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A weather option would be incredible
RIGHT? I would love to be able to have ANY weather (map appropriate, of course - a sandstorm on Solomon Islands might be too weird) as an option.
SNOW IN THE DESERT! hahaah
A weather option would be incredible
RIGHT? I would love to be able to have ANY weather (map appropriate, of course - a sandstorm on Solomon Islands might be too weird) as an option.
SNOW IN THE DESERT! hahaah
What a mess of a game. It’s so kind of dice to quit before they even fixed the bugs. Don’t forget how they screwed us before you buy the premium or full price edition of the next game.
We have an update tomorrow (the details are linked in the calendar) that focuses on bug fixes and game improvements. And we have another udpate in June (that will include content and additional fixes/tweaks/improvements).
I know I mentioned it pretty recently. But any hope for that special weather breakthrough playlist?
I talked to the team that does the rotations. They think it's a cool idea, but not sure when/where they could fit it in.
That being said, I am working to get this added as a MUTATOR for Community Games so you could have crazy weather (on the appropriate maps) for Community Games. (No guarantees, but I am pushing for it.)
I'll keep on it - and will let you know when I get new info. (I really LOVE the idea of the playlist.)
We’ve got an update this week - and a new mission (plus Outpost returns!)
(Please note: This is the current schedule of events for this week. Items may be moved, shifte...
Read more External link →Hey u/Braddock512 any Idea when a new giveaway of BF4 or BF5 for PC will happen again?
I’ll do some giveaways on Wednesday for BFV and BF4/BF1 on Thursday.
Why did it take someone specifically asking you about this for you to provide a cogent, comprehensive update on team balancing? You clearly had this explanation ready- why did you hold back?
This is a big reason a large part of the community has an adversarial relationship with you and the devs. We think you’re not giving us 100% of releasable information and by the above response we’re right.
We’re not your enemy- we’re your loyal fans, or, in the eyes of Electronic Arts and it’s share holders, your customers. Give us the facts and let the community spin off in circles with them as opposed to rumors, Temporyal data mining, and shit posts.
I know you’re doing your best, but I also know you need to do better.
Edited for a grammar error, not content.
Because until the change was committed and certified as shippable, it's not fit for discussion. To speak before we reach that point is to speak only from a platform of speculation or optimistic expectation and that's not an appropriate way to ensure you're not left with a bad expectation as many have been here in the past.
I empathise completely that with an absence of facts, you're only left with speculation and that's both disruptive and destructive, but designs and plans don't become facts until they ship.
If I can work to change and improve these things, I will, but until a regular cadence exists where you feel you can trust what's stated and promised to you, we don't have the right to expect that us sharing a plan we may go on to action can be viewed in the right light. For that reason, we share when we ship.
"Some maybe's become no's for reasons outside of my control, and not always with the ability to inform you on why it's changed from one state to the other."
Why not?
Sometimes we simply can't show you how the sausage is made.
Because you like your newly reworked system of shifting content from the ToW weekly missions into the chapter progression, can you ask if there is a small possibility of getting old rewards from gone chapters again? Last years summer i was on holiday and missed out the Fairbairn-Sykes combat knife and i really would like to see it again. I like the new system for the reason that you are no longer doomed to miss some parts of content, if you go on vacation or cannot play. Thanks
I won't give you false hope other than to say it's been raised for discussion. Can't tell you where we'll land on it till the final changes are committed, but on a personal level it's an idea that I'm a fan of and would support.
How does everyone else feel? Conscious that for some, having certain rewards are status symbols and I want to be conscious of not mistreating that.
u/PartWelsh When is the update going live?
Tomorrow morning EU Time.
Usual patching times, except Xbox is up first this time around and will go live just before when PC usually does.
Implemented two new scoring events related to pilots bailing and crashing. This will ensure that a player that manages to force a pilot to abandon a plane or crash to obtain points for their efforts. The requirement is that the plane was tagged by the player prior to the bail out, the tagging for this is activated by destroying a part of the plane such as the wing, rudder, elevator, or engine.
Holy shit I can level up my Pacific planes now! They've been stuck at rank 2 since the beginning!
It's a nice change.
It won't show with a big alert like a Skull or anything similar, but it will be a line of score that properly acknowledges and rewards it.
/u/PartWelsh, any chance you can speak to as of why the decision was made to front end the content in Chapter 6 as opposed to weekly rewards? I ask not in favor of either as each approach has it's own pros and cons, but what was the factor in this for 6?
Spoke about it in the past so I don't mind answering again.
Chapter 5 provided us with the best example of players obtaining new content through playing the game and engaging with chapter ranks vs. weekly rewards.
Ownership of weapons via that system vs weekly reward was far higher so in the interest of ensuring that more players were gaining more access to more things, we removed them from weekly rewards and got them into Chapter Rewards instead.
We appreciate that we get lots of great weekly engagement from folks who do log in and either smash out the challenges in one go, but there were also players who either didnt get the chance too, or couldn't complete the tasks in time. By changing the system so that these rewards were earned based on overall engagement across the entire chapter, it was providing more opportunity to unlock, and better overall experience for more players.
Flip side, yes it came at the cost of reducing the enjoyment and removi...
Read moreAppreciate the clarity and transparency here. I'll say this about the Chauchat though, it's a bit of a special case - not exactly a weapon that's just been datamined. Players have had the chance to use it in MP and it has all the trappings of a release-ready weapon with the specs, skins, assignments and balance passes. It just feels a little puzzling why the dev team are currently so hush hush about it - I can only hope that they're aware of the weapon's beloved/meme status amongst many in the community, and that they'll be able to pass along some (good) news about it soon.
Everyones aware.
That’s not Chapter 7. We were told that there will be no more Chapters after Chapter 6.
To make sure everyone is crystal clear on this - that is correct. Chapter 6 was the final Chapter in the Tides of War. We will still have Weekly Missions and rewards, but there is no overarching chapter and you won't be seeing that system of chapter rank or rewards when 7.0 launches.
I appreciate that's what has been reflected by others in the comments threaded above, I just want to make sure that the speculation is removed from that topic so that you best understand what to expect in 7.0 and beyond
How can we the player base best communicate how the team balancer is working? Would a survey help or should we just aimlessly post on this sub and the forums?
Feedback on this always comes from two sides.
First - Data vs. Design
We have the telemetry to know that if our design states, game should do this, that the data should back that up. There are simple data questions we can answer to prove out success.
Are games ending with full teams? Are games ending with balanced numbers of players on each side? Are games close, or one sided? How does this compare with past behaviour?
That's data. It's useful in certain circumstances and we like to informed by it, but not driven by it.
Second - What are you saying, and is the design right?
This doesn't need to be as formal as a survey. We're a multicultural player base of varied age ranges and I can task our UXR team to produce a scientifically accurate survey that will respect how different people approach surveys and give us the right answer, all after carefully extracting high quality feedback vs. someone sh*tposting a result out of fair protest.
... Read moreHello Adam, this makes a lot of sense, thanks for taking the time to explain this.
The only thing I want to add is that, in relation to this sentence:
Transitioning to a mass scale testing environment in a world of COVID and work from home requires something that we don't have - more people to test with.
My hope is that, Covid or not Covid, the next Battlefield will feature a CTE. The community loves Battlefield and I don't think I'm alone in saying that a lot of us would love to help you guys out in making Battlefield the best it can possibly be. Hell, as a software dev I would be happy to play a broken build if that means a smooth launch of a given feature.
I know it's not on you, and that you're probably sick of hearing it, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to restate this.
Have a nice day.
I share that hope too. Never tire of stating it.
The team balancer was scrapped? /u/PartWelsh please respond. This is the most needed feature for this game and I remember that you or Braddock said it will come with update 6.6 ....
Not scrapped, but here's an update.
We wanted to get a change targeted at improving the experience that you have with unbalanced rounds into the game, and live alongside the release tomorrow as a part of Update 6.6 . It was always slated for this update on our development timelines, and we've actively made the changes that we want to make in the update tomorrow.
So why isn't it listed in the Update notes, and why am I not talking about it in more detail today?
The feature/changes that we've developed are locked behind what we call a 'Killswitch' and we're launching the update tomorrow with that kill switch active (meaning you won't experience the change).
Transitioning to a mass scale testing environment in a world of COVID and work from home requires something that we don't have - more people to test with. All of the content for update 6.6 has been rigorously tested to the very best of our abilities and I've complete confidence in the team in what'...
Read moreOkay great. Not sure if you can answer the question but some of us were actually expecting at least some small content drop like a new weapon or old weapon like the chauchat for MP since these are 2 updates in one. May we know why items such as these weren't included?
There's always a story to be told for sure. Simply speaking you're still experiencing Chapter 6 right now (which I appreciated is something that now ended a few weeks back).
For this chapter, we front ended all our content. No weekly rewards, more focus on chapter rewards - removing the FOMO of a weekly reward that you HAVE to get in favor of encouraging folks to play at their own pace, and helping to ensure that people who did play weekly got a better experience out of the Chapter Rank Rewards with more skips.
Chapter 6 inevitably became unintentionally extended because of COVID (in terms of development time vs. experience with the player) and then there was the additional transition we've had to make into our next Phase for Battlefield V and focusing on the Summer Update.
In terms of expectations based on things that get Data Mined - this is something I've talked about before, with the main thing being that it often distorts peoples expectations. Sometime...
Read moreThis red tape really just hinders the communication to us players honestly and just adds to more frustration. The final content drop is about weeks away and we're still in the dark. We would appreciate if they can give us something to look forward to otherwise why would the community even trust Dice or EA that they would do Battlefield 6 well.
Until it's locked into an update with 100% signoff, any answer I give to any question is No, or Maybe.
Some maybe's become no's for reasons outside of my control, and not always with the ability to inform you on why it's changed from one state to the other.
In order to behave as responsibly as possible regarding future content, the most appropriate thing I can do is wait until I have the clearest indication and the firmest ground on which to stand when I give as honest an answer as possible.
In any instance where the team are 100% comfortable confirming and sharing where we are with something, it gets shared. The rest of the time we're working as best as we can to move things away from the No, and Maybe territory.
Thanks. The notes seem far too little for 2 months worth of updates. It's been asked a thousand times but when will you guys release the Chauchat?
Won't be able to answer the question today. Just wanted to make sure you understood that it was seen.
Instant I can provide an answer, I shall.
