Star Wars: Battlefront Dev Tracker

Originally posted by jdbazemore

Fair point on the post date, I missed that, however the general idea of my comment still stands.

Just give us a little more insight, even if it’s broad strokes. Like when you said bb-9e was chosen because he fits right in with the rolling ball mechanics (or something along those lines). That makes sense, and it explains why you chose not to go with a different droid villain. I think the community as a whole really appreciates the glimpses behind the scenes in the development and business processes. How many times did you have to explain all the hoops you guys have to jump through to release a CT or even minor bug fixes? I lost count, but I don’t see nearly as much complaining when you guys get caught in the red tape these days.

But what you just said to me was effectively “deal with it, because I said so” which is the opposite of what I was suggesting.

On the subject of toxicity just wanted to say ever since you added it to the community survey a while back...

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Originally posted by HeavyWaitKing

Alright so it’s tomorrow.. now where is the celebration edition?

Originally posted by WhyNotCollegeBoard

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Originally posted by Lickidactyl

I've never even seen a Gonk die. Why hasn't he been killswitched yet?

Originally posted by Gream54

Can you pls share info about droideka and vehicles AI?

Originally posted by KingMatthew116

Gonk is too powerful to be in the game, it’d be unkillable.

Originally posted by RadioJawa

What happens with Premier users once the sub runs out? Do we lose the upgrade?

Originally posted by SlimeBoss2015

When exactly is the Xbox rollout?

Originally posted by jdbazemore

I think the issue at hand is that instead of sharing those “extra factors” you guys just give us sass like “Poe’s home is in the cockpit”.

If instead you were to say “we were going to make Poe but had to go with robots that go beep-boop because we wouldn’t be able to get the voice lines translated in to all the required languages in time” it would go a long way (yes I’m recycling the scenario Dennis shared regarding the first BF2015 DLC, but you get the point).

Now obviously if the reason is “we were gonna make Poe but JJ decided to ret-con him into a first order spy in the opening scene of TROS so he would have actually been a Villian and announcing him as a villian in the CT 15 days before the movie release didn’t fly with Kathleen” you can’t tell us that, and that’s fine.

By all means, pick your poison, but when you pick sass as a response to backlash don’t be surprised when the result is more toxicity.

Originally posted by RadioJawa

What happens with Premier users once the sub runs out? Do we lose the upgrade?

Originally posted by Daeneas

If i buy it, will i lose last jedi skins? Its an entire new download (like a new game) or a small patch?

Originally posted by Immortal__Soldier

What about vehicle AI?

Originally posted by Hamati

This is the type of stuff I like knowing. I wish you/the dev team would share details like this more. We don’t need a full explanation of every last decision made but when the community asks “why did you go with these weird choices” and we hear nothing; that’s how rumors are made and ran with. I always thought those hero choices were made because it was easy to re-use the heads and tweak the abilities from existing assets.

Originally posted by TheMightyBoushh

With that being said, it poses the question of why you didn’t save time in the hero creation process by making the last two ST main characters, that are blaster heroes, allowing you to spend more time in other places.

I just worry we’ll never get the last two pieces of the ST puzzle to really make it feel complete.

Thanks for speaking so candidly.