Battlefront3.net

Post by **gamerguymanthing** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:53 pm

well i follow spark on twitter and i noticed that they have been retweeting stuff about battlefront! for example.

@sparkunlimited for job applications it has the same job qualification listings as lucasarts= sparks website is there anything u can tell me

that was retweeted by spark. post any interesting or suspicious tweets here so we can keep track of our new favourite developer.
and what do you think about the rpg lucas arts is (apparently) working on? tell everyone in the dun dun dun topic. i think that its kotor 3. i also think there is battlefront 3, rouge squadron and republic commando 2 on the way.

Post by **gamerguymanthing** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:55 pm

here is another spark retweet i found interesting

@sparkunlimited are you working on Battlefront 3 or a Bounty Hunter game. I think it has to be one or the other

Post by **spartan64** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:25 pm

I was already following them and I just tweeted them asking if they will be at PAX tomorrow.

Post by **Grpeephole303** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:59 pm

i swear they are toying with us. i think they enjoy our quest for knowledge

Post by **Terrabyte20xx** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:21 pm

They're not toying with us. They're toying with YOU! DON'T LET THEM TOY WITH YOU! RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!!!!

lol, J/K. In all seriousness, I'm guessing that they want us to stop badgering them and doing one of the only things they can do that won't get them fired.

Post by **Calvanater** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 6:46 pm

Terrabyte20xx wrote:They're not toying with us. They're toying with YOU! DON'T LET THEM TOY WITH YOU! RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!!!!

lol, J/K. In all seriousness, I'm guessing that they want us to stop badgering them and doing one of the only things they can do that won't get them fired.

Post by **AnthonyOstrich** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:19 pm

Spark tweeted:

"For all those asking for little details about the game, they are all information tidbits for use by marketing. You have to wait 4 reveal in"

Then afterwards:

"Oh, I do hate the 140 character limit and messages getting truncated. Oh well."

Yep, they're messing with us.

Post by **Kelevra** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:44 pm

I've noticed that spark has started posting 'bounties' in their job listings. Paying people for referrals. That kicks ass.

Anyway, it might also be some sort of hint towards the game's nature (or they just REALLY need employees) Bounty hunting seems to be a pretty huge profession in the whole Star Wars universe. But outside of a few hero characters, it isn't really relevant to Battlefront as far as I can remember.

Post by **AnthonyOstrich** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:21 pm

Kelevra wrote:I've noticed that spark has started posting 'bounties' in their job listings. Paying people for referrals. That kicks ass.

Anyway, it might also be some sort of hint towards the game's nature (or they just REALLY need employees) Bounty hunting seems to be a pretty huge profession in the whole Star Wars universe. But outside of a few hero characters, it isn't really relevant to Battlefront as far as I can remember.

So, they're spending $40,000 to try to give a very subtle hint at the game?

I'm pretty sure they just really need to fill those positions.

*Edit* Also, Bounty Hunter is a single player game, while Spark's project has online multiplayer. A multiplayer sequel to a single player game wouldn't be unheard of. But would the bounty hunter formula really work in multiplayer? (Note: I meant that as an actual question, not a rhetorical. I've never played bounty hunter.)

Post by **Kelevra** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:56 pm

Well. The actual Bounty Hunter game basically ended up being a run'n'gun. Although there were occasionally a few people you could rope up and collect to nab a bounty on. Of course, this meant scanning the hell out of every single enemy, droid, and bystander on every level.

I'm sure if there was a sequel, that would be fleshed out a bit more. Some sort of mashup of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Red Dead Redemption. In space.

Post by **AnthonyOstrich** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:48 pm

Kelevra wrote:In space.

Sorry, off topic.

Anyway, Bounty Hunter is a possibility. But it doesn't seem as likely as Battlefront 3.

Clearly the online multiplier isn't just slapped on there. Why else would they put Multiplayer Front-End Engineer as one of the bounty jobs? So I think it's safe to assume multiplayer is a pretty big part of the game, something that has always been true for the Battlefronts.

Also:
Bounty Hunter was on PS2 and Game Cube.
SWBF2 was on PS2, Xbox, and PC.
Spark's project is on PS3, Xbox360, and PC.
A sequel is more likely to be on either the same consoles or the successor to the consoles that the original was on, than it is to be on completely different consoles, right?

Not to mention that BF2 greatly outsold BH, giving Lucasarts more sequel motivation.

Admittedly, none of those tells us for sure that it's BF3 and not BH2. But the evidence does show some support for it.

Post by **Scott** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:55 pm

Bounty Hunter sounds like Prey. It'd be a strange time to release a game so similar especially with a dev team with a not-so-good past like Spark.

Post by **Grpeephole303** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:28 am

Scott wrote:Bounty Hunter sounds like Prey. It'd be a strange time to release a game so similar especially with a dev team with a not-so-good past like Spark.

ya i dont think they would want to be making any games similar to any other games.... but wait battlefront is similar to Battlefield which is an EA game....

And they were sued by EA for the similiarities in the COD game they made to medal of honor after snatching up a dev team made up of EA employees...

D:

Post by **Terrabyte20xx** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:59 am

Grpeephole303 wrote: ya i dont think they would want to be making any games similar to any other games.... but wait battlefront is similar to Battlefield which is an EA game....

And they were sued by EA for the similiarities in the COD game they made to medal of honor after snatching up a dev team made up of EA employees...

D:

I'm not sure what you meant by that, but if your insinuating that LA/Spark will get sued due to the similarity, then they would've done it by now with the other two games.

Post by **Grpeephole303** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:30 pm

Terrabyte20xx wrote:
Grpeephole303 wrote: ya i dont think they would want to be making any games similar to any other games.... but wait battlefront is similar to Battlefield which is an EA game....

And they were sued by EA for the similiarities in the COD game they made to medal of honor after snatching up a dev team made up of EA employees...

D:
I'm not sure what you meant by that, but if your insinuating that LA/Spark will get sued due to the similarity, then they would've done it by now with the other two games.

LOl dont worry i re read the case i forgot about what happened however here is the info on the most of the problem

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1 ... awsuit.php