UPDATE! Star Wars Battlefront Update Imminent – Rumored Features Detailed Inside.

EA Launch Battlefront

Star Wars Battlefront is almost ready to have its first major update, which will include some of the new free content that was promised a few weeks ago. Furthermore, a video containing details on what would be included in the update was revealed, but taken down – click inside to get the details.

 

From the official Star Wars Battlefront forums:

Sledgehammer70: As you know, our team has been working hard on our upcoming January update. While we do not have a specific day, date, or time to share right this moment, I can say this update is coming. Alongside this update, you will also see our first drop of free additional content we promised here, along with the Heroes’ Holiday rewards. The path has been long, and we appreciate your dedication and passion around Star Wars Battlefront. Look for server downtime notifications and full patch notes to come.

EA has not given a specific date for when the update will occur, but they expect it to be ready by the end of the month:

 

EA Announcement

There was also a video from an official Brazillian EA channel that was released a little too early for their liking, and it was quickly taken down. However, an outline of what would be added to the game in the patch was jotted down by those who were lucky enough to see the video when it was still up:

 

  • A new map set on Tatooine.
  • New clothes for Luke and Leia based on the movies (some of which refer to the Prequels; probably costumes based on the wardrobe of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala).
  • Daily Challenges.
  • Private Matches.
  • Special Community Events.

 

This is only the beginning of Battlefront‘s DLC cycle for both free and paid content, so we’ll be sure to cover more details as they break.

 

Battlefront Expanse

UPDATE!

 

According to an EA representative, the rumors about there being a new Tatooine map in this update were exaggerated, and that EA Brazil’s video was taken down for containing “some misinformation” (suggesting that a few of the features aside from the map may be included in the patch). That being said, the update is still planned to be applied to before the end of the month, and it will feature new content.

 

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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.

65 thoughts on “UPDATE! Star Wars Battlefront Update Imminent – Rumored Features Detailed Inside.

  • January 22, 2016 at 12:59 am
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    Finally. I love this game but if I have to defend an AT-AT on Endor again I will explode.

  • January 22, 2016 at 1:15 am
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    We’ll see. They have been saying the same thing in so many words for quite a bit. I don’t react for these goons until I see it. They have burned us too much at this point.

  • January 22, 2016 at 1:16 am
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    Luke Skywalker dressed as Anakin OH MY GOD YOU BETTER GIVE HIM THE SCAR(10%) AND THAT ARM PROTECTOR THING ON HIS PROSTHETIC ARM(90%) LEIA AS PADME HOLY ASS YES!

  • January 22, 2016 at 1:16 am
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    Unless it’s the twlilight company story turned in campaign mode I don’t care

  • January 22, 2016 at 1:26 am
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    someone please take the star wars games away from EA before its time to make another old republic game.

    • January 22, 2016 at 11:35 am
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      I say give it to the Call of Duty crowd. At least that way we’d get a campaign mode.

  • January 22, 2016 at 2:00 am
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    Not related to this article at all, but I’m wondering what everyone thinks about Rogue One’s opening sequence. Will it open with the traditional fanfare and crawl, or will they reserve that for the episodic installments?

    • January 22, 2016 at 2:06 am
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      if i had to wager, i’d say it will have a crawl. personally, i’d like it to start right the middle of a battle, maybe with a voice over narration helping to set the scene.

    • January 22, 2016 at 2:23 am
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      It’s definitely gonna have a crawl.

      • January 22, 2016 at 10:11 am
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        I certainly hope it does! It wouldn’t feel like Star Wars without a crawl…

    • January 22, 2016 at 2:35 am
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      I have a feeling it will be like Clone Wars, a voice over perhaps, maybe during a battle.
      I think they’ll want something like this to differentiate these movies from the main saga.

      • January 22, 2016 at 3:22 am
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        I hope you’re right – that’d be absolutely perfect for anthology films. And, surprisingly enough, a ton of people either don’t know what Rogue One is, or think it’s Episode VIII. So differentiating it right off the bat would be a good idea.

        Plus a Clone Wars opening would be thematically appropriate. xD

      • January 22, 2016 at 5:05 am
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        I think that there are certain tropes to a Star Wars movie, and the opening crawl is one of them. I don’t think that’s is something that they are going to get rid of. It’s still a Star Wars film, ya know.

    • January 22, 2016 at 10:39 am
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      My idea for it is simple, but i think it’d work. It should have a crawl, because that’s Star Wars. But one little thing could differentiate it from the main saga films. Make the crawl text silver instead of gold. Easy peasy, it’s separate, but still Star Wars.

      • January 22, 2016 at 1:56 pm
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        NICE!

      • January 23, 2016 at 3:47 am
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        Yes, wonderful!

  • January 22, 2016 at 2:39 am
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    I WANT TO RECK IMPERIALS AS OLD BEN MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!

  • January 22, 2016 at 3:03 am
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    Private matches need bot support hands down or they’re worthless. We also need a Jakku Survival map and split screen versions of the battle maps from Jakku.

  • January 22, 2016 at 3:19 am
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    Still really bummed there’s no prequel-era stuff. I’d much rather wreck some dudes on Utapau than in Antartica. Er, I mean, Hoth.

    Hopefully we’ll at least get TFA stuff in the near-future.

    Also, why don’t they just treat Battlefront like Starcraft or something? Have the core game, then massive, $50 expansions you have to buy that unlock all sorts of stuff? That way you wouldn’t have to release a new game for like, a decade. It’d be much nicer, and far less of a pain than buying Battlefront 6 in ten years.

    Plus it’d be cheaper. They’d only have to have one set of servers, as opposed to keeping all the servers for Battlefront 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc open because people keep playing them.

    ergh

    ALSO WHY THE HELL CAN’T YOU HOP INTO A VEHICLE

    THAT WAS LIKE THE BEST THING ABOUT THE BATTLEFRONT GAMES

    CALLING IN VEHICHLES SUCKS

    I WANT TO HOP IN AND OUT PLS

    • January 22, 2016 at 3:33 am
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      EA officially confirmed there will be no TFA content.

      • January 22, 2016 at 3:41 am
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        • January 22, 2016 at 3:46 am
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          get over yourself we dont have anything new sure Maz’s planet and Starkiller but still we dont have any new ship’s and We dont know anything about Rey’s or Kylo’s force power and Kylo’s ability to stop a blaster bolt in mid-air would be OP as all fuck so get over yourself

        • January 25, 2016 at 5:26 am
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          Brilliant xD

  • January 22, 2016 at 3:34 am
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    One word: Lobot!

  • January 22, 2016 at 4:00 am
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    When is it coming out its the 21st already mate’s

  • January 22, 2016 at 5:44 am
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    Played Battlefront for the first time earlier this week. Wish I hadn’t opened that box. Totally addicted now. Incredible game.

    • January 23, 2016 at 6:44 am
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      Give it a couple of weeks. Once the new game smell dissipates there’s not much there…

  • January 22, 2016 at 5:50 am
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    They need to Put more heroes and maps in it. Chewbacca Lando all the force awakens main heroes and dagobah and cloud city would be cool

    • January 22, 2016 at 9:43 am
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      Cloud city would be awesome! Jet pack around it.

      Death Star would be cool too.

      • January 25, 2016 at 8:40 pm
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        Yes!!

      • January 26, 2016 at 9:46 pm
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        I CALLED IT! HA!

  • January 22, 2016 at 7:18 am
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    It’s a fun game. My daughter & I unwind after work/school with a few rounds it almost every night.

  • January 22, 2016 at 7:24 am
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    Bot support, split screen, all modes. What the actual living fuck is the hold up EA?

    • January 23, 2016 at 6:43 am
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      This is the key right here. Maybe playlists too for the private matches please? If they’re not going to actually do a galactic conquest mode for those of us that aren’t CoD fans they should at least let us have bot support and playlists for private matches.

    • January 23, 2016 at 2:03 pm
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      They are saving the part where its actually a good game that people would want to play, for the sequel. That way they get to accept money from the Star Wars obsessed TWICE for the same amount of work. Since most of us bought it anyway despite it being mediocre, they were able to rush out what was essentially a tech demo for an actual Battlefront game, and still receive money as if it were Halo 2 or something.

  • January 22, 2016 at 3:57 pm
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    Having a hard time buying the prequel era clothes for Luke & Leia. I clicked the link to the original content breakdown and it just says new clothes for Luke & Leia based on the films, not prequels. People have complained Luke wears his ROTJ clothes on Hoth and Leia wears Hoth clothes on Tatooine. I’m thinking they’ve just given them variant clothes from the OT. They’ve made it VERY clear they’re only focusing on OT. But their first and only reference to the PT are clothes on OT characters? No wa

  • January 22, 2016 at 10:36 pm
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    Am I the only one that had noticed that this game cheats? If your team gets ahead, the game respawns you further from the action. EA is becoming notorious for their crappy “catch up logic”. Being punished for being good at a game is just poor video game design. If i want a game to cheat, I’ll play Mario Cart. This game got lame real fast once I noticed this.

    • January 22, 2016 at 11:08 pm
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      Catch-up mechanics are intended to make the game more fair for every player. Remember, if you’re dominating, the opponent probably isn’t having fun. In design, these mechanics have to be used in order to prevent loss in player population.

      • January 23, 2016 at 7:34 am
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        “Catch up mechanics” may be more fun for the player that stinks at the game but it’s just frustrating for someone that has some skills at the game. Here’s an idea…get better at the game. Good players want to be rewarded for good play. Not punished. Stupid stupid stupid EA.

        • January 23, 2016 at 2:01 pm
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          It’s not intended to be a competitive multiplayer shooter. If it were, thousands of gamers would be breathing down their necks about it. Despite what some of us might want, the game is really intended to be a casual/party shooter and artificially propping up the losing side helps it fit into that mold.

          That being said, I never experienced these spawn issues and very many of the matched I’ve played turned into landslides. I never felt like the game was working against me to help the other team catch up, or vice versa. In general most matches seem to be decided within the first 1/3rd unless you get lucky enough to see balanced teams.

          • January 24, 2016 at 6:58 am
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            EA has gotten very good at masking their “catch up mechanics”. They’ve ruined their sports games with it as well. The casual gamer won’t notice it. They’ll think they are pretty good at the game. To someone that wants to actually play the game for a significant amount of time, the game will feel very frustrating. I think most people would rather lose legitimately than win by having the game cheat for them.

          • January 24, 2016 at 9:02 am
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            I agree too. I think EA is the wrong company’s games to be playing if you want a legitimate competitive experience but that sucks for the IPs that EA has exclusive rights to, whether its Star Wars or the NFL or Battlefield or what have you….never going to really get a “fair”, esports-style level playing field with any of those franchises.

        • January 25, 2016 at 4:53 am
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          See, these mechanics have another purpose. They keep out the douchebags that flaunt how much better they are than the newer players. That “git gud nub” mentality is how you kill modern multiplayer games.

  • January 22, 2016 at 10:54 pm
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    Too little too late. Give us a flight simulator or Bounty Hunter/KOTOR game or gtfo!

    • January 24, 2016 at 5:26 am
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      Wow, an angry comment from Snark. That’s unusual.

  • January 22, 2016 at 11:03 pm
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    The game was fun for a month but seeing the roll out of new maps going this slow is unbelievable. The Jakku map sucked… the only cool part about it was fighting near a downed correllian corvette & seeing the SSD go down in the background/ millions of lasers shooting overhead.

  • January 22, 2016 at 11:11 pm
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    This game is a fucking joke. I can’t believe they’re going through with these updates. In fact, I’m shocked they’re offering them for free. Could have been something to easily toss into the DLC pot.

    • January 23, 2016 at 1:58 pm
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      I like your comment, it’s like 90% anti-Battlefront/EA but honest enough to acknowledge the unusualness of them giving ANYTHING away for free…I had read it twice to figure out whether you were complimenting EA or hating on them (both, but more of the latter, I guess…)

      • January 25, 2016 at 5:08 am
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        It’s mostly hating on them. I hate everything about EA. I hate their business practices, I hate their market model, I hate how they treat the developers under their umbrella, and I hate that they dug their molars into Star Wars, claiming the upcoming AAA games for themselves. The worst thing is that people continue to buy into their crap. They continue to turn a profit, despite proving multiple times how evil and vampiric they are.

        Now, I’m not gonna be TOTALLY petty and call everything about Battlefront awful. DICE clearly cared about the game to some degree. Any game in the modern AAA space that inspires you to travel across the world and study trees, rocks, and snowhills, just to pay attention to detail, is an inspired project. It also looks and sounds magnificent, a testament to the technology and desire to deliver a true Star Wars experience to the modern gamer.

        But that’s where it ends. And I don’t blame DICE for this at all. I’m more than positive that they’d planned so much more content than what was delivered. It was EA that pushed a bullshit development timeframe onto a project built from the ground up with new technology. It’s also on EA for selling what we got at full price MINIMUM. If it were $20-$30USD instead of $60-$70, it might have been worth it. Instead, we burned holes in our pockets for a hollow shell that was promised to be something better. Fuck the modern games industry.

  • January 22, 2016 at 11:20 pm
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    aaaaaand no singleplayer……sorry, no money from me

  • January 22, 2016 at 11:36 pm
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    Wish they made a new xwing /tie fighter game. This game was fun for like 20 minutes. Now I just play fighter squadron and that’s completely rigged cos the rebels always win because of the a wing.

  • January 22, 2016 at 11:53 pm
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    I’ve been playing Battlefront intensely (well, as intensely as you can when you have family, work etc.) and I agree with all the negative commentary, yet I keep playing, but far less than I used to. I’m sick of some of the maps, but I do enjoy some of the modes. The biggest selling point is that they really got the aesthetics down, it feels like you’re in a Star Wars movie (a more hard-edged one, even), but there’s very little to do in terms of .. I don’t know, it never feels strategic or tactical. A multiplayer X-Wing/TIE Figher game – polished up versions of the classic DOS games, now that would be pretty cool – and it could even have a single player mode; heck, they could just release the original game stories/missions with updated graphics and I’m pretty sure everybody would love it. But as it stands, everyone will BUY it anyway because it’s Star Wars…

  • January 23, 2016 at 12:02 am
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    I picked up a copy when they discounted the hell out of it the weekend TFA opened. While I’ve certainly gotten less for $40 before (we had a rare failure meal from our favorite Mediterranean joint last night, f’rinstance) I will say that Battlefront is pretty much what I expected, and what most reviews rightly tagged it to be – a stunningly beautiful looking game that unfortunately has the depth of a dollar-store greeting card.

    I’ll play it for about 20-30 minutes a couple times a week, but it hasn’t become the obsession with me that a Star Wars game that looks this amazing ought to have become. Because really, there’s just not much to it.

    I will say this, though. If EA can come up with a genuinely compelling Star Wars game using the digital models they created for Battlefront, then they’re going to knock it out of the park. Doing 3D scans of the original props and models from the LFL archive was, in itself, a brilliant move. It’s just a shame that (at least for now) that work has only been applied to a game that’s little more than an endless cycle of “run, shoot, get killed/run, shoot, get killed/ad nauseum.”

    If they eventually apply these digital models to a Star Wars sandbox RPG in the vein of Skyrim/GTA V, though, I’ll be all over it!

  • January 23, 2016 at 12:00 pm
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    If they don’t add Ben Kenobi as a new hero in the future DLC, I will be very confused and very pissed.

  • January 23, 2016 at 4:11 pm
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    Sad that there are people dumb enough to buy this garbage after beta reviews were out about it beeing garbage,as shallow as a dried out lake.

    • January 24, 2016 at 1:23 am
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      Damn, it’s just a game — and a fun one at that. It’s cool to look at and the online matches are a good length to unwind with at the end of the day. Worth every penny I was dumb enough to spend.

    • January 24, 2016 at 5:24 am
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      I’m enjoying it. Sorry you’re only happy when you’re online insulting strangers when they don’t agree with you.

    • January 26, 2016 at 6:50 pm
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      Woah, is this a vote-based Galactic Conquest series? I LOVE GALCONQ =D

      • January 30, 2016 at 12:44 am
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        Of course it is 😀 Try it out & vote for something. Chances are pretty good that I’ll do that turns 😉

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