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 mild 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 latest resurgence of Star Wars Battlefront 2 gamers, Helge wrote that he would additionally wish to convey again a few of the workforce that labored on the sport. “Me, and having heard about my group of ex-colleagues, we wish to get the gang again collectively,” he posted as a response to a query about which developer would wish to come again to work on the sport.
Helge additionally commented about desirous to convey former inventive director Dennis Brännvall again to work on the sport, however that this could be tough 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 couple of years have seen concurrent participant counts for the sport staying between 1,000 and a pair of,000 on Steam (through SteamDB). Might 4, nevertheless, noticed an enormous soar 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, nevertheless, 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. After all, all of those figures nonetheless fall fairly in need of the participant depend from when the title first got here out all the way in which 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 superb galaxy that’s Star Wars is an honor, and it has continued to be a exceptional, difficult, and in the end rewarding journey for the whole workforce,” mentioned Brännvall when the replace got here out. “Realizing that we’ve a passionate group of thousands and thousands of gamers and Star Wars followers – identical 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 rapidly turn 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 latest characteristic on the rise of Star Wars Battlefront 2.
For these of you which may wish to hop again in, the title is on the market on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Fashionable consoles can play it by way of backwards compatibility.
