Forum Discussion

EA_Ataashi's avatar
EA_Ataashi
Icon for EA Staff (Retired) rankEA Staff (Retired)
6 years ago

Re: Lack of content of Star Wars Battlefront 2

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

2 Replies

  • TheBazaarMonkey's avatar
    TheBazaarMonkey
    6 years ago

    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 🙂 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 🙂, this is how you just do already with Battlefield V for the last 9 months since release.

  • Ibmilo1's avatar
    Ibmilo1
    6 years ago
    @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.

About STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II

Official community forums for Star Wars™ Battlefront II™ discussions.17,106 PostsLatest Activity: 3 minutes ago