Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Is Off To A Rough Star On PC

Update, 03/15/24:

Following the tough launch of Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, which is an HD port combo of the unique Star Wars: Battlefront and Star Wars: Battlefront II on trendy consoles and PC, developer Aspyr Media says it is working to handle points and enhance community stability. 

Shortly after the sport’s launch on March 14, gamers throughout all platforms (however particularly PC), skilled server points stopping them from entering into matches in addition to different connectivity points like disconnects, rubberbanding, and extra as soon as truly in a match. The end result was a wave of disappointment from gamers excited to play these traditional multiplayer video games. Now, a day later, Aspyr has acknowledged the problems and is working to repair them. 

“We’d like to thank the Battlefront community for their overwhelming support and feedback for the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection release,” an update from the studio reads. “At launch, we skilled essential errors with our networking infrastructure. The end result was extremely excessive ping, matchmaking errors, crashes, and servers not showing within the browser. 

“Since launch, we’ve been working to address these issues and increase network stability, and we will continue our efforts until our network infrastructure is stabilized to prevent further outages.”

Aspyr encourages participant to report bugs, errors, or surprising behaviours to its assist crew by way of this request form. 

The authentic story continues beneath…

Original story, 03/14/24:

We discovered final month that Aspyr Media was creating 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 reside nevertheless it appears the sport is having a tough begin at launch, particularly for PC gamers. 

The viral tweet beneath posted to X (previously Twitter) early this morning is indicative of most of the issues PC gamers are experiencing with the sport: 

Replies to that tweet spotlight a few of the different points gamers are apparently operating into: zero choices to celebration 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 truly get into matches, have been fastened inside two hours of launch. 

Over on the Star Wars Battlefront subreddit, dozens of customers are posting memes concerning the sport’s launch, discussions about connectivity points, and extra. One person 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 opinions – 21 % of the opinions for the sport are constructive.

Now, gamers completely have the proper to be upset a couple of $35 sport they paid for and are seemingly unable to play at launch, which is doubly unlucky when it is clear plenty of these gamers have been excited to leap in proper at launch. But, there is a good likelihood Aspyr is already engaged on fixes for the gathering and ideally, per week from now, no person is operating into the problems Day One gamers are experiencing. That’s nonetheless not honest to Day One gamers however when you’re a fan of on-line video games like this, you realize tough launches aren’t all that uncommon, as unlucky as they are often. 

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