I am sure I won’t be the first to say any of these. These are just things I have thought about while I play and want to get them off my chest, perhaps start a discussion. If nothing else this will just be a place I can refer back to later. I’d also like to note that I’m trying to be as realistic as possible(so i’m not going to bring up obvious bugs and netcode, dice already is aware and is working on these).
I want to think of ideas how to make the game more enjoyable assuming it runs how everyone expect.
I also know many of these ‘problems’ exist in bf3 also.
I am pretty sure EA forced DICE to publish early but it’s still no excuse.
Campaign:
Not enough missions.
Each mission very short
Half the time it is unplayable aka forced action. ^1
Suppression Mechanic. ^2
Incentive to replay: there is none.
Can’t skip end credits even on 2nd playthrough AND ending credits are as long as the actual campaign (it’s actually like 10 or so minutes.. a full… ten..minutes..where they even credit the EA Call Center like what the actual fuck?)
Multiplayer:
Can’t access options Menu at anytime. ^3
Loadout menu seems overly cumbersome. ^4
Can’t access weapon loadout between games ^5
Can’t open/access battlepacks during loadout or in game.
Black screen when spawn but you can be shot.
Game starts well before half of the players have loaded which can give one team an early and decisive lead for things like Rush and Conquest.
Notes/Explanations:
I don’t need to have my hand held. I understand this isn’t an exploration game but this was beyond ridiculous. I couldn’t follow the story because I couldn’t stop thinking “can I play yet? am I playing or is this a cutscene” If you want cutscenes that’s fine but I don’t’ need 5 minutes of them between each mission and sometimes in the middle of missions. I also don’t think if you are going to have a cutscene then you should just have a cutscene, don’t disable controls and force me to wait through crappy dialogue.
For some reason I don’t notice the mechanic nearly as much in multiplayer which leads me to think that the devs know how bothersome it can be, or perhaps the playstyle is just that much different. I can’t stand how it screws up my aim. I liked how in bf3 it just messed up your vision, people thought that was overpowered but now it actively moves your aim and that’s just wrong(I’m not talking about when explosions are happening hear you and ground shakes, I’m talking about when enemies miss you and it suppresses your aim.)
anytime* that the game is not on a loading screen. But immediately after I’m dead or between games I should be able to hit ESC and get to the video, sound, or control options. I should NOT have to wait for the round to start or for the deployment screen to pop up after death animation.
Specifically the in-game loadout screen that is accessed off of the loadout menu; I don’t seem to have problems in battlelog. Maybe I just need more time to get used to where everything is but I still feel like I have to look around way more than I should when I go in there.
I know I can go to battlelog at anytime, but this is annoying and I’d just rather have the option… it would also be annoying to have the loadout screen go away right when countdown ends and game starts to load, I think this is what console gamers deal with? I’d be okay with that though because it’d just be an option.. not a requirement, you’d still have battlelog.
EA/DICE is a joke. I want to say that I lost all hope and respect for them, but then again I didn’t have any of it in the first place.
I was so consumed in League of Legends for the past 1½ year, made me forget how bad other companies can be. Surprised no one has gone down to the headquarters of EA/DICE and start shooting people for answers.
The fact that they haven’t gone out with official statements apologizing and assuring us they are looking into it/doing everything they can, makes me spite them. Last time I’ll ever support their games by buying. From now on I’m going to download all their games in future.
if they are not going to support us, why should we support them? Fuck EA/Dice.
Well I’m not sure I agree with grouping EA and DICE so universally as you seem to have done. EA Is the publisher and I believe the bigger evil here, though we can’t excuse DICE completely just because of this.
I also don’t agree that anyone should actually shoot anyone for any reason but surely not over something like this.
I also don’t think your Riot/League analogy is anywhere close to accurate as DICE/BF4 is literally pushing what hardware can do on a PC and so will have many more potential bugs, the games are just on a completely different scale.
League has been out how long? Didn’t it have a nice healthy beta as well? (a real one, bf4’s was a demo and for balance not for bug fixes) And no money hungry publisher trying to make shit happen just to make it happen?
Did RIOT simply never make a mistake as you seem to imply or were you just easily willing to let thing slide because you love the game regardless?
You used the word spite incorrectly. Perhaps, instead, you have spite for them else they’d have to be the ones spiting or please share what you did to spite them.
Sorry if I sound like a dick, it’s late and your reply irked me for some reason, probably the lack of any positivity, like why are you even on this subreddit lol?
That being said, I suppose I generally agree with your tone as it’s getting fucking ridiculous.. quote/unquote TRIPLE-A games are compelte shit on release.. why do the games with the biggest budgets seem to have the most problems.. why does it always seem to be EA games that were pushed out much much too early.. does anyone even remember Sim City?
I know EA is the greedy publisher here, but Dice has a responsibility to, it’s to release a proper functioning game. No matter what the deadline is, you shouldn’t release an unfinished game, period. It’s better to push dates and release finished game than this bullshit right here since the outcome will most likely be like the one in our case.
Also the shooting part, which would be justified in this case (even in court), is something called sarcasm.
However I do agree with you on some points (specially the one about you sounding like a dick).
The previous post I wrote, was the nice version of me, where I’m holding back. Trust me when I say I’d like to share SOME positivity as well, but so far the game hasn’t given me any reason to do so.
It’s not just the crashes that bother me, it’s the 1 million bugs, the hitbox/network smoothing, the loss of all your score/points/kda/unlocks if you are having a great game and it suddenly decides to crash 30 minutes into game and a bunch of other small shit that
If by ‘downloading’ you mean pirating their games, that is stupid. Show how angry and annoyed you are, by not ever buying or pirating or spending a single bit of mental energy on their products. Show your preference by supporting the games and companies you DO like. Pirating their products only plays into their view of piracy and DRM.