News is back! Hooray!
This week we’ve got some news from EA out of Gamescom.
Video Games
EA has revealed new details about the new game mode that’s arriving with the Death Star DLC for Battlefront.
The new mode for the expansion pack shown at Gamescom is named Battle Station. This unique mode has players battling across 3 phases – each with a different objective.
In Phase 1 you’ll be flying X-wings and A-wings against TIE fighters and TIE interceptors in space! The main objective in this phase is for Rebels to destroy enough TIE fighters until their Y-wing support can come in to weaken the Star Destroyer’s defenses. Once vulnerable, Rebel starfighters can attack the weak spots in an effort to bring the Star Destroyer down. In an effort to help defend this key asset for the Empire, players along with AI ships will be set up to help defend the Star Destroyer.
Phase 2 will have players fighting inside this iconic space station among areas inspired by the classic trilogy. Rebel infantry will be tasked with extracting a priority droid from within the Death Star. Amidst the chaos of battle, you’ll be able to gain an advantage by taking up arms as our new heroes Bossk and Chewbacca!
And finally, in the culmination of the new mode, players head back into space where the Rebels need to end the battle once and for all – by blowing up the Death Star! Players can become the hero of the Rebellion, Luke Skywalker, in his Red-5 X-wing as they attempt to destroy the Empire’s ultimate weapon. But beware as Darth Vader has been dispatched to protect the Empire’s asset in his TIE Advanced.
In other interesting news, R2-D2 has been confirmed as a playable character in this mode.
The YouTube channel DidYouKnowGaming has an interesting scoop on two more cancelled Star Wars games that we hadn’t heard of before, a Chewbacca game, and a Dark Squadron game, a successor to the Rogue Squadron games that would have had you flying for the Empire as Darth Vader:
Tabletop Games
A new adventure module for Age of Rebellion has been announced: Friends Like These.
Friends Like These takes your team of Rebels to Xorrn, a planet under threat of imminent Imperial attack. Once you arrive, you have 48 hours to organize the defenses and recruit military support from nearby systems. But from the moment you first arrive on Xorrn, you’ll discover that in this area of the galaxy, it’s impossible to know who your real friends are, and that strategy and morals don’t always go hand in hand. In this battle, even the cleanest military victory might come at a terrible price.
New to X-Wing? If so, FFG has a new article up just for you! X-Wing for Beginners covers all the basics you need to know to dive into this amazing game.
And if you just need to add more to your collection immediately, two new Star Wars products hit shelves this week: the Forged in Battle sourcebook for AOR, and the new Force Pack for the LCG that we’ve all been waiting for: Ancient Rivals.
If you missed it, we’ve rebooted our Battlefront focused show, Battle Chat, into a video based show where we livestream Battlefront while we chat about it (and other topics).
Here’s the first episode!