A massive mod turns the Squad army shooter into an unofficial sequel to Star Wars Battlefront with a much wider scope than DICE’s offerings.
A huge Squad mod turns the game into a third unofficial Star Wars Battlefront title with massive maps, online chat features, and plenty of characters and vehicles from the vast Galaxy Far, Far Away. Squad is a multiplayer tactical shooter published on Steam by Canadian developer Offworld Industries and released in 2015. It serves as a spiritual sequel to Project Reality, a mod for Battlefield 2 from 2005 that added several new game modes, factions and maps from different horizons. historic conflicts like World War II, the Vietnam War and the Falklands War.
Coincidentally, the Squad game owes most of its influence to being developed by DICE, the studio behind the 2015 Star Wars Battlefront reboot and its 2017 follow-up titled Star Wars Battlefront II. While Battlefront II received a cold reception from fans due to a perceived over-reliance on microtransactions, subsequent content updates added new worlds, characters, and game modes to the game. experience. Indeed, Star Wars Battlefront II would ultimately be considered one of the best titles to come out of EA’s ownership of the Star Wars gaming license by the time DICE announced the latest Star Wars Battlefront II Battle of Scarif DLC in 2020. Star Wars Battlefront II would be further bolstered by a successful freebie on the Epic Games Store early last year, but EA and DICE have maintained that there will be no more content for Battlefront II or any follow-up games.
In the meantime, a huge mod titled “Galactic Contention” turns Squad into a spiritual successor to the Star Wars Battlefront series, as noted by YouTuber Operator Drewski in a recent playthrough video. According to them, Galactic Contention drastically changes the look of Squad to look more like the Star Wars universe, replacing all in-game models and maps with characters, vehicles and locations from the main Star Wars movies – including the Jet Troopers. and Commander specialists. Droids. It’s been available to download on Steam for years, with frequent updates adding new goodies and features like the ability to communicate with teammates via voice chat to an even greater extent than Battlefield 2042 or Star Wars Battlefront II.
Galactic Contention might be the closest thing Star Wars fans have gotten to a new Star Wars Battlefront game in a while, as EA reportedly canceled a previously planned Battlefront 3 to allow DICE to work on fixing the many issues. techniques related to last year’s Battlefield 2042. Even after EA announced its new slate of Star Wars-based games in January (including the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor), Battlefront 3 wasn’t one of them. This apparent cancellation of the DICE-developed Star Wars Battlefront series appears to have been planned as early as the last Battlefront II support period, as game director Dennis Brannvall confirmed that there were other Star Wars Battlefront II DLCs centered around the volcanic world of Mustafar and Ahsoka Tano and Assajj Ventress, fan-favorite characters from The Clone Wars, but it was ultimately scrapped.
While EA and DICE may not be releasing an official Star Wars Battlefront sequel anytime soon, Squad’s Galactic Contention mod serves as a reasonable and possibly superior substitute thanks to its great wealth of additional content and features. Only time will tell when Star Wars fans will next be treated to an FPS experience set in a Galaxy Far, Far Away, but at least there are plenty of unofficial games and mods to provide tactical space action in the meantime.
Source: Operator Drewski/YouTube, Steam
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