So, back onto the Star Wars Battlefront News and Rumours, we have today breaking across our monitors the most significant (maybe) leak thus far in Battlefront's development. The first news of this was posted on makingstarwars.net, which is a rumour site without the most stellar of reputations thus far regarding leaks and rumours, but too much awesome stuff here is being reported without me sharing it. (The Story has also been picked up by more reputable sites vg247 and BleedingCool).

According to MSW, the content of the leak pertains to the story, the gameplay and the DLC/Marketing, which I'll break down here.

The Story

• The story of Star Wars: Battlefront’s campaign will span pretty much the entire Star Wars saga.
• Star Wars Battlefront will feature segments in which you play as both the good guys (Old Republic, Rebellion and Republic) and bad guys (Separatists and the Empire). It was specifically stated that there will be a small portion of prequel trilogy content. You will participate in a couple of battles from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and the space battle above Corsucant from the beginning of Revenge of the Sith.
• The majority of the campaign will take place during the original trilogy era. All of the battles and settings that you would expect to be there will be playable. It was said that the campaign itself is pretty long when compared to other first person shooters.
• There will be some segments of the campaign which take place between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. There won’t be a lot because in their words “Lucasfilm has a lot of plans for that era.”
• The last section of the campaign takes place before and during the opening segments of The Force Awakens. Don’t expect anything too revealing, because the game is expected to ship about a month before the movie releases.
• For both the Republic and Empire sections you will be playing characters that actually appear in The Force Awakens.
• At one point either during either the portion between episodes 6 and 7 or the portion from the beginning of The Force Awakens a character with the last name Tarkin appears.

The Gamplay

• EA/DICE was allowed into Pinewood Studios for a few days to scan and capture props, sets, etc for recreation in the game.
• The scale of the multiplayer is going to be absolutely massive with up 64 players participating on each side. (More Likely 32, there's been some debate on the sites -Yacks)
• Space to land battles are absolutely happening, but will only be available in certain game modes.
• Tons of new ships and vehicles.
• There will be a “hero” system in place, where as you play you accumulate points that you can eventually cash in to play as a “hero” character. These characters are extremely powerful and have abilities that are not available to the normal characters that you play for most of the matches. The system is constantly in flux, but as it is now, pretty much everyone have a chance to play as a hero at least once per match.

The DLC/Marketing

• The Downloadable Content plan for the game is “extremely aggressive”. Expect up to five DLC packs for the game, with the first coming out before the end of 2015. Each pack will be themed, with the first two or three being exclusively based around content from The Force Awakens.
• The game will ship with several The Force Awakens characters already, but some won’t be added until DLC. Specifically all of the characters in the trailers will be available at launch, as will new versions of the X-wing an TIE fighter.
• The contents of each DLC will contain at least three new maps, new hero characters, and new vehicles/ships.

The Takeaway

Until confirmed by EA/DICE, all of this information should be taken with a grain (or an entire shakers worth) of salt, but a lot of this information does seem to fit with the general industry and internet speculation about what to expect, at least from a Gameplay perspective. The story information is amazing, and despite the announcement that the Mouse is continuing to look at cashing in on DLCs all the damned time, we can hopefully look forward to an amazing game, with engaging single and multiplayer campaigns.