Oh shee what up tho

Just like Twilight Company for the first one, now we have Inferno Squad for the second! Nice one passing that along, Dee Dee chan!

But to be honest I'm more stoked on Maul lol

The new trailer is out!!!

Omg!!! We play as an Imperial trooper, she's an elite soldier in the Inferno Squad and her story spans 30 years ingame! Apparently her father loses his life aboard the Death Star and she seeks to avenge him and The Emperor by destroying the Rebels! Yes!!! This is so awesome!

Khajiit hopes they trained her to shoot straighter.

Did khajiit watch the trailer? They shot pretty accurate... for stormies

Nah, didn't watch the trailer. Never got into Battlefront. It's multiplayer right?

Nah, didn't watch the trailer. Never got into Battlefront. It's multiplayer right?

The B-Front games are both single and multiplayer. From the vids I have seen, the SP side of the game is just a straight shoot-em-up, where you clear objectives and kill everything on the map. The MP side is the same - like all multiplayer - except with people screaming homophobic insults in your ear every 5 seconds.


In other news Sabine now has company on my desk

In other news Sabine now has company on my desk

A lot of potential for a really great story here. For now I'm just relieved to see a bit of Star Wars stuff that isn't "REBELS GOOD, EMPIRE BAD".

Mark Thompson, game director at EA’s Motive, said the Battlefront 2 team wanted to go beyond the heroic stories of the Rebellion to explore a new frontline of war.

“We wanted to give the Empire heroes in that same way,” Thompson said during a preview event at Star Wars Celebration 2017. “Who are the elite soldiers on the battlefield who strike fear into the rebels? Who are the elite pilots that kids growing up look up to and aspire to be?

“We settled on this idea of telling a story from the Imperial perspective. The idea of special forces soldiers gave us this chance to become a new hero.”

"The main character Iden Versio — who is voiced by actress Janina Gavankar (True Blood, Sleepy Hollow) — was born and bred on Vardos, an entirely new planet in the Star Wars universe. Vardos, a sleek, sterile looking world, represents the utopian vision of Imperial rule. To Iden and the citizens of Vardos, the Empire symbolizes structure, peace and order. The Rebellion represents chaos, a terrorist organization that threatens the safety of the galaxy."

“We never describe the Empire as the bad guys [in Battlefront 2],” Thompson said. “We never say Iden is a villain. We present the other side of the conflict.”

The developers basically asked: "What did members of the Galactic Empire do when the Death Star blew up? How did the Imperial soldiers on Endor feel as they watched their dreams of a stable galaxy burst into flames, right in front of their eyes? What did they think as they watched their friends die?"

"This is the Star Wars universe as seen from a new perspective, where the Galactic Empire is "good," and the Rebel Alliance is a violent and misguided effort.

"We've heard a lot about the heroes of the Rebellion in the Galactic Civil War, and we wanted to give the Empire heroes, We began from the question of, what does it mean when you take off that helmet? And in a very different way than Finn in The Force Awakens," Lucasfilm Creative Executive Steve Blank says. "He takes his helmet off specifically to defect. But what does it mean for the day-to-day stormtrooper who believes in this, who is a part of this, what happens when they take off that helmet?"

Thompson jumps in: "You take off the helmet in disbelief when you see the Death Star explode, and then you put it back on with a renewed determination. That becomes a powerful, character-defining moment."

"Iden's father is an admiral for the Empire, while her mother designs recruitment material for the same faction. She grows up on Vardos, an Imperial planet and society that she adores. Iden is a picturesque Imperial soldier who truly believes in the cause."

"She is so committed, she is so invested, that she puts all of her energy into being the best within the Empire," Blank says. "So she ultimately gets to that top spot and becomes a special operative. She also carries with her all that it means to be a special operative: she is collected, she is focused, she is powerful and she is a commander. They vow revenge on the Rebels, who are seen as terrorists who threaten peace and order in the galaxy."

“It was the idea of the explosion [that] the Death Star II is seen as a victory,” Thompson said of the story’s genesis. “That’s how it’s framed: a celebration.” But Motive Studios wanted to “turn that victory into a loss” for its main characters, to strengthen and reinforce their imperialistic beliefs and make them think “I want to avenge my emperor.”

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OOOOOOOOH YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHH

DUDE IT IS TIME

ENPOWER ENFORCE ENLIGHTEN

FOR THE EEEEEEEMMMMPPPPIIIIIRREEEEEEE

OH DAMN BO KATAN

Was watching The Force Awakens before coming to work today. Man Khajiit likes the look of the standard rifle the Stormies are carrying!

Ah yes the E-11 Blaster rifle----oddly enough out of all the blasters in Battlefront the E-11 has served me well, it's powerful and has good range it's a pretty decent blaster .