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Star Wars Battlefront has its own pod focused King of the Hill mode

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Star Wars Battlefront Drop Zones

Star Wars Battlefront is mixing two very powerful driving forces in gaming culture today: multiplayer and, well, Star Wars. It’s a game that I’m increasingly excited to sink hours into, especially now that we’re all getting a little taste of it early next month. One of the new modes making a debut during the beta is Drop Zone – a recently revealed King of the Hill style match with a bit of a twist.

Drop Zone is almost literally what the name implies. Two teams of eight will fight over orbital drop pods raining in on the map one at a time, forcing teams to sit idly around them while a counter ticks down to its capture. Should both teams be equally fervourous in their attempt to capture it, another will drop to even things out a little and break play up. It’s pretty much standard King of the Hill fair with some Star Wars lore attached, but it gets a little trickier.

Once a pod has been captured, a new one enters the map immediately. However, more patient teams can hang around the captured pod for a Power Pickup – one of the shiny little tokens that gives you overpowered weaponry, vehicle access and sometime Heroes to play as. The Pickup sits inside the pod but requires a little more time after capture to get out, creating a neat little dynamic where teams might have to split up after a capture. It will probably do game flow a world of good too, keeping it from the mundane Point A to Point B rush.

Drop Zone will be playable on specially designed maps on Tatooine, Hoth, Sullust, and Endor (please let there be Ewoks), although I suspect all of these maps won’t be ready for the beta in a few short weeks. They will be ready for launch though, when Star Wars Battlefront hits lightspeed and arrives on shelves globally come November 17th. I’m pretty excited.

Last Updated: September 9, 2015

14 Comments

  1. Kromas untamed

    September 9, 2015 at 10:42

    This

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  2. RinceThis

    September 9, 2015 at 11:08

    Meh 😛

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  3. Captain JJ Fantasticus

    September 9, 2015 at 11:20

    Still not feeling it.

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    • Marcus

      September 9, 2015 at 11:22

      Just don’t force it…

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      • Captain JJ Fantasticus

        September 9, 2015 at 11:23

        Do or do not, there is no try.

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        • Marcus

          September 9, 2015 at 11:27

          hmmm… Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will…

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          • Captain JJ Fantasticus

            September 9, 2015 at 11:28

            We’re talking about EA, right? ;P

        • Marcus

          September 9, 2015 at 11:31

          Yes… hahahaha

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  4. Marcus

    September 9, 2015 at 11:21

    I feel like a hooker that can’t stay away from her drug dealing pimp. I know it’s EA, I was one of the Hardline suckers… And here I am, officially standing on the platform with my ticket in hand waiting for the hype train… It’s here and I’m on…

    This sounds like loads of fun and also sound like trolling heaven.

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    • Mossel

      September 9, 2015 at 11:28

      I feel you brother. I was lucky enough to be poor, so I never bought Hardline. It will be between this and BO3…choices.

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      • Marcus

        September 9, 2015 at 11:30

        For me, it’s this or Fallout 4.
        I buy a game, at best, 3 times a year. So buying BFHL was a huge punch in the dick!

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        • Mossel

          September 9, 2015 at 11:31

          And don’t we just love those! Oooh I see Battlefront is R100 cheaper than CoD! This makes things interesting. Fallout 4 will have to wait, I still need to play NV.

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          • Marcus

            September 9, 2015 at 11:34

            I think Fallout 4 will have to wait, with The Division coming March next year, this game should last until then.

  5. HairyEwok

    September 9, 2015 at 12:31

    I feel like Battlefront will be one of those games where it’s fun and exciting for the first 8 hours, then you start sinking into the same routine and it turns all meh.

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