How Star Cards Work
Star Cards function much differently in Battlefront 2’s multiplayer. In the first game you had to unlock the cards, and more often than not had to stock up on them to use special items or abilities, which were limited. Battlefront 2 gives each class, hero, vehicle, and Starfighter a set of Star Cards to use. There are base cards for each class that do things like reduce your ability recharge time, and there’s a set of cards that have specific effects or abilities unique to that class. Starfighters, heroes, and vehicles simply have one set of cards to choose from that have various effects.
All Star Cards are around permanently once you unlock them, and there’s no kind of stock or limit on them. Progression, however, takes the form of having a Star Card rank and overall rank. To unlock Star Cards you can either get them in the game’s loot crates, or spend scrap to unlock them, which you can get from completing challenges, or opening loot crates. The catch is that some cards require a certain Star Card rank. You can raise that rank by purchasing Star Cards, which means you’ll need to purchase all the cards for the given class, etc., that you really want to focus on. With the huge amount of cards in the game, it’s definitely going to take a bit of a time investment if you want everything available for everything in the game.
