Star Wars: Battlefront 2 could be having fun with a participant resurgence, however followers should not count on a Battlefront 3 announcement anytime quickly.
That is in keeping with a former worker who labored on Star Wars: Battlefront 2’s stay operations at developer DICE, who has been responding to participant questions on reddit.
Star Wars: Battlefront 2, initially launched in 2017, has seen its participant depend rise quickly for the reason that begin of this month, fuelled by the franchise’s annual Could 4 celebrations and the critically-acclaimed return of Star Wars TV sequence Andor.
The sport’s renewed recognition has followers clamouring for extra — and to be truthful, after eight years, you would possibly count on writer EA to have one thing up its sleeve. However, in keeping with former stay producer of BF2, Mats Holm, that’s unlikely to be the case.
“I do not count on Battlefront 3 to be introduced on the finish of this rally,” Holm wrote, referring to the current uptick in Battlefield 2 participant numbers. “However general, yeah, I feel there are people who find themselves speaking about it.”
Based on Holm, the largest challenge holding up a brand new sport is that almost all of the Battlefront 2 crew are now not at DICE.
“We unfold throughout,” Holm revealed. “A number of went to Ubisoft, some went unbiased, some to King, Avalanche, Star Stables, Paradox, Starbreeze, Mojang to call just a few. Some left Stockholm to hitch sport firms overseas as effectively.
“Embark has quite a lot of the individuals who made base sport, however the individuals who made the stay sport didn’t go away in a pack. All of us slowly drifted after being placed on Battlefield.”
Requested whether or not DICE might nonetheless make a brand new Battlefront sport with out its earlier crew members, Holm admitted he was “sceptical.”
“The stay crew ended up approaching the sport very in a different way than the unique devs,” Holm wrote, referring to how the crew who continued making Battlefront 2 content material post-launch turned across the sport’s fortunes following a shaky begin. “In the event that they went about it the identical method as earlier than, they won’t get how we introduced the sport again from the abyss.
“So, if their aim was ‘let’s study every little thing from their work,’ maybe. If they’re ‘new sport, Battlefield however in Star Wars outfits’ it will not prove effectively.”
As of now, solely “about three individuals” are left from Battlefront 2’s stay crew at DICE, the developer continued. There’s additionally the problem that, for now DICE is busy throwing all of its development weight into getting its big new Battlefield game completed.
Nonetheless, in an ideal universe, the developer mentioned they want to see the franchise proceed — though they would not make Battlefield 3 subsequent.
“Hear me out — no Battlefront 3 proper now, however Battlefront 2 Remaster for no matter future console is arriving in 2027-28,” the developer recommended. “Dev time is round 2-3 years. There’s a laundry record of enhancements that this sport might get for my part, and getting it up to date was at all times on our wishlist.
“As soon as that could be a success, then begin work on 3. You could have a crew aware of engine, belongings and actually might kick off creating a 3 inside a a lot shorter time span, and dealing on suggestions from a contemporary Battlefront 2 viewers base. This might be a 5-6 yr plan, nevertheless it’s much more prone to be a hit.”
Enhancements for Battlefront 2 would come with cross-play, day/night time cycles and dynamic climate for all planets, a 1-vs-1 mode and extra, the developer concluded.
“Listing is infinite, however [these options] had been off the desk as we had been in stay, not [original game] manufacturing,” the developer concluded.
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