I've slapped in a trailer for Jakku below, or EA played a bit on a livestream yesterday, or presumably all sorts of folks have now downloaded it and are streaming away. Everyone else must wait a week for EA to let we hoi polloi onto Jakku.Īlso out today is Patch 1.03 for Battlefront, which has some encouraging but vague patch notes. You'll need to pop into the game's expansions bit in your Origin library and install it manually.

If you pre-ordered Battlefront, you can play Jakku now but it won't install automatically.

That sounds like a pretty tenuous connection to me but hey, that's Hollywood for you: no respect for video games. This helps me enormously, and you will not have any additional costs to pay. Apparently the new movie assumes a rebel victory on the map and is set thirty years after that. Compare STAR WARS Battlefront Battle of Jakku on all Microsoft foreign. The Battle of Jakku introduces the new forty-player mode Turning Point, EA explain, which sees the rebels trying to capture control points and, ultimately, a wee base the Empire have built. The Battle of Jakku, and indeed the entire Aftermath trilogy, encompasses several critically acclaimed stories, but the remolding of the Empire's defeat made Endor feel far less significant in the grand scheme of the Galactic Civil War, with Jakku replacing it at the decisive final battle. That inspiring level, The Battle of Jakku, has sorta arrived, with EA unpleasantly holding it back from people who didn't pre-order Battlefront. Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits the silver screen later this month, and fans are going wild even though the only connection is the movie's inspired by a level that wasn't even in Battlefront at launch.

Surprisingly, for a fanbase usually so discerning and wary of merchandising, they're worked up about a new Hollywood movie adaptation of EA's video game. Star Wars fans seem awfully excitable lately, and it's not just about Star Wars Battlefront.

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