Star Wars: Battlefront Dev Tracker

To some degree, I disagree. Other games have shown that if the team is dedicated enough and sticks through it, it does get better and I think this one is part of that category. We're not really talking about this much (maybe we're too afraid to jinx it) but BII is more popular now than almost ever in its history. It might not feel like that at times since a significant majority of our players play GA, CS, and HvV, leaving some of the smaller, less Star Wars-y modes emptier, but the game is doing very, very well population-wise.

It was an awful precedent. Even though I wasn't part of the team at the time, I was part of the company and I still hold all of us (myself included) responsible for the choice. It shouldn't have happened. We won't let it happen again.

A vast majority of the requests are for GA/CS maps (large-scale modes).

Or the Bespin map we already brought over. It wasn't a non-response, just more context to the situation as to why some maps might be harder to bring over.

Maybe, but I think we made the right choice. A hard choice, but the right one. Had we not, we wouldn't have been doing right by our players overall, and that's not something that would have sat well with us. We'll get there.

It's certainly something I can bring up with the team. I think we want to be cautious on adding to many Force invulnerabilities to abilities since that means there could end up being less strategic play since no one would affect anyone else, but we might be open to doing it to some others.

Dak said he could take on the Empire by himself, but Luke said he knew the feeling. I meant if Luke pulled a Family Guy and said, "yeah, that would be great!"

I've never gotten killed by one through a wall (I've yet to see that while playing) and Heroic Might is easy enough to dodge, but Retribution does get a few glares from me when I feel like I was outside its range but I wasn't. Or when I get knocked down by Passionate Strike. Glad we're taking that effect away.

One thing that ties into this (beyond just the engine differences) is that each of those maps was made for a game mode that may not exist in BII, such as Walker Assault. The maps in BII were built from the ground up for GA. While GA maps can and have been adapted into maps for other modes, WA maps were built around having 1-2 walkers. Not impossible by any means, but it does affect balancing whether they're there or not, as well as overall map design.

This is what happens when Luke tells Dak that he really can take on the Empire all by himself.

Oh my god, yes.

"What?! God da— oh, wait...sigh I should send that to the team."

To be 100% fair, this was the softest of softball answers since the question above that reply was, effectively, "Do you know we want weapons?" When the time is right and we have more to share on any changes/additions to the game, as always, I promise that we'll do so. I don't want to inflate expectations unnecessarily with this and make people think that something is coming right around the corner. We know this is a part of the game that we didn't deliver on that we advertised at launch (we absolutely planned to add more weapons originally, but then, well, we all know what happened), so we're very sorry about that.

Yeah, I couldn't find the 4-hour one but someone definitely had a 3-hour one. Hard to say how "natural" it was, though, since it's possible the game took a while to start up. We don't have an official longest game number right now. On average 25-40 minutes is what the games last.

Love it!

I play almost every day. Flagging doesn't mean we don't know or aren't working on it, just that I'm bringing it back up and saying it's a big issue.

Anakin balance is a separate thing, but overall a vast majority of games don't go that long. I only know of one game that went ~3+ hours because someone showed me it.

Let me see if I can get an answer to that. I know one got to ~3+ hours if memory serves, but I think one has gone up to 4. Those are extremely rare, though.

Yup!

Thanks. I'll flag this.

Working on it. I believe we just alleviated the issue (at least for most people).