STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection

I am not an expert reviewer, but I want to add my 2 cents because of the review bombing this game has had. Like many of the people playing here bf1 and 2 were my favorites games back when they came out. I have probably played those games in the hundreds or thousands of hours when I was in school. I still enjoyed playing these games on steam because I no longer have my console. The other versions of these games which are on steam are much cheaper and smaller downloads. However, they are somewhat buggy. They don't play super well on steam deck and the vehicles tend to fly around rather than driving smoothly. This causes me to steer clear of any vehicle maps on the other versions. When I heard the SWBFCC came out I was excited, but decided to steer clear because of the backlash it received. I purchased this on 10% off sale during the Winter 2024 sale. I was weary of the reviews, but I noticed that among the negative reviews most people are not using any detail or explaining specific issues. Most are simply bashing the game. Some reviews due make valid points however which I will list. I will add what my experience was after playing for a while and completing a game of galactic conquest. 1. Graphics glitches: From what I can see its a couple of floating droids and a few glitched textures in the skybox. 2. Download size: It is a bigger download than the other two games sold separately but is currently at 30 gigs when I checked at the time of this review which I think is less than at launch. 3. Multiplayer not working: Multiplayer appears unpopulated at the time of me playing. 4. Ai: The AI is not great, but not very different than I can remember from playing the older versions of this game. In BF1 the enemy AI will instantly jump away if you snipe at them and BF2 the AI will stand in your way as you attack enemies. The AI has never been great, but is certainly not any worse in this collection. I did find one annoying issue. If you unlock the award rifle and respawn, you do not have to option to switch to it. This essentially makes it impossible to use the base weapon if you unlock the award weapons. You spawn with the award weapon in hand rather than the base weapon. Not a serious issue and it can be circumnavigated if you dont like the award weapons. For example I don't like the beam rifle which is unlocked for the sniper class. There are certainly some issues with this collection, but none are gamebreaking in my opinion. I will take a guess as to why this game has so many low reviews. Again I didn't play at launch so some issues may be patched out at the time of this writing. OPINION: I think neither the fans nor the developer are necessarily to blame. The dev probably thought this would be a simple task, just get a version of the game up and running and work out some glitches and technical support, add controller support, steam deck support, splitscreen etc. They probably did not expect the waves of fans flocking to this game for its immense nostalgia and fun. And of course these fans are scarred from the complete destruction of the star wars franchise in nearly all aspects over the last several years. Polarizing movies, games and disrespect to this franchise have nearly brought star wars to its end. But this game predates that. Fans are tired of being mistreated and a mishandling of battlefront would be a major violation. What I can say is at the time of me playing, is that its not too bad. It certainly fixing issues from the other versions currently available online, particularly vehicle combat and flying. Im excited that I can use my steamdeck dock to play this with controllers on the tv like I did years ago. There are quirks, but many of them existed in the original game which I loved. It upsets me that this game got the rap that it did. I would love to see development continue. It would be great if we could get more improvements to the UI, more maps crossed between 1 and 2, and maybe a map pack.