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dogking57's avatar
5 years ago

Increase the number of AI for instant action on next generation consoles

Hey everyone! I'm pretty new to the forums, but thought I would join to ask this question. I'm a big fan of Star Wars Battlefront 2 and was sad to see the content ending with the Scarif update. Since then, player counts have increased significantly as Star War Battlefront was made free (or put on sale) on multiple occasions. It was pretty cool to see the fan base increase so much since the last big update, but of course, in the long run, multiplayer matches will become harder and harder to come by. Near the end, the Battlefront developers put in the instant action game mode to give players offline a big game mode experience. I think this was a good idea to keep Battlefront 2's legacy going even after multiplayer matches become hard to find. Although the pc edition of battlefront can successfully recreate the massive scale battles with 32 v 32 ai teams, the console editions have got the short end of the stick (with only 28 ai in total). At the time, this decision made sense. The xbox one or ps4 could only handle so many ai without glitching, but in 2021, with the next generation of consoles having exponentially more power, I believe that the maximum number of ai for the xbox series x and the ps5 could be increased significantly. I'd assume an improvement like this would only require the changing of a few numbers to allow the consoles to run more ai players, and seeing as the xbox just announced a battlefront II 120 fps mode, upping the number of ai allowed wouldn't be that difficult or out of the question, but would significantly improve player's experiences offline. What do you all think about this? Is there any way the developers could see this post and add this?

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  • yeah i think with the new consoles hardware we will see large player game modes,maps and 128 players or bots 🙂 

  • dogking57's avatar
    dogking57
    5 years ago
    @VisionedAcorn91 I wish, but I don't know if they'd update the game like that anymore. I'm really hoping that they'll add more ai in instant action for us to play with though
  • @dogking57 

    Sorry for the little off-topic.

    Last week, I saw the Microsoft brought the FPS boost OS update for EA games.

    The next gen conloes have big possibilities. Wow!! 😃

    https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1385262216031526914 

    By the way I doubt the possibility of number increase of AI trooper in next gen consoles.

    Spoiler
    Because I saw that in some PC mods, like 32 vs 32.
    Yes, that can be done in current state.
    But the devs limited that for some reasons.
    That is from console spec?
    I don't know... 
  • Sorry, support has ended for this game unfortunately.

    I would have wished too not only an increase in the number of bots but also split screen for the next-gen consoles.

    But anything can change though, we'll see...

  • @Player55Yeah, that’s pretty disappointing that they aren’t doing anymore content updates and I doubt they’ll release anything big. However, seeing as the devs have worked with Xbox to add 120 FPS to battlefront, and the quick resume feature (both of which probably required a little bit of in game tweaking), I don’t think it’s out of the question to hope (and request) that the devs add more ai to offline instant action. There wouldn’t be any need for additional ai programming, artwork, or maps. I’d assume that adding more ai would only require changing a couple of numbers/variables to extend the max amount of ai in one map possible. Of course, I don’t know how the game was programmed in this way, but I’m really hoping someone from ea will add this.

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