Kessel

Battlefront II’s Han Solo Update Made Kessel Playable, and It Still Feels Like a Missed Blueprint

Han Solo in Star Wars Battlefront II on Kessel, used in a header image for an article about the Han Solo Season Update 2.

Star Wars Battlefront II is having one of those weeks where it quietly reminds everyone that it refuses to fully leave the building. The Battle Point Event is live, which means lower reinforcement costs, more chaos on the field, and exactly the sort of “why is everyone suddenly a death machine?” energy that keeps this game strangely alive years after official content support ended. And that makes this the perfect time to look back at one of the game’s most interesting updates. On June 12, 2018, Star Wars Battlefront II released Han Solo Season Update 2, bringing Kessel, Extraction, new Solo-era appearances, and Lando’s Millennium Falcon into the game. It was not the biggest update Battlefront II ever received. But it may have been one of the clearest examples of what the game was always good at when it got out of its own way. Kessel Was Exactly the Kind…

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