Before we get to the lasers, you will need to wade with me via the ridiculous murk of silly video game names. This is a mod for 2005’s Star Wars: Battlefront 2, versus 2017’s Star Wars Battlefront 2. That makes it much more attention-grabbing to anybody who devoted a number of of their early life to colonified Battlefront however bounced off its trendy incarnation. Especially so when you keep in mind Star Wars: Battlefront Three was practically a factor, and that this mod is chasing what was deliberate for that – together with a lot else moreover.
It’s been playable for years now, however the modders solely lately acquired multiplayer working. You know. The good bit.
That’s a tad ungenerous, contemplating how a lot modders “El_Fabricio”, “[GT]Anakin”, “jedimoose32” and “Luke Landwalker” have packed into their child. Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Legacy brings in maps from The Galactic Civil War and no matter period of Star War we’re at the moment in. The mod additionally consists of transformed Battlefield 1 maps, which strikes me as a bit like waving a purple flag at a monstrously highly effective company bull that might shut your venture down quicker than the Falcon can do the Kessel Run.
There’s additionally probability any well-known Star Warrer you care to call has been added as a playable character, primarily based on this list. Some of the property are from (now bust) developer Free Radical’s scrapped sequel. The one which seemed like this, and whose demise makes me unhappy.
They’re calling this newest launch a “pre-demo”, which is a foolish sufficient time period that I’m simply going to gloss over it.
You can obtain it here, although notice you’ll want to leap via some extra hoops if you wish to get the multiplayer up and working. It seems like a proper faff, a minimum of to my closely faff-averse eyes. This tutorial should help. If and while you get it working, look to the community Discord for deliberate gasoline sphere battles.
