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Not an intentional change. We're looking into it and will restore her as soon as we're able. Will update the post later.

Update - This is now fixed and will be visible to folks again. You'll likely need to reselect them for any Soldiers from your company.

Apologies for that and thanks to folks for flagging.

Because until the change was committed and certified as shippable, it's not fit for discussion. To speak before we reach that point is to speak only from a platform of speculation or optimistic expectation and that's not an appropriate way to ensure you're not left with a bad expectation as many have been here in the past.

I empathise completely that with an absence of facts, you're only left with speculation and that's both disruptive and destructive, but designs and plans don't become facts until they ship.

If I can work to change and improve these things, I will, but until a regular cadence exists where you feel you can trust what's stated and promised to you, we don't have the right to expect that us sharing a plan we may go on to action can be viewed in the right light. For that reason, we share when we ship.

Sometimes we simply can't show you how the sausage is made.

I won't give you false hope other than to say it's been raised for discussion. Can't tell you where we'll land on it till the final changes are committed, but on a personal level it's an idea that I'm a fan of and would support.

How does everyone else feel? Conscious that for some, having certain rewards are status symbols and I want to be conscious of not mistreating that.

Tomorrow morning EU Time.

Usual patching times, except Xbox is up first this time around and will go live just before when PC usually does.

It's a nice change.

It won't show with a big alert like a Skull or anything similar, but it will be a line of score that properly acknowledges and rewards it.

Spoke about it in the past so I don't mind answering again.

Chapter 5 provided us with the best example of players obtaining new content through playing the game and engaging with chapter ranks vs. weekly rewards.

Ownership of weapons via that system vs weekly reward was far higher so in the interest of ensuring that more players were gaining more access to more things, we removed them from weekly rewards and got them into Chapter Rewards instead.

We appreciate that we get lots of great weekly engagement from folks who do log in and either smash out the challenges in one go, but there were also players who either didnt get the chance too, or couldn't complete the tasks in time. By changing the system so that these rewards were earned based on overall engagement across the entire chapter, it was providing more opportunity to unlock, and better overall experience for more players.

Flip side, yes it came at the cost of reducing the enjoyment and removi...

Everyones aware.

To make sure everyone is crystal clear on this - that is correct. Chapter 6 was the final Chapter in the Tides of War. We will still have Weekly Missions and rewards, but there is no overarching chapter and you won't be seeing that system of chapter rank or rewards when 7.0 launches.

I appreciate that's what has been reflected by others in the comments threaded above, I just want to make sure that the speculation is removed from that topic so that you best understand what to expect in 7.0 and beyond

Feedback on this always comes from two sides.

First - Data vs. Design

We have the telemetry to know that if our design states, game should do this, that the data should back that up. There are simple data questions we can answer to prove out success.

Are games ending with full teams? Are games ending with balanced numbers of players on each side? Are games close, or one sided? How does this compare with past behaviour?

That's data. It's useful in certain circumstances and we like to informed by it, but not driven by it.

Second - What are you saying, and is the design right?

This doesn't need to be as formal as a survey. We're a multicultural player base of varied age ranges and I can task our UXR team to produce a scientifically accurate survey that will respect how different people approach surveys and give us the right answer, all after carefully extracting high quality feedback vs. someone sh*tposting a result out of fair protest.

I share that hope too. Never tire of stating it.

Yup

Not scrapped, but here's an update.

We wanted to get a change targeted at improving the experience that you have with unbalanced rounds into the game, and live alongside the release tomorrow as a part of Update 6.6 . It was always slated for this update on our development timelines, and we've actively made the changes that we want to make in the update tomorrow.

So why isn't it listed in the Update notes, and why am I not talking about it in more detail today?

The feature/changes that we've developed are locked behind what we call a 'Killswitch' and we're launching the update tomorrow with that kill switch active (meaning you won't experience the change).

Transitioning to a mass scale testing environment in a world of COVID and work from home requires something that we don't have - more people to test with. All of the content for update 6.6 has been rigorously tested to the very best of our abilities and I've complete confidence in the team in what'...

There's always a story to be told for sure. Simply speaking you're still experiencing Chapter 6 right now (which I appreciated is something that now ended a few weeks back).

For this chapter, we front ended all our content. No weekly rewards, more focus on chapter rewards - removing the FOMO of a weekly reward that you HAVE to get in favor of encouraging folks to play at their own pace, and helping to ensure that people who did play weekly got a better experience out of the Chapter Rank Rewards with more skips.

Chapter 6 inevitably became unintentionally extended because of COVID (in terms of development time vs. experience with the player) and then there was the additional transition we've had to make into our next Phase for Battlefield V and focusing on the Summer Update.

In terms of expectations based on things that get Data Mined - this is something I've talked about before, with the main thing being that it often distorts peoples expectations. Sometime...

Until it's locked into an update with 100% signoff, any answer I give to any question is No, or Maybe.

Some maybe's become no's for reasons outside of my control, and not always with the ability to inform you on why it's changed from one state to the other.

In order to behave as responsibly as possible regarding future content, the most appropriate thing I can do is wait until I have the clearest indication and the firmest ground on which to stand when I give as honest an answer as possible.

In any instance where the team are 100% comfortable confirming and sharing where we are with something, it gets shared. The rest of the time we're working as best as we can to move things away from the No, and Maybe territory.

Won't be able to answer the question today. Just wanted to make sure you understood that it was seen.

Instant I can provide an answer, I shall.

Both true. Some of the additional tank customisation may only feature in bundles but the files are being delivered in this update.

They are.

Weekly Mission Rewards for the next two weeks (Outpost this week, Grind Next Week) are presently set at 100BFC each week

As we get closer to understanding when we will launch 7.0 goes live I'll be able to confirm what our plan is for weekly rewards but our current thinking is to alternate between 100BFC each week and 1000 CC

*A Note on all the above that this is all 100% subject to change. If it does, I'll state where I can but if you're opting to share this detail elsewhere, please do so responsibly.

They are indeed. They weren't submitted through the patch notes system for how they were worked up but for the base uniform changes they're in this update and you'll see them tomorrow.

When I use the term Content I use it in the way it's most commonly used here.

Content = New Maps, New Weapons, New Vehicles

Things that are brand new to the experience.

This isn't stuff that's targeted for this update, but for the 7.0 update which we've targeted for release in June.