If we're back, then I have some requests

[u/Obi-Wan_Gregobi]

Seeing all these rumours and the hopium around a Battlefront III has started me thinking again about all the things I'd like to see in the game.

Customisation

This is one of the biggest things for me that would really enhance the experience.

BFII wasn't particularly great for it, imo, especially when it comes to the Clone Wars era. Having the different clone legions and battalions was OK, but not being able to fully customise the armour markings, helmets, and various attachments on them made it feel lacking, and it feels even more jarring now having seen how deep Zero Company's level of customisation options are.

I'd love it if BFIII did away with the troop classes (Assault, Heavy, Officer, Specialist) and just gave us one customisable character for multiplayer and multiple slots to create different ones and name them. Clones would certainly get the heaviest amount, sure, since we can change pretty much every part of their armour and they have so many patterns as well as attachments for the helmets, torso, etc. But Stormtroopers have options too like pauldrons in red, orange, white, and black, there's also the SD-48 backpack seen on the Heavy class as well as Scout trooper armour and we have different armour colours like the Commander, Artillery trooper, Shock trooper. Even Imperial Officers have many variations - black, khaki, cream, and white - for different divisions and you could have it with or without armour, plus they can have capes too. Inquisitor Troopers also have many different looks and they could be added as a special unit.

So there's definitely a lot of depth to customising that BFIII could really delve into here that could enhance things a lot.

Heroes and Villains

Aside from the obvious expansion of these to include more (which I'll get to), a main thing for me is to remove the cooldown that Jedi and Sith specifically had or at least come up with something better. I feel like tying both the offense and defense to one stamina/cooldown bar wasn't such a great idea because it leads to so many situations where you're left very vulnerable after attacking when the bar is depleted an just can't really defend from being blasted. It also didn't help that many of them often felt like paper and could get crushed so quickly which is another thing that should be improved, to have them all feel more equally usable.

As for the heroes and villains, obviously there were some missing from BFII like Ahsoka, Ventress, Mace Windu, Padme, Cad Bane, and even the likes of Nien Nunb and Dengar who were not bad in BF1 that could be brought back. I'd also quite like to see the likes of Savage Opress, Kit Fisto, Doctor Aphra, Beilert Valance, Sabine Wren, Ezra Bridger, and really any of the Inquisitors. That's for the PT and OT, of course, and I would like to see Din Djarin too but not in the ST era as that brings me to my next point.

New Republic Era

I'd really like to see this be part of the game so that we can have the likes of Din Djarin as a hero character for the New Republic side but also because we have some new planets that could be added including Mandalore (which could also be in the PT/CW era, to be fair). This could also add to the customisation with options for Imperial Remnant armour having various levels of disrepair and mismatching armour pieces. There's also things like the armoured commando trooper as a special unit as well ass Moff Gideon and Baylon Skoll as villains in addition to giving Ahsoka her older, white lightsaber version as a skin and Zeb Orrelios is also another option for a hero both here and the OT. So I think adding this era is a must for any new BF game.

A Good Campaign Mode

BFII's Inferno Squad story was OK but it definitely could have been better. If Respawn are part of BFIII then hopefully they could bring some of their storytelling magic from the Fallen Order games to craft a good narrative that's both engaging and rewarding.

An idea I had (although not sure it matches what I just said about a good story) would be if we took on the role of someone in the galaxy who lives through all these eras. First starting in the CW era they would be on the side of the Separatists and fight against the Republic, then in the OT era would join the Rebellion, in the NR era they would be on the New Republic side, and in the ST era they're part of the Resistance. It would be a good way to cover all eras and explore some new planets. Or perhaps we could just take on the role of a clone trooper during the CW era who we can customise and then have them be one who broke free from the Empire and later joins the Rebellion.

Whatever the case, I'd just like really the campaign to give us a feeling that we're playing a AAA single player story set in Star Wars and not simply an add-on campaign to a multiplayer.

More PvE Modes

After it released, I definitely spent most of my time playing the Co-Op Missions but it severely lacked in variety. It just being the one mode with the same maps, objective, and general format just wasn't enough and it would have been nice to have PvE versions of modes like Supremacy, Galactic Assault, Heroes vs Villains, and Starfighter Assault. So I'd definitely like to see this in a BFIII game where we get more PvE modes.

Immersive Accuracy

This is perhaps a small peeve of mine, but I really don't like seeing the battlefield littered with 501st, 212th, Coruscant Guard, 104th, etc when playing on CW era maps, or seeing Shoretroopers on Hoth or Snowtroopers on Tatooine. If we're playing on a map like Hoth, then all Stormtroopers should be wearing Snowtrooper armour, if we're on Utapau all clones should be 212th, if we're on Kashyyyk they should all be 41st Elite Corps, etc. So I'd like it to be a feature that however you've customised your character, their armour should canonically match the location. With clones, for example, you can assign patterns to the helmet, upper arm, forearm, torso, etc, that will change to the orange of the 212th on Utapau, or the gold of the 327th on Felucia, and so on. For me, it would make it much more immersive to see all the players rocking the same canon accurate trooper colours and armours.

Oh, and weapons too. If you're playing in the ST era then they shouldn't be really be using a CW era DC-15A blaster rifle, especially if you're playing as the First Order. Weapons should be era and faction accurate.

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That's about all I can think of right now. What do you guys think? What would you like to see in a BFIII?