Kenturrac

Why so complicated? - Game engines literally try to copy the real world. Lighting, physics, audio and so on. We are playing god in a virtual world. They say he did it in 7 days. I have the feeling that's a lie. :P

Why can't we just use the nights we have in Operations? - They only work in the Airborne areas which are at best 1/3 of the map. Meaning that audio and indoor lighting has to be adjusted across the whole map. The more interiors, the more complex it gets.

There are quiet a few more coming out this year: https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/battlefield/battlefield-5/news/battlefield-5-updates-roadmap-march-2019

Here is a link to our roadmap. :)

https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/battlefield/battlefield-5/news/battlefield-5-updates-roadmap-march-2019

I am not sure what you want to hear here, but I am hyped as heck. Probably gonna buy the Dark Edition myself. BF and CoD have lived next to each other for years and will for forever and honestly they are very, very different games. Every game can take the attention of a gamer and everyone can play more than one game. I played about 12 games in the last year. Heck, I go back to WoW now and then for the last 15(?) years. So I wouldn't worry too much. I know gaming press and youtubers likes to make big competitions between two games, but honestly we all just want to see people play great games and we want to play great games as well. Besides, each new game of any kind pushes the envelope a bit and inspires us to evolve. It's just great.

But to answer your question directly: I can't speak for my colleagues, but I am as much and as little worried about one game taking the attention off BF as I am worried that the next Netflix show does, a sunny day or a BF gamer meeting his/her ...

Hihi. I am actually on vacation. Don't tell my producer that I spend my time off with work. :P

I rather would say we are too busy. See my other explanation above for more insight. But hey, I am a glass half full kinda guy. ;)

This pretty much. Which basically is possible, but then someone who does that doesn't do other things. Since it's lighting, most of our Lighting guys are busy with other maps.

It's definitely something we are interested in doing, but we heard you guys loud and clear: MORE MAPS. So that's the focus of the people involved with map content creation.

Will take a look at it. Thx for sharing. <3

From experience I can tell you that it's too early to consider that. A meta within the community has to form which normally takes at least a week or two. New players join every minute and try to learn the map. So right now it's all a bit random chaos. It's not even weekend. Most people probably haven't even played the map yet. Once the freshness has settled we will make adjustments, if the balance is off.

Good things take time. :)

I am just making the daily round checking on the stuff. :) So far I wrote down all the big issues that came up. I also know that DICE LA is already looking into fixing some of the collision issues. Especially around the cliff side in the middle of the map as well as the bush collision issues. It's a big game and things sadly slip through, but that can't be a good excuse and we are dedicated to make it right. I will also look into how we can improve the workflow so we spot such issues earlier. Sorry for all the issues lately. We are trying to get better going forward. Hope the last bigger patch has shown this a bit.

Q&A normally stands for Question and Answer, but I am not sure the u/hutzdani means here.

I have a question tho, where is this on Marita? Would like to fix it.

I will forward it. Probably just an oversight. Will also check with the team if we can make it so that the roof can squish people. :)

Basically, yes. Certain maps will be played less which feels for some like they have acess to less of the game. BF1 now has 29 CQ maps. To play all of that you would need about 15h. When the maps don't come in regular cycles, you probably see some maps only every 25h of playtime. Furthermore a lot people like to join via server browser on specific maps. They remember the map rotation and search for a map before the one they like and join that server. This wouldn't be possible with map voting anymore either.

I think the biggest issue though is that not everyone likes the same map,but there is a majority thinking. So if you like a map the bigger part of the community dislikes, you are in a bad spot. Especially if you really don't like the map that most people like. In BF1 the most popular map was Amiens, closely followed by (I forgot) and Fort Vaux. That's 2 infantry focused maps. If you like all out war in BF1. The likelyhood of getting that is considerably smaller.

I think this came up multiple times and the community is fairly split on that topic. Some really want it and some really don't. I understand both sides arguments. :)

Will check it once I am back from vacation. Thx for reporting!

I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Besides, Nivelle Nights had no interiors. ;)

Did that comment make you feel stronger? :P

You do know that we ask people to rate the map monthly, right? ;)

The BF1 night maps have been the two least popular maps by a massive margin. People wanted them so badly and even loved them, but then after a bit no one plays them because of bad visibility and the gameplay that brings (we saw it in the results of the map voting which existed in BF1). I love dark nights in games, but the record shows so far that there is little value in it. I would love to enable it for CQ and other modes one day tho. Some areas need a bit of fix up for this to work tho. So no promises.

Yeah. Remember the BF1 reddits: "Everything is brown." I think the power is to be found in the variety. Funnily, when I watch "WW2 in colours" it doesn't look like Hollywood either. I guess it's a bit of a matter of taste in the end. Then again, I don't know sh*t about what is good art. ^{^} I trust my colleagues and stand behind their skills.