PartWelsh

PartWelsh



13 Dec

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Originally posted by turkeysaurusrex

Hey Battlefield Team, there are 1000 comments on this thread so I don't expect this to be seen.

I never comment in r/battlefieldV but follow it every day.

I've played every BF game since Vietnam. It's my favorite series.

I'm sorry you have to deal with ungrateful humans. Y'all are handling this very professionally, and as someone who also works in software engineering, I understand how frustrating and unrewarding it can feel to say "okay you didn't like TTK so we fixed it" only to hear "OKAY WHAT ABOUT TEAM BALANCING AND ANTI-CHEAT, HUH!?".

<aside> Not to mention: The mere fact that we HAVE change is great. People have forgotten about the old days when a game was released and that was it, or patches only came once per year. Yeah the TTK is a little annoying, but real players should adjust to change. If they can only get kills with a specific gun at a specific range, then they're a one-hit wonder and they should move to...

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Thanks, you too!


12 Dec

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Originally posted by Cormac_IRL

its not gone though, its still in the game

the beautiful written patch notes go something like this;

We’re removing the Enemy Acquisition Icon’s

We’re making changes to the Enemy Acquisition Systems

The upclose 3D Spotting is gone. The Icon that appears when you point your gun at a player (introduced in 5.0 back in late October), has been further tweaked. Check the post referenced and stickied in the sub for the details and video examples showing it.

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Originally posted by beeldy

Will do, also, sorry to see some of the abuse you, Braddock and the team have had to endure since 5.2 has released, although a lot of us feel strongly about the game, that is never acceptable!

The memes have helped offset things. Big fan of Todays Pirates of the Caribbean one.

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Originally posted by erickonasis

THANK YOU FREEMAN!!

WHY ARE WE SHOUTING??

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Originally posted by dan_kase

Thank you for adjusting 5.2.

Please fix the land mines. They do absolutely no damage in support class making them absolutely useless. :(

We are reviewing some of the behaviors on Land Mines. It won't make this Hotfix but we are looking at that for a future update so keep an eye out for Patch Notes in the future.

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Originally posted by trelousis

You are only addressing BTK. This is unimportant for guns wich fire rate you have decreased. For example the Sebalster shoots frustratingly slow and TTK is frustrating. I imagine more guns will still be slow

Primarily we're addressing BTK for this hotfix, but there are ROF and Recoil Changes for some weapons, and we're likely to make further tweaks in the update after this. We're going to keep making changes based on how we see the changes play out.

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Originally posted by Claudeviool

Thank you for your reply. It's getting really frustrating. Same as not getting reports etc. but you guys are probably on it as we speak :)

Good to hear though!

We are on it. Hoping to have more news on that at the start of next week. It's likely we're stuck with it for the weekend unless we pull off a hail mary tomorrow afternoon.

I'll restate that it's keeping track of your XP, CC, and stats - it's just doing a bad job of telling you that.

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Originally posted by BrutteRex

When is the hotfix coming?

As soon as we can get to you. Once I have a date, I'll lock it in and share it publicly.

My hope is next week.

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Originally posted by akrida77

so how about making the poll situation a usual thing so we can give you feedback on the changes?

You mean the Community Survey? We post that each month and we will keep similar questions in next months to help measure how opinion changes on the topic.

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Originally posted by Noeq

Why are there no changes for the Pistol Carbines listed? Those need a tweak (read: buff) as they also got nerfed pretty badly. Any information on those? /u/PartWelsh /u/Braddock152

No changes in this Hotfix but we will review their performance in the new year.

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Originally posted by RayearthIX

Hi u/PartWelsh - I know a lot of us here are angry at the 5.2 update and some of us (like myself) have stopped playing as we wait for further changes (such as what you detail in this post). I also recognize that BFV has millions of players (presumably given the number sold in the last year), and reddit is but 184k of them. From my personal viewpoint, I think these changes are a small step in the right direction, but will further unbalance the game as some guns (STG44) are going to be OP in the new damage values, and others still seems like they are going to be UP. This is generally because the damage drop-off is too steep, and the bullets required at long/extreme range is till too high (IMO).

So... if the team is willing to share it, I would like to see data related to:

- Engagement ranges: Previously you shared with us (I think it was you) that the average engagement range in BFV is 22m. And yet, nearly every gun in the 5.2 patch (and...

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Give me time and I'll see what I can do

(will edit this comment to add when/if I can)

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Originally posted by Claudeviool

Did i miss something cuz, games are stuck on "waiting for players" while even being full...

We're working on a backend fix to stop that from happening.

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Originally posted by TaKamot0

u/PartWelsh will there be any changes to the BARs BTK?

Yep, check the spreadsheet linked in the post.

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Originally posted by ethanmay4

Thank you!

You're welcome.

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Originally posted by MaxTheLiberalSlayer

I forgot to also say thank you for responding to the community. You're still in a crisis communication situation but at least you're trying to address it.

Always. Ideally I'd like to do it faster but in this scenario I wanted to understand what we could achieve and that required waiting for the feedback to inform the development, and then get through enough of our testing to confirm that we intended to go ahead with the changes.

Always happy to show up though.

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Originally posted by pxl31

Hello u/PartWelsh,

I tried the adjustements made until the TTK patch and they seems to be way better. Thank you !I think there is a great feature missing from BF1 and I just want to clarify with you why it wasn't ported to BFV.

Please check this trend if you have time , that would be great : https://www.reddit.com/r/BattlefieldV/comments/e9a9op/why_didnt_dice_think_to_add_this_feature_from_bf1/

I like it, and I'll pass it on.

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Originally posted by OldSchoolSanitater

Hi Freeman, first off thank you all for doing the next adjustments as a hotfix.

Something that’s been buried under TTK/spotting, but that may come up soon:

Revive trains are back from 5.2 revive adjustments.

Is this something you guys are deciding to run with for now, or do you see it as something that should be mitigated?

Something we're keeping an eye on. There are further changes coming to related systems in the future so we'll keep eyes on it.

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Originally posted by erickonasis

So on the fast firing SMGs is it improvement on just the light bolt specializations or the regular ones? PLEASE answer please

The Light Bolt Weapons are having improved BTK models at close range. Other SMG's we're satisfied with the balance, and have appropriately tuned the Max BTK rate to ensure it doesn't go higher than 10.

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Originally posted by Lock3down221

The M1A1's current damage value is almost the same as the Pistol carbines.. Please take note that the pistol carbines have better recoil than the M1A1 at the moment.. As a user of both guns, I think the M1A1 should be better than those 2 given its weapon categorization.. It doesn't make sense that a semo auto rifle is balanced like a pistol carbine..

It's being reviewed. Changes to the M1A1 won't feature in this Hotfix, but we are looking at that weapon for similar reasons.

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Originally posted by beeldy

Thanks for the update, I prefer the game pre 5.2 but I will give this chance when it releases.

That's all we ever ask, thank you! Make sure you tag me with any feedback once you've gotten hands on with the changes.