Battlefront Will Keep You Busy Till Battlefront 3

Despite the continued popularity of EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront 2 and the original Battlefront games, fans of the franchise might be waiting forever for another installment. Luckily, fans have stepped in to fill the void. Mods and custom server projects for past Battlefront games never seem to stop coming, and the latest release is particularly exciting.

Frayed Wires studio released the 1.7 version of its Republic Commando: Battlefront mod for the original Star Wars Battlefront 2 on ModDB this month, bringing a massive update to a mod that hadn’t received any new content since 2020. True to its name, Republic Commando: Battlefront injects content that will be familiar to fans of the 2005 FPS Republic Commando, but it also incorporates material from the Galactic Civil War. The updated mod is available now via a basic manual installation option.

Star Wars Republic Commando: Battlefront Has Landed

The 1.7 Update Is Huge

The 1.7 version of Star Wars Republic Commando: Battlefront is the culmination of 15 years of development, at least if you don’t look too closely at the hiatuses. Either way, the mod has come a long way since the start. In 2010, it began life as a single map called Republic Commando: Extraction, gaining more custom maps and missions as it went along.

Star Wars Republic Commando: Battlefront 1.7 reworks the original map to take place on Rhen Var, tasking players with defending a command post. It also adds some new Legends-inspired content dealing with ex-clone commandos in the Imperial army on Kashyyk and Mustafar and adjusts the Mustafar campaign mission to be playable with units from the mod. Finally, the 1.7 update gives each member of the Republic Commando Delta Squad a unique specialty.

This Feels Like A Whole New Game For Star Wars Fans

So Much To Discover

Star Wars Battlefront 2 Republic Commando Mustafar campaign mission

This is all on top of the pre-existing Republic Commando: Battlefront content, which already added five factions and five maps to the game. If you’ve never tried it out before, it’s a huge way to inject new excitement into a 20-year-old game, and even returning players could get a lot of fun out of the new additions.

Decades after the release of the original Battlefront 2, it’s great to see the community continue to develop and expand the classic gameplay formula. The Star Wars fandom is nothing if not passionate, and sometimes, that passion leads to genuinely exciting results. If all goes well, EA’s Battlefront 2 might also get 20 years of fan content — and with any luck, the original Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will make it to 30.