EA says it’s scaling up new servers to welcome you all to the Battlefront ‘.
A heap of shiny new Star Wars Battlefront II players thanks to the latest Epic Games Store gift has crashed the servers.
As we reported last week, Epic’s current free version – the Celebration Edition of Battlefront II – includes all the add-ons after the launch, as well as all cosmetic content previously available as in-game purchases, up to and including the release as part of the game’s Rise of Skywalker update.
However, since the freebie was launched, many players had trouble connecting to the online servers, which reported error codes 623, 918, and 721.
See error message 623 or 918 #StarWarsBattlefrontII?
Sit tight, we sit on it! An incredible number of players have joined us @EpicGames Save free week and we are enlarging new servers to welcome you all to the Battlefront.– EA Help (@EAHelp) 15 January 2021
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“Do you see error message 623 or 918 in #StarWarsBattlefrontII?” EA recently tweeted (thanks, PC Gamer). “Hold on, we’re stuck in it! An incredible number of players have joined us during our free week of @EpicGames Store and we’re expanding new servers to welcome you all to the Battlefront.”
Despite a subsequent tweet reporting that ‘the #StarWarsBattlefrontII server capability issue has been resolved’ and wishing all players ‘may the Force be with you’, players continue to experience problems, which those hoping to double XP promotion.
Players can add Star War Battlefront 2’s Celebration Edition to their Epic Store libraries for free from now until January 21, 2021.