<P> Instead of the paid Season Pass downloadable content (DLC) seen in the 2015 predecessor, this game is expanded with free DLC provided to all players with a free EA account . Lead actress Janina Gavankar stated that the DLC would be free to all players, using a seasonal structure similar to Overwatch and Rainbow Six Siege . The first season, released in December 13, 2017, was based on the movie Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and included Finn and Captain Phasma as heroes, the planet Crait as a ground map, and a space map above D'Qar . </P> <P> Star Wars Battlefront II features five multiplayer game modes with the largest supporting up to 40 simultaneous players . Galactic Assault is centered around unique set pieces set across the eleven planets and locations featuring all three Star Wars eras involving a team of 20 attackers against 20 defenders . In Starfighter Assault, battles take place in space and planetary atmospheres involving 12 attackers against 12 defenders, both teams being reinforced with an additional 20 AI ships . Strike has players battling in close quarter scenarios involving a team of eight attackers aiming to capture a unique objective from a team of eight defenders; essentially one team capture the flag . Heroes vs. Villains is a team deathmatch mode involving the heroes and villains in Star Wars Battlefront II based off Star Wars characters, where four light side heroes fight four dark side villains . Blast, the final mode, is standard team deathmatch between two teams of 10 players in which teams try to reach 100 total combined eliminations before the enemy team can . Alongside an update released on February 19, 2018, a new temporary game mode, Jetpack Cargo, was released, in which two teams of eight battle to capture cargo while all players are equipped with a jet - pack . </P> <P> The single - player story mode campaign in Star Wars Battlefront II takes place in the Star Wars galaxy, beginning around the time of Return of the Jedi, but largely between it and Star Wars: The Force Awakens . Emperor Palpatine plots to lure an unsuspecting Rebel Alliance fleet into a trap using himself and the second Death Star, being constructed above the Forest Moon of Endor, as bait, seeking to crush the Rebellion against his Galactic Empire once and for all . The Imperial Special Forces commando unit Inferno Squad, led by Commander Iden Versio, daughter of Admiral Garrick Versio, and made up of Agents Gideon Hask and Del Meeko, is crucial to the success of this planned Battle of Endor, but the Empire underestimates the strength of the Rebellion as its fleet gathers at Sullust . </P> <P> Iden Versio is being interrogated for the codes to unlock an Imperial transmission aboard a Rebel Mon Calamari Star Cruiser . She activates her droid, which sneaks to her cell and frees her . Iden had allowed herself to be captured in order to erase the Imperial transmission, which would reveal the Emperor's plan at Endor . She successfully erases it, then escapes the ship by launching herself into space where she is intercepted by the Corvus, the flagship of Inferno Squad . Iden confirms the mission's success to Gideon Hask and Del Meeko, other members of her squad . </P>

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