Video Games: STAR WAR BATTLEFRONT 2's Han Solo Season Arrives Next Week With First Batch Of Content

Video Games: STAR WAR BATTLEFRONT 2's Han Solo Season Arrives Next Week With First Batch Of Content

The Han Solo Season for Star Wars Battlefront 2 begins next week and EA has shared the details of the first batch of content, inspired by Han's adventures in Episode VI - Return of the Jedi.

By MattIsForReal - May 09, 2018 05:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Video Games
Source: GameFragger
Star Wars Battlefront 2's second season of content, dubbed "The Han Solo Season" will begin next week on May 16, EA announced today. As the title suggests, Battlefront 2's next season of free content will be inspired by the galaxy's most beloved smuggler and will feature a new game mode and map, a custom arcade, and additional character skins.

The Han Solo Season arrives just ahead of the theatrical release of Solo: A Star Wars Story, the standalone prequel film that explores the life of Han before we met him on that fateful afternoon in Chalmun's Cantina in A New Hope. Because the film will not be released by the time the season begins, the first batch of content will not feature anything inspired by the upcoming film. Instead, most of the content will be themed from Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi.

For starters, we're getting a new map: Jabba's Palace. This map will be playable in Blast, Hero Showdown, and Heroes vs. Villains. Also inspired by Return of the Jedi are two new character Appearances (available for Credits or Crystals): Lando Calrissian in his Skiff Guard disguise and Leia Organa donning her iconic bounty hunter Boushh's gear. Leia's outfit will actually be considered the first Legendary Appearance in the game as it will actually change her voice using the speech scrambler to speak Ubese.

The Han Solo Season will also introduce the new Hero Showdown mode, a new 2v2 round-based elimination mode. Before each match in this best-of-five series, you and your partner will be able to select a paring of heroes or villains. If you win the match, you can no longer use those heroes for the rest of the rest of the series; however, if you lose you can still pick them the next round.

And lastly, Battlefront 2 is getting a Starfighter Custom Arcade where you can go in and hone your skills with all of the game's ships by taking on enemy ships controlled by AI.

Keep in mind, this is just the first round of free content coming with The Han Solo Season. The next batch of content, which will be inspired by Solo: A Star Wars Story, will arrive in June. Stay tuned for more details.
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BreakTheCode
BreakTheCode - 5/9/2018, 5:11 PM
This game and EA as a whole are trash.
TexasAvenger
TexasAvenger - 5/9/2018, 7:13 PM
@BreakTheCode - Word. If the Madden series wasn't proof enough, this game sure is.
Imfunnyhow
Imfunnyhow - 5/9/2018, 7:55 PM
I play Star Wars battlefront 1 every day I play battlefront 2 twice a month maybe... Game on to those who faithfully play part 1 everyday and teabags
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 5/9/2018, 5:13 PM
This game is STILL releasing content? Geez.
Vigor
Vigor - 5/9/2018, 5:21 PM
@L0RDbuckethead - only came out half a year ago. Halo 5 released content for free like this for 2 full years

Supported by micro Trans actions of course . But EA doesn't get the luxury of that this time around like Microsoft did
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 5/9/2018, 6:14 PM
@Vigor - Ah I guess that's true. Never was much of a Halo guy after Halo 4.

SupermansTrunks
SupermansTrunks - 5/9/2018, 5:37 PM
A couple skins and a map from Bf1 rereleased as "new" content isn't worth the wait
StormXmen123
StormXmen123 - 5/9/2018, 5:54 PM
How is this game with regards to the single player mode (not the campaign)?

If held out buying it (a) because games are ridiculously expensive nowadays and (b) I'm just not a fan of online mutiplayer?

Do you get the same modes as the multiplayer but with bots?
SupermansTrunks
SupermansTrunks - 5/9/2018, 11:40 PM
@StormXmen123 - They're still adding single player content that should've been available at launch so you're best off waiting
WYLEEJAY
WYLEEJAY - 5/10/2018, 12:10 AM
@StormXmen123 - No you dont get all the modes offline. You only get two modes. Team Deathmatch and a survival times attack mode. You only have access to the maps you play on Blast, so none of the big ones. You dont get to try out any vehicles. It's very frustrating, because you cant play the way you want to. They funnel you into the multiplayer servers. The arcade mode is this games weakest feature. Multiplayer and campaign are great. But even multiplayer only has five game modes.

I did a survey on this game, and told them as much as I love it, I just get bored too quick for these reasons. Let's see how this content makes me feel next week.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 5/9/2018, 6:11 PM
Rant time

I know this isn’t all of the Solo season but I’m stoll disappointed

For May, we get:

A map from the first game
A mode from this game that just makes heroes vs villain now a 2 man team fight
And skins you need to pay or grind to unlock

[frick] EA

I’m not mad at there being a Solo season. It was always coming. But it’s been 5 months since Last Jedi & in EA’s “change will be constant in Battlefront 2” promise; since TLJ they have released

Skins
Boring rocket jet pack game mode
Ewok Hunt which was cool

That’s all

EA has done more damage to the Star Wars brand than any of the films have
Jimster
Jimster - 5/9/2018, 6:33 PM
I gave up on the first one and didn't bother with this one. I'll play this instead:

chewie
chewie - 5/9/2018, 6:42 PM
This game is so disappointing on many levels. Can we just get an open world star wars game Ffs!? It still boggles my mind that with the popularity of the KOTR, we can’t get something like that.
AnthonyVonGeek
AnthonyVonGeek - 5/10/2018, 12:15 AM
On a cool note, you can buy the original Battlefront 1&2 for $9.99 each for Xbox One with Xbox Gold.
WYLEEJAY
WYLEEJAY - 5/10/2018, 12:15 AM
What happened to all the Clone Wars content they found in the coding?

Obi Wan, Grievous, Geonosis, Starfighter Death match, bring it.

But all this stuff should be available to play offline too. Would sell more.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 5/10/2018, 3:41 AM
It's a real disgrace that after all the talk about DLC, 7 months later we only have 1 new map (These other 2 are ports).
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