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Battlefront 2 developer says the community is 'happier than it's ever been'
Spruce: pcgamer.com/battlefront-2-develop...ever-been/ After struggling through one of the most famously catastrophic launches in years, it sounds like Star Wars Battlefront 2 is turning things around. Associate design director Dennis Brnnvall told GamesIndustry that it "hit rock bottom in terms of player sentiment" thanks to the furor caused by the game's aggressive loot box implementation, but nearly two years later, "the community's happier than it's ever been." "We really needed to take a step back and do some house cleaning--not completely dissimilar to Rainbow Six Siege," Brnnvall said. "They didn't launch the way they wanted, but now it's doing well and I think we're on a similar trajectory." Interestingly, EA's approach to Battlefront 2 has been fundamentally different from its predecessor right from the beginning. Brnnvall explained that the developers knew Battlefront 1 was going to be one year of DLC in a season pass so that's how they approached it, but for Battlefront 2, "we challenge ourselves to undertake big overhauls of systems that aren't doing as well as we hoped because this is it, this is the game we're going to be working on." "That's when it feels like more incremental--there's client patches every month, new features added, whereas in Battlefront 1 we were patching it every quarter with a big DLC and it was mostly for paid users anyway. Yes, there were some bug fixes, but it was mostly for paid users. Now it's always for everyone," he said. DICE recently unveiled the Battlefront 2 development roadmap for the remainder of 2019, which will see the addition of a new map, "contextual spawning"--the ability to spawn on controlled Command Posts--a new four-player co-op mode, and in December, content inspired by the upcoming film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which will include a new planet and reinforcements. Details will be revealed when the new content is closer to release. Seems like a lot more people are happy with BAF 2. And seems like the company are adding some good stuff such as the new map. |
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This game has improved crazily since the original release, although to be honest the loot-box scandal was a bit overdrawn. I played the game on release and it wasn't that difficult to unlock heroes and I did it pretty quickly without spending real money, having played it more recently though it's in such a good state i'm proud of what they did to get it where it's at. Especially by adding more prequel content such as Anakin, Grevious, Dooku and Obi Wan.
I'm not sure if they'll get to make a 3rd title but it seems if they did get the chance I could imagine it would be so much more enjoyable than the previous two based on the mistakes they've made and fixed. |
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