Squad Becomes Ultimate Star Wars: Battlefront Game Thanks To Mods

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A massive Squad mod transforms the game into an unofficial third Star Wars Battlefront title with massive maps, online chat features, and plenty of characters and vehicles from the vast Galaxy Far, Far Away. Squad is a Steam-published multiplayer tactical shooter from Canadian developer Offworld Industries that was released in 2015. It serves as a spiritual sequel to Project Reality, a mod for 2005's Battlefield 2 that added several new game modes, factions, and maps from across different historical conflicts like World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Falklands War.

Coincidentally, the game Squad owes most of its influence to was developed by DICE, the studio behind 2015’s Star Wars Battlefront reboot and its 2017 follow-up titled Star Wars Battlefront II. While Battlefront II was met with a cold reception from fans due to a perceived over-reliance on microtransactions, later content updates added new worlds, characters, and game modes to the experience. Indeed, Star Wars Battlefront II would eventually be regarded as one of the better titles to come from EA’s ownership of the Star Wars gaming license by the time DICE announced the final Star Wars Battlefront II Battle of Scarif DLC in 2020. Star Wars Battlefront II’s popularity would be bolstered further by a successful free giveaway on the Epic Games Store early last year, but EA and DICE have maintained that there will be no further content for Battlefront II nor any follow-up games.

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In the meantime, a massive mod titled “Galactic Contention” transforms Squad into a spiritual successor to the Star Wars Battlefront series, as noted by YouTuber OperatorDrewski in a recent playthrough