Some Star Wars Battlefront II updates were loud because they added giant headline content. Others were quieter, but did a lot of the dirty work that made the game better to actually play. The Hero Starfighters Update, released on this day in 2018, sits somewhere in the middle. It added a new hero ship mode, brought in Sullustan appearances for Rebel and Resistance Assault troopers, and pushed through a bundle of quality-of-life changes that helped smooth out some of the rough edges around the game. Not the flashiest update in Battlefront II history. Still important. Hero Starfighters Was the Big Addition The headline feature was Hero Starfighters, an 8-player mode focused on hero ships battling each other in elimination-style rounds. It was a neat idea, especially because Battlefront II always had some excellent starfighter work hiding in plain sight. Criterion’s space combat felt fast, heavy, and cinematic in the right…
