Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Is Now 'Completely Unplayable' on PC Thanks to Hackers

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 PC players are flooding Reddit, the authoritative EA forums, and present besides IGN's tipline with complaints that the game's assorted online modes, particularly Galactic Assault, person been rendered "completely unplayable" owed to hackers.

According to station aft station aft station connected Reddit and the EA authoritative forums, the ongoing contented is being caused by a hack that prevents PC players successful online 40-player modes (especially Galactic Assault, but much precocious besides Supremacy) from spawning in, rendering matches wholly unplayable. Co-op and different modes with smaller groups of players look to beryllium unaffected.

Complaints astir hackers successful Battlefront 2 are thing new, of course, with posts astir the circumstantial hack successful question going backmost months, adjacent years. Many of the posts property the hacks to idiosyncratic going by "Blix", who would often station successful hacked matches taunting players and promising to "torment" Battlefront 2 players.

Annoying arsenic these hacks were, though, historically it's been elemental capable for players to permission immoderate impacted lobby and find a caller one, oregon hold until the hackers successful question were offline to play. Now, that seems to nary longer beryllium the case. Players are claiming that the concern has worsened successful caller weeks to the constituent wherever it's astir intolerable to get a lobby without hackers having disabled the game. Some posts suggest that this whitethorn beryllium owed to an updated mentation of the hack - before, it seems to person required a hacker actively beryllium online to articulation the crippled and ruin the lobby from within. Now, however, fans are claiming the hackers person efficaciously made the hack automatically load successful each azygous lucifer oregon lobby, astatine each hours of the day, meaning determination simply nary mode to play either crippled mode.

What's worse, immoderate players are reporting that the hacker(s) are posting cruel, bigoted, oregon inappropriate messages successful the chat of affected lobbies, and are adjacent impersonating an EA admin account. Others are pointing retired that it's intolerable to study the players doing this, arsenic their names look to beryllium hidden from the scoreboard.

What's particularly frustrating for Battlefront 2 PC fans is that this is hardly the archetypal clip they've struggled with hackers that wholly disabled their quality to play. Back successful 2022, a antithetic hack circulated that made full lobbies of characters unkillable, frankincense rendering games wholly pointless. Like the existent hack, the contented persisted for months and worsened implicit time, until yet players began reporting not being capable to find a azygous unaffected match. EA did yet hole the problem, but it took months connected extremity of instrumentality complaints to get it to that point.

The EA forums are presently overflowing with players complaining astir the concern going backmost implicit the past week, but frankincense acold there's been nary effect from EA. IGN has reached retired to EA for remark connected the situation. For now, beauteous overmuch the lone recourse Battlefront 2 fans person is to play connected console if it's an enactment for them, arsenic console lobbies stay blissfully unimpacted.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. You tin find her posting connected BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].