Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic 2 on Swap was a large number from the beginning. Like the unique recreation’s buggy and incomplete launch again in 2004, final yr’s port to Nintendo’s handheld hybrid launched with a bug that made the sport unattainable to beat for some gamers. Subsequent patches added different points. And now gamers will now not be getting the free Restoration Content material DLC they had been beforehand promised.
The studio behind the port, Aspyr, delivered the unhealthy information late Friday night time, telling Swap house owners of the sport that the replace so as to add help for a sequence of fan-made mods that repair sure bugs and spherical out KOTOR 2‘s characters and tough ending had sadly been canceled. It’s principally the unofficial “ultimate minimize” of Obsidian Leisure’s wonderful RPG, and Swap gamers will now basically miss out on it, regardless of the actual fact it was beforehand marketed alongside the port’s 2022 launch.
“Sadly, at present we’re asserting that the Restoration Content material DLC for the Nintendo Swap model of Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic II – The Sith Lords won’t be transferring ahead for launch,” the studio tweeted on June 2. “We’d prefer to thank everybody for his or her continued help by offering a complimentary online game key to gamers that bought Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic II – The Sith Lords on Nintendo Swap earlier than this announcement.”
The video games impacted gamers can select from embody the next listing of different Star Wars ports Aspyr has labored on:
- Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic II – The Sith Lords (PC)
- Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic (Swap)
- Star Wars: The Power Unleashed (Swap)
- Star Wars: Republic Commando (Swap)
- Star Wars: Episode I Racer (Swap)
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight Academy (Swap)
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast (Swap)
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The primary recreation on the listing is the PC model of KOTOR 2 which does embody the Restoration Content material DLC, although for those who solely personal a Swap that’s not going that can assist you a lot. And as some gamers have identified, it’s not clear how the studio will make it as much as these who may already personal all of those video games already, which on the subject of Star Wars followers isn’t a wholly unlikely state of affairs.
Issues simply aren’t going Aspyr’s means for the time being, it appears. The Austin-based studio behind a bunch of in any other case respectable Star Wars ports and remasters was bought by Embracer for $450 million in 2021. That very same yr it introduced a remake of the primary Knights of the Outdated Republic at a PS5 showcase that instantly generated tons of pleasure. A yr later Bloomberg reported that the venture was already working into bother and can be moved to a very new studio beneath the Embracer umbrella.
Requested in regards to the standing of the sport on the dad or mum firm’s latest earnings presentation, CEO Lars Wingefors responded with an exasperated “no remark.”
