Star Wars Battlefront 2 lives, as a massive community return campaign results in a new Steam player record

Star Wars Battlefront II has been granted a new lease of life. With a community-led effort to storm back into a war-torn galaxy, far, far away, players have flocked back to EA’s sci-fi shooter in great numbers, breaking concurrent player records on Steam.

Prior to this event, the game was seeing an average peak player count of around 1,000 users each today according to SteamDB. However, starting May 4 (Star Wars day), this number started to climb drastically. It first hit a peak of 5,583 players, then continued to climb throughout the month, eventually peaking yesterday at 18,635 concurrent Star Wars fans.

Battlefront II launched back in 2017 to mixed reception, thanks in part to a horrid microtransaction model. However in the years since, the game has shaped up quite nicely! Foregoing the aspects many found distasteful at first, it proved ripe for a rigorous return to a collective of gamers hungry for some widescale PvP action.

All in all, it’s a pretty lovely moment in the history of the series. People are flocking to social media to show off the game in all its wackiness, as well as its capacity to create cinematic moments. Take this post, from user Alej on Twitter, which shows a small snippet of the game in action. Fast-paced gameplay with ships flying all over the gaff, kicking up dust and laying down aerial barrages. It is still a great game, and dare I say, offers a salve to other games out there without the years of content and solid backbone.

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