Layering this overwrought progression system yet further still are the crafting parts that can be used to upgrade the Star Cards that you receive from these loot crates, which in turn provide boosts to various ability and soldier class types. In a game that is crammed to the hilt with spectacular heroes, powerful villains, epic battles and everything else that is infinitely more interesting than opening a loot crate, it seems like EA has lost sight of why people were interested in Star Wars to begin with much like how George Lucas did when he thought that folk would wet their pants about trade disputes in The Phantom Menace.Īs it is, the encroaching shadow of the loot crate remains players can earn crates both directly and the credits needed to buy them from playing the single-player and multiplayer modes, while additional rewards can be earned by completing a number of condition-specific challenges.

It’s perhaps somewhat telling that one of the first things you see in Star Wars Battlefront II is a loot crate. This U-turn when coupled with EA’s insistence that “change will be consistent” for the game in the foreseeable future, means that, as a critic, trying to review Star Wars Battlefront II with the sole aim of trying to accurately mirror the consumer experience at the time of writing, is like trying to catch smoke (Snoke?) in a mug (so apologies if you receive Star Wars Battlefront II as a holiday gift and it barely represents what I have scribbled here). Or, at least it did until this past weekend when EA unceremoniously yanked the ability to purchase the premium in-game currency with the somewhat odious promise to reinstate it when it “once they’ve made changes to the game”.

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