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Electronic Arts och Dice kommer snart att släppa en uppdatering till sitt Star Wars: Battlefront. I ett öppet meddelande skriver producenten Craig McLeod att spelarna kan vänta sig flera nyheter som ”kommer till Star Wars: Battlefront snart” och materialet lär släppas när som helst i och med att uppdateringen ska ske under våren.

McLeod lovar bland annat en överraskning för alla som bett om mer offline-material, och spelarna kommer att kunna delta i en hel del tidsexklusiva evenemang. Så här lyder hela meddelandet:

”To the Star Wars™ Battlefront™ community:
It’s been a busy 2016 for us so far, as we’ve been working on adding a lot of new, free* content to Star Wars Battlefront, while also launching the first expansion pack as part of Season Pass, Outer Rim. We’re excited to see that you’re enjoying the new maps we’ve added on Hoth, Tatooine, Sullust and Endor, that you’re out earning new weapons with Hutt Contracts, and for Outer Rim owners, that you’re taking advantage of the new heroes, Greedo and Nien Nunb. And as usual, we’re finding many highlights you’re sharing to be most impressive:

We are always listening to community feedback and working to improve the game, and are very excited about what’s to come. In the next few months all players can look forward to free* additions like:

-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.

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.

On behalf of our team at DICE, we look forward to seeing you on the battlefront soon! May the Force™ be with you!”

Spelarna har kunnat slåss i en galax långt, långt bort ett bra tag i Star Wars: Battlefront, och nu släpper Dice nytt material till sin onlinefokuserade rymdskjutare.

Den nya uppdateringen lotsas ut till samtliga versioner av Star Wars: Battlefront, och medan patchen implementeras kan servrarna ligga nere ett tag. Vi får bland annat den nya kartan ‘Twilight’ som utspelar sig under nattetid på planeten Hoth, och dessutom utökas Survival-läget med uppdraget ‘Survival in the Ice Caves.’

Vi får också ett nytt filter som som kan justera det visuella stilen och uppdateringen kommer även med en hel del balansjusteringar.

Nedan kan ni kika på alla detaljer för uppdateringen, som blev tillgänglig via Star Wars: Battlefronts officiella forum.

Additional Content/Functionality

• General: Jakku DLC Content is being patched into the game, downloading it separately via platform storefronts is no longer required and can be deleted from your hard drives
• New Map: Twilight on Hoth added to Walker Assault, Supremacy, Turning Point, Blast, Fighter Squadron, Drop Zone, and Heroes vs. Villains
• New Mission: Survival in the Ice Caves added to Survival Missions
• Turning Point: Jundland Wastes, Forest of Endor, Outpost Beta, and SoroSuub Centroplex maps added to the playlist
• Attract Mode: GNK Droid added – GONK!
• Settings: Turning off music in the Sound menu now turns off music everywhere in the game
• Settings: Added a Film Grain setting slider in the Video menu
• Credits: Updated Game Credits list

Weapon and Star Card Changes

• Primary Weapons: Damage against air vehicles increased by 10%
• Bowcaster: Explosion damage increased from 10 to 15 per projectile and explosion radius decreased from 3 to 2.5m
• Bowcaster: Full charge direct hit from 20 to 40 per projectile and a normal direct hit increased from 20 to 30 per projectile
• Barrage: Damage increased from 50 to 55
• Barrage: Cooldown reduced from 40 to 35s (normal) and from 35 to 30s (upgraded)
• Barrage: First volley of grenades no longer disappear if the user uses the Refresh Power-up and then fires a second volley
• Homing Shot: Lock time decreased from 1.5 to 1.2s
• Homing Shot: Players in the AT-GAR turret now receive on-screen notification when locked on
• ION Torpedo: Speed increased from 350 to 380m/s and turning angle increased from 120 to 125 in order to more easily hit air vehicles
• Pulse Rifle: Movement speed while aiming decreased by 30%
• Tusken Cycler Rifle: Movement speed while aiming increased by 40%
• Tusken Cycler Rifle: Bullet speed increased from 300 to 450m/s
• Orbital Strike: Fixed bug where it sometimes would not trigger on button press

Vehicle changes

• A-Wing: Increased hit box size
• A-Wing: Now properly takes damage when colliding with an AT-ST while having the Shield active
• Slave I: Players can now see the Shield icon on Rebel vehicles when a Shield is active
• AT-ST: T-47 Airspeeder kills with a missle while firing the primary cannons at the same time now properly awards a kill (previously registered as a suicide)
• AT-AT: Fixed bug where the Orbital Strike ability would sometimes not have the aiming reticle move
• T-47 Airspeeder: Players will no longer receive an out of bounds message on Graveyard of Giants during Turning Point when a control point is captured

Multiplayer Game Mode Changes

• General: Pre-Round timer lowered from 30s to 20s
• Walker Assault: Fixed Power-up spawns on SoroSuub Centroplex
• Walker Assault: AT-AT health increased by 18% on Outpost Beta, 8% on Jundland Wastes, 20% on Forest of Endor, 4% on SoroSuub Centroplex, and 5% on Graveyard of Giants
• Walker Assault: Spawning as an Imperial Hero after the AT-ATs just pass the second set of uplinks no longer despawns one of the AT-ATs
• Walker Assault: The second AT-AT no longer bumps into the wreckage of the other on SoroSuub Centroplex when the first AT-AT is destroyed during the first Uplink
• Droid Run: Correct Objective Notification is now displayed to all players if someone is killed while trying to claim the Droid
• Droid Run: Improved spawn zones on Dune Sea Exchange
• Supremacy: Fixed Power-up spawns on Jundland Wastes, Forest of Endor, and SoroSuub Centroplex
• Supremacy: Improved spawn zones on Jundland Wastes, Outpost Beta, and Forest of Endor
• Heroes vs. Villains: Planted turrets on Dune Sea Exchange will now disappear in-between rounds
• Hero Hunt: Improved spawn zones on Ice Caves
• Fighter Squadron: Players are now protected while spawning on Graveyard of Giants

Mission Changes

• General: Both players will now properly see Charge Card pick-ups if Player One is using a 3rd Star Card Hand without a Charge Card
• General: Player 2’s changes to control settings no longer update Player 1’s controls when playing Split-Screen
• Battle: Fixed AI Spawn issues on Tatooine
• Survival: Wave 10 on Sullust will now always spawn if the player / co-op team dies and restarts the round or if a player picks up a Collectible during the Wave 9 transition
• Survival: Partner spawns on Sullust will no longer fail if the currently alive player is in a confined area
• Survival: Co-Op players can now unlock the “Complete on Hard Difficulty without spending a life” if one player dies and then waits until the other player completes the wave so they get a free respawn

Hero changes

• General: Heroes no longer get stuck in a stunned animation state
• Princess Leia: Endor outfit updated – Congrats on completing the Lead the Rebellion challenge!
• Princess Leia: Trooper Bane now only knocks back primary target, not nearby enemies
• Luke Skywalker: Increased Saber Rush’s damage against other Heroes from 2% to 6-8%
• Luke Skywalker: Lightsaber swing hit radius is reduced from 0.3 to 0.25m
• Han Solo: Zooming in no longer sometimes displays a gun scope
• Emperor Palpatine’s Shocktroopers: Modified primary weapon damage to match Leia’s Honor Guards’ primary weapon damage over time

Misc. Bug fixes

• General: Lighting, textures, audio, user interface, text, and collision fixes
• Controls: Legacy control schemes have had their layouts more clearly defined
• Colorblind: Enemy players highlighted with Scan Pulse now have the correct Deuteranopia or Protanopia settings on Graveyard of Giants and Goazan Badlands
• PC only: Fixed a bug where a player would lose functionality with an Xbox 360 controller after inviting a player to a Private Match and then starting the game
• PC only: Air vehicle sensitivity lowered from 0.9 to 0.45 for easier mouse control
• Achievements / Trophies: Updated text on “Impressive. Most Impressive.” and “Survivor” to clarify the requirements
• Achievements / Trophies: “Playing the Objective” now properly awarded