Hi all,
Star Wars Battlefront is coming close to it's 16th birthday (September 21, 2004). While many of us old nerds certainly have the game beat on age, we're still sticking around after all these years. Why are we here? Why can't we just move on? Let's find out.
Got any great memories from your time playing Battlefront I, or II? Any juicy stories of player interactions or clan wars?
Please, feel free to share it with us here. Let us all reminisce about the days of old!
I'll start -
I remember being quite the immature little punk back in the day. Some of it embarrasses me to think about. I was the kid always begging for LED to let me into {PLA} (And to no avail).
There's one time in particular where {Alpha} was in a funwar with [FC]. At the time, FC had a member named Kishan. To my little brain, I thought he was always super toxic. One day I rolled over to the FC Guestbook and shared way too much info and begged for Kishan to be kicked from their clan. Yet for whatever reason, I made it even worse by deciding to color each paragraph a different color of the rainbow. I definetely made a complete mockery of myself on that day, and I'm so surprised I managed to actually got accepted into FC years later.
That was probably in 2010 or 2011. What a funky time for me.
This isn't a specific memory, but I remember finding and playing around with glitches in SWBFII PS2 with my brother, like the "stalking" animation (not sure what other people call it), the glitch that causes only the basic soldiers to spawn (or Han Solo & Boba Fett in Hero Assault), visual glitches like Count Dooku's slam attack and his weird cape, getting under the floor on Polis Massa, using the LQ models cheat code just because it's funny, and more that I've forgotten.
And of course, all of the classic voice lines, especially when they play right after another, as if they're speaking to each other.
uh oh, nostalgia time
The big tournaments were great, i fondly remember letting the genie out the bottle and forming the [YAK] clan (I can't remember if it was actually meant to stand for anything) with Snake for the clan-less folk who wanted to participate.
Those tournaments were usually high drama with inter-clan bickering, but the battles were fun, even though I don't remember winning many.
I think the peak of fun for me had to be the well populated Game Ranger (rip) servers for Mac players, as there would always be a good amount of folk playing on a CC NO BOTS NO CPING server.
I was a serious late joiner to SWBF1, as I didn't discovered multiplayer until 2014. I had been playing SWBF2 online until it was announced that the servers were going to go offline. Desperate to still play online I searched for alternate ways to play online and discovered Tunngle and also discovered that people still played SWBF1 online via Tunngle. I tried it out and shortly after had joined the BOBclan, and well the rest is history.
I have a lot of good memories in SWBF1.
I started playing when I was 3 and played PS2
Used to play SWBF1 with my dad all the time on the PS2, those were the days.
There was a REALLY good player back in the day. I wish I remembered his name. But he always trashtalked me and someone else whenever either one of us were in the PLA server.
And I think at one point things got a bit heated and I responded. I can't remember how I responded, I don't know if I said anything bad.
But minutes later he said something along the lines of "Hey don't take everything I say personally. I just like to have fun and trash talk and I don't mean any of those things I say. I'll stop now"
And I didn't really believe him. Mostly because he went straight back to trashtalking the next day lmao.
But every now and then I still think about it. And I realize I never really understood trashtalking until way way later when I got into playing and watching competitive Overwatch. And I think I understand now that people like him want to bring out the best in you. And they're willing to put their ego on the line in front of you and everyone else to prove who the best players are. And it makes me sad that I didn't think of that earlier, but I was young and barely into college at that time.
Now I'm not saying that all people that trashtalk just do it to banter. Some people are just jerks simple as that. But I think that one player I'm talking about is probably just a really good and competitive player, and I just simply couldn't understand that competitiveness at that time. I hope he's doing good now and is trashtalking to his hearts content. He really was a good player
Quote from: Sovereign on June 09, 2020, 12:35:46 PM
There was a REALLY good player back in the day. I wish I remembered his name. But he always trashtalked me and someone else whenever either one of us were in the PLA server.
And I think at one point things got a bit heated and I responded. I can't remember how I responded, I don't know if I said anything bad.
But minutes later he said something along the lines of "Hey don't take everything I say personally. I just like to have fun and trash talk and I don't mean any of those things I say. I'll stop now"
And I didn't really believe him. Mostly because he went straight back to trashtalking the next day lmao.
But every now and then I still think about it. And I realize I never really understood trashtalking until way way later when I got into playing and watching competitive Overwatch. And I think I understand now that people like him want to bring out the best in you. And they're willing to put their ego on the line in front of you and everyone else to prove who the best players are. And it makes me sad that I didn't think of that earlier, but I was young and barely into college at that time.
Now I'm not saying that all people that trashtalk just do it to banter. Some people are just jerks simple as that. But I think that one player I'm talking about is probably just a really good and competitive player, and I just simply couldn't understand that competitiveness at that time. I hope he's doing good now and is trashtalking to his hearts content. He really was a good player
There were a few people I remember as good and toxic (but not in a bad way). Do you remember the name Drugrep at all?
Quote from: Ultimo on June 09, 2020, 01:39:01 PM
There were a few people I remember as good and toxic (but not in a bad way). Do you remember the name Drugrep at all?
Yes I do! I liked that guy. I saw him earlier this year when Battlefront 1 was added to steam. Hasn't changed much after all these years lol
Question mark was one of the good snipers I remember but there was a few really good players including sovereign. ;)
In cloud city at least I could usually top the leaderboard but every time I thought I was good a proper player would come along and beat me with a tenth of the deaths.
(PLA) devil is another one I remember, he would always be a pilot and run round healing both sides.
And a random one is the German (?) godz unit stevt who no matter how many warnings and bans he got only knew one phrase: 'we are :censored: like :censored:' which for some reason made me laugh.
Drugrep had a unique way of talking to. ;)
Edit: From a similar topic before:
[spoiler]Best memories:
My first time online having a great time and trying to talk to people then realising it was actually an empty server and they were ai...
My actual first week online going between PLA cloudity, cpt cupbear, ooc arena and ententeich servers and realising how different it was to single player.
Starting to think I was good then seeing players like question mark and quiz with 100-0-10 scores.
Finally getting more than 100 kills on a full cloudcity server.
Endless new clans that lasted a week trying to recruit me.
The 1 PLA clan night I made it to.
Learning all the secret grenade jumps with Wabbit and Stewie.
Accidentally shooting a teammate off the balcony with a rocket from the other side of cloudcity then staying silent as he just typed 'how in the world?' and flew off the map. Sorry Nemisis.
Winning a game with 0-1 in the enemies favour by capturing command posts.
Mod map nights and the close matches in the ICW tournament.
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I really remember all the fun times on cloud city snipers only. Something cathartic about doing the same thing and each day learning a new grenade technique or wall bang. The GGW was super fun as well! So much nostalgia for the old days
What first comes to mind for me was accidentally discovering the glitch regarding puking a river of health and ammo dispensers in Jabba's Palace with a friend.
We were in the rancor pit when my friend got snatched by the rancor. I told him to respawn and as he did, we watched as a stream of dispensers unexpectedly came out of his character as he was getting munched. Gave us both a good laugh.
There were a good few amusing characters on the Mac side.
It wasn't so hard to coordinate playing on Mod maps either thanks to the chat on Game Ranger. Back in the day there were perhaps only a handful of maps that didn't work on Mac (never figured out why). Me and some other guy would casually 1v1 on most of the maps that were listed with a good rating on FileFront (remember Filefront)?!
I just remembered we had a player / forum member called 'Buccaneer' that spoke like a pirate at all times, even in-game. I think they were PC though.
where to start ...
In early April of this year, download Battlefront 1, because I still don't have money and I'm not self-sufficient to pay it.
When I started it I already had a certain idea of how to play it since I had experience in the 1942 battlefield (great game) and I already knew the story of the star wars prequel trilogy (in my opinion, the 3rd movie is the best). but when I started the campaign, the clones made me tremendous bullyng. then I gradually learned the mechanics of the game. then he suffered on the geonosis map playing clone. Until he learned to use the transport ships and was victorious (after losing 5 times).
In May I found out I had pirated version 1.0, so I looked in different forums for update 1.2. And I was excited to realize that you could install maps and mods.
Now my life is more exciting.jpg
I looked for mods for the game and I found the starfire mod 1.2 and I loved it.
Then install maps compatible with the mod and find the maps of Serejas (my pc does not run them). after putting maps to but not being able to support my pc, I found this forum and I am publishing this giant text.
In conclusion:
The rocket troopers are op with the starfire mod.
I HATE droidekas and play with the rebels or the empire.
I would like my 2007 toast to support medium quality gaming.
I want command droids or command clones in this game
And I would like to play online someday, since I can't pay for this beauty of 2004 yet.
I figure why start a new topic when I could just bump this one a couple years into the future. ::)
I think I've talked on here before of how much SWBF1 meant to me. Some of my most formative experiences (for better or worse) were on that game. Even modding the game has stuck with me as a creative itch I always have to keep scratching in some way. I love having a vision of something and bringing it to life in some creative medium. It's the only time I really feel purpose in life.
I also still to this day struggle to make friendships better than the ones I had as a kid in this game. Some of you guys are still around but most of them I never realized when I talked to them for the last time. I think that's why I still visit old websites every now and then. I can never beat the hilarity of those servers. Sometimes I'd just have long conversations on xfire with my friends without even playing any game. I rarely have long conversations with friends into the night nowadays but it does happen on occasion. It's just surprising to think about me doing that as a kid. I never even knew what most of my best friends looked like lol.
Since I'm droning on now I'll wrap it up with this: I have a lot of great memories I'll cherish forever. Nade pulting, glitching, sniping, tournaments (AaTc winning GGW2 is still a highlight of my life lol,) winning tough matches, and modding were so fun. Still the best memories I have are of "sledding" on Rhen Var, or playing "wookie hunt" on CC, or glitch hunting on mod maps in a server with friends or clanmates. The relationships made this game. I doubt there will ever be a game like it.
Agreed! I think this game has given us all a lot of joy and great memories. Hopefully, in the near future, I'll make it to one of the SWBF1 events to enjoy the game as I did 10 years ago.
Feeling the nostalgia today. SWBF1 was such a great time... Hope everyone is doing well!
I was thinking about this game and a lot of memories I have with it the other day. Miss a lot of people and nights on this game for sure. They dont make games like this with community browser to really develop friendships and relationships in general anymore. Glad to see some still communicate and come on here from time to time!
Best game ever!
Having nostalgia from watching this video and imagining led as the fbi agent is peak content LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am8WyGZr7PA&ab_channel=squizzy
ahhh the memories i saw sereja is still alive which is great ever since the russians invaded ukraine hes always been in the back of my mind
Even if our relationships were contentious in the past mostly because of the demon im glad at this point everyone has come around to the position weve held all along even you anyder
glad to see youre still alive fire i am still friends with runningwithscissors and assimilated and i have chatted not too long ago too
I still have many of the patches rich gave me that say WUSI on them if any former member of our clan wants one add me on steam and ill see what we can do in terms of giving you one
i still remember yankee and dtd and the others and the only reason i am here is because of a less than 1% chance of a bone tumor that made me miss lots of school from the surgery to recovery period im not sure any of you knew that about me.
i probably will remeber the feeling forever when the day after my dad died the old guard of WUSI kicked me out knowingly that happened and i wont forget the feeling when they came to me to get our website back from caveman. It was always an uphill battle because so many of you took the demons side and sitting here at 2023 after all those years really feels like we really won in the end. At some point in the future id really like to hear your side of all that anyder especially how you ended up with a position of community ambassador xD
either way im rambling alot most of the memories in this skull are good when it comes to the people and this game.
ive thought alot too because we had a roleplay thread and i made a character who was frozen always wanted to refind that thread on this website and post "and he dethawed and looked around to see the entire battle was already over years ago" xD
i think most of you guys were in the PC community, just posting here again in case anyone from the mac community circa 2004-7 happens to stumble through and wants to reminisce. i was in IGC and IAS and so on. anyway.
Quote from: rawblade on March 06, 2023, 12:29:04 PMi think most of you guys were in the PC community, just posting here again in case anyone from the mac community circa 2004-7 happens to stumble through and wants to reminisce. i was in IGC and IAS and so on. anyway.
Ahhh... An old nemesis returns to bow in front of the glory that was ACW!
damn, i have the vaguest of vague memories of you...i remember brokenreality and someone else from acw better. foo something? in hindsight you were a cooler group than IGC haha
Likewise, I vaguely remember you as well, though off the top of my head I couldn't name any others from IGC - good to see you around! Knowing me, I'll probably remember this forum in another few years and sign back on then.
Surprised I haven't left my own sentiments about this game earlier.
I played from mid-2010 up until around 2015. Met a bunch of people (some I'm still friends with to this day in fact), and even miss quite a few folks, many of whom I never saw again once XFire went down even. I used to run (TGM), allied with [DX] Clan, then me and several members (Dark, ShaZam, and Jennifer) created a clan which went through several name changes, before ShaZam and I formed Army of Two. After that, I joined Alpha Clan in 2012, moving through the ranks before becoming a General. I then retired and became Veteran by 2015.
Though regarding XFire, there's a small community looking to run the old client again (several of whom are actually from the SWRC community in fact.) The client is working (albeit, in a barely functioning state), but if you guys are interested, check out the site: https://xfyre.net/
I'm glad to see some of the old crew still around keeping the community alive, it was good times indeed and I dearly do miss it.
Helloo to all, happy to see some of you still here, I have also some good memories and hope to speak with you again :moo: