While Star Wars: Battlefront 2 recently received its latest update, a patch follows that no one expected. Namely one for the very first Battlefront from the year 2004. Together with the times become the official multiplayer server reactivated.
What's in the update?
The developer released the update on May 1, 2020 without any major announcement. The message on Steam says simply and succinctly:
"Online multiplayer on Steam has been added."
After that, the studio only mentions that in a similarly short manner now also German, French, Italian and Spanish are supported, there is additional audio support, and a number of menu and gameplay issues have been fixed on different screen sizes.
This is what the multiplayer delivers
The multiplayer mode has the same scope as for the original release in 2004. There is no new content. The title already offered a lot of content at the time:
- Number of players: Up to 64 players
- Maps: 17 cards
- Classes: Five different classes per faction
- Game mode: Conquest
Battlefront – like the newer offshoots – plays like Battlefield in the Star Wars universe. The peculiarity of the part from 2004 are the invulnerable Jedi heroes. You can only defeat them by pushing them off the map or by increasing the enemy's reinforcement to below 20 points. In contrast to the successors, they only appear as NPCs.
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On Steam and GOG
The update has not only appeared on Steam, but also also at GOG. Both versions also share the new servers. This means that you can play together regardless of the distribution platform you use.
For the re-release on Steam in 2019, Battlefront already had no multiplayer mode and could only be played offline. Because the servers were already years ago, on March 31, 2014, together with the discontinuation of the gaming service GameSpy removed from the network.
The successor Battlefront 2 from 2005 you can playing again since 2017. Its server was also officially restarted years after it was deactivated.
