• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

Aspyr Criticized Following Troubled Launch of Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection

T0@st

News Editor
Joined
Mar 7, 2023
Messages
2,592 (3.55/day)
Location
South East, UK
System Name The TPU Typewriter
Processor AMD Ryzen 5 5600 (non-X)
Motherboard GIGABYTE B550M DS3H Micro ATX
Cooling DeepCool AS500
Memory Kingston Fury Renegade RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16
Video Card(s) PowerColor Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Hellhound OC
Storage Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME SSD
Display(s) Lenovo Legion Y27q-20 27" QHD IPS monitor
Case GameMax Spark M-ATX (re-badged Jonsbo D30)
Audio Device(s) FiiO K7 Desktop DAC/Amp + Philips Fidelio X3 headphones, or ARTTI T10 Planar IEMs
Power Supply ADATA XPG CORE Reactor 650 W 80+ Gold ATX
Mouse Roccat Kone Pro Air
Keyboard Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro L
Software Windows 10 64-bit Home Edition
The Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection launched last Thursday (March 14), with day one adoptees experiencing a plethora of issues. Player feedback and press coverage painted an ugly picture—an unreasonable install size of 70+ GB was an immediate point of discussion, considering the lo-fi origins of the Collection's graphical assets. Players were greeted with a low number of servers, and in-game sessions were often interrupted by crashes and other bugs—at the time of writing, overall Steam feedback (from 5315 user submitted reviews) is "Overwhelmingly Negative." The Embracer Group-owned development house is also under fire due to alleged uncredited usage of modder content—iamashaymin's character reskins were present in the PlayStation 5 build, but promptly removed by a post-launch patch update.

Aspyr quickly responded to community feedback—their support department stated: "we'd like to thank the Battlefront community for their overwhelming support and feedback for the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection release. 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. 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. Please continue to report bugs, errors, or unexpected behaviors to our support team via our Request Form." Aspyr's licensing partner, Lucasfilm Games, has not issued a statement on this situation.




Play the classic STAR WARS Battlefront games on modern consoles, online and offline in this complete classic collection.


Fight in iconic battles from across the STAR WARS galaxy.

View at TechPowerUp Main Site | Source
 
Joined
Jul 7, 2019
Messages
974 (0.47/day)
I still want to know what justifies 70+GB when both games combined was only around 3-4GB. Did they just poorly upscale everything with bloated textures?
 
Joined
Dec 16, 2017
Messages
3,036 (1.15/day)
System Name System V
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
Motherboard ASRock X670E Pro Rs
Cooling Deepcool AK620 // a bunch of 120 mm Xigmatek 1500 RPM fans (2 ins, 3 outs)
Memory 2x16GB Kingston 6400MT CL32
Video Card(s) Gigabyte AORUS Radeon RX 580 8 GB
Storage SHFS37A240G / DT01ACA200 / ST10000VN0008 / ST8000VN004 / SA400S37960G / SNV21000G / NM620 2TB
Display(s) LG 22MP55 IPS Display
Case NZXT Source 210
Audio Device(s) Logitech G430 Headset
Power Supply XPG Core Reactor 750 W
Software Whatever build of Windows 11 is being served in Canary channel at the time.
I still want to know what justifies 70+GB when both games combined was only around 3-4GB. Did they just poorly upscale everything with bloated textures?
Textures seem to have been upscaled 400% and all assets are not compressed, it seems.

Someone on Twitter also mentioned that there was a number of things that apparently serve no purpose for the game and are just sitting there, unused.
 
Joined
Sep 15, 2015
Messages
1,110 (0.32/day)
Location
Latvija
System Name Fujitsu Siemens, HP Workstation
Processor Athlon x2 5000+ 3.1GHz, i5 2400
Motherboard Asus
Memory 4GB Samsung
Video Card(s) rx 460 4gb
Storage 750 Evo 250 +2tb
Display(s) Asus 1680x1050 4K HDR
Audio Device(s) Pioneer
Power Supply 430W
Mouse Acme
Keyboard Trust
It's EA schemers.
 
Joined
Sep 15, 2011
Messages
6,918 (1.41/day)
Processor Intel® Core™ i7-13700K
Motherboard Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX
Cooling Noctua NH-D15
Memory 32GB(2x16) DDR5@6600MHz G-Skill Trident Z5
Video Card(s) ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 AMP Holo
Storage 2TB SK Platinum P41 SSD + 4TB SanDisk Ultra SSD + 500GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD
Display(s) Acer Predator X34 3440x1440@100Hz G-Sync
Case NZXT PHANTOM410-BK
Audio Device(s) Creative X-Fi Titanium PCIe
Power Supply Corsair 850W
Mouse Logitech Hero G502 SE
Software Windows 11 Pro - 64bit
Benchmark Scores 30FPS in NFS:Rivals
This game is a disaster. They basically didn't do anything to it. Except removing a mandatory feature, such as "Inverted Y axis for the mouse". Cannot believe in 2024 those lazy devs still fail to introduce this absolutely mandatory feature for games.
Also, textures are junk, characters are as low poly as it gets, only thing that was updates was the cinematics to 4K. The rest, same or identical to the original. Even no options, except the crappy FXAA, for the Antialiasing. Really ?!?!?
Anyways, I had to refund the game due to no Y axis invert option for the mouse, which is a complete deal breaker for any games out there without this mandatory option.
 
Top