Star Wars: Battlefront 2 PC players are flooding Reddit, the official EA forums, and now also IGN's tipline with complaints that the game's various online modes, especially Galactic Assault, have been rendered "completely unplayable" due to hackers.
According to post after post after post on Reddit and the EA official forums, the ongoing issue is being caused by a hack that prevents PC players in online 40-player modes (especially Galactic Assault, but more recently also Supremacy) from spawning in, rendering matches entirely unplayable. Co-op and other modes with smaller groups of players seem to be unaffected.
Complaints about hackers in Battlefront 2 are nothing new, of course, with posts about the specific hack in question going back months, even years. Many of the posts attribute the hacks to someone going by "Blix", who would frequently post in hacked matches taunting players and promising to "torment" Battlefront 2 players.
Annoying as these hacks were, though, historically it's been simple enough for players to leave any impacted lobby and find a new one, or wait until the hackers in question were offline to play. Now, that seems to no longer be the case. Players are claiming that the situation has worsened in recent weeks to the point where it's almost impossible to get a lobby without hackers having disabled the game. Some posts suggest that this may be due to an updated version of the hack - before, it seems to have required a hacker actively be online to join the game and ruin the lobby from within. Now, however, fans are claiming the hackers have effectively made the hack automatically load in every single match or lobby, at all hours of the day, meaning there simply no way to play either game mode.
What's worse, some players are reporting that the hacker(s) are posting cruel, bigoted, or inappropriate messages in the chat of affected lobbies, and are even impersonating an EA admin account. Others are pointing out that it's impossible to report the players doing this, as their names appear to be hidden from the scoreboard.
What's especially frustrating for Battlefront 2 PC fans is that this is hardly the first time they've struggled with hackers that completely disabled their ability to play. Back in 2022, a different hack circulated that made entire lobbies of characters unkillable, thus rendering games entirely pointless. Like the current hack, the issue persisted for months and worsened over time, until eventually players began reporting not being able to find a single unaffected match. EA did eventually fix the problem, but it took months on end of fan complaints to get it to that point.
The EA forums are currently overflowing with players complaining about the situation going back over the last week, but thus far there's been no response from EA. IGN has reached out to EA for comment on the situation. For now, pretty much the only recourse Battlefront 2 fans have is to play on console if it's an option for them, as console lobbies remain blissfully unimpacted.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a story tip? Send it to [email protected].
