Aspyr is under fire over the disastrous launch of the highly anticipated Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, which is plagued with server issues, bugs, and more.
For those wondering if this is under exaggerated, it's not. Now my experience is on the Switch.
This issues I saw in my time before I got refunded was as follow. Texture Flickering and Shadow Flickering (hard to see as a screen shot so this is the worse I saw)
Textures that are still in 4:3 and not 16:9
Random Texture floating when they shouldn't be
The lighting failing on the Bridges on the Naboo Map
And the FMV's being so compressed you can see the compression artifacting (and this is a game that ~34GB)
But you're actually probably at least partly right. I'm sure they've done at least some upscaling and stored at a higher res which may actually take up more space.
Looking at the 34GB install, I’m guessing it’s some kind of massive emulation layer; it’s scary to say but I feel like we’ve just run out of game developers that can genuinely code against the machine itself to optimize install size and performance.
When you look back on the meager specs of old consoles and what they got running there, it now feels more and more impressive.
The controls are "fine" for the most part. If you were on an Xbox controller it would work. Space Battles in Battlefront II are an improvement, but the same treatment was never made to Battlefront 1. If I had to complain about anything, it's that the auto aim needs to be more sensitive and when you blast an enemy it auto locks on them like the console games. Mouse and keyboard this would be annoying but on controller it's necessary.
Well I’m glad you laying it out for us, I’ve got a better idea what I’m dealing with. And it really does miff me on how unnecessarily wasteful the game is with storage
Ditto, I sadly didn't go online so no comment there. Well I mean I tried once and I couldn't connect so I just jumped into instant action. But yeah the storage requirements are a bit unrealistic on Switch. I don't think you can even play it on OG switch without a Micro SD Card.