You might be better off playing the originals
“At launch, we experienced critical errors with our network infrastructure. The result was incredibly high ping, matchmaking errors, crashes, and servers not appearing in the browser,” Aspyr explaineda post. “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.”
“Asides from all the issues mentioned by all the players, this repack breaks most mods for PC due to changes in the file system that to me, make no sense, since the game is as buggy as the previous version or worse,“saidmodder Harrisonfog of theBattlefront 2 Remaster project. “It’s not better, and the new functions like splitscreen barely work. As a modder who has worked on a big mod project for this game for years, I find this release pitiful to say the least, and it’s a shame that we modders were not consulted as they were for the Tomb Raider Remaster which gave great results for that particular release.”
In lieu of apologising for the launch issues, Aspyr took the opportunity to thank people for telling them that this sucks. “We’d like to thank the Battlefront community for their overwhelming support and feedback for theStar Wars Battlefront Classic Collectionrelease,” they said. I remain fascinated by the ongoing evolution of marketing language and emotional approaches to dealing with narked customers.
If you want, you can buy the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection for £29/€34/$35on Steam. It’s also on Nintendo Switch, PlayStations 4 and 5, and Xboxes One and Xeries XS.
The main benefits of the new collection seem to be: 1) a fresh injection of new players lured in by the release; 2) Hero Assault mode is on more maps; 3) access to a handful of Xbox-exclusive maps and characters, including the wizard Kit Fisto. I mean, maybe it is worth £12 to play as someone named Kit Fisto.
