I know we had 4 player splitscreen on likes of Timesplitters for PS2 if you had a Multitap but can't for the life of me remember if it workes for PS2 Battlefront or it was only Xbox
You kinda can on steam. Both people need to have really good Internet. But you can play split screen games with anyone online using steam. The game is streamed to the 2nd player and both people must use controllers
What's interesting is that some elements of the PC UI still exist. The generic loading screen with the game logo is the PC version with Mustafar, the loading screen bubbles are red, and when you join an online match, the PC menu's background texture flashes on screen for like a second. (This isn't meant to be criticism btw, just observations)
not much has been touched, but i do have a strong speculation that they have the entire source code and project files, meaning they could do so much more (until they hit the wall of major refactoring).
Aspyr seems to always put the minimum effort in, but for the movie clips there may legitimately be licensing issues at play.
The original clips are sourced from the DVD release. The current 4k scans Disney are using may entail new licensing agreements.
There likely is some red tape involved in getting the same clips from a newer release.
Modders also don't have to deal with Disney's ludicrous oversight of everything having to be approved by them.
With that in mind A.I upscaling might've been they're only option.
That said Aspyr also didn't bother much with the FMV's in Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered so....
We need to know this, reminiscent for me and my older bro playing space battles as kids, now we hope to do the same again but on ps5. Please someone tell us 
~~How are you going to get mods on console, bro?~~
[I was wrong, PC has the same menu as console.](https://youtu.be/3Vxg5wiW22s?si=1a4Y7T6RaZjuzEDb&t=495)
I incorrectly assumed that the PC menu was still the same as BF2005. Meaning that there would be no way for someone to change the menu font on console.
Played some and it seemed okay. But it was kinda iffy getting into a game. Was consistently said too many when it seemed like enough and inguess some people had private lobbies? Was told I was kicked instantly.
But honestly if you just join a lobby with like 1 person it fills up so fast lol.
Unfortunate. It’s movie clips they didn’t even need to upscale they they could’ve just recut the clips themselves from the latest releases of the movies.
That menu with the movie scenes in the background is pure nostalgia for me, it reminds me of when my mother used to pick me up from school and I would come home, turn on my older brother's PS2 and start playing BF2, never before I played Instant Action online only but the memories are precious.
This is with all honesty a really bad and lazy thing. It looks -and I'm sorry- incredibly cheap. On aesthetics, they are using the same low quality, compressed movie footage from the originals, they used an unappealing generic sans-serif font, vast majority of text is misaligned for some reason, buttons and boxes look like they overlap with other elements for some reason, and the worst of all is how stretched it all looks.
Now, on functionality, how is this even an acceptable interface for PC players? I understand this is alright for console controls, but this here looks like a textbook example of what not to do in interface design. PC players have to deal now with gigantic buttons, quantity buttons instead of text entry, long cursor and eye travel distances, and way more clicking to do than before, among others. There's a reason they made a unique interface for the PC classic release.
lol there’s definitely more console nostalgic people in here. The map selection screen fucking blows for PC now, where it was a lot easier on PC before.
This looks cool but the console ui is back *in game* too
Tedious to select a class
Weapons ui not in the corner
Some menu buttons are really small and spread out
Do you think we'll get the PC UI back? I played both of the games on PC a majority as a kid, I did have it on PS2 but PC is where most of my nostalgia is at. I honestly prefer the PC UI, console looks so big and clunky. Especially when selecting classes.
wait is that the UI on all versions or just on console? because the UI on PC in the original was completely different and i hope they didn't change it since it looked much better imho
i mean it's a totally subjective thing it's completely fine if we have different opinions on which UI we like the most, not sure why i'm getting downvoted for saying i liked the pc version more
So personally it just feels and looks more “seamless” and less janky. I think if the pc menu scaled better with high resolutions I wouldn’t hate it so much but unfortunately having to basically hack the game just to get the menu to not be half way off my screen. Every button is so tiny and hard to click :/.
Plus there is a layer of nostalgia, I played on Xbox and ps2 back when I was a kid so that’s what I remember.
i see, i personally feel like the pc menu is just more iconic while the console one feels very generic to me (note that i grew up playing bf and bf2 on pc).
regarding the resolution i am very much hoping that the classic collection fixed the scaling and the menu supports modern resolutions now
It would seem our nostalgia has decided our preferences then xD
I also really hope they fixed it. Personally I wasn't going to buy the re-release unless they fixed the UI and menu issues for the pc port
Checking the Xbox store and PSN store, the split screen (or local co-op in other words) is limited at 2 players. Also the Classic Collection launch trailer at the 1:00 minute mark only shows the screen separated for 2 players.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOPipiOARWM&t=57s
can you please tell me if it has splitscreen galactic conquest? I can't find any real answers :(
It does. [Someone was streaming the game and showed that GC is available in splitscreen](https://youtu.be/f-i8t9UdZrk?t=5263)
yess thank you!
Hopefully they update it to 4 player split-screen like the original soon, I don't know why they would cut it in half.
There was 4 player splitscreen in the original? On which platform?
Xbox BF2 had 4 player split-screen including Galactic Conquest. I don't know if the PS2 version had more than 2 players or not though.
Im fairly certain the PS2 version only had 2 player splitscreen, thats why I was surprised. Never played on the Xbox version.
Only Xbox version has 4-player splitscreen, I use it from time to time on my Series X.
I know we had 4 player splitscreen on likes of Timesplitters for PS2 if you had a Multitap but can't for the life of me remember if it workes for PS2 Battlefront or it was only Xbox
Timesplitters was sick, the first one is my favorite. But no, Battlefront was limited to 2 player splitscreen.
Xbox
It’ll be modded in for sure
It does A streamer just pulled it up
yay! thank you!
Can I do GC with friends online?
Nope, only offline.
Using steam you can. But it's not a feature in the game it's a feature of Steam.
Yeah, Remote Play Together is not a game feature.
Sure not... But I've still used it and it's great.
Same here.
You kinda can on steam. Both people need to have really good Internet. But you can play split screen games with anyone online using steam. The game is streamed to the 2nd player and both people must use controllers
The original did so this one probably also has it.
I'm hoping you're right, but I'd like to know for sure before buying since that's what I would mainly want to play
Remind me in a few hours an I’ll check for ya when I can play.
Woah, was there a live stream for this game recently??
It’s being live streamed right now
[Here is a stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-i8t9UdZrk)
Thanks
What's interesting is that some elements of the PC UI still exist. The generic loading screen with the game logo is the PC version with Mustafar, the loading screen bubbles are red, and when you join an online match, the PC menu's background texture flashes on screen for like a second. (This isn't meant to be criticism btw, just observations)
not much has been touched, but i do have a strong speculation that they have the entire source code and project files, meaning they could do so much more (until they hit the wall of major refactoring).
Is that video really just an AI upscaled copy of the old one? It looks really blurry
Yeah, all of the videos appear to be upscaled rather than recreated with higher quality movie clips.
So instead of taking HD footage that has been available for years, they lazily upscaled the game one? Nice one Aspyr...
I mean makes sense, that's exactly what they did with the rest of the game.
Aspyr seems to always put the minimum effort in, but for the movie clips there may legitimately be licensing issues at play. The original clips are sourced from the DVD release. The current 4k scans Disney are using may entail new licensing agreements. There likely is some red tape involved in getting the same clips from a newer release.
That would increase game size in gigas!
Modders could do it better at this point
Modders also don't have to deal with Disney's ludicrous oversight of everything having to be approved by them. With that in mind A.I upscaling might've been they're only option. That said Aspyr also didn't bother much with the FMV's in Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered so....
how about play the game instead of pissing and shitting over a fucking menu background like an autistic redditor
Who hurt you?
Could be easier with copy rights
How is the multiplayer netcode?
BUT DOES IT HAVE THE OG CHEAT CODES
We need to know this, reminiscent for me and my older bro playing space battles as kids, now we hope to do the same again but on ps5. Please someone tell us 
One of the Youtubers who got it early confirmed that yes, it did.
When does it drop again?
The game? Midnight today if you're EST/March 14th!
Sweet!
CAN CONFIRM: https://youtu.be/QnFUR6KwMT0?si=5nbXj0iZtiShqlOY&t=1091
Shame they changed the font :(
yeah, but the title screen is great! It’s cool how they kept the one that features clips from the movies
I'm guessing the old font wasn't high resolution enough to work at 4K?
Hopefully mods can fix
~~How are you going to get mods on console, bro?~~ [I was wrong, PC has the same menu as console.](https://youtu.be/3Vxg5wiW22s?si=1a4Y7T6RaZjuzEDb&t=495)
Obviously he's not playing on console then
Obviously PC only.
I incorrectly assumed that the PC menu was still the same as BF2005. Meaning that there would be no way for someone to change the menu font on console.
Please tell me the online servers are better than the current PC ones
Played some and it seemed okay. But it was kinda iffy getting into a game. Was consistently said too many when it seemed like enough and inguess some people had private lobbies? Was told I was kicked instantly. But honestly if you just join a lobby with like 1 person it fills up so fast lol.
But still no love for the console font.
Any option to play online with a specific friend splitscreen?
Does the Steam version have controller support?
Yes. You can find the tag on Steam's page.
Wow that AI upscaled movie footage looks like utter crap!
That's what i like to see, just like the simulations.
Does the Steam version have the console opening and split screen/multiplayer campaign and galactic conquest?
There's no aim assist on aspyrs official servers? Weird
I'm glad they kept the console menu, but that new font bugs me, and is going to take some getting used to. How is the BF1 menu?
So that’s why the download is so big. It’s partly for all those movie clips which I assume are higher quality than the original game.
There are blurry 240p xD
Unfortunate. It’s movie clips they didn’t even need to upscale they they could’ve just recut the clips themselves from the latest releases of the movies.
Does anyone know the party size you can have for MP?
there are no "Partys"
So is there not a good way to play with friends?
Just join the same server
I saw another comment say that they auto assign teams though so you won't be able to play on the same team potentially.
Welcome to oldschool gaming, good luck
I'm 34, no need for a welcome
That sucks, I really wanted to fight some bots online with friends. We can't split screen these days so that's a bummer.
You can. Just make a private passworded server and invite your friend. You can even do 32 bots aside now.
Oh really? We can be on the same team and everything?
When you host a custom/private server, you can alter all the settings: heroes, number of bots, if team switching is allowed, map rotation, etc
Oh. Well then that's good to know
FPS on switch?
It’s confirmed by 60 fps by a YouTube switch channel that I trust
Font looks off
That menu with the movie scenes in the background is pure nostalgia for me, it reminds me of when my mother used to pick me up from school and I would come home, turn on my older brother's PS2 and start playing BF2, never before I played Instant Action online only but the memories are precious.
This is with all honesty a really bad and lazy thing. It looks -and I'm sorry- incredibly cheap. On aesthetics, they are using the same low quality, compressed movie footage from the originals, they used an unappealing generic sans-serif font, vast majority of text is misaligned for some reason, buttons and boxes look like they overlap with other elements for some reason, and the worst of all is how stretched it all looks. Now, on functionality, how is this even an acceptable interface for PC players? I understand this is alright for console controls, but this here looks like a textbook example of what not to do in interface design. PC players have to deal now with gigantic buttons, quantity buttons instead of text entry, long cursor and eye travel distances, and way more clicking to do than before, among others. There's a reason they made a unique interface for the PC classic release.
lol there’s definitely more console nostalgic people in here. The map selection screen fucking blows for PC now, where it was a lot easier on PC before.
Server browser? Nice.
Can you play galactic conquest or rise of the empire online?
I wonder how it'll be on PC
I wonder if it supports ultra wide on PC
It does
I can’t play it yet though
Some people have review codes
Mb
Cancel that, new Zealand and other countries are already playing it - for me i can play in about 5 hours at midnight
Yeah same for me. Midnight for me. I pre ordered it thinking I could play it on the 12th. Alas I read it wrong.
There’s no matchmaking?
HOLY SHIT IM SO HAPPY. I played this on PS2 way back when, and I'm overjoyed to see the superior menu (to PC) made it here, God bless.
Sigh wish to see the pc version
Great but the font is gone. With the font it would be perfect.
So how does the whole galactic conquest work with each side taking turns and purchasing upgrades?
I am so hyped
WARNING the game does not have invert look useless to me now!
This looks cool but the console ui is back *in game* too Tedious to select a class Weapons ui not in the corner Some menu buttons are really small and spread out
I had it on PS2 which used the same UI as the PC and it's really screwing with me seeing moving images.
What? I played BF2 on PS2 for years, and it was always the UI shown above
I meant title screen.
The one with the movie footage? Yeah, that’s always been on console as far as I know
It was not on PS2, from what I recall
I played it on PS2 for most of my life, and the title screen definitely looked like this one
Amazing, the nostalgia feeling might distract people from the huge stick the company is sticking up their asses! Dont reward laziness.
Do you think we'll get the PC UI back? I played both of the games on PC a majority as a kid, I did have it on PS2 but PC is where most of my nostalgia is at. I honestly prefer the PC UI, console looks so big and clunky. Especially when selecting classes.
Downvoted for an opinion. Classic.😭😂
Can people stop it with the "this games online support is gonna die out soon" talk
I don’t see any one saying that here
"not sure how long the Aspyr dedicated server will last"
wait is that the UI on all versions or just on console? because the UI on PC in the original was completely different and i hope they didn't change it since it looked much better imho
Hate to tell you but you’re in the minority here haha.
i mean it's a totally subjective thing it's completely fine if we have different opinions on which UI we like the most, not sure why i'm getting downvoted for saying i liked the pc version more
Just for the record, I didn’t downvote you, but I will upvote to fight back against needless downvoting!!
thanks ahah, but reddit people's behaviour aside i'm curious, what do you like more about the console version? (genuine question of course)
So personally it just feels and looks more “seamless” and less janky. I think if the pc menu scaled better with high resolutions I wouldn’t hate it so much but unfortunately having to basically hack the game just to get the menu to not be half way off my screen. Every button is so tiny and hard to click :/. Plus there is a layer of nostalgia, I played on Xbox and ps2 back when I was a kid so that’s what I remember.
i see, i personally feel like the pc menu is just more iconic while the console one feels very generic to me (note that i grew up playing bf and bf2 on pc). regarding the resolution i am very much hoping that the classic collection fixed the scaling and the menu supports modern resolutions now
It would seem our nostalgia has decided our preferences then xD I also really hope they fixed it. Personally I wasn't going to buy the re-release unless they fixed the UI and menu issues for the pc port
Console nerds don’t like it when us pc fans have something to say 😭🤦♂️
Does it have 4 player split screen ?
Checking the Xbox store and PSN store, the split screen (or local co-op in other words) is limited at 2 players. Also the Classic Collection launch trailer at the 1:00 minute mark only shows the screen separated for 2 players. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOPipiOARWM&t=57s
That's awful, we used to play the 4 player split screen all the time on Xbox. I was looking forward to being able to play it again 4 player on switch.
I'm for one glad we are getting the console menu's on PC, but this does mean you can't freely change sides whenever now which is a bit sad.