[Update] The patch is now live on consoles, and players have found that Base Command has been updated with a new Outer Rim campaign with 10 siegies and a master difficulty campaign.

　　[Original Story] The first DLC pack for Star Wars Battlefront, the Outer Rim DLC pack, is going to be released later today in all regions and on all formats. Alongside the new DLC pack, the game will also receive a new update, which will include plenty of additional free content as well as gameplay tweaks and fixes. A few hours ago, full patch notes for the new Star Wars Battlefront update have been shared online.

　　According to the patch notes, the new Star Wars Battlefront update will introduce, alongside support for the Outer Rim DLC, the new Hutt Contracts, which give players a new way to obtain Weapons and Star Cards and Spectator Mode. Plenty of gameplay tweaks are also included in the new update.

　　Additional content/functionality

　　Outer Rim: Now available for Season Pass owners

　　New Feature: Hutt Contracts add a new way of obtaining Weapons and Star Cards

　　New Feature: Spectator Mode introduces a way to watch Private Match games with a variety of camera angles and the ability to swap between players quickly

　　Multiplayer Menu: Redesigned the screen to facilitate players being able to get into a game mode more quickly and easily

　　Multiplayer: Teams will now re-balance when transitioning between maps

　　Teamplay Focus: New feature in which an objective can be highlighted by each player to highlight where players are heading; press X (Xbox One), Square (PlayStation 4), or E (PC)

　　Ranks: Increased Rank cap from 50 to 60

　　Scoreboard: Added icons for playing as a Hero, playing in a vehicle, and player ping

　　Scoreboard: Rearranged Score to be the first column represented

　　Scoreboard: Faded player row to signify when a player has been defeated

　　Combat: Added combat roll to non-Hero characters; strafe and double tap B (Xbox One) or Circle (PlayStation 4), for PC strafe and press Alt (can be rebound)

　　Partner: The Partner Icon will now be visible on screen at all times

　　UX: The currently selected Trait card is now shown in the deploy screen

　　Credits: Updated Game Credits list

　　Weapon and Star Card changes

　　New Weapons: The DL-18 and the DLT-19X can be obtained via Hutt Contrats

　　New Powerup: The T-7 Ion Disruptor has been added to the powerup pool

　　General: Triggering a card right before death will no longer result in an effect not triggering and the card going on cooldown

　　Bodyguard: Corrected the Level 3 description from “Decreases explosive damage by a high amount AND blaster damage by a small amount” to “Decreases explosive damage by a medium amount AND blaster damage by a small amount”

　　Survivalist: Corrected the Level 3 description from “Health regeneration starts much faster AND replenish a small amount of health with each kill” to “Health regeneration starts faster AND replenish a small amount of health with each kill”

　　Bounty Hunter: Corrected the Level 3 description from “High chance to get a Power-up with each kill AND resets cooldown with each kill” to “Medium chance to get a Power-up with each kill AND current cooldowns decreases with each kill”

　　Bounty Hunter: Modified drop chances and cooldowns – Level 1: 25% Drop chance, Level 2: 50% Drop chance, & Level 3: 50% Drop chance AND 75% cooldown on each kill

　　Shields: Personal Shield, Squad Shield, & the Blaster Cannon will now deflect and absorb most forms of projectiles; exceptions being the Cycler Rifle, Scatter Gun & Proximity Bomb

　　Shields: When Personal Shield is active, the player is unable to fire weapons and throw grenades, but can still deploy droids, turrets, & call in Heroes and vehicles

　　Bowcaster: Updated damage to be consistent across all 3 charge levels – Projectile damage is now 40, Explosion damage is now 33, & the Explosion radius is now 2m

　　Bowcaster: Lowered max hold time from 5 to 3s

　　Bowcaster: Now properly goes on cooldown when firing a shot and then quickly entering a turret

　　Barrage: Lowered fuse timer from 2-2.25 to 1-1.5s

　　Barrage: Decreased inner explosion radius from 3 to 2m

　　Impact Grenade: Increased damage from 90 to 100

　　Impact Grenade: Decreased explosion radius from 2.25 to 2m

　　Ion Grenade: No longer deals collision damage

　　Flashbang Grenade: Added a screenshot component to give it an extra disorienting effect

　　Scan Pulse: Cooldown time increased from 10 to 18s (normal) and 8 to 16s (upgraded)

　　DL-44: Damage decreased from 19 to 13 at a ranges greater than 40m

　　Powerups: Deployed Droids and Turrets will now self-destruct after 20s when the owner is defeated

　　Blaster Cannon: Kills will now count towards leveling Trait Cards

　　Blaster Cannon: No longer takes splash damage from its own shots

　　E-Web: Players now correctly take damage when right up against the barrel of the gun

　　Viper Probe & R5-D4 Droid: Spawn protection decreased from 2 to 0.5s

　　R5-D4: Now shows the correct health bar color for both teams

　　Smart Rocket: No longer fires from the center of the player camera, now from the barrel of the weapon

　　Vehicle Turret: Destroying this will now properly grant you score

　　Jump Pack: Cooldown lowered from 25 to 22 (normal) and from 20 to 17 (upgraded)

　　Vehicle changes

　　T-47 Airspeeder: Now properly explodes when hitting the ground after a player ejects

　　T-47 Airspeeder: During Walker Assault it is no longer possible to switch Tow Cable targets during the Tow Cable event

　　Speeder Bike: Kills with the cannon are now properly displayed

　　Speeder Bike: No longer takes damage when just outside the edge of the Orbital Strike boundary

　　AT-ST: No longer takes damage from fire

　　AT-ST: Changed the max pitch on the grenade launcher

　　Millennium Falcon & Slave I: Now are immediately destroyed when crashing into the ground while in 1st Person view

　　DF-9: Laser fire is now visible when angling the turret up

　　Y-Wing: Players are now properly notified if they are killed by a Y-Wing

　　Multiplayer game mode changes

　　General: Misc spawning improvements across various map & mode combinations

　　General: Princess Leia’s Honor Guard and Emperor Palpatine’s Shocktroopers are limited to only 2 spawns during the Heroes vs. Villains and Extraction Game Modes

　　General: Players no longer instantly die during vehicle deployment after having taken damage that would kill them prior to the transition

　　Fighter Squadron: Games will no longer end in a draw when a player that crashes into the ground would have awarded the winning points

　　Fighter Squadron: Vehicles of equal size will now both be destroyed when colliding regardless if one vehicle is shielded

　　Hero Hunt: Redesigned the way in which the new Hero is selected, now the top 3 damage dealers have a chance to be the next Hero – Spin the Wheel!

　　Blast: Re-added Sulphur Fields back into the Blast map rotation

　　Drop Zone: Altered player count from 16 to 12

　　Mission changes

　　Survival: Stars earned in the Survival in the Ice Caves and Rebel Depot Missions now count towards your total in the social hub

　　Survival: Zoom now functions properly on all maps

　　Survival: The AT-ST during Wave 4 on Hoth will now properly spawn in

　　Split Screen: Player 2 can now see the health of Player 1’s deployed turret

　　Split Screen: Player 2’s Scan Pulse now highlights enemies as expected

　　Hero Battles: Friendly AI tokens will now properly award points to the enemy team during Solo Play

　　Battles: Losing a life in offline Battles is now correctly tracked when winning

　　Hero changes

　　General: Fixed inconsistencies with blocking blaster fire between active and passive blocking for Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, & Emperor Palpatine

　　General: When blocking blaster fire modified with Explosive Shot or Ion Shot, Luke Skywalker & Darth Vader now deflect and reflect Explosive Shots or Ion Shots back

　　General: Heroes can no longer fire their weapon while melee’ing

　　Darth Vader: Increased health from 1500 to 1650

　　Darth Vader: Block ability time increased from 4 to 8s

　　Darth Vader: Decreased cooldown of Lightsaber Throw from 7 to 6s

　　Darth Vader: Increased distance of Lightsaber Throw by 3m

　　Luke Skywalker: Decreased health from 1000 to 925

　　Luke Skywalker: Slightly decreased running speed

　　Boba Fett: Increased the range at which his blaster damage starts to drop off from 30 to 45m

　　Boba Fett: Increased the range at which blaster damage is at the low end from 60 to 75m

　　Misc. bug fixes

　　General: Lighting, textures, audio, user interface, text, and collision fixes

　　General: Crash fixes

　　General: Partner and Party connection fixes

　　Map: Removed erroneous Stormtroopers outsider of the playable area from Heroes vs. Villains on Twilight on Hoth

　　Achievement / Trophy: Updated text of Ackbar’s Elite to state “Complete any survival mission on Master without spending a life”

　　Star Wars Battlefront is now available in all regions on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The new update and the Outer Rim DLC will be rolling out throughout the day.