Star Wars: Battlefront Dev Tracker

That's fair feedback. If we see degenerate/un-fun behaviour taking root, we'll do what we can to address it.

No problem! Keep us accountable. So long as everyone is respectful of one another (which you were), this community will stay healthy on both fronts.

We have plans for Anakin. I'm just holding off on saying anything until they're locked in. It's one of those situations where we know exactly what we're going to do and have a plan, but we can't say anything until all the checks have been cleared. Just a reality of game development.

Already flagged!

No, screw doing that. I never want that to be us. Our players are our #1 priority. We wouldn't be working on this game today if it weren't for players like you. It's our duty to put your interests first. I had a few talks with the team about stuff that wasn't put into the release notes because it was missed. Even small things (like pose changes for Rey and such), whether intentional or not, need to be surfaced to our players ASAP.

Don't worry, no offence taken by this post, though! It's a completely valid thing to assume. Just know that not only do F8RGE and I have your backs, so does the rest of the team. We never want to get back into a place where we're considered to be unreliable or untrustworthy. Sorry for not including this change in the notes. Deep breaths. All is well.

I honestly with I could reply to everything I read, but that would just take too much time. I read enough posts from players that by the end of each day my front page is just new posts with no upvotes.

Interesting feedback. Thanks! We have a couple of ideas, too, but I'll flag this one to the team.

If everyone has something, it's no longer special. We want to use unique effects strategically. For example, Yoda having a block that lets his push get stronger is something we'd likely leave to him while a block break is something that makes more sense for Anakin. There are other things we can tweak and add as we go, but we don't want to add something to every character. If we do, we start treading the path where they all feel the same.

Bug fixes like this can get missed. We didn't purposefully leave it off. I imagine it was fixed while adding a block to Yoda and wasn't logged correctly for the release notes. We had a ton of stuff on there so I'm not too surprised that something slipped through the cracks.

Let's not get into conspiracy theories that we're calling things bugs just to get rid of features. I can assure you that's not true. Honestly, with so many different types of abilities at play, things like this don't always work cleanly and result in some edge cases where they don't work as intended. These two are examples of that; ones we were aware of and were trying to fix, but other things took precedent. For perspective, no other dash attack breaks blocks. It's a highly mobile ability while Anakin's Passionate Strike is almost stationary. I get that this was something that some people liked, but for the overall health of the game, we need to fix issues like these (especially the harder ones to fix) in order to be able to move forward with developing characters/features. Leaving bugs, even if players like them, only hinders us there.

Well...uh...happy new year? I'll let the team in charge of that know.

It's not that we never noticed (I think we even mentioned this in the past). It just took time to fix. I get that some players liked this, but it was never intended. Now that it's fixed, we can see how we can improve the character in other ways, but none of the dash attacks in the game are intended to go through blocks.

Thanks for the heads up, we'll get it sorted. Was just some old text that was used, we often use the same text as this is good for any localisation etc.

Funny how brains work at times, especially when they are reading text they've seen multiple times in the past, as it means they easily skip over things.

Stockholm syndrome?

We'll uhm...take a look.

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Okay.