Star Wars Battlefront: DICE give Xbox One, PS4 and PC Fighter Squadron Space Battle update

Star Wars Battlefront's Squadron mode has been well received but fans still dream of Space Battles

STAR Wars: Battlefront is missing one key feature from previous games that fans seem desperate to see included on Xbox One, PS4 and PC, Space Battles.

 

The feature is gone and replaced with TIE Fighters and X-Wings battling it out above the skies in Fighter Squadron mode, giving fans the chance to jump into the iconic ships of the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire.

Aerial battles can include up to 20 players, with AI-controlled ships joining the fun as teams try to complete their objective of destroying more fighters than the other team. If your team reaches the score limit of 200 kills or has the most kills when the time limit is over, you achieve victory.

However, the community have struggled to move on from their memories of the epic battles found in Battlefront 2, where large scale encounters included huge capital ships and a lot of mayhem.

 

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Hopes were raised for its return in a future DLC offering when DICE Producer Jesper Nielsen revealed earlier in 2015 that Battlefront Space Battles had been a topic of conversation and had not been written off completely.

The idea that Fighter Squadron mode could be expanded to include something like Space Battles is an intriguing one, although it appears that DICE may have higher priorities for other areas of the game.

DICE senior producer Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir spoke more on the future of Star Wars: Battlefront and how land battles appear to be their main focus.

"At the core, we’re an infantry game,"She told the Metro. 

 

 

"The biggest part of our experience is infantry and being DICE we have been doing vehicles for a long time. And I think we do it really, really well. But we know people struggle with flying.

"We know there’s lots of people that like flying in Battlefield but there’s also a lot of people that don’t. And so it becomes a bit polarising, and the ambition here is to have that experience available for players and make it easy for them.

"And what we’ve seen is that it has worked out quite well. It’s often times mentioned as people’s favourite mode. And then I get the questions, ‘So what about a pilot career path or putting perks into it or are you going to do more with it…?’ And I get very happy when I get asked these questions because I think that it seems like we’ve captured something people enjoy."

Battlefront DLC has been promised in 2016