There has been an alarming accusation thrown in the direction of Star Wars Battlefront, with an alleged alpha tester of the game claiming that it is fundamentally broken.
The claim was made by NeoGAF user Illucio, who wrote: “I’ve been Alpha testing a few games and I can say Battlefront is a complete mess and is broken. Considering that their deadline for the game is in a few weeks and they still haven’t fixed the majority of the in game problems let alone the connection problem me and other testers were having, yes it’s going to be a mess. And even a day 1 patch won’t fix all of them, I don’t know too much outside what I played, but the game is indeed rushed and it’s all because of Episode 7 releasing this December.
“And in retrospect I also tested black ops 3 which even though it had many problems, it was no where as bad as Battlefront.”
While this claim is unsubstantiated and is just the word of a man on the Internet (and, as we all know, Internet users have a habit of lying), many have expressed concerns that Battlefront being released to tie in with the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens could lead to EA rushing it out of the gate. EA COO Peter Moore has already claimed that this will not be the case, telling MCV that if the game is broken, the company will delay its release.
Battlefront appeared to be working fine in alpha gameplay footage uploaded to YouTube.
”Well you can’t ship it if it doesn’t work or the quality isn’t right… You just bite the bullet,” Moore said, continuing: “Trust me, shipping Hardline in March was not the easiest thing to do from a business perspective, but it was the right thing to do from a player perspective.
“We’d have no compunction, no hesitation that if something went wrong with Battlefront, if it wasn’t right, we would just push it.”
However, if this alleged alpha tester’s claims are to be believed, then the game will suffer from a troubled launch. For what it’s worth, footage of the game being played in its alpha stages has been uploaded to YouTube, and these clips suggest that it is working fine, though given the amount of games that tend to release with launch day problems these days (and EA/developer DICE’s own history), we’d still recommend against pre-ordering, though that is suggestible for any game after how many times we’ve been scorned by release day bugs, glitches, server troubles and countless other issues.
Hopefully the NeoGAF user’s claims are revealed to be untrue, and that Star Wars fans will be able to play a worthy addition to the Battlefront series when the game is released in November.
