There’s a brand new Star Wars movie on the horizon, so which means it’s time for fully-armed and cross-promotional battlestations. Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (now freed from microtransaction hell) is well-positioned to capitalise on this, and is rolling out its first wave of Han Solo themed content material at this time. This features a new close-combat map set in Jabba’s Palace, some Return of The Jedi-themed alternate skins and a 2v2 Heroes vs Villains area fight mode.
Credit the place credit score’s due; it’d be lacking a beat if the ‘Solo’ season for the sport was solely targeted on multiplayer content material. Fortunately for individuals who solely take orders from only one particular person, DICE added Starfighter battles to the single-player/co-op arcade mode.
The Jabba’s Palace map appears to be like a bit claustrophobic for my tastes (I a lot desire my Battlefront 2 fights messy, open and punctuated with vehicular violence), however it’s a powerful showcase of DICE’s mapping abilities, and appears impressively correct to the movie, proper all the way down to the chill-out room underneath the throne-room for rowdy house-guests to unwind in.
With the brand new playmode – Hero Showdown – being solely targeted on hero characters, it’s no shock that a big chunk of the update patch notes revolve round hero steadiness tweaks. Lightsaber characters as an entire have seen some alterations, together with closing off some exploits that made leaping assaults extra helpful than they need to be. Leia’s overcharged pistol alt-fire was additionally closely nerfed, decreasing each its harm and halving its blast radius.
As for the Starfighter Arcade mode, sadly it’s not fairly as elegantly applied as the present hand-crafted Arcade levels, however now you can use the Custom Arcade playmode to play on house fight maps with quite a lot of hero-class ships. A great way to observe flying, on the very least, and getting a really feel for once you’re meant to make use of missiles, countermeasures and all these fancy space-toys. It’s no X-Wing, however maybe it’s a satisfactory sufficient substitute for Rogue Squadron in the meanwhile.
Presumably the latter half of the Solo ‘season’ shall be rolling out after the discharge of the movie, in order to not spoil any of its places. I’m hoping for a map set aboard the twisty, turny rollercoaster-like armoured practice featured within the Solo trailer, however I’ll fortunately accept anyplace that provides me an opportunity to shoot at Alden Ehrenreich. I’m nonetheless unconvinced that he by some means managed to develop as much as be Harrison Ford.
This is the proper model of the trailer, proper?
