Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 on Switch was a large number from the beginning. Like the unique recreation’s buggy and incomplete launch again in 2004, final 12 months’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 not be getting the free Restoration Content DLC they had been beforehand promised.
The studio behind the port, Aspyr, delivered the unhealthy information late Friday night time, telling Switch homeowners 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 mainly the unofficial “final cut” of Obsidian Entertainment’s wonderful RPG, and Switch gamers will now primarily miss out on it, regardless of the very fact it was beforehand marketed alongside the port’s 2022 launch.
“Sadly, today we are announcing that the Restoration Content DLC for the Nintendo Switch version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords will not be moving forward for release,” the studio tweeted on June 2. “We’d like to thank everyone for their continued support by providing a complimentary video game key to players that purchased Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords on Nintendo Switch before this announcement.”
The video games impacted gamers can select from embody the next checklist of different Star Wars ports Aspyr has labored on:
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords (PC)
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Switch)
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Switch)
- Star Wars: Republic Commando (Switch)
- Star Wars: Episode I Racer (Switch)
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight Academy (Switch)
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast (Switch)
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The first recreation on the checklist is the PC model of KOTOR 2 which does embody the Restoration Content DLC, although when you solely personal a Switch that’s not going that will help you a lot. And as some gamers have identified, it’s not clear how the studio will make it as much as these who would possibly already personal all of those video games already, which with regards to Star Wars followers isn’t a completely unlikely state of affairs.
Things simply aren’t going Aspyr’s means in the intervening time, it appears. The Austin-based studio behind a bunch of in any other case first rate Star Wars ports and remasters was bought by Embracer for $450 million in 2021. That similar 12 months it introduced a remake of the primary Knights of the Old Republic at a PS5 showcase that instantly generated tons of pleasure. A 12 months later Bloomberg reported that the venture was already operating into hassle and can be moved to a totally new studio below the Embracer umbrella.
Asked concerning the standing of the sport on the mum or dad firm’s latest earnings presentation, CEO Lars Wingefors responded with an exasperated “no comment.”
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