This Week in Battlefield V - What you’re reading right now! An overview of this week’s news, blogs, content, and more.
Tuesday, 4/9/2019
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#1 game balance is non-existent. Either fix this or you may as well all pack up your bags and go home because new players won’t stick around and experienced players are getting bored at stomping everyone they come across.
The game needs a way to provide fully mic’d up platoons a way to play each other, and a more casual unaffiliated player group an opportunity to play the game at a lower level. Dare I say, rented servers could provide this?
The argument about not fracturing the player base is moot when if there is no real improvement, there won’t be any player base left.
It’s patently obvious that there is no leadership with the game. No clear plan. No real communication (not criticising you directly Braddock, you can’t communicate what you’re not cleared to discuss and when they never give you anything of substance) and virtually no hope for the future.
This week in Battlefield V should actually read:
Monday - we’re going to tell you what we’re going to tell you!
Tuesday - nothing of substance - this is just padding. You can go to Youtube and see the same stuff every day of the week.
Wednesday - We’re going to list a bunch of issues on the periphery and completely ignore the primary issues because we don’t have a solution to them and have no intention of actually addressing them.
Thursday - Jump through some hoops and you’ll get a cosmetic of some sort. Actually, I don’t have a major issue with this. Unless it involves Firestorm. Then it sucks.
Friday - we’re going to recap what we told you throughout the week - which was nothing of any real value.
Copy, paste, repeat each week.
Personally I’d rather see genuine discussion and engagement, honesty and empathy with the community, and if we can’t get that, I’d rather see nothing at all.
To begin, I do enjoy playing this game. The combat is extremely enjoyable and I love the class customization system that has been introduced. However, it is blatantly clear that quite a great deal of corners have been cut in the design of this game.
One gripe I have with this game’s cosmetic design is with the airborn invasions as part of the Grand Operations mode. Despite playing as the German Fallschirmjäger, you are spawned onto an airplane filled with distinctly British commandoes yet they speak German and rush you to the door of the plane to jump in which you clearly see German markings on the plane’s exterior. This is a painfully obvious display of laziness on the part of the developers who couldn’t be burdened to design a separate version of this sequence for German paratroopers…
To add, the soldiers themselves look entirely fictional with the lack of patches and other insignia on their uniforms, which is an important factor of any army, and especially notable among the soldiers of the Second World War.
Perhaps the player should have at least the option to include a certain amount of ranks and medals which have been achieved to be available as a cosmetic item for their uniforms as well as designations of their class. For instance, the reichsadler for Wehrmacht units and the Luftwaffe eagle for the Fallschirmjäger, with these equivalents obviously provided for the Allies.
Overall, I feel as if EA has had this nasty habit of rushing their games out the door before they can enjoy a proper, in-depth amount of design and polish. Look at Rockstar Games for instance. They spend numerous years developing their titles, yet upon their release these games accumulate literal billions of dollars in sales. Quality over quantity rules the day in the end.
Why is there so little information being released? We’ve had more news from some guys rummaging through the game files than we’ve had from any official source.
Just a thought on this part.
This is a calendar of the week’s events. There are daily things that happen every week.
Monday - If there’s not much going on for the week, yeah, it just says the TWIB. However, when we have blogs, etc., they get included if they’re released on Monday.
Tuesday - A good amount of people look forward to stuff like the OIB moments because they like to share their clips, videos, and get the chance to get some BCIW emblem codes for themselves and their friends.
Wednesday - Some of the top issues aren’t listed because they’re either still in the discovery phase, they are getting a backend fix to address them, or they may require more dev time. We’re doing our best to not put stuff on there that isn’t solved within 2-4 weeks but is a big pain point within the community.
Thursday - It’s been the day for updates or the Community Feedback threads I’ve been driving. (We currently have 8 or so, and I want to let those marinate before we open new ones).
Friday - For those that missed the beginning of the week because of work, life, whatever and want to catch up on what we’ve talked about, we created the Debrief. This also, as time and bandwidth allows, includes a Q&A session, and a sneak peek/preview of some of the items for the next week.
Just a thought on this part.
This is a calendar of the week’s events. There are daily things that happen every week.
Monday - If there’s not much going on for the week, yeah, it just says the TWIB. However, when we have blogs, etc., they get included if they’re released on Monday.
Tuesday - A good amount of people look forward to stuff like the OIB moments because they like to share their clips, videos, and get the chance to get some BCIW emblem codes for themselves and their friends.
Wednesday - Some of the top issues aren’t listed because they’re either still in the discovery phase, they are getting a backend fix to address them, or they may require more dev time. We’re doing our best to not put stuff on there that isn’t solved within 2-4 weeks but is a big pain point within the community.
Thursday - It’s been the day for updates or the Community Feedback threads I’ve been driving. (We currently have 8 or so, and I want to let those marinate before we open new ones).
Friday - For those that missed the beginning of the week because of work, life, whatever and want to catch up on what we’ve talked about, we created the Debrief. This also, as time and bandwidth allows, includes a Q&A session, and a sneak peek/preview of some of the items for the next week.
The soldiers cosmetics still dont look like ww2 soldiers ,the German fallschirmjäger for example dont even have a paratrooper outfit (torso ) for six months now.
They have 5 new maps coming this summer! Exclusively of 5 vs 5 games…? But, by the end of summer it look like they’ll manage 2 more full size maps. So… by the end of summer the main game will have map parity with BF1 + 1/2 of it’s first DLC. Isn’t live service great with it’s constant steam of new content…
Just a thought on this part.
This is a calendar of the week’s events. There are daily things that happen every week.
Monday - If there’s not much going on for the week, yeah, it just says the TWIB. However, when we have blogs, etc., they get included if they’re released on Monday.
Tuesday - A good amount of people look forward to stuff like the OIB moments because they like to share their clips, videos, and get the chance to get some BCIW emblem codes for themselves and their friends.
Wednesday - Some of the top issues aren’t listed because they’re either still in the discovery phase, they are getting a backend fix to address them, or they may require more dev time. We’re doing our best to not put stuff on there that isn’t solved within 2-4 weeks but is a big pain point within the community.
Thursday - It’s been the day for updates or the Community Feedback threads I’ve been driving. (We currently have 8 or so, and I want to let those marinate before we open new ones).
Friday - For those that missed the beginning of the week because of work, life, whatever and want to catch up on what we’ve talked about, we created the Debrief. This also, as time and bandwidth allows, includes a Q&A session, and a sneak peek/preview of some of the items for the next week.
I appreciate that honest feedback and truly take it to heart.
I wish I could comment on individual comments, instead of having to comment and quote someone 3 pages ago on these forums. I would love it if the forums had similar functionality to the way the Reddit comment system goes. But that’s just how it is. We’ll deal with it.
And I will work to increase my time here, answering questions and providing information.
