Star Wars Battlefront: Spring Update Plans & Bespin Expansion Revealed.

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Star Wars Battlefront developer DICE have just unveiled a handful of details on what they have planned for Spring 2016 as far as free DLC and in-game bonuses go. In addition to these updates, a few major details regarding the forthcoming Bespin expansion (and the expansions that will follow) have been unveiled.

 

According to the official Star Wars Battlefront website, current plans for the game’s new content in Spring include:

  • New In-Game Events – more double score weekends, community missions and Special Login Events are coming for players to earn more experience, credits and items.
  • New Hutt Contracts – Unlock powerful Star Cards like the Berserker Trait, Bacta Bomb and Ion Neutralizer.
  • More New Content – We also have a couple of surprises in store that we know our fans have been looking for, especially those who have been clamoring for ways to have more options to enjoy Star Wars Battlefront offline. More to come soon.
  • Specific for May the 4th – In celebration of Star Wars™ Day we have cool activities planned that we’ll announce soon.

But that’s not all. The post reveals that there will be four new maps and two new heroes in the Bespin expansion, and four more heroes added to the game in subsequent expansions after that.

This June, Season Pass holders will also receive our second digital expansion pack, Star Wars™ Battlefront™ Bespin. We’re taking players in and around Cloud City, with four new maps for all of our most popular modes. You’ll see AT-ATs in Cloud City, take to the skies in Fighter Squadron, and even spend time in a carbonite chamber. Of course, we’re also adding more blasters and Star Cards, a new game mode, and two new iconic characters we’re really excited about – Lando Calrissian and the cold-blooded bounty hunter, Dengar. Speaking of heroes, we know they have been one of the things you most like about the game; we’re happy to confirm that there will be eight total heroes included in the Star Wars Battlefront Season Pass (which includes Greedo and Nien Nunb released with the Outer Rim pack) – two more each in both the Death Star expansion and our yet-to-be-revealed fourth expansion pack. More on the heroes to come this summer.

Stay tuned to Star Wars News Net: your Force for news for the latest and greatest updates about the Galaxy Far, Far Away.

 

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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.

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.

52 thoughts on “Star Wars Battlefront: Spring Update Plans & Bespin Expansion Revealed.

    • April 13, 2016 at 10:53 pm
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      YESSS!!! THANK YOU!! I’ve seen a clip of this somewhere and have been wanting to watch it since so I popped in the bonus disk and I was so disappointed when it wasn’t there!!! Thanks again! This was really cool to see.

      • April 13, 2016 at 11:13 pm
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        Me too 🙂 I’m happy it’s in Youtube (for now….)

        • April 13, 2016 at 11:29 pm
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          Yea lets see how long that lasts lol

          • April 14, 2016 at 5:50 am
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            Well maybe they should stop these bullshit exclusive store specific releases. It’s a disservice to fans.

          • April 14, 2016 at 5:42 pm
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            It’s about marketing and money. Only a small minority of fans even care. An even smaller minority care enough to not buy it at all.

    • April 13, 2016 at 11:43 pm
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      This is that bonus of what’s on the Target exclusive (as far as U.S. release is concerned).

    • April 14, 2016 at 1:20 am
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      Haha! Check out Han’s shoes at 4:05!

    • April 14, 2016 at 1:24 am
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      Adam Driver was such a money casting choice. That dude can act and has a presence.

  • April 13, 2016 at 10:50 pm
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    I’m getting close to buying this… a few more expansions, a price drop, and offline content… gooood gooooood. If they don’t want to do a single player campaign they need to at least have single campaign missions for all the levels, like… take out so and so, find such and such.

    • April 13, 2016 at 11:06 pm
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      Its $34 on amazon right now. With the expansion pack that $84 which is a pretty good deal. The game will probably go down to $25 by September October.

      • April 13, 2016 at 11:20 pm
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        Still over $70 on Amazon.ca. BOO!!!

        • April 14, 2016 at 1:15 am
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          Get it on Origin, then.

  • April 13, 2016 at 10:56 pm
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    “especially those who have been clamoring for ways to have more options to enjoy Star Wars Battlefront offline. More to come soon.”
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    Alright, EA, I’m listening again – let’s see what you’ve got.

    • April 14, 2016 at 1:14 am
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      Here’s hoping for a campaign mode.

      • April 14, 2016 at 3:20 am
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        You know, I don’t even care about campaign – it always felt tacked on in BF anyways. Local co-op/vs split screen, local offline SP, ton of rotating maps to choose from, (and put back the damn randomizer option from BF1!) – I’m good. EA really wants to wow me? Drive-able AT-AT, towcabling requires piloting skills rather than a mini-game, vehicle spawns at logical locations rather than that retarded pickup system they built, and classes. But I’m just being greedy now.

        • April 14, 2016 at 5:47 am
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          Logical vehicle spawns. This.

          • April 14, 2016 at 6:34 am
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            Logical vehicle spawns? Come on guys, this is EA. Let’s be realistic.

        • April 14, 2016 at 5:39 pm
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          I actually like the non-driveable AT-ATs. It’s immersion breaking when you see some dingbat turning circles in his AT-AT. With you on the towcabling and vehicle spawns. Classes are unnecessary, IMO. With the customizable star card hands you can build your own classes. It’s more fun that way, IMO. I also agree that previous BF games had shallow campaigns. I’m hoping for a more fleshed out campaign. Maybe an adaptation of Twilight Company?

          • April 15, 2016 at 12:37 am
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            And there’s EXACTLY the problem I was expecting with making this MP only – in no online MP game I’ve ever seen can people stop themselves from behaving like complete asshats and griefing.

        • April 14, 2016 at 11:08 pm
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          I’m “okay” with the way they handle class-like things in the game if they do all the other things (which we’ve discussed previously). They could add weapon mods through the card system also…that would be cool and let people customize a little bit more.

    • April 14, 2016 at 2:23 am
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      Lol….you know ea! If you really want some fun pull the old battlefront 2 out! Me and my son did over the weekend and wow what an awesome game. Should have just updated same game play and released it.

      • April 14, 2016 at 3:17 am
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        Pfft…I have MODDED BF2 on my original Xbox -THAT’S where the real fun is!

        • April 14, 2016 at 6:33 am
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          For real. My brother and I used to load up BF2 on the PS2 and man, was that game amazingly fun, it even made Jedi Rocks less emotionally scarring. Luke was the best. The only game that topped BF2 was Time Splitters 2 Virus mode.

          • April 14, 2016 at 10:33 am
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            Ahhhhhh!!!!! My kids just pulled out TS, TS2, and FP this week. I’d forgotten how insane MP is in 2 – really wish we could get a current-gen installment of that franchise 🙁

          • April 14, 2016 at 3:05 pm
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            Apparently the game developers released the code for the game online, so a team of indie developers are making their own unofficial TS3.

  • April 14, 2016 at 12:05 am
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    1) AT-ATs on Cloud City seems like a bad idea to me. What’s the Empire thinking?
    2) Dengar? DENGAR? But he sucks! Why not a cooler bounty hunter, like Bossk or IG-88?

    • April 14, 2016 at 12:23 am
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      I was hoping for Bossk too, and also think that At-At in Cloud City is just too much, but let’s wait and see

      • April 14, 2016 at 1:14 am
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        I’d be surprised if they don’t release the whole ESB gang of bounty hunters by the time this thing is through. There’s only so many bad guys in the OT.

        • April 14, 2016 at 2:51 am
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          Yes, and one of these days perhaps we will see an official canon game based on the PT era.

      • April 14, 2016 at 3:36 am
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        It’ll be a short level where the Empire tries to land troops on the surface of Bespin. A very, very short level.

      • April 14, 2016 at 8:02 pm
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        I was cringing about AT-ATs on Cloud City, too (a little like “Sharks with Frickin’ Laser Beams”). I’ve always liked the airy feeling of all the elevated decks, bridges, windows, skylights, and platforms. But Cloud City is a big place, and perhaps they will create a “street level” between all the buildings.
        Still waiting for more rebel vehicles….

        • April 19, 2016 at 10:16 pm
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          Oh, behave

    • April 14, 2016 at 1:13 am
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      It’s more about fun than anything else. They could deploy AT-ATs on that top-side skyscraper portion of the city.

      • April 14, 2016 at 2:50 am
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        It won’t collapse from all the weight?

        • April 14, 2016 at 5:34 pm
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          I’m sure they built the top strong enough to carry heavy maintenance equipment.

      • April 14, 2016 at 5:22 am
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        It doesn’t seem like they have any room to maneuver. I could see AT-STs, but not full fledged AT-ATs.

  • April 14, 2016 at 12:39 am
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    Calling it right now. The final expansion is that beach planet from Rogue One, and at least one of the heroes is Jyn. The time frame lines up, and why else would they be so secretive about the final expansion?

    • April 14, 2016 at 12:41 am
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      That would be fantastic and lines up with the era of the OT.

      • April 14, 2016 at 12:43 am
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        Not only does it line up with the era, but the release time frame of the final expansion coincides relatively closely with that of Rogue One

        • April 14, 2016 at 4:41 am
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          Hopefully they’ll add those new Scarab Troopers as an Imperial skin.

          • April 14, 2016 at 6:28 am
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            And maybe the new Shadow Troopers as well.

          • April 14, 2016 at 12:42 pm
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            … and those guys.

          • April 14, 2016 at 4:42 pm
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            Agreed. With the Battle of Jakku and the beach battle acting as bookends to the game. One post Jedi and one pre Hope. Seems like a no-brainer

    • April 14, 2016 at 5:44 am
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      I would be very much okay with that. It reminds me of the Overlord level on Unreal Tournament.

  • April 14, 2016 at 8:05 am
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    Gotta hunt that bounty but the bounty’s in the hunt.

  • April 14, 2016 at 4:43 pm
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    Definitely interested in more offline content.

  • April 14, 2016 at 4:44 pm
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    Regardless of the feelings about the prequels, there are some pretty amazing locations that could be explored there. Who thinks future “sequels” will focus on Prequel, and or Sequel trilogies?

    • April 15, 2016 at 3:12 am
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      Yeah, probably.

  • April 15, 2016 at 12:23 am
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    I just really hope they’ll introduce different outfits for rebels on one of the planets.
    Like the outfits of those rebel fleet troopers, that would be cool to have on the Death Star maps and maybe Bespin as well. And then, the fourth expansion, Rogue One maps with new rebel trooper outfits as well as new Imperial troopers… Right?!

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