A/V Battlefront II: Campaign Content (spoiler tags required for DLC story)

Of course there will be a dark side to it. Villains will be villains. I can't see us getting a straightforward Imperial world.

 

I wonder Inferno Squad will be waiting those 30 years in carbonite, so they can be unleashed once the war starts again. And so they miss out on the civil war that claims Sloane's life and Iden just wakes up to being a part of a group of foreign invaders rather then a faction in a civil war ostensibly still claiming to defend something like before.

 

Maybe. While there will obviously be a dark side to this supposed "imperial utopia", if there are enough dissidents on Vardos that you can mow them down by the dozens it kind of ruins the writers' intention that if 4 out of 5 planets recommend overthrowing the Empire, Vardos is a rare example of the fifth planet.

 

Honestly, I feel like Chris0013 probably got it - Vardos under the Empire is a perfectly nice place to live, just so long as you don't care about what the Empire is doing on other planets.

 

A little timeline nitpick: this official tweet by EA implies that Iden is 26 around the time of the Battle of Endor, which would place her birth in 22 BBY. However, this can't be right since Chapter 11 of Inferno Squad says her father brought Vardos into the Empire before she was born.

 

Well since the Republic basically turned into the Empire it really isn't that big of a deal. Just go with it that Vardos was one of the worlds the Republic brought into its side at the very start of The Clone Wars.

 

Thanks for the clarification. I'm happy to be informed that all knowledge of a pre-Imperial government is nothing more than a nightmare.

 

It's also stated that Seyn was both twenty and younger than Iden.

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Sales aren't a good representation for story importance. A lot of people never even start the campaign (that's why there wasn't one in the first game) and, of those who do, few actually finish it. Second, the people who read the comics or books aren't the same as the people who play video games (of course there's overlap). LFL has to take into account that a lot of the fandom will never see the campaign and that limits how important it can be.

 

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Definitely true. As a Walking Dead fan I can say that a lot of the people that play the TellTale games have no desire to read the comics or watch the shows. Gamers tend to be a separate category of the fandom where they are mainly just interested in gaming and not necessarily in reading books.

 

Space battles! Some stuff:

• The Unknown Regions - Resurgent Star Destroyer
  • With cameo by the fugly TIE Silencer
• Endor - Death Star Debris
  • Looks like we'll be getting some cool views of the gas giant itself
  • They'd better have a GoDV-inspired achievement
• Fondor - Imperial Shipyard
  • Looks very similar to the shield ring over Scarif. Hopefully bigger...
• Ryloth - Lucrehulk Battleship
  • Venators, Arquitens-class command cruisers, V-wings, Y-wings, ARCs on the Republic side
  • Sith Infiltrator, with cloaking
• Kamino - Research Outpost
  • Better footage of realistic Republic-era Y-wings!
  • Aiwhas
  • Yoda in a cockpit looks very silly

 

They shouldn't. Sometimes a game is a game.

But if they do, I vote for a very talented B1 with a Spaceoween mask.

 

It appears to me that Maul is in his TPM outfit and carrying his double-bladed saber every time he appears, so "it's cool who cares" is more likely.

 

If that's the case I want any faction vs. any faction. If they're going to have fun with this I hope they go all out. One of my favorite parts of the 501st Journal is CIS vs Empire, and Phase 1 clones vs Phase 3 clones.

 

I loved that trailer. The space combat looks amazing and should be a lot of fun. The graphics look great. I'm excited to attack capital ships and fly through those battles. Space combat is often my favorite, so I'm quite happy to see it receive more attention.

If they're going to combine eras, I hope they do so with entire factions rather than just heroes. Something like fighting the First Order with the Clone Army would be pretty cool. If it's just heroes I don't think I'd care much. It wouldn't detract from the game, for me, in any way, but it wouldn't be particularly interesting either. If given the choice, I'd probably disable the option, but it wouldn't matter too much. However, having cross era battles would be exciting and take advantage of the sand box style. It would also just be very cool.

I hope we hear more about the campaign soon because it is the thing I'm most excited about. I hope we get a decent length games. Sometimes shooters can be way too short. I think something like fifteen levels would be decent to give a good amount of attention to the year after Endor and the FO war. If they focused on one and then had a few missions in the other they could make it significantly shorter. Still, I hope they go for a longer game since it's a great opportunity to add to the universe and I really like Inferno Squad from the book.

Also, after that trailer, I'm excited to see more about the campaign's space combat. The Battle of Fonder will be nice to see in a trailer. Seeing those graphics in a campaign battle will be awesome. Also, the trailer makes me super excited about seeing the Battle of Jakku and I hope we see the Battle of Kuat. Both will look amazing and flying in both would be a lot of fun. And those visuals will give quite the cintematic feel.

 

Interesting that the clone wars era pilot voices weren't all clones.

 

Not sure why EA made a point that Republic officers are (all?) clones too. As I tweeted in response, W. Tarkin, W. Yularen, B. Coburn, S. Kilian, and B. Oicunn would like to have a word with them.

 

Let's not forget Admiral Dead On Arrival.