We discovered final month that Aspyr Media was growing Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, a remastered port combo of Star Wars: Battlefront and Star Wars: Battlefront II, first launched in 2004 and 2005 respectively. This assortment is now stay but it surely appears the sport is having a tough begin at launch, particularly for PC gamers.
The viral tweet under posted to X (previously Twitter) early this morning is indicative of most of the issues PC gamers are experiencing with the sport:
-10,000 individuals enjoying on launch evening.
-Only has 3 servers which have 64 slots for a complete of ~200 gamers.
-Multiplayer does not work in any other case.
-Price Tag of 35 USDJesus Christ I’m so disillusioned that is theft, do not buy Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection pic.twitter.com/JB7oCTHzgh
— seb 🦝📕 (@sebbaku) March 14, 2024
Replies to that tweet spotlight among the different points gamers are apparently operating into: zero choices to occasion up with pals and an absence of anticipated quality-of-life enhancements (@damnitbobbywhy), rubberbanding (@SoCalZork), and extra. However, some players are saying the most important points, like a low quantity of servers and an incapacity to really get into matches, had been fastened inside two hours of launch.
Over on the Star Wars Battlefront subreddit, dozens of customers are posting memes concerning the recreation’s launch, discussions about connectivity points, and extra. One consumer posted a screenshot of them downloading the unique Star Wars Battlefront video games on Xbox (via backward compatibility) to play as a substitute of this assortment, whereas one other says this re-release is “hands down the word video game I have ever paid money for.” It’s clear gamers on that subreddit will not be proud of Aspyr’s Battlefront assortment.
On Steam, the sport, which has a price ticket of $35.01, has a “mostly negative” ranking after 1,407 evaluations – 21 p.c of the evaluations for the sport are constructive.
Now, gamers completely have the best to be upset a couple of $35 recreation they paid for and are seemingly unable to play at launch, which is doubly unlucky when it is clear plenty of these gamers had been excited to leap in proper at launch. But, there is a good probability Aspyr is already engaged on fixes for the gathering and ideally, every week from now, no person is operating into the problems Day One gamers are experiencing. That’s nonetheless not truthful to Day One gamers however should you’re a fan of on-line video games like this, you recognize tough launches aren’t all that uncommon, as unlucky as they are often.
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