Electronic Arts and DICE announced today that the January 2017 patch for Star Wars: Battlefront is live. This brand new patch for Star Wars: Battlefront comes with balance tweaks, and game modes improvements/fixes.
In addition, this patch various minor UI issues, lighting fixes and minor art updates on Rogue One: Scarif maps.
This patch will be auto-downloaded from Origin, is 2.44GB in size, and you can read its complete changelog below.
Star Wars: Battlefront – January 2017 Patch Changelog:
General:
- General: Various minor UI issues.
- General: Various lighting fixes
- General: Various minor art updates on Rogue One: Scarif maps
Game Modes:
- Walker Assault: Fixed a bug where three uplinks could be seen at the same time on Rogue One: Scarif maps
- Walker Assault: Adjusted all Hero spawn points on Rogue One: Scarif maps
- Walker Assault: Changed Y-wing timer to 30 seconds on Rogue One: Scarif maps
- Walker Assault: Adjusted AT-AT health across all maps
- Walker Assault: Adjusted AT-AT speed on Twilight on Hoth
- Infiltration: Adjusted playable area during The Approach
- Infiltration: Fixed an issue where users could not grab another Data tape after using the Jump Pack
- Hero Hunt: Fixed a bug with the Hero selection screen
- Heroes vs. Villains: Changed to only 1 set per map
- Battle Station: R2-D2 ignores benefits from Bacta Bomb and Medical Droid
- Private Match: Fixed an end of round issue on Infiltration where the U-wing didn’t spawn if switching teams in a 1v1 match
Weapons & Star Cards:
- Sonic Imploder: Fixed criteria for Grenadier Hutt contract regarding the Flash requirement
- Sonic Imploder: Increased blast radius from 2 to 4 meters
- Sonic Imploder: Increased explosion damage from 90 to 100
- TIE Striker: Raised projectile speed from 800 to 1000 meters/second
- TIE Striker: Increased explosion damage from 5 to 10
- A-180: Fixed a rare bug where users could be spawned with their regular Star Card primary hand instead of the A-180 module
Heroes:
General
- Most stuns will be prevented for 2 seconds after a Hero has been stunned once. This doesn’t apply to specific stuns like Force Choke and Force Push
Bossk
- Reduced Microgrenades inner radius from 3 to 2.5 meters
- Reduced Microgrenades radius from 5 to 4 meters
Chewbacca
- Increased Roar recharge time from 28 to 35 seconds
- Decreased main projectile Explosion damage from 45 to 38
Darth Vader
- Can now use his Saber Throw and Heavy Strike when Force Choking
- Increased Trait radius from 10 meters to 15
- Trait no longer affect enemies
- Trait values now correctly match the UI description, Level 1 20%, Level 2 50%, Level 3 80%
Leia
- Increased Trait radius from 8 to 13 meters
- Fixed looping stun animation on Trooper Bane shots
- Stormtroopers affected by Bacta will now be defeated by Trooper Bane
- Trait values now correctly match the UI description, Level 1 20%, Level 2 40%, Level 3 60%
Krennic
- Increased Trait radius from 10 to 12 meters
- Armor Breaker is applying the armor reduction after the damage is done
- Reduced Armor Breaker homing capabilities
- Trait values now correctly match the UI description, Level 1 10%, Level 2 20%, Level 3 40%
Luke
- Decreased speed at Trait level 3 from 80% to 70%
- Shield Deflection can now block Krennic’s Armor Breaker ability
Jyn
- Increased Pistol End damage from 35 to 69
- Increased Pistol start falloff damage from 40 To 50
- Increased Pistol end falloff damage from 60 To 70
- Decreased Rifle configuration Overheat per bullet from 0.068 to 0.055
Lando
- Will no longer be damaged from his Power Blast Explosion
- Power Blast now goes on cooldown properly after deactivation
Greedo
- Stuns Luke out of Block for 2 seconds when shooting him with Slow targeting
Boba Fett
- Increased Flamethrower damage against Chewbacca by 50%
Vehicles:
- U-Wing: Fixed missile warning issues
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So many balancing changes…
Must have been a mess…
Not to mention:
Currently online players
PC: 2,509 (24h peak: 5,404)
Good luck with patching that…
But to be fair it still has more players than Call of Gambling Infinite Transactionfare on PC and came out one year before it.
And it has more people than Titianfall2.
yeah that’s hillarious
That’s also quite sad, though, considering Titanfall 2 is actually a good game, that’s rather worth buying, unlike Star Wars: The Ripoff Edition.
Sorry, future-fiancé, but I have to disagree with you here.
Here is how I see it. Titanfall 2 is bell peppers and Star Wars:Battlefront EA is a Vodka, Irish-Whiskey mix with 1/8 tonic and a squeeze of lime… actually that is to fancy for Star Wars, so lets call it instead just “Irish Whiskey and Vodka”
Now Bell Peppers are clearly good for you but after a while you find yourself have it as often.
Then there is the Irish-Piss… i mean Whiskey-Vodka. It sounds impressive but looks and taste like piss. Yet you try it and hope it’s like that Vodka Martini that PS2 bartender made so many years ago.
It makes you sick and you vomit on the family dog. But after a day of eating asprin you find yourself sampling it again and again. Then suddenly you have no money and have to pay child support and your pass time is stalking someone on a gaming web site….
That’s how I see the two. Titanfall 2 is good but gets old fast (the population alone is evident to it).
Battlefront is like alcohol; you drink it so you can remember the good old days.
TLDR: Irish Whiskey is God?
Agreed.
Now, analogies about pissing whiskey & bleeding/vomiting vodka aside;
Battlefront is pretty, extremely pretty, even, but f*ck me, gameplay-wise it’s a sick joke. DICE basically did the only thing they know how to do these days; they took Battlefield, & slapped a Star Wars skin onto it. Is it a very pretty skin? Absolutely, but even so – F*ck. That. Sh*t. If they’d actually done Star Wars: Battlefront, rather than Star Wars: Battlefield, I’d be fine with it, but nope, so, yeah, no. Especially considering how sh*t Battlefield’s current gameplay model is, by-the-by.
Titanfall 2, on the other hand, actually builds on the excellent gameplay model of Titanfall (OG), while expanding into actually good new features at the same time, all in a damn good manner! What, you think it’s a coincidence how much Call of Turds is ripping off of Titanfall? Nope 😛 The sales are sad, I agree, but if it does actually manage to pick up, I can see it turning its reputation around like Rainbow Six: Siege.
I love these fun talks.
who in the right mind would want to play this empty husk of a Battlefront game ?
those that like it?
Let this atrocity die. You made a terrible game EA.
What were you thinking.
Games are not made so tiny people’s minds and media jerk off on game because it’s so GOOOOD but to make billions is that so hard to understand?
And game sold damn good in case you don’t know.
Money. They were thinking money.
Too bad the game is near death on PC, so whatever patches are put in place won’t really matter.
KEK the game has more players than Titanfall 2 and you call it “near death”
“Boba Fett
Increased Flamethrower damage against Chewbacca by 50%”
that made me lol for some reason. must really be a chewy hater
Doesn’t look dead at all to me.
maybe matchmaking is bad
Maybe it’s the fact that it’s on origin, with the lower user base compared to Steam, lack of mod support, private servers, an actual server browser etc.
It’s the game, not the people.
So 5k people is not enough?
Not really no. Not when you consider other more popular games out there on PC that have up to a million or even 20m more. 5k is a drop in the bucket for a AAA shooter on PC and consoles, no matter how you try to say it’s bigger.
I have actually tried and tested TF1 and Battlefront game modes on and off over the years with TF1 and it’s become next to impossible to find full to the brim matches on TF1. battlefront is just as difficult when it comes to other game modes as well, same issue with trying to find full matches.
But in this day and age some have trained themselves to blame the user instead of the fact that the game sports a small user base and the fact that it didn’t sell well to begin with on certain platforms.
Well if it had server browser it wouldn’t be a problem. I play 64 player shooter that often has sub 1000 players and I can always enjoy the game.
If it had more players and everything else that is the standard, then it wouldn’t be in the mess it is in now.
Good for you, I can’t. I’m not you.