Free ‘Star Wars Battlefront’ Content Coming Tomorrow, Death Star DLC In The Works!
Briefly: Battlefront fans, you must be aching for some new content at this point. EA today revealed that the next wave of content is coming, and is coming fast.
In fact, here’s a rundown on the free content that’s coming for all players tomorrow, straight from the DICE blog:
The Tatooine Survival map will now support the Blast, Droid Run, Drop Zone, Hero Hunt, and Heroes vs Villains multiplayer modes, and is called Raider Camp.
New Hoth-themed outfits for Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, both of which will be available to all fans when they play as these two iconic characters on Hoth – these were unlocked by our players for completing our Heroes’ Holiday community mission last month.
We are giving players the ability to create Private Matches, which makes playing with friends even easier.
The introduction of Daily Challenges and Community Events. These are designed to rally the Community around certain goals and objectives, giving players the chance to earn credits and unlocks even faster. We’ll have more news regarding Community Events and Daily Challenges in the days ahead.
And of course, we are also including some overall balancing tweaks to both weapons and multiplayer modes.
Another update in February will add a new ‘Survival mission on Hoth, and a brand-new Hoth multiplayer map that will support larger game modes including Walker Assault, Supremacy, Fighter Squadron and Turning Point. The Turning Point mode itself will expand to ‘all maps that currently support Walker Assault and Supremacy’ in this update as well.
DICE went on to finally give us some of the first details for the game’s upcoming expansion packs, with the official name of each pack, as well as what can be expected upon release. Obviously, that Death Star pack is the most exciting:
Star Wars™ Battlefront™ Outer Rim (March 2016) – Fight among the factories of Sullust and battle within Jabba the Hutt’s palace on Tatooine
Star Wars™ Battlefront™ Bespin (Summer 2016) – It’s hunt or be hunted in this action-packed experience set in the Cloud City of Bespin
Star Wars™ Battlefront™ Death Star (Fall 2016) – That’s no moon! One of the most iconic locations in the Star Wars universe makes its debut in Star Wars Battlefront.
Star Wars™ Battlefront™ Expansion Pack 4 – Title TBA (Early 2017) – We will have more details to share about this exciting new expansion pack in the coming months.
I decided not to continue my tour of Star Wars Battlefront after exhausting my EA Access trial, but these updates sound like pretty substantial updates to a title that could really use more content.
Are you still playing Battlefront? Are you excited for the upcoming DLC? Sound out below!
