re: Gaming critics being to hard on battle front 2

They really are. I appreciate the backlash regarding the progression system, but it doesn't completely ruin the game. Hopefully the negative press surrounding the lootboxes is enough for Dice/EA to eventually come up with a better progression system.

Secondly, I think people just really want a good single player game set in the Star Wars Universe. The last one I can remember was The Force Unleashed in 2009. Dice didn't do themselves any favors by marketing the campaign as having a focus on the Imperials whereas Iden swaps sides 3 missions into the campaign. Then you spend a handful of missions playing as the arcade-y hero characters.

I would like more game modes. We don't need as many as Battlefront 1 had, but I would at least like Turning Point and the mode to escort the payload whatever it was called.

Starfighter units in ground-based maps seem pointless. Nothing you do in a starfighter contributes to the objective in any meaningful way.

The arcade mode is completely pointless. I have no idea what is so hard with just giving players access to the same content as multiplayer only with bots.