No Ironsights in Star Wars: Battlefront, Playable AT-STs Confirmed

Fantasy Flight Games, makers of Star Wars roleplaying and card games, have an exciting slate of new releases this month. Check out a special preview of Star Wars: Armada expansion packs below, including descriptions and a gallery!


Star Wars: Armada Wave One Expansion Packs

“The fleet will be here any moment.” –Leia Organa

As you launch into Star Wars: Armada and its tactical fleet battles, its first wave of expansion packs provide you new means to customize and expand your fleet. Five of these expansion packs introduce carefully detailed and pre-painted capital ships, each of which comes with its command dials, ship cards, an array of upgrade cards, and all the tokens and other components you need to deploy it into battle. The other two each introduce eight sculpted fighter squadrons, divided evenly between four different types of fighters.


Expand your fleet, and tailor it around your favorite strategy. Your Wave One ships, squadrons, and upgrades enable a vast range of tactics and strategies that reach beyond those available in the Core Set.


Star Wars: Armada Victory-class Star Destroyer Expansion Pack — $39.95

The Victory-class Star Destroyer Expansion Pack bolsters your Imperial fleet with one sculpted and pre-painted miniature Star Destroyer identical to the Star Destroyer miniature from the Star Wars: Armada Core Set. It also comes with all requisite tokens and command dials, as well as more than a dozen ship and upgrade cards, which open a wide range of strategic possibilities as they allow you to upgrade your Star Destroyers’ armament, their crew, and even your Star Some rifles will have scopes, but there are no ironsights, producer says; playable chicken walkers revealed.New details about DICE's upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront shooter have emerged regarding the game's weapon aiming system and vehicles.


First, DICE executive producer Patrick Bach tells OXM (via GamesRadar) that Battlefront will not have ironsights, a staple of the developer's other major franchise, Battlefield. "There are no ironsights in Star Wars, on the ordinary blasters," he said. "You have scopes on some rifles, but there are no ironsights."


This matches up with previous Battlefront games, which had players firing from the hip instead of aiming down sights as they do in Battlefield and other contemporary shooter franchises.


Significant deviation from Battlefield in terms of weapon aiming was no accident. Bach explained that Battlefront, though it may carry some characteristics of other shooters, is being designed to feel "completely unique."


"We're not taking into account what we've done before, because I think that would be disrespectful to the fans, and to what we're trying to achieve here," he said. "A lot of the things you saw in the game have nothing to do with anything we've done before. Some features of course resemble [our other shooters], because we want to make the best possible shooter, but in general we've tried to do something completely unique."


In other Battlefront news, DICE has confirmed on Twitter that AT-STs ("chicken walkers) will be playable.

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