Don't Expect Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Any Time Soon, Former DICE Developer Says, Despite Player Surge

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 mightiness beryllium enjoying a subordinate resurgence, but fans shouldn't expect a Battlefront 3 announcement anytime soon.

That's according to a erstwhile worker who worked connected Star Wars: Battlefront 2's unrecorded operations astatine developer DICE, who has been responding to subordinate questions connected reddit.

Star Wars: Battlefront 2, primitively released successful 2017, has seen its subordinate number emergence rapidly since the commencement of this month, fuelled by the franchise's yearly May 4 celebrations and the critically-acclaimed instrumentality of Star Wars TV bid Andor.

The game's renewed popularity has fans clamouring for much — and to beryllium fair, aft 8 years, you mightiness expect steadfast EA to person thing up its sleeve. But, according to erstwhile unrecorded shaper of BF2, Mats Holm, that is improbable to beryllium the case.

"I don't expect Battlefront 3 to beryllium announced astatine the extremity of this rally," Holm wrote, referring to the caller uptick successful Battlefield 2 subordinate numbers. "But overall, yeah, I deliberation determination are radical who are talking astir it."

According to Holm, the biggest contented holding up a caller crippled is that the bulk of the Battlefront 2 squad are nary longer astatine DICE.

"We dispersed each over," Holm revealed. "A fewer went to Ubisoft, immoderate went independent, immoderate to King, Avalanche, Star Stables, Paradox, Starbreeze, Mojang to sanction a few. Some near Stockholm to articulation crippled companies overseas arsenic well.

"Embark has a batch of the radical who made basal game, but the radical who made the unrecorded crippled did not permission successful a pack. We each dilatory drifted aft being enactment connected Battlefield."

Asked whether DICE could inactive marque a caller Battlefront crippled without its erstwhile squad members, Holm admitted helium was "sceptical."

"The unrecorded squad ended up approaching the crippled precise otherwise than the archetypal devs," Holm wrote, referring to however the squad who continued making Battlefront 2 contented post-launch turned astir the game's fortunes pursuing a shaky start. "If they went astir it the aforesaid mode arsenic before, they volition not get however we brought the crippled backmost from the abyss.

"So, if their extremity was 'let's larn everything from their work,' perhaps. If they are 'new game, Battlefield but successful Star Wars outfits' it won't crook retired well."

As of now, lone "about 3 people" are near from Battlefront 2's unrecorded squad astatine DICE, the developer continued. There's besides the contented that, for present DICE is engaged throwing each of its improvement value into getting its large caller Battlefield crippled finished.

Still, successful a cleanable universe, the developer said they would similar to spot the franchise proceed — though they wouldn't marque Battlefield 3 next.

"Hear maine retired — nary Battlefront 3 close now, but Battlefront 2 Remaster for immoderate aboriginal console is arriving successful 2027-28," the developer suggested. "Dev clip is astir 2-3 years. There is simply a laundry database of improvements that this crippled could get successful my opinion, and getting it updated was ever connected our wishlist.

"Once that is simply a success, past commencement enactment connected 3. You person a squad acquainted with engine, assets and truly could footwear disconnected processing a 3 wrong a overmuch shorter clip span, and moving connected feedback from a caller Battlefront 2 assemblage base. This would beryllium a 5-6 twelvemonth plan, but it's acold much apt to beryllium a success."

Improvements for Battlefront 2 would see cross-play, day/night cycles and dynamic upwind for each planets, a 1-vs-1 mode and more, the developer concluded.

"List is endless, but [these options] were disconnected the array arsenic we were successful live, not [original game] production," the developer concluded.

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