Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star Expansion Details Revealed.
The Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star expansion will finally bring space battles into EA’s popular shooter, along with a variety of other new content for players who buy the expansion.
From EA’s official Star Wars website:
Big announcements on the battlefront from Gamescom in Cologne, Germany this week. For the first time, we are taking Star Wars™ Battlefront™ to space in the latest expansion pack based on one of the most iconic weapons ever created – the Death Star. The new mode for the expansion pack shown at Gamescom is named Battle Station. This unique mode has players battling across 3 phases – each with a different objective.
Other new content will also be coming to the Death Star expansion including new Star Cards and Blasters, in addition to the [addition of the new] Heroes, Bossk and Chewbacca. Make sure to check back for more details as the Death Star expansion will become fully operational in September.
The Battle Station mode’s three phases involve a battle to take on and demolish a Star Destroyer and other supporting Imperial spacecraft, a battle to retrieve an important droid from within the Death Star, and a battle to blow up the space station itself. That Bossk and Chewbacca will be added to the game might not come as a surprise to some of the people who were paying close attention to the EA Star Wars development video that was shown during their 2016 EA Play presentation, but what’s interesting is that the game mode will bring in Darth Vader’s TIE Advanced and Luke Skywalker’s Red-5 X-wing as hero vehicles.
The Death Star expansion will arrive sometime in September. If you didn’t catch it before, here’s the teaser that EA released at Celebration:
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Still waiting for the next Star Wars simulator. Last one was X-wing: Alliance
Wish they would resurrect that series. Those games still hold up.
You guys can’t always stay in the past, try to be more accepting of new ideas.
I accept plenty of new ideas, just not sucky multiplayer deathmatch games.
Ah, I see.
All of those are terrible. Except cronuts. NOM
What new ideas?
The only thing particularly innovative about SW: Battlefront is the fact that they scanned and made detailed digital models of the classic SW vehicles and props in the LFL archive. Beyond that… it’s the exact same SpawnDieSpawnDieSpawnDieYaddaYaddaYadda MMO game that we’ve seen dozens of times before.
Gameplay-wise, SW Battlefront is like Gourmet Night at Fawlty Towers, with a menu consisting of duck with orange, duck with cherries, or duck surprise (that is, duck without orange or cherries.) “Done, of course, in three extremely different ways.”
I do believe a flight sim is in the works.
It has to be, especially with the emergence of VR. NOT doing a full Star Wars space sim in VR is just Communist.
Like soccer.
Jedi Knight first please. you already have Battlefront to play an X-wing pilot 😉
Seriously why they don’t reboot that series. Not talking about a scripted (but 1 was cool indeed) Force Unleashed. They just have to take the lightsaber mechanic from JK Academy and story-wise JK Outcast, put battlefront graphics, and call it Dark Sith Lords with one master and one apprentice, and we re done.
This sounds very interesting…Then again, more space battles could be needed as well.
Still waiting for Season Pass price to drop. Not buying it for the price of the full game. More so, that there is new Battlefront coming next year, with half the game as DLC probably again.
What ever happened to the days when you buy a game and you got everything, sure you needed a patch now and then but they normally came with a new map or two.. Now DLC for $$$.
I dont think i’d buy another EA game ever again.
It’s not just EA though, it’s the model that EVERYONE is following now. Massively frustrating when you feel like you’re missing out on content, but are being asked to spend the same as what you originally did on the game again to get it. The absolute worst though is the “DLC” that is already on the disc, but has to be paid to be unlocked. That’s plain gross.
Cranky is actually correct to an extent. DLC is a model everyone follows now.
And honestly, DLC isn’t bad. IF the initial product delivered has value equal to its price.
I’m happy to pay for DLC to EXPAND my experience with a game. Not fill in the gaps that shouldn’t have existed at launch. EA is absolutely the worst at taking advantage of this. There are companies out there that release a full game, then add on DLC to enhance it.
EA fails at releasing complete games.
I honestly liked Battlefront at launch, and the changes they’ve made to the game have been outstanding for the most part. But it wasn’t worth the 60 bucks I paid. It was more like 40 at launch. I knew this, and spent the 60 anyways, ’cause Star Wars. And I liked it. But I won’t jump and down and defend that initial price point ’cause it was sorely lacking in the map department.
There were some poor choices in design too. For me, it was the billions of game modes and smaller maps. F that. Should have just stuck to two game modes and larger maps. But that’s just my opinion.
Yeah, DLC where it’s a try then buy model or an expansion pack model is fine. Even episodic games I don’t object to. I hate games that try to nickel and dime you just to progress, though.
Exactly, I was happy to pay for “expansion packs” back when they came out on separate disks and had tons of new content. It’s more frustrating as you say when it feels like they subtract from the game to artificially create DLC. The worst is when they try to nickle & dime you for a few measly skins or emotes. But alas- all AAA games have this now and I don’t see it going away so much as becoming even more expoitative.
I agree. Witcher 3 also has DLCs when the initial product was already a masterpiece.
Supply and demand, folks. People are obviously buying it up.
Not on PC. I know Xbone is down too. PS4 has the biggest player base.
I think I might pick up the super platinum or ultimate version of battle front when it’s finished it’s DLC run. The Death Star DLC does seem neat though, and from what I’ve seen of previous DLC’s online they do add a fair bit of content. I am wondering if they will just stop updating the game after the final DLC.
I believe they will be done after all the DLC in early 2017. Plan on releasing Battlefront 2 around Episode VIII I’m pretty sure.
Don’t bother if you own PC. Literally no one is playing it. Hard to find a game.
does it not play cross-platform? Wow
Almost nothing plays cross platform. Why the feigned shock?
I assumed that a game that’s basically a Star Wars team deathmatch would allow for cross-platform play. I don’t own a current generation console and don’t enjoy online games with randos so it’s not something I’m familiar with.
Cross-plat is tricky, There are all kinds of technological and legal barriers to cross. The only game I can think of off the top of my head that does it in the modern era is Rocket League.
I know Minecraft is adding it. That’s probably the game I’m most familiar with these days.
Yeah. Even in 2016 cross Plat is non existent.
What?! I play almost every night on PC, and I haven’t even added any paid DLC. Some of the modes are very sparse, but the big hitters like Walker Assault are always populated. The matchmaking used to SUCK, but it seems to have gotten a lot better recently.
I will give it a whirl.
They stoppes updating the Game on release. My copy (PC) hasn’t been playable since April when the first DLC “updated” it. Also it’s not much of a Game, really. More like a ride through Star Wars land.
While I continue to be painfully underwhelmed by SW: Battlefront, I have to give EA at least a small bit of credit for apparently making some attempt at DLC content that is at least vaguely mission-based. I don’t know that it’ll be enough to make me want to lay out another dime on this game, mind you, but at least it’s not just “Yay! Another map! Now we can run around and do the same half a dozen things we’ve been doing since the game released. But in a new map!”
They’ve actually added some very different game modes, too. I’m still holding out hope for a story mode, but I’m not holding my breath. They’re adding space battles now, which was a huge gripe for a lot of people (even though space battles SUCKED in BF2; and to be honest, space vehicle control is just lackluster in general in the BF games once you’ve played a “real” space sim like TIE Fighter).
Haven’t seen all that much innovation in the game modes so far. Most seem to be variations on common themes like team battles, capture-the-flag and escort/defend. And yeah, starfighter control is just clunky as hell. It was actually better in BF2, IMHO.
I really miss the old TIE Fighter/X-Wing sims. The Rogue Squadron games on the Nintendo systems were pretty damned good too, though nowhere near as deep as the old PC starfighter sims. I think they could revisit that now that they’ve got the archival models scanned and digitized and, if they didn’t half-ass it, they’d have a grand slam on their hands.
But I reckon it’s easier to crank out MMO games (the “reality TV” of videogaming, IMHO…)
I could never figure out if my gamecube controllers were just shit or if the Rogue games just REALLY controlled that twitchy. Either way, quickly became frustrating.
yep Battlefront could end to be a good and “complete” game after all… 2 years after his official release. The saltiness was intentionnal, but i could end up buying it… on low sales.
Two years and if you pay the equivalent of the full, original release price of the game again.
yeah you right so i will wait wait until December to buy it on Christmas sales and a new graphic card aswell. mine actually can’t handle DX11 😛
edit : that’s alot of waiting
Are people even still playing this game?