Starfighter Assault is a twenty-four player game mode, with an additional forty AI bots, in DICE's Star Wars Battlefront II that centers around dogfighting in space and high atmosphere. Each map has unique objectives tailored to its design and respective era, similar to Galactic Assault.
Each playable faction has three starfighter classes available to them: Fighter, Bomber and Interceptor. This mode can be played in all three eras: the Clone Wars, Galactic Civil War, and First Order–Resistance War.
Clone Wars
Kamino: Research Outpost
Starfighter Assault on Kamino takes place around a Research Outpost. On the first stage, the Separatists must destroy the bridge of a Venator-class Star Destroyer. Next, they must destroy three Republic Light Cruisers. For the final stage, they must attack another Venator's beam weapon to overload the ship's shields, and then they have ??? seconds to destroy the ship's engines until the shields come back online. This repeats until either the engines are destroyed or the Separatists runs out of reinforcements.
Ryloth: Lucrehulk Battleship
Starfighter Assault on Ryloth takes place around a Separatist Lucrehulk Battleship
In the first stage, The Republic must destroy the battleship's tractor beam generators in order to free a captured Arquitens-class Light Cruiser.
On the second stage, the Republic must destroy the Lucrehold's communication array to stop the Separatist from calling in more reinforcements.
The final stage requires the Republic to first attack the control tower in order to open up the blast doors to attack the core. The Republic only has 30 seconds to attack the core. After that, the Republic must attack the control tower again until they destroy the core or lose all their reinforcements.
Galactic Civil War
Endor: Death Star Debris
Starfighter Assault on Endor takes place around Death Star Debris.
Fondor: Imperial Shipyard
Starfighter Assault on Fondor takes place around an Imperial Shipyard. On this map, Rebel Alliance starfighters must complete three stages to eventually destroy an Imperial Star Destroyer. The Empire can stop the Rebels by protecting their two Imperial Light Cruisers and the shipyard's shield generators.
First Order–Resistance War
D'Qar: Resistance Base Evacuation
Starfighter Assault over D'Qar takes place during the Resistance Base Evacuation seen in the movie The Last Jedi.
In the first phase the First Order must destroy three field generators by attacking the weak spot on them. Then the second phase will start where the First Order will be trying to destabilize another three field generator cores that have activated. They must destabilize them by going through one of two holes in the debris, and destroy three cores in it. During the third phase, the First order must destroy three Bunker Busters, but first they must destroy its two engines before attacking the main part of the ship. In thefourth and final phase, the resistance must survive for two minutes and forty seconds (2:40) will the debris around the battle will slowly be destroyed. if forty (40) resistence fighters are destroyed, they lose.
Unknown Regions: Resurgent Star Destroyer
Starfighter Assault in the Unknown Regions takes place around a Resurgent Star Destroyer.
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| Game Modes in DICE's Star Wars Battlefront II | |
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| Multiplayer | Blast ⋅ Co-Op Missions ⋅ Ewok Hunt ⋅ Hero Showdown ⋅ Hero Starfighters ⋅ Heroes vs. Villains ⋅ Jetpack Cargo ⋅ Galactic Assault ⋅ Starfighter Assault ⋅ Strike / Extraction ⋅ Supremacy |