What Happened to STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT 2015? 

Still insane how good this game looks almost 8 years later

I might be wrong in this but I recall seeing a lot of complaining about the game not having a campaign rather than issues with the lack of space battles and I also remember people taking issues with so much content being part of expansions and DLCs that cost extra

The reason i love this game is that it captures the feel of the Original Trilogy so well, i mean the developers actually went to the real locations the films were shot and examined every detail of the practical models and costumes.

The Rogue One DLC was the best experience I ever had in multiplayer

I’ll never forget watching that first trailer the day it dropped with my friends at school, it looked like the craziest thing any of us had ever seen. I played it quite a lot and while I had fun with it I could never help but think how much better it could have been and how much more they could have done. For that reason I was so hyped for BF2’s launch and we all know how that went 😂 thankfully I got back into BF2 a while after launch when a lot of major problems had been fixed at it was awesome.

This game basically raised me, I remember begging my parents to get it for me. I miss coming home from school and hopping on to a walker assault on bespin, it's really sad to go back and play on maps that used to be full and seeing them completely empty

I remember the days of destroying a walker in one go with han :( The good old days

nothing beats the thermal imploder sound in that game it was A1

Thats so insane for me. When you compare games from 2005 with this 2015 title there is a MASSIVE graphic jump. And now 8 years later this game looks still better than most of the games which are releasing yet

The sound design on this game was top notch. If you played it with a subwoofer, it was phenomenal.

The Death Star dlc is still to this day some of the best Star Wars fun I’ve had in gaming in awhile. The attack, exfiltrate and trench run was just amazing. It’s the best dlc but I thought they really did a good job on all the dlc

This game came with my ps4 and I spent countless hours playing this game! I loved it so much! Bespin and Rouge One’s dlc was so amazing

11:27 this isn’t randomly programmed, this would happen because you move when firing. You need to be standing or crouching completely still for the pulse cannon to fire straight

I'm a Star Wars fan (at 57 years old). I'm not really a gamer. But playing Battlefront gives me the feeling of Nostalgia. And its the only game now on my creative PC.

I loved this game so much, so nostalgic and I still actually play it sometimes, (Cargo online still has lobbies btw) I played this game for like 3 years straight and unlocked absolutely everything it had to offer, such a great game and is actually my first game on the ps4 as well. Love it to this day

I’ll always love this game. Got it on my birthday from my parents and got me obsessed with Star Wars. Had so many hours on it

The Death Star lineup of modes went unbelievably hard, I remember sitting down for hours with the same lobby of people pushing through the entire DLC

Legitimately one of my favorite multiplayer games of all time. Criminally underrated

Now this, this was my childhood. Owned everything in that game! The Dark Trooper and Shoretrooper outfits for reaching 50 and 100. I even remember when stormtroopers didn’t have helmets. The atmosphere of this game is far better than Battlefront 2 IMO

God this brings back the memories. This game will forever have a special place in my heart

Wow this gave me nostalgia i have loads of memories on this game

Battlefront 1 has some of the most fun movement mechanics and gameplay of any game I’ve ever played

Han Solo blaster being locked behind a pre order was what did it for a lot of people. The thing was insanely OP and punished you if you didn’t buy the game early. No campaign and weird hero tokens you had to pick up instead of being able to earn didn’t help either. Lack of customization/progression

I miss this game in its prime so much man. I remember coming home on a cold fridays after school or Sunday after church and just grinding the shit outta this game

i adored this game and played it heavily into 2020 i gave it a lil go this year but was disapointed with the player numbers this game with all the dlcs is so damn fun

I agree that they were limiting themselves with the amount of content they could add, this game imo shouldn’t have been just the Galactic Civil War, and I genuinely think thats one of its greatest set backs, they played it too safe, Battlefront 2’s best addition was the Clone Wars Era and The First Order-Resistance War Era, despite what people will think of those two, it gave Dice more opportunities

11:20 that's not a balancing issue, you just shouldn't be moving when you shot the sniper. If you stand still it will hit with 100% accuracy always.

Love your retrospectives! Would like to see you revisit Battlefield 2042 at some point given how much it's changed since launch

Currently active Battlefront 2015 (and Battlefront 2) PC player here, I have about 5000+ hours combined in those games, just wanted to give my perspective on the game, and react to this video TL;DR: Battlefront 2015 is a multiplayer focused competitive shooter game in the SW universe. And it's great at that. Better than Battlefront 2 at that. The weapon, star card, objective and map desing balance is something that you won't find anywhere else. Hackers and lack of content killed the game for casual players as the years went on, but finding 6v6 lobbies is still possible in peak gaming hours. 20v20 is more difficult. DLCs are dead indeed. 1:07 "...but compared to the controversy that Battlefront 2 would find itself in..." the lootbox scandal was just a made up thing by the community and media to hate on EA and be the victim. Yes, you could spend money to unlock star cards and characters faster, but you could do that simply by playing the game. The star cards really don't make you that much powerful in that game, also, you could unlock your preferred star cards to level 3 (level 4 was the max) very very easily, to achieve level 4 you needed to grind significantly more, or buy crystals, but the added benefits were very negligible. 1:55 "This was a primarily multiplayer only game." absolutely agree, but I think they did it amazingly well. 2:30 in my experinece, in its prime, it was fairly easy to find lobby to any game mode, but I really don't think this game's best part is the 40 players mode or the heroes. It's the 6v6 competitive experience. Cargo (a.k.a. capture the flag) is extremly well balanced, both in terms of objective and map design. Will talk about star cards and loadouts later. 3:52 "the fact that the hero token was completely random" not true, it wasn't random. It's spawn points were always locked on a few places based on how the objective progresses. Same with the vehicle tokens. There were/are people who specifically camp these token locations and only play heroes and or vehicles. Super annoying and spineless. 3:58 "in battlefront 2 they did it in a way where you kind of earn playing as a hero as the match goes on" I agree this is better, nothing feels more frustrating than random timmy picking up a hero token, picks Luke, accidentally presses saber rush, kills you with it, then dies in the process because he doesn't even know how to block or manouver. But I would like to add that in Battlefront 2 you need to be killed, and be on the respawn menu to choose and play as a hero, they should have made a "shop" that's available when you are alive aswell. 4:43 "the quality of each update was questionable" I disagree, every single DLC was packed with quality and unique content. Also there were free content drops (weapons, maps). I would rather pay extra for that kind of service than having the "free live service model" and pray the devs add or change something meaningful after massive backlash. 5:35 "Luke's and Vader's abilities are pretty much mirrors of each other" yes and I believe that's for the sake of balance again. People often want variety, but they forget that generally comes at the cost of balance, one thing will be better than the other. Take a look at Battlefront 2, where the resistance spy and the first order sith trooper are the same class, same price, but the sith trooper is miles better. Same with the Wookie warrior vs death trooper. Or Droideka vs clone commando. Regarding the saber heroes vs blaster heroes part, blaster heroes are only stronger because of their health and or high damage output. But I don't play heroes, especially not HvV, I imagine it's rather up to individual skills, for example as a saber hero you really wanna force close quarter fights, it's up to you and to the map wether you can do it. at 8:00 about the DLC game modes, I think they were great in their on way, because they were each showing a different experience compared to the base walker assault/supremacy. What I really minded is how hard they packed those modes with heroes, to the point where the outcome was basically dependent on them. For example, Extraction (Outer Rim DLC) is a 12v12 game mode, it's way too small for an OP hero to be there, especially on a small map like Jabba's palace. Or in Sabotage (Bespin DLC) that's 20v20, but there are 4 heroes allowed for each side, but not at the same time. In first phase the rebels get their heroes, and in the second phase the empire. Since the empire got their heroes later, they generally win because their heroes live longer at the end of the match. 8:50 regarding the saber heroes being the weakest links, I don't think it's a bad thing that people who actually have to aim at their target (mostly) can achieve better results than saber heroes whose target just somewhat need to be on their screen to deal damage. 9:20 "they wanted to be in canon with that time period" I think they did it right, both staying with canon and mixing the time perioud have their own pros and cons, I'm glad one game did one, the other went the second way. 10:10 "the actual card system definitley got expended in Battlefront 2" 100% disagree :D in Battlefront 2, people almost never change their star cards on the classes. They change their entire character if they want a different experience, but that's not simple loadout mix. And the approach is not a "rock-paper-scissors" thing, there are things that you just don't have a counter to, being shocked for example. Or avoiding to die to oneshot stuff. In Battlefront 2015 the star card system is almost perfect. The amount of variety you can do with star cards to pick a certain playstyle is great, for example, berzerker trait can make any gun in the game usable. Or explosive shot. Sometimes I run double flash with bounty hunter so they recharge faster. Sometimes I run pulse cannon with jumppack and bounty hunter and snipe people from the air. I could go on... and everything has a counter. 10:40 "and you don't really know why do enemies deal more damage/you deal less damage to them" not true, if you get killed by an enemy, the game shows their loadout on the death screen. If you don't have the trait card unlocked what the enemy is using, only then it won't show. 11:00 "the star cards suffer from balance problem, along with the rest of the game aswell" not true, as I said, every star card and playstyle have their perfect star combination as a counter. For example: enemy uses bodyguard, you pick berzerker. Enemy uses shield, you pick stinger pistol or cycler rifle or ion grenade. Enemy uses powerful weapons (dlt19x, ee4, scatter gun, tl 50 etc), you pick bodyguard. Enemy uses shock grenade, you pick stim. Enemy camps a lot, you pick scan pulse. Enemy plays chicken walker, you pick ion grenade and smart rocket. Enemy plays aircrafts, you pick ion shot (except against X-wing, that's unkillable). etc etc. 6v6 game modes are perfectly balanced, 20v20 not so much. In walker assault the imps definitely have the advantage because of the powerul AT-ATs and AT-ST-s, and both factions have heroes and aircrafts. In supremacy it's better, imps only have AT-ST-s but they are still OP, can be infinitely spammed one after the other and can clear points by themselves. 11:18 the pulse cannon only has random spread if you move while you are shooting. Release the WASD (or the joystick) and it'll go straight. 11:50 the charge cards aren't technically infinite, yes but unlocking just a decent amount is braindead easy... I have never had an issue with not having enough charges, not even when I started playing the game years ago. In private match, yes you only start with 5 and need to gather more on the map, but that's a heavily competitive environment and it gives a huge tactical layer to the experience. 12:15 star card balance is not better in battlefront 2, people spawn in with their star cards instantly refreshed when they die and they can spam it brainlessly, especially with the squad spawn system. 12:43 "visually this game really holds up" 100% agreed, also wanted to add that even on the lowest settings it looks great and the optimalisation is incredible. I can get over 300 fps on low settings in 1440p while in Battlefront 2 I barely go 200. There is a video on the official EA channel where the devs show that they went to the Lucasfilm archives to capture the models and also went to the original locations where the films were shot. Amazing video. 14:00 regarding what was holding back this game from being successful, it was the content partially, not for me tho, for the casual playerbase who craves new shit like that's always better. But the main thing that killed this game is: hackers. If the game wasn't infested with those assholes it would have survived 2-3x longer than it did. 14:45 regarding the galactic conquest part, I think supremacy is the best game mode I have ever played in a video game. Besides cargo. Two equally skilled team, going toe to toe, losing the recapturing points in the last minute, truly an exceptional experience. Just an example how great a supremacy game can be: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rgrR-sPoIuE.html 15:22 "I'm pretty sure this game is beyond dead on PC" kinda yes unfortunately... finding lobbies is only possible in peak hours, and you really need to get lucky to find anything other than 6v6. Also, pray that the hackers aren't online at that time... but for years, even after Battlefront 2 was released, there was a competitive community, comprising the best few hundreds of players in the game, making clans and tournaments, even money prized ones, having exciting battles, creating tactics, playing PUGs and scrims etc... it's only been in the past half a year that it stopped. Thank you for reading :D

I remember getting this and Halo 5 back to back in 2015 since I finally upgraded to Xbox one. Man I was a freshman in college, despite both being disappointing, good times

This game was peak. Playing extraction in jabbas palace in 2016 was a core memory

I played this game so much around 2015-17, even though i'd never seen a single Star Wars film & know pretty much nothing (except the basics) about the series

This game was so fun back in the day bro, I would come home from school and couldn’t wait to play Walker assualt with my friends. The DLC made it even better with Bespin and Rogue One being my favorites ! Good memories, time flies

Man i remember having so much fun on the first death star map trying to get to and extract R2-D2 and then doing the death star trench run after

Loved this game on PS4 back in the day. I was in a good place at the time.

i miss playing this game so much. i've loaded the game up multiple times in the past few years & had such a hard time finding a lobby. i hope the community bands together one day to revive this masterpiece of a game 😭

I mostly dislike the newer battlefront games, but I will say that 2015 has the best visuals and sound design of any Star Wars game.

Highlight of this game for me was grabbing hero coin on hoth… walked through the wampa tunnel with darth vader and toward the exit a guy playing rebel infantryman ran in and stopped in his tracks… i ignited my saber and choked him lol. Loved hopping into battles on this game while listening to music.

2015 was graphics-wise the best era for the Frostbite engine: BF1/V, Battlefront and NFS 2015 had incredible graphics

I find it amazing how this video came out just recently as i have also in last 3 days been playing it on PS4 and was able to find a full walker assault lobby and many cargo matches. It brought back so many memories and i wish to play sabotage again.

This video was posted a year ago and I just got my first ever console a Ps5 and I got Battlefront 2015 on it and it is still surprisingly active, it usually takes my 30 seconds to a minute at the right time of day to find a 40 player lobby!

i remember one christmas i got the deluxe edition as a gift and it was the coolest thing being able to play as all the heroes n villains. I remember bossk being kinda op cuz he healed with each kill. walker assault the best gamemode ofc

Great video chopper. Will never forget that E3 trailer. We were all blown away by how awesome the game looked. While I was ultimately disappointed that the game wasn't more like the class based battlefront I grew up with, glad it still found a community.

I played this game so much with my brother. We lived in an area with insanely slow WiFi that made it so we couldn’t play online. We played the heck out of offline walker assault and survival! I’ll always love this game. Just wish I could have experienced the MP before it was dead

My mom bought me this game at discount from a video rental place when I was in middle school, and this is probably one of my most nostalgic games. I got it for $12 (price sticker still on the case to this day) only a year after release, it’s insane how fun and replay able the game was and each dlc was an amazing new experience to the base game. Still one of my favorite games to date

I personally loved the game for what it was. I’d play my Spotify on the ps4 while playing Heroes vs Villains. I’ll never forget the times I had, but after Battlefront 2 I couldn’t go back. I was obsessed with Battlefront 2 and what the devs wanted to do after a year or 2 of getting the game to be in a solid state. EA shut them down and I’ll never forgive them for that especially when the devs came out and said some of the planned content they had for that game.

Man I had so much fun with this one ! So much great memories ! And the dogfight ♥️

I was a, pretty much, day 1 player. This game brought me sooo many fond memories playing Walker Assault on Endor and Hoth. Only a couple years ago when my cousin and I were sailing at the coast we had a PS4 in our apartment and just played the singleplayer co-op walker assault against bots every night. Even then the game was a blast. I miss it.

I used to play this game a lot, this and the 2017 game were one of my favorites. But obviously over time I barely could find lobbies, galactic assault not at all, even though I was playing on console. And I haven't played them for a while. After all, it's good to see someone still plays that game, this video remind me many memories, thanks!

This game had better sound and graphics than the new one that came out in 2017. loved this game. sad no one plays it anymore.

On Xbox, there is a group of about 4-5 players that have driven everyone, even the hardcore fans, away. They know where everything spawns, they know all the glitches, cheats, and loopholes to win every single game. Some of them take no damage, some of them don’t run out of ammo, it’s horrible.

I just started playing Persona 5 a couple of weeks ago, and now I hear the music absolutely everywhere!

But my biggest gripe with this game was probably it’s balancing issues. From the weapons to how they split up the players into separate teams. I only won 52% of my games because almost every single time.. I was on the team that sucked ass full of noobs and casuals. It was almost always one team that was completely stacked curb stomping the other team. For example.. and this was less than a year after release when plenty of people were still playing.. I had a game on Endor (Walker Assault) that ended with my team, the rebels.. finishing the game with the walker having about 95% of its health.. I was the only player on my team with double digit kills and a positive KD while the other team didn’t have a single player with a negative KD and about 3/4’s of their team had 30 kills or more, half their team had around 40+ and 4-5 people had 50+ with two having more than 70-80.. and mind you, this was a much shorter game than usual because we only got one or two y-wings all game. That was how many games went for me.. I eventually got good enough to where I could swing the balance to 50/50 odds but sometimes my teammates were so ass, I couldn’t do shit to help them. I stopped playing in late 2017 though.. tried going back a couple years later and I turned the game off in rage after just 20-30 minutes. It was very difficult to get a game and the one or two lobbies that were active.. were only half full and FULL of sweats. On Walker Assault, as the empire.. we lost on the first round while having TWO walkers because my team was being spawn trapped by 4-5 x-wings and what rebel’s didn’t have a vehicle or hero.. were pressed right up on our spawn rocking us with the most op shit in the game, all rocking body guard, bacta bombs, ee-4’s, tl-50’s, explosive shot.. I would respawn and pretty much die within 1-2 seconds either by being strafed by an x-wing or sniped by a pulse cannon/secondary fire.. I rage quit each game after being 0-10 or worse within 3-5 minutes. And I was a pretty decent player when the game was in its hay day.. was nearly always on the podium at the end, team/game leader in points/kills and objective score.. I could’ve been “game mvp” pretty much every game if I wanted but I would usually just do whatever was needed in the moment. Either by rooting out campers, taking care of annoying vehicle campers, taking/holding objectives or pushing up to try and keep the enemy off our objectives.. but not spawn trapping. But I usually played Walker Assault and it was probably a bad game for me if I didn’t have at least 50-60 kills playing as infantry only but I was usually good for 70-90 unless I was playing as Bossk.. then I might go for 150-200+.

There is something about this game that plays better, looks better, sounds better and feels better. Or maybe because I play the heck out of it. I know we all had a good time playing.

the maps were all so gorgeous, especially jakku. I loved to stare at the skybox and watch the ships battle/fall from the sky.

So many memories were made for me on this game. I still to this day play split screen with my brother on occasion.

Battlefront was my first Xbox video game. It’s still great to hop on single player. Even with co-op being a thing.

This is the best multiplayer game Ive ever played. The same way people talk about old COD games. I had the same experience with this game. Good old fun multiplayer and this games gameplay is so much fun. Plus the DLCs were so awesome. They felt like events when everyone jumped in to check out the new maps and heroes/villians and it was so good

This was the first pc game ive ever played. I remember me and my dad heard about the game and built a computer together. I played this nonstop

This game did more justice to the Snowspeeder than any other Star Wars game! Its my favorite ship and I still play it solely to fly the Snowspeeder! 🥶🥶 Rogue Group use your harpoons and toe cables. Go for the legs, it might be our only chance of stopping them!

If you move your character when firing the pulse canon, then the shot will not fire accurately. If you're standing motionless, then the pulse canon will always fire accurately.

I started the game yesterday and struggled to find a 40 player lobby, but I found one after a 4 seconds

1v1 private split screen battle on Sullist was the definition of my childhood.

Bring this game back, fighting as heros was so fun but one day it was rare to get a server

One of the first games I ever played, christ time flies. Always had fun playing with my brother

I remember the ol days when id hop on walker assault, shoot it wiuth an ion torpedo, get a smart rocket, then an orbital strike and take it down before the second uplinks

Dude it is August 2023 and I was literally on the 19th and I was on a 40v40. Surprising. But it was awesome

Miss this game so much

this game felt the most like star wars and i made some great memories on it

It’s really sad what happened to battlefront 2 because now it’s actually good. But the damage is done and the lobbies are oftentimes empty and you have to wait for a decent while

In 2024 i played full lobby bespin,death star and outer rim. Game is still alive for me i play on ps4 european servers

I would play this game nonstop during my late middle school and early highschool years. I would get up late at night and play the game until i had to go to school, those were the times🥲

I still play it. I adored it when it came out. I bought my first Xbox One for this game. Yes it’s riddled with sweaty losers but when you get fun lobbies with genuine players. It’s really terrific! I still love it. It feels so authentically Star Wars. It’s only issue is it’s controls are a little janky sometimes.

I remember when the beta came out around thanksgiving (Canada), me and my dad would stay up for hours playing walker assault. It sucks I can't play that mode online anymore.

The biggest controversy from what I could remember was definitely the lack of content, no space battles, no clone wars, no conquest. Having no conquest was EGREGIOUS

The biggest problem with this game is the fact that without the season pass, it would about 4 hours of content, definitely not worth the $60 price at launch.

I still play Battlefront 2015 so often and I’m from Australia and in the afternoon I find 40 player modes quite easily, usually on US or Europe servers. Sometimes DLC’s run on the weekends but I still enjoy this game after I spent so long on BF2 and uploading gameplay from it!

I still play this game all the time on XBox. Weekends are, of course, best to get into matches. So many good players in this game.

Duuuuddeee i misss this man my favourite game of all time tbh

I was so hyped when I got my ps4 and bf bundle during high school it was on winter break when the game had just came out, I didn’t have a legit job at the time and I remember mowing yards just to make sure I had enough for dlc content my favorite dlc was the bespin dlc with the walker assault map, great times

i personally still love battlefront, just got off playing it about 5 minutes ago.

I remember playing the beta for this way back when, and thinking it was the coolest shit ever. Got my parents to buy it Day One while I was at school. Came home and played the absolute shit out of it. Good times.

So far great vid miss the zombies content hopefully there is a new zombies game

This was the first multiplayer game i ever played and will always hold a special place in my heart despite its flaws.

This game was the only reason I had a ps4 lol holy shit I miss this game

I remember my dad surprising me and my brothers with a new PS4 and Battlefront. So many good memories of that game

this game deserves recognition and attention only 12 players mode is now playable because it simply isn't enough players for 40

I got the PlayStation package with the special earth Vader PlayStation when this game came out, it was my first console and I was super excited. I couldn’t play it on launch day because our city lost power in a storm and a few people died, so I played it a day after launch at a hotel. When power was restored, I could never play the online stuff cause family couldn’t afford the PlayStation online features, so I played survival and tutorial missions over and over. I was so incredibly hyped when walker assault came out for singleplayer, I played hours and hours of that. I didn’t even know about the DLC or extra gamemodes, so years later I found out that multiplayer actually had unique gamemodes I never played. I never found out about star cards, or unlocking guns.

I remember this game being my childhood almost around 6-8 years old

This was my first game when i got the ps4. I remember playing this when i got home from school for years

This game was unbeatable, online was amazing, wish it was back that

I still thought Shock Troopers could only spawn when Palpatine was in the map😂

i still play multiplayer on this game to this day, i know that this might not be the case for everyone but i seem to find walker assault and cargo games quite frequently. However finding games in DLC maps can be quite hard to find. If you live in the UK there is a high chance that you will find a match in walker assault or cargo in the AFTERNOON.

I did not play a lot of games back then for a few years except for maybe quake live. Then i randomly saw a trailer for the game and thought „ oh these cutscenes are quite nice looking… wait a minute this is ingame graphics?“ and soni went down the rabbit hole of gerring back into pc gaming

13:59 DICE has been using the Frosbite Engine since 2008 in Battlefield Bad Company, and the Frosbite 3 that was used for Battlefront, since 2013 with Battlefield 4

Hoth looks so amazing at night time, I wish they had it in bf2

This game graphics wise I could believe came out yesterday

i still play this game

Spent hours of my life on this game. Loved the graphics and game play. Walker Assault was my favorite although I loved all games.

Wish I can go back to when this game first released