STAR WARS Battlefront II private server and mod launcher KYBER goes open source

Games die and publishers move on, but STAR WARS Battlefront II released in 2017 from DICE and EA now has an open source private server and modding tool.

KYBER was already completely free, but now it has been put up on GitHub under the GPL license. As announced on the official website:

Starting now, KYBER is open source, Dedicated Servers are available, and Server Plugins are released.

The community that helped inspire KYBER from the very beginning can now help steer it into the future, shaping new STAR WARS experiences and pushing the Frostbite Engine further than it was ever designed to go.

KYBER has always been about more than preserving a game. It’s about treating Battlefront II as a platform for experimentation, creativity, and long-term community ownership. Open-sourcing the project is the natural next step.

This gives you the ability to host your own full games with dedicated servers, along with a dedicated game launcher with full modding support. You get private games, a server browser, proximity voice chat, and more with it all together.

Pictured - STAR WARS Battlefront II

Hopefully now that it's open source someone will be able to look into getting Linux support hooked up to make it easier to run KYBER on Linux, while STAR WARS Battlefront II launches with Wine / Proton.