After 4 years of growth, the launch of an open beta for KYBER, a community-hosted multiplayer sport launcher for EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II, is proving to be successful with the identical followers who desperately campaigned for EA to begin making Star Wars Battlefront III final yr.
In June 2025, EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II obtained an unprecedented uptick in gamers on Steam. Having beforehand peaked at an all-time participant depend of 10,489 in January 2021, Star Wars Battlefront II greater than tripled this determine with an all-time peak of 35,892, thanks partly to a cut price bin sale worth of $5 on the time.
The sudden surge in participant depend was attributed to a fan marketing campaign on Reddit by members of the r/StarWarsBattlefront neighborhood, following the success of Andor’s second season. The neighborhood’s purpose was easy; they needed to persuade EA and Disney {that a} potential Star Wars Battlefront III sequel can be successful.
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The neighborhood’s plea seemingly went ignored, as neither EA nor Star Wars rights holders Disney have expressed any intention to develop a brand new multiplayer shooter. Clearly, it was by no means going to be that straightforward, however the consideration did seemingly impress Armchair Builders, the group behind KYBER: Battlefront II, into motion.
Though KYBER had already been in growth for a number of years earlier than this level, the undertaking’s neighborhood supervisor, Ethan Clark, revealed that the team “worked nonstop all week, doing our best to help the content and mod creation communities fire on all cylinders” following the success of the Might twenty fourth “Resurgence Day” Star Wars Battlefront II marketing campaign.
Battlefront 2 with extra weapons and courses
KYBER is an “all-in-one launcher” for Star Wars Battlefront II that provides a wealth of player-requested options to the sport, together with proximity voice chat, a spectator mode, and even absolutely built-in Discord assist. After all, the true draw right here is the newly added characters and the expanded mod assist, including the likes of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s Cal Kestis and Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Asajj Ventress.
The open beta for KYBER began on December 20 and, in keeping with a put up from the official KyberServers team account, resulted in “61,169 unique players” and “1,339,489 sessions” throughout the first 48 hours of its launch. Unsurprisingly, the r/StarWarsBattlefield neighborhood also seems thrilled with how the participant check has been going. As one user on the subreddit defined, “it’s like Battlefront 2 but with more classes, guns, some balance changes too.”
The open beta doesn’t appear to have a tough finish date but, and Armchair Builders introduced that they’ve huge plans for the undertaking down the road. They’ve promised that the supply code for KYBER “will be made available to the public” later this month, and that additional steadiness patches are already within the works. It’s not fairly Star Wars Battlefront III but, however with a few additional characters and some extra new maps, it actually could possibly be. Hopefully somebody at EA or Disney is paying consideration.
