[2019] On the Battlefield - New Weapons in Chapter 4 (with Adriaan de Ruijter)

I’m a pretty lousy Recon (haven’t got that sort of muscle memory or play style) so I’ve got a lot of appreciation for the Carbines.

Big fan otherwise of the Trombonjovi from last Chapter on Medic. Suits my Medic style from BF1.

Kind of you to say. Doesn’t mean that we don’t want to help work with you all to see the Train put back on the track. I’ve recently been exposed by Jack and Westie as someone who spends a lot of time playing the game, so all of us at studio share the frustration. We only want to be having fun playing the game and we know just how much fun everyone was having when we released Mercury so we want to, and can get back on track.

I’ll hopefully have news about a second swing at the Hotfix tomorrow, and we aren’t that far away from the next main patch. Both me and Jeff will stay accessible for as long as we are welcome here and we are grateful for the mods here and their continued invitation for us to play a role in the community they’ve built here.

Sincerely - kind of you to take the time out of your day to type that. It’s appreciated by us all on the team.

I think folks are perhaps attributing a lot more here to body language than needs be. This was recorded just before 4.0 dropped (hence the slightly incorrect suggestion that the Karabin was the first gun released this chapter) so there’s nothing to read from the current issues faced in Battlefield.

Neither me or Adriaan are otherwise media trained people designed to be jumping up and down with hype like Game Show hosts, so all that you’re really seeing there is us just being super natural!

Doesn’t mean that either one of us are satisfied with the state of the game today, I just think you’re maybe reading a bit more into the expressiveness or two European dudes sitting on chairs that are way too comfortable to be bouncing up and down on.

Adriaan is an intensely passionate dude about this stuff and he’s worth chatting too on Twitter if you’re a fan of historical guns. Him and the team have some crazy attention to detail to guns.

We have a pretty hard and fast rule about commenting on leaks and speculation. Nothing here I can help with (just didn't want you to think I was ducking the question)

Typo on my part - probably a borderline double negative. Tidied that up! Thanks for the spot.

Trombonjovi is my compromise around the studio - folks were getting way too confused with me calling it the Jon Bon Jovi.

I respect entirely everyones individual take on the game. Everyones free to feel as they do and free to express that.

My personal take is exactly that, personal. I'm happy to volunteer it here in the interest of having a conversation but I'll volunteer that when I do, it's generally met with negativity and folks too easily focus on my job title when I'm speaking in this regard vs. me as the individual.

I personally have a grand time playing the game, and I rarely reject an offer when I'm home at night to hop on and play with folks. I'd be a lot happier if everyone was getting a consistent level of performance with the game but in respect to the sense of scale, I have no complaints. It's as Battlefield as every other Battlefield I've played (and I've been going since Desert Combat).

Immersion isn't a priority for me when playing a game (hating to repeat myself - my personal view - it's not to take anything away from folks who do find it important), and neither is context. If I want context around something from our History, I generally don't seek it in Video Games. History is often a miserable (but fascinating) pursuit for me, and whilst I'm happy to pour through hours of documentaries on Netflix, pick up a book on my Kindle or rabbit hole on Wikipedia, it's very rare of me to seek an interactive form of that. I prioritise what's fun, and satisfying and I personally don't have any reservations on that side.

I'm in agreement with you on the Operations front. It was my number one mode played in BF1. Not for the History/Context side, but just the 'We push, they push' feeling to it. I know that the teams keen to see about recapturing some of that but there's nothing we're ready to share until we get much further down the road with it.

Putting my work hat back on - priority for us is to make a fun Video Game. That's the number 1 question we ask in all our design decisions 'Is it fun', that's our core value at DICE (https://twitter.com/ogabrielson/status/1000042210690240512)

Cannot begin to tell you how much time I spent on Devils Anvil. Attack or Defend, I bloody loved how intense Verdun Heights could get. I felt that it was super well suited that mode vs. on Conquest.

As best as I understand it, it would 100% break any progression or ability to earn CC. So if we were to entertain that, we'd basically be putting the entire game on pause. There'd be no Tides of War, no unlocks, nothing.

I'll look into that - thanks.

Cheers - we were doing 20 minute+ videos before this and there were fans of that format too, but what we were seeing was that ultimately no one was watching them. We've tried something different with this run of 'Dev Talks' and we'll either do more in this format or have another think about how else we can do it.

What's everyone's take on livestreams?

https://twitter.com/PartWelsh/status/1148677729065283585

The S2-200 will be available on Thursday, and going forward, there will be a 1 week gap between the Weapon being earnable via Tides of War, and then purchasable with Company Coin. We'll be a lot more consistent with that going forward and we'll continue to adopt that approach.

We have made some great progress in resolving the invisible soldier issue.

I wish I had a joke about the irony of a vampire saying someone sucks. (This isn’t an insult, but you know, vampires suck blood).

That's the intention. They've made a lot of progress on it so far. It's one of the top priorities right now.

They’re still working on the issues with Al-Sundan.

I hope so. I’m tired of getting stuck in the window and having to crouch to get out, while getting shot at. Lmao