‘Star Wars Battlefront’ Outer Rim DLC details discussed, no story content like what John Boyega’s Finn wanted

Electronic Arts and DICE have provided a few new details about the upcoming DLC for “Star Wars Battlefront.” Dubbed as the Outer Rim DLC, the new expansion will see Darth Vader’s home planet of Tatooine as well as the Sullust areas.

Over at the official “Star Wars Battlefront” website, EA confirmed that one of the areas that the digital expansion will add is Jabba the Hutt’s palace and the factories in Sullust. These will be the maps on which players can face off with other fans. The new areas will provide different textured fighting plains—one filled with industrial wares while the other will be in the throne room and sail barge on Tatooine.

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There will also be new playable heroes in the form of Greedo and Nien Nunb. Each new hero also have a unique play style on their own. One is a trigger-happy shooter, while the other aims to precision when targeting enemies.

“Star Wars Battlefront” Outer Rim DLC will also introduce a new mode called Extraction. Here, the Empire will try to stop the rebel forces from extracting a valuable shipment of resources, facing off at the extraction point and happening at the dangerous areas of the Outer Rim.

Finally, to get into the heart of the action, EA and DICE are also introducing two new guns and more equipment in the latest expansion. These include the Relby V-10 rifle and the DT-12 blaster pistol for the weapons, and the Scatter Gun, Dioxis Grenade and Adrenaline Stim Star Cards.

“Star Wars Battlefront” Outer Rim DLC will launch this March. It is already part of the season pass offered for the game. There are still other expansions slated to release this year, particularly the one that will introduce the Death Star into the game.

The new content for “Star Wars Battlefront” may be enough to tide over fans until the next update. However, one fan and also a big part of the “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” John Boyega, had taken to Twitter to reach publisher EA and developer DICE on the future of the game’s content, story-wise.

Engadget reported that Boyega had asked whether fans are still slated to get an offline story mode for “Star Wars Battlefront.” While the Missions mode exists in the game, it barely scratches the surface nor offers a good deal of narrative that will let players be engaged in the story before battling it out with other players.

DICE and EA had previously confirmed that there are no other offline story content planned for “Star Wars Battlefront” at the moment. This means that, regardless of the recently shown “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” or the succeeding other movies following that, DICE’s rendition of the game will only stick to the classic movies.

Whether or not Boyega’s inquiry—which also has him asking if he can visit EA and DICE’s base in the U.K., presumably to talk about “Star Wars Battlefront”—will make any impact remains to be seen. Boyega had played one of the major roles in the recent movie, where he had been one of the Stormtroopers who had broken free from the republic.

"Star Wars Battlefront" Outer Rim DLC (Credit: YouTube/Star Wars HQ)