I am confident the developers at DICE are amazing and really up to the task. My take it is all about leadership or the lack thereof. The leadership at DICE need their MOJO back.
I wouldn’t necessarily say that BF1 was wasted potential, because they did fit a ton of things in the game, from the naval battles, to the Russian Civil War. But there were other parts of the war that were interesting or important that should have been included in BF1.
Here’s what I think they would have added.
•Bulgarian Army
•Serbian Army
•Japanese Army
•Greek Army
•Battles in Africa between colonial troops
•The Battle of the Falklands
I already try to play like that with my clan.
But even then we often have different ideas of fun. Most of my clan are infantry heroes while I am more into vehicles myself.. It is hard to have 3 exactly like minded people available
To me, I would like to go back to 6 man squads like BF2. And we need all kinds infantry and vehicles with coordinated attacks to be successful. Never took a flag (really) with a jet.
I thought the Commander concept was awesome in BF2 as well. Especially now that so many people have tablets. Don’t feel like trudging? Grab your ipad and start giving orders from your tabletop view. Earn requisition and drop some food or bombs, your call.
Commander worked great in BF4 as well, but it required you leave the game and come back in. Communication between the commander and squad leaders seemed better in BF2.
Dice is not getting much love cause the bad PR, anticheat, TTK and the fact soviets were not included overshadows everything.
I stopped playing 4 weeks ago. Done that 2 times before but this time I dont think I`m comming back since the game wont be improved in any way. BFV will be remembered as the game that could have been great but failed.
This. So much potential wasted.
Just look at all the amazing maps in bf1942 and they only bothered to bring Wake over.
As it happens the cheating was so bad, in the end nothing mattered.
Not sure about 1942. Never played that one. I started on BF2 and Wake Island. They tried to bring it in BF3 and ruined play with changes. BFV tried Wake Island. It was OK. I actually love Provence. The full sized map did not come out until they were about to shut down BFV.
You are right. Cheating was a big part of the downfall as well. What added to it was that it did not appear DICE had any interest in fixing it. I mean if they aren’t going to do anything to address it in a meaningful way then allow private servers where a human can kick and ban someone.
Tha_Growler do not derail the thread with off topic comments about cheating.
Not looking derail anything. Cheating is one of the many reason the game failed.
It was hardly the biggest problem out there and it did not really affect the consoles too.
BFV is a gameplay designing failure born out of the refusal of the decision makers to change their course in spite of our best efforts to call out the massive icebergs.
You’ve got a terrible movie taste
Everyone ready for the last major update hoping its soviets. We get tom cruise…
I don’t understand I remember in BF4 we spent nearly a year tweaking the BF experience till it was down to a fine are then boom battlefield 1 dropped and we went back to square 1, I will never in my live attend and help with a CTE program ever again
And after BF1 they managed to make it even worse by killing important features like team balancing, anticheat and rental servers.
Who makes such monumental errors “by accident”? Seemed to me that they deliberately tried to kill the franchise, but now, to my surprise, BF6 seems to really be in development.
BF6 will either be a great succes or the end of the franchise. Black* or white, there is no place for “grey” this time. Like Unreal Tournament 3 fifteen years ago (which was the end of the franchise).
- disclaimer: this has nothing to do with skin color, BLM!
In spite if the seemingly beautiful game. The franchise died with bfv. A huge letdown fron bf1. We will not buy bf6.