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Elsewhere I have stated that.

To confirm, its not a feature.

I don't have any images to post, but you'll again see more of these in The Company tomorrow, and with subsequent Armory updates over the coming weeks.

There are more Cosmetics being released in the Armory, and The Company as part of this update.

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Expectation is that it's staying. It's not solely in for a Weekly Mission.

We did look into it, but we have that flag set as an option operating at a much higher level than just Community Games. We couldn't separate it out down to the individual Server level without reworking that entire code base.

It won't feature in a future update, I have good confidence in noting that today - just wanted you to know that we didn't take it off the table without good cause.

You'll see them in game tomorrow.

No. Grind Maps won't feature in the rotations for Community Games. Grind Maps are built differently to other Modes and so we couldn't separate them from Conquest Mode without rebuilding them entirely.

On your question -

No. It would require redesigning all of our maps on a Map level vs. a System Level. That's a really big undertaking when you factor in the number of maps and potential mode combinations, and we've got our eyes on the future right now.

Pleased to hear that the rest of the features sound great to you otherwise - looking forward to hearing more from you when you've gotten hands on with it!

1. When the servers empty - the server shuts down. You can save your config and stand it back up next time you play. We won't feature empty servers in Battlefield V, we'll only feature populated ones.

2. Not a feature for Community Games - agreed it would be useful, but we asked ourselves what best suits the design we have for the feature. As is the case with the above, we largely anticipate the servers to be active whilst the admin is present.

3. Correct, Manual Move isn't a feature.

4. We're still exploring it. We won't feature it in the Update notes if it's not going to be a change when the update goes live. When the status of this changes, I'll let folks know for sure. Still an area we're keen to develop improvements for.

Thanks for the questions.

In the files vs. we're happy to release something are separate things. There's no desire to deliberately frustrate anybody by not releasing something, sometimes we just need to get other things in order before we do.

Apologies. There was never an intent to be vague.

I generally don't tweet about 'BUY NOW' esque offers because I don't use my personal Social Media to do direct product advertisement (where money is directly involved). In future, I'll use this as an example for being a lot more direct in my language, and being more appreciative of folks who may have different applications of 'Until Tuesday'. I've used the term to denote the end of the end, vs. the start of the end - I can appreciate the confusion, it wasn't intended.

For those asking on other threads - there are other bundles to release, we haven't released them as part of this recent Sneak Peek because the team aren't satisfied with how they're viewed in the armory. When we are, we may go on to release them.

Also, Brian Blessed was busy that day.

We've continued to develop and release content and updates since transitioning to a WFH status because of the COVID outbreak. The only impact we experienced was combining 4.4. and 4.6 (minor updates) but otherwise haven't stopped working or extensively delayed anything because of it.

We otherwise stopped marketing the Summer Update because we acknowledge that there are more important things happening in our world and are completely unashamed of that.

Our development teams are otherwise made up of Human Beings, who take vacations. You're welcome to read up about how it is that Sweden as a nation approaches Vacation, and seperate to that, how Production Cycles are benefited from teams taking Vacation together, than independently at different times all throughout the year.

There are two types of content currently known to folks, unfinished and unreleased.

I can't publish a full list of where things sit, but unfinished content was never moved into the unreleased category because we ultimately deprioritised it - there may well be small items still in the files which are known to cause issues or we simply felt didnt add anything substantial to the experience and so will never release.

Unreleased content is just that, unreleased (yet). There's still plenty more rotation to come through the Armory. If the day comes where I'm giving the ability to publish a complete rotation calendar, I will.

1. Later in the year is the current expectation, date not set but we are still committed to expanding community games.
2. These systems are continuously updated and improved and have been throughout the lifecycle of the game
3. It's not live yet, but check through my comment history as someone else has asked recently on this topic. TLDR, we have a design and something in testing but I can't set a date for when or if we may activate it
4. There was a change made a few patches back that alters the behaviour of this to protect against Spawn>Death. It has some minor known issues similar to the previous behaviour but it's overall change to limit how much you could potentially spawn and be shot in the back was by design. I appreciate the feedback from you on the current behaviour, I've not been told to expect any further changes
5. There are no changes currently committed to adjust existing AA/Aircraft balance

Works gone on hold for the Summer while the teams take their vacations.

We had the option of deploying it but there was an issue where all Squad leaders would be ejected from the game when the systems activated. That's counter productive, so we rejected the update.

What we had otherwise developed so far is working as we want it too, but not wanting to release something that would completely ruin the experience for the summer we've put it on hold until we can pick up the work once the teams are back from their annual vacations.

Belief is that we can still develop a change as we know where the faults are, it's just subject to more testing and more engineering work to get us to a place where we're comfortable releasing it.

We'll evaluate and share more when we can.

It was a few final facepaints and I think a haircut that will get used as potential login rewards. They were likely already in the files for a number of months but carried bugs that prevented them from ever being used.

For sure, and I'll volunteer that in a normal world, this was set to be a very straight forward affair in the world of communications, and we were originally working towards a cool moment where things happened in a manner where we'd reflect differently on the topic today.

Here's more dull and dry explanations/rambling if you're interested

The trailer originally would have gone out on the Wednesday before the update (the following Tuesday), patch notes would have followed on the Thursday, and the update out the following week. EA Play would originally have then been on the following week where we would have talked about the whole Battlefield franchise coming to Steam.

That's a plan that for a campaign team (not talking development or production here) gets produced as early as 4-6 months before at a high level, associated work gets mapped out, folks get to task, and then pulled together over the course of that project's timeline. The work itself all ...

A true classic, one final swing (and miss).

To add in what else I shared (and why we simply didn't straight away change it and release it), we produce our trailers in different formats, languages, and in different crops for different platforms and storefronts. That's some 20GB worth of renders and a further stack of Projects and their source files that need reopening and the like.

So it stacks up as a big task to solve a small (and it's 12pt font small) problem.

We were very much considering a world where we never released this trailer, we revisited that late last week to ask what we did want to do and its simply a tiny detail thats easy to miss. We caught it and asked ourselves if we were happy with it and decided no, so we're changing it

Will still be this week - and I'll keep folks updated.