History Headscratchers / StarWarsBattlefront

** [[WildMassGuessing It's not the lightsaber that deflects it, but the Jedi using the Force]]. After all, in Star Wars Episode V, Darth Vader deflects Han Solo's blaster without a lightsaber. The LaserSword likely just serves as a somatic placebo to help the Jedi time the reaction right (the same reason for all the over-the-top flamboyant motions with any other violent use of the force).

*** Bail Organa used the ''Tantive IV'' in ''RevengeOfTheSith'', so it did exist at the time.

** When I played through the campaign and beat it I thought you caused an AlternateUniverse where the rebels [[TheBadGuyWins WERE completely crushed on Hoth]], but I'm not sure that is correct. If this isn't true, the narrator dying sounds like the likely explanation.

** [[WildMassGuessing It's not the lightsaber that deflects it, but the Jedi using the Force]]. After all, in Star Wars Episode V, Darth Vader deflects Han Solo's blaster without a lightsaber. The LaserSword likely just serves as a somatic placebo to help the Jedi time the reaction right (The same reason for all the over-the-top flamboyant motions with any other violent use of the force)
*** Vader's didn't use the force to block Han's shot expect maybe to move his hand in the way. Vader's hand is made of Mandalorian Iron so it can absorb blaster fire.

*** Also, remember that blocking takes up stamina, I.E. force power, meaning that by blocking they prepare for everything by having both lightsaber and force ready to defend them.

** It's even worse when playing on the Death Star in the same era. With Obi-Wan and the Emperor as the Hero characters no less.

** Out-of-universe answer: its much easier and cheaper to use the same models as much as possible. In-universe is technically the same thing. If you can use the same shell/case for multiple weapons, why wouldn't you? The internal parts are different, obviously, but making only one casing for three weapons makes getting replacement parts easier. Not sure about Fett's blaster, but physically it does look similar to the E-11 BlasTech blaster rifle the stormtroopers use. As for the grenade launcher, there are only so many ways you can make one. I've got nothing for the Tri-Fighter, except that it makes the Tri-Fighter worth flying in the game. It, in my experience, is the weakest fighter, so having the highest rate of fire helps it out.

* Wait, so... in the campaign, it says that it's Jedi who stole the plans for the Death Star. I thought [[DarkForcesSaga Kyle Katarn]] did that?

** It's likely half-deliberately overpowering Jedi characters (at least in the first game) and half-not really putting any effort into how the lightsaber reacts to non-lightsaber things in-game - note that in games where the lightsaber is more common, like the DarkForcesSaga, explosives and [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter slugs]] (unless enveloped in energy, like with the Imperial Repeater) won't be deflected.

** [[RuleOfFun Rule of Fair Play]], dude. The droids already have a lot going their way: [[hottip:*: Ability to survive on the outside of Polis Massa, faster fighters, Droidekas, plus their troop carriers carry more troops.]]

** Out-of-universe answer: its much easier and cheaper to use the same models as much as possible. In-universe is technically the same thing. If you can use the same shell/case for multiple weapons, why wouldn't you? The internal parts are different, obviously, but making only one casing for three weapons makes getting replacement parts easier. Not sure about Fett's blaster, but physically it does look similar to the E-11 BlasTech blaster rifle the stormtroopers use. As for the grenade launcher, there are only so many ways you can make one. I've got nothing for the Tri-Fighter, except that it makes the Tri-Fighter worth flying in the game. It, in my experience it is the weakest fighter, so having the highest rate of fire helps it out.

* Something about the CIS faction bugs me...Specifically, the vehicles. Most of them are some form of droid (Vulture droid, Tri-fighters, Hailfire droids, etc.)...and yet the Clones can use them if they cut into one or find an empty one. For the droid-[=PCs=], I can accept that they swap AIs or something, but how, exactly, does an organic drive a droid?
** [[RuleOfFun Rule of Fair Play]], dude. The droids already have alot going their way: [[hottip:*: Ability to survive on the outside of Polis Massa, faster fighters, Droidekas, plus their troop carriers carry more troops.]]

*** This can be fixed if you take up modding. I'm a modder, and it isn't hard to make vehicles inacessible to the other side.

* Why does the campaign end before Endor? I know the Empire ultimately loses, but an Unwinnable Battle could still be an effective end, not to mention that the Emperor specifically refers to the forces on Endor as "a legion of the Empire's best troops" or something to that effect.

** I imagine that having the player lose to a bunch of teddy bears would undercut the claim that the 501st were the best of the best. Granted, plenty of of people have already complained that the Emporer's claims about his so called best legion are already undercut by the movie, but I guess the game developers were making sure they didn't make the same mistake.

* How is it you can play on Tantive IV in the Clone Wars era if that ship wasn't built until after the clone wars ended? They could've easily just left the Clone Wars unavaible to choose on that location instead of defying time and space.

*** I guess the only limit was that the creators couldn't get some of the maps balanced if they went with noncanon factions (Hoth, Endor, Geonosis). Impossibility of something physically happening does not stop the resulting battles from being awesome, though.

** Out-of-universe answer: its much easier and cheaper to use the same models as much as possible. In-universe is technically the same thing. If you can use the same shell/case for multiple weapons, why wouldn't you? The internal parts are different, obviously, but making only one casing for three weapons makes getting replacement parts easier. Not sure about Fett's blaster, but physically it does look similar to the E-11 BlasTech blaster rifle the stormtroopers use. As for the grenade launcher, there are only so many ways you can make one. I've got nothing for the trifighter, except that it makes the trifighter worth flying in the game. It, in my experience it is the weakest fighter, so having the highest rate of fire helps itt out.