Star Wars: Battlefront 2 PC gamers are flooding Reddit, the official EA boards, and now additionally IGN’s tipline with complaints that the sport’s numerous on-line modes, particularly Galactic Assault, have been rendered “fully unplayable” due to hackers.
In accordance to put up after put up after put up on Reddit and the EA official boards, the continuing situation is being attributable to a hack that forestalls PC gamers in on-line 40-player modes (particularly Galactic Assault, however extra not too long ago additionally Supremacy) from spawning in, rendering matches solely unplayable. Co-op and different modes with smaller teams of gamers appear to be unaffected.
Complaints about hackers in Battlefront 2 are nothing new, in fact, with posts concerning the particular hack in query going again months, even years. Lots of the posts attribute the hacks to somebody going by “Blix”, who would steadily put up in hacked matches taunting gamers and promising to “torment” Battlefront 2 gamers.
Annoying as these hacks have been, although, traditionally it has been easy sufficient for gamers to go away any impacted foyer and discover a new one, or wait till the hackers in query have been offline to play. Now, that appears to now not be the case. Gamers are claiming that the scenario has worsened in current weeks to the purpose the place it is nearly unattainable to get a foyer with out hackers having disabled the sport. Some posts counsel that this can be due to an up to date model of the hack – earlier than, it appears to have required a hacker actively be on-line to be a part of the sport and wreck the foyer from inside. Now, nonetheless, followers are claiming the hackers have successfully made the hack mechanically load in each single match or foyer, in any respect hours of the day, which means there merely no method to play both sport mode.
What’s worse, some players are reporting that the hacker(s) are posting merciless, bigoted, or inappropriate messages within the chat of affected lobbies, and are even impersonating an EA admin account. Others are mentioning that it is unattainable to report the gamers doing this, as their names seem to be hidden from the scoreboard.
What’s particularly irritating for Battlefront 2 PC followers is that that is hardly the primary time they’ve struggled with hackers that fully disabled their means to play. Again in 2022, a unique hack circulated that made whole lobbies of characters unkillable, thus rendering video games solely pointless. Like the present hack, the difficulty persevered for months and worsened over time, till ultimately gamers started reporting not having the ability to discover a single unaffected match. EA did ultimately repair the issue, but it surely took months on finish of fan complaints to get it to that time.
The EA boards are at the moment overflowing with players complaining about the situation going again during the last week, however so far there’s been no response from EA. IGN has reached out to EA for remark on the scenario. For now, just about the one recourse Battlefront 2 followers have is to play on console if it is an choice for them, as console lobbies stay blissfully unimpacted.
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