The IG-88 Update - Coming October 10th

IG-88 joins Battlefront Plus alongside the Umbaran Blaster, new appearances, a lightsaber parry rework and functional Star Card loadouts. The update also includes balance changes and fixes for troopers, reinforcements, heroes and vehicles.

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Setup Guide - KYBER

1) Save the KYBER installer and unpack the downloaded ZIP.

2) Complete the installation, then launch KYBER.

3) Play fair, be kind, and have fun!

NEW! Hero

- IG-88

NEW! Blaster

Assault

- Umbaran Blaster

NEW! Appearances

Anakin Skywalker

- Padawan [Blue]

Padme Amidala

- Caped

- Handmaiden

Clone Troopers

- 87th Sentinel Corps [I]

- 100th Company [I]

- 181st Armor Division [I]

- 38th Armored Division [II]

- 2nd Airborne Company [Special]

- 501st Recon Division [Special]

ARC Trooper

- Shiny [I, II]

- Legion [I, II]

Clone Commando

- Demolitions Expert

Clone Engineer

- 212th Attack Battalion [II]

- 501st Legion [II]

- 38th Armored Division [II]

Clone Gunner

- 87th Sentinel Corps [I]

- 100th Company [I]

- 181st Armor Division [I]

- 38th Armored Division [II]

Lightsaber Parry Rework

- Added a functional parry system to melee combat. Blocking right before an incoming melee attack or melee ability will stagger the attacker, leaving them open for a counterattack.

Quality of Life

- Added functional Star Card loadouts

- Abilities on cooldown will display a timer instead of the keybind

- Custom passive abilities are displayed correctly under the passive abilities section

Troopers

Assault

- F-11D: Fixed an issue with Explosive Shot not applying while playing on the Separatists

- Neo-Crusader Rifle: Fixed an issue with Night Vision not functioning

- VT-33D: Very slightly reduced start damage. Swapped Reduced Recoil for Reduced Spread

Heavy

- Baragwin Repeater: Increased end damage

- DC-15LE: Increased end damage

- DF-95: Increased spread. Corrected stats display

- DLT-19: Increased end damage

Officer

- LL-30 Navy: Removed the "double-tap" bonus damage mechanic. Increased damage. Increased range

Specialist

- 773-Firepuncher: Replaced Fuze attachment with Rapid Fire. Reduced max bounces. Fixed an issue with the projectile being silent

- Bowcaster: Increased start damage. Corrected end damage

- DLT-19x: Adjusted position of the cooling flush minigame. Reduced fire rate. No longer receives an extra shot from the Marksman Star Card's bonus

- E-5S: Increased damage

Reinforcements

ARC Trooper

- Autoplayers use Phase I appearances on Geonosis

Clone Jet Trooper

- Autoplayers correctly use the Phase I appearance

Death Trooper

- DLT-19D: Zooms into first person when aiming

Rebel Pilot

- Blurrg-1120: Reduced start damage

Royal Guard

- Reduced battle point cost

- Sinister Strikes: Displays the number of uses left on the ability

- Updated asset for the Light Armor appearance

Smuggler

- Dual DT-29s: Reduced range

Viper Probe Droid

- Self Destruct: Increased blast damage and radius

Wookiee Warrior

- Fixed an issue with the unit being absent from Kashyyyk - Supremacy

Heroes

Ahsoka Tano

- Resolve: Increased duration

- Jar'Kai Mastery (Star Card): Increased duration of Resolve to reflect ability changes

Bossk
- Dioxis Grenade: Implemented failsafes in the event the ability does not go into recharge when it should

Cal Kestis

- Slayer of Oggdo appearance is available to all players

- Force Stasis: Reduced base duration

- Peacekeeper (Star Card): Fixed an issue with the card's effects not working

Captain Phasma

- Staff Strikes: Displays the number of uses left on the ability

Captain Rex

- Primary: Added an alt-fire which fires both pistols at once with perfect precision

Commander Cody

- DC-15A: Reduced spread

- Attack Order: Added an effect which grants slight healing to anyone attacking the marked target

- Shield Wall: Added an effect which grants CC immunity to Cody while he's standing near his shield. Undeploying the shield within this radius will also instantly refresh it

- You'll Be Needing This (Star Card): Added an effect which grants damage resistance to Cody while he's standing near his shield

Iden Versio

- TL-50: Fixed an issue with an attachment icon being displayed

- Pulse Cannon: Added overheat functionality

Grand Admiral Thrawn

- Increased max health

- RK-3: Increased start range drop-off

- Ascendant (Star Card): Increased max health gained

Padme Amidala

- Completely remade the appearance assets

Second Sister

- Adjusted cape textures

- Force Drain: Fixed an issue with the effects applying in a circle around the player instead of just ahead of them

Vehicles

LAAT

- Can no longer be tap-fired for unintentionally high damage

T-47 Airspeeder

- Reduced health regen delay

TIE Striker

- Reduced health regen delay

U-Wing

- Increased projectile speed

Speeders

- Laser Barrage: Reduced duration

- Fixed an issue with the C-PH Patrol Bike being enabled during the final phase on Tatooine - Galactic Assault

Starfighters

- Set all Star Card values to their max (purple) value by default

- Increased battle point cost of Bombers

- Astromech Repair: Added activation delay

- Ion Turret: Reduced ion effect duration, increased cooldown

Millennium Falcon

- Increased blast radius

- Decreased minimum speed and increased maximum speed

• Added parties

  • Invite players to a party through the friends list. Invites show up as a banner with a sound and can be accepted or declined directly

  • Party leaders can kick members and transfer leadership

  • The party leader picks a server and every member is taken through the required mod checks and downloads automatically

  • Members join the game automatically once everyone is ready, or can join late at any time

  • Party leaders can also host a server and have the party join it

  • Party members are placed in the same in-game squad

  • Added an in-game party chat that is only visible to your party

  • Added a privacy setting to control whether non-friends can invite you to a party

  • In-game team shuffling now groups party members together

• Added server queues

  • Joining a full server now places you in a queue instead of failing

  • Your queue position is shown live in the launcher and a slot is reserved for you as soon as one frees up

  • Parties queue as a group and get reserved slots for the whole party once every member has the required mods

  • Party invites are disabled while queueing, so a reserved spot can't be passed to players who joined the party later

• Replaced the navigation bar with a new social bar

  • Shows your friends, your party and download progress at a glance

• Redesigned the server browser

  • Redesigned the server list with badges and new region icons

  • Servers are now grouped by region

  • Redesigned the server info box

    • Your preferred region is selected automatically for server groups with multiple regions

    • You can switch between the instances of a server group

  • Joining a server you are banned from now shows a dialog with the ban reason and expiry

  • The search is now cleared when switching tabs

• Added incremental mod downloads

  • When updating a mod collection, only the mods that changed are downloaded

• Added in-game AFK kicking

  • Configure the timeout in seconds in the in-game settings page or with Whiteshark.NoInteractivityTimeoutTime. Set it to 0 to disable it

• Added in-game chat filtering

  • Chat messages are filtered against a list of blocked phrases. Every server starts with a default list

  • Plugin developers can configure this list, the filter character and the functionality with the ChatFilter interface

  • Set the console setting Kyber.LogFilteredChatMessages to true to enable in-depth logs of filtered messages

• Increased the mod limit from 247 to 1739

• Added a token reset flow for Kyber tokens

• Added a bypass player limit entitlement that allows joining full servers

• The launcher now warns about corrupted collections and prefers a working duplicate when available

• The launcher window can now be dragged from the full width of the title bar

• The mod browser has a new page selector and the unused posts tab was removed

• The Launcher and Module are now code signed

• Running servers now pick up proxy list changes without a restart

• Battlepoints can now be interacted with via console commands Kyber.SetBattlepoints <username> <value> & Kyber.GiveBattlepoints <username> <value>

• Added new KYBER Plugin features:

  • Plugins can now be hot-reloaded with Kyber.HotReloadLua server

  • Official API documentation is now available at https://docs.kyber.gg/g/pluginref

  • MapRotation Library: modify & read the current map rotation at runtime

  • ChatFilter Library: modify the chat filter blocked phrases list & toggle functionality

  • Certain events can now be cancelled via EventManager.SetCancelled(true) in the event callback context

  • FBArrays can now be fully read and processed

  • Fixed DataContainer reading

  • All enums are now usable

  • Client plugins are now deprecated

  • Player battlepoints, score, kills, assists, deaths, active kit, if they are spawned, and player id are now interactable

  • Players can now have their health, max health, and abilities changed while spawned

  • You can now disable player inputs with SetInputEnabled

  • Added events Level:Complete, DedicatedServer:PerformanceStatsMessage, ServerPlayer:Disconnect, ServerPlayer:Killed, ServerPlayer:Spawned, ServerPlayer:SendMessage

  • Renamed event Server:PlayerJoined to ServerPlayer:Joined

• Optimized launcher avatar loading

• Many Module stability and performance improvements

  • Many API requests were previously synchronous and took up processing across 14 threads, and now only take 2 and are properly asynchronous

    • This fix/performance improvement should fix a good amount of random startup crashes & lower FPS spikes

  • Optimized ModLoader array extension allocations

  • Optimized player persistence instantiation

  • Optimized FNV string hashes

  • Optimized packet processing

• Added new time entities:

  • KyberCurrentTimeEntity: Get current Time field

  • KyberTimeSplitterEntity: Input Time float from the previous entity to get the current day, month, year, second, minute, and hour

• Fixed automatic mod downloads from Nexus Mods not working

  • The launcher could not determine the file extension of a download. The filename is now read from the response headers

• Fixed in-game friendly fire not fully working

• Fixed an issue where servers were not joinable after they got disconnected from the server management connection

  • Servers can now re-register under the same ID

• Fixed an issue where collections would display the wrong mod count

• Fixed shift-selection in the mods list

• Fixed an issue where proxies were not reachable for users with IPv6

  • Proxy connections now force IPv4 DNS lookups

• Fixed an issue where unreachable proxies could break the launcher while loading

• Fixed an issue where mod files inside nested archive folders were not detected on mod installs

• Fixed in-game latency differential value readback

• Fixed ModLoader bundling issue with an asset that has different bundles in different mods

• Fixed PlayerExtentRegistration type name reading

• Fixed LocalizedStringIdPickerEntity not reading the property connection Sid to have the output field StringId changed at outside of instantiation

• Fixed in-game team chat not working

• Fixed joining a server while having the game already open

• Fixed certain console commands being able to be run on the client, causing a crash

• Fixed punished players missing their user information on the server moderation page

  • This fixes the issue where it would not be possible to unban a player

• Fixed an issue where a ban with a duration of 0 would expire instantly instead of being permanent

• Banning a player that is already banned no longer creates a duplicate punishment

Battlefront Plus Update - Vehicles, Troopers, Reinforcements, Heroes & Fixes

A new Battlefront Plus update is now available on KYBER, bringing new vehicles, extensive weapon and attachment updates, reinforcement adjustments, hero changes, and a wide range of fixes.

Enter a galaxy of new content for STAR WARS Battlefront II
Play the free KYBER Open Beta: https://kyber.gg/download/

Setup Guide - KYBER

1) Download and then extract the KYBER Installer from the .zip.

2) Run the KYBER Installer. Then, run the KYBER Launcher.

3) Play fair, be kind, and have fun!

Vehicles

NEW! C-PH Patrol Speeder

- The C-PH was a model of speeder bike suited for operating within urban environments, where it saw use by Imperial police forces.

- Added to Tatooine - Galactic Assault, Supremacy

TIE Striker

- Added to Scarif - Supremacy

U-Wing

- Added to Scarif - Supremacy

- Increased damage

- Increased zoom-in magnification

74Z

- Increased damage, removed blast damage

AT-RT

- Increased damage

BARC

- Increased damage

STAP

- Increased damage

X34 Landspeeder

- Increased damage

Rey and Chewbacca's Millennium Falcon

- Highly experimental: Added to Crait - Galactic Assault

- Increased primary damage to match the other Falcons

Troopers

Assault

- A295: Replaced Escape Artist attachment with Improved Cooling. Replaced Sharpshooter Training attachment with Bolt Speed

- CA-87: Fires projectiles in a set spread to maintain consistency and avoid a vanilla issue with shotguns occasionally resetting the user's match. Replaced Crouch Control attachment with Reduced Spread. Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Escape Artist

- DC-15A: Replaced Berserker Training attachment with Rapid Fire

- E-10: Replaced Berserker Training attachment with Escape Artist

- E-11: Increased start range drop-off. Reduced spread. Replaced Berserker Training attachment with Improved Cooling

- EE-3: Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Auto Cooling

- F-11D: Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Bolt Speed

- Neo-Crusader Rifle: Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Bolt Speed

- ST-W48: Replaced Berserker Training Attachment with Reduced Spread. Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Improved Range

- T-12: Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Reduced Recoil

- VT-33D: Replaced Sharpshooter Training attachment with Reduced Recoil

- Zersium Rifle: Lowered the damage of the red blaster bolt and made range drop-off consistent across all projectile variations

Heavy

- ABR-2: Replaced Berserker Training attachment with Reduced Recoil. Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Ion Shot

- Baragwin Repeater: Improved heat capacity and spread

- DC-15: Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Reduced Recoil

- E-5C: Replaced Berserker Training attachment with Rapid Fire

- RT-97C: Replaced Critical Shot with Reduced Recoil

Officer

- Fusion Cutter: New Star Card. Repair tool for restoring health to vehicles, turrets, and objectives

- DC-15s: Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Rapid Fire. Corrected damage stat display

- DC-17: Increased recoil. Replaced Sharpshooter Training attachment with Reduced Recoil

- DH-17: Increased end damage. Replaced Ion Shot attachment with Improved Range

- DL-44: Reduced start damage

- DT-12: Replaced Berserker Training attachment with Improved Cooling

- DT-29: Improved Zoom no longer forces 1st person

- EC-17: Replaced Sharpshooter Training attachment with Reduced Spread. Replaced Ion Shot with Improved Range. Corrected damage and range stat displays

- HF-94: Improved Zoom no longer forces 1st person

- LL-30 Navy: Improved Zoom no longer forces 1st person

- NN-14: Increased end damage and range. Altered recoil and dispersion to feel more appropriate. Replaced Berserker Training attachment with Rapid Fire. Reduced charge-up time on the Secondary Fire attachment

- RK-3: Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Escape Artist

- SE-14C: Replaced Berserker Training attachment with Improved Cooling

- TG-446: Improved Zoom no longer forces 1st person

- Westar-35: Replaced Sharpshooter Training attachment with Improved Range

- Recharge Command: Increased cooldown to maintain consistent recharge time with the other Battle Command abilities. Can no longer refresh another player's Recharge Command

Specialist

- Bowcaster: Replaced Berserker Training attachment with Escape Artist

- CJ-9 Bo-Rifle: Replaced Sharpshooter Training attachment with Night Vision

- DC-17m Sniper: Replaced Burst Fire attachment with Reduced Recoil. Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Bolt Speed

- DLT-19D: Replaced Sharpshooter Training attachment with Rapid Fire

- DLT-19x: Replaced Berserker Training attachment with Bolt Speed. Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Improved Range

- E-5S: Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Rapid Fire

- PK-23: Reduced spread. Replaced Critical Shot attachment with Reduced Recoil

Reinforcements

ARC Trooper

- Dual DC-17s: Increased damage and range

Clone Engineer

- Raised Battlepoint cost

Clone Gunner

- Raised Battlepoint cost

- Together Brothers: Additionally provides the boosts to the user on activation. Increased targeting range

Clone Sharpshooter

- 773-Firepuncher: Increased heat capacity

Aqua Droid

- Trident Pursuant: Increased targeting range, as well as health on damage and kill

B2 Super Battle Droid

- Rearm: Reduced cooldown to account for its decreased necessity

B2-RP

- Fuel Reserves: Added a UI timer next to the crosshair to indicate ability duration for improved readability during combat

Combat MagnaGuard

- Raised Battlepoint cost

Commando Droid

- Thermal Vision: Extended duration, reduced cooldown

Droideka

- Restricted squadmates from squad-spawning on this unit

MagnaGuard Protector

- Raised Battlepoint cost

- Reduced max health. Increased health regen rate, delay, and max amount

- System Cooling: Reduced uses. Immediately goes into recharge upon taking damage

Tactical Droid

- Reduced Battlepoint cost

- Tactical Prowess: Additionally provides the boosts to the user on activation

Honor Guard

- DH-17: Increased end damage and range

Rebel Pilot

- Raised Battlepoint cost

- Proton Launcher: Reduced ammo

Wookiee Warrior

- Frenzied Bowcaster: Renamed from Overload and updated the icon and description to better reflect the ability

Death Trooper

- Raised Battlepoint cost

- Firing Squad: Increased damage

Imperial Jumptrooper

- E-11: Increased start range drop-off

ISB Agent

- Dual RK-3s: Increased damage, range, and fire rate

Purge Trooper Commander

- Reduced Battlepoint cost

Purge Trooper Commander

- Updated appearance assets

Shock Trooper

- DLT-19: Increased heat capacity, reduced spread

- Shock Launcher: Increased damage per second

- Disruption: Increased the Shock Launcher synergy damage

Combat Medic

- NN-14: Increased end damage, fire rate, and accuracy

- Bacta Spray: Updated description to reflect a previously added function

Ovissian Gunner

- Raised Battlepoint cost

Smuggler

- Raised Battlepoint cost

- Reduced max health

- Dual DT-29s: Increased spread

Guavian Security

- Reduced Battlepoint cost

- JND-41: Increased damage

- Regeneration: Increased healing per second

- Control: Added an effect for reducing heat build-up. Updated icon

Riot Control Trooper

- Raised Battlepoint cost and reduced max player count

- Slightly increased max health

- Riot Shield: Replaces the off-hand SE-44C. The riot shield has high block stamina against enemy blaster fire, but falters quickly against lightsabers

- Flash Grenade: Increased throw speed. Reduced fuse time

Sith Trooper

- ST-W48: Reduced spread

Stormtrooper Commander

- Updated portrait

- Move as One: Implemented a potential fix for the sprint speed boost not always applying in offensive mode

- Strategic Readjustment: Adjusted icon to better reflect its functions

Heroes

Ahsoka Tano

- Resolve: Updated description to reflect the added effect of increased sprint speed

Asajj Ventress

- Starblades: Increased cooldown. Increased minimum time between each use. Reduced max bounces

- Vanish: Health regen is disabled while active

- Force Grasp: Reworked to target a single enemy, as originally intended, instead of enemies ahead of the player. Added temporary immunity for affected enemies to prevent repeated use against them.

- Suspenseful Grip (Star Card): Reverted to granting an extra use instead of affecting cooldown to account for ability changes

Bossk

- Increased max health

- Dioxis Grenade: Applies a small amount of healing to Bossk by default

- Name Your Poison (Star Card): Increased the amount of healing from standing in the Dioxis Grenade

Cal Kestis

- Disabled the Inquisitor appearance due to the red saber and black armor causing frequent confusion with Dark Side characters

- Reforged (Star Card): Reduced the duration before the bonus damage can be applied to the same enemy again. Added an element to the UI to indicate when the bonus damage is active. Increased the time for action duration

Chewbacca

- Bowcaster: Reduced fire rate (still higher than vanilla)

- Furious Bowcaster: Reverted fire rate buff

Dagan Gera

- Lightsaber: Experimental change to use Maul's animations instead of Anakin's for the single-saber stance

- Force Bomb: Increased blast damage

- Sever the Past (Star Card): Removed the weakness debuff. Added an element to the UI to indicate when the bonus damage is active

Din Djarin

- Added the full-caped Beskar appearance, taking the place of the default skin. The original skin is available as the Jetpack appearance. No, equipping the jetpack skin does not make it usable

- IB-94: Increased end damage and start range drop-off

- Mandalorian Craftsmanship (Star Card): Replaces This is the Way. Din Djarin receives less damage from blasters

- Warm or Cold (Star Card): The bonus is now rewarded on landing a headshot, regardless of whether or not it kills

Jango Fett

- Restricted squadmates from squad-spawning on this character

Lando Carlissian

- Smoke Grenade: Updated description to reflect the added effect of blocking enemy healing

Maz Kanata

- Increased max health regen

- Change in Fortune: Increased duration

Merrin

- Teleport: Reduces Merrin's Power Meter by 1 point by default

Padme Amidala

- Increased health regen rate

- Royal Resolve: Added a debuff cleansing effect to herself and affected allies on initial activation, removing and providing brief immunity to effects such as weakness and poison. Reduced cooldown

- A Path to Follow (Star Card): No longer increases the cooldown of Royal Resolve

Second Sister

- Increased health regen rate and reduced health regen delay

- Force Drain: Increased health per damage tick, updated icon

- Cunning Slash: Reduced cooldown

- Enduring the Pain (Star Card): Increased damage resistance value and duration, added duration stat to Star Card

- Let's Finish This (Star Card): Increased weakness value. Adjusted description to be more accurate

- Like All the Others (Star Card): Corrected stat display

- Perfected Technique (Star Card): Reduced the duration before the bonus damage can be applied to the same enemy again. Corrected an incorrect stat name. Added an element to the UI to indicate when the bonus damage is active. Increased the time for action duration

Misc

General

- Reverted to a less experimental version of IOI without the additional modes and map variants to avoid the issue with attachments being forgotten during new game sessions

- Removed the ping system due to a near total lack of use and a general dislike of the feature

Co-Op

- Increased the number of enemy AI present. Please note that the Co-Op XL mod modifies a critical game file and, contradictory to what the Nexus page claims, is NOT compatible with Battlefront Plus

Bug Fixes

Crashes

- Fixed an issue causing crashes related to Hoth and Kamino on Galactic Assault when played on dedicated servers

MagnaGuard Protector

- Fixed an issue allowing more players to spawn as this unit than intended

Tactical Droid

- Tactical Prowess: Fixed an issue with slightly more damage being applied than intended

Rebel Pilot

- R5 Astromech: Fixed an issue with the deathscreen showing the original ability name and icon

Viper Probe Droid

- Fixed an issue with them being unable to squad-spawn on new units and characters

Combat Medic

- Bacta Spray: Fixed an issue where the effect applied in a full circle around the player instead of a cone in front of them

Riot Control Trooper

- Z6 Riot Baton: Fixed an issue with effects missing from an enemy blocking strikes

Ahsoka Tano

- I'm No Jedi (Star Card): Fixed an issue with Resolve kills not counting

Asajj Ventress

- Force Grasp: Fixed an issue with affected enemies being lifted much lower than intended and drifting towards the world origin

Darth Maul

- Fixed an issue with Maul being missing from the Age of Rebellion

Second Sister

- I Expected More (Star Card): Fixed an issue with the card altering the camera position when equipped