Kenturrac

Thank you for reminding me why I previously decided to not respond on this subreddit anymore. I was hoping in rough times like these, we could find nicer words or at least have a civil conversation even if we are upset or disagree. Yet, you have chosen the insulting and aggressive way. :(

Anyway, I will go back to read mode only. I hope you and your family are safe and that you are doing okay. <3

I am not sure if we are sacrificing one thing for another. This is not a question that I could or should answer, but yeah, this comment was in regards to the things we are working on now.

Thank you. This is very much appreciated. <3

We are all just humans. This whole project was an up and down in feelings for everyone involved, you and us. I think a lot of things we did were great, but I also know lots disappointed some of our audience. There is a lot to learn from the last 2-3 years and act on that learning. Of course when I look back, I see a lot of stones unturned. As a dev you always have something more you would like to do, even if you would have been at a game for 10 years. But I believe we are heading in the right direction and I am looking optimistic and excited into the future at what comes next.

Not even news worthy. At the given time that was true. 4 pacific maps, Al Sundan, Underground, was Marita out already? The 5v5 levels. Firestorm updates. Probably even missed something. That's more in simultaneous development than before. I think the most we had in development at once before this was 6.

I understand some of you are frustrated with the recent news, but pointing at stuff I said in the past won't change that. I retreated from posting about BF on twitter already. So fear no more, this won't happen again. :)

Exposing this information would only work if you could quickly see it before joining. Otherwise you introduce new problems. You would have a lot of servers where people join and leave after checking the information. Not really a smooth experience and it would mess with the matchmaker which are most people using anyway. Currently, if someone joins via server browser they know what they are getting into. So it's unlikely they leave immediately again. Sorry mate, but I actually thought this all through a long time ago. :)

Also: Millions are playing every day/week -> the game is not fun. :O

I am sorry if you don't have the greatest time, but please don't paint your experience as everyone's. There are plenty of games I don't play, but they are successful as heck. Maybe it's the same here for you.

That one I am totally for. Not the highest priority in terms of features for private games yet, but absolutely something that I could see in there. I feel like private games should be the place where players can go nuts like they do in BF3/4. That's the place we want to get to and much further over time.

That doesn't work as plain and simple. Sure, if everyone stays on the server it's cool, but that never happens. Most people play 2-3 rounds. Let's say you join a server that already played most of your favourite maps, you obviously wouldn't know and would most likely not notice until it is too late. So you spent 2-3 games on maps that you don't prefer. Then maybe get sick of it and leave and join another server with the same chance.

Where as if you have a predictable map rotation you are in 100% control of your experience.

I mean at the end of the day it is up to you. Ask yourself, what do you prefer the random system or the one where you have control?

Either way, there is currently no plan for a map voting system. Sorry.

Basically this. One person wants it, the other is happy it's gone. Seems like people are very split on this topic.

I hope one day all games go in a direction where everyone can build their preferred mode/map list and a matchmaker moves them between rounds. This way possibly everyone will be happy.

Until then we go with predictable map rotations and a server browser. So you are in full control even though it requires some extra steps.

As you can see on the title in my name, I work with Maps and Modes and I clearly referred to content as maps. If Pacific wasn't to your liking and you think it was bad "content" then I don't think any of the work my department is doing will brighten your day and I am sorry for that. Yet I feel like I need to defend the guys who worked on the Pacific maps and say that they didn't deliver broken content. Just wanted to make that clear. :)

I would also kindly ask you to calm down the language as insults get us nowhere. :/

There is a lot of assumption here. Yes, if the data is really limited and for example just a heat map, you might be right, but we very much can see the difference between movement, stationary, stance, combat, kills, deaths, etc. So I can only show locations of stationary people killing with certain weapons on certain ranges and in contrast compare to people moving along and so on. The fault is rarely with the data, but how you use it.

Btw, I love that story of the WW2 planes. It's such a great example and makes for a great story, but it also known since WW2 and therefore considered. As much as someone might like to think we are a bunch of amateurs looking into data not knowing what we are doing cause it fits their narrative. I assure you we have people that do this full time and are well educated in the topic. If one believes that humans generally can't read statistical data successfully then I won't be able to change that opinion here and now.

On a last note I wou...

I think it's due to a general negative sentiment against "DICE" and 5.2 right now. Comes with the job. :)

Yeah, I absolutely agree with you that flanking on this map is rather hard. We extended cover on both sides and the situation improved, but lot of the problems still remain. I still hope to find time to give it a proper pass one day, but currently all map resources are on new content. So no time for it.

What you painted there is an exaggeration. It was maybe half of that and data has shown that this area was mostly used by either snipers or tanks camping on the sides and shelling people that actually flank. If you preferred that play style I can see why it's upsetting to you, but after seeing the change in action, we believe it has done good to the map and the overall playtime on it has increased. So it looks like the majority of the players find Aerodrome a bit more fun now. :)

Lovely!

Charming!

On this map and sector? Trying to figure out how this can happen.

I can't speak much on the direction of soldier and weapon gameplay things as it's not my area. I have insights, but I am not a spokes person on this. So I will not even try to cover that topic.

On the "how do you know" and "echo chamber" topic tho:
We, like most other games on this size, do audience research in a lot of different ways. EA has whole departments doing just User Experience Research (UXR) and they go wide (weekend games, person who played for 10h and then dropped, hardcore gamer, veteran, professional player, etc). So that's about that.

Is Reddit an echo chamber? I don't know. I know too little about Reddit and how it works. Are you an extremely dedicated player if you go on social media to talk or write about it and engage with the game and it's community? Absolutely.

I am here reading this Reddit not just because it's my job, but also because I am heavily interested in BF. In the past weeks I clocked down close to 100h in CoD and got ple...

Oh and on the performance thing. I think so far we are not tracking any major performance issues and I don't see too much mention of it online, but if it changes we will fix it of course as we did with Operation Underground.

Got a link from this thread. We have someone looking into the issue.

And about the other stuff: Rest assured, we care very much. At no point it is or was it in our interest to harm this game or the players enjoyment of it, but you have to see that there are millions playing this game week by week and not all share the same opinions. So some changes might make some people more happy than others and the other way around.