Star Wars: Battlefront Basic Assortment has suffered from its justifiable share of issues since launch. And now, developer Aspyr is offering some perception into why.
In response to Star Wars: Battlefront Basic Assortment’s “Overwhelmingly Negative” ranking on Steam, Aspyr thanked gamers for offering suggestions and acknowledged the sport has suffered from errors that, the corporate claims, it’s attempting to handle.
“At launch, we skilled essential errors with our community infrastructure,” Aspyr wrote on its web site. “The consequence was extremely excessive ping, matchmaking errors, crashes, and servers not showing within the browser.”
The corporate additionally stated “[we are] working to handle these points and improve community stability, and we’ll proceed our efforts till our community infrastructure is stabilized to stop additional outages.”
Star Wars: Battlefront Basic Assortment launched on Steam on Thursday (March 14). The sport consists of each Star Wars Battlefront 1 and Star Wars Battlefront 2, in addition to a number of extras, together with further characters and maps. Nonetheless, as quickly as the sport launched, gamers discovered a number of curious issues, together with the truth that it required 63GB of space for storing to put in, despite the fact that the person Battlefront 1 and Battlefront 2 video games solely required slightly greater than 7GB every to put in once they initially launched on Steam up to now.
If gamers efficiently put in the video games on their machines, they discovered that solely 192 gamers may play concurrently, regardless of hundreds downloading at launch.
In at the moment’s assertion, Aspyr claims the servers have been there and able to accommodate gamers however weren’t “showing within the browser.” It’s additionally value noting that Aspyr didn’t point out the exceptionally excessive storage necessities for the sport, regardless of many gamers complaining of the issue.
However that’s not all. Different gamers have complained of their Steam opinions of the sport affected by audio issues and points with controllers not working correctly. These issues additionally weren’t addressed in Aspyr’s assertion.
What’s unclear is what comes subsequent. Whereas Aspyr says it’s engaged on fixes, the corporate didn’t say when all the problems might be resolved. And it ended its assertion with a request from the Steam group to assist it discover extra issues.
“Please proceed to report bugs, errors, or surprising behaviors to our assist group through our request type,” stated the corporate.
We’ll replace hold you up to date on the most recent Star Wars: Battlefront Basic Assortment information as we hear it. Count on hands-on impressions from us quickly.