It Looks Like EA Is Using Mods On The Star Wars Battlefront Store Page

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It's been a hot minute since EA released the Star Wars Battlefront reboot. Eight years, in fact. But almost a decade later, fans spotted something strange on the store page - screenshots seemingly taken from mods and fans.

As pointed out by OpoChano on the game's subreddit, EA's website and PC launcher look to be using fan photos of Scarif soldiers and stormtroopers. The stormtrooper screenshot appears to be Spifferino's, who shared it to the Nexus Mods website back in 2017. Meanwhile, the Scarif trooper brooding on the beach is lifted from the White Shoretroopers mod. Again, from Spifferino.

Darth Vader's hand isn't even around the lightsaber in the screenshot. It's floating next to his grip. Maybe he's using the Force?

"I noticed this while looking through the EA app page for Battlefront," OpoChano said in a follow-up post. "EA is using screenshots of modded content on both their website and the EA app [...] EA also used at least one of Spifferino's screenshots of a 501st Stormtrooper texture mod. I checked to see if modded screenshots are also used for Battlefront 2's pages, but EA is using official promotional renders for it instead. The same goes for all of the Battlefront 2015 DLC."

If you go to the store page right now, you'll see these screenshots for yourself. Using Google's reverse image search, you'll also find the Nexus pages they originate from.

You probably recognise the 501st paint job already, though. If you're not big on Star Wars but are at least familiar with the Battlefront series, you'll remember it from the cover art of the original second game. Since 2015 focused exclusively on the Original Trilogy, there aren't any clones, just stormtroopers. Clones, and by extension the 501st paint job, wouldn't