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As I've volunteered elsewhere - no one is being ignored. Anyone expressing frustration and anger at the change is being heard by me. It's my role to help to communicate the changes to you, and to communicate your feedback back the other way. There's nothing beyond that I can hope to address at Noon on a Sunday without having more engagement with the teams and having wider discussions with them.

If you're hiding behind a bush, a wall, or in smoke (relative to the player) - the indicators won't activate

The 3 points you raised are ones I see (and hear when I'm in game) commonly. It's something we know would be positively received if we could implement - I don't have any insight on where we are with it beyond it being something we would like to do, but know that it's something we have tracked.

If you can DM me your EA Help Case number (nothing else) I'll get it looked into

I'm not sure on the Splash damage from arty when indoors, but I'll pass it to the team to see if they can look at it.

We're fixing an issue with the flamethrower that was causing it to be a hitmarker cannon in the tunnels on Iwo Jima, but I haven't seen any other changes proposed for the Flamethrower specifically.

Basically how it behaves on the open battlefield is how it's supposed to behave universally. That's the change that is being tested right now.

I haven't had those stats shared with me, will need to look into that in the week. My expectation is no, but then I'm not fully familar with the damage calculations or if headshot is calculated via a base multiplier.

Leave that one with me and I'll do my best to find out next week.

None taken.

A user side toggle for the Soldier lighting is being tested for a future update. Might make 5.2, however it is just for the local user based on their preference (we recognise folks who capture screenshots and cinematics may prefer to have it off)

It'll vary from gun to gun but if you take the STG as an example, yes it requires an extra bullet, but due to the other changes that are coming, I wouldn't expect to see a dramatic shift in the time it takes to kill a player within the usual engagement range.

At longer ranges, players will have more time to react to the engagement, but headshots and the like will still force a player into scenarios where they're engaging with very low health.

Changes to Damage at Range will be in effect across the whole game

There's a lot of fairly worded (in some cases constructive) criticism being sent my way, the rest I still read and process. Just because someone is too angry to more fairly express how they feel shouldn't detract from the overall intent or message underyling what they've commented.

The good news is that I am paid for it, real love and appreciation needs to go to the mods who both own the Sub and do this for the sheer love of the game and people who play - the mods do this for free.

That's the job!

Thanks! I'll take a break for a few hours and check back later. Thinking that I might attempt to buy some Winter Boots before the Snow threatens to land here in Sweden and I still have the urge to buy Ring Fit Adventure on Switch. Watched a friend stream it the other day and it looked like good fun (though it'll just be another thing that means I'll never complete Red Dead 😅)

Thank you for your service!

(Totally Bookmarking that for others that I see asking the same question)

It's presently not an option. We recognise that folks would appreciate seeing it added to the game, but I don't have anything more to volunteer beyond that.

In the event it does enter development, and reaches our testing stages I'll be sure to share. For the most part our efforts are presently best dedicated elsewhere.

I can't remember how far back it was we added this - might be 4.2?

Is a cool feature, glad to see it being used!

Behavior of the feature is that if you're inside 28M and the enemy is fully visible, a local only red symbol will appear on the players head whilst you have your gun pointing at them.

If you move to within 15M, this icon will similarly display against any player that is within your field of vision. Enemies who are inside 15M but not visible to you will not be affected by this.

The system is separate from Spotting, its local to you, and not shared with your team or squad.

You can see an example of it here -

https://reddit.com/link/dwueiv/video/dm8n59tnbvy31/player

Edit: Corrected the ranges

Genuinely not sure on the timelines, but there's been no stage in the past few months when discussing any of the gameplay changes that were in development for BFV where it hasn't been expressed to me that we aren't willing to revisit any change that we ever make to the game. As I've said elsewhere, we play the game a lot in internal playtests (around 3 hours per day, every day, longer in many other cases) where we get hands on with this stuff and share our thoughts across the studio on the changes. The belief from myself and the team is that this is a change that won't negatively impact the experience you have playing the game. If that proves to be true and evident across every platform, and all aspects of the game, it will prompt us to discuss our next steps.

I will volunteer that it's easier for us to revert changes than it is for us to study issues, find fixes, test fixes and deliver patches through certification processes.

Hard to quantify. We've done a full review of all weapons, with the exception of Bolt Action Carbines, Sniper Rifles, and Anti-material Rifles (as they were balanced more recently).

Every weapon has received different levels of attention. Weapons that were performing outside of our intended design will have been more closely touched compared to those that were behaving within our design.

As I've volunteered, our Update Notes will release ahead of the update (usually within 18 hours of it going live) where we'll publish the full set.

If we feel that we'd benefit from showcasing some of the weapons next week in a better context, we'll potentially do some of that before the Update Notes land.

Happy to help - have a good weekend!