Star Wars Battlefront is approaching its first anniversary, and EA today announced a number of events to round out the game's content schedule.

The game's final DLC pack, Rogue One: Scarif, drops on December 6th, a week and change ahead of the Star Wars spinoff's December 16th cinematic release.

It will include four maps set on the new tropical planet Scarif, as well as new hero Jyn Erso (played by Felicity Jones in the film) and villain Orson Krennic (Aussie actor Ben Mendelsohn).

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EA and DICE today announced a new game mode coming to Star Wars Battlefront in the upcoming Death Star DLC, bringing space combat back to the franchise for the first time since 2005's Battlefront II.

Dubbed "Battle Station," the mode plays out over three distinct phases, each of which operates in a fundamentally different way.

Phase 1 sees players taking to space in X-Wings, A-Wings, TIE Fighters, and Tie Interceptors, fighting around a Star Destroyer that plays more or less the role AT-AT walkers play in the game's Walker Assault mode.

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Coming in September, Season Pass holders will receive our third digital expansion pack, Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star. More new maps – on ground and in space – new weapons and star cards and two new heroes including one larger-than-life character we know you've been patiently waiting for.

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Chewbacca and bounty hunter Bossk will be playable heroes in the Star Wars Battlefront’s upcoming Death Star DLC, DICE confirmed at Star Wars Celebration 2016 over the weekend.

Available for this September, the DLC will also feature combat in space and inside the Death Star, new maps, weapons, and star cards.

A teaser for the pack strongly hints that the iconic trench run from the climax of the first Star Wars film, A New Hope, will also be included.

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A new offline mode is coming to Star Wars Battlefront next week.

Called Skirmish, it allows you to play offline against bots in a solo mission, or – if you’re on a console – with a friend using co-op split screen.

Skirmish can be played on a difficulty level of your choosing and across two modes, Walker Assault and Fighter Squadron.

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Star Wars: Battlefront's lack of single player content was due to scheduling requirements, according to EA executive VP Patrick Söderlund.

Speaking at EA's Investor Day, Söderlund noted that the game's low (by video game standards) Metacritic score of 75 was, in part, due to "the lack of a single-player campaign."

"It was [a] conscious decision we made due to time and being able to launch the game side-by-side with [Star Wars: The Force Awakens] to get the strongest possible impact."

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Star Wars: Battlefront's second expansion pack will finally introduce fan favourite Lando Calrissian as a playable character.

Set in Bespin's Cloud City, the pack will also feature deep-cut bounty hunter Dengar, hired by Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back alongside more well-known characters like Boba Fett, IG-88, and Bossk.

It will also introduce four new maps, new blasters and Star Cards, and a new game mode.

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New heroes, maps, mode, weapons, star cards and more. Fight among the factories of Sullust and battle within Jabba the Hutt's palace on Tatooine in the Star Wars Battlefront Outer Rim digital expansion arriving in March 2016.

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EA has detailed the contents of Star Wars Battlefront's first paid DLC.

The "Outer Rim" content pack appears to include at least four new maps: a smelting factory and industrial platforms on Sullust, and Jabba's palace and sail barge garage on Tatooine.

Those new maps will come with a new game type, Extraction, which sees the Rebels bringing cargo to a transport ship as the Empire tries to stop them.

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The latest patch for Star Wars: Battlefront has, as promised, added some new free content, as well as patching a host of issues.

A new night-time map called "Twilight On Hoth" has been added, which is compatible with nearly all the game modes.

Meanwhile, the Turning Point mode introduced in the Jakku DLC (itself now patched permanently into the main game) has been expanded to work with all the "large-scale" maps.

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DICE has outlined what’s coming up for both Season’s Pass holders and vanilla players of FPS Star Wars Battlefront.

All players will get free content that includes new maps for both multiplayer and Missions modes, the introduction of Private Matches, new Hero outfits, and more.

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EA has acknowledged that hardcore shooter fans might find Star Wars: Battlefront a little shallow.

At the Nasdaq Investor Conference in Europe this week, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said that’s because DICE put accessibility first and foremost.

"Star Wars Battlefront is a first-person shooter, but it is [one of] the only teen-rated first-person shooters," Jorgensen said this week at the Nasdaq Investor Conference in Europe (as reported by Gamespot).

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Experience the Battle of Jakku, the pivotal moment when the New Republic confronted key Imperial holdouts on a remote desert planet. Taking place in the aftermath of the Rebel victory in the Battle of Endor, players will experience the events that created the massive, battle-scarred landscape of Jakku shown in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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Star Wars: Battlefront will get free DLC in addition to the paid Season Pass content, according to EA DICE.

The Battlefront website reads that the studio "will be adding more of what you love about the game, like new maps and Star Cards, for free in the coming months, in addition to all of the content we have coming with Season Pass."

"In the coming months" implies the Battle of Jakku DLC, hitting in early December, is just the first of several pieces of free content.

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Star Wars: Battlefront's Battle of Jakku DLC isn't just a new map; it's an entirely new game mode.

Seemingly specifically designed for the huge-scale battle that leaves Star Destroyers in the dust, the so-called Turning Point mode features 40 players.

The mode sees the Rebels assaulting Imperial control points in a race against the clock.

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Despite an otherwise smooth launch, Star Wars: Battlefront has its share of teething issues.

Players on multiple platforms are reporting a bug that renders players immortal for the duration of matches.

Some reports say the bug manifests after crashing a vehicle, whereas others say it occurs randomly.

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[i]Star Wars: Battlefront[/i] is a simplified online shooter for a broad audience that delivers on its promise of [i]Star Wars[/i] battle fantasies.

When Disney acquired Lucasfilm in late 2012, it brought a hammer down on the Star Wars Expanded Universe, rendering hundreds of books, comics, and video games non-canon. In the process, beloved game studio LucasArts was more or less disbanded, with at least three in-production Star Wars games cancelled just like that. EA was swiftly contracted to take charge, and the question arose: what is the vision for Star Wars video games moving forward? With the release of the first AAA Star Wars game of the post-LucasArts era, the Rebels-vs-Imperials online shooter Star Wars: Battlefront, that vision has begun to become clear.

A key design pillar evident in Battlefront is accessibility. It may seem odd that DICE, the developer of hardcore shooter Battlefield, produced as simple a game as Battlefront, but it makes sense when you consider its audience. The audience for Star Wars is insanely broad, ranging from kids to seniors, of (particularly under Kathleen Kennedy’s guidance) all genders and races. The Battlefield audience just isn’t.

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EA Games quietly posted details of the Star Wars: Battlefront season pass over the weekend.

The season pass will include four expansion packs, featuring four new heroes and villains, sixteen new maps, and four new game modes.

"Over twenty" new weapons, vehicles, and powerups will also be included in the expansions, and Season Pass owners get an exclusive "Shoot First" emote.

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#10 Little Buddies

Blink and you’ll miss them, but Jawas and Ewoks are there in Star Wars: Battlefront. They can be seen fleetingly running for cover in sandcrawlers and caves and in tree villages, letting out their respective jabbery yelps. You can’t shoot them, but it’s good to know they’re there, anyway. And though it’s never happened to me, according to an achievement, Ewoks can throw rocks at you. Yub nub.

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EA has released a short trailer for Star Wars Battlefront’s Battle of Jakku.

The Battle of Jakku was the pivotal moment when the New Republic confronted key Imperial holdouts on a remote desert planet.

Taking place in the aftermath of the Rebel victory in the Battle of Endor, players will experience the events that created the massive, battle-scarred landscape of Jakku shown in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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Prepare to be transported to a galaxy far, far away and fight in epic multiplayer battles and intense Missions on Hoth, Endor, Tatooine and the previously unexplored planet, Sullust. Let’s Play Star Wars™.

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The final three playable heroes in Star Wars: Battlefront have been unveiled, a week after leaking via beta files.

Han Solo, referred to as "the easiest Hero character to get into" by lead hero designer Jamie Keen, has a rapid-fire attack, a charged power attack, and a shoulder charge that can be used for offense or escape.

Leia Organa is more of a support character, offering a squad shield that can block blasters and some Force abilities, the ability to call in supply drops for troops and heroes, and a powerful blaster shot that can fire through her shield, where other weapons cannot.

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DICE has admitted that the Walker Assault mode in Star Wars: Battlefront is not very well balanced in its current form.

Matches on Hoth in the recent beta test period grossly favoured the Imperial side, with the Rebels rarely managing to claw out a victory.

When asked "Does this mean I suck?" by a fan on Twitter, DICE community manager Matthew Everett said, "Nope! It's a balancing issue within the beta."

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The recent beta of Star Wars: Battlefront was the biggest in EA's history, says the publisher.

"Yesterday, the Star Wars Battlefront beta surpassed a major milestone: more than nine million players logged in and played," the publisher wrote in a blog post.

"That makes this the single largest beta in the history of EA. We could not be happier that so many of you wanted to come in to get a small taste of what our passionate team has been working on."

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DICE today revealed yet another multiplayer mode for Star Wars: Battlefront, called Cargo.

The mode is a 6v6 Capture The Flag-style game, but with a change in formula that the developer hopes will make it more tactical.

Both teams must steal "cargo" from the opposing team's base and return it to their own, but teams do not need to keep cargo at their base to score.

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Data files from the in-progress Star Wars: Battlefront beta have revealed the identities of additional playable heroes.

The newly-revealed heroes are Han Solo, Princess Leia, and the Emperor.

There is also mention of an unannounced game mode called Hero Hunt.

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EA today announced the minimum and recommended PC system requirements for Star Wars: Battlefront, via the game's Origin listing.

At first glance, the specs might seem somewhat steep:

Minimum PC System Requirements:
OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or later
Processor (Intel): Intel i3 6300T or equivalent
Memory: 8GB RAM
Hard Drive: At least 40 GB of free space
Graphics card (NVIDIA): nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
Graphics card (ATI): ATI Radeon HD 7850 2GB
DirectX: 11.0 Compatible video card or equivalent
Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection

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Star Wars: Battlefront's in-game currency system will not utilise a real-life currency system, says design director Niklas Fegraeus.

"The credits that you use to buy things in the game are earned. You play the game, complete challenges, and that's how you get credits," Fegraeus said, in an interview with GameSpot.

Battlefront will feature "several systems" of earning points and credits, ranging from standard performance-based rewards to special challenges.

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The upcoming Star Wars Battlefront beta will be open to everyone.

DICE community manager Matthew Everett revealed in the most recent Battlefront blog that the yet-to-be-dated beta would not be restricted to invitees.

It will include both online and offline modes, as well as co-op split-screen play.

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EA has unveiled another game mode for its upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront.

"Drop Zone" mode is similar to traditional King of the Hill, except the locations of the "hills" are unpredictable.

Capture zones will fall from the sky in the form of drop pods, which contain power-ups for the team that captures them.

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Star Wars Battlefront will not feature a server browser on console or PC, DICE has confirmed.

“Star Wars Battlefront will not offer a server browser, but will utilize a new skill based matchmaking system,” publisher Electronic Arts wrote on Twitter and Reddit – the former specifically in response to a question about the game’s PC version.

Server browsers are useful online multiplayer titles as they allow players to search for a match using filters such as ping, map, number of players, game mode, and social group.

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There’s a Star Wars Battlefront coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (via Origin) early next month, EA has announced.

The beta will feature 40-player multiplayer mode Walker Assault on the planet Hoth, Tatooine Survival Missions, and an as-yet unannounced mode called Drop Zone.

As part of the beta, EA is also revealing the Star Wars Battlefront companion app, which features a strategic card game called Base Command.

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As per EA:

As debris from battles above shower the desert ground, the feeling of chaos is intensifying. A Star Destroyer has just crash-landed and some of its engines are still smoking. The battle has just begun…

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At Gamescom, [i]Matt[/i] caught up with DICE GM [i]Patrick Bach[/i] for a chat about the creation of [i]Star Wars: Battlefront[/i]. [bullet] [i]Matt traveled to Gamescom courtesy of EA[/i]

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It’s more Rogue Squadron than X-Wing, but Star Wars: Battlefront’s aerial assault Fighter Squadron mode is a hell of a lot of fun. At Gamescom, we partook in 40 ship battles over a dusty Sullust, as two groups of 10 players and 20 AI scrapped it out for supremacy of the skies. Each life begans about 10 seconds above and away from the fracas, the action partially obscured by clouds. All participants were visible as blue or red dots though, so it was possible to set course for a target early, or to drop low and attempt something of a sneak attack using the clouds and canyons of Sullust as cover.

In our demo, the Empire and Rebels each took turns attacking and defending troop transports that periodically appeared, the destruction of which signalled the end of the round (although total kills was still the metric by which a victor was calculated). First and third-person views were available, and while the former provided nicely detailed cockpits to admire, it also dramatically cut down our field of view, making only the latter really useful unless everyone is locked in first-person.

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Two new limited-edition Star Wars-themed PS4 bundles will launch this November, Sony revealed at Disney's D23 Expo this weekend.

Both bundles include a 1TB PS4 system and controller inspired by Darth Vader, with Vader's shiny helmet on the console, custom colours on the controller, and etched "Star Wars" lettering on both.

The Battlefront bundle includes the Deluxe Edition of Star Wars: Battlefront, plus - in a new announcement - digital downloads of Super Star Wars, Star Wars: Racer Revenge, Jedi Starfighter, and Star Wars Bounty Hunter, all sporting enhanced graphics for PS4.

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EA has implied that Star Wars: Battlefront doesn’t have a single player campaign because not many people bother playing Battlefield campaigns.

Speaking with GameSpot, EA chief operating officer Peter Moore admitted that it was possible games with single player campaigns sold better than those without.

However, he also added, “Very few people actually play the single player on these kinds of games. That's what the data points to.”

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EA has detailed Star Wars Battlefront’s Supremacy mode, a territory control multiplayer mode based on Battlefield’s popular Conquest clashes.

Supremacy promises huge maps with ground troops and vehicles, and it also features Star Wars heroes and villains, which can be acquired via power-ups to tip the battle in your team’s favour.

For example, Darth Vader can take increased damage, while Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett can move swiftly between attacking and defensive positions.

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Star Wars: Battlefront's aerial combat mode is called Fighter Squadron, EA revealed today at Gamescom.

The mode will see up to 20 players, plus 20 AI combatants, engaging in ship-to-ship combat in the skies above a range of planets.

Developer DICE's gameplay trailer reveal sees Star Destroyers overlooking a huge battle taking place on previously unseen planet Sullust, home of obscure fan favourite character Nien Nunb.

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For fans of the epic Star Wars™ scenes with Rebel and Imperial ships facing off in intense dogfights, Fighter Squadron is the ultimate Star Wars™ Battlefront™ game mode. Now, you can witness this airborne action in the Fighter Squadron gameplay trailer. Stick around to the end. You’ll find it’s full of surprises. Featuring iconic Rebel X-Wings and A-Wings, as well as the dreaded Imperial Tie Fighters and Tie Interceptors, Fighter Squadron lets you engage in aerial battles with up to 20 players, and AI-controlled ships joining the fight.

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Star Wars Battlefront's team deathmatch mode is called Blast and pits Rebel scum against Imperial troopers in 10v10 battles.

The rules are fairly simple: the first team to 100 kills, or the team that's ahead at the end of 10 minutes, wins.

Unlike other Battlefront game modes, Blast does not feature vehicles or heroes, focusing entirely on close-quarters trooper combat and pickups like droid scanners and automated turrets.

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Star Wars: Battlefront will support couch co-op on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 but not PC, EA has revealed.

The restriction applies to the game’s Missions section, which encompasses its Survival, Battles, Hero Battles, and Trials modes – each of which is playable both online and offline on console.

Survival is the only Mission mode that’s been revealed thus far. It has one or two players hold off waves of Imperial forces including AT-STs, TIE Fighters, elite stormtroopers and more. There is a different Survival mission for every planet in the game.

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AllGamesBeta has uploaded 51 screenshots from the Star Wars: Battlefront PC alpha.

The first set were taken during the game’s co-op survival mode on Tatooine, while the second set are from a competitive multiplayer session on Hoth.

All screens were taken with PC settings on Ultra, and are available to view on AllGamesBeta at a resolution of 4K: Hoth, Tatooine.

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Let’s get this out of the way first: Battlefront is leading our E3 2015 feature coverage because of the 25-odd games I actually managed to get hands-on with over the course of the expo, it’s the one I enjoyed the most. Not that a frantic 15 minutes of multiplayer mayhem can tell you a hell of a lot about a game or in particular its longevity, but there you go: Battlefront wins my “most fun 15 minutes of E3” award.

That’s just as well too, as I queued for an hour to play the bloody thing – an absolute eternity when you’re covering an entire E3 by yourself and have back-to-back appointments from open ‘til close. The mode I played was Walker Assault on one of the game’s Hoth maps – think ice, snow, and lumbering AT-ATs like at the start of The Empire Strikes Back.

At 40 players, Walker Assault is the game’s most populous mode, and Hoth proved to be a suitably sprawling environment to wage what was largely trench warfare against those pesky Rebels. Our objective was to escort three AT-ATs through the snow to a Rebel base, where presumably there was more waiting that just tea and crumpets.

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Survival Missions you will take on waves of increasingly difficult Imperial forces – solo or with a Rebel friend by your side. Witness the intense gameplay of Survival in the deserts of Tatooine.

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There aren’t classes or squads in Star Wars: Battlefront, DICE has announced.

The studio told OXM (via GamesRadar) that instead of classes, players could freely pick their gear without being tied to set archetypes.

Squads have been replaced by a new ‘Partners’ feature – similar to that in Black Ops III and Medal of Honor: Warfighter – that links two players together so that they can see each other on their HUD and spawn on each other if they want.

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Star Wars: Battlefront won’t feature iron sight aiming, developer DICE has confirmed.

“There are no ironsights in Star Wars, on the ordinary blasters,” DICE executive producer Patrick Bach told GamesRadar.

“You have scopes on some rifles, but there are no ironsights.”

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