With fairly a number of gamers flocking again to 2017 multiplayer shooter Star Wars Battlefront 2, the PC model of the sport is now seemingly the most well-liked it has ever been. In keeping with SteamDB, the title has achieved a brand new all-time peak of concurrent gamers with 18,635 gamers. This can be a bigger quantity of concurrent gamers than the title obtained even again when it first got here out on Steam in 2020. The PC model earlier than that was solely obtainable on EA’s Origin, for which the corporate hasn’t reported participant numbers.
The newest all-time peak occurred only a day in the past, and going by the all-time charts of Star Wars Battlefront 2 on SteamDB, is the best the sport has ever achieved. The second-highest variety of concurrent gamers got here from January 2021, the place the title noticed 10,489 gamers. Curiously, the latest top-selling charts in accordance with Steam itself rank Star Wars Battlefront 2 on the one hundredth rank, behind different titles like Fallout 76, Euro Truck Simulator 2, and Cuphead.
Whereas the gross sales charts won’t seem like too encouraging for Star Wars Battlefront 2, being one of many 100 best-selling video games for a given week on Steam continues to be an underrated achievement for a title, since there are millions of different video games that might have taken the spot as a substitute. Whereas the highest of the top-sellers checklist is dominated by newer releases like DOOM: The Darkish Ages and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, free-to-play video games like Counter-Strike 2 and PUBG: Battlegrounds, in addition to the Steam Deck, the checklist will get an increasing number of expansive as we go decrease down.
Gamers returning to Star Wars Battlefront 2 is much more spectacular contemplating the truth that help for the sport when it comes to post-launch content material was ended again in 2020’s The Battle of Scarif replace.
“Creating characters, worlds, and experiences set on this wonderful galaxy that’s Star Wars is an honor, and it has continued to be a outstanding, difficult, and in the end rewarding journey for the whole crew,” mentioned the at-the-time artistic director Dennis Brännvall when the replace got here out. “Realizing that now we have a passionate group of hundreds of thousands of gamers and Star Wars followers – identical to ourselves – alongside on the trip, is the best inspiration we might ever have.”
Extra just lately, one of many former builders of Star Wars Battlefront 2, Mats Helge Holm, expressed curiosity in coming again to work on the title. In a Reddit put up that was celebrating the current resurgence of participant counts for the sport, Helge posted “Me, and having heard about my group of ex-colleagues, we need to get the gang again collectively,” in response to a query about which builders would need to come again to work on the sport.
Nonetheless, Helge did point out that it could be troublesome to get Brännvall to return again, since he has moved away. “Dennis is a tough one to get again, final I checked he moved up north. Not ab simple commute,” posted Helge.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 is accessible on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. It can be performed on PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S via backwards compatibility.