A modder who believes their uncredited work was included in Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection says the whole experience has been a “gut-punch”.
Although developer Aspyr had insisted that the Collection “does not include any code or content that is taken from uncredited sources”, modder iamashaymin found their mod had not only been included in the Collection’s debut trailer – something Aspyr said was done “mistakenly” – but also in the final game, too.
“This release has been a total mess. The fact they had to release patches both before and immediately after releasing two-decade old games really says it all,” iamashaymin told IGN. “Especially considering part of the patches is rumoured to have removed content they had already said was removed months ago.
“There’s not really anything else I can say that other players aren’t already screaming, it’s a terrible feeling getting very pumped for a game like this and it just missing the mark entirely. It’s a terrible gut punch.”
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I am not in the Credits @AspyrMedia— iamashaymin (@iamashaymin) March 14, 2024
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Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection continues to fight growing dissatisfaction from players complaining of bugs and a poor online multiplayer.
Consequently, the modding community was “ready the moment [Aspyr] announced the game”, not least because modders “noticed a lot of visual problems as well, decompiling the files has only shown us even worse horrors”.
“We were hoping for improvements we could take advantage of to make better and, of course, would be ready to port and redevelop our modded content to work with the new games. A lot of players in general were hoping for general bug fixes anyway, such as a very famous issue where on Death Star, one of the team’s reinforcements ticket count would deplete at twice the rate and voicelines that wouldn’t ever play due to a simple typo,” iamashaymin explained.