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” attributable to hackers.
Based on publish after publish after publish on Reddit and the EA official boards, the continued challenge is being brought on by a hack that stops PC gamers in on-line 40-player modes (particularly Galactic Assault, however extra not too long ago additionally Supremacy) from spawning in, rendering matches totally 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 in regards to the particular hack in query going again months, even years. Most of the posts attribute the hacks to somebody going by “Blix”, who would continuously publish 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 not be the case. Gamers are claiming that the state of affairs has worsened in latest weeks to the purpose the place it is nearly unimaginable to get a foyer with out hackers having disabled the sport. Some posts counsel that this can be attributable to an up to date model of the hack – earlier than, it appears to have required a hacker actively be on-line to affix the sport and smash the foyer from inside. Now, nevertheless, 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, that means there merely no strategy to play both sport mode.
What’s worse, some gamers 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 declaring that it is unimaginable to report the gamers doing this, as their names look like 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 potential to play. Again in 2022, a special hack circulated that made whole lobbies of characters unkillable, thus rendering video games totally pointless. Like the present hack, the difficulty continued for months and worsened over time, till finally gamers started reporting not having the ability to discover a single unaffected match. EA did finally repair the issue, nevertheless it took months on finish of fan complaints to get it to that time.
The EA boards are at the moment overflowing with gamers complaining in regards to the state of affairs going again during the last week, however to this point there’s been no response from EA. IGN has reached out to EA for touch upon the state of affairs. For now, just about the one recourse Battlefront 2 followers have is to play on console if it is an possibility for them, as console lobbies stay blissfully unimpacted.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You will discover her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Obtained a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.
