Star Wars: Battlefront II

Scarif is the latest, and seemingly last, regular content update to Star Wars Battlefront 2.

With lootboxes long gone and some quiet, but determined, work on the game over the last two years, SWBF2 has never been more fun to play. To top things off, there’s some great stuff coming in the remaining months of the year that looks to improve the experience even further.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 will be updated with the Darth Tyranus patch on Wednesday, January 23rd. As part of the update, players will find the ex-Jedi-turned Sith Lord, Count Dooku, making a return. Players will also see Geonosis added to the Heroes vs Villains Blast and Custom Arcade game modes.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is ready to make his grand debut in Star Wars Battlefront II starting November 28th. He comes to the game as part of the Battle of Geonosis update, the first major Clone Wars battle. Players will also find the AT-TE included in the update. The developer team is aiming to make the Battle of Geonosis feel epic in scale as players fight through the multi-stage conflict.

The Star Wars Battlefront II Twitter has an updated roadmap that includes information about the contents of updates coming from July through Winter 2018. Among game improvements and new game modes, players can look for new appearances and four new Heroes: Obi-Wan Kenobi, General Grievous, Anakin Skywalker and Count Dooku.

Star Wars: Battlefront II developers have announced that the Han Solo Season will kick off on May 16th and run throughout the month of June as part of the Solo: A Star Wars Story movie. From May 16th to the end of May, players will be able to revisit Jabba's Palace, take part in the new Hero Showdown Mode, find new appearances inspired by Return of the Jedi and, lastly, take part in the new Starfighter Custom Arcade mode.

Starting April 18th, Star Wars Battlefront II players will be able to take part in the next content addition called Night on Endor. Players will be able to take on the new content either as an "Ewok defending your homeland...or as a stormtrooper fighting to escape the ambush. The fight is for control of Endor during Ewok Hunt mode.

After the hue and cry over the "pay to win" nature of the Star Wars Battlefront 2 loot boxes late last year, EA has had to rethink its strategy going forward. In a new blog post on the game's official site, developers lay out the details of the new "progression system" coming on March 21st. Of particular note is the fact that loot boxes will no longer be sold and Star Cards will be earned in-game only.

Unsubstantiated rumors are swirling that EA may lose the exclusive license to make Star Wars games. According to entertainment site, "Cinelinx", multiple sources have reached out to reveal Disney's unhappiness with EA, even going so far as to "higher ups pull[ing] EA to the 'principal's office' to talk about what's going wrong". In addition, these same sources claim that Disney has also reached out to Ubisoft and Activision about developing Star Wars games.

According to one BMO Capital Markets analyst, EA investors overreacted to the Star Wars Battlefront 2 loot box controversy last year. Gerrick Johnson has written that stocks should outperform in 2018 despite the outrage.

Today is a big day for Star Wars: Battlefront II with the arrival of the free DLC, The Last Jedi Season. The new content is perfectly timed to coincide with this week's cinema release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The DLC will continue the story of the protagonist, Iden Versio, though as a much older character remembering events of the past. In addition, Finn and Phasma join up as unlockable characters.

Iden Versio is the single-player protagonist in Star Wars: Battlefront II. In a new trailer featuring The Last Jedi free DLC content coming within the next week, you'll see Iden as a much older woman on the red planet of Crait. You'll also get a look at new trilogy characters Finn and Phasma.

Beginning today, Star Wars: Battlefront II players will see the first free DLC content themed around Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi. Players will be able to choose whether to ally themselves with the New Republic or the First Order and on December 13th take part in a much beefier DLC that will see Captain Phasma and Finn added as well as the Crait Galactic Assault map, the D'Qar Starfighter Assault map and Tallie's A-Wing vehicle added. All tie-in DLC are free.

We recently put together a more gimmicky guide for the Specialist in Star Wars: Battlefront II, but this week we've got something a bit more practical with a guide to raining fire down onto your enemies with the Heavy.

EA's stocks have taken a huge hit over the course of the last month, losing 8.5% with investors seeing $3.1 billion in stock value erased. This is in contrast to the overall S&P rising 2% and Take-Two going up 5% and Activision-Blizzard stocks rising .7%. Wall Street analysts are attributing the fall to Star Wars Battlefront II and the controversy over loot boxes and progression. Sales of the game over the Black Friday / Cyber Monday weekend were weak causing analysts to take note.