Season 2 the last chapter?

[Easy Kill]

Is the end of season 2 the last chapter of BGS deadlock

[Sierra-092]

it honestly somehow looks like that, with the upcoming release of the modern ships pack that we know like the valkyrie came into existence at the end of the war and also the mercury class being a post war armistice time Battlestar. also the new dlc is called armistice suggesting to end somewhat where the TV series started.. there's also a flashback where the Cylons experiment with those hybrids and they leave from that planet with the basestar, trying to remember which episode that was...

[Staros]

Originally posted by marc291091:

... there's also a flashback where the Cylons experiment with those hybrids and they leave from that planet with the basestar, trying to remember which episode that was...

This story flashback with the first hybrid experiments was from the "Razor" film ;)

[CSO Illusive Man]

Its hard to tell, the base game's writing was all over the place making it seem longer than it was and the cutscene dialogue was sketchy to say the least. I'd imagine they will make at least one more season, they stretched this last guys story arc over two seasons with him escaping the first time around then being betrayed by the third IL model not letting him escape after failing again. As far as the modern ships coming in, the fans have been screaming for that since day one, its why the Minerva was released to kind've satiate the Mercury fans. Those will only be available outside the story from my understanding, which makes since considering they were constructed 40 years later. It could be a source of revenue to keep the project going as well, the rona has been ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with a lot of revenue streams and to be honest they are at least releasing what the fans want.

[tus3]

There is also the possibility of a prequel going back to the beginning of the war.
Or (which I hope most) Season 3 will go back, but now you get to play the Cylons.

[Sierra-092]

yeah that's right, the fans, me including, were yelling for those ships which really is a dream come true, and I understand the tradeoff that those are not usable in the campaigns for obvious reasons, nevertheless I hope they'll use the (well deserved by the way) income to keep on working on certain aspects of the game that could need some rework and improvements like Anabasis... I think Anabasis is the best addition to the game gameplaywise yet even though I literally love each and every colonial ship they've added since the beginning of the dlc releases... munitionwise I still see some room for expansions for the colonials... some clustermissiles or something like that would be great because there are already enough types of mines right now I think..

[MalodorousFiend]

I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for a fleet commander mode next year, but looking at the previews for the new content I'm getting finale vibes. They're doing Raptor Talon, which is quite literally the end of the first Cylon War, which leaves only two places left to go.

One is of course forward to the second Cylon War, which you could see the modern ship pack as supporting. But given their status as having been entrusted with the official lore by the rightsholders, I highly doubt we'll see that. That puts you in a weird fanfic-y place that would run parallel to the show's established timeline and potentially cheapen it. And I feel like it's one thing to play around with Blood & Chrome's timeline in such a fashion, but it's another entirely to futz with the actual, sanctified RDM events.

Plus the modern ships don't really look to me like they were planned for, in fact they look kinda rushed (there's some weird turret placements on the Valkyrie and the Mercury looks hilariously undergunned for a successor to the Jupiter class.) They look more like a slapdash easter egg DLC than a precursor to a modern timeline.


The other option is going back to the cease-fire while Galactica was grounded and fleshing out exactly what happened during that time. This I think would be a double-edged sword of sorts; on the one hand I was disappointed they just timeskipped over that and think there's tons of story potential there. On the other, it likely means you get all the new ships and munitions Season 2 added stripped away from you, which would honestly suck.

Where does that leave us? Well, likely at the end unfortunately. Maybe there's behind-the-scenes reasons for it (like the upcoming Peacock... reboot? Restart? Continuation?) but it really does feel like they've rushed the campaign timeline to it's conclusion while starting to shift focus more to multiplayer this season.

I expect they'll continue to curate the multiplayer and make small balancing adjustments in the future, but Deadlock's story is likely told at this point.

[phily]

No one knows, it depends on if the game is still profitable across the board, but they've exhausted a lot of the story and given the game great support.

[gmuir77]

Especially with the final set of missions being eight instead of ten. It looks like we're never going to see a new strategy map campaign.

[Steven]

I know the Mercury etc will not be available in campaign but i am curious to see if you will be able to add them in via savegame editing. for example if you wan the Jupiter mk2 in the base campaign you can change a ships type by editing the line of an existing ship to : "ShipType":24

[phily]

It's entirely possible, if the DLC is still profitable, we will see some "modern" missions. There is definitely a ♥♥♥♥ load of unexplored lore between the end of the first Cylon War and the start of the second. The Colonials continued to develop ships and it looks like, militarily, they far outmatched what the Cylons could field on paper which wasn't true during the firs war. The issue is, it is unlikely that they could fit anything in with the Cylons during that period, for all intents and purposes, the Cylons disappeared entirely. Anything in that period would need to be Colonial forces vs rebellious factions using similar ships etc. Which might be cool, but by the time the second Cyon War rolled around, it looked like the Colonial military was ridiculously strong and was an effective military force.

We know they stopped development for the Switch because of a lack of sales.

[USS Midway veteran]

It all depends on the $$$$$$$$$$ folks, just like everything else, but that's how the system works. Personally, I'd like to see it go on and on....I guess we'll see. There certainly appears to be a paradigm shift toward multiplayer...it seems to be getting most of the attention now. That probably means there is either more $$$$$ there or it's cheaper to keep it going....or both. Discord anyone?

[Sierra-092]

I'm not playing multi-player BSGD at all, just interested in the Singleplayer modes and campaigns.. that's why I kinda like Anabasis but foremost the first main campaign with its strategic map... I don't know how open the other dlc campaigns are because I just own ghost fleet offensive as of right now, can you use all ships of season 2 dlcs in all other season 2 dlcs? like using the Orion in the resurrection campaign? that would solve my problem with using the Orion and defender in side missions with officers like technologist or mechanic 😏 that's why I would love the most if the devs find a way to give me the possibility of using those ships other than skirmish, mp or Anabasis..

[USS Midway veteran]

No, you can only use ships in the DLC in which they are introduced.... and those DLC that follow. You should be able to use Orion and Defender in Armistice on Sept. 24.

[USS Midway veteran]

Originally posted by marc291091:

I'm not playing multi-player BSGD at all, just interested in the Singleplayer modes and campaigns.. that's why I kinda like Anabasis but foremost the first main campaign with its strategic map... I don't know how open the other dlc campaigns are because I just own ghost fleet offensive as of right now, can you use all ships of season 2 dlcs in all other season 2 dlcs? like using the Orion in the resurrection campaign? that would solve my problem with using the Orion and defender in side missions with officers like technologist or mechanic 😏 that's why I would love the most if the devs find a way to give me the possibility of using those ships other than skirmish, mp or Anabasis..

That's my favorite too. There are a lot of ways to play that map. I have almost 1,600 hours in and I'm still finding different ways to do it. I don't care much for multiplayer either, but I might give it a try. Now that we can use the new Modern Ship Pack in Anabasis, I may go back to playing it too.

[kucsidaveee]

About that modern missions idea and woth the comment about rebellions... Well, the game did introduce the Sagiterron Democratic Union, and we did saw them having some colonial ship designs, but we could expand on that with them having a few unique designs. Also there was the black op mission with the stealth star from the show, so valkyrie could see some action toodoing black opsstuff against the SDU