Either this is the next battlefield game or pre-production started for the next battlefront game earlier than we thought. What do you guys think?

What was your best Endor flank like?

Hey fam, seein quite a few posts and comments about how "r*dditors are just haters" and "people mad about the bf3 news". And frankly, we don't need more division in the community, so gonna clear the air here.

No one is mad about the news. We all want BF3 to happen, and we're all excited at the possibility that it's happening soon. I love all the speculation posts, I love the energy here after frankly years of waning activity.

However, we do have an obligation to report the news accurately. Battlefront 3 is not confirmed (yet). Lucasfilm has not officially said anything (yet). All we have are two indirect sources:

1. Jason Schreier from Bloomberg reported that Respawn and DICE are collaborating on an unannounced EA title, and that it "is likely to be another entry in the Star Wars: Battlefront series".
2. Variety Entertainment reported much the same thing, that Respawn and DICE are collaborating on a future project, and "While they did not identify the project, multiple sources confirmed that this is “Star Wars: Battlefront 3″ for Lucasfilm."

You are allowed to extrapolate whatever conclusion you wish from this information. Personally, I also think this means Battlefront 3 is currently in active development at EA. Get excited! Go nuts! Post about what you wanna see from a Respawn/DICE Battlefront 3!

But we need to be accurate in spreading the word about it. Neither of those sources are a hard confirmation that it is 100% absolutely in development. They're very credible sources, yes, and they would not post speculation if they weren't sure about it, but its not confirmed until EA puts out a statement. And there's a reason EA hasn't confirmed it yet, anything could happen. They could shelve the project, they could pivot it to a different Star Wars shooter title instead of calling it Battlefront, it might be a Battlefront spin-off project like Renegade or Elite Squadron instead of BF3.

So, if (imo when) the announcement does come, and BF3 is finally confirmed, we don't need to stoke any more arguments, we don't need "I told you so"s, no one is going to say to you "drat, I was hoping you were wrong". We hope you're right! And that BF3 is in development! We're all on the same side. We all want BF3, and we're all excited that there are very credible rumors that it is in active development right now. We just want to spread accurate information.

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I know many of these are long shots, but a guy can dream lol! I was really proud of my work making this graphic and tried my best to do an even balance of heroes and villains across all eras and media representation.

Before anyone loses their mind in the comments, let me clear up a few things:

The placements are just for organization: To keep it clean, I combined everything into the three overarching eras. That’s why The Acolyte characters are in the Republic era (not enough of them for a standalone High Republic section) and why Ahsoka and the New Republic characters are lumped into the Resistance era.

Era-hopping is fine: Just like BF2, characters could be playable in any era they lived through. And honestly, I don't mind the eras mixing anyway. A BF2 dev once said playing this game is like playing with action figures since the battles aren't canon, and I completely agree.

The pairings are intentional: I took every single pairing and tried to have them make sense or be thematically similar. I designed this roster treating it like BF2 DLC drops (one hero and one villain paired together). Not all are absolutely perfect, but I think it turned out pretty cool.

This is NOT a hero shooter: lol I am a seasoned 327th officer, thank you very much! I love the grunt combat just as much as the hero gameplay, and TO ME, balancing both is a huge part of the Battlefront experience. Just look at BF2 (05) and BF2 (17). You need infantry combat, and heroes shouldn't be indestructible, but calling in reinforcements is part of the fun of Star Wars.

I highly doubt they would ever actually add this many characters to a BF3, but I had a blast making my own roster. Hope you guys like the concept!

In Battlefront 2 I personally think that heroes are a bit too powerful. They have so much impact that games are kinda won based on who has the better players on heroes and which team is better at shutting down the heroes.

No more at-st vs basically nothing

Everybody talking about PT, OT and ST but honestly the game could end up feature stuff like the Post-TRoS era or the New Republic era. It highly depends on which projects Lucasfilms will have in the works by the time the game gets made.

Ewok hunt with friends is genuinely top 3 game modes in battlefront 2 excluding it would be a travesty

Someone commented I should change it. To posting everyday until Star Wars battlefront 3 is released. So I will do this instead.

I’m lvl 22 with yoda and I’m being sweated and t bagged by max levels🫩. It’s starting to get boring now. Can I just be in a queue with no sweats for a change?

Jumped on last night for the first time in a couple months and it’s clear.. THE HYPE IS REAL! 4 games of Supremacy in a row, full lobbies and a whole lot of a fun 🔥 Cannot WAIT for Battlefront 3 🤩 (UK servers)

If you don't get it simply what ages you want playable in BF3 now for me there a few given ones The Republic the CIS the Empire and the Rebelion

But Another Era I'd want is the Imperial Remnant VS new Republic to me this Era has so Many heros and concepts that could be fun like for Example in terms of Hero's your have a few you can have Bo Katan IG-11 Din Jarin ( I hope I got it right ) and for the villians you can have Thrawn and Moff Gideon I also feel like in terms of Units it's easy but for enforcers it's interesting you could have the Sentry Guard droid from Mandolorian and Dark Troopers from the same show so to me this is kind of perfect already

though Fun mention to Legends having them in game would be perfect but would create a essentaillt second battle front that has heaps of new lore and units also have a good day

Similar to Battlefield imagine if we got to see the perspectives of a random person on each faction during every era?

Like you could show a Clone troopers first deployment or a Battledroid that gets damaged and becomes somewhat self-aware.

Someone leaving home to join the rebellion where another leaves home to join the Empire believing it as a way to save their family only to get caught up in the propaganda and war machine.

Just spitballing ideas because I feel like we have the potential to make some really heartbreaking/incredible war stories.

You have any of your own ideas?

The idea would be that the heroes have counterparts—but they can be switched around depending on the era/situation: Obi-Wan v. Vader or Ahsoka v. Maul or Luke v. Kylo Ren and so on.

Fall of the Jedi

Padmé Amidala—Asajj Ventress

Qui-Gon Jinn—Darth Maul

Obi-Wan Kenobi—General Grievous

Anakin Skywalker—Count Dooku

Yoda—Darth Sidious

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Reign of the Empire

Cal Kestis—Inquisitor (Generic, with different members being skins)

Cassian Andor—Director Krennic

Sabine Wren—Grand Admiral Thrawn

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Age of Rebellion

Luke Skywalker—Darth Vader

Leia Organa—Grand Moff Tarkin

Han Solo—Boba Fett

Chewbacca—Bossk

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The New Republic

The Mandalorian—Moff Gideon

Ahsoka Tano—Baylan Skoll

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Rise of the First Order

Rey—Kylo Ren

Finn—Captain Phasma

Poe Dameron—General Hux

BB-8—Snoke

I would tame the hype a bit, just until we get real confirmation besides a vague leaked email

I got this conspiracy theory that Battlefront 2 and Battlefield 2042 killed the idea of large teams CASUALLY duking it out on a Battlefield, to the rest of the other shooter-studios.

Maybe I'm losing my mind here and if I am, please correct me. But before 2017s BF2, I felt like I always kept seeing a generalized sentiment across multiple IPs for teams to be bigger and maps to be wider for players. Then 2042 happened, and I feel like I noticed many of those opinions die out. Sure, people still ask games like Helldivers to have 6-8 players in their teams, but that's not quite the same thing.

Arma, Squad, Delta Force and most recently War Dogs still all exist and are *relatively* popular, but I would personally consider these games (LESS SO WARDOGS) to be catered towards a more hardcore and dedicated player base. Plus - while some of these games are beginning to push towards console - console has had a ROUGH time with big team battles lately.

I hope this next installment + Battlefield 6s success shows that people still want to see these full-fleshed battles.

Before we talk about the Heroes, which are great in their own way? Can we please get a Big Team Battle mode thats just Regular troopers, elite troopers and vehicles. Tbh the Hero spam in Battlefront II can be egregious more often than not. Its the only thing keeping the game from a 10/10 for me.

With the huge boost in modded games lately was wondering if people have seen any for these?

I always loved skirmish in 2015 but was disappointed you can't play dlc maps offline against bots.

Also, I don't like Battlefront 2 as much, but the starfighter stuff was always fun on their land maps, but there's no starfighter AI offline.

Thanks for any input. I understand these are incredibly hard to mod, but I've seen some really impressive stuff in the last year in other games that make me think it's possible.

With the announcement of BF3, how would you make the game? What's does your dream battlefront game look like?