True, starting to play again and completing the Firestorm or Trail by Fire, doing sniping at first and see how the other team plays and the squad is good so far, even though I’m not in the group chat. Completing the objective, just need to find a squad to stay as a team, nothing so far.
So i just had a game where me and one more was left on the map. we both killed eachother in a firefight within split seconds of eachother. “makin it a tie”. It even said in the post screen that I was #1. but NO win appeared, and NOT even a tie. Maby its time to eighter create a draw section in the profile or just make draw as a Victory to both parts. eighter of this is ok for me. but give us something when being THAT close to a V.
The funniest finish I’ve spectated was the winner being killed by an AT pistol grenade fired by the 2nd.
I personally don’t mind the mode, Its like PUBG but with an actual chance of winning. (no hackers) Thats at least when it works. Getting it to work is really hit and miss. Finding a game in Australia is way too slow. More Aussie servers are needed and they also need to fix the long waiting time it takes to find a game.
How should they fix the long waiting times for local servers? I guess there aren’t enough players in those regions so you either need to wait long or join other servers and suffer from high ping.
u mean gain advantage from high ping AND destroy the fun of other ppl right?
dunno if firestorm servers overcompensate like the rest but yea…
There is plenty of demand, My gut feel is this is a cost issue, running local servers here is much more expensive than the USA.
It’s really easy…you take the people trying to join a game and YOU START THE GAME…the number of times I sit there waiting with an Aussie squad and it finds nothing…resquad…oh look new Aussie people…find nothing…resquad…oh look new Aussie people…nothing. Everyone is sitting in these queues with no idea what’s going on, asking each other wheether they’ve been able to join a game, it’s a joke…and yea duo or solo mode? HAHAHA no chance.
You get the feeling these squad servers will not start until they reach 40 people or some threshold which is just not being reached in our region, so why not lower it? I had a game with 16 people not so long ago and it was more fun than the hours I’ve spent trying to find a game.
The firestorm forum seems really dead, are people still playing FS or is this seriously a dying game mode? Haven’t been online to play for about a week and from catching up it looks like no one really cares about FS now.
In Europe I don’t wait long unless it’s in the middle of the night.
the queue time is not thaaat bad, but ive experiensed having 64 players rdy and still have to wait the last 60 sek befor deploying.
Whats worse then the queue time is the damnd armor. takin away the oneshot to the head potential with a sniper. That kinda ruind good BF feeling ive had in all the other bf games. the armor to the body im tolerating, but the head ? even a lvl 1\lvl2 armor blocks headshots. thats abit overkill in my opinion. sniping in FS is dead unfortunatly :S
Even Call of duty blackout have headshot kill potential with snipers as long as they dont have lvl 3 full juggernut suit.
If they were going to fix anything in this mode. I hope its that ! 
Player count seem low, server count is low, matchmaking takes forever, waiting times to get in a game are long and tedious (lobby & plane), the loot system is cluttered and unintuiative & the map feels empty with little action. Firestorm appears to be dead after a month or so, now the links to Trial by Fire assignments are over Firestorm has immolated.
What exactly is Dice/EA’s plan for Firestorm?! It feels like they’ve invested millions of dollars into this game mode and are basically letting it die through inaction. There is no communication and no apparent efforts to boost the Firestorm community - it’s actually mind boggling. Am I missing something?
No you are not missing anything, the game is just a remake from Apex and others game that is the same format, nothing new at all.
I really like BFV and I was not expecting much from Firestrom, but I must admit.. it’s really nice!
I love the core BF game with iconic modes as conquest, but I also like BR games, and Firestorm is a great mix !
Games are fun, quite balanced, strategic and there is a lot of action.
But… it needs some improvements in my opinion :
- First of all, as all players said : the loot system is absolutely crap at the moment. Just need a classic loot box on dead bodies
- Need a better spotting system : pins on the map are not enough readable and teammates are never aware of them. It will be nice to have differents pins design if you spot a direction, an ennemy or a loot (Apex did it great). Playing back BFV in classic modes, there a voice from the soldier with the spot as “Danger, look over there!” etc. Why thoses spot voices aren’t in Firestorm ? It will definitively be a good start to help squadwork
- Weapons. The weapons rarity and attachements system is a bit confusing but it’s ok. But why are so few BFV weapons in it ? Where are the Lewis, M1907 SF, Turner SMLE, etc. etc.
- Customization. It’s a detail and not very essential, but it seems important today to keep players. So, why we don’t have weapons skins in Firestorm ? They are in BFV.. I don’t get it.
- A new map … Ok, I’m dreaming :*
Thanks !
I can’t personally say that I’m a fan. If Battlefield wanted a spawn in and find the weapons mode they should have brought back BF3’s Scavenger mode and updated it.
Regarding Firestorm as a mode I didn’t like the inventory system as it is clunky and slow, I didn’t like the inclusion of armor or how weapons had tiers either. Firestorm should have used the base game’s inventory system of allowing two gadgets, a main weapon and a secondary weapon. Also have one ammo type for all weapons since having different types deviates so far from the fluid action of a real Battlefield mode and adds yet another level of RNG to an already RNG dominated game mode. I’d prefer if every weapon was the same tier in order to reduce the RNG factor a bit more since we’re already at the mercy of RNG when it comes to finding weapons.
I do believe that Firestorm absolutely must be a separate download from the main game like BF1 incursions was so that DICE can balance Firestorm completely separate from Battlefield 5. The balancing needs of a Battle Royale are completely at odds with the balancing requirements of the core game in Conquest, Rush, and Operations and until they are balanced separately one side of that equation will suffer. The separate download can also allow DICE to create and market crazy firestorm only character customizations that won’t be present in the main BF5 game so some semblance of immersion can remain as intact in the base game.
Bring back Duos, ASAP, EA you are really me off with your Weekend-only
hello I do not know what you think but in the battlefield community NO.
- Now we understand why every time they are less in this community, due to your mistakes … ERROR + ERROR + ERROR
(IN THE COMMUNITY WE WANT BATTLEFIELD MODE DUO, FOREVER)
NOT TO ACTIVATE MODE DUO, NEVER PURCHASE A BATTLEFIELD AND … We are many, more than you imagine, who think the same.
YOU SHOULD KNOW MORE ABOUT PEOPLE AND LISTEN MORE TO THE COMMUNITY, DO NOT TAKE US MORE THE HAIR … AS ALWAYS
-I hope that with this I will recap you that the money is put by the community, we are the client and the one who pays the games, and the money makes you
keep working … DUO MODE ACTIVATED NOW, and stop reraising us.A GREETING .
I have to be honest I have had issues trying to find DUO mode.
I can only think due to the small FS numbers, they have reduce the modes available in an attempt to improve games available for squads.
As have we all, but seriously Dice, fix the game, listen to your community and make the changes to improve the FS quality of life instead of band-aid “fixing” by reducing segmentation. The player population will come back if they actually put some effort into making the changes we all want and need. This is a hot-garbage move and a lazy one IMHO.