Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic 2 on Swap was a multitude from the beginning.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 inconceivable 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 have 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 assist for a collection 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 “remaining lower” of Obsidian Leisure’s wonderful RPG, and Swap gamers will now primarily miss out on it, regardless of the very fact it was beforehand marketed alongside the port’s 2022 launch.
“Sadly, at this time we’re asserting that the Restoration Content material DLC for the Nintendo Swap model of Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic II – The Sith Lords is not going to be shifting ahead for launch,” the studio tweeted on June 2. “We’d prefer to thank everybody for his or her continued assist by offering a complimentary online game key to gamers that bought Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic II – The Sith Lords on Nintendo Swap earlier than this announcement.”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 embrace the next checklist 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Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic II – The Sith Lords (PC) Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic (Swap) Star Wars: The Power Unleashed (Swap) Star Wars: Republic Commando (Swap) Star Wars: Episode I Racer (Swap) Star Wars: Jedi Knight Academy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 checklist is the PC model of KOTOR 2 which does embrace the Restoration Content material DLC, although when you 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 those that would possibly already personal all of those video games already, which relating to Star Wars followers isn’t a wholly unlikely situation.
Issues simply aren’t going Aspyr’s means in the mean 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 very same 12 months it introduced a remake of the primary Knights of the Outdated Republic at a PS5 showcase that instantly generated tons of pleasure. A 12 months later Bloomberg reported that the mission was already working into bother and could be moved to a totally new studio below the Embracer umbrella.
Requested in regards to the standing of the sport on the mum or dad firm’s current earnings presentation, CEO Lars Wingefors responded with an exasperated “no remark.”
