New patch in coming with a fix for Vader
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Announcements/Star-Wars-Battlefront-II-August-26th-Patch-Release-Notes/td-p/9436863
/Atic
Indeed, this glitch is destroying this game. If only DICE would still care about the product they made, and keep up with their end of the bargain about continuing to fix and tweak stuff, maybe we could get this fixed.
@AbC2065a5488446 wrote:There was another post here about this that was closed (https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Darth-Vader-now-invincible-on-HvV/m-p/6800857#M14684), it was closed because the moderator thought it was fixed, but in reality is being used right now and I can prove:
It wasn't closed because the moderator thought it was fixed. It was closed because I asked it to be closed to not create confusion. I'm not a moderator, just a fellow gamer who has been reporting BUGs and trying to find triggers and workarounds for them since 2018.
That glitch was supposedly fixed. I think it was. We went back and forth me and EA with this issue for years. But recently not only Yoda seems to have stopped being affected (which was the character that most frequently triggered that glitch by accident), but I've seen the twisted Palpatine's lightning, which was only present when trying to hit with Palpatine's lightning an invincible enemy due to that glitch, but now although it still twists to an unintended direction, it does damage the target. It wouldn't be the first glitch they solve which leaves behind a weird quirk that's harmless (Rey's Dash Strike Helicopter glitch, Luke's Corpse Staggering glitch, Dodge Partial Stuck glitch are a few examples of previous serious glitches that left a harmless quirk behind after getting fixed). So with all that I believe that invincibility glitch was fixed. EA/DICE aren't clear in almost anything, so I can't be sure.
Now this one is very specific, and requires the new Choke mechanics of 2020 to be triggered. Before the Choke was like this you couldn't do anything while using it, no Saber Throw, no Block, no Dodge. This means you couldn't follow the steps of the glitch being exposed here back then. Also, that report was from May 2018, buried for these 2 years, to suddenly resurface because a random user decided to reply to that thinking it was about the recent glitch. So I asked to close it to not create confusion. We already have other reports about this new Vader Invincibility glitch around here, including a topic I opened in the General tab here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/And-that-dreaded-day-has-finally-come-Invincibility-Glitch-is/td-p/9321549/jump-to/first-unread-message
Despite all that I totally agree with you this is a very serious issue, and the lack of response from EA/DICE is a serious disrespect with us their customers.
I really appreciate the time you spent answering this topic, didn't know about this bugs. It was a lot of good information that I didn't know. The petition to keep the support for battlefront 2 reached 150k https://www.change.org/p/electronic-arts-continue-support-for-star-wars-battlefront I hope this can bring the development team back to correct the bugs. One good thing DICE could do was to develop DLCs with other characters (Qui Gon, Windu) I talked with a lot of people about this and they would pay to play with these characters, it could be an alternative to not let the game rot without any new update.
Honestly if they come back I’d take bug fixes over new content.
especially fixes to issues like this!
Played 12 games tonight and 3 of them had a Vader exploiting this glitch and what was even more sad is they are emoting like they think they're funny. Absolutely ruins the game and it's obvious if nothing is done more and more will follow suit, copy this glitch and kill the game completely for people who play fair. So sad the current state of the game right now. Like the devs, I give up with the game now. I'm just in absolute utter disbelief how such a game changing bug like this has been found in a game 2 and a half years after release!!
