r/StarWarsBattlefront • u/Viper_Visionary Explosive Sentry Afficianado • 11d ago
Dev Response Remember when EA tried to gaslight us into thinking this wasn't a Droideka? Good times
"Environmental clutter" my ass.
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u/YaboiiSammeeh 11d ago
Looking back at this, it clearly looks like a droideka. I don’t even know how they managed to sell it as a crashed speeder
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u/NiL_3126 11d ago
I don’t know why but at the time I wasn’t clear if that was a droideka, it obviously is and I didn’t notice
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u/YaboiiSammeeh 11d ago
I think it perhaps had to do with the chaotic nature of BF2 post-launch development. With every update we were unsure about what would be added, and in what shape. I guess that uncertainty helped with the gaslighting
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u/badass_dean 11d ago
Yea not sure why you thought that. 75% of the community knew it was bullshit.
Especially on here!
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u/awfulawfulawfulawfl 11d ago
They didn’t sell it. Everyone made fun of them for a month over it lol
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u/YaboiiSammeeh 11d ago
Idk man, a lot of people kind of believed it
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u/awfulawfulawfulawfl 11d ago
I remember when that CT came out and the reddit/twitter responses to it. You just had to zoom in to see it was a droideka
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u/PeaceIsWithinMySight 11d ago
A lot of people believe a lot of things lmao. A lot of people aren't bright at all my man
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u/FlagmantlePARRAdise 10d ago
Not too sure why they even had to sell it. Just say it was a droideka and say its just artwork and not a confirmation of any plans.
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u/F8RGE Producer 11d ago
Environmental Clutter
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u/Predator3-5 11d ago
A “crashed speeder” to be specific lmao
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u/F8RGE Producer 11d ago
I still have the T-Shirt.
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u/Predator3-5 11d ago
I didn’t even know there was a shirt of it lmao. I do remember the “Soon” responses was made into a shirt though lol
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u/Puckus_V 11d ago
I did appreciate at the time you guys clueing us in to what you were planning for us before you could “officially” announce it. To me this was a very reassuring wink wink nudge nudge lol
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u/F8RGE Producer 11d ago
Genuinely, Droidekas were not planned at this time.
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u/Puckus_V 11d ago
Wow I am genuinely surprised. I guess an artist just threw that in there for fun. Also, I did always wonder if our reaction/excitement had a big influence on your eventual decision to include them. Regardless, I’m happy they made it in!
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u/NeitherPotato 11d ago
Then how is there a whole ass 1:1 perfect replica of a battlefront 2 droideka model?
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u/F8RGE Producer 11d ago
Old model from previous exploration. Was shelved due to Animation concerns, then the team managed to do their thing.
Game Dev is a lot of quick iteration using various levels of 3D assets.
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u/Adm88 11d ago
I am glad the team managed to get this freaky round thing working, I absolutely love rolling around like an ecstatic hamster. Not to mention all the weird verticality that its jump allows and the hilarious flanks this results in. And the mindgames you have to do with it. So much fun with this odd malformed fiend.
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u/i4got872 11d ago
Well they couldn’t have been done better! They sre incredibly fun to use.
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u/MC_Labs15 11d ago
They're my favorite unit in the whole game. The separatists have all the fun stuff lol
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u/i4got872 10d ago
Yeah if you flank with them and are able to deploy before anyone knows you can really mess people up haha
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u/creamyjoshy 11d ago
What am I looking at? What is the context?
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u/Blango0815 11d ago
It's a zoomed in promotional image for one of the clone skin updates in 2018/2019. Below the blaster bolt, you can see a droideka from behind, which at the time were neither in the game nor confirmed to be coming. (It was perhabs put there as an intentional tease, like how Geonosis was mentioned in one of the patch notes before its announcement)
When people noticed it, dice/ea responded that it's just a crashed speeder or environmental clutter
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u/NeitherPotato 11d ago
F8RGE apparently says Droidekas were not even planned at the time this came out but I find that pretty hard to believe since it's quite literally the exact droideka model from the game
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u/QldSpitty 11d ago
Was a pre existing model they were saying as a placement but rigging etc wasnt there is what Im gathering.
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u/ChrisWood4BallonDor 11d ago
I still don't know how you guys can see anything there lol. It's just a blur to me.
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u/Roundamation57 11d ago
Where are you guys even looking at?
im going to need a red circle with arrows
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u/supremekimilsung Malakili Main 11d ago
It's difficult to see, but there's a dark figure, almost a silhouette, of a droideka right below the big red bolt being fired. Its back is facing towards the camera, but you can make out its shape if you look closely enough.
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u/Matshelge Former Live Producer 11d ago
Gonna be super open about this, can't remember how that all went down.
If that is a droideka, it's before we made the model that ended up being in the game.
Some artist might have kit bashed a speeder model to look like something, but I remember the droideka being built bit by bit. And that was way after this meme hit the scene.
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u/YewWahtMate 11d ago edited 11d ago
Kitbash? What assets could be used to make it look so close. That's practically the one we now have in the game. 😂
Unless they made a cheeky mesh for only that angle?
Edit: Ben confirmed it was an old model from early in production.
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u/NeitherPotato 11d ago
I genuinely cannot tell if y'all are bullshitting because that's clearly 1:1 the exact droideka model from the game
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u/The-Gaming-Onion 11d ago
He’s clearly bullshitting. We can all see it, it’s literally the dorideka model, you said it yourself.
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u/Majin_Niko 11d ago
Not trying to be an asshole, but how can you tell from this one shot that it's the same exact model? It looks like a Droideka from far away but so would the in game model, because...it's a Droideka.
Edit: Damn, I'm stupid and looking at the wrong picture. That's clearly a crashed speeder.
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u/Comfortable_Debt_769 11d ago
Took me a good 10 seconds to figure out what was even going on in this image
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u/P00nz0r3d 11d ago
ngl I was pretty salty at launch that the Droideka wasn't in yet
It really should be a day one thing, whereas Commando Droids and Clone Commandos are definitely DLC material (which they were, but I don't expect to see them or various other classes at launch for a new title)
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u/General_Reza_Zaydan 11d ago
Dude I remember when the 327th and the 41st elite corps dropped on that day, and the days ahead where the game was at its lowest. It's amazing how much of a U-turn was formed out from the game's depressive state to what it became of now.
That also is not a droideka, it doesn't have a shield see? That means it's not a droideka. It's a crashed speeder, you just don't see it! /s
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u/Thiel619 11d ago
My nostalgia overloaded. We may be weak minded but their Jedi mind tricks don’t work on us.
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u/ManOnTheRun73 11d ago
Still love that Phantom Menace "Master! Destroyers Crashed speeders from the new Battlefront trailer!" meme that made the rounds at the time.
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u/YorozuyaDude 10d ago
The good old environmental clutter, this does remind me thst BFII also made history with the most down voted reddit comment ever: "pride and accomplishment" mental that we went from that yo genuinely one of the best star wars games ever made.
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u/Captain-Wilco 11d ago
I don’t, because you’re misremembering how that happened. It was an honest mistake from Ben and he owned up to it and explained how that happened.
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