I'm just curious. I've been thinking about what was different between the SWBF1/SWBF2 demos (and the SWBF2 multiplayer beta) and the final builds that you bought in the store.

For example, Towellie shows us the SWBF1 demos on PS2/Xbox on Youtube:


Waaaaay back in the day the SWBF1 friendly CP was light blue:


Kamino used to have flyers



And here are the only two videos I could find for the SWBF2 Xbox demo that came with the Revenge of the Sith DVD. (Note the HUD)









And, it's a bit off-topic, but you can still run the SWBF2 multiplayer beta as a dedicated server. Maybe it would be fun for us all to play a few matches on the beta maps?

Where can you get the multiplayer beta?

a old gameplayvideo from gametrailers, looks like utapau originally had flyers, the frigates had engineffects and the hangars were larger and more varied
second gameplay video you could shoot within the spaceshop hangars and the interiorwas different

I have a demo for PS2 of the second game. It's only playable level is Utapua campaign. I think the layout is almost the same but the sides were different. Snipers had a recon, engineers had timebombs and no detpacks or health/ammo packs, instead the commander got h/a packs. His chaingun also sounded very different.

The flyers on Kamino looked nice. What really impresses me is that hanger. I wonder why they downgraded to that box that's in the shipped game...

Probably because of pressure from LucasArts to release earlier, so, rather than finish the hanger, they cut it and used a smaller one. They were going to include a Royal Guard too. They recorded the sounds and everything. That's where the ones in the Dark Times mod come from.

It's a shame thing like that happen. Most people would rather wait longer than get a worse game, but LucasArts doesn't seem to care. That's why KotOR II is so buggy, because Obsidian never got a chance to fix the bugs and had to cut about a third of the content because of LucasArts pressure for a Christmas release or something. At least BioWare told LucasArts where to shove their release dates with TOR.

the royal guard sounds were originally darktrooper sounds as far as i know

imp hangar: the bumpmapquality of the tieinterceptor somehow seems much better than in the shipped game to me

>.<

Seems like both links were not working for me D.U.C.K., so I can't say anything but a larger hangar would be really nice.

For the Emperor!

You are beneath the Emperor's notice.

The Emperor will be pleased.

Royal Guard!

Get the red guy!

Sounds like a Dark Trooper alright.

yeah, y'know they were originally supposed to be red
(alright, i admit i must have mixed that up because authraws darktrooper used the royalguard voices)

@spiderpig: weird, for me they both work

Indeed.

DarthD.U.C.K. wrote:@spiderpig: weird, for me they both work

Well, the links work, but the vids aren't loading.

make shure you allow all scrips

i found a pic with a bigger sd with two big hangars:

enabling scripts...


Yeah, that's an old pic, it had a DS II in the background.
And those pipes thingys look pretty cool, only porblem would be take off height for the flyers.

EDIT: the last one only have one hangar, but 4 (one destroyed?) turrets and a funny looking life support system skin.

The twin hangered Star Destroyer is in one of the screenshots you see when space maps are loading.

I'm sure everyone's noticed this, but during production SWBFII had green for friendly, as shown on the one of the death star loading screens.

another trailer with a good view of the extended rep hangar and much bigger utapau (twice the shipped size), seems like the door at the end of the map was originally open

The space maps look very nice, shame they cut them down to 1 cs each.

Uhh D.U.C.K. I clicked on your link and Youtube told me:

The Great Youtube Copyright Machine wrote:This video contains content from playcast, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

I didn't think that a company would block something from a country that have major offices in!? (I live in the US)

I'd say the cut to smaller space maps was more for playability rather than time. If they had been able to keep enough AI in the game (remember the had to make it work on the PS2 as well, the weakest machine of the three, and then there's the PSP port by Savage Entertainment too) they might have kept it, but cutting it down to a smaller number probably made it seem like a ghost town, so they shrunk the size of the interiors to keep gameplay exciting. As an author of two huge maps there's nothing worse than huffing it half way across a map and not seeing many enemies to shoot at.

use this link then

Marvel4 wrote:Where can you get the multiplayer beta?

http://www.fileplanet.com/156923/150000 ... BClosed%5D

One person can start a server by making a .bat file containing standard dedicated server commands. It required a beta key to play online, but I can't remember if that was only required for playing on Pandemic's servers. I know after the beta was over I loaded the game and was able to run around and play against AI by making a .bat file to load the game directly into a map.

DarthD.U.C.K. wrote:a old gameplayvideo from gametrailers, looks like utapau originally had flyers, the frigates had engineffects and the hangars were larger and more varied

It was the same in the SWBF2 Xbox demo -- the flyers were created for filming the campaign cutscene. (if you look closely, some of the footage from that gameplay video was used for the cutscene). The gunships were driven by the AI (you could not pilot them) and the odf still exists in Utapau's odf files (uta_fly_ride_gunship.odf).