(The winds of Scarif allow his cape to wave in all its glory.) There's also the death trooper and shoretrooper, both new designs that have become almost instantly iconic. Director Krennic, the cape-sporting villain of the movie, is playable. Fans will take control of Jyn Erso, the already-mega-popular heroine of Rogue One, and her A180 blaster. Rogue One: Scarif is more than just ships and a new planet, of course. Lots of details about what the ship could do with the wings in the forward 'U' position, swept backward, weaponry. 'We learned most of what we know about how it would handle in talking to ILM about how it was planning to be used it in the film. 'The first place you can get in the cockpit and fire the door gun of a U-wing is in the Battlefront Rogue One expansion,' Fillbrandt says. So while we know how an X-wing handles, or a TIE fighter turns, bringing the U-wing into a game meant establishing how it would feel. While it was officially revealed a few months ago, it's still new to Star Wars, and thus, Star Wars gaming. ' The DICE team has done a fantastic job of making all the elements of Battlefront look extremely realistic, and true to the films,' Fillbrandt says. 'Our hats are off to their amazing art team.' And about that U-wing. To see this design approach in a game is really kind of mind-blowing for a superfan. Note the Star Destroyers in the DLC's opening set piece they look like the starships seen in Rogue One's trailers, which in turn look like the physical models from Star Wars: A New Hope. But again, it's the design nuance throughout that you first pick up on, and it shows the care that went into the game. The end result is an expansion that takes gamers from a space mission, piloting (or destroying, if you're siding with the Empire) U-wings (a new Rebel ship), to a ground battle on Scarif, a world of palm trees and sun and death troopers. We were able to see early layouts for how the location on Scarif was going to be shot out, so we could be as accurate as possible without contradicting anything.' We were also very lucky to get time with the ILM team that was working on the Scarif battle sequences in parallel with our development. We would send as much 2D and 3D reference as we could to the team at DICE very early in development, so they could start working on formulating a design and building assets. ' Our Lucasfilm games production team, based at Lucasfilm's office in San Francisco, got very early access to 2D and 3D reference,' Fillbrandt explains. 'The Lucasfilm Digital Asset Management team is a critical resource for us to tap into for early looks at what characters, vehicles, and weapons look like from the movie. That meant they'd really be introducing the world to a new Star Wars locale. 'Especially when you are coming out ahead of the film and want to make sure that you get as many details as possible accurate.' That meant filmmakers, the Lucasfilm games team, asset management, and the developers at EA DICE all working together on Star Wars elements that were essentially brand new. 'Making a game based on film content that is still in development is a very difficult undertaking,' says Matt Fillbrandt, executive producer on the Lucasfilm games team. But the road traveled here was not an easy one. (Let me just say - you have not blasted a Rebel until you've done so with Krennic's revolver-style DT-29.) And it's a product of the continued collaboration across companies and departments ensuring a previously unheard-of Star Wars authenticity, from the sight of walkers in the distance to the detailing on Jyn's vest. It's pushing the game forward, with new weapons and characters and experiences. It's closing out Battlefront with content from the first stand-alone Star Wars movie, coming later this month, including a new planet: its namesake, Scarif, a beach-world unlike anything previously seen in Star Wars. Rogue One: Scarif, the final expansion for Star Wars Battlefront, arrived yesterday and it's something of a landmark release.

checks in with Lucasfilm's Matt Fillbrandt about the making of Battlefront's new Rogue One DLC.

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