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Being able to manage assignments in game, during rounds isn't something that's likely to change soon. If I hear about that changing I'll let you know but presently this is a limitation of the tech and to change it would have some pretty nasty consequences to the way our traffic is managed during a round.

No.

It likely won't be on all skins, just certain ones we consider default. Whatever we do will be a replacement of the existing look, and we'll only commit the change if we're happy that it's the right one to make.

slightly, but with love

Hey Folks,

I’ll start by sharing a thank you from us all at DICE for your support in these recent weeks as we’ve made the change from working in our usual offices, to instead working at home. Since then more folks across the world have been asked to make similar changes to their lifestyle so from all of us, we hope you’re well, safe, and healthy.

I otherwise wanted to check in with you all and give you an update on how the recent changes have affected our plans for Battlefield V, so that you know what to expect in the coming weeks.

We presently believe that our next game update will be released in May.

Initially, we were planning to release an update around the start of April, however with all of the changes and the need to create entirely new workflows, we found ourselves up against much more constrained timelines. The April update will now feature as a part of our next update, which we believe we will be able to release in...

Other than Clay Pigeon Shooting I've never done much real life Firearms shooting. Played Paintball in a WWII bunker in Exeter once - that was DEAFENING - I cannot begin to imagine how loud that lad must have been inside there

We actually can do this (so long as the player counts align - Rush for example cannot be played with Breakthrough, nor can Grind be played with Rush) - basically treat it like the way CG works in terms of playlist creation, show me what they are and I'll happily take it to the team.

With the world being a little scarier than usual and more people needing the escape, spending more time playing Video Games I'm all for helping to find a way to make a little easier until the chaos clears.

Build me some playlists, get them upvoted to show me whats popular and I'll get it done (u/ tag me on them, and as I say use the laws that govern CG as a guideline. Grind can feature in all of this despite it not being present in CG due to the ways its coded).

Kind of you to say! With regards to folks wellbeing and mental health especially we all feel much the same - we want for folks to be able to relax/escape a little to ease their minds and if any of the games we make here at DICE help to do that then that's a lovely thing to be a part of.

Yeah forgive me for not adding a very important word into the above that may change the way you read it.

'may need'

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'need'

I don't work with the teams on that technical a level and I'd be too stupid to understand it even if I did! But I wanted to present to you a standard of logic and way of thinking that I'm encouraged to consider when I'm taking feedback and ideas such as this from yourselves to the team.

It's not to state this is exactly our circumstance, and misleading of me to do so - apologies.

But this is often what I see across the studio as we're doing things like developing Elites, and managing the difference between soldiers. It could be as major as, a limb doesn't move correctly, could be as minor as causes odd clipping. Either way, it necessitates attention and work and drag and drop rarely yields the positive result.

Again, not impossible but also not guaranteed to be easy either.

That the models exist, are textured and physically move is one thing, but we may also need to parse all of their respective audio and ensure that they're able to easily be used across standard game modes + check all their animation and rigging to make sure that they behave in all situations.

As an example, imagine that the model shown by Danny was designed to be someone who only ever used a shotgun - how does that game model behave when the person is then used on Recon, and prone with a Boys AT? Does their model behave when they're entering a plane/tank/car/boat etc?

Not saying yes/no either way, but these are the types of conversations we have to have when we're trying to figure out what we can do with existing assets which were created for distinctly different purposes.

I can understand that completely.

I'll volunteer that when it comes to talking to my peers across the industry, it's becoming more common that developers are choosing to engage less directly with players vs. instead directly with folks like me and Jeff, who in turn then work to keep things as open as transparent as we can with you, the players.

The role of a CM is seemingly evolving beyond being some Frontman/Car Salesman to being someone who is entrusted to be able to help both quantify and qualify the feedback that's being expressed by players and what's motivating it. I see that as a good thing for supporting live services, and helping to inform planning for future projects. It's slow to see, but we're all helping to make more decisions across the industry that see our games align closer to the wish of our players vs. some artistic/design/financially driven end goal.

Whenever I'm talking to developers (again, across the industry vs. specific to DICE) a...

Can't really talk about the future in a level of detail that will bring you any genuine comfort with an answer just yet, but this feedback has been discussed internally with an eye to the future.

Agreed! It's good that we have ways to work around it and manage it with friends, but they often require your friend stopping playing to find a way to share detail of what server they're in, and then on you to find said server. It's not ideal at all and we will have it back to it's simpler operation soon as we can.

It's appreciated too! Thanks!

The simple answer is changes to our schedule, and focus throughout the project.

Some weapons were either identified as being better used elsewhere in the game, or we prioritised solving for other things and simply reallocated our resource appropriately. The Sjorgen as an example was moved to feature as part of the 5v5 Content that we never released, along with many of the other weapons you listed, and some of the cosmetics. As I've talked about in the past, 5v5 behaved differently to the main game, the weapons were built to service only that mode and so there's an additional workload to be performed if we want to change how they're utilised. Same for the cosmetics, they were designed and tested for specific characters, and to meet our standards need to have no known issues when used on all characters, in all situations in order to be shipped.

They're otherwise not sitting there in a 100% complete state in the background, and we're not intentionally holding them bac...

Not yet - I think we need our next update out to enable them so i'll keep you updated as we work up the new timelines

We believe we have it fixed for our next update, but it will feature as part of our next update vs. something we're able to sort on the backend. Still needs to go through testing, we'll update Trello as we get further through the process.

Balance will continue to be monitored and feature as part of future updates. We'll share via Update Notes anything that we feel needs adjusting but right now we're still reviewing how the 'meta' is settling. Takes a while for behaviours to settle in and we'd rather review that than make and quick judgements.

Meme a reply as it is, this is something we want 100% resolved before we do get an XP modifier in testing. I don't want a situation where you miss out on Double XP because the systems not synced correctly.

Real Talk. It's a possibility. We always intended that for this Chapter, more tier skips would feature. That was intentional. We pushed more weapons into Chapter Rewards (because we were seeing better usage and unlock behaviour from the similar approach we took in Chapter 5), and so having more tier skips made sense and encouraged more folks to focus on playing the Chapter vs. grinding a week. Were it that we didn't make the decision on day 1 to release the weapons to all players (owing to a configuration issue), they would have found a happier home with folks each week. Naturally changing the plan on day 1 doesn't allow for us to simply make an equal and immediate change to account for how that might affect other things. We knew that when we made the decision, and we're still satisfied today that we made that right decision.

In spite of that, we're still seeing really good performance on the Chapter Rank averages this season vs. last and we're expecting to see more people ...