Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Review (The Guy)
At the moment, this is a severe downgrade from the original versions of the game.
A small list of the issues that I can remember
Multiplayer
- Every Multiplayer host and client has to go through a middleman, which significantly increases latency, causing rubber-banding all over the place. On a server that is in the same room as me, I get 70 ping.
- Every Multiplayer host has to synchronously wait for the middleman to respond, causing significant framerate drops down to less than the tick rate in frames per second.
- The tickrate is immutable, even though it is internally mutable
- Nowhere does the game describe which ports to forward for the dedicated server, making this knowledge esoteric, and requiring the user to reverse engineer, or use external tools to discover (the answer is 5055 and 5056.)
- There is no way to run the dedicated server without locking up your steam account, making it impossible to play on your own dedi without two steam accounts which own the game. As described, before, hosting the server in non-dedicated mode may tank your framerate.
- Filling the name of a dedicated server creates a strange bug in which you cannot launch the game, and the selected maps get deleted
- "Naboo" is a banned work
- The “Sort By” options on the server browser are nonfunctional
- Searching by name on the server browser allows you to input less text than the length of a server name can be
Gameplay
- You are unable to un-invert the flight controls.
- The game still uses archaic input libraries, making mouselook feel latent and terrible.
- Mods for the original games are only partially supported (though this seems to be by accident.), meaning that many mods are unplayable, which unfortunately limits the selection of content the game offers significantly.
- The graphical upgrade is less than that of mods for the original, for 40 more gb than it's worth (not that I care about the size of the game, but some might)
- The updated console-derived UIs are insanely buggy. I would much prefer the original PC UIs, since they were highly functional in comparison.
- Rhen Var crashes the game in BF1
Besides all of this, it's just the xbox version of Battlefront with some pc features turned on, at it's core. If you enjoy Battlefront, you will at the very least enjoy single player/instant action.
I would love to see the following additional features in updates:
- Multiplayer Galactic Conquest (coop or competitive); yes, I want to spend 3 hours ruling the galaxy with my bros
- The original PC UI. It wasn't buggy, and was much more functional