http://makingstarwars.net/2015/02/tons-star-wars-battlefront-rumors-links-star-wars-force-awakens/

- The story of Star Wars: Battlefront’s campaign will span pretty much the entire Star Wars saga.
Star Wars Battlefront will feature segments in which you play as both the good guys ( Rebellion and Republic) and bad guys (Separatists and the Empire). It was specifically stated that there will be a small portion of prequel trilogy content. You will participate in a couple of battles from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and the space battle above Corsucant from the beginning of Revenge of the Sith.

- The majority of the campaign will take place during the original trilogy era. All of the battles and settings that you would expect to be there will be playable. It was said that the campaign itself is pretty long when compared to other first person shooters.

- There will be some segments of the campaign which take place between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. There won’t be a lot because in their words “Lucasfilm has a lot of plans for that era.”

- The last section of the campaign takes place before and during the opening segments of The Force Awakens. Don’t expect anything too revealing, because the game is expected to ship about a month before the movie releases.

- For both the Republic (that’s what the good guys are being called in the production here) and Empire sections you will be playing characters that actually appear in The Force Awakens.

- The scale of the multiplayer is going to be absolutely massive with up 64 players participating on each side.
Space to land battles are absolutely happening, but will only be available in certain game modes.
There will be a “hero” system in place, where as you play you accumulate points that you can eventually cash in to play as a “hero” character. These characters are extremely powerful and have abilities that are not available to the normal characters that you play for most of the matches. The system is constantly in flux, but as it is now, pretty much everyone have a chance to play as a hero at least once per match.

- The Downloadable Content plan for the game is “extremely aggressive”. Expect up to five DLC packs for the game, with the first coming out before the end of 2015. Each pack will be themed, with the first two or three being exclusively based around content from The Force Awakens.

- The game will ship with several The Force Awakens characters already, but some won’t be added until DLC. Specifically all of the characters in the trailers will be available at launch, as will new versions of the X-wing an TIE fighter.

- Tons of new ships and vehicles.

More is in the article posted.

What do you think?

>"aggressive amounts of DLC"

enjoy paying full price for a vastly incomplete game, and having to pay extra for frivolous shit

Well, at least Dice can't totally fuck up the campaign for once, since it's practically already written for them.

I'm still very concerned this will just be a Battlefield in space reskin.

>lots of DLC

This actually sounds legit now

You don't need leaks to guess that, its kind of expected. It's Star Wars and a DICE game. I'd imagine they'll do a "Battlefront Premium" type thing.

I would be extremely surprised if this were true. It wouldn't leave EA/DICE with much room for a sequel, and that sounds humorously out-of-character for them.

I would be extremely surprised if this were true. It wouldn't leave EA/DICE with much room for a sequel, and that sounds humorously out-of-character for them.

They can always do different battles and such. That's what Battlefront II basically did until it got into the Dark Times Era. Or follow different troopers. Add new game modes and stuff too. But yeah, I see what you mean.


IMO, this would be a great way to wrap up stories of Clone Troopers from The Clone Wars show, such as Captain Rex. You could still get all the action that'd you get from the TV show as well. If these rumors are true, I wonder which battles they'd incorporate from The Clone Wars into the game? I've always been a fan of Landing at Point Rain.

I just love it when they're already talking about DLC way before the game comes out /sarcasm

Quote from: Kupo on February 12, 2015, 02:30:03 PM

I would be extremely surprised if this were true. It wouldn't leave EA/DICE with much room for a sequel, and that sounds humorously out-of-character for them.

They can always do different battles and such. That's what Battlefront II basically did until it got into the Dark Times Era. Or follow different troopers. Add new game modes and stuff too. But yeah, I see what you mean.


IMO, this would be a great way to wrap up stories of Clone Troopers from The Clone Wars show, such as Captain Rex. You could still get all the action that'd you get from the TV show as well. If these rumors are true, I wonder which battles they'd incorporate from The Clone Wars into the game? I've always been a fan of Landing at Point Rain.

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I would be okay with that.

This sounds brilliant but they're just rumours

Quote from: Sho on February 13, 2015, 07:24:24 AM

This sounds brilliant but they're just rumours

"Extremely aggressive" DLC sounds brilliant?

EA SHILL ALERT

As long as the original game has enough content I see nothing wrong with lots of DLC.

Quote from: BritishLemön on February 13, 2015, 07:29:08 AM

Quote from: Sho on February 13, 2015, 07:24:24 AM

This sounds brilliant but they're just rumours

"Extremely aggressive" DLC sounds brilliant?

EA SHILL ALERT

As long as the original game has enough content I see nothing wrong with lots of DLC.

So you see nothing wrong with a game charging you for DLC that was either cut or hold back? Any day one DLC or DLC that's released withing a short time span of the game is just DLC that was held back from the game. Also whats your stance on disc locked content like what Gears 3 did? The first map pack is already on the disc but they were charging you to access something that you already bought.

Quote from: BritishLemön on February 13, 2015, 07:38:06 AM

Quote from: Sho on February 13, 2015, 07:32:23 AM

Quote from: BritishLemön on February 13, 2015, 07:29:08 AM

Quote from: Sho on February 13, 2015, 07:24:24 AM

This sounds brilliant but they're just rumours

"Extremely aggressive" DLC sounds brilliant?

EA SHILL ALERT

As long as the original game has enough content I see nothing wrong with lots of DLC.

You disgust me.

The fact that they're planning DLC before the game is even finished and released shows that isn't the case (that's if this rumour is true, however)

developers preplanning dlc is pretty much inevitable at this point

"Preplanned" DLC is cut content.
You shouldn't be okay with that.

Quote from: Sho on February 13, 2015, 07:45:58 AM

Quote from: BritishLemön on February 13, 2015, 07:38:06 AM

Quote from: Sho on February 13, 2015, 07:32:23 AM

Quote from: BritishLemön on February 13, 2015, 07:29:08 AM

Quote from: Sho on February 13, 2015, 07:24:24 AM

This sounds brilliant but they're just rumours

"Extremely aggressive" DLC sounds brilliant?

EA SHILL ALERT

As long as the original game has enough content I see nothing wrong with lots of DLC.

You disgust me.

The fact that they're planning DLC before the game is even finished and released shows that isn't the case (that's if this rumour is true, however)

developers preplanning dlc is pretty much inevitable at this point

"Preplanned" DLC is cut content.
You shouldn't be okay with that.

I'm not but if we're assuming the rumour in the OP is correct then the actual game itself should have plenty of content. if this is the case then DLC isn't a problem.

If they were in the planning stages of a DLC pack four months from release it'd be different; by that point the games already in printing stages to prepare for release and they can't add anything else. But to already have five packs mocked up before we've even seen what the game looks like? No.

I have no problem with preplanned DLC, but the idea of playing through the campaign as a character sounds particularly unlike Battlefront. In each game you're going to have numerous deaths; how is that going to work here? It just doesn't seem possible to play a Battlefront match with a single character without radically changing how the game works.

And is it really a FPS?