Star Wars Battlefront 3 Is Happening But There's A Catch
Topics: Star Wars, EA, Fortnite, Epic Games
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Topics: Star Wars, EA, Fortnite, Epic Games
Star Wars Battlefront 3 has been at the top of many gamer’s wishlists for quite some time now, and they’re clearly starting to get sick of waiting.
The Star Wars Battlefront series in general has been severely mismanaged under Electronic Arts’ watch.
Both rebooted games were good, but it took a lot of time and post-launch support before they were great. Star Wars Battlefront 2 in particular was controversial as it basically altered the future of in-game loot boxes.
Things went from bad to worse with the abysmal Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection, which was a poor restoration of the OG games with subpar performance and rocky online servers.
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As for Star Wars Battlefront 3 many fans were shocked when Electronic Arts dropped the series, despite developer Respawn’s willingness to keep it going with more characters, more settings and more Star Wars eras.
Since then gamers have been holding out hope that a third entry in the Star Wars Battlefront series is on the way.
Those who don’t want to wait though would rather just make a third entry themselves, to varying degrees of success…
Arguably the strangest attempt is coming later this year, on the last platform you’d expect as well.
Those who play Fortnite might be familiar with the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, also known as UEFN.
It’s a free editing tool that allows you to create your own custom maps and game modes within Fortnite’s engine, and soon Epic Games will be updating it with Star Wars assets from the last few collaborations.
This means terrain, blasters, lightsabers, vehicles, the works. All of it will be available to play and experiment with when constructing your own wacky creations.
Good Gamers, the team behind fan-favourite Fortnite modes such as Murder Mystery and Bed Wars, is already hard at work on a mode that uses all of these interactable goodies, and it’s shaping up to be a true Battlefront successor.
It’s called Frontlines and will take players across the galaxy to some of the most iconic locations in the Star Wars canon, like Tatooine and Endor.
Work-in-progress videos have been shared on the group’s X page and whilst no full-scale battles have been shown off yet Fortnite’s high playercount should fix that quickly.
With any luck an actual honest-to-God Battlefront 3 will be made one day, but in the meantime fan-made projects like this are just as good, if not better.
Good Gamers’ Frontlines gamemode will launch in Fortnite on 1 May 2026.