Star Wars Battlefront‘s latest round of DLC will introduce a new game mode, Battle Station, that includes the game’s first-ever space battles, as well as a take on Star Wars: A New Hope’s Death Star trench run.
EA has released new details about the Death Star DLC coming to Battlefront as part of Gamescom 2016, specifically the three-part Battle Station mode included in the newest content.
Battle Station starts players out in a space battle, as X-Wings and A-Wings take on TIE Fighters and TIE Fnterceptors. In this phase, the Rebels are attempting to destroy enough enemy ships so that their Y-Wing support can come in and weaken the Star Destroyer’s defenses.
Phase 2 of Battle Station sees the fight head inside the Death Star, where the goal, as noted by Battlefront lead designer Dennis Brannvall during a Gamescom livestream, is to locate and rescue R2-D2. Brannvall also revealed during the livestream that R2-D2 is a playable character being introduced in the game mode. Players will be able to fight as the new heroes, Bossk and Chewbacca, during this phase.
The third and final part of the mode has players returning to space, where the Rebels will fight to blow up the Death Star. EA promises that players can become Luke Skywalker during this phase and aim to destroy the iconic Empire weapon in Luke’s Red-5 X-Wing.
EA promises a further look at the Death Star DLC, which was teased earlier this year, before its release in September. An offline Skirmish mode was also recently introduced to the game.
During Gamescom, EA also revealed that the upcoming Battlefront VR mission for PlayStation VR will be Rogue One themed.
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Source: IGN Video Games
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