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Battlefront II is currently at 3,99€, offers ends on the 10th of July

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STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II on Steam

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I’ve mentioned it before, but the single player campaign is worth this price. I frankly couldn’t stand the multiplayer, but the single player story is simple and fun, and has a surprising amount of content. Gorgeous graphics.
- I just started playing. The normal shooter PvP was also not my favorite, but do you really think the same of the space battles? I love it a lot.
  
  Yeah, that’s a good point. The space battles are really solid, I forgot how fun they are.

Despite steam page description
Works on steam deck pretty flawlessly
- I was on the fence about it but this random advice from the Internet pushed me over. Thanks!
  
  You're welcome! = 3
  Watch those wrist rockets
  
  Yeah I'm sold to, thanks internet stranger!
- Some folks on here said they have problems with the EA launcher on Linux. Is the steam deck different or did you just work around it?
  https://www.protondb.com/app/1237950
  
  See I saw that too.... But I just installed it...ran it and the first time it crashed but afterwards it boots without any issues
- pity about that denuvo crapware.

Is this game worth getting for a single player experience in the Steam deck?
- It's worth 4 bucks at least. I don't know how good it play on SD though, but the campaign is a nice singleplayer shooter
- This dude says it works fine on Steam Deck fwiw
  https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/19937755

Does this still have a wild amount of drm and extra launchers?
- Does this still have a wild amount of drm
  If I’m not mistaken Star Wars is still owned by Disney, of course it’ll have many many many layers of DRM.
  and extra launchers
  In my experience it’s only the EA launcher that it needs. it works on Linux despite all the bullshit.

Fuck miramax

The screenshots and two trailers make me confused whether this is even the game I thought it is from the title. I hate that it doesn't show any gameplay outside of a short scene in the second trailer.

This is a solid game for how cheap it goes on sale regularly. I mean it's pretty old now, but still.
Multiplayer can be fun, but there are a lot of bots. The Galactic Conquest mode (the Clone War one that's more like the classic BF games) can kinda drag for a really long time in some matches, but it's still pretty fun to jump in and start blasting.
- There are only bots in Supremacy which do drag on for a long time, there are no bots in the Galactic assault mode which is more linear battles with 3-4 phases.
  As I've said in other posts when sales come up for this game, it was designed as a slog, you have to grind to get good weapons and "star cards". Hackers will pop up in Galactic Assault here and there but are relatively absent in Supremacy.
  Campaign Ai is garbage, story is o k a y at best.
  Fun game, toxic community, 8 years 3k hours, will be playing till the servers die
  
  I initially got it for the story lol. Well, I think it was on Games With Gold a few years back and that's how I got it.
  Either way I enjoyed the story for what it was, trying to bridge the gap between OT and ST, and thought it didn't do a terrible job at it.
  
  If they die you'll have https://kyber.gg/ to keep going

A month ago I watched this video (9 min) which paints quite a positive light on Battlefront 2 - after the very negative reviews and community feedback after release 8 years ago.

It's worth it for the price.
General:
Explosions / killing / respawning
Lots of Star Wars location and sound-design fan service
Campaign;
Gameplay is fun, but simple. The most complicated part is just reading the controls in the settings menu since the game doesn't tell you how to do one of the first things in the first mission (the button you need is 3)
Story is basic but it works well as a sequel to Episode 6 and a prequel to The Mandalorian.
Multiplayer:
Take turns being on offence / defence
Keep playing the same class / hero character to unlock more abilities for that class / hero character
Servers are populated, even for niche locations
Replayability:
Depends
If you like regular FPS games, you might get bored of it in 10-20 hours
If you like playing the same game over and over again to slowly grind up new things, you'll probably play it for 100+ hours
Other stuff:
Purchase through steam
Running the game downloads and installs the EA launcher (but you can log in using your steam account, no need to create new ones)
As far as launchers go, the EA launcher is tiny, surprisingly fast, isn't annoying and doesn't get in the way of anything (only setting you'll change is turning off the autolaunch when you start your pc)
Achievements work through steam
Invite friends through in-game party system. This can only see your friends on the EA launcher, but you can import all your steam friends in the EA launcher in a second and you only have to do it once.

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