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Please don't give /u/jaqubajmal ideas!

What are your sound issues? Stick some detail here and myself and /u/jaqubajmal can look into it.

We'll have Weekly Challenges back during Battlefest. Tides of War otherwise returns with Chapter 5.

Again, more complicated.

Weapon Models/Skins can exist in the files - and they can exist as playable content for modes not related to Multiplayer.

In Multiplayer, your weapon has to have Assignments, Working Progression, and Specialisations. It also needs to be appropriately balanced damage wise (across all Specialisations Variation) to add to the playstyles offered in the game.

I go for the Cricket Bat where possible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BattlefieldV/comments/9x6o4w/ive_never_felt_so_sad/

I had the opposite experience of this 😅

Our original plan for the Trench Carbine had to change because of the delay to the 4.4 Update. It caused for there to be a gap in the week where the Weapon should have been the reward, but couldn't because the necessary files weren't in place.

In order to change that, we would have needed to create a new Tides of War week to replace it, and install the correct logic for it (plus test that). This would have further delayed the launch of 4.4 to achieve that. Given the quality of life fixes and content that we had available to us, we decided to launch the update, but we have worked to get the Trench Carbine out to players as soon as we could.

I can't make you any less angry than you are about this, only you control that.

We'll be monitoring for this kind of feedback, but we're happy with how it played during the last few months that we've had it in testing.

I'm a big fan of Pickles. Criticise McDonalds all you like, but I love a good liberal application of Pickles on a Dollar Menu Cheeseburger.

AFAIK, Chapter TOW XP and Class/Weapon Assignments cannot be discarded. However there's a separate tier of Assignments which are generated under certain circumstance and provided to players as a method of earning additional CC which can be. Which assignments are you looking to discard?

As far as I know, we don't have a discount system built into the Armory. It will credit you with CC as a sort of 'scrap' value for duplicate content should you purchase it, but our systems aren't as sophisticated as that. I have volunteered this feedback to the team previously but I don't have anything additional to share on it.

I've shared a similar response elsewhere but the short version is to ensure Quality. Al Sundan did not behave correctly in the retail client vs. our testing, and Marita was similar (we had to Hotfix that issue).

Operation Underground is sincerely one of the best Battlefield maps I've played - and the gang I brought out to gamescom this year agree.

From our perspective, it's vitally important you have nothing short of an amazing experience with it, so the update will deliver the files, we'll be able to verify what we need, and in October, we'll be primed to set it live.

I can't fight the Drip meme meta, and I can't ask for your trust or confidence that we're acting in the best interests given the experience folks have had, and the further delays we confirmed today. But this is us acting responsibly and doing what's best for the player experience.

It's Reddit Tax. I don't take it personally, I respect that folks are mostly just expressing frustration by smashing in the downvotes - but it's a shame that it can occur in places where there's an answer to the question as this often causes Reddit to hide the response.

I can understand and respect that. The challenge we face is that we want to release our update the instant that we're confident we've eliminated any outstanding issues and achieved our standards of quality. If we're discovering issues late on during that process, it would cause us to be in a situation where we might continue to move the date and make matters worse.

As a made up example, imagining that we could have published the update last Tuesday, but discovered an issue that we weren't happy with during final tests - then we would have delayed till Thursday to fix it. If we then couldn't find the fix in time, our next opportunity would have been Tuesday, and so the pattern continues.

(The above not including the certification processes conducted external to ourselves when delivering the update to our partners at Sony and Microsoft)

If the week prior to that, we would have communicated our intended date, we would have ended up messing you around an awful l...

None of our changes are ever the end of the story. If we feel that the changes we've made both here and in 4.4 are too strongly limiting or affecting players, we'll revisit them.

Similarly if other changes elsewhere cause for MMG Play to suffer as an indirect consequence, it'll still prompt us to take another look.

PC - 12.1 GB

PS4 - 7.5 GB

Xbox - 7.5 GB

I'm a big fan of the work that Florian and the team did to make this part happen. It's going to help people make better use of the resource around them and keep them in the fight longer.

One of the key reasons why we're less upfront about the release dates of our Updates now is because we're serious about reducing issues, and maximizing our time testing for quality. If at any stage during the testing we find something that is going to cause issues, we're not releasing it.

Natrually, the environment we test in isn't going to always be the pure and perfect 1:1 replication of the live environment that we need in order to eliminate every possible issue and bug that can be shown post launch, but our expectation is that we're going to have less instances of 4.0 styled patches now.

I'm really looking forward to not using the Revolver for once!

Fixed in 4.4 - there are still instances where depending on if you've done Collat damage, or attacked someone between heals that the number may appear to go over 100, but since the 4.4 updates we've seen behaviors that suggest this is working correctly.

If that's not been the case for you, please do send myself and Jaqub some videos where you've found it occurring.