Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Is Off To A Rough Start 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 fashionable consoles and PC, developer Aspyr Media says it is working to deal with 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 crucial 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 sudden behaviours to its assist crew by way of this request form. 

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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 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 lots of the issues PC gamers are experiencing with the sport: 

Replies to that tweet spotlight among the different points gamers are apparently operating into: zero choices to social gathering up with buddies 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 mounted inside two hours of launch. 

Over on the Star Wars Battlefront subreddit, dozens of customers are posting memes in regards to the sport’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 (by way of 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 pleased with Aspyr’s Battlefront assortment. 

On Steam, the sport, which has a price ticket of $35.01, has a “mostly negative” score after 1,407 critiques – 21 p.c of the critiques for the sport are optimistic.

Now, gamers completely have the appropriate to be upset a few $35 sport they paid for and are seemingly unable to play at launch, which is doubly unlucky when it is clear a variety 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, 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 should you’re a fan of on-line video games like this, you already know tough launches aren’t all that uncommon, as unlucky as they are often. 

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