This Week in Battlefield V - April 27, 2020

Battlefield V General Discussion
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It’s the final week for Chapter 6 Tides of War missions, but we’ve got some giveaways and contests running. Dive in!

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(Please note: This is the current schedule of events for this week. Items may be moved, shifted, added, or pushed out. We’ll update this calendar throughout the week.)

Monday, April 27, 2020

This Week in Battlefield V- An overview of this week’s news, blogs, content, and more. As items are added or shifted, this will be updated. Keep an eye on it through the week for redirect links!

Stream Drops - We’ll be popping into random Twitch/Mixer/FB streams playing BFV and giving the streamers codes for Battlefield V giveaways.

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

#OnlyinBattlefieldV Moments of the Week - Hot new OIB moments coming in with a new weekly winner! Think you’ve got a winner? Send it our way on any of the Battlefield channels. Each weekly featured clip will be awarded a Best Community in the World emblem!

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Stream Drops- We’ll be popping into random Twitch/Mixer/FB streams playing BFV and giving the streamers codes for Battlefield V for giveaways.

Thursday, April 30, 2020

The Pacific War Playlist will remain throughout Chapter 6.

#ThrowbackThursdays - Let’s play some BF4 and BF1 - and do some giveaways for these awesome titles!

BCIW & EA PLAY 2019 Emblem Giveaways - We’ll be posting 200 codes on Reddit and Forums (each) throughout the day for you to grab. Codes will be updated on Thursday, April 30, 2020. Forums or Reddit. Good luck!

Friday, May 1, 2020

Battlefield V Quality of Life Trello Board Update- Will be updated on Fridays.

Stream Drops- We’ll be popping into random Twitch/Mixer/FB streams playing BFV and giving the streamers codes for Battlefield V for giveaways.

Battlefield V in Pictures Screenshot Contest – Winners will be announced.

#FRIDAYNIGHTBATTLEFIELD – Join your friends, enemies, squadmates, and lone wolves on the FIELD OF BATTLE!

Link to section: NOTES AND ADDENDUMSNOTES AND ADDENDUMS

The Future of Battlefield Vblog.

Community Broadcast - An Update on Updates DETAILS

  • The Team is currently going through the list of updates, fixes, and changes for Update 6.6 and we’ll share details on these changes and the release date once we have it locked. Will be coming in May.

Battlefield V Nvidia GeForce RTX “Make Your Own Battlefield V Trailer” video contest is ongoing. Check here for rules.

Our global teams on all franchises continue to work to keep games going, per EA Update on the Coronavirus Situation.

Need a Virtual Background?Our social team created some virtual backgrounds for your Zoom meetings. Feel free to grab them here.

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This is not against you personally, Braddock, in my opinion you are doing a good job (under the given circumstances), but this is to EA in general:
Spare us and yourself these alibi updates to give the impression that the game which you have just left to die is still alive.
Save the money for all the public pretend & show and better use it to keep BFV servers up and running for as long as possible.

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[Braddock512] said:

Thursday, April 30, 2020

The Pacific War Playlist will remain throughout Chapter 6.

#ThrowbackThursdays - Let’s play some BF4 and BF1 - and do some giveaways for these awesome titles!

BCIW & EA PLAY 2019 Emblem Giveaways - We’ll be posting 200 codes on Reddit and Forums (each) throughout the day for you to grab. Codes will be updated on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Forums or Reddit. Good luck!

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XD

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Braddock thank you for doing your job, it’s a shame that they aren’t getting posted on Reddit anymore.

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When will we have infos about the content of the June update ?

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Braddock, I’m sure this thread is going to get filled with a lot of nasty messages directed towards you, but I just want you to know that I think you’re doing a great job. As an engineer at a small company, I sometimes have to do customer related activities: troubleshoot over the phone, send quotes out to customers, etc. Dealing with angry customers is a HUGE pain, it’s discouraging. I know how you feel and I respect your dedication.

I’m still angry about what has happened to BFV, but I felt some praise was due for your work.

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They will be returning to Reddit, as I noted in my post over there.

A REMINDER TO EVERYONE:
We absolutely want you to share your feedback. However, if you can’t contribute something constructive to this thread - or any thread on the forums - it may be good to take a moment before posting and take a breath. If you decide to just “go for it”, please don’t be surprised if you get a little note from our Moderators.

While I definitely understand frustration, let’s all remember this isn’t an excuse to break the forum rules - which mentions about spam, non-constructive posts, etc.

-Braddock512

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Thanks, bud.

-Braddock512

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well we as a community have been giving tons of feedback since the ALPHA of BFV, i even got a chance to participate in it, and gave my feedback accordingly. but with all that has been going on since chapter 3 at the latest. i get it most stuff that gets requested is just not doable and you can not listen to everyone but by god it feels like everything that has been requested went streight down into th eshredder.

-we got a TTK change not once but basically 4 times now (december 2018/5.2-update/5.2.2-update/6.2-update) in the span of roughly 15 months. that means about every three months you basically changed the one thing that seemed to be almost universally accepted as good about BFV.
-we got content promised in promotion material removed or arriving over a year later (dragging, diverse combat-roles,tank skins)
-we had more delays in BFV then any other BF game to date (it took 6 months to release Al-Sundan if i recall right)
-removal of entire server regions in populated ares on PC (UK, South africa and Dubai) not only taking away their experience but especially for the latter two making the game next to unplayable for them and the Central european servers as well due to the latency increase
-the community that kept playing stuck trough some of the worst performance issues and bug riddled games in the franchise only to now sit here 1,5 years without a main BF title so they either play a clearly unfinished game or go back to their favorite title or just giving up on BF as a whole
i struggle to see any silver lining at this point but i’ll do my best to be constructive now:

  1. admit mistakes in the company: the direction of BFV was clearly wrong anyone can see that and the managers who pushed for this need to refelct on it and learn from it not get mad about it and double down on their vision that clearly did not resonate with the vast majority of the BF-community
  2. salvage what was good: this is my personal opinion so don’t take it as fact:

-movement while good for the most part needs some tweaking in terms of weight to it. make it a mix of BF1 and BFV which would imo be a good starting ground
-gun play in the 5.0 build of BFV was good. i disliked mainly that medic and recon were too niche in their preferable niche compared to support and assault

  1. scrap what was bad: again personal opinion
    -attrition should never have been in BFV after the decision to soften it up after the ALPHA was made. imo every hard-drive with files on it releated to the mechanic needs to be purged. it did not raise the skill-level as hoped and stood in direct conflict with the way too fast movement system of the game. it made balancing classes way too hard. for example the medic needed to be kept in check due to the unlimited healing, so they got for the most part the least versatile weapon roster raising a new issue of meidc needing to rush super aggressively leaving behind the rest of the team so no less ppl would benefit from their healing and reviving because they were constantly first in and first down for the most part making the game more frustrating on all parts imo
    -animations while looking nice in trailers became such a chore by now. they are clunky, buggy and for the most part a detrement to the gameplay flow. constantly holding a pouch the my face or getting pulled out of cover for a revive animation that took too long in a game with an average TTK of less then a second is just bad design. keep a few for example vehicle enter and exit animations and maybe the squad-revive animation but faster and get rid of the mechanic for the medic, instead make it like BF4 defib charge.
    -specialisations remvoe and scrap go back to attatchemnt i think that is all i need to say there
    -performance needs to be a lot better then what we have in BFV for the most part. net-code needs to be tight and not feel like half the time the game cheating you due to it not registering my input in time
    -anti-cheat needs to work fast and be better communicated, for example if i report someone give me info about it afterwords if he got banned or not that would be well enough so it doesn’t feel like a waste of time
    -team-balance needs to be there on day one. at least shuffle the teams and have the numbers evened out!
    -RSP look at BF4 that should giv you a hint of what it should include
    now for some general feedback:
    the community managers have been doing a hell of a job here that needs to be said!
    quality is more often then not better then quantity
    you do not need to reinvent the wheel every time to be recognized, BF has had a great formular for over 10 years sure add and reimagine here and there but at a certain point you overcomplicate your product and it can be as good as it wants to be but simplicity is more often then not a virtue in its own right
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https://twitter.com/BFBulletin/status/1255209201510555648

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Hi @Braddock512.

Performance on PS4 (EU) is still atrocious with missing hit reg, insta death, death behind cover.
Audio still doesn’t work i.e planes are still not making any noise when they go on a bombing run, tanks often run silent, enemy players have no footsteps.

Bug wise there’s too many to list but the above are most important to me.

While I understand that content will come to an end, will Dice continue to work on the many problems V has?

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#FRIDAYNIGHTBATTLEFIELD – Join your friends, enemies, squadmates, and lone wolves on the FIELD OF BATTLE!

Why would anyone want to play in these servers?

  • Stream Drops - We’ll be popping into random Twitch/Mixer/FB streams playing BFV and giving the streamers codes for Battlefield V for giveaways.
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I’d really like to see rent-a-server from bf3 come back. Bf1 also had a good system. This community game stuff is awful. Need to be able to leave a game running without the creator/host. Otherwise, you’re waiting half the night for your 24/7 operation underground (b c you’re tired of getting wrecked by planes as an infantry unit) to fill up

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I honestly credit him with keeping the game alive for so long(face it. Without a good CM, 6 months. Max.)

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Hi @Braddock512 Do you know when we can have a Battlefield game like BF3 and better, BFV is a lost cause, too many bugs.

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RC-1136_DRMN said:
#FRIDAYNIGHTBATTLEFIELD – Join your friends, enemies, squadmates, and lone wolves on the FIELD OF BATTLE!

Why would anyone want to play in these servers?

  • Stream Drops - We’ll be popping into random Twitch/Mixer/FB streams playing BFV and giving the streamers codes for Battlefield V for giveaways.
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@X_Sunslayer_X

Gonna be honest - you’ve had some spicy takes over the last few months - and I know you’ve gotten a few notes from the moderators.
That being said, thanks for the post. It’s always been evident that you’re passionate about Battlefield - and that passion is something I absolutely respect (I have the same passion).

That was a really detailed post - and a lot of the items in that list are things I’ve wanted us to address. Thank you for sharing it. I don’t want you to feel that your post is worthless - I’ve been consistently/daily making notes to share with the dev team as they ramp up (even more) their efforts on the next Battlefield. We need to address (at least) some of these items for the next BF to be as awesome as I KNOW it can be.

Thanks, Slayer.
Please stay safe, stay healthy.

-Braddock512

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Out of curiosity, will fortifications be making a return in BF6? I really like 'em.
And if not, is there room for discussion?

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Maybe just maybe community managers can create a big survey to ask the whole community what they want to see in the next BF? I mean I can’t be sure if Dice actually listens to the feedback at all. But it’s worth a try.