- Acting for Two: Sam Witwer, once again, voices both Darth Maul and Emperor Palpatine. Indeed, putting the taciturn and straight-laced Maul next to the incredibly hammy Palpatine triggers a conversation the likes of which fans would never know it's the same person voicing them.
- Actor-Inspired Element: Janina Gavankar derived Iden's calm personality from her grandfather, a veteran soldier.
- Actor-Shared Background: Both Janina Gavankarnote and Iden Versionote are of mixed ancestry.
- Approval of God: Liam McIntyre, the voice actor of Commander Pyre, was impressed by the Commander Pyre mod
. The mod in question is by Dementium and can be downloaded here. - Banned in China: As a result of the microtransactions/lootboxes and possible gambling for minors controversy and the tremendous public backlash, Australia, Belgium, and Hawaii launched investigations into whether EA violated gambling regulations with the game.
- Christmas Rushed: Just like with the last game, this game was also rushed by EA to tie in with the release of The Last Jedi, meaning that a lot of content that was planned for launch had to be either scrapped or postponed to a later date. As a result, the lineup of Prequel Trilogy heroes at launch consisted of just Yoda and Darth Maul, with General Grievous and Obi-Wan Kenobi (who were both planned for launch but weren't finished in time) releasing in October and November 2018 respectively, and Count Dooku and Anakin Skywalker following closely behind in January and February 2019.
- Dawson Casting: Janina Gavankar was in her mid-thirties while Iden was in her mid-twenties, Paul Blackthorne was in his late forties while Hask was in his late twenties, and TJ Ramini was in his late forties while Del was in his mid-thirties. And then the thirty-year Time Skip happens.
- Executive Meddling:
- During the time the game was being developed, EA execs were pressuring developers to follow FIFA Ultimate Team's microtransactions business model or at least create their own alternatives after their profits soared with its lootbox-esque cardpacks model.
- In response to outrage over the game's microtransactions, Disney, owner of the Star Wars brand, pressured EA into disabling said microtransactions at launch. Given how Disney announced a new trilogy of films and was preparing to release The Last Jedi at the time of the game's launch, it's likely that the company didn't want the controversy to overshadow future projects and tarnish the Star Wars brand.
- Meme Acknowledgement:
- Matthew Wood enjoys the amount of memes there is around General Grievous.
- James Arnold Taylor says "Hello there!".
- Matthew Wood enjoys
- The Other Darrin:
- Matthew Mercer voices Luke Skywalker, taking the place of Mark Hamill from the films and Anthony Hansen from the previous game.
- Roger Craig Smith fills in for Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, though interestingly, Matthew Wood voices him while masked.
- Maz Kanata is voiced by Grey DeLisle instead of Lupita Nyong'o.
- Due to his passing in early 2016, Jesús Barrero (Luke Skywalker) is replaced by Guillermo Aponte, who also voiced Erza Bridger in Rebels.
- Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza, who voiced Jango Fett and the Clone Troopers in the LatAm dub of the movies and the Clone Wars series, is replaced by Victor Corrarubias.
- Due to his failing health and later passing, José Lavat, who voiced Count Dooku in the LatAm dub of the movies and the Clone Wars series, is replaced by Ruben Moya.
- Lex Lang provides the voiceover for Poe Dameron in Starfighter Assault, given Oscar Isaac's unavailability.
- The Other Marty: In the beta release, Rey was voiced by Helen Sadler. By the time the game hit stores, she was replaced by Rey's original actress, Daisy Ridley.
- Pre-Order Bonus: Putting the money down for a pre-order allows players to use skins from The Last Jedi for Rey and Kylo Ren, along with Star Cards for the Millennium Falcon as it appears in that movie and Ren's TIE silencer).
- Promoted Fanboy:
- Youtubers including Star Wars commentary maker Dash Star and video game player DukemNukem were allowed to play the game during development to test out bugs and give feedback.
- Refitted for Sequel: The previous game had a scrapped mode called “Hero Blast” where players spawned solely as heroes and villains in games of Blast. The concept was used for this game’s incarnation of “Heroes Vs Villains”, since as opposed to the previous game where players randomly got a turn as a hero and would have to spawn as a normal soldier for the remainder of the round, the players only spawn as heroes for the duration of the game.
- Role Reprise:
- A significant amount of the actors from The Clone Wars reprise their roles, including Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker, James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tom Kane as Yoda, Dee Bradley Baker as the Clone Troopers and Bossk, Corey Burton as Count Dooku, Matthew Wood as General Grievous (along with the Battle Droids, the Super Battle Droids and masked Kylo Ren from the Sequel Trilogy), and Sam Witwer as Darth Maul (in addition to reprising his role from Battlefront (2015) and Rebels as Emperor Palpatine).
- Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Gwendoline Christie voices Rey, Finn and Captain Phasma respectively from the Sequel Trilogy.
- Matt Sloan, Temuera Morrison, Billy Dee Williams, John Armstrong, and Misty Lee return as Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Lando, Han and Leia respectively from the previous game.
- Almost everyone that did a voice in the LatAm dub of the three trilogies returns to voice their respective characters with a few exceptions.
- Screwed by the Network: Following a really long string of controversies ranging from the microtransactions fiasco to the contentious story campaign, nobody was surprised when it was reported that the studios that worked on the story mode and the Starfighter Assault mode left the team, essentially leaving the game with a skeleton crew of developers to drip feed future content. It was made even worse when DICE moved most of the team to work on Battlefield V.
- Two Voices, One Character: As noted above, Kylo Ren is voiced by Matthew Wood when masked and Roger Craig Smith when unmasked.
- What Could Have Been:
- Scenes from the first teaser (Inferno Squad standing around with their helmets on before they turn to see the Death Star II suddenly exploding, the “We weren’t expecting Special Forces.” exchange, “Hope cannot save them!” and other shots of Iden on Vardos, etc.) are changed in the final game, either being completely different scenes, different takes, or are not cutscenes.
- Datamining reveals that the original script had said that Iden’s mother died when she was young and Gleb raised her in her father’s absence. This was changed for Inferno Squad, presumably so that Iden would have to deal with her mother’s death in the present day.
- A fourth member of Inferno Squad was planned, but cut. This character become Seyn Marana in Star Wars Inferno Squad.
- Unused Audio files from General Grievous indicate that Ahsoka Tano and Padmé Amidala were planned to be added to the game as playable heroes at one point. There's evidence suggesting that the scrapped elements of both were combined into the ISB Agent, who has a face similar to Padmé's and a fighting stance similar to that of Ahsoka.
- DICE pitched a third Battlefront game to EA, but EA declined it, meaning that both the original and rebooted Battlefront games never got a proper third entry.
- Working Title: According to a datamine, it's "Walrus".
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