Future Star Wars: Battlefront DLC to Focus on New Original Trilogy Content.
When a fan recently asked Electronic Arts about whether or not more content for Episode VII would be added to the game, they replied with a broad statement that the Original Trilogy would be the focus of the game’s upcoming content. Does that shut out the possibility of downloadable content for the Prequel Trilogy and the Sequel Trilogy in the future? Not necessarily. Click ahead to read our analysis.
@ninjachris404 Our team is focusing on the original trilogy for this release of Star Wars Battlefront.
— EAStarWars (@EAStarWars) December 24, 2015
While this response might seem like a complete rejection of any non-Original Trilogy content being added to the game at first glance, one has to keep in mind that it doesn’t directly say that there will never ever be Sequel Trilogy (or Prequel Trilogy) content added later on. Indeed, the first DLC expansion, Battle Of Jakku, directly promotes The Force Awakens (although it is still set in the Original Trilogy era). So far, we know that the game’s DLC storm will have 16 more maps (which would represent up to 8 additional planets if Battle Of Jakku‘s two-map expansion is anything to go by). There’s still room for Prequel Trilogy and Sequel Trilogy content in that generous amount of space alone, and that’s not even getting into the free DLC that will be released in the coming months in addition to what’s already been promised.
Paid content will almost certainly be composed of new material, but I highly suspect that the free content will include some of the old maps from the two original LucasArts/Pandemic Studios games (since there wouldn’t be nearly as much work done to integrate existing code into a new title). As such, a few Prequel Trilogy maps from those games could appear. That being said, it’s wise to temper expectations – what you shouldn’t expect is for the factions of the Prequel Trilogy (Republic and Separatists) and the Sequel Trilogy (Resistance and First Order) to be playable in this iteration of the game. That itself would require a lot of additional coding and resources that would more efficiently be served for the sequel as opposed to optional downloadable content. While maps can easily be ported from game to game with a few adjustments (as demonstrated by DICE when they ported several Battlefield 3 maps to Battlefield 4), the engine for the game was made from the ground-up and wouldn’t mesh with what LucasArts and Pandemic Studios coded.
On a similar note, it would be much safer to presume that the reason the Sequel Trilogy isn’t a huge focus for the future of Battlefront is that they’re waiting for Lucasfilm to go all-out with work on Episode VIII and Episode IX so that more content is made. One has to keep in mind that, aside from the ill-fated Quad Jumper, Leia’s ship, and Kylo Ren’s shuttle (which seems to look flashy as opposed to being a functional fighter), there aren’t very many new standard-issue ships in The Force Awakens – and the two ships that are there are just upgraded versions of the X-wings and TIE fighters. As such, I wouldn’t expect to be able to play as Finn, Rey, Kylo Ren, or Captain Phasma until the inevitable sequel (which will most likely hit in 2017 or 2018) – while there’s new stuff that can be included, there’s just not enough to warrant a completely new pair of playable factions. I would expect that any new Sequel Trilogy content in the game will be confined to a few maps based on a planet that was introduced in the movie.
In any case, it will be very interesting to see what comes of Battlefront‘s DLC. Stay on target with Star Wars News Net for more of the latest and greatest information about the Galaxy Far, Far Away.
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I would like to see more Star Wars content that isn’t OT.
Yes the OT has been milked to death by The Force Awakens too now, WE GET IT DISNEY YOU LIKE THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY. I feel like tearing my hair out whenether Empire Strikes Back comes on TV now. I love it but my God has it been forced down my throat for the last year.
Please stop the troll comments. You aren’t be funny anymore my friend.
It’s not exactly trolling, considering that many people feel like the recent Star Wars content doesn’t have enough scope.
Though, you two may have history and I’m missing some back story.
Nope never spoken to the guy before. If he disagrees with someone that makes them a troll apparently.
He likes to post controversial comments!
Why are you so angry about someone not sharing the same opinion as you? Bigot much?
He very obviously is an EA/ DICE troll/ employee
My wishlist for the potential 8 planets (not counting the free DLC) would be for Yavin IV, Bespin, Naboo, Kamino, Geonosis, Utapau, Mustafar, and Takodana.
– Pomojema
I think we’ll see Dagobah. Did they ever do non real world maps in the previous versions (Death Star or Bespin ??).
I would love that list. Although I would like to see a Death Star/Star Destroyer map. Even a Tantiv IV map would be nice 😛
Takodana is pretty dull looking though it’s literally never been done before. I’d prefer Mygeeto or Cato Nemoidia which never got their due.
Cato Nemoidia is a great suggestion. Especially since (like Sullust) it was mentioned onscreen but never shown. There’s room for the devs to get creative and it still gives props to the films.
Thanks! We saw a little bit of it in Clone Wars and I been fascinated ever since. We’ve never really sen a purse world before and I never even heard of the term till I heard of this planet.
Cato Nemoidia would be an awesome addition to Battlefront 😉
Thank you! My favorite Star Wars worlds are terrains we never seen before and serve unique purposes, That one fits both.
We’ve briefly seen it during Order 66 (Plo Koon) but that was just about it.
The Clone Wars episode with Senator Clovis too but even then most of that one took place on the inside of a building.
Force Unleashed II features Cato Nemoidia but that isn’t canon anymore so I’m not confident about it.
You are correct. Pretty sure we never seen Mygeeto in any games though.
Battlefront II features Mygeeto as a campaign mission and multiplayer map.
Yeah, I guess your right. Salecumi then? I know we saw it in Clone Wars.
Not going to happen as it is solely PT and that has been denied, right EA troll?
So because I enjoy Battlefront I’m an EA troll right? What logic.
Nobody should ever have to play this dumbed down 10 m shooter garbage!!
I bought this right out, I figured it’d be a good one. It is a poor clone of the “real” Battlefield series. Weapons are out of whack (i.e., pistols kill in 2 shots from 50m, rifles take 10 shots from 10m), the cheating is ridiculously rampant and there’s no good way to evict them. On PC it feels like a slapped together console-port. There’s no tutorial, no solid single player option to learn how things function. There’s also no single player story. Its all “spray and pray” with whatever weapon is OP the day you play.
SW Battlefront is another “Star Wars” money-making product to purely make money. And the repetitiveness of it is overly painful. No tactics, no teamwork, just “run to the objective and shoot!”
Hardly surprising considering this is how they are running the EU and technically this is part of it.
They really missed the boat on Battlefront. No prequel trilogy content? No story mode at all? Let alone the gameplay itself. Talk about doing the least amount of work possible knowing the game was going to sell regardless.
Battlefront 2 was a better game and it was made a decade ago?
That’s EA for you. They basically forced DICE to create an entirely new game in just under 2 years. This is the results. It’s basically a proof of concept. The sad thing is it’s one hell of a proof of concept.
It just needs a ton of work in every aspect. From balancing to content. Maybe the sequel will be what we wanted. Hopefully Visceral’s game will make up for it.
hero gameplay needs to be better
How so? I think it’s just fine.
As a perfect EA employee would.
So because I enjoy a game, I work for that said company. Great logic my friend!
Just dont give that dragon more gold…
Booooo….
I admit I’m having fun with Battlefront but this is largely due to the fact it looks so good and is Star Wars. I agree there’s no depth, though.
There is depth (i.e. customization, many modes, heroes/villains, etc.) so I don’t understand what you’re talking about my friend.
LOL!!! You again?
LOL!!! You again?
I was bored to tears after a few hours on the Beta, I think i’ll pick this up when it hits the bargain bucket.
Why bother? By that time there will be no players, and with no single-player content, you will never get into a match, rendering the game completely unplayable.
That just proves that its a crappy game, Battlefront 2 had active players for years.
Couldn’t agree with you more here. Been thinking of downloading Battlefront II to play in place of this.
the beta was only a demo of like one map buddy…..and only had one multiplayer gamemode..it is 40 dollars at wal mart and origin ……….. good luck waiting to buy this in the bargain bin, when nobody even plays the game anymore…all the crybaby’s jumping on the bandwagon cracks me up….this game is actually outstanding and there is plenty of content..the new dlc is free..as will be the second dlc…smh….you would figure that someone who comes to this site all the time would have read all of the articles about this game posted on here and would know enough about the game by now that they would laugh at all the jackasses crying about it… the only people crying about it are the console gamers..because they are all a bunch of noobs who don’t know wtf they are talking about.
Stiff controls, arcadey power ups and a retarded spawn system. It isn’t warfare its just randomness… The Hoth map was too small for real air combat and you just get shot down in five seconds. Also only one pre-determined route for the AT-AT? Game sucks balls. You can’t even use immersive tactics because people spawn randomly everywhere. What a disaster! I’ve seen enough gameplay to know every other map is like it, oh and no story mode and it ignores everything outside Empire and ROTJ. Garbage, nothing but a graphics demonstration and they got the map design for Hoth completely wrong. Terrible game, i’ll wait until its in the bargain bin then i’ll take a crap in the box and send it back to EA
You haven’t played the full release. After you do that, come back here and comment!
Battlefront isn’t perfect but it’s a darn good game. If you like Star Wars, you’ll enjoy Battlefront.
If you love Star Wars, however, you will be majorly disappointed.
If they want to focus on the OT era then I want a KOTOR style game.
Not quite:
“…for this release of Star Wars Battlefront.” says exactly that. Not this release of upcoming dlc. They are talking about the whole game. This is crap. I refuse to support this. They are going to keep the trilogies separate by releasing different games and then another unreasonably priced dlc pack with it instead of creating a game with nearly unlimited staying power. I would keep buying dlc packs for this game if they wouldn’t shut themselves out. They are just riding the TFA hype train and delivered nothing but a pretty game with no substance. Fuck these guys.
And OT content means they logically shouldn’t have ANY planets that we did not see fighting on between the empire and rebellion, which makes this a Hoth/ Endor game. Naturally they already broke this rule with Sullust and Jakku, but why quit lying to us now?
How are they “lying” to us? You seem to enjoy stirring up controversy!
And you seem to work for EA by your ass-licking posts in this thread
Waiting for Viceral’s Star Wars game. The reveal of this game had me excited. I even played the beta, but then I started reading no single player, no prequel stuff and no Force Awakens DLC. That’s where EA and Dice lost me. I hope Viceral’s Star Wars game is promising. It already is solely on the fact that we know nothing about it except for an Uncharted style type gameplay to it, that it has Amy Henning and Jade Raymond, two well known names to gamers. If it turns out being crap, there goes the Star Wars games for the next 10 years under EA but I have hope still. This is their first game. Let’s see what else they come up with. Hopefully battlefront 2 is better and they add stuff to it that this one lacked.
“since there wouldn’t be nearly as much work done to integrate existing code into a new title”
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It’s cute when people who have no idea how games work use words they only vaguely recognize, to describe things they don’t understand. These are two totally different games, using two different engines, on two totally different architectures, in two totally different OS’s.
I was thinking the same thing…what a dumb article from someone who clearly has no clue wtf they are talking about..the new dlc will be all new maps and will be nothing like existing maps from a different friggin game….you cant integrate maps into this game from a completely different game engine..LOLOLOLOLOL…and him saying there will be PT and new ST maps in the future cracks me up even more as the dude CLEARLY SAYS…THIS GAME is focusing on the OT…he didn’t say anything about the possibility of PT and ST content…his statement was straight to the point and spelled out in black and white..PT and ST material will clearly be for another game. THIS game is all OT
Well that is bullshit.
Meh that sucks! I love the game! It’s a fun casual game, but I was really hoping to play as Kylo Ren in it! Goddamn!
Yea I’m pissed they don’t wanna do much with the new trilogy. I want to be Rey and Kylo ren at least put poor chewbacca in it he does way more than Leia
I think people have gotten to the point of being rather annoyed that only the Original Trilogy is being used. The only things that ever get explored from the prequels are Maul, The Clone Wars, Pod Racing, the planets themselves, and the Bounty Hunters. I get that they want to avoid most of the stuff but there’s only so much you could do with 4 planets and not even just Jakku and Dagohba
There is a Jakku map called “Battle for Jakku”. Dagobah with most likely be DLC.
Really? Because there was a major battle there between the empire and rebellion? So much for “sticking with the OT” if that actually materializes. One more immersion-breaking reason to not play Battlefraud.
the only thng I am interested in regarding Battlefront is a singleplayer. No singleplayer, no money from me.
There are mission to play through and a survival mode. The lack of a proper campaign was needed to put all focus on the gripping multiplayer aspect of Battlefront.
“all focus on the gripping multiplayer aspect of Battlefront”
funny shit right here
It is gripping. Trying to take down a lumbering AT-AT is intense and really exciting. Other examples include pursuing an enemy fighter in the sky, having a hero/villain clash with one another, etc.
Do you work for EA? That crap gets old. Especially in fighter squadron with the horribly unbalanced gameplay.
Unbalanced? Fighter Squadron require strategy, something you seem to be lacking my friend.
A-wing much? That is unbalanced. You are smoking some good shit (or work for EA) if you believe anything other than that.
It’s very obvious why they’re not including PT or ST content. They’re saving it for the next installment of the game. It’ll be a huge selling point for them. “Battlefront 2. Now with OT AND PT content!” It gives the consumer more reason to buy them. And they’ll continue down that path over the next game as the next game. They intentionally hold out on us. How don’t people get this?
Put in content from all 7 movies and a single player campaign and I’ll buy it. Otherwise no sale. I love Star Wars games but it’s just not worth it for me
Battlefront is an awesome game at its core with a variety of different species to choose from, customization options, and many game modes. I personally really enjoyed playing Battlefront 🙂
Who the hell are you, EA troll?
Totally agree. However, it’s too late for this game. Maybe Battlefront 2 will have all the things you mentioned. In the mean time, I’m waiting for details of Viceral’s Star Wars title. I seriously hope it’s great
I’ve Never played Knights of the Old Republic so would love that to appear sometime down the line. Since it’s made by BioWare who is owned by EA who have the rights to make Star Wars games for the next 10 years, I’m hopeful. I was watching some video of it online yesterday and that’s a beautiful game that deserves a remaster. And hopefully they bring it to consoles this time around. While they’re at it, make a remaster of Part 1 and 2. As far as the action and the time line, would love to see that in live action personally someday
Knights of the Old republic I & II actually were on the original xbox, too!
Outstanding games. A third one would be a dream come true 😀
They should bring it over to PlayStation. I don’t have an Xbox so I never played these. A lot of people consider them the best Star Wars games ever
Lucky for you you can get them and many other exceptionally-better-than-this-garbage games on steam for 23 bucks.
On top of their other issues, they seriously need to support splitscreen for multiplayer. That was an awful move on their part. Good for business, sure. I know several people going out and buying an extra ps4/xbox one with online accounts to play with their friends.
Why, so it can be hyped only to be quickly judged before going to FTP?
“I highly suspect that the free content will include some of the old maps
from the two original LucasArts/Pandemic Studios games (since
there wouldn’t be nearly as much work done to integrate existing code
into a new title).”
Um, no. They’re based on entirely different codes that won’t mesh. The graphics systems are totally different. None of the assets from the originals will integrate into the new game. It’s easier to make something from scratch. The free DLC probably won’t be new content per se, which they can make money off of, but maybe expanding some existing game modes — fingers cross, just expanding single player access to some multiplayer modes that already use AI bots (e.g., Fighter Squadron).
As good as the graphics are, this game is boring as hell.