After a historically bad launch, Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection's first patch has fans cautiously optimistic: 'Faith is being restored'
The Battlefront Classic Collection released last week to some absolutely withering reviews, quickly spiralling all the way down to the bottom of the Steam user rating barrel: an ominously red «Overwhelmingly Negative» grading. But maybe there's light at the end of the Death Star trench run?
Aspyr released the first patch for the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection earlier today, bringing a suite of changes, tweaks and fixes to the collection. That's only to be expected—both games in the package were massively underbaked—but more surprising is that the community seems to have greeted the patch with something approaching cautious optimism.
Over on the Battlefront subreddit, fans have been pleasantly surprised by the scope of the patch's fixes: «Bodes well for the future,» reads a much-upvoted post by user CarterDavison, «1-3 more of these and I think it's in a solid place.»
«Rise of the Empire cutscenes fixed?» That's awesome news. That combined with the invert fix and invisible walls were major fixes I need," reads a reply from GeneralChaz9, «Faith is being restored.»
Other responses strike the same pleasantly surprised tone, with players particularly pleased by fixes for the collection's oft-lamented texture glitches, missing Y-axis inversion option, crashes, and audio bugs.
«This is exactly what we needed! Just wish they would have told us sooner. Literally fixes all the bigger issues,» writes a Reddit user named jayL21.
Let's be clear, players aren't all ready to sweep Aspyr's sins with the Battlefront Classic Collection under the rug. A post on the game's Steam forums titled "We owe Aspyr an apology" attracted numerous replies from players that all basically amount to «No we don't.»
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To be honest—and this may be the only time in my life I say this—I'm with Steam forums users on this one. If Aspyr can get Battlefront back on track that's fantastic, but there's not
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