A few days ago, a major update was released that added free content for Star Wars: Battlefront alongside the premium Outer Rim DLC. However, that update also created an exploit that allowed users to instantly achieve level 60. It has been addressed in a hotfix released earlier this morning that brought servers down temporarily.
The exploit was used by some players to instantly grind their character up to level 60. While how this was done is not widely known, it would crash the game after the round was over.
Electronic Arts’ community manager posted on the official blog, ”Due to Rank issues we’ve had with our max level players (auto-60, crashes at end-of-round) were (sic) resetting Rank stats for some players to alleviate the backend issue we have detected. Servers will go offline for roughly 30 minutes while this update is applied.”
Star Wars: Battlefront was released last November 2015 to mixed reviews, so much so that a fan-made version of the game is being developed.
