:

 

  • New location: Crait

  • New hero: Finn

  • New hero: Phasma

  • New Progression system

  • New mode: Ewok Hunt

  • 8 new hero appearances

  • Forty new trooper appearances

  • New mode: Hero Showdown

  • Starfighter Custom Arcade

  • New location: Jabba's Palace

  • Leia Legendary Appearance

  • Lando Epic Appearance

  • Menu QoL Changes

  • New menu visual style

  • New milestones for troopers, hero and specials

  • New location: Kessel

  • New mode: Extraction

  • Two legendary appearances for Han

  • Two legendary appearances for Lando

  • Chewbacca epic appearance

  • Lando's Falcon

  • Removal of hologram menu from spawn and mvp screen

  • Timer to Jetpack cargo

  • Added timed challenges on front end

  • New mode: Hero Starfighters

  • Improvements to lightsaber combat

  • Allowed lightsabers to be ignited manually

  • Ability to swap appearances pre-round

  • Hero Showdown QoL improvements

  • Menu QoL changes

  • 41st Clone Trooper Appearances

  • 327th Clone Trooper Appearances

  • Emotes & Victory Poses purchasable with Crystals

  • Naboo Palace Hangar added to Blast and Custom Arcade

  • End of Round screen improvements

  • Squad System

  • Ping site improvements

  • Matchmaking improvements

  • New Hero: General Grievous

  • Squad System improvements (spawn rules)

  • Squad System improvements (squad widget next to minimap)

  • Hero health cards added

  • N-1 Starfighter in Hero Starfighters

  • New Hero: Obi-Wan Kenobi

  • 212th Attack Battalion clones

  • New location: Geonosis

  • New vehicles

  • Legendary appearance for Grievous

  • Epic appearance for Kenobi

  • New hero: Count Dooku

  • Geonosis on HvV, Blast and Custom Arcade

  • Clone Trooper appearance rework

  • New Hero: Anakin Skywalker

  • 501st Clone Battalion

  • Epic appearance for Anakin Skywalker

  • New mode: Capital Supremacy

  • New reinforcement: ARC Trooper

  • New reinforcement: BX Commando Droid

  • Lightsaber combat improvements

  • New location: Geonosis Pipeline Junction West

  • New interior location: Republic Attack Cruiser

  • New interior location: Separatist Dreadnought

  • New AI system for online play

  • New appearance: Count Dooku

  • Geonosis added to Hero Showdown

  • Collection menu QoL

  • Location: Kashyyyk on Capital Supremacy

  • Blocking system for Maul and Yoda

  • New appearance: Leia

  • Location: Kamino on Capital Supremacy

  • HvV Target System removal

  • Increased level cap

  • VO wheel addition

  • Location: Naboo on Capital Supremacy

  • New Reinforcement: Droideka

  • New Armour: TX-130

  • Lightsaber VFK improvements

  • Hero QoL animation change (can now block)

  • New appearance: General Skywalker

New Heroes

  • Finn

  • Phasma

  • Obi-Wan Kenobi

  • General Grievous

  • Count Dooku

  • Anakin Skywalker

New Reinforcements

  • ARC Trooper

  • BX Commando Droid

  • Droideka 

  • TX-130 

New Locations

  • Crait

  • Kessel

  • Jabba's Palace

  • Geonosis

  • Geonosis Pipeline West

  • Republic Attack Cruiser

  • Separatist Dreadnought

  • Bespin

  • D'Qar

  • Felucia (to be released)

Locations

  • Kashyyyk on Capital Supremay

  • Theed on Capital Supremacy

  • Naboo on Capital Supremacy

  • Naboo Palace Hangar added to Blast and Custom Arcade

  • Geonosis on HvV, Blast and Custom Arcade

New Modes

  • Ewok Hunt

  • Extraction

  • Hero Showdown

  • Hero Starfighters

  • Capital Supremacy

  • New PvE experiences (to be released)

New Vehicles

  • STAP

  • BARC speeeder

  • AT-TE

  • Lando's Falcon

  • Iden's Tie Fighter

Appearances

  • Wounded Chewbacca, with Arm Patch

  • Scarred Kylo Ren, Patch over Scar

  • Administrator Lando, Bespin

  • Commander Iden, no Helmet

  • Hooded Yoda, pulled up Hood

  • Endor Leia

  • Endor Han

  • Ahch-To Rey

  • Forty Trooper appearances

  • Legendary Han

  • Legendary Han

  • Legendary Lando

  • Legendary Lando

  • Epic Lando

  • Legendary Leia

  • Chewbacca epic

  • Rare Grievous

  • Legendary Grievous

  • Epic Kenobi

  • Epic Kenobi

  • Epic Dooku

  • Epic Dooku

  • Epic Anakin Skywalker

  • Epic Anakin Skywalker

Clone Trooper Legions

  • Default "Shinies"

  • 501st Battalion

  • 327th Star Corps

  • 91st Recon Corps

  • 104th Wolf Pack

  • 212th Attack Battalion

  • Coruscant Guard

  • 41st Elite Corps

  • 181st Armor Division

  • 41st Ranger Platoon

  • 87th Sentinel Corps

  • Navy Officer

  • 41st Scout Battalion

  • 212th Recon Division 

And this list will only get longer. Hopefully, future content updates for Battlefront 2 will turn out to be more to your liking.

 

/Ataashi

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Re: Lack of content of Star Wars Battlefront 2

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@TheBazaarMonkey wrote:

 

2.: Weapons: why do we still only have 4 weapons per class after almost two years? New weapons were promised and advertised, and again star wars is such a huge galaxy with limitless amount of arsenal and this is how Dice treats it? Shameful again.

 


Nope, if you ever saw Star Wars series, star wars games, star wars movies you will notice there wasn't so much different weapons. Actually we have more than 16 different weapons (it must be over 20) so new weapons aren't needed.

 

Of the map thing I hope Dice got resources to use some assets for new maps, it doesn't always need to be that AAA class maps with new models, new textures, new effects...

Some maps like the Tantive 4 map with assets of the single player campaign and the rebell start point on Death Star 2 would be nice, or a new old game mode... supremacy without the space ship part, some recycled swbf1 maps...

but how the EA Community Manager said, it needs resources (time, money, staff, planning, someone who checks the plan...).

 

One other thing, maybe I am alone with that opinion but...

if DICE would say we have plans for a new map and say they need an amount of money, I would pay for it because I want to support them and I can't want something for free when it needs resources and a big amount of time and work on something like a new map but on the other site I don't think if I buy crystals it would support DICE at all.

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Re: Lack of content of Star Wars Battlefront 2

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Well the reality of game development is that lately EA can only disappoint and advertise something and then don't keep your word.

 

And yeah you can shamelessly Standard smile write me down all the small gimmicks you have added to save face somehow, as if they were huge updates in themselves, while in reality as i have said in my opinion 90 percent of these should have been there at the start or if they weren't treated as extra updates for the playerbase to make them happy, while they get the  real content like maps and weapons and new battles. I did customization before, a skin takes me a few hours, and you have a whole studio, you could do better that's for sure. This just shows what a cashgrab this game was designed to be. Because even though you can acquire now everything with ingame money which is great and how it should be 👍, this basically is the only thing you can create for this product instead of new worlds etc. With your next game please list game breaking bug fixes and optimisation to me too as part of live service and new content, and list them also like this taken apart Standard smile, this is how you just do already with Battlefield V for the last 9 months since release.

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As someoneone who has seen all star wars movies and series, played most of the games and read pretty sure at least 90% of books and comics released, and still reads and buy them too i am telling you there is hundreds if not more weapons to choose from. I completely disagree with you in that regard, although i kind of agree in the others.

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At least let us use all the weapons from every era no matter which era I'm playing in or which ever team I'm on. If I am a clone trooper and want the standard empire heavy blaster I can or if I'm a droid I can use the e11 or the rebel blaster that's not burst if we could do that I would be alright 

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I think they should focus on battlefront 3 at this point taking everything from here for starters 

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Thats not true,Imperial Guards,New CO-OP mission on Hoth,Chewbacca & if my guess is accurate then theres Possibly "Honoury Rebel Guards for the rebels,Possibly more Sith outfits/Skins,Thanks to leaks on the internet about OT content.

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@TheBazaarMonkey Yeah honestly most of the new “updates” should have been in here at launch. Literally 4 important people from PT weren’t in Battlefront 2 for like a year. And the Starfighter content is even more depressingly sad. There’s SO little things for us pilots to do, we can’t even strafe run on GA anymore because everything is focused on CO-OP and Capital Supremacy and HvV CS was supposed to be the game mode of our dreams, yet,EA being EA, they failed our expectations.
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