Oh look, Star Wars has snuck up on me once more. At midnight tonight, cinema goers which are enthusiastic sufficient to courageous the crowds will get to ogle The Last Jedi, sci-fi’s premier house wizard opera. Cinema screens aren’t the one place you’ll discover new Star Wars, although – EA are dropping a batch of free Star Wars Battlefront 2 content material at this time, providing you with the prospect to get new Star Wars below your fingers in addition to throughout out of your eyeballs. That stuff will get all over the place.
The Last Jedi DLC brings a few new heroes, multiplayer maps and ships, although I’m most within the three new chapters for the singleplayer marketing campaign.
Those singlelayer missions tie into the brand new movie, however in case you’re anxious about spoilers then Battlefront 2 author Mitch Dyer will inform you that you just don’t must be overly involved. In a tweet, he means that those that need into the film fully blind ought to maintain off on enjoying the brand new Resurrection chapters of the marketing campaign, however that in case you’ve already watched the trailers (I presume for the film) you then’re good to go. The new chapters comply with Iden Versio throughout the First Order’s rise to energy. Iden is a likeable character whose motivation is neither coherent nor particularly interesting, however I do wish to see how this bridges that hole between the top of the unique trilogy and The Force Awakens.
Between the chokepointy maps and the infuriating development system, I don’t have a lot need to return to the multiplayer – though this replace does repair considered one of my gripes with it. You can now pop three Star Cards into every trooper’s loadout right away, the place beforehand you needed to unlock a bunch of playing cards that you just’d possible by no means use with a purpose to entry the second and third slots. It’s smoothing out one wrinkle on a system that’s a scrunched up and tattered mess, however it’s a step in the appropriate route.
Those new heroes I discussed are Finn and Captain Phasma, and so they tie right into a ‘choose your faction’ event that EA began on December fifth. The staff that completes essentially the most challenges will earn a particular crate for his or her hero, and there’ll be extra challenges and rewards within the weeks to come back.
As for these new maps, Crait is a planetary affair the place the rebels should cease the Empire from escorting an MT-M6. D’Quar is a Starfighter assault map, during which now you can fly round in Tallie Lintra’s RZ-2 A-wing. Poe Dameron’s T-70 X-wing has a brand new capacity, too.
The replace additionally brings a bunch of stability adjustments for heroes, in addition to bug fixes and server-lag enhancements. Lando, Chewbacca and Palpatine have all been buffed, whereas Boba Fett has been toned down just a little. I’ll depart you to peruse the patch notes in full.
I’ll additionally depart you with this, as a result of it’s great.
