Surprisingly sufficient, multiplayer shooter Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been making one thing of a comeback, with the final month having seen a gradual improve in its concurrent participant counts. In gentle of this, former developer on the sport, Mats Helge Holm, expressed curiosity in coming again to work on the sport and perhaps create extra content material for it.
In a Reddit submit celebrating the current resurgence of Star Wars Battlefront 2 gamers, Helge wrote that he would additionally prefer to deliver again a few of the crew that labored on the sport. “Me, and having heard about my group of ex-colleagues, we need to get the gang again collectively,” he posted as a response to a query about which developer would need to come again to work on the sport.
Helge additionally commented about desirous to deliver former artistic director Dennis Brännvall again to work on the sport, however that this could be troublesome as a result of he has since moved away. “Dennis is a tough one to get again, final I checked he moved up north. Not ab straightforward commute,” posted Helge.
For some context on the rise in participant numbers for Star Wars Battlefront 2, the previous few years have seen concurrent participant counts for the sport staying between 1,000 and a couple of,000 on Steam (by way of SteamDB). Might 4, nonetheless, noticed a giant leap within the variety of gamers, peaking at 5,583. Since then, the variety of concurrent gamers has been seeing a gradual rise.
On the time of publishing, Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been seeing a gradual participant base of greater than 6,000 gamers. Within the final 24 hours, nonetheless, the participant depend peaked at 9,777 concurrent gamers, which rivals the all-time peak concurrent participant depend of 10,489 from over 4 years in the past. In fact, all of those figures nonetheless fall fairly in need of the participant depend from when the title first got here out all the best way again in 2017.
EA and DICE had supported Star Wars Battlefront 2 with further content material for fairly a while, with the ultimate main content material launch for the sport being 2020’s The Battle of Scarif replace. The content material drop introduced with it the eponymous Scarif as a brand new location.
“Growing characters, worlds, and experiences set on this wonderful galaxy that’s Star Wars is an honor, and it has continued to be a outstanding, difficult, and in the end rewarding journey for your entire crew,” stated Brännvall when the replace got here out. “Figuring out that we now have a passionate group of hundreds of thousands of gamers and Star Wars followers – similar to ourselves – alongside on the experience, is the best inspiration we might ever have.”
Star Wars Battlefront 2 was a hotly-anticipated title again when it got here out in 2017, however had shortly develop into mired in fairly a little bit of controversy. Whereas the sport was praised for its visuals and gameplay on the time, loads of criticisms had been raised about its lootbox-centric monetisation practices. For extra particulars, try our current characteristic on the rise of Star Wars Battlefront 2.
For these of you which may need to hop again in, the title is out there on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Trendy consoles can play it via backwards compatibility.
