The Battlefront Classic Collection, released last week, received some absolutely scathing reviews and quickly landed at the bottom of Steam users' ratings list: an ominously red rating of “Overwhelmingly Negative.” But perhaps there is light at the end of the Death Star trench run?
Aspyr today released the first patch for the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, bringing a number of changes, optimizations and fixes to the collection. That's only to be expected – both games in the package were massively undervalued – but what's even more surprising is that the community seems to have greeted the patch with some cautious optimism.
Over on the Battlefront subreddit, fans were pleasantly surprised by the scope of the patch's fixes: “A good sign for the future,” reads one user's widely upvoted post Carter Davison“Another 1-3 of these and I think it’s in a solid place.”
“Rise of the Empire cutscenes fixed?” That’s great news. “This along with the reverse repair and the invisible walls were important repairs that I needed,” reads a response from GeneralChaz9“Faith will be restored.”
Other reactions strike the same pleasantly surprised tone, with players particularly pleased with fixes for the collection's oft-complained texture errors, lack of Y-axis reversal option, crashes, and audio glitches.
“This is exactly what we needed! I wish they had told us sooner. Literally fixes all major issues,” writes a Reddit user named jayL21.
To be clear, not all players are ready to sweep Aspyr's sins under the rug with the Battlefront Classic Collection. A post on the game's Steam forums titled “We owe Aspyr an apology” elicited numerous responses from players, all of which basically boil down to “No, we don't.”
To be honest – and this may be the only time in my life I'll say this – I agree with Steam forum users on this issue. If Aspyr can get Battlefront back on track that's fantastic, but there's no real excuse for the poor state it launched in.
Also, no one told me why the hell the game takes up 62.87GB of my SSD. In fact, this size appears to have increased to 62.88GB after this patch.
Aspyr also has yet to fix any issues with the game's aim acceleration or address the issue of a modder's work making its way into the game after the company specifically announced it would.
Maybe it's saving that for the next patch it's supposedly “planning” for. Additionally, the studio says it is “continuing to make server-side adjustments to improve the online multiplayer experience,” which should hopefully continue to alleviate some of the many multiplayer issues people have been having.
Here are the full patch notes:
Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Update 1 patch notes
Multiplayer
- [BF2] Fixed a crash related to sending client messages.
- [BF2] Fixed an issue where the startup prompt would appear after a timeout or selecting Cancel when joining a server.
- [BF1][BF2] Fixed an issue where password-protected games would no longer appear via the Quick Match option.
Control systems
- [BF1] Fixed a crash when entering the split-screen menu in BF1 where Player 1 was incorrectly assigned to Player 2.
- [BF2] Fixed a crash that occurred when attempting to build fleets while using the mouse and keyboard in Galactic Conquest on BF2.
- [BF2] Fixed bonuses being able to be highlighted in the Bonus Selection screen in Galactic Conquest.
- [BF1][BF2] The Reverse Y Axis option is now visible.
- [BF1][BF2] Fixed the “Invert X Axis” and “Swap LS and RS” options so that they were no longer hidden
- [BF1][BF2] Split-screen games can now be started with only one controller connected.
Visuals
- [BF1] Fixed an issue where the “L” key prompt would overlap the top arrow in the instant action menu.
- [BF1] Fixed an issue in multiplayer that caused AI units to slip when not in direct line of sight of a human player.
- [BF2] Fixed an issue where the magnified scope crosshair image did not fit correctly on widescreen displays.
- [BF2] Fixed an issue where hit VFX and hit character animations could not be seen by clients in Hero Attack Mode. (Long range).
- [BF2] Fixed textures on the Utapau map.
- [BF2] Fixed an issue on the Kamino map in BF2 where the lights and bloom VFX within it were not displaying correctly.
- [BF2] Fixed an issue on the Endor: Bunker map in BF2 where a tree would stick out in the middle of a walkway.
- [BF2] Fixed an issue where a seam was visible in the skybox on some maps in Battlefront 2.
- [BF2] Fixed an issue on the Naboo map in BF2 where the railing texture was missing.
- [BF2] Fixed an issue on space maps in BF2 where there was a small white cube at the base of all opening doors on Republic, CIS and Rebel capital ships.
- [BF2] Fixed an issue in the Galactic Conquest screen in BF2 where a player's name and balance would be obscured by bonus fields on the Bonus tab.
- [BF2] Fixed an issue where the ESC menu would remain on screen when opened at the end of a game.
- [BF2] Fixed an issue in Galactic Conquest where the lightsaber icon hilt was not displaying the leader bonus.
- [BF2] Fixed unit sliding after respawn on XL maps.
- [BF2] Fixed the jetpack display so that it is correctly aligned.
- [BF2][Split screen] Fixed the ammo counter reticle to fit into the aiming reticle.
- [BF1][BF2] The color blindness mode selection screen no longer overlaps with the text at the bottom of the screen.
- The End Game and Register Game buttons are now correctly aligned.
Hero Attack
- Asajj Ventress's abilities have been rebalanced
- Fixed the Kit Fisto lightsaber animation.
- Fixed an issue where Kit Fisto's Force power would no longer hang on the client in multiplayer.
Audio
- [BF1][Audio] Battlefront 1 loading screen sounds have been fixed.
- [BF2] Fixed a crash that occurred when an audio output device was disconnected.
- [BF2] Fixed playing music on multiple maps in Hero Assault mode.
- [BF2] Fixed the blaster SFX for certain hero characters' weapons to play at the correct volume.
- [BF1][BF2] Fixed an issue that caused audio outputs to be reversed.
Other notable bug fixes
- [BF1] Fixed the soft locks when exiting the game on the victory screen.
- [BF1] A bridge in Bespin: Cloud City has been repaired so that a Droideka can roll on it.
- [BF2] Naboo Area 3's respawn blocker has been fixed.
- [BF2] Fixed collision issues affecting multiple maps.
- [BF2] The Attack game mode has been corrected and is now available in the Mode section of the Select Search Options menu.
- [BF2] Reinforcements have been corrected to correctly deduct 1 reinforcement if the Republic or Rebels die on the Death Star.
- [BF2] Fixed map and mode settings reset button.
- [BF1][BF2] The “Loading Error” error that occurred when loading a profile has been fixed.
