#ewok hunt

[inonibird]

Since Spooktober is around the corner...here’s me trying to play Ewok Hunt in BF2 (wherein you are a Stormtrooper being hunted by Ewoks, and swap sides if they kill you). Keep in mind, I LOVE scary stuff. This still got me good. :’D

[gamingisalifestyle]

Ewok Hunt

[broken-wings-and-bastard-kings]

[obaewankenope]

The Ewok Hunt mode on SW:BII is legit the best mini game on it and I resent everyone for not playing it as much as it deserves. You literally start off as a Stormtrooper in the middle of bumfuck nowhere forest on Endor AT NIGHT and get hunted by Ewoks. When you die, you become an Ewok and get to murder your past brethren. It's fucking amazing

[sandakin]

I wanna play the Ewok Hunt but no one’s playing it :(((

[deepeearts]

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[spells-and-swashbuckling]

Me before the Ewok Hunt update: Ewok Hunt??? I don’t want to kill Ewoks! They’re so cute!

Me now: AAAH! AAAAHH! I CAN’T SEE IT! WHERE IS IT?! *frantic pummeling of flashlight button* WHAT WAS THAT? DID YOU HEAR THAT? WHAT ARE YOU SHOOTING AT? *frantic shooting at nothing* WHERE DO THEY KEEP COMING FROM?! AAAAAHH! STUPID FIREFLIES GET OFF!!! *joins four other Stormtroopers in hitting the crying emote over and over*

[kenyatta]

Getting Hunted by Ewoks in Star Wars: Battlefront II Is as Terrifying as Any Horror Movie

Despite the fact they are flesh-eating guerilla warriors capable of thoroughly thrashing a vastly technologically superior foe, everyone’s takeaway about the Ewoks is that they’re cute, stress-lowering, fuzzy teddy bears. But Star Wars: Battlefront II has added a new mode that reminds us that these teddies can be utterly terrifying when you’re their target.

The most recent of these, added this week, is “Ewok Hunt,” which tasks a group of Stormtroopers, left on Endor the night the Death Star II blew up, with surviving in the dark until a shuttle can evacuate them. The thing is, you’re surviving against a team of human players playing as Ewoks themselves—and if you die as a Stormtrooper, you join Team Yub Nub in their quest to murder every last plasteel-covered Imperial on the planet.

As your own numbers whittle down (denoted by the screen flashing that a player was “lost to the forest”) the Ewok team gets bigger and bigger, making it harder to defend the many entrances to the cave from the fuzzy horde. So when the Ewoks do come for you—and they will come for you, heralded by the clarion call of their horns, which give the furry little assholes a damage boost—those quiet minutes of waiting to descend into all out chaos as a sea of Ewoks floods into the cave, hooting and hollering and throwing disorienting flash-bombs (they’re actually, in a lovely touch, pouches full of Wisties, fairy-like creatures from the ‘80s Ewok spinoff TV movie Caravan of Courage) to break the Stormtroopers’ line before they close in for the kill.

It is, honestly, legitimately terrifying. The Ewoks’ movement is fast and skittish, so as a Stormtrooper you’re often just spraying blaster fire into a crowd, hoping you’re killing at least enough Ewoks for you to get away into another part of the cave for a brief moment of respite. The way your flashlight reflects off the Ewoks eyes makes them look absolutely nightmarish, like fur-covered Satan-spawn rapidly descending on your ankles. In the final moments of a round when you’re forced to abandon the safety of the cave and flee to the extraction shuttle in the night, it’s alarmingly intense.

I stopped playing SWBFII because it was complicated and the opposite of fun. This sounds hilarious, though.

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