The Star Wars Battlefront website announces the release of the Outer Rim expansion for the Star Wars action game, available as an individual purchase, or as part of a season pass. Among other things, this adds a new Extraction mode to the mix. "In an effort to encourage the community rally around our smaller, close quarter game modes in the same way, we’ve created Extraction," explains lead designer Dennis Brännvall. "This mode features high-intensity choke points, rewarding flanking routes, deeper tactical mechanics and, of course, heroes." Here's more:

Extraction takes place on four maps: two different locations within Jabba’s Palace and two areas in the factories of SoroSuub. Rebel forces have entered some of the most dangerous places in the Outer Rim in order to extract a valuable shipment of resources. Now they must bring the shipment to their transport ship before time runs out. The Empire has scouted their location, realized their intentions and arrived to stop them from reaching the extraction point.

“Your job as a Rebel is to push the shipment through the entire level to reach the extraction point – where a Rebel transport will fly down and take the shipment away. The shipment will pass through several checkpoints along the way that adds more time for the Rebels. The timer starts out at 5 minutes and each checkpoint adds another 5 minutes to the timer, for a total of 15 minutes to get the shipment to the Extraction Point,” Brännvall explains.