Star Wars Battlefront II!
Released in 2017 Star Wars Battlefront II was a step up from the first game in the rebooted
series. A story campaign, new maps and guns and of course the prequel trilogy joining the fun.
As the years went on we got some fixes to the game, the removal of those horrid loot
boxes (Don't talk to me about those) and some much needed new content.
Then they canceled continued support for the game….
WHY!?!
It was perfect. You finally got it. To
just walk away? We were on the verge of greatness. We were this close.
But now with the HORRENDOUS handling of the original battlefront games that
were remastered (seriously what happened, you had one job and you messed it up)
I wanted to go back into Star Wars Battlefront II to see if it’s as fun as I remembered.
Anyways…..
My first match I got a hacker….
Not even kidding..
But that's ok because everything
else is here in perfect condition.
You see a hacker? Just leave the game!
It’s that simple!
You have all of these gamemodes.
But only 3 of these modes are actually populated.
Co-op
Galactic Assault
And Supremacy
Smaller modes like blast and even
ewok hunt, that little gamemode where its suddenly a horror game…
Ya, not that many people playing them.
Blast had two people on a team,
and we kept dying to them…
So I played co-op mode to get warmed up.
It’s just you and 3 other real people with a lobby full of bots.
If you don't even want the other 3 players you have instant action to play. It’s just
you and you alone. Like the good ol’ days
I know people love competitiveness in
games but something about co-op mode brings me back to the simple days of booting
up the 2005 version of Battlefront and just playing to my heart's limit.
You can play whichever hero you want without having to worry about other
people hogging them for the entire game and you get XP and can progress your
upgrades while playing against bots
It's simple, fun and most
importantly not stressful.
But if you want stress…
Oh boy do I have a gamemode for you.
Supremacy!
In short it's a non-linear game mode based
on capturing Command Posts and ultimately bringing down capital ships.
What I forgot about was how long these games took.
Because even after you capture all of the posts and gain enough points to try
and take down their capital ship, if you fail that last stage which took an additional 15 mins on top
of your already committed 20 mins before, you go back to the ground and do it all over again.
You’re practically playing a ping pong match until either one team finally wins or the whole team
just say’s f**k it and leaves the game.
I would be lying if I said I
wasn’t having fun though
C’mon it's a huge galactic battle taking place
in Star Wars. Its just like the simulations
If you don't want that tedious ping pong match
the rebellion side doesn't have the capital ship part.. So once you capture the points it's done.
The only caveat to that point is no one plays on the rebellion or resistance modes.
This gamemode is great, but you can really only find a match in the prequel
era. Nothing against the prequel Era but what if I wanted to play on Hoth?
I eventually found a game for the rebellion, sorry if you’re wanting to play as
Kylo or Rey in this, I finally left my queue in the game after 20 mins.
I tried. No one wants to play that.
I was playing the PC version of Star Wars
so it's possible that on console the server numbers are either better or worse, let
me know if you play on console.
If you just don’t want any of that at all you have
the 3rd mode that's not completely alienated from the player base, which is Galactic Assault.
You don’t get to choose which Era you play on, it just randomly spits you into a lobby,
hopefully one with the best connection and you get to play an objective based gamemode.
It's 20 v 20 with no additional AI enemies to defeat alongside the real players
and because of that I found that I just kept getting killed by players who
just played as a hero the entire time or players ruling the skies up above in a ship.
Listen, I get that I have gotten older and strayed away from the game for a bit, but man.
This game is fun, but if you plan on playing against actual players and taking the game
seriously, you’re in for a wake up call.
You’re going to have your ass handed
to you over and over in this game.
Since you probably don’t have the upgrades
on any of your specific classes or you’ve been out of the game too long.
You will be at a disadvantage.
Personally I’d just recommend playing Co-op to
upgrade any character you want then jump into the live action and once your ass has been handed
to you, go back to co-op and ask yourself “why would I ever leave this safe place at all?”
I really wished that the smaller modes actually had a player base within them. Sure, an
all out warfare fight over the sands of Geonosis are thrilling but what if
I wanted to play a smaller objective based mode with no heroes or vehicles?
Well, I guess I have to wait 20 mins or never to find a lobby to itch that scratch.
What you don’t have to wait for is liking the video and subscribing to see more videos!
Now this is all good and fun with friends. What about playing by yourself? While it's safe to say
that most games are always fun with friends, Star Wars can be enjoyed alone. So if you ever just
played the original games by yourself, I think you’ll be in safe hands playing this by yourself.
It is just an arcade shooter afterall.
And if you never played the 2005 version. Again,
it's an arcade shooter. If that game is like $5 you really can’t go wrong here.
So if the game is the exact same way it has been since DICE and EA left
it in April 29th of 2020
And I’m talking about the exact same way
they left it. Hero balances the maps, gamemodes and so on.
Why play it now?
Because it's fun.
I feel like mods always save older games.
If you can’t mod them, they usually just
rot away, until one individual with the development capability of an entire AAA
Studio decides to make something out of the remnants of an axed titled.
Talking about you clonetrooper163
This one guy has been trying to
make everyone's dreams come true by bringing battlefront 3 back to life.
Since EA and DICE left Battlefront II alone it's up to the playerbase to make the new
cosmetics, but thankfully they’re free!
Ya you want new characters in the game.
Boom there you go. Asaj Ventress & Kit Fisto in Battlefront II.
Want some new loading screens?
Boom there you go, happy?
While all of the mods here for Battlefront are primarily cosmetic, literally placing a skin
on top of an already established character and with the addition of some gameplay modifiers
like new abilities or changing classes entirely I’m just happy to see that the player base can
get some joy out of something that could have easily happened if battlefront 2 continued its
support. All with the low price of nothing.
Also these mods are on PC, not
console. Sorry console.
After playing hours of the game to gain footage
for this video I'm really sad that we haven’t had more support for this game when it's clear
that there is still a player base here, even more so after the recent mess up,
It's Easy money, I dont understand. Make something remotely working and slap STAR
WARS on the box people will buy it.
Hell, I bought this game on release!
After the whole loot box fiasco went away and they finally re-learned how to make a
game fun we never got any new updates.
Battlefront II is still gorgeous, plays
decently well and oozes everything you’d want from an arcade star wars shooter,
let alone just an arcade shooter.
Put this game in the hands of
someone who doesn’t really know Star Wars well and they’ll get the idea.
With the progression of this game forever stuck on double xp earnings and no real reason to
grind out anything since you can casually play the game and earn all the upgrades normally
I'd say that Battlefront II is probably the most casual game you can play today. As long as you’re
not playing Supremacy in the Prequel era.
My goodness that's just an actual war.
And those Hero players that only play this game non stop and never turn the game off.
Seriously, if you run into these guys just turn the game off.
I’m saving your sanity.
I guess the only real thing you can still do
in this game, if you’re a real die hard fan, is to complete everything available
to you in the challenges.
This goes over absolutely
everything in the game.
Including the story mode, which if you
forgot, yes this game has a story and it’s alright. It is canon to the timeline and
I mean, if you have time sure play it I won’t stop you. I enjoyed what I played.
What's really sad to see with Battlefront now is that while yes you can find lobbies to
play a game or two, it can sometimes take longer periods of time compared to other
days. You have Modded server browsers like Kyber to utilize but even then sometimes you
just can't find a game. Which is just sad to see for this game. Especially since all I ever
hear is that people want Battlefront 3
While Battlefront may never get revived or even
finally get the beloved number 3 slapped onto its front cover officially, I have to admit
that Battlefront II still has an open seat available in my monthly driver of games.
It just has one of those vibes that allows me to open it up, play a couple
of games and put it down.
Lately with all of the multiplayer games forcing
battlepasses and season content, making all of its playerbases have increasingly large sizes of
FOMO generated across their screens and minds, Battlefront II is a reminder that games
don’t need any of that to be fun.
To be fair, it did take a
while to allow that to happen.
GET THOSE LOOT BOXES AWAY FROM ME!
So for now I’d have to say that if you’re feeling nostalgic for a good laid back arcade shooter play
Battlefront again. Who knows how long it will be until the servers get shut down. Seriously.
Play against the bots, I won't judge you. Hell it’s all I usually play anyways
And if you want to watch the rest of my videos, I won't stop you doing that either.
OKAY BYE!
