EA and Dice have announced details for the free and upcoming Battle of Jakku DLC. When it was originally shown in April, the DLC only included a new map set on Jakku, but today’s announcement reveals a new game mode called Turning Point. The mode itself is meant to represent the period of time after Episode VI where the Rebel Alliance battled with the remnants of the Empire. In the game mode, the rebels seek out and capture any one of three imperial capture points. Doing so will add time to the countdown clock and will open up more points for the Rebels to capture. If they are successful, this will lead them all the way up to the Empire base.
The official post goes into more detail, saying that a Turning Point match’s outcome is “never sure”. It continues: "There are also a lot of tactical possibilities that need to be considered. For instance: once the Rebels have started taking over a control point, it can’t be reclaimed by the Empire. Let’s say there’s only 25% left of the claim process and the Empire has managed to drive away the Rebels. This means that the Empire have to choose between defending this vulnerable point or another part of the map. The Rebels in turn need to decide where their next attack should be."
While Turning Point sounds interesting at first, players who have put some time into the game already will notice it sounds very similar to the back-and-forth capture and retreat structure of Supremacy Mode.
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The Battle of Jakku DLC will be available to all Star Wars Battlefront owners on December 1, 2015.
