PartWelsh

They're not ignored in terms of us seeing that these are still expectations that you have, and that you're notifying us have not been delivered on (alongside the commentary around Anti-Cheat, seeing Private Games come to Battlefield V, various cosmetics that have featured in past trailers), but perfectly to your point these things need more than just indications like 'top priority' and 'soon' to restore the confidence and quiet the noise.

Nothing would please me more than to lift the curtain but too many bad expectations have been set, and promises broken. Hopefully the last two updates (4.4 and 4.6) have demonstrated that there's plenty of quality being put into the updates, beyond just the new maps that have featured. This is something that is absolutely set to continue with 5.0 and the rest of the updates that will feature this side of the Holidays.

Back to your point, the instant we have concrete news to share on previously promised content, or unannounced qual...

No date. We have one in mind, but won’t release it until we can also confirm the dates for the update itself.

Dates are dependent on confirmation that our Updates are devoid of new issues, and ready to ship. We won't commit to firm and fixed dates until we're confident that we can deliver on Quality.

Not ignored, I just can't set a false expectation with you in relation to what's been targeted for fix until the fix itself is confirmed as fit to deliver.

That's what matters most. Anything we provide today would just be more words, and more promise. Until we've delivered our promises for the Pacific, we won't commit to new ones.

You all deserve results.

I'll receive a first draft of the patch notes on Friday, and then work with the team as they go through their testing phases to ensure that they're accurate and best representing the changes (that process takes a few weeks as a general heads up).

We won't be publishing the update notes themselves until everything has cleared through our certification processes internally, and with our partners at Microsoft and Sony. We will release some information via Trello as we confirm what's being tested for fixing, but for the most part we're locked up till we have absolute confidence that the fix is effective.

You're right to call us out on it. We'll be updating the text on that later today to reflect that we don't have anything to share on it just yet. Focus right now is delivering the Pacific, and the changes coming in 5.0

I'm fine with this.

It's an outstanding post - not enough updoots

This is a common misconception.

We don’t have a fixed limit on the number of servers. We populate servers based on demand, and that demand is measured from the ‘Play Now’ Quickmatch options vs. reviewing how many people have the game switched on or are sat in the server browser screen.

If you queue for a server, we find other players who are queued within your region and if you’re not already in a group, we assign you into a group.

From there we identify how many other groups are queued for the same Playlist and then we create a server to push you into (assuming that there isn’t room in a server to just move you into with your squad, without unbalancing the teams).

Any new players who queue are then pushed straight into that server until it’s full and the process starts again.

Same.

Pistol Skins aren't really a thing in Battlefield V today. There are different variants of the pistols (such as this) though - same stats.

Big fan of the Silver 1911 - https://twitter.com/PartWelsh/status/1178287478194745346

I recognize that this is never going to be an acceptable answer. The best response we can ever provide is that we're delivering a Change in our next update.

Regardless, I have shared this with the crew today.

Please get in touch with EA Help. This isn't a common issue hitting all players who update the game. This may be an issue that the Tech teams can help to identify. To me, it sounds like a potential HDD issue, or a corrupt install issue.

https://help.ea.com/contact-us/

We won't be publishing update notes for this Hotfix as the issues solved by this haven't been experienced by players and apply only to unreleased content shown to require additonal tweaks.

The exception to this is for Xbox Players where we've solved the issue relating to Disconnections when pressing the Xbox button during gameplay.

There are no other fixes or changes relating to live content with this Update.

We won't be publishing update notes for this Hotfix as the issues solved by this haven't been experienced by players and apply only to unreleased content shown to require additonal tweaks.

The exception to this is for Xbox Players where we've solved the issue relating to Disconnections when pressing the Xbox button during gameplay.

There are no other fixes or changes relating to live content with this Update.

Looking into it with the team - some folks have found success with a right click 'Repair Game' and it seems to have pushed past it.

I'll edit this with more info as we get word back from the team.

Edit: Here's what we're seeing as the most successful workaround so far (still trying to resolve the original issue here)

Cancel the partially completed download (this will mean that you lose your progress), restart origin, select Repair, wait it out and launch the game :)

It’s a download. I’ll be able to confirm sizes in the morning.

Correct it’s 4.6.1. It will be for all platforms as we have additional changes and tweaks to make to unreleased content for Battlefest.