Knights of the Previous Republic 2 DLC formally cancelled by Aspyr – WGB, House of AWESOME Opinions

To catch you up, pricey reader, Aspyr Media revealed ports of each Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic video games on Nintendo Swap final 12 months. Each ports had been pretty simplistic however did a good job of bringing the traditional RPGs to a contemporary viewers. However the thrilling factor was Aspyr introduced plans to launch DLC for Knights of the Previous Republic 2 which might introduce a bunch of minimize content material again into the sport. This content material didn’t make it into the unique Knights of the Previous Republic 2 as a result of the sport was rushed out by Obsidian for a Christmas launch. Better of all, the replace can be free to anybody who owned the sport.

The undertaking was truly based mostly on a fan mod which was designed to revive the lacking content material in addition to repair quite a lot of points with the sport. You could find that mod over on the Steam Workshop. Nevertheless, console avid gamers couldn’t entry the mod, so Aspyr’s plans to deliver an “official” model to their Swap ports had been met with pleasure.

Followers usually describe Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic 2 as “unfinished” with out the mod. It provides deeper character interactions, missions, and even a revamped ending that accounted to your decisions all through the sport.

The Restored Content material DLC was presupposed to launch in Q3 of final 12 months however the launch window got here and went with out Aspyr ever addressing it. Unsurprisingly, this didn’t go down properly and Aspyr remained silent till now.

Frustratingly, the announcement doesn’t present any particulars on why the DLC has been cancelled. Aspyr closely featured the DLC as a part of their advertising marketing campaign for the launch of Knights of the Previous Republic 2 on Swap. There’s little doubt that lots of the individuals who purchased had been swayed by the promise of a free replace which might tremendously improve the expertise.

Cleary, Aspyr are conscious of how unhealthy this appears to be like and is a minimum of making an attempt to make amends. By visiting https://help.aspyr.com/hc/en-us and offering proof that you simply bought Knights of the Previous Republic 2 on Swap you’ll be able to declare a free key to 1 of those video games:

• Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic II – The Sith Lords (Steam. Restored content material mod might be performed)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic (Swap)
• Star Wars: The Power Unleashed (Swap)
• Star Wars: Republic Commando (Swap)
• Star Wars Episode I: Racer (Swap)
• Star Wars: Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast (Swap)
• Star Wars: Jedi Knight Jedi Academy (Swap)

As for Aspyr, issues don’t appear to be going properly for them in any respect. The crew is meant to be engaged on a correct remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic, however in 2022 stories started circulating that the crew had been faraway from the undertaking by studio proprietor Embracer and changed by Sabre Interactive.

In July of 2022, Jason Schreier of Bloomberg revealed a report that described the remake as being in “severe bother” and that the undertaking had been paused.

Newer stories have advised that each Lucas Movies and Sony had been proven a demo of the sport in motion, and whereas Lucas appeared to love it, Sony felt it was not cinematic sufficient and since they had been serving to finance the sport their opinion held a variety of weight. This seemingly led to some panic and Aspyr firing the undertaking’s two lead builders.

There’s much more to this story and I’d extremely advocate testing the video beneath.