Things kick into high gear on December 13. Your choice is important, as it will allow you to take part in special challenges that will grant your faction specific rewards. On December 5, you’ll have an opportunity to align with the First Order or choose to fight for the Resistance. There’s also a host of new multiplayer content that will launch next month too, with EA laying out the roadmap on the game’s official website. One specifically pertaining to the Empire transforming into The First Order, which is a story I definitely want to see play out in canon. As part of a bigger package, the first wave of content will include a new chapter in Versio’s tale.

While Battlefront’s vanilla tale might not have enough time to reach out and do that entirely, its first batch of free DLC is already planning to add to it.

And considering there’s a big gap of knowledge between that and The Force Awakens, it seems logical for DICE and Motive to want to fill in the blanks. Iden Versio, a new Imperial Commander who is rocked after the events of Return of the Jedi, leads the shattered Empire on a road of revenge. Star Wars Battlefront II is out next week (and already up to play if you’re in either EA or Origin Access), and the feature I’m most looking forward to is its single-player story.

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