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05 Dec

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Originally posted by BrandonTJones23

I truly hope you participate more on here in the future. You being active a lot on Twitter today was nice, although I disagreed thoroughly with something's you said. The droids are a nice edition, I can admit, although I personally think the chance to have new weapons added for Troopers would have been better. But I'm game for new things. I know you can't always tell us things, but being more transparent about things such as decisions like today is something I wish would happen. Would it cease the anger from some fans? Probably not. But I think it would help with the overall vision you guys have and what we hope to come. (Still very hopeful about weapons for Troopers. Please don't let us down about that.)

Disagreeing is totally cool, and I appreciate that you're allowing me to have an opinion about this game too. Far from all gaming communities provide a safe space for devs to state their thoughts on what is right for a game that we both care deeply for. And it's Star Wars, I think we're supposed to disagree on a few things here and there. ;)

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Originally posted by Firaxyiam

It's really cool to see you excited to do stuff that you want to do. Sometimes communities forget that devs are people too, and it's not just things we want, but things you want to do. Keep it up, this game has a shiny road ahead of it!

It is a dream come true to get to work on Star Wars, for sure. And I'm far from the only one on the team to feel that way. I'll admit that many of us had a hard time stepping away from the Clone Wars to work on sequel stuff (it's what we grew up with after all) so it's been good to find nuggets like the droids to really inspire you to do your best work for this community.


04 Dec

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Originally posted by TheMightyBoushh

Dengar is not Rodian, but I presume you mean Greedo for the Outer Rim DLC? That's actually a somewhat cool story.

Yes, apologies, I meant Greedo since he was the accompanying hero to Nein Nunb. Thanks for writing out the story behind it again, I’ve seen you talk about it in some livestream beforehand but it’s good to get a refresher.

Happy to share as much as I can. I guess we did save about a few weeks of 3D art on the heads, which allowed us to build a few more props in Jabba's Palace instead. But that time-saver was certainly not a reason for the selections. And in game-dev, if you can save time in places that's usually a great thing, as it means you can spend more time in other places!

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Originally posted by TheMightyBoushh

unexpected additions for sure

Unexpected to you guys too, right? Ran out of development time so just reused assets from the Sullustan and Rodian infantry.

Neither is very likely to defeat another hero or villain in a straight-up 1v1

Sounds balanced

Dengar is not Rodian, but I presume you mean Greedo for the Outer Rim DLC? That's actually a somewhat cool story.

Yes, we re-used the heads for Greedo and Nien Nunb, but built the rest of their bodies. The reason for that was because we had already used their heads for trooper customizations. Looking back, we probably should have made the trooper heads slightly different than Nien and Greedo, but they were made many months before the launch of SWBF1 and long before we started thinking about DLCs for the game.

The real restriction we were working under was localizing VO. Some countries require you to localize any English language in the game to the local language (German, for example). The localization process is a long one and usually gets done after you've recorded the English actor. We would not have been able to deliver the DLC in time had we done Heroes and Villains that speak English, where as Alien speech does not need to be translated and localized. So the re...

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Originally posted by AzelfandQuilava

Has Dennis even been on this subreddit in the past few months?

Every few days there's been a Poe/Hux request/concept thread, and I've seen them on wishlists since before the game came out.

I visit every morning, 5 times a week. I don't participate as often as I should.

It is such an honor to continue to develop new characters and worlds for this wonderful IP, in particular for this community. I love the passion you have for what you want to see in the game. I think in most cases, what we deliver are things that you've asked for, whether it's improvements to the game systems or new content. Sometimes we allow ourselves to add things that we feel inspired to do. For example, Geonosis was a highly requested planet to add as were the heroes and villains with it, while Felucia was not (but we REALLY wanted to build it). When it came to the sequel era, the most requested things had already been added (Rey, Kylo, Phasma, Finn, Crait) so we took the opportunity to add something that really inspire us and would open up some really cool new gameplay opportunities with the droids. Yes, BB-8 was the main guy while BB-9E was more opportunistic given we're developing the ...

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*1% sorry

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Originally posted by Rxxxzzorr

Will there be a steelbook with the celebration edition, or even a steelbook at all?

Nope. It's digital only.

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Originally posted by mazzucac

Completely serious question u/F8RGE, are there any thoughts to customise what era you’re searching for especially with the ST content coming to CS? My friend loves the OT maps and wants to exclusively play on those. I love playing as clones and droids and want to exclusively play as those. Are there any thoughts to choose which era you play in on the horizon?

Yes

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Originally posted by Obienobie

Dude. At least Dengar has killed people. Bb8-Evil movie role is a glorified snitch and BB8 has 1 scene in an ATST that is TERRIBLE. How can you even decide a weapon or health amount for them?

BB-8 has quite a good service record to be fair. We're looking at support for BB-9E to help bring some of that to the Dark Side.

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Originally posted by Obienobie

Remember in ROTJ when Luke was getting electrocuted by Palpatine but then luckily his handy Droid R2 pushed him into the reactor core? Oh wait. He's a Droid. And he was just beep-booping in some corner because that's what droids do.

If you can't tell the idea of being killed by a BB unit while I'm literally any other hero/villian bothers me.

Heroes get killed by Stormtroopers who have a 99% chance of missing usually.

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Originally posted by CoralExplorer19

Hey u/F8RGE, will we keep the pre-order cosmetics for Kylo Ren and Rey if we get the celebration edition?

Yes, you won't lose anything, it will just unlock anything you don't currently have.

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Originally posted by Xamepon

A spy of the Bothan variety?

No

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Originally posted by [deleted]

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Donkey-faced? :'(

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Originally posted by 29UwU29

Will there be a trailer for TROS update?

Subscribe to YouTube, who knows what will turn up

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Originally posted by gansta2219

Nobody wanted themmmmmmm

You all said the same thing as Dengar, now he's practically worshipped.

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Originally posted by DrDanklebergg

Why would you chose those characters over say, Poe or Hux? I feel like the community would like those heroes as well sometime down the line...

We always consider lots of options

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Originally posted by qis123

Has the prophecy been fulfilled with these two droids?

Spy and Gunner...just wait until you see them.

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Originally posted by Mr_LTheEmerald

The CT didn't specify whether Crait would be added to CS, IA, and Co-Op. Are there plans for this in the future?

We're still discussing Crait.

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Originally posted by DaHyro

Hey Ben, will there be a physical re-release of the game that is the Celebration Edition?

Digital only

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Originally posted by Darth-Sand

Are the two new ships coming as HvV maps too?

Nothing on this right now, we'll see.