Current Events > Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Launch Is a Disaster

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https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-classic-collection-launch-is-a-disaster

Aspyr is under fire over the disastrous launch of the highly anticipated Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, which is plagued with server issues, bugs, and more.

Launching today, March 14, the $34.99 Classic Collection which includes the original two Star Wars: Battlefront games currently has a "mostly negative" rating on Steam with just 21% of reviews being positive. Headlining most complaints are connectivity issues, with myriad Steam and social media users claiming just three 64-player servers were available at launch for the 9,232 players who logged in on Steam alone.

Aspyr seemingly added more servers within a few hours of launch but problems were rampant. "Was only able to join one Heroes versus Villains match and the Heroes' side was completely broken," said Kamaji on Steam. "No one could join the Heroes team which resulted in no one to fight against. I figured this may have been just a Battlefront 2 issue so I hopped on over to play Battlefront 1 multiplayer. There's zero servers up for Battlefield 1. Wow."

"As of right now the multiplayer (otherwise known as the only reason to buy this product if you already own the original games) is entirely unplayable, making this game a waste of money until that issue is fixed," said KitsuneKami.

"Currently, game is totally unplayable. Even if you manage to get into a server, players cannot spawn. Not sure if it's a cheater or denial thing, bugged gameplay, or both," said nightnight.

Server issues appear just one part of the problem, however. Aiming has been flagged as a major issue, including on PC with mouse sensitivity and on consoles with traditional controller support.

"Aim controls make it unplayable in multiplayer," said Slyder768 on Reddit. "The complete lack of aim assist (there is one in solo) make it awful. Its been designed for controllers of the original Xbox era but the price point is high and nothing has been touched on this front."

Slyder768 also noted a game breaking bug where the respawn timer gets stuck on one, saying it happened on three of their fives games with only a full relaunch serving as a "fix". They also report missing cutscenes in the campaign, split screen being limited to two players instead of four, flight controls being inverted with no option to change, sound issues where it spikes then mutes, and more.

LightbringerOG began a bug report on Reddit, where users reported the Xbox Series S version doesn't work if two controllers are connected upon launch, instant crashes when searching for a Conquest game, bugged hit boxes, and more.

Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection - Official Launch Trailer

"I loved the originals," said IAmNotOnRedditAtWork. "This re-release (so far) is hands down the worst video game I have ever paid money for."

Aspyr isn't particularly popular with Star Wars fans following a handful of similar situations. It canceled downloadable content for its Nintendo Switch port of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2, and its full remake of the same game has also been stuck in development hell for years, but is reportedly still alive.

This isn't the first time the Classic Collection has proved controversial either, despite being announced just a few weeks ago on February 21 and launching today. Eagle-eyed fans spotted Aspyr accidentally used footage of a Star Wars mod for its trailer instead of its own gameplay.

Not in the article, but multiplayer is apparently locked at 30fps as well.

Oh Aspyr

Aspyr needs to go tbh. Lying about restoring cut content to KOTOR 2 and now this

Oof

Wait can players not just host servers in this one? Wtf

Lame, I loved those two back on the PS2 era.

30 fps for 20 year old games.

I've only been playing Singleplayer so far, so I didnt notice anything but oof at only having 3 matches for 9000 players lol

DarthAragorn posted...

Wait can players not just host servers in this one? Wtf

I thought the trailer said they could

The absolute state of gaming journalism. Have an AI copy down a bunch of Reddit comments from a few hours ago, then slap a name on the byline and send it off to the presses.

I checked it out and there is a good amount of servers now, but when I try to join onen the spawn timer gets stuck at 1 and I cant spawn in >_> Everyone in chat was complaining about it lol. I guess I'll wait until they fix it

Quality Asspyr

Why the fuck does Aspyr keep getting work. Like why

Kaldrenthebold posted...

Why the fuck does Aspyr keep getting work. Like why

They've completely fallen to shit since joining Embracer. They've made nothing but remasters and ports since the 90s, and they were fine, but almost everything since then has had nothing but problems.

The Tomb Raider remaster collection seemed to be a return to form, and then this happens.

NeonOPPAl posted...

I checked it out and there is a good amount of servers now, but when I try to join onen the spawn timer gets stuck at 1 and I cant spawn in >_> Everyone in chat was complaining about it lol. I guess I'll wait until they fix it

Don't be surprised if it doesn't get fixed

Hayame_Zero posted...

They've completely fallen to shit since joining Embracer. They've made nothing but remasters and ports since the 90s, and they were fine, but almost everything since then has had nothing but problems.

The Tomb Raider remaster collection seemed to be a return to form, and then this happens.

No even that was broken as hell and still isn't patched. Half the achievements don't work and they had a wrong version up on Epic that was actually BETTER than the one we got. They then patched that one to be worse like all the others.

I liked them for doing Mac ports but that was it back in the day

The file size on Switch is also 34 gigs. To put that into perspective, Smash Ultimate is about 17, and TotK is 16.

Yeah I was wondering why the fuck it was 33gigs on Steam

No aim assist? Oh those poor little peasants. Git Gud.

No inverted aim option in-game either

Who didn't see this coming? It's EA...

Mr_Karate_II posted...

Who didn't see this coming? It's EA...

Not this time.

Hell, modern EA may have gotten shit in gear.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Not this time.

Hell, modern EA may have gotten shit in gear.

It's still EA

Anyone who pre-ordered this deserves what happened.

These guys arent even trying anymore, they can eat my ass

Yeah, while I've been able to play matches in Battlefront 1, I've had a fair amount of crashes, lag spikes, lost connection to host (on Aspyr servers).

as the day wound on the issues were less common, but its definitely rough.

Also, I do wish they had engaged in some gameplay balancing because some maps its really fucking easy for one side to just absolutely dominate. I straight carried my side and got 61 kills and the other side still won with over 40 units remaining (Each side gets 250 units).

Also, it still bears the same issue of everybody's kill/death totals not adding up to however many units.

Irony posted...

Aspyr needs to go tbh. Lying about restoring cut content to KOTOR 2 and now this

They also took out multiplayer from Jedi Outcast and Republic Commando. Comparing their bare bones ports to Nightdive's ports of Dark Forces, Quake, and Turok is night and day.

Mr_Karate_II posted...

It's still EA

EA have absolutely nothing to do with this release. They didn't publish the originals or these ports.

If Dead Space and Mass Effect are any indication this would be better from EA.

Punished_Blinx posted...

EA have absolutely nothing to do with this release. They didn't publish the originals or these ports.

If Dead Space and Mass Effect are any indication this would be better from EA.

I figured since they did the remakes, they made these ports too.

Either way, these ports are a disaster

It always amazes me how official remasters are almost always worse than playing the old game with mods.

Irony posted...

Aspyr needs to go tbh. Lying about restoring cut content to KOTOR 2 and now this

Their PC KotOR 2 port was actually good. I think that's their only good game, though, lol. They can't even do KotOR 2 right on consoles.

Mr_Karate_II posted...

I figured since they did the remakes, they made these ports too.

Either way, these ports are a disaster

On Xbox, there's already less than 150 players in multi-player.

Lol, I should've bought it on PC.

Good thing I didn't pre order this, I thought about it because I have the OG 2nd game on my Xbox one.

I still play it from time to time because it's still fun.

Did they do the remaster/port of Republic Commando? Because I only played a bit of it and it felt really off

You can't even invert controls or have 4 player splitscreen. These things were fairly standard on the ancient hardware the games originally released on. What a joke.

BlueBoy675 posted...

Did they do the remaster/port of Republic Commando? Because I only played a bit of it and it felt really off

Yep the same people. The Switch port is horrible, and not only did get remove multiplayer but also on certain levels there is stick drift.

It's gotten even worse: they apparently used a modder's assets in the remaster. The user datamined it, and found not only does it have the same animations, but even the bugs from their mod:

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-modder-finds-further-evidence-classic-collection-uses-their-mod-despite-aspyr-promising-it-wouldnt

What a shit-tier company. Can't even do a straight up port of 20 year old video games correctly, nevermind making them 2x worse.

Hayame_Zero posted...

It's gotten even worse: they apparently used a modder's assets in the remaster. The user datamined it, and found not only does it have the same animations, but even the bugs from their mod:

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-modder-finds-further-evidence-classic-collection-uses-their-mod-despite-aspyr-promising-it-wouldnt

I heard about that. But instead of being extremely pissed, iirc, he was kinda proud that Aspyr used his mods

The video I saw that had this:

https://youtu.be/3lx62P5swqo?si=XrrgcfftgGGn9qmx

first patch released
https://support.aspyr.com/hc/en-us/articles/25127134058381--STAR-WARS-Battlefront-Classic-Collection-Update-I-Patch-Notes

Lmfao at them stealing modders stuff without giving them credit