The main story is ok I guess, but the DLC really didn’t give us enough. The First Order’s origins need to be explored more on-screen since it never really was, which definitely a problem with the Sequel Trilogy: lack of explanation.
It's because the sequels are just a lazy retelling of the previous films. They used the formula of "authority bad, resistance good" swapped some names and genders around, then cashed in their checks. They don't have an origin story for how a powerful political faction could find supporters, benefactors, and soldiers from the ashes of a defeated Empire because it never occurred to any of the executive leadership to think about that. They didn't care about making a complex and entertaining story. They just wanted to get paid. Should have made a bounty hunter trilogy instead. Would have matched their creative ideology.
Reminds me of a video by the Templin Institute, where they basically redid the background lore of the Resistance and First Order. I really liked how they changed it. It was a bit different than in the movies, but was so much more thought out and seemed like it would be plausible to happen and develop how they wrote it. All to say, I wish we got a background and overall version of the First Order more like that one.
@@ajthereptile The Millennium Falcon for example, the one we all know and love can be destroyed, but its not actually the only YT-1300 in existence, but they are all "one of a kind" due to the fact that they are easy to customize in many ways.
@@ajthereptile What I'm saying is, the Corvus is only the name and the memories made aboard it, that's what make it unique. There are probably hundreds of "Corvus's" that were produced, we just don't see them all.
Space battles in the movies makes it seem like they’re flying and fighting at break neck speeds while the games make it feel like you’re just cruising through your neighborhood at night while smoking a joint. At least the latter is a lot more fun in actuality.
I replayed the DLC story mode for couple of times and discovered new stuffs in it. One of which is the Hidden orbital strike binocular in game, kinda funny seeing first order star destroyer firing on it's own army with it.
I personally didn’t really like it. The most skilled and prestigious soldier of the Empire defecting to the Rebels within 3 missions was disappointing. Iden should have stayed longer with the Empire
The book was better. A lot better. In my opinion. Crazy cause it was probably meant to tie in to the game but I honestly think it works better the other way around. If no one here ever tries the game I'll always recommend you at least consider the book. To me it really is that good and now I can't help but call coffee Caf
One of the developers exact line in OFFICIAL advertisement was that youd be able to play the ENTIRETY of the campaign as the Empire. Well that was clear false advertisement
In case some of you don't know, Zay's and Shriv's story continues in a novel that sets up how the Resistance finds additional troops for episode 9. Spoiler sort of: Most of the additional troops are former imperials who prefer what the New Republic offered them over the Empire. Can someone please reply with the name of this book, I can't remember the title off the top of my head?👇
There’s cool ideas at play that help make the story standout: the corpo people who still use clone wars vessels for their versatility, exploring a planet destroyed by Operation Cinder, seeing Starkiller destroy Hosnian Prime while exploring, flying into the Resurgence and stealing the plans for the Matador. It’s just the pacing and odd choices hinders the rest of the dlc making it more confusing than fun.
I was perfectly fine with her turning to the rebels cuz it’s literally Star Wars but I just wish they would’ve fleshed out her time with the empire a little more.
Honestly the book really made it seem like there wasn't going to be many reason Iden would even consider defecting. That undercover mission was so fucked and she still decided to just keep being an imperial. Feel like the writers for this game just got told by Disney to make it a good guys story anyways
@@fuoco1365 yeah seemed like they were writing two different stories at once. I haven’t played the game myself but why does Iden defect to the rebel’s in the game
The only Star Wars video game that has a campaign with an imperial main character that doesn’t defect that I know of is Squadrons (absolutely underrated)
I played the whole story, dlc too, and the first part of the story I really liked, every mission was fun, but they definitely should've done like 4 or 5 more missions with more elaboration on Iden's transition into the Rebellion. Like a spy mission where you make more use of her silent takedown ability like you do in the first "mission" of the game and you're actually looking for her father or something like that.
"Let's get that in Battlefront" Yeah, i would be surprised if we see a Battlefront this decade, or any SW game, but hey, Revan's Revenge is coming to EaW!
I just want a starwars game or really any game to actually let you be the bad guys. I'm sick of "hope, love and friendship" winning the war, I want to watch it all burn and have the bad guys win. It's why Revenge of the Sith is such a great movie, it doesn't do the typical "good guys seem like they are losing then bring it back at the end for a shocking win". Some times people need to see no matter what you can still lose.
I was so disappointed that they shifted it to yet another story of the rebellion. I understand maybe Disney/EA were sensitive to telling a story from the point of view of "space Nazis" but I think they could have still told a story from Iden's POV and kept her in the Empire.
I think the story was pretty cool I just think they could have put a little more effort into introducing more of the characters. Also its pretty neat that there is an alternate ending for ressurection if you kill hask before or after he kills you. Additionally something I noticed is that the difficulty kind of makes certain encounters more annoying seemingly arbetrarily. Lastly I think the stealth idea for the story was really weird choice. But honestly I really liked that there was a dlc and they put thought and effort into a decent story for a shooter game.
Disagree with the statement that there was a bunch of content on release. It took them 2 years to even match the content the original Battlefront 2 had from 2005!
I remember when I first played the dlc and actually thought the sequel trilogy was going to do something with the remaining characters and their mission in the end. I never forgot about it and became so disappointed when it was never used even by the events of movie 9
Finally it’s gone long enough for people to realize it isn’t crap. It’s like this with all video games, no matter how good or bad they are. Ppl will hate on it before and on release then 10 years later say that it’s the best game ever -_- There should be a word for that
I have like 80 days on battle front 2 and I only played the campaigns to get all of the achievements and never touched them again. I remember the ai being so bad that it wasn’t any fun and the story was forgettable. The multiplayer is amazing though.
I love your videos. This one though. I couldn’t watch all of it. Only because the volume of the audio of your dialogue and the volume of the audio the video game your playing are at very similar settings. So the whole video I heard a a mix of you and the video game and it was hard to Focus on what you were saying. Along with trying to focus on what was happening in the game itself. ❤❤❤ I love your content just some constructive feedback for the future.
Maybe it would have been lazy but if they were gonna defacto her at all it should have been towards the end of the story similar to Darth Vader in RotJ. Every command, mission, and objective pushing her to seeing the flaws and coldness of the empire but she would have been stubborn and kept pushing to be the best Storm trooper and leader of Inferno Squad. I think I would have liked it if Iden struggled more internally. Choosing to try to stay ignorant and keep to her post but also realizing the actions she has to do and sometimes she reflects what she does. she ONLY changes sides at the last and only opportunity. Such idea I had was she sees they target her home planet by blazing it so her turning point is here where she is tasked to find and stop a reported resistance sabo team. Instead when she finds them she helps them preform their duty with Hask finding her as a betrayer and Del siding with her as he always did leading up this moment. Her and Del protect them to finish the job, then are offered to further help the resistance. The issue is Hask comes in and tries to get her to "die with the ship" kind of moment and succeeds though with her help the sabo team escapes. Maybe Del also dies with her or he gets to leave. Just depends on what would feel better, I guess. Honestly, Idk if that would exactly be better but at least you played as the bad guys all the way up until then with a character that hopefully be convincing and likable as you see she is devoted to her craft all the way through but she is thoughtful and considerate as she has her conflict mentally. Until she realizes how many innocent lives have been affected by the empire's iron grasp for galaxy wide terror and knows what to do to change her ways.
Wait, so that conversation at about 20:27 went from killing Hask, then talking down from killing Hask, to killing Hask with side missions? Was that supposed to be an emotional moment?
That’s the reason I didn’t like this Battlefront, i never play multiplayer and the story I didn’t like, I didn’t like the idea if project Cinder, I didn’t like the turning to Rebellion, and the story overall felt flat and boring sure, some missions were cool to play, but the game leaves you with nothing
God the campaign was just such a letdown after they false advertised the game as an imperial focused story That and they diverted from the actual inferno squad book that heavily emphasized how loyal Iden was to the empire
How do you rate the Battlefront 2 story mode DLC?
Bad
Please play bf2015 again
Yes, it is pretty active on console if you use US servers at thd right time@baradmemarkermani2184
It's just, eh...
Meh just like the last Jedi was alright when you first do it but not worth a replay
The main story is ok I guess, but the DLC really didn’t give us enough. The First Order’s origins need to be explored more on-screen since it never really was, which definitely a problem with the Sequel Trilogy: lack of explanation.
No bruh, the story of Iden turning good was such a let down. I wanted an Imperial story
I think we’re gonna see it explored in Ahsoka season 2 and The Mandalorian movie. I definitely think Thrawn is gonna be the mastermind behind it
Or just ignore the sequels completely.
It's because the sequels are just a lazy retelling of the previous films. They used the formula of "authority bad, resistance good" swapped some names and genders around, then cashed in their checks. They don't have an origin story for how a powerful political faction could find supporters, benefactors, and soldiers from the ashes of a defeated Empire because it never occurred to any of the executive leadership to think about that. They didn't care about making a complex and entertaining story. They just wanted to get paid. Should have made a bounty hunter trilogy instead. Would have matched their creative ideology.
Reminds me of a video by the Templin Institute, where they basically redid the background lore of the Resistance and First Order. I really liked how they changed it. It was a bit different than in the movies, but was so much more thought out and seemed like it would be plausible to happen and develop how they wrote it. All to say, I wish we got a background and overall version of the First Order more like that one.
Fun fact: the Corvus, piloted by Iden's Daughter & Shriv, were canonically present at the Battle of Exegol in The Rise of Skywlker
HOW?! We all just saw it get bombed to hell.
@@ajthereptile The Millennium Falcon for example, the one we all know and love can be destroyed, but its not actually the only YT-1300 in existence, but they are all "one of a kind" due to the fact that they are easy to customize in many ways.
@@ajthereptile What I'm saying is, the Corvus is only the name and the memories made aboard it, that's what make it unique. There are probably hundreds of "Corvus's" that were produced, we just don't see them all.
@@LoganMangus-d1u understandable, have a good day
Space battles in the movies makes it seem like they’re flying and fighting at break neck speeds while the games make it feel like you’re just cruising through your neighborhood at night while smoking a joint. At least the latter is a lot more fun in actuality.
that’s why i like squadrons, they really polished the flying for that game
I replayed the DLC story mode for couple of times and discovered new stuffs in it. One of which is the Hidden orbital strike binocular in game, kinda funny seeing first order star destroyer firing on it's own army with it.
I honestly think the story mode of Battlefront 2 is underrated . I really enjoyed it (except the DLC)
Yeah the DLC is just way more one-note tbh.
Nah bro I wanted to stay on the Imperial side I hate that she defects
I dont think it was bad just disappointing
I personally didn’t really like it. The most skilled and prestigious soldier of the Empire defecting to the Rebels within 3 missions was disappointing. Iden should have stayed longer with the Empire
The book was better. A lot better. In my opinion. Crazy cause it was probably meant to tie in to the game but I honestly think it works better the other way around. If no one here ever tries the game I'll always recommend you at least consider the book. To me it really is that good and now I can't help but call coffee Caf
One of the developers exact line in OFFICIAL advertisement was that youd be able to play the ENTIRETY of the campaign as the Empire. Well that was clear false advertisement
In case some of you don't know, Zay's and Shriv's story continues in a novel that sets up how the Resistance finds additional troops for episode 9. Spoiler sort of: Most of the additional troops are former imperials who prefer what the New Republic offered them over the Empire. Can someone please reply with the name of this book, I can't remember the title off the top of my head?👇
I actually like the DLC. I just wished they added more then one story DLC. maybe a DLC where you play as Luke the whole time, that would've been cool.
The start mission seemed more like a mission that you would play in the middle of the game
15:42 "What? Is she too old to roll now?"
I didnt even know this was DLC, i just played it without a thought
Zay and Shriv appear in the Resistance Reborn novel too alongside Rey, Finn and Poe!
Your commentary is literally every thought I had during this
Glad to see any people playing battlefront 2 dlc campaign
There’s cool ideas at play that help make the story standout: the corpo people who still use clone wars vessels for their versatility, exploring a planet destroyed by Operation Cinder, seeing Starkiller destroy Hosnian Prime while exploring, flying into the Resurgence and stealing the plans for the Matador. It’s just the pacing and odd choices hinders the rest of the dlc making it more confusing than fun.
The only good think that came from this games story mode was the the inferno squad prequel novel which is actually pretty good
Give us bombastics story! I need more like Lego StarWars
I was in 5th grade when I played the story and dlc so the story is special for me
I was perfectly fine with her turning to the rebels cuz it’s literally Star Wars but I just wish they would’ve fleshed out her time with the empire a little more.
As someone who read the tie in book inferno squad, I feel like it's generally a better empire story where they don't switch sides and stuff.
Honestly the book really made it seem like there wasn't going to be many reason Iden would even consider defecting. That undercover mission was so fucked and she still decided to just keep being an imperial.
Feel like the writers for this game just got told by Disney to make it a good guys story anyways
@@fuoco1365 yeah seemed like they were writing two different stories at once. I haven’t played the game myself but why does Iden defect to the rebel’s in the game
The only Star Wars video game that has a campaign with an imperial main character that doesn’t defect that I know of is Squadrons (absolutely underrated)
I didn’t even know there where story dlc‘s
it was just this 1
I believe there was originally three separate DLC endings, but after the second one, they just gave up and scrapped it
Thanks for the good video! I think the best story mode by far is Republic Commandos!! Great Game
I played the whole story, dlc too, and the first part of the story I really liked, every mission was fun, but they definitely should've done like 4 or 5 more missions with more elaboration on Iden's transition into the Rebellion. Like a spy mission where you make more use of her silent takedown ability like you do in the first "mission" of the game and you're actually looking for her father or something like that.
Die from a blaster but with a lightsaber you'll live...got to love this.
Yay new video🎉
"Let's get that in Battlefront"
Yeah, i would be surprised if we see a Battlefront this decade, or any SW game, but hey, Revan's Revenge is coming to EaW!
I still can’t believe how much better the graphics are on battlefront 2 compared to Jedi fallen order/survivor it’s actually insane
I just want a starwars game or really any game to actually let you be the bad guys. I'm sick of "hope, love and friendship" winning the war, I want to watch it all burn and have the bad guys win. It's why Revenge of the Sith is such a great movie, it doesn't do the typical "good guys seem like they are losing then bring it back at the end for a shocking win". Some times people need to see no matter what you can still lose.
I was so disappointed that they shifted it to yet another story of the rebellion. I understand maybe Disney/EA were sensitive to telling a story from the point of view of "space Nazis" but I think they could have still told a story from Iden's POV and kept her in the Empire.
Honestly the only times i only played this DLC was just to see how many no scope kills i could get with the NT-242
I finished this 2 times already lol! glad to see another OG still playing! (Yes I will stay Bombastic 🕶)
I think the story was pretty cool I just think they could have put a little more effort into introducing more of the characters. Also its pretty neat that there is an alternate ending for ressurection if you kill hask before or after he kills you. Additionally something I noticed is that the difficulty kind of makes certain encounters more annoying seemingly arbetrarily. Lastly I think the stealth idea for the story was really weird choice. But honestly I really liked that there was a dlc and they put thought and effort into a decent story for a shooter game.
never mind, I thought there was an alternate ending but the wiki doesn't say it so maybe I remembered it wrong
I didn’t even know it was a dlc, it just came on the disc when I bought it. It wasn’t good, but not horrible.
Disagree with the statement that there was a bunch of content on release.
It took them 2 years to even match the content the original Battlefront 2 had from 2005!
I remember when I first played the dlc and actually thought the sequel trilogy was going to do something with the remaining characters and their mission in the end. I never forgot about it and became so disappointed when it was never used even by the events of movie 9
Zay and Shriv apparently have a novel though and they appeared in The Battle of Exegol
Hi unc Andrew back with a banger❤
Finally it’s gone long enough for people to realize it isn’t crap.
It’s like this with all video games, no matter how good or bad they are. Ppl will hate on it before and on release then 10 years later say that it’s the best game ever -_-
There should be a word for that
I have like 80 days on battle front 2 and I only played the campaigns to get all of the achievements and never touched them again. I remember the ai being so bad that it wasn’t any fun and the story was forgettable. The multiplayer is amazing though.
Literally the day after I said to do it. Thanks bombastic. You will always be the best UA-camr!
i dont think you noticed it, at least you didnt say it clearly, but the planet exploding was Starkiller Base
I love your videos. This one though. I couldn’t watch all of it. Only because the volume of the audio of your dialogue and the volume of the audio the video game your playing are at very similar settings. So the whole video I heard a a mix of you and the video game and it was hard to
Focus on what you were saying. Along with trying to focus on what was happening in the game itself. ❤❤❤ I love your content just some constructive feedback for the future.
I would love a Battlefield Bad Company like Star Wars game, with 4 player coop.
The first story mode really reminds me of bad batch
Maybe it would have been lazy but if they were gonna defacto her at all it should have been towards the end of the story similar to Darth Vader in RotJ. Every command, mission, and objective pushing her to seeing the flaws and coldness of the empire but she would have been stubborn and kept pushing to be the best Storm trooper and leader of Inferno Squad.
I think I would have liked it if Iden struggled more internally. Choosing to try to stay ignorant and keep to her post but also realizing the actions she has to do and sometimes she reflects what she does. she ONLY changes sides at the last and only opportunity. Such idea I had was she sees they target her home planet by blazing it so her turning point is here where she is tasked to find and stop a reported resistance sabo team. Instead when she finds them she helps them preform their duty with Hask finding her as a betrayer and Del siding with her as he always did leading up this moment. Her and Del protect them to finish the job, then are offered to further help the resistance. The issue is Hask comes in and tries to get her to "die with the ship" kind of moment and succeeds though with her help the sabo team escapes. Maybe Del also dies with her or he gets to leave. Just depends on what would feel better, I guess.
Honestly, Idk if that would exactly be better but at least you played as the bad guys all the way up until then with a character that hopefully be convincing and likable as you see she is devoted to her craft all the way through but she is thoughtful and considerate as she has her conflict mentally. Until she realizes how many innocent lives have been affected by the empire's iron grasp for galaxy wide terror and knows what to do to change her ways.
Be cool if after the death of her family, Zay takes up the name of zorii bliss but that’s just me trying to fix the unexplained sequel trilogy 😂
A trillion likes is best goal I ever seen, certainly doable 👀
i rate it half decent. felt bored. i wish there's more dlc but no. it ended the versio story. 😢
It would be so funny if U made a game!
Me: I beat the story mode
You: yeah so
Me: On hard mode
got the game 3 days ago couldn't play yet but I am looking forward to it
You are the best andrew your videos make me lsugh so much
Guys, we are almost to one trillion likes! He'll make his DLC soon! (needed to get ahead of the game for when it happens)
i played it like concurrent with the main story so to me it just feels like a part of the campaign lmao
do u play the cod Campaigns??? PS. love the vids especially the BF2 vids from back in the day
A trillion likes guys come on
I played this when it came out. I didn’t remember that Iden, and whatever his name is died, and that they had a daughter
Zay's story is kind of concluded in the book Resistance Reborn, a "prequel" to Episode 9
I see this story in channel in past bro 😊
36:14 Look at what the Rise of Skywalker has done to poor Andrew
Star Wars Contents: *Hello There!*
i love your videos i have played this part of the story its so boring its annoying still love your vids
Been 7 years and I’m just finding out that this was dlc content (my parents got me the game with the dlc included apparently 😭)
29:30 HE SAID THE THING
"Multiplayer this, multiplayer that" kinda bugged me ngl, but, good video nonetheless
I played DLC but I didn't get into it until the pandemic happened out of boredom
The second I clicked on this video the thumbnail changed
28:10 whoah
TBH i prefer the legends timeline since it had a compelling narrative
When I played this DLC after the first storyline I was so confused why is hax still alive man I spent 20 minutes shooting down his tie fighter
i loved battlefront 2 i hope they make battlefront 3😥
Its good. Atleast, It would be if it was a different story, different characters, different time, differnet game. But, Its aight
Nothing will beat republic commando
23:19 was funny xd
28:09 ragdoll
Please do BF2015 again! 🙏
Wait, so that conversation at about 20:27 went from killing Hask, then talking down from killing Hask, to killing Hask with side missions? Was that supposed to be an emotional moment?
So are they too good to wear helmets?
That’s the reason I didn’t like this Battlefront, i never play multiplayer
and the story I didn’t like, I didn’t like the idea if project Cinder, I didn’t like the turning to Rebellion, and the story overall felt flat and boring
sure, some missions were cool to play, but the game leaves you with nothing
23:21 YOU LET ME DOWN
10/10
Play star wars squadrons again!!!
Solid story. But I will say 3 people taking down a RSD sounds unrealistic even in Star Wars logic.
Still don't understand why Idens daughter points the gun at her in that final scene its so dumb
I actually played the dlc and did I hate it? No I really thought it was enjoyable. It was a little short, but I did enjoyed it
"Iden why don't you roll?!" Dude she is litterly 56 y/o
Pretty good
honestly they should have just not had the campaign and did multiplayer only at this point
God the campaign was just such a letdown after they false advertised the game as an imperial focused story
That and they diverted from the actual inferno squad book that heavily emphasized how loyal Iden was to the empire
I did actually play this believe it or not
thats what i thought
13:03 gleb
I beat half of it then I left it then I BEAT THE REST!
We are part of the first 20 comments
Is anyone else sad when iden died
But the normal story mode video didn't get a billion likes
1 Trillion likes? Well shiiiii🤣😂
Wait, there was dlc?