Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection gets off to a rough start on PC

Updated, 03/15/24:

Following the rough launch of Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, which is a combination of HD ports of the original Star Wars: Battlefront and Star Wars: Battlefront II on modern consoles and PC, developer Aspyr Media says it’s working to resolve problems and increase network stability. .

Shortly after the game‘s launch on March 14, players across all platforms (but particularly on PC) experienced server issues preventing them from participating in matches, as well as other connectivity issues such as disconnections, rubber bands, etc. The result was a wave of disappointment from gamers excited to play these classic multiplayer games. Now, a day later, Aspyr has recognized the problems and is working to resolve them.

“We would like to thank the Battlefront community for their immense support and feedback regarding the release of Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection,” a statement said. update of the studio bed. “During launch, we encountered critical errors with our network infrastructure. The result was incredibly high ping, connection errors, crashes, and servers not showing up in the browser.

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

Aspyr encourages players to report bugs, errors, or unexpected behavior to its support team via this application form.

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Original story, 03/14/24:

We learned last month that Aspyr Media was developing Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, a combo of remastered ports of Star Wars: Battlefront and Star Wars: Battlefront II, first released in 2004 and 2005 respectively. This collection is now available but it seems that the game is off to a rocky start at launch, especially for PC players.

The below viral tweet posted to X (formerly Twitter) early this morning is indicative of many of the issues PC players are having with the game:

Replies to this tweet highlight some of the other issues players are apparently facing: no options to party with friends and a lack of expected quality of life improvements (@damnitbobbywhy), the elastic (@SoCalZork), and more. However, some players say the biggest issues, like low server counts and inability to participate in matches, were resolved within two hours of launch.

On the Star Wars Battlefront subreddit, dozens of users are posting memes about the game‘s launch, discussions about connectivity issues, and more. An user job a screenshot of them downloading the original Star Wars Battlefront games on Xbox (thanks to backwards compatibility) to play instead of this collection, while another said this re-release is “hands down the word video game I’ve ever paid money for.” It’s clear that players on this subreddit are unhappy with Aspyr’s Battlefront collection.

On Steam, the game, which costs $35.01, has a “mostly negative” rating after 1,407 reviews – 21% of reviews for the game are positive.

Now gamers absolutely have a right to be upset about a $35 game they paid for and are seemingly unable to play at launch, which is doubly unfortunate when it’s clear many of those gamers were excited to get started from launch. But there’s a good chance that Aspyr is already working on fixes for the collection and ideally, in a week’s time, no one will be facing the issues players experienced on day one. It’s still not fair to Day One players, but if you’re a fan of online games like this, you know that hard launches aren’t that unusual, as unfortunate as they can be .

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