
Villains, Blast, Cargo, and Droid Run, as well as Outer Rim‘s Extraction mode, which has become a new favorite of mine. These 16-player maps are accessible in existing modes like Heroes vs.

Similarly, one of the Sullust maps takes place inside in a vast, fiery room housing monstrous machinery, while the other is set outdoors around wandering pipelines. The palace is a small maze of tight corridors with pockets of open space, while the garage (complete with the iconic, albeit inactive, sail barge) allows a bit more breathing room and stretches outside into rocky terrain. It’s somewhat disappointing that we’re still stuck on the same planets found in the base game, but in terms of identity and layout, these four maps feel relatively distinct. There’s Jabba’s Palace and Palace Garage on Tattooine, and SoroSuub Refinery and SoroSuub Piplelines on the volcanic Sullust. That’s part of why I’m so into the new maps. Especially me! Comparatively, in the modes with lower player-counts, I feel like I’m always on the cusp of changing the tide.

We’re all so very killable out there on the sprawling battlefields. As exciting as the large-scale skirmishes can be when you’re in the middle of the action and making noticeable progress with the objectives, I find them frustrating more often than satisfying. Whether or not you dig Outer Rim will depend largely on your preference for map size. Released: Ma(season pass) / Ap(standalone purchase) Star Wars Battlefront: Outer Rim (PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One)

I’m not sure how long it’ll last, but I’m back into Battlefront. While the content might not sound great as bullet points, especially when you consider the vast lore DICE could theoretically pull from, I ended up enjoying it quite a bit.

The DLC adds Nien Nunb and Greedo as hero and villain characters, respectively four smaller-scale maps spread across Tattooine and Sullust a few weapons and Star Cards and an escort-the-cart mode called Extraction. Outer Rim is a better beginning to the Star Wars Battlefront season pass than I thought it’d be.
