Star Wars: Battlefront 2's Next Huge Update Detailed, See The Patch Notes Here

Star Wars: Battlefront II developer DICE has detailed the next major update coming to the game. The Age of Rebellion update, which launches on February 26 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, includes new co-op locations, the Ewok Hunter and ISB Agent 4 characters, four new weapons, improvements for Hero characters, and two new Heroes vs. Villains maps, among other notable changes.

The Age of Rebellion update is themed around the original Star Wars trilogy. Starting with the new special units, the Ewok Hunter is a special version of the Ewok who carries a bow (with dual firing modes) and can use a “Valiant Horn” that can be blown to improve attacks and increase damage resistance. The Ewok Hunter can also throw Wisties at enemies to burn them.

The ISB agent, meanwhile, is a dual-wielding character who carries two RK-3 blasters. The character can also run extra fast and receive limited damage when the Assault Training ability is activated. She also has an Imperial Intel ability that scans the nearby area and reveals the location of the closest enemies.

Outside of the new characters, the Age of Rebellion update introduces seven new locations for co-op, including Yavin, Death Star II, Endor, Hoth, Tatooine, Kessel, and Jabba’s Palace. The new weapons added in the update include the E-11D medium-range blaster, the DL-17 short-range pistol, the T-21 heavy blaster, and the Cycler rifle for long-range shooting. These four weapons can be unlocked by completing certain challenges in co-op.

The Age of Rebellion update also makes changes to a range of heroes, most notably to Leia, and specifically her E11 blaster. This weapon has been buffed with increased start damage from 32 to 36 and end damage from 17 to 19. The weapon’s recoil has been reduced, too, while the blaster fire spread is also reduced.

The two new Heroes vs. Villains maps, meanwhile, are MC85 Star Cruiser and Resurgent-Class Star Destroyer. This is just a small sampling of the high-level changes. You can see the full Battlefront II Age of Rebellion patch notes below, as posted by DICE.

Battlefront II Age of Rebellion Patch Notes

RELEASE NOTES

• Co-Op is now available on the Age of Rebellion (Endor, Death Star II, Hoth, Yavin 4, Kessel and Tatooine – Mos Eisley and Jabba’s Palace), as well as on Age of Republic Capital Ships (Republic Attack Cruiser and Separatist Dreadnaught).
• Two new Reinforcements, the Ewok Hunter for the Rebel Alliance and the ISB Agent for the Galactic Empire, are now available.
• Heroes Vs. Villains is now available on MC85 Star Cruiser and Resurgent-class Star Destroyer.
• Hero Showdown is now available on new maps (MC85 Star Cruiser, Resurgent-class Star Destroyer, Republic Attack Cruiser and Separatist Dreadnaught, Felucia).
• New weapons for Trooper Classes (E-11D for Assault Troopers, T-21 for Heavy Troopers, DL-18 for Officers and Cycler Rifle for Specialists) are now able to be unlocked through Milestones.
• Updated the default appearances for: Imperial Rocket Trooper, Rebel Rocket Jumper and Wookiee Warrior. Legacy appearances are available as unlocked alternatives.

QUALITY OF LIFE

• Changes the map layout for improved Heroes Vs. Villains and Hero Showdown gameplay on Yavin 4 and Geonosis.
• Vehicle units are added as AI players on certain maps on Instant Action (Geonosis, Kashyyyk, Naboo, Felucia, Ajan Kloss)
• Friendly AI can spawn as Heroes on Instant Action
• Players can now spawn on AI as fellow squad members on Instant Action.
• Various visual updates on the Scoreboard. Character levels are now shown on the scoreboard.
• Major visual updates on the PC Chat window. The window is now positioned at the top right corner of tje screen and included in a vertical stack of three widgets: Network status, PC Chat, Kill and Event Log.

UI – NEW HUD OPTIONS

Added new options in the Options / Gameplay / HUD section:

• Weapon Heatbar Vertical Position (Default / Below Crosshair)
• Radar (Default / No Outline / Off)
• Squad List (Default / Only Icons / Off)
• Player Bar (Default / No Outline / Off)
• Abilities (Default / No Outline / Off)
• Name Tags (Default / No Outline / Off)
• Game Mode Progress (Default / Off)
• Challenge Progress (Default / Off)
• Rank Up Celebration (Default / Left Side / Right Side / Off)
• Added additional option to the Kill Message setting (Default / Medium / Small / Legacy / Off).

HERO CHANGES

• Added Dual zoom to the Blaster weapons of Iden Versio, Bossk and Finn.
• Added visual information to show that certain Hero abilities can be cancelled (Han Solo’s Sharpshooter, Bossk’s Predator Instincts, Leia Organa’s Rapid Fire and Chewbacca’s Furious Bowcaster).
• Fixed an audio issue where the Lightsaber ignition sound would not trigger when a Lightsaber was activated by an ability.
• Fixed an issue where players could interrupt Hero abilities with melee attacks.
• Fixed an issue where opponents could be seen briefly hanging in mid-air, if being electrocuted right when they were about to fall.
• Fixed various visual issues with the footprints and trails of General Grievous, Yoda, BB-9E and BB-8.

BB-8 AND BB-9E

• Increased the support ability score reward for the BB units from 2 to 4.
• Fixed an issue where casting certain effects on the BB droids while using their abilities, could cause the death of seemingly random AI players.
• Fixed an issue where placeholder VO would trigger when BB-8 and BB-9E would encounter an enemy Hero.
• Fixed an issue where BB-8’s moving animation could break if BB-8 gets interrupted after using the Rolling Charge ability.
• Fixed an issue where a Milestone for BB-8 would reward the wrong emote.
• Fixed an issue where the “Effortless” milestone description for BB-9E would mention rewards using work-in-progress names.

LEIA ORGANA

• Fixed an issue where Leia would not be able to zoom with her weapon during the Rapid Fire ability.

Abilities

• Flash grenade is replaced by Thermal detonators: Leia can throw, up to three, thermal detonators that will explode after 0,85 seconds. This ability enters cooldown when all three detonators have been thrown.
• Leia’s Squad shield is now Healing 5 health every second.

Star Card Blinded

• BLINDED changed to FEARLESS
• Description: The blast radius of THERMAL DETONATORS is increased.
• Effect: INCREASED BLAST RADIUS

Star Card Blinded Reveal

• Star card BLINDING REVEAL changed to HANDY DEVICE
• Description: The cooldown of THERMAL DETONATORS is reduced.
• Effect: REDUCED COOLDOWN

Balancing tweaks

• Increased E-11 start damage from 32 to 36.
• Increased E-11 end damage from 17 to 19.
• Increased E-11 the start distance for Damage fall off from 5 to 20.
• Increased E-11 the end distance for Damage fall off from 10 to 40.
• Reduced E-11 Recoil.
• Reduced E-11 blaster shots spread.

Milestones

• BLINDING FLASH GRENADE changed to PLENTY OF EXPLOSIONS.
• Description: Defeat 30 enemies with Leia’s Thermal detonators.

CHEWBACCA

Chewbacca’s Bowcaster

• When not scoped: The three bolts are clustered in a triangle, instead of a horizontal line.
• When scoped: One powerful shot that allows Chewbacca to be more efficient at long distance, instead of the three horizontal shots clustering.
• When using furious bowcaster while not scoped: 5 bolts, in a larger circle
• When using furious bowcaster while scoped: 5 bolts, in a cross, tighter than not scoped.
• Fixed an issue where Chewbacca’s Bowcaster could get disabled during the entirety of Boba Fett’s Concussion Rocket ability.

BOBA FETT

• Fixed an issue where Boba Fett’s Acute Concussion Star Card would not accurately extend the duration of the Concussion Rocket ability.

Abilities

• Changed Boba Fett’s Concussion rocket to integrate the BLASTER DISABLER functionality. The ability now disables blasters for 1.2 seconds when concussed.

Star Cards

• BLASTER DISABLER changed to AUGMENTED GEAR
• Description: If CONCUSSION ROCKET hits more enemies, Boba Fett’s jetpack regenerates more fuel.

REY

• Fixed an issue where Rey’s right eye would not show in its correct position during an emote.

ANAKIN SKYWALKER

• Fixed an issue where the damage reduction from Heroic Might could occasionally remain after the ability was over.

LUKE SKYWALKER

• Fixed an issue with textures popping on Luke Skywalker’s hair while he is idle, wearing the Yavin Ceremony and Farmboy appearances.

IDEN VERSIO

• Improved Iden’s Pulse Cannon ability. Players can now fire while aiming from the hip, as well as fire at any time during the charge up. Even if the shot does need to be fully charged, a charged shot does a lot more damage.

KYLO REN

• Community feedback – The last hit of Kylo Ren’s Frenzy ability will now apply damage, even if a Lightsaber enemy is blocking.

GENERAL GRIEVOUS

• Fixed an issue where Grievous’ Unrelenting Advance animation would sometimes not be visible to other players.

GAME MODE AND MAP CHANGES

SUPREMACY

• Updated the Resistance-controlled AT-ST on Supremacy – Ajan Kloss to “Scavenged AT-ST” to make it more easily differentiated.
• Fixed an issue where the capture area of Command Post A on Supremacy – Felucia would show up misaligned on the radar.
• Fixed an issue that would cause the names of friendly boarding players to show up in the action log with the wrong color.
• Fixed an issue where the UI outline on the objectives on Capital Ships would not always be visible if boarding a Capital Ship more than once in a match.
• Fixed an issue where the Starfighters fighting in the background in Supremacy and Co-Op (Age of Resistance) would be from the wrong era.
• Fixed an issue where previously marked objectives would remain targeted, even when switching phases.
• Fixed an issue where the objective markets on the Separatist Dreadnaught would disappear, after destroying the first objective.
• For balancing reasons, we reduced the amount of Flame Troopers available on MC85 Star Cruiser to two.

CO-OP

• Tweaked the Out Of Bounds area in the 1st Phase of Co-Op – Defend on Takodana to allow retreating to the castle.
• Updated the Co-Op mode description to include the defending of Command Posts.
• Fixed an issue where a number of AI would be suddenly dying during Phase 3 on Co-Op – Ajan Kloss.

INSTANT ACTION

• Added note that performance can be impacted if a user selects a high count for AI.
• Implemented limit in how frequently friendly and enemy AI Heroes and Reinforcements are allowed to spawn.
• Fixed an issue with audio being cut during the End-Of-Round screen on Instant Action.

Added new Frontend options for Instant Action:

• Enemy Hero Count (slider)
• Friendly Hero Count (slider)
• Enemy Reinforcement Count (slider)
• Friendly Reinforcement Count (slider)
• Enemy Vehicle Count (slider)
• Friendly Vehicle Count (slider)

STARFIGHTER ASSAULT

• Removed the era-associated costs for Hero Ships on Starfighter Assault. All Hero Ships on Starfighter Assault will now cost the same number of Battle Points.
• Fixed an issue where stray assets would be visible near the horizon when the user approaches the Out-Of-Bounds barrier on Starfighter Assault – Kamino.

HEROES VS. VILLAINS

• Fixed an issue where a player could briefly see their character before the End-Of-Round screen at the end of a Heroes Vs. Villains match on Felucia.

GALACTIC ASSAULT

• Fixed an issue where the loading screen for Starkiller Base on Galactic Assault, would display the description for Strike mode.

MAP CHANGES

• Fixed various collision issues, exploits and improved areas where players could get stuck in across a wide selection of maps (Geonosis, Kamino, Ajan Kloss, Felucia, Kashyyyk, Tatooine, Endor, Bespin, Hoth, Yavin, Crait, Naboo, Jakku, Takodana, Resurgent-Class Star Destroyer, Death Star II, Starkiller Base).
• Fixed various visual and texture popping issues on Ajan Kloss, Geonosis, Kamino, Resurgent-class Star Destroyer, Takodana, Endor, Death Star II.
• Fixed an issue where Lightsaber characters from the Light side could bypass certain Out-Of-Bounds areas on the Separatist Dreadnaught.
• Improved VFX feedback when the AAT hits the invulnerable parts of the AT-TE on Geonosis.

CHANGES TO CLASSES AND SPECIAL UNITS

ARC TROOPER

• Reworked the ARC Trooper’s dual wielding to fire both pistols with primary fire, and instead use secondary fire button to trigger Power Blast.
• Replaced the Power Blast with Toggle Weapon, that allows toggling the pistols between slower rate of fire with high accuracy, to fast firing with bigger spread.
• Tweaked damage output on primary pistols (Close Damage 30->34 | Far Damage 17->15).

ASSAULT

• Fixed issue where the Assault’s Flash Pistol projectile would not flash the enemy.

SPECIALIST

• Fixed an issue where Specialists would not always see enemies in thermal vision when activating the Thermal Binoculars on Endor.

OFFICER

• Increased close damage for Blurrg-1120: 25->30.

CAPHEX SPY

• Fixed an issue where the cooldown bar would not be visible after using the Rapid Fire ability.

OVISSIAN GUNNER

• Reverted previous update where movement speed would be reduced when spooling up and firing the rotary cannon.
• Fixed issue where firing the rotary cannon wouldn’t trigger controller rumble.

TX-130

• Fixed an issue where the TX-130 would not receive the right amount of Battle Points.

AT-ST

• Reduced the Battle Points multiplier of the AT-ST from 60% to 50%.

AERIAL

• Fixed an issue where the camera would get stuck in a different position after an Aerial unit would perform the Jetpack Dash ability.
• Fixed an issue in an effort to reduce risk of Aerial units being affected by minor obstacles when performing Jetpack Dash.
• Updated rocket launcher icon to the missile icon, since it more closely reflects the ability than the previous version, that was the MPL launcher.

JET TROOPER

• Reduced damage from primary pistol (Close damage 50->45 | Far Damage 33->10)
• Made pistol fully automatic.

REBEL ROCKET-JUMPER

• Replaced A280 (burst weapon) with A280C (automatic weapon) for improved combat efficiency.

IMPERIAL ROCKET TROOPER

• Replaced the RT-97C blaster with an E-11 for improved combat efficiency.

DEATH TROOPER

• Updated the blinding effect of the Sonic Imploder ability to be concussion based, and increased effective range to 10 meters.
• Replaced the DLT-19 Heavy Blaster with the E-11D Blaster Rifle.
• Updated Overload to no longer have movement reduction.

WEAPONS

• Fixed an issue where applying weapon mods would not correctly update the animation for those weapons.

MILESTONES

• Rearranged Trooper Milestones to ensure the newest milestones appear at the top.
• Updated A280 milestones to use the correct weapon icon (was previously using the A280C).

AI PLAYERS

• Fixed an issue where the AI in Supremacy – Age of Resistance would be seeing carrying weapons from the wrong era.
• Fixed an issue where AI would not spawn as BB-8 and BB-9E as frequently as other Heroes.
• Fixed an issue with the jump timing of the AI version of Chewbacca.

GENERAL CHANGES/MISC

• Fixed an issue that could cause rubberbanding when the player is dashing away after being close to a Lightsaber opponent making the first charge.
• Removed the ability to buy Crystal packs in-game for owners of the Celebration Edition.
• Fixed a localization issue where the Supremacy mode description in German would overlap with other info on screen.
• Fixed an issue where some models would animate with low FPS while certain Arcade – Battle Scenarios previews were showcased
• Updated the availability of certain cosmetic items from “Available in Crates” to “Available through Milestones”.
• Improved visibility of weapon stats under certain colorblind profiles.
• Fixed an issue where Heroes would sometimes appear with barely closed eyes in the Frontend menu.

KNOWN ISSUES

• Visual issue where high numbers are inaccurately shown under the “PLAYER DAMAGED” score event, after defeating an enemy.