Star Wars Battlefront fixes insta-60 levelling glitch & crashes from Outer Rim update

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Along with new maps and modes, Star Wars Battlefront's Outer Rim update introduced an unexpected "feature": automatically leveling player accounts up to 60, the new cap. Great if you don't have the time to grind through a new set of levels to unlock stuff, not so great if you don't like restarting your game frequently - since many of those same players also reported that the game would freeze at the end of every match when it tried to tally up their XP.

Developer DICE rolled out a hotfix on Thursday morning to reset rank stats for affected players, which means no more insta-60 and hopefully no more crashes either. Though the Outer Rim expansion requires a separate purchase, the accompanying update - which increased the level cap and added Hutt contracts, among other changes - is free for all players.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.