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Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection devs “working to address” bugs following disastrous launchYou might be better off playing the originals
You might be better off playing the originals
Image credit:CBS Studios
Image credit:CBS Studios
STAR WARS™ Battlefront Classic Collection - Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube
STAR WARS™ Battlefront Classic Collection - Launch Trailer
“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.”
Players are understandably not super pleased with all this. It’s currently sitting with an ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’ player rating on Steam, with only 19% of the 4202 player reviews giving it a thumbs-up. Along with the technical issues, some players are unhappy with changes to controls, menus, and more. The Collection also breaks some mods.
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.
Alternatively, you can still buy and play the originals for £8.50 apiece. While they did lose official multiplayer support for several years after GameSpy died, making players rely on external tools like GameRanger, multiplayer was re-added to the versions on Steam and GOG a few years back (2017 for BF2,2020 for the first). It is some small mercy that the originals haven’t been pulled from sale. Too many remasters and rereleases that are worse than the originals have become the only way the games are sold now, such asthe rubbish GTA trilogy.
We liked the original Battlefront enough to declare it one ofthe games worth saving from 2004.
