EA has announced that Star Wars Battlefront will have a beta in early October for PS4, Xbox One, and PC through Origin. This will be an open event but the duration of how long the beta lasts remains to be seen. The main mode that will be featured is Walker Assault on Hoth, which supports up to 40 players. Both Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker will be available characters, though you will have to earn them. Any progression made in the beta will not be transferred to the full game.
There will be a co-op mission on hand too in the form of a survival mission on Tatooine. In this you and another player must fight off waves of Imperial forces to be successful. Another mode called Drop Zone has also been announced for the beta, but details on that won’t be available until next week. Furthermore a companion app for Battlefront has also been announced, and here you will be able to adjust load outs, play card game Base Command, and earn credits to use in the main game. This app will be available on both iOS and Android before the release of Star Wars Battlefront.
Source: EA
tactical20
Not even a Star Wars mega fan, but proper excited for this game!
gazzagb
Will definitely be trying this out to see if I’ll get the game. I hope you can preload the beta first or it’s on for a wile, I didn’t bother with the Black Ops beta seeing as it was quite short.
Amphlett
I just had to watch that trailer, full screen in HD… again. I am so very excited about this game and have already pre-ordered it. To make the wait even more testing my wife decided to watch a few of the films on Sky Movie Star Wars at the weekend. I’m starting to grind my teeth at night waiting for this game.
Amphlett
OOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooohhhh my. I’ve just had a giddy spell. I’ve just checked out the line-up of playable games at the EGX event in Birmingham at the end of this month, Battlefront star Wars is going to be there! I know it’s then only a couple of weeks before the ‘BETA’ rolls out but it means that I can get a sneaky peek and play. I reckon there might be a bit of a queue amongst lots of very smelly teens though.