Star Wars: Battlefront 2 gets one of the most exciting updates in the past two years. Since the end of 2017, fans have been waiting desperately for us to finally get new weapons. The original pool of just 16 guns (four of which were obsolete) has remained virtually untouched – until now!
The new big update The Age of Rebellion gives you four new ratchets including new attachments and dozens of other innovations.
Let's go through the most important information of the official announcement:
- There are two new infiltrator reinforcements: The empire gets the ISB's imperial secret agents, the rebels are reinforced by Ewok hunters.
- Are now in co-op Locations of the original trilogy playable: With up to three friends you can fight for or against the empire on Yavin, the Death Star, Endor, Hoth, Tatooine, Kessel and in Jabba's Palace.
- The new battleships the clones and battle droids are now playable in co-op.
- The first new weapon is the E-11D: A blaster rifle that hits the target extremely reliably at medium range.
- The second new weapon is the DL-18: The iconic blaster pistol does not cause immense damage, but it has a high rate of fire.
- The third new weapon is the T-21: This heavy blaster rifle does a lot of damage over short distances, but has a low rate of fire. So basically the opposite of the DC-15A.
- The fourth new weapon is the Cycler rifle: Fans already know this precision rifle from the 2015 battlefront, and the strengths remain unchanged. Like a Tusken hunter, you take long-range targets out of the game.
- You get significantly more options, yours Adapt user interface
- Obtained Imperial Rocket Trooper, Wookie Warrior and Rocket Jumper a new look, Their weapons are also changed.
- AI allies can now use vehicles in co-op and spawn as heroes.
- Leia is massively buffedto make her a stronger heroine: Her damage values and support abilities get a big upgrade, for example her shield now heals friendly troops.
To unlock the new weapons, you just have to 50 kills in each class. This is significantly less than with previous guns.
The update will take place on February 26, 2020 loaded, expects a slightly thicker download. If, by the way, you want to know why Battlefront 2 2020 is more worthwhile than ever, we took the game to heart in the review.