What about the space combat?
There were dogfight map mods in the first game, and even still the space maps felt boring because they were all incredibly samey and had dumb ship choices with even dumber loadouts (when the hell was the V-wing ever a bomber with space shotguns?). Boarding enemy ships wasn't interesting because the AI was stuff and would run straight to the fighters instead of defending anything, and every factions ship was the same four rooms. Also, thanks to the dedicated space maps, there were no fighters on land maps with the exception of Hoth.
If a bunch of fans can make something as amazing as the First Strike mod for Battlefield 2142 then DICE's upcoming game had better be loving stellar.