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 “utterly unplayable” on account of hackers.
According to put up after put up after put up on Reddit and the EA official boards, the continued situation is being attributable to a hack that stops PC gamers in on-line 40-player modes (particularly Galactic Assault, however extra just lately additionally Supremacy) from spawning in, rendering matches fully 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. Many of the posts attribute the hacks to somebody going by “Blix”, who would continuously 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 depart 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. Players are claiming that the state of affairs has worsened in latest weeks to the purpose the place it is nearly inconceivable to get a foyer with out hackers having disabled the sport. Some posts counsel that this can be on account of 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 spoil the foyer from inside. Now, nevertheless, followers are claiming the hackers have successfully made the hack robotically load in each single match or foyer, in any respect hours of the day, which means there merely no option 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 stating that it is inconceivable 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 utterly disabled their skill to play. Back in 2022, a unique hack circulated that made whole lobbies of characters unkillable, thus rendering video games fully pointless. Like the present hack, the problem persevered 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 present overflowing with players complaining about the situation going again over the past week, however to date 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 can discover her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a narrative tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.
