EA and DICE’s Star Wars Battlefront 2 ended on a excessive be aware regardless of its preliminary points, leading to a devoted neighborhood sticking round in its servers through the years. In 2025, gamers took issues to the following stage with the celebratory ‘Resurgence Day’ occasion, which aimed to indicate the powers that be that there is a large enough curiosity in additional Battlefront and generated sufficient consideration to be picked up by video games media and trade figures.
This yr, ‘Resurgence Day’ is making a return on twenty third Might, and forward of it, yesterday’s Star Wars-themed Might the 4th celebrations have already boosted the participant rely on Steam. On the time of writing, Battlefront 2’s 24-hour peak sits at 9,383 on Steam alone (gamers are additionally energetic on the EA App and consoles), a marked enchancment over the 2k-3k averages of the previous few months. We’ve got to return to the early January post-Christmas interval to seek out one other respectable peak of round 5,600 gamers on Steam.
It is nonetheless removed from the roughly 18k gamers that confirmed up on Valve’s platform for 2025’s occasion and the inflated 35,892 peak that occurred in June (because of a summer time sale and viral social media posts). But it surely’s already in a greater spot in early Might this yr than it was on the similar level in 2025. Once more, this does not embody gamers on consoles and different PC platforms, both, so it is fairly good for a 2017 recreation that spent nearly three years struggling to actually persuade its viewers. For reference, Marathon’s 24-hour peak is 13,191 gamers on Steam.
On prime of the official Star Wars Battlefront 2 servers, community-led and modded servers like Kyber’s (which do not cease including new options and content material) will probably be working scorching this month, so ‘Resurgence Day’ additionally seems like the right alternative to attempt one thing completely different in case you’re on PC. It is also price noting that the Resurgence Day occasion occurs the identical weekend The Mandalorian & Grogu movie storms cinemas worldwide.
In the meantime, Lucasfilm Video games and EA stay silent on the way forward for the Battlefront collection even when a need appears to be there. Again in 2022, we have been explicitly advised to not anticipate a 3rd entry from developer DICE, however what if one other studio (and writer) took over? The rights state of affairs appears unclear, however by no means inform us the percentages.
