“Firestorm Loot Changes/Respawn Mechanic - In blogs published after EA Play, we said that we were working on introducing a radically different Looting system, as well as a Respawn Mechanic similar to the one found in Apex. These plans are presently on hold, and are being re-evaluated whilst we focus our efforts on restoring quality to the core of the Battlefield experience.
Our update notes will be published here on the Subreddit in the next few hours. We’ll have them live in the game, and on the Battlefield website tomorrow morning.”
And, if you speak “DICE” you’ll know that “re-evaluate” is how they describe things that are being canned before they officially announce it. A bit like how 5 v 5 was being “re-evaluated”.
Honestly, I’m so disappointed in DICE, I thought Firestorm could be the saving grace of Battlefield V but they don’t have the talent to update Firestorm like other Battle Royales are able to do. What annoys me the most is the lack of communication, why wait until the very end up chapter 4 to announce that something that was advertised to be in chapter isn’t arriving (respawn/new looting). Now they don’t even have the balls to tell us Firestorm is canned, they will only hint at it.
So there you have it, the most poorly managed AAA game studio puts out the most poorly managed Battle Royale, and then they wonder why BFV hasn’t been a booming success.
Well they have only really said that the Respawn/new looting Mechanic has been put on hold. Hoping this may still mean other content such as additional weapons may still be coming.
It says on the BF website "expandingarsenalof weapons " . But i personally don’t have high hopes that any further content will be coming apart from the odd bug fix. Hope we are both wrong and they surprise us. A bit crazy that the only weapons we got added since the launch of firestorm was an MMG (encourages prone/camping meta) , A 20 round LMG, the commando carbine which does way to little damage to be effective, o & the boys AT rifle because why not. Better decisions could have been made for sure.
BF’s BR is both unique and a draw , from what I’ve read here .
It’s different from the other BR’s and fans of the mode have bought/are buying V just to try it .
Perhaps then the ‘on hold’ part of the statement is just them abandoning their ‘similar to’ planning aspects of their BR vs other BR’s .
They want to stick with ‘unique’ .
What’s sad is if they’d actually supported firestorm and had a hotfix process in place, Firestorm would have quickly been a far better BR than PUBG. At least for the console experience.
I’ve edited the subject by adding a clarifying "(opinion)" to the end of it so as to not confuse people that might not read the whole thing @TheFieryHotSauce
The whole thread is about how the OP interprets different comments like “on hold, and are being re-evaluated” to mean that “Support for Firestorm has officially been scrapped”
but those comments in the context of other games are too vague to objectively say it’s official, hence the need to be more precise with the subject text when it comes to if it’s an official statement or not. If you have a word that better convey that than “opinion” I’ll gladly take suggestions in PMs so as to not derail the thread further.
My hope is by reevaluating Firestorm means they are planning to make it F2P
I imagine making it F2P isn’t as simple as flipping a switch, so they may have to divert those resources at the moment.
I really think this would be a smart move for battlefield in general, as new players may feel more inclined to buy the full game, if they enjoy Firestorm.
