‘Star Wars Battlefront 2’ To Unveil New Mode That Lets You Play As An Ewok
Have you ever wanted to send endless Ewoks into battle to die over and over again?Star Wars Battlefront 2has you covered. The game is set to unveil a new Ewok mode that allows players to play as an Ewok defending its village or a raiding Stormtrooper trying to survive an ambush. If this game is even remotely realistic, a whole bunch of digital Ewok deaths are going to be happening very soon. Read more about the newStar Wars Battlefront 2Ewok mode below.
Polygonreports that a new game mode called “Ewok Hunt” is going to be available onApril 18, 2018. Here’s the breakdown from Electronic Arts:
If you read that and were immediately like, “WTF is a Wistie?”, then you and I are in the exact same boat. Let’s letWookieepediaanswer that question, shall we?
Wisties, also called firefolk, flutterglows or firesprites, were a sentientspecies native to the forest moon of Endor. They were very small, winged humanoids that had the appearance of a moving flame. However, fire did not have anything to do with their luminosity, and they could be safely touched by other creatures most of the time. Although the Wisties seemed extremely simple, even non-sentient, they had a language of their own and even a form of government, with a Queen as Head of State. It was thought that the firefolk fed off happy emotions and expressions of mirth.
Apparently Wisties first showed up in theCaravan of Courage: Ewok Adventuresmade-for-TV movie from 1984. It’s unclear exactly how they’ll be weaponized against an army of enemies in the context of the game. Maybe they’ll serve as a sentient flashbang grenade to momentarily blind the Stormtroopers?
Every time I watchReturn of the Jedi, I think, “OK, maybe this will be the viewing in which I’m not totally annoyed by the Ewoks.” But without fail, I’m always annoyed with how easily those yammering little creatures are able to use rocks, sticks, and homemade weapons to dispatch trained soldiers with FRICKIN LASER GUNS who are wearing full body armor.
Now anyone else who’s spent years being bothered by that can dive intoBattlefront 2, fight as a Stormtrooper, and get a glimpse at how that fight might have gone if the movie’s Stormtroopers could actually fight worth a damn. But I have to admit: it’d be kind of hilarious if the game instituted some shadiness that allowed the Ewoks to win every time, regardless of how outnumbered or outmatched they appeared to be.
