Since around 2 weeks solo firestorm is dead at any time of the day in EU on pc , when is F2P coming? Does it even come i heard rumors about december 2019.
Even at busiest time of the day between 18.00 and 21.00 central european time, only 1 in 5 games 60 or more players. There was already criticism about firestorm behind paywall before it came out on 25march 2019. I played bf4 1.800 hours / hardline 1.100 hours / bf1 1.000+hours.
For me firestorm is the best game ever. For real. Hooked … addicted play too long it Fxxxs up my real life things that i need to do (that was before it died). And then there is the main game of V that was there before firestorm came out. After 50 hours i just went back to bf1. It has 8!!! things that i dislike, things that weren’t there in any battlefield before. So now firestorm is handicapped by low playerbase of the bad basegame. And no way they will fix all 8 things for me and many other players who didn’t buy this game so it won’t suddenly sell a lot.
Best battle royale out there. Fortnite only 3rd person. Apex doesn’t have solos. Pubg shooting doesn’t feel as good as in firestorm so does movement feel better in firestorm.
Now about this december rumor. It probably takes till december because just look at the “practice range”, when you start it up a fancy video and in it a hamada fancied up because when you spawn you have to physically walk to what you want to do. I just want a shooting range and spawn right into it. Why all that extra fancy work we just want to practice there. And with firestorm we just want to play it. No need to make a whole new firestorm main menu, you can add it later. So just like you disabled firestorm on patch day (25 june) when it got bugged after the patch and disabled it for 1 day - or frontlines a 2 months ago - disable EVERYthing except firestorm and release that separately from bf V as the free firestorm.
I see it today also with twitch firestorm streamers that can’t play solo and go to the basegame. Many don’t like the basegame. So i am not the only 1 who thinks this total game is ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and freaking good at the same time. Don’t wait for a f2p bf6 battle royale. Then you leave a freaking good royale with huge potential that is ready to go right now, criterion did really well. ((p.s. Well ready … the squad respawning and the loot at dead bodies patch needs to come out first because then you have fixed the main bad things about the game.))
This way duos would come back.
I would buy ALL skins. (there would play a 100 times as many players bfV/firestorm and if only 1% buys skins that would be the same as existing playerbase all 100% would buy skins)
It will trickle down to bfV - a friend of mine who loves apex bought titanfall 2 afterwards when he found out the makers of apex made that game.
Good points and well written. Couldn’t agree more. Base game sucks hard and Firestorm is brilliant (plus it works!)
I put in about 4k hrs between 4 and 1, and Firestorm is all I play now but it will die unless they make it F2P as you say.
The main reason why were avoiding the game is these chinese cheaters. You can’t play 2 games jn a row without finding one. Dice ain’t doing anything and this is the last game i buy from them. Start looking at rainbow six or batallion.
After waiting 2 mins for the last 2 guys to join the server so it can start, waiting for the 1 min countdown, and after 10 mins looting you start to play. Then you get killed by a chinese headshooter who kills all my squad in 20 seconds.
The main reason players have stopped is the cheaters, the other reasons are the poor looting system and poor xp rewards.
EA needs to put out a servery asking what they should/can do to get players back again or even what changes players would like, however that would mean they (EA) would have to admit that they messed up, so the likely hood of that happening is pretty much ZERO.
Even if they go F2P with Firestorm (I doubt they ever will), it will still end up dying if they don’t get a working anti-cheat solution and fix the looting system.
cheaters for me is definitely not the reason why i stopped yesterday. i stopped because rounds went from 50 to 40 to 30 to 20 to sometimes 15 player rounds in last 3 weeks. It is then a self fulfilling thing, you stop because players in a round are getting lower and by me stopping i make that even worse and that is also why it went from 40 to 30 and to 20 people quitting because servers aren’t full.
LOOT is going to get fixed. They even add respawn possibility in squads.
And why would you think they would never go f2p. It is a normal thing in battle royale so paying players of bf 5/V would understand it. Hell non firestorm players always complain that when there is the TOW weekly mission to unlock a weapon and there is something to be done in firestorm for that unlock then new forum and reddit topics get started up like it is a spamfest to complain about that. Firestorm - except for loot - is ready so it is on a development point of view now free, it is ready to go, it is not like they have to make a f2p now from ground up. And fortnite 200million registered players? And apex 50million plus. Then even if just 1 million play firestorm and only 5% buys a skin that would be 50.000 skins. I think right now the whole game has like 50.000 players (on pc). Solo is dead on pc and will be dead soon on xb1 only ps4 solo is still very healthy. And squads will die also on pc. So they have nothing to lose. What if 10million play it not 1million.
I didn’t realise how dead Firestorm Solo is on PC in the EU. Playing at peak time last night it took 2 minute plus to matchmake then took 2 minutes or so in the lobby trying to find players. Once in the game only 38 players were in. No one to fight and felt empty. Played only to do the Assignment from ToW.
Needs to go F2P and soon if at all possible.
Oh and my map marker keeps disappearing, is this s known issue? - it used to work
i have written at twitter to the Producer @EA_DICE Stockholm Jaqub Ajmal that the matchmaking developers are idiots and should start a firestorm match only when >60 players are in the lobby. then he blocked my account lol.
the current matchmaking situation just pisses me off (PC/EU/SOLO). in the previous matchmaking patch the queues were stuck at 63 players and now the matchmaking dont even fill up the lobby with >60 players. some players even dont try to queue up for a match, because they know it will start with just <30 players. its a big difference if you play firestorm with >60 players or with <30 players.
Yeah they changed the matchmaking BUT that we sometimes now get starts with 19 players has NOTHING to do with that. People just don’t play it anymore because of low playerbase. I say that because on the consoles which have the same changes in matchmaking they don’t have this problem although on xb1 it is also getting close to the current pc solo situation so in 1 month it will also die off. Only ps4 has starts of 1 minute and then with 64 solo, that is the only 1 with a healthy playerbase. A twitch streammer > 3 days ago the number 2 (in wins … almost 400) firestorm solo pc player in the world just gave up and switched to his fiancee’s ps4 who also had bf V (he didn’t even know it till she told him) and since then every minute a start of a match with 60+. He is from the US. His luck is that 2 years ago he was a console player so he just has to get used to controller controls for a brief moment. But for me ps4 ain’t an option never could get used to first person shooters on consoles because of the controller. All these firestorm streamers also say it needs to be F2P. Potential firestorm buyers look at twitch and see the playerbase problems on all systems except ps4 so they won’t buy the game for firestorm .. not because they don’t think they won’t love it but because they see it has playerbase problems. So the only solution for much higher playerbase is F2P.