Star Wars Battlefront Sequel Eyes Autumn/Winter 2017 Window.

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In this week in “Well, duh!” news, a DICE representative has confirmed that their follow-up to the wildly-successful Battlefront will be released slightly before Episode VIII comes out in order to take maximum advantage of Star Wars hype.

 

 

From GamesRadar:

Electronic Arts has indicated that the next Star Wars Battlefront game will come out in fall 2017. The company had previously said the multiplayer shooter would arrive sometime next year, and EA chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen confirmed in a conference call with financial analysts yesterday that it would arrive “a year from now” – just in time for the holidays. “We’re working very hard on making sure that it’s an extremely deep and engaging offering,” Jorgensen added before moving on to other upcoming EA titles. Yeah, earnings calls aren’t typically the place for hot new gameplay details.

 

So far, the only thing that we know about the Battlefront sequel is that the Sequel Trilogy will be represented in the game in some capacity (as mentioned on The Star Wars Show). After all, the video that EA brought to E3 explicitly showed concept art of a battle on Starkiller Base. There’s still no word on whether or not the Prequel Trilogy being represented because of DICE’s quietness on their project so far, but given that a number of fans made their grievances heard about the Battlefront reboot and that DICE has made it clear that they’re listening to what the fans want since the game’s initial release, it’s likely that they’ll include something in the future. (Battlefield 1 has very clearly established that DICE are willing to take a step back – so to speak – to allow for a different kind of warfare to be represented in their games.) It has also been confirmed that a single-player campaign was outright cut from the reboot due to DICE having to meet a deadline, which is something they’ve strongly implied that they’re going to remedy with the sequel (although they’ve made no promises as of yet).

 

I personally would have preferred it if they chose to wait until the movie is released on Blu-Ray in order to give the developers more time to add content to the game prior to the DLC blitz – if the base game feels like a complete experience to most players, then the sequel can avoid facing the same criticisms of Battlefront lacking content at launch. However, I can understand the business model going into this – in spite of the criticism, Star Wars Battlefront was far and away the highest-selling Star Wars game in history with over 13 million copies sold, and the title’s financial success has probably given EA a lot of leeway to potentially extend their licensing deal with Disney. It’s possible that if they get a superior sequel out in time for the next movie, they might do even better. DICE has consistently put a lot of content out for Battlefront since the game was launched, so it’s likely that they’ve already been devoting a good amount of resources to developing content for the game’s sequel – and it’s also likely that with the sequel’s continued use of the Frostbite engine, most of the assets from the original can be reused.

 

There’s still no word about the exact date in December in which the final DLC expansion (Scarif) for the Battlefront reboot will hit, but the game’s sequel will be arriving sometime in the Autumn/Winter season of 2017. If the pattern of biennual releases continues, we can probably expect a third game to arrive in the same window in 2019 – just in time for Episode IX.

 

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

31 thoughts on “Star Wars Battlefront Sequel Eyes Autumn/Winter 2017 Window.

  • November 5, 2016 at 7:34 pm
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    The game will be so lackluster with only TFA as a base.

    • November 5, 2016 at 8:29 pm
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      Yeah, we already got a Lego game about it

    • November 5, 2016 at 10:45 pm
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      ?? all it said was that the sequel trilogy will be represented, not that its the entire content.

    • November 6, 2016 at 1:17 am
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      That’s a wild assumption.

  • November 5, 2016 at 8:21 pm
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    I remember the falling out when Valve introduced Left 4 Dead 2 after 1, and then subsequently added in most of the original maps and characters into it, so I wonder if Battlefront 2 will come out and they’ll slowly port over the maps and things from 1 into it, essentially making it both games in one.

  • November 5, 2016 at 9:17 pm
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    Can’t wait to buy all 3 levels of this game for $70 + $100 DLC.

    • November 5, 2016 at 10:52 pm
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      are we buying a video game or a time share at this point?

    • November 6, 2016 at 2:56 am
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      That’s hilarious!

    • November 7, 2016 at 10:04 am
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      Wait it out a year if you really want it – Ultimate Last Gasp Edition of the first one just hit pre-order for November 18 at $39.99 with all DLC, Season Pass, and Scarif included. I’ve got such a backlog of games to get through that one lousy year isn’t gonna kill me if, miracle of miracles, EA relases something worthwhile.

      • November 7, 2016 at 9:43 pm
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        A miracle indeed.

  • November 5, 2016 at 10:46 pm
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    more worlds, more maps, more gameplay variety, and more offline content. thx.

    • November 6, 2016 at 12:15 am
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      Don’t forget different timelines and more characters!!! FAK!!!

    • November 7, 2016 at 4:57 pm
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      will it have a campaign? Couch co-op? That’s what i’m interested in.

  • November 5, 2016 at 11:01 pm
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    I’m still of the belief that DICE’ campaign mode for the game was always going to be used as a selling point for their second Battlefront game. Those tricksy bastards.

    Still, I just want to be a 212th attack battalion trooper, mowing down crab droids on Utapau. Is that too much to ask, Disney?

  • November 5, 2016 at 11:08 pm
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    EA already blew it with me. Not another dime.

  • November 5, 2016 at 11:25 pm
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    I want to see how good they can make scarif DLC. The sequel better have way more customization with guns, ships, soldiers even light sabers world be cool.

  • November 5, 2016 at 11:42 pm
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    If it’s like the first one no thank you…I expected more than a arcade shooter from DICE, something along the line of the Battlefield series..This games is much more like CoD then anything else, and the vehicles are pathetic…add the price of the total package to this, and you got a pricey shitfest

  • November 6, 2016 at 12:08 am
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    Not hyped at all. I bought the first one, and while its not as bad as some people make it up to be, it really feels like a demo for a half finished product. I havent played a game with this little amount of content before thats for sure.

  • November 6, 2016 at 12:17 am
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    I enjoy Star Battlefront for what it is, but a sequel or prequel setting needs to be so much more that what we’ve had so far for the price. I’m more interested in Red Dead 2 or even Ghost Recon for next year at this point.

  • November 6, 2016 at 2:59 am
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    They could basically give BF2 an update with graphics and wiped the floor with what they give us last time. EA…..blahhhh, my kids hate em. And so do I.

    • November 6, 2016 at 9:14 pm
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      Apperently its a good business model since Battlefront was the best selling Star Wars game of all time… Its sad that DICE, this amazing studio is their pawn to create this model for them… Their deadlines are just too short to make complete games, so they double the money for so it seems twice the content while in reality its the full game when all DLC’s are released. But hey since everyone keeps buying their games like this, its not going to stop.

      • November 7, 2016 at 3:55 am
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        It was the hype…betting the new one won’t touch those numbers.

        • November 7, 2016 at 4:25 pm
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          Yep you are right, but it will still sell enough to make it worth the efford.

  • November 6, 2016 at 3:54 am
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    Please bring it to steam, that would be awesome

    • November 6, 2016 at 9:11 pm
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      Lol man Origin belongs to EA, how can you even hope that they will bring it to steam? I mean Origin was created to compete with Steam (not very successful) but this means that all their games are released on Origin (PC games) and nowhere else

  • November 6, 2016 at 8:07 am
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    Sequel trilogy will be in the next game? Hope I can play as Kylo Ren this time around.

  • November 7, 2016 at 3:25 am
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    Just give us SWTOR class storylines instead! KOTFE and KOTET are pointless! Stop trying to make Kotor happen inside of SWTOR! #SwtorIsItsOwnGame! #MakeSwtorGreatAgain!

  • November 7, 2016 at 9:26 am
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    I’m incredibly wary of this. Front was an audio and visual treat… and it stopped there. Hopefully this new one will actually have the depth and fun it needs to be a more engrossing experience. It was such a waste of absolutely outstanding assets.

  • November 7, 2016 at 9:58 am
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    Pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition that was just listed on Amazon – all DLC, season pass, plus the Rogue One content. Ended up cancelling it when I started reading that Couch Co-Op is STILL, months after launch, confined to Walker Assault and Starfighter Squadron only. There is simply no excuse for that – the bots function in goal-oriented maps, so there’s no reason they can’t function in more simple skirmish modes.

    • November 8, 2016 at 12:32 am
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      online multiplayer will be the death of modern shooters.

  • November 7, 2016 at 10:50 am
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    EA has fed the market with one SW fps-game. You really need to make the second one great to even touch the sales numbers of the first game.

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