It’s unacceptable to use the newness of a game as an excuse for a lack of quality, missing features or anything else. Customers expect that the products they buy are of assured quality. Actually, I thought that was supposed to be the hallmark of the highly expensive post BF2 era Battlefield games.
@HardAimedKid @warslag - Stay on Topic.
Discuss the features, etc. of Firestorm or find another thread.
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One of the Devs mentioned this on Twitter or maybe via an email.
Basically, adding fortifications was scrapped (for now, maybe it will come in the future, who knows?) because it slowed down the mode too much.
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Glad you’re enjoying it. Not sure how a free mode is a cash grab, but okay.
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Yes I did address the fanboy topic but I also addressed that firestorm couldn’t possibly be ahead of pubg in terms of fixes when it just launched. (Even though in my opinion as far as how good it plays it’s already ahead in my opinion)
Right on. Just wanted to address the bickering/name-calling.
And we are looking to push an update for BFV out next week that has a whole host of fixes/tweaks to Firestorm as well as BFV vanilla.
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I can’t wait.
God, do i hate this mode already. Just getting the 1500 points for ToW is enough to make me never want to play this again.
Appreciate the feedback. Got any specific details on why?
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Firestorm is honestly terrible. Its buggy and lags a lot. The ring moves to often. So you hardly get to loot or see any part of the map before you’re being forced to run for 5 minutes. You pretty much need to always land in the very center if you want to even hope to get decent gear. The menu for your inventory is confusing and unclear. The game is designed around a quick ttk so you get downed and completely killed out of the game really quickly. Which isn’t that enjoyable. Especially since it takes like 5 minutes to get back into another game. The lack of in-game communication with pinging objects or areas makes playing with randomsor no Mic people extremely difficult. Overall everything just feels buggy, rushed, and poorly thrown together. I don’t know if dice was thinking this would be a hardcore battleroyal game but BR just doesnt work in the battlefield series. It doesn’t make sense from a gameplay standpoint. And it doesnt make sense from a “story standpoint” for lack of a better word. Dice should never have invested time and energy into this. The time it took to design this map which is like 10 times larger than hamada? They could have given us at least 5 other maps for all our other multiplayer experiences. Plus weapons, cosmetics, vehicles, gadgets, and other factions. Those other game types are why people play battlefield games. Not for more Battleroyale crap.
He’s probably meaning a cash grab by trying to push more copies of BFV because it now has a BR game mode. Instead of focusing on the roots of a good BF game, large destructible maps, large teams with infantry, air, land, and see vehicles. Intense combat over a wide variety of locations within each map. Just so many things that have separated the BF titles from almost all other FPS games. But instead of really focusing on all that good stuff and win people over with excellent quality and diversity they’ve tried to use the BR bandwagon to try and sell more copies of the game.
So we can take that as a statement meaning EA won’t be throwing this out as free to play for everyone and their cousin in 1 or 2 months?
Some feedback:
You either drop with a few other players in one location and then it turns into a dumb race of who gets a weapon first, if you don’t you are dead anyway so you get like 30 sec playtime for 1 minute of loading.
Or you get some stuff but are so far out that you have to walk 2-3 minutes until you meet someone and then there is a 50% chance you’ll die anyway.
I get that this is the basic design idea of Battle Royale games, but this is also the reason i don’t play them.
And then people are doing the same camping stuff as in normal BF which i consider to be boring.
I also get that i am not your target audience since i am not some super elite pro player who constantly does videos about his 20+ kill streaks and his 5+ K/D.
In the end i am just not good enough to enjoy this mode since i die too fast and too often to actually play the game. This would be less of a problem in normal BF where i just respawn but in a Battle Royale it just means not much is happening and then i die which is very unsatisfying.
It sounds like that you don’t like that Battle Royale games are extremely circumstantial from your post. If not then no, firestorm isn’t for you.
One of the best things about Battle Royale games to anyone who likes them is the circumstance, while it can drive you insane from time to time it always makes for an interesting match to us 
Please explain how it is a free game when you have to purchase the game. Just a question.
IMHO FS should have it’s own ranking and when possible match people to their FS skill based ranking. With my tactical play I end up in the last 16 every other game. Tonight I ranked 2nd twice but I’m still bad at killing 1:1. I know how to get good stuff by dropping into remote areas. Yes it’s a lot of running and hiding but that gets me into the end game. There I fail miserably. I do damage but never kill. I’m afraid my skill will not go far up so I’ll leave FS just because I’m matched with way better players. Fine with me but I really liked this mode and it’s the first BR I’m playing after 5 minutes of Fortnite last year.
No, you can take it as exactly how it was written. You can assume whatever you want, but don’t try to twist my words.
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For sure. First, I didn’t say it was a “free game”. I said it was a “free mode”.
The word “free” here meaning that, like all DLC in Battlefield V, there was no cost to play it if you have Battlefield V because it’s part of Battlefield V.
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I was a huge fan after BF 3. Thought the controls were over complicated but liked it enough to get BF 4. WOW knocked that out of the park with PS 3. Totally awesome! Then PS 4 came out…I finally broke down 2 months ago and got the PS 4 with only 2 games. BF 5 was 1 and after trying BF 1, I didn’t care for it so I wont buy it. I will be totally honest, seems like the games went backwards with technology since BF 4. LMG is more accurate long distance than a sniper rifle? I didn’t care for it but I still played for a bit. Got hooked on Blackout and now Firestorm comes out. I played it for 2 days, and it’s way too confusing & time consuming to change between gadgets. Between the time it takes to load a game to the confusion and time between gadgets…IDK how often I’ll play it. Kind of given up on BF. Call me when you take the the BF4 version to a new level and I promise to be the first to jump back on the wagon.
PS, tell Sony the PS 3 controller’s action was more fluid and accurate then these new ones. Same crappy quality as I’m on my second controller in such a short time!
I’m starting to give up paying such a premium price for crappy quality!
This is exactly how I feel. Half of the rush I get in playing Firestorm is just running around hearing things that turn out to be my own teammates footsteps. Firestorm requires you to play smart and punishes those that run around running and gunning. If you get a good squad together you can work to surround people and attack only when you are ready to, which why I like Firestorm way more than Apex or Fortnite. The thrill is in the hunt.