Looks like a Battlefront 2 playtest is happening soon

With development on the next Battlefront game in full swing, it looks like the project may be reaching a playable state.

That’s because a playtest for what is likely the Battlefront sequel will be happening in Stockholm, Sweden on March 9.

Posted on the EA Playtesting Facebook page and noticed by Elliot of BattlefrontUpdates, this event is for a “Star Wars™ Battlefront session at EA DICE”:

If you are interested in getting a chance to play the game, you can fill out the form via this link.

Note that you’ll likely need to be local to the Stockholm area to be selected. You also can’t be in an occupation of the following: Journalism, Public Relations, Video Game Development, Marketing, or Market Research.

As development on the 2015 Battlefront is more or less completed, it doesn’t make too much sense for EA to be holding a playtest of that game. Instead, this playtest may very well be for an early alpha build of EA’s second Battlefront game.

Early image of the first Battlefront via the E3 2015 gameplay trailer.

I wouldn’t expect any sort of news regarding this game to come from this playtest. Those that attend will be subject to non-disclosure agreements and so probably shouldn’t be leaking information.

It may also be a while until more of the general public gets to play the game. For comparison’s sake, EA’s first Battlefront entered a closed alpha on July 2 in 2015 and the open beta didn’t happen until October 8.

However, it’s still quite cool to see that the sequel is basically in a playable (but early) state. Hopefully that means we will actually get a good look at it soon!

(Top image by Cinematic Captures. Check out their Flickr page for more awesome Battlefront screenshots. Bottom image source.)