[2020] This Week in Battlefield V - March 23, 2020 Edition

Mentioned last week, but will share what was posted last week:

Hi! Lighting artist here. I don't think there is any easy way of disabling/toning down the atmospherical haze in the distance without losing layering visibility and visual quality. There are no plans to changing it and we would have to customize each individual level for it to work.

Currently not in scope.

Yep. Posted this from one of our Lighting Artists last week:

Hi! Lighting artist here. I don't think there is any easy way of disabling/toning down the atmospherical haze in the distance without losing layering visibility and visual quality. There are no plans to changing it and we would have to customize each individual level for it to work. That is outside our current scope.

Stay safe and healthy. And 6 feet away.

No, as it’s not officially announced. We don’t engage with rumors or datamined stuff - reason being is some things may be left in the code that are scoped out.

Apologies. There’s a global pandemic going on and the teams are adjusting to working from home to stay healthy. Appreciate your patience. Stay safe.

(And before anyone assumes the worst, I genuinely do empathize with disappointment and frustration. Trust me: no one wants to be working from home. Our teams are doing everything they can to keep our games - and this goes for the whole games industry - up and running, adding new things, etc. Stuff happens, unfortunately, and I will say I’m really impressed with how quickly EA has transitioned thousands of global employees to work from home so we all can still play games and support our titles.)

The last time I asked about “locking Elites” it was pretty much a “no”. If folks are using it to gain an advantage/impact visibility, I can definitely call that out to the team.

Tbh, no devs I know at DICE LA or DICE Stockholm build games on laptops. And taking DevKits (PS4 or Xbox One) home requires a lot of security - mainly due to requirements from our 1st party partners.

I don't know what your job is, so I'm not going to assume it's easier/harder to work from home. Unless your company also builds games on a proprietary engine, it's not a fair comparison.

Plus, connecting everyone from their personal home internet - not being physically connected to our intranet - can create challenges (if their ISP goes down, bandwidth, etc. And most people can't afford to have T1/T3 lines in their homes, so uploading new builds is slowed just due to network traffic.)

Because I had information about the distance haze question and was able to answer it.

We had planned on have information about the next update this week, but unfortunately, due to extenuating circumstances, the dev team is re-analyzing how we'll roll out the next update and what will be in it - and when. I don't have any other information to share at this time.

I don't know ALL the details, but from the conversations I've seen in Slack over the years, it seems the devs are all connected to a hub (probably the wrong word, forgive my ignorance) and they apply changes to the build by uploading various fixes, tweaks, changelists, etc.

The whole process is something I'm very interested in learning about as there's tons of dependencies on when and what they upload to main build. Once it's done/locked, then a "candidate" for the update is determined and then created. That's tested - and if it passes - it gets sent on to our 1st party partners for approvals and that's how it gets deployed.
(I'm sure it's a lot more complicated and detailed than my very rudementary understanding/explanation).

Updated OP with OIB Moments of the Week Link.

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 

• #OnlyinBattlefieldV Moments of the Week - Hot new OIB moments coming in with a new weekly winner! Think you’ve got a winner? Send it our way on any of the Battlefield channels. Each weekly featured clip will be awarded a Best Community in the World emblem!

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Updated calendar with the following:

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

• Chapter 6: Week 8 "UPRISING" Mission Overview

I’ll check and push to have it stick around for a while. Will let you know what they say.

No details I can share today, but there have been discussions about this internally. When we do have some info to share - one way or the other - we'll let you know.

Just confirmed with the team that the intention is to have it "evergreen", meaning it will stick around. And they're going to add more.

There have been discussions on and off for months. These recent discussions had more direction, but nothing locked ... just yet.

The is no update next week, unfortunately.

Added this to OP. (New contest)

• Battlefield V In Pictures Screenshot Contest starts on Saturday, March 28th, 2020. RULES

It’s based on legal restrictions from those countries, such as prize amounts, etc. Where are you from?