Aspyr Media may have used the work of a modder and not credited the owner for the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection.
Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection was released last week for PS5, Xbox Series From network stability issues to game crashes to a lack of servers to even play the online game, the Classic collection has had a rocky launch, with the Steam version now with an “overwhelmingly negative” label.
Although Aspyr has since promised to update its remastered collection, the studio has now found itself in more controversy after a modder claimed their work was stolen (via GameRadar) despite earlier to report that the game will not contain “any code or content derived from uncredited sources”.
This claim comes from mud iamashaimin on Steam who said that the mods they made for the original PC version of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 were featured in the PS5 and Switch versions of the collection at launch, but that Aspyr “quickly fixed them”.
However, the footage was able to be captured before the patch and the Modder has claimed that one of their mods was present on the PS5 version, transforming Jedi Aayla Secura into the character Asajj Ventress, which was originally only playable on Xbox.
The most notable clue was the different attack animations for the character, which were shared on Reddit. When this was brought to Iamashaymin’s attention, the modder responded to the post saying, “It should be noted that I am not credited in this version or any version of the Classic Collection.”
Ventress doesn’t have OG animations by r/StarWarsBattlefront
Iamashaymin has also since had one after on X (formerly Twitter) who called out Aspyr for allegedly stealing their work, explaining that they could datamine the game and find their own mod files.
“Seriously, @AsyprMedia I’m starting to feel offended,” iamashaymin said. “Nintendo Switch launched with all my hero stuff from my mod. Same glitches and bugs. We datamined it and it’s the exact same files, just using the correct lightsaber attack animes (animations). (This is before the patch). “
The post was also accompanied by more footage, this time of Jedi Kit Fisto, another character they adapted in the PC version of Battlefront 2runs on the Nintendo Switch.
The Modder shared more evidence in the thread, including screenshots from 2020 showing their work on recreating Fisto’s projectile bubble attack, saying: “It’s hard to make out in the video because it’s in motion, but trust it’s the same is.”
Aspyr has not yet responded to the allegations.
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