Yea I hope it can help other people in the future that were victims of the assignment tracking bug if they try to claim their helm.
Confirmed with our liaison at DICE that the process has been updated and those who contact us will be sorted out. Thanks for helping me drive this, u/dkb_wow.
You can't wrap your head around the concept of time and human life spans?
It's figurative. You know what he meant.
/u/lytlb1t got any updates on the topic you can share? Is trading at such short distance in Firestorm by design?
Looks like it will be fixed next patch.
Yeah I had this happening to me too a couple of times, it's noted.
weekend...that's way too long!
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I played 4 rounds so far and had more fun than all my other rounds combined, be it solo or squad.
PLEASE KEEP IT
Glad to hear it - keep it coming!
That’s totally fair and I appreciate you setting me straight on it. I’m only commenting on the activity/involvement i’ve personally seen over the past few months as someone that’s a fan of both franchises and notices his presence in both spaces.
He had the Herculean task of recovering that community after the launch of SWBF2 that I think he absolutely nailed so it’ll be nice to see him more active here as well.
He and all of the team deserve a lot of credit for that. He’s got the foundations laid here to do the same standard of heroics. I’ll share your comments with him later today :)
Any NEW information regarding the loot and inventory system? It is quite the deal breaker when you have played Apex. On PS4
Not today, no. For now it’s that at all too familiar vague answer of ‘we are looking at it, and we are actively working on it’.
We know that it’s not specific enough to warrant us being able to reply to the question with any real energy and have you feel satisfied with a reply, but we genuinely are looking at it.
The team have prototypes for different systems and they’ll iterate on those to figure out what’s actually going to work best for Firestorm. As they work through their process they’ll start to share that with us for showing to you :)
Came here to read some feedback about Duos (while at work) and found not one single feedback, only complaints that it is online until monday🙈.
Guys I think we get it...we all want this mode to stay forever. Can we just test it know and give feedback. Should be much more constructive and will bring us the permanent Duo mode much sooner.
Just a thought...
It’s fair of folks to voice their frustrations though. Yes we want the actual gameplay and experience feedback and I recognise completely that this is going to get buried under that mountain.
I’ll talk with Jeff and the Reddit mods here a little later on and see if we would benefit from unpinning this after folks have had chance to digest the info today, and post a separate thread tomorrow for collating the feedback directly.
In the mean time - we are still going to be looking at new replies on this thread and sourcing what we see into our internal documentation.
I would be genuinely shocked to see Ben communicating here. I don’t mean that to be a dick either. It just doesn’t seem like he has any of the same interest or passion in being involved with this community like he does with us on the Star Wars side.
Dudes busy, especially with Jedi Fallen Order this weekend. He’s absolutely involved across all that we do on Battlefield, to the point where he was concerned that with him and Jeff both being on American time this week, he asked me to step up and help be here to chat with you all outside of his hours.
I’m sure that we will see him more active when he’s back at DICE next week. Just know that in the background, the three of us are constantly talking to one another and sharing what we see and hear.
Why just a weekend if you don't mind me asking? Even Rush (which should have also been a mainstay in my opinion) was a few weeks if I remember correctly. Thanks for all you guys do
So with Rush, and Squad Conquest - we developed them with the intent of making them experiences that could support the Tides of War chapter content where they featured.
We built challenges and rewards around them, and were upfront that we planned for them to only feature during those chapters. There’s appetite from us, and the community to have them return to BFV, but only if we can do so in a way that ensures you’ll want to keep playing them rather than just playing the same stuff that you went in hard for last time around. We recognise that can be tiring.
For Duo Mode - a weekend should give us a good burst of of attention that will let us get what we need to make the next decision.
Could you throw us a bone on when Squad Conquest is coming back? It’s a beloved game mode.
Honest to Lars, I nearly had a full answer on that this morning. The person I needed to speak to is out for the rest of the weekend so I’m waiting to hear back from someone else on that team.
The second we have news, me or Jeff will share.
Welcome back.
As a general rule we will always make sure that any gameplay content such as weapons and vehicles that are introduced as weekly rewards will be obtainable even if you miss out on the week. Currently by earning Company coins and then unlocking them in your Company.
When it comes to cosmetic weekly rewards they may be purchasable at a later stage but some of them are exclusive to the current chapter. This is on a case by case basis.
I imagine you'll see most of the people playing duos coming from squads and standard multiplayer (where you might have people who just play BF5 with one other friend and don't fancy Firestorm with two random people). But that's a guess.
Personally I'll be trying duos out for sure, but I play with two other people usually and we're loving the tactical element of the squads mode. When there are just two of us though, duos will be the go to!
Yeah and we’ve all made similar ‘guesses’ too. We’d naturally want for some of the responses to come up positive and if they don’t, we absolutely want to figure out why they’ve gone against expectations.
What data are you looking for on your end?
Everything. Did it change the drop behaviour of folks, were more people dropping together (and was this causing more firefights early on) - did this change the pace of the mid game? Did random matchmaked folks work together more than in Squads? Did we see more premade teams entering match making and how much did this have an effect on folks who didn’t?
There’s a lot we can stab pretty educated guesses at based on internal playtests, and assumptions that we can form from Solo and Squads behaviour, but we’d rather be accurate about the changes we want to make and make them for the right reasons.
Me, Ben, and Jeff will track your most immediate feedback on your experience with the Mode and use that to help the teams ask questions outside of what they are already looking to validate and test, and no doubt they’ll have questions based on data that they see which we can come to you all with and see about understanding better.
Read moreSquads is frustrating because the three randoms tend to drop where they want to go despite my always quickly pinging a decent spot, then all dying in the first minute, so by the time the first circle is announced I'm 1v4ing the rest of the round. If by miracle we all survive and meet up (or even drop to the same location!) we get stomped by the first premade squad we come across. It was a problem in Apex as well, as premade squads communicating are playing an entirely different game than just 4 randoms who only have a ping-location to work with, yet for some reason we're playing on the same servers.
Solos I've had better luck with (7 wins) but tend to end up in spots 2-12 almost always, my death coming to someone just prone in foliage / crouching in a bush. There's nothing you can do to invisible players, so that's super frustrating when I've got 5+ kills nearing the end and then a bush with a gun and all level 1 weapons/armor shoots me dead.
I don't know if duos w...
It shouldn’t make me laugh because I get completely what you’re getting at in relation to campers (the idea of a double bush wielding guns) but it does make me chuckle thinking about that as a cartoon. There’s upvotes to be made with that as a webcomic.
You sharing that expectation of the experience is indicative of why the team want to focus the testing through this weekend. If that proves true and folks universally don’t enjoy the experience then we need to see what we change and how we rebalance this stuff.
Do /u/ tag me on a thread this weekend/next week with what your actual experience was like. I’d appreciate that.
There was a ton of positive feedback about Squad Conquest. It went away and will not reappear until many months after. Do you sincerely think you’ve earned the trust of the community on things of this nature?
Nope. Not in the slightest. You’re right to point the finger, and demand to see better from us on the communication front.
Knowing that the Mode will be switched off on Monday left us with the choice of communicating honestly with you today about what’s happening, or turning up on Monday when you’re wondering why Duo isn’t available anymore (and why the team are working it this way).
We recognise neither offers up a desired path, and as you’ve fairly pointed out, you’ve heard some of this before.
Responsibility falls on myself, Jeff and Ben to come back to you next week and keep the conversation going on Duo Mode. We need to reset the standard going forward and we will do so acknowledging that we don’t necessarily have your trust on this. Let’s change that.
Never during my Battlefield "career" have I ever used any of these, and I've been playing since BF 1942
You've missed out.
Maybe they dont want you playing five year old games anymore.
There are ways to prevent that yet still have RSP.
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