Released last week, "Battlefront Classic Collection" quickly fell to the bottom of Steam's user ratings with an ominous red "overwhelmingly negative" rating. But could there be light beyond the trenches of the Death Star?

Aspyr released the first patch for the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection earlier today, bringing a series of changes, tweaks, and fixes to the collection. This was to be expected, as both of the two games in the collection were significantly reworked, but what was more surprising was that the community seems to have greeted the patch with near cautious optimism.

On the Battlefront subreddit, fans are pleasantly surprised by the scope of the patch's fixes: in a "Bodes well for the future" post by user CarterDavison, "1-3 more of these and I think it's in a solid place."

"Rise of the Empire cutscenes fixed?" Great news. Along with the invert fix and the invisible wall, it was the major fix I needed." Read the reply from GeneralChaz9: "Trust is being restored."

Other responses have a similar tone of pleasant surprise, with players particularly pleased with the fixes to the collection's oft-lamented texture glitches, missing Y-axis flip option, crashes, and audio bugs.

"This is exactly what we needed! I just wish you would have told us about it sooner. Literally all the major issues are fixed," wrote Reddit user jayL21.

To be clear, players are not ready to clean up Aspyr's sins regarding the Battlefront Classic Collection. A post on the game's Steam forum titled "We owe Aspyr an apology" received many replies from players, all basically saying "No we don't". The content was.

Honestly, this may be the only thing I will ever say in my life, but I agree with the Steam forum users on this one: if Aspyr can get Battlefront back on track, that would be great, but there is no excuse for the shoddy state it was in at launch. There is no excuse for the shoddy state of Battlefront at launch.

Also, no one can tell me why on earth this game requires 62.87GB of my SSD. In fact, it seems to have increased to 62.88 GB after this patch.

Aspyr also has yet to fix the problem with the game's aiming acceleration.

Perhaps they are saving it for the next patch, which they say is currently "in the planning stages." In addition, the studio has said that they are "continuing to make server-side tweaks to improve the online multiplayer experience," which will hopefully continue to alleviate some of the many multiplayer complaints that people have had.

Here are the full patch notes:

Multiplayer

Control Scheme

Visuals

Hero Assault

Audio

Other notable bug fixes [35]