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Yeah I encountered that once in playtest! Took a video and debugging logs and everything but we were never able to replicate and fix. Sorry! Considering it's a limit time mode and it happens extremely rarely we decided to just ship the bug. Sometimes that's the reality of gamedev; there's only so many hours in a day.

Good day to you too! :D

f*cking moving geo :( Yeah it's a bug, but not an easy one to fix. Hope that was in the grace period!

Yup, same for me! And there's some indicators in the data that some people attached to it super hard, but when we look at the overall playerbase (there's a whole bunch of people all over the world playing this game), it wasn't great in terms of how many people were still playing it 7 days in. I personally thought the design of it was fantastic. I don't have a good theory to explain the falloff other than people like what they like and will gravitate back to comfort.

No offense, but many of the people who make those decisions just don't want to come to reddit for how they're treated here. It should be clear that it's not in my job description to be here either: I do it because I want to, but I want to be very careful not to make it into an expectation for other devs.

Excuse me for going down a rabbit hole for a bit. This is one of the things I like to think and talk about a lot. So being a gamer in 2020 is very different from being a gamer in the 1990s, when I was growing up. The Internet connects us, social media allows us to directly talk to people who play the games we work on, streaming allows us to basically be in your living room watching you play. This can be amazing and a curse at the same time. Unfortunately some people are irredeemable assholes on the Internet and will let their rage at a game make them do some pretty awful things. (content warning; I'm going to describe some awful things me and my spouse have experienced. If...

Fell off brutally after the usual delay. I know, I was surprised by that as well. Anecdotally from watching streamers and youtubers and from playing myself it felt like people really liked the mode, but it's not born out in the data.

I think it's really easy to dismiss how much we get from BRs. I came to Respawn as someone who really didn't like BRs (I said as much in my job interview; which uh is not a strategy I would recommend. In their defense, they asked if I thought this would get in the way of me being an effective designer on a BR title, and I told them pretty truthfully that I expected to become a fan as I spent my entire days thinking about the game and playtesting it--which is pretty much what happened). I have since learned that BRs:

• Neatly give you game to game variance because fights always happen in different places with different people with different loadouts
• Have great pacing built in for free (and it's somewhat player directed too! Wanna fight? Go to where the gunfire sounds are and charge in! Wanna have a slow game? Drop far from the plane and stealthily skulk about the place)
• Allow for great discharging of frustration (your team really not helping you and you...

*Grooving to this until original issue forgotten *

This is amazing!! Mmm now I want cake ...

You're not rude, thanks for being polite! I honestly don't know anything about that stuff, I just make the pewpews. Sorry!

Thanks, you too! <3

I dunno, mine is colored white or blue sometimes!

Real talk, this took more effort than making a mode like, I don't know, Armed and Dangerous. It's hard to figure out where to put our effort with LTMs because we know that with most of them, play rate craters after like 3-4 days. Everyone ASKS for game modes but looking at our numbers, it doesn't seem like people play them nearly enough for us to put the amount of effort required to make a new mode in.

We're still figuring out what we want to do; Winter Express seemed like a no-brainer because it didn't show quite as steep a dropoff (if I remember correctly) and it's clearly a very different experience. We put a lot of effort into v2; I think a lot of that was also that we subjectively love the mode ;P We'll see next year how it performed.

It's really hard because we do want to give you the thing you ask for, but when we see that there's such a discrepancy in what you ask for on Reddit and what you end up playing, it gets to be a hard decision where to spend our ver...

I replied to it somewhere else but basically the systems that do challenges and badges are... the same system. We didn't have time to disentangle them, and we definitely don't want you to get badges in WE.