Star Wars Battlefront Recap – Things We Missed Leading Into E3.

Battlefront Deluxe BoxartWith Electronic Arts’s unveiling various games at E3 (including their DICE studio’s Star Wars Battlefront), now is a better time than ever to cover a few recent minor details about the game that may have not been previously covered.

 

First thing’s first – the image you see up above? That’s Battlefront‘s official box art for the Deluxe Edition of the game, which costs an extra ten dollars. More content for the Deluxe Edition may be announced soon, but it’s worth noting that pre-ordering either edition of the game will allow you to access the Free DLC Jakku maps ahead of everybody else – just in time for the release of The Force Awakens!

 

The next thing on the order of business is to discuss a screenshot that was revealed on Twitter not too long ago:

 

Battlefront HothThe image confirms that the Quarren race will be playable alongside humans, Sullustans, and the Ishi Tib – with both male and female options. Players will be able to utilize these different alien races (and potentially more) in various customizable character loadouts. The screenshot also suggests that Echo Base’s cannon might actually play a role in gameplay this time around.

 

Other details of note:

  • The game’s resolution will run at 60 FPS – usually a standard for AAA titles – although it is not clear what resolution the game will run on.
  • Ewoks will appear on Endor.
  • There will be (at least) four playable planets in the game, with Jakku serving as an additional planet in one of the many DLC packages. At least five DLC packs are planned, although it’s unclear if the Battle Of Jakku pack is one of them.
  • The game will be released with 12 multiplayer maps, plus 2 more maps attached to the Free DLC. Even more maps will be used in the Missions that cover completely new locations on the various playable planets.
  • Environmental destruction is in the game, although it isn’t as extensive as Battlefield‘s.
  • The game has an unlock system based on the player’s in-game actions.
  • Ironsights are only available for certain weapons.
  • A new mode for the game is Squadron Fighter, focusing primarily on aerial combat.

A trailer for the game will be released tomorrow at the conference. DICE has said they have great plans to unveil at E3, so stay tuned for our coverage of the event, which begins at 1 PM PST on Monday.

 

+ posts

Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

Grant Davis (Pomojema)

Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

15 thoughts on “Star Wars Battlefront Recap – Things We Missed Leading Into E3.

  • June 15, 2015 at 7:57 am
    Permalink

    Think about it, the storm troopers were the good guys all along.

    • June 15, 2015 at 3:32 pm
      Permalink

      Too right! Rebels are just hippies and commies and Ewoks are gawd damn terrorisers.
      Hopefully the First order will finish off these barbarians with some good old shock n awe.

  • June 15, 2015 at 10:12 am
    Permalink

    Because of their lack of targeting?

  • June 15, 2015 at 11:49 am
    Permalink

    that cover art is worth buying the delixe version

  • June 15, 2015 at 1:36 pm
    Permalink

    Huh? How is it unclear if the Battle with of Jakku is going to be featured in a dlc pack? You lost me I don’t think it could be any clearer that it is, it was already announced as one, the first one available in fact and will feature two maps set before TFA.

    • June 15, 2015 at 3:11 pm
      Permalink

      He said there are/could be five DLC packs and not sure if the battle of Jakku DLC will be counted as one of those five.

      I hope that helps clear that up! 🙂

  • June 15, 2015 at 1:42 pm
    Permalink

    60fps is not standard for console AAA games unfortunately.

  • June 15, 2015 at 1:54 pm
    Permalink

    Putting decades old stormtroopers while the brand new ones (movie) are about to come out… Logic, anyone??

    • June 15, 2015 at 3:48 pm
      Permalink

      Logic is putting the new stormtroopers in an OT era game?

  • June 15, 2015 at 4:05 pm
    Permalink

    Looking forward to this, I’m sure there will be TFA dlc hope they model Halo 5’s DLC model though. Let people pay for stupid stuff if they want like weapons, custom armor etc. I just want free maps but I highly doubt that will happen

  • June 15, 2015 at 4:38 pm
    Permalink

    A Quarren with human hands? Meesa worried ’bout that customizable heads thing.

    • June 15, 2015 at 6:02 pm
      Permalink

      They wear gloves/gauntlets ? so it’s hard to say. i don’t remember how their hands are but they are humanoid after all

      And from Wookiepedia :

      “There were three different types of Quarren, although the only difference lay in their hands. Some Quarren had suction-tipped fingers, either with three or five fingers.[2] Other Quarren had thick fingers that lacked suction cups on the tips of their fingers, yet had sharp claws instead. Whether these three groups were actually distinct subspecies is unknown.”

  • June 15, 2015 at 5:23 pm
    Permalink

    Should be interesting to see these OT battles play out fully functionally.
    Watching ep V again, it is kind of odd how there’s not one non-Human in the army,
    and those cannons just sit there.
    I like the movies but those little budget things I feel deserve to be improved upon in some platform.

  • June 15, 2015 at 5:26 pm
    Permalink

    So much good stuff. Jurassic world, Game of thrones finale, Bethesda press conference, DOOM FALLOUT 4, tons of other good games for e3 this week and battlefront! It’s a good time to be alive

  • June 16, 2015 at 6:48 am
    Permalink

    That is not the mouth of classic Stormtrooper!? George Lucas needs to stop changing things for 9 year old children (in prequels age range of his adopted kids). J.J. put more smile on the classic frown (or bees mad in a stirred up beehive)! We all can contrast and compare EP I-III to the better EP IV- VI to know the movies are designed for 8-16 year old children vs 17-23 young adults (the brave young men starting to serve our country in the military). When I was 12 years of age I enjoyed shows more like Combat, Star Trek, Batman of 60s etc. Vs all old people Westerns that slowed down too much in Padme/Anikan love more like EP II.

Comments are closed.

LATEST POSTS ON MOVIE NEWS NET