February 10, 2021 And it's gone.
The classic version of Star Wars Battlefront 2 has had its first patch in three years reverted after it broke aspects of the old PC game. A post on Steam simply reads: "reverting to the previous version". Yeah, we guess there's not much more to say than that, really. Original story follows.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 - as in the original, from 2005 - has already gotten a surprising number of updates to keep it viable on modern machines. A surprise hotfix landed today, adding proper controller support and better UI scaling at higher resolutions. A pleasant surprise, right? Well, it seems there are a fair few issues with the update, and the patch is causing more frustration than celebration among players.
The official announcement simply says that the hotfix "addresses a number of issues with graphic resolution and controller support in the game". As players have found, the update has overhauled the menus to allow you to navigate them with a controller - something not previously possible on PC - and scales up the UI, which had started to appear miniscule at modern resolutions.
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