Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Review (Kamaji)
3/14/24
First hour of launch.
Only have 3 servers to join. Massing about 200 people rounded up. Seriously. Wtf is this? I'll update this review if I can actually join a lobby.
Update: Was only able to join one Hero's VS Villains match and the Hero's side was completely broken. No one could join the Hero's team which resulted in no one to fight against. I figured this may have been just a BF2 issue so I hopped on over to play BF1 multiplayer. There's 0 servers up for BF1. Wow.
Seriously. How hard is it to launch a WORKING FUNCTIONING GAME. I'll continue to update this review as time goes on.
3/15/24 Update 2: They added a bunch of servers. Here's the problem. Actually, here's several.
Shots that you hit players with wont register at all. Every player is popping in and out everywhere to the point where you will just die randomly. Swimming through molasses would be smoother than multiplayer combat. Matches end in about 2 minutes tops due to the such small amount of tickets required to win (Whoever made the official servers set that low requirement for some reason).
The "Quick match" button never works to the point where you're forced to manually join servers that always have incorrect player counts. Servers that say they are full most likely aren't, and servers that aren't most likely are. The aforementioned issue with the other team not being able to spawn in is still there, meaning matches are permanently broken until the enemy team just takes all the flags forcing a new round to begin. There's also pretty noticeable input lag on both controller and mouse and keyboard (I tried both).
That's all of note from me. More bugs discovered than fixed. I hope they fix these server issues because good GOD is it disgustingly bad.
The only good thing I can say about this collection is the smooth single player framerate and gameplay. I've personally heard of bad experiences happening there such as the aforementioned input lag and the occasional crash, though I've had a wonderful experience playing singleplayer. No issues that I can personally protest.
Even with the solid singleplayer experience (on my end), this game is FAR from being worth $30.
If patches are made and the multiplayer is fixed, I'll gladly turn this review around. I'll continue updating this review if any significant changes are made.