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Star Wars Battlefront Forums have details on the new February update for
Start Wars Battlefront, which is now available for Windows, Xbox One, and
PlayStation 4. The new version incorporates the Jakku DLC content into the main
game, adds a new Twilight on Hoth mode, a new survival mission, and more. Here
are the complete patch notes:
Additional Content/Functionality
- General: Jakku DLC Content is being patched into
the game, downloading it separately via platform storefronts is no longer
required and can be deleted from your hard drives
- New Map: Twilight on Hoth added to Walker Assault,
Supremacy, Turning Point, Blast, Fighter Squadron, Drop Zone, and Heroes vs.
Villains
- New Mission: Survival in the Ice Caves added to
Survival Missions
- Turning Point: Jundland Wastes, Forest of Endor,
Outpost Beta, and SoroSuub Centroplex maps added to the playlist
- Attract Mode: GNK Droid added - GONK!
- Settings: Turning off music in the Sound menu now
turns off music everywhere in the game
- Settings: Added a Film Grain setting slider in the
Video menu
- Credits: Updated Game Credits list
Weapon and Star Card Changes
- Primary Weapons: Damage against air vehicles
increased by 10%
- Bowcaster: Explosion damage increased from 10 to
15 per projectile and explosion radius decreased from 3 to 2.5m
- Bowcaster: Full charge direct hit from 20 to 40
per projectile and a normal direct hit increased from 20 to 30 per
projectile
- Barrage: Damage increased from 50 to 55
- Barrage: Cooldown reduced from 40 to 35s (normal)
and from 35 to 30s (upgraded)
- Barrage: First volley of grenades no longer
disappear if the user uses the Refresh Power-up and then fires a second
volley
- Homing Shot: Lock time decreased from 1.5 to 1.2s
- Homing Shot: Players in the AT-GAR turret now
receive on-screen notification when locked on
- ION Torpedo: Speed increased from 350 to 380m/s
and turning angle increased from 120 to 125 in order to more easily hit air
vehicles
- Pulse Rifle: Movement speed while aiming decreased
by 30%
- Tusken Cycler Rifle: Movement speed while aiming
increased by 40%
- Tusken Cycler Rifle: Bullet speed increased from
300 to 450m/s
- Orbital Strike: Fixed bug where it sometimes would
not trigger on button press
Vehicle changes
- A-Wing: Increased hit box size
- A-Wing: Now properly takes damage when colliding
with an AT-ST while having the Shield active
- Slave I: Players can now see the Shield icon on
Rebel vehicles when a Shield is active
- AT-ST: T-47 Airspeeder kills with a missle while
firing the primary cannons at the same time now properly awards a kill
(previously registered as a suicide)
- AT-AT: Fixed bug where the Orbital Strike ability
would sometimes not have the aiming reticle move
- T-47 Airspeeder: Players will no longer receive an
out of bounds message on Graveyard of Giants during Turning Point when a
control point is captured
Multiplayer Game Mode Changes
- General: Pre-Round timer lowered from 30s to 20s
- Walker Assault: Fixed Power-up spawns on SoroSuub
Centroplex
- Walker Assault: AT-AT health increased by 18% on
Outpost Beta, 8% on Jundland Wastes, 20% on Forest of Endor, 4% on SoroSuub
Centroplex, and 5% on Graveyard of Giants
- Walker Assault: Spawning as an Imperial Hero after
the AT-ATs just pass the second set of uplinks no longer despawns one of the
AT-ATs
- Walker Assault: The second AT-AT no longer bumps
into the wreckage of the other on SoroSuub Centroplex when the first AT-AT
is destroyed during the first Uplink
- Droid Run: Correct Objective Notification is now
displayed to all players if someone is killed while trying to claim the
Droid
- Droid Run: Improved spawn zones on Dune Sea
Exchange
- Supremacy: Fixed Power-up spawns on Jundland
Wastes, Forest of Endor, and SoroSuub Centroplex
- Supremacy: Improved spawn zones on Jundland
Wastes, Outpost Beta, and Forest of Endor
- Heroes vs. Villains: Planted turrets on Dune Sea
Exchange will now disappear in-between rounds
- Hero Hunt: Improved spawn zones on Ice Caves
- Fighter Squadron: Players are now protected while
spawning on Graveyard of Giants
Mission Changes
- General: Both players will now properly see Charge
Card pick-ups if Player One is using a 3rd Star Card Hand without a Charge
Card
- General: Player 2's changes to control settings no
longer update Player 1's controls when playing Split-Screen
- Battle: Fixed AI Spawn issues on Tatooine
- Survival: Wave 10 on Sullust will now always spawn
if the player / co-op team dies and restarts the round or if a player picks
up a Collectible during the Wave 9 transition
- Survival: Partner spawns on Sullust will no longer
fail if the currently alive player is in a confined area
- Survival: Co-Op players can now unlock the
"Complete on Hard Difficulty without spending a life" if one player dies and
then waits until the other player completes the wave so they get a free
respawn
Hero changes
- General: Heroes no longer get stuck in a stunned
animation state
- Princess Leia: Endor outfit updated - Congrats on
completing the Lead the Rebellion challenge!
- Princess Leia: Trooper Bane now only knocks back
primary target, not nearby enemies
- Luke Skywalker: Increased Saber Rush's damage
against other Heroes from 2% to 6-8%
- Luke Skywalker: Lightsaber swing hit radius is
reduced from 0.3 to 0.25m
- Han Solo: Zooming in no longer sometimes displays
a gun scope
- Emperor Palpatine's Shocktroopers: Modified
primary weapon damage to match Leia's Honor Guards' primary weapon damage
over time
Misc. Bug fixes
- General: Lighting, textures, audio, user
interface, text, and collision fixes
- Controls: Legacy control schemes have had their
layouts more clearly defined
- Colorblind: Enemy players highlighted with Scan
Pulse now have the correct Deuteranopia or Protanopia settings on Graveyard
of Giants and Goazan Badlands
- PC only: Fixed a bug where a player would lose
functionality with an Xbox 360 controller after inviting a player to a
Private Match and then starting the game
- PC only: Air vehicle sensitivity lowered from 0.9
to 0.45 for easier mouse control
- Achievements / Trophies: Updated text on
"Impressive. Most Impressive." and "Survivor" to clarify the requirements
- Achievements / Trophies: "Playing the Objective"
now properly awarded