Re: Progression not working properly for weapons and vehicles (Solo/Coop AI)

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@Tman26242 wrote:

Hey guys, it's been a little while since I've been on here, has anything changed yet for ribbons or progression? How about BP unlocks?

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If you've been under a hole since season 4 then good news for you. BP progression now fully counts and as do ribbons. XP (except for ribbon XP) and mastery however are still capped. In order to get this, you need to make a portal experience with AI in Rush, TDM and Conquest (large counts too) but you CANNOT make any modifiers with bots whatsoever. One small change will cap it heavily like before. You can however still experience everything including BF1942, BC2 and BF3 if you keep the map defaults on.

A event is coming up and free rewards can be earned via ribbons. My only concern is it might be specifically for the limited game mode. Hopefully we can host it with bots ourselves or just play regular bot matches and ribbons count outside of the mode.

@Tman26242You can now unlock all the weekly missions and some ribbon XP, which of course helps you to get through the BP faster.

This does not however work in Solo/Coop (AOW).

You must create a new Portal mission and while doing this you can only touch 2 settings during this process...pick a map and add ONLY PvP bots (assuming you want bots).

Do NOT add PvE bots and do not touch any settings at all...leave everything else as default and then save it and go play it, but do NOT use a password on the server (unlikely anyone joins anyway most of the time).

You will soon see that you are earning ribbons and finally unlocking missions and getting lots of BP points.

There's a catch though...you won't win too many of the matches if you play like this because the sides are unevenly matched and you will always be outnumbered with TONS of enemy vehicles typically. So you won't win too many matches, and the enemy bots are aimbots that are great at insta-killing you through a keyhole using a hand gun, lol.

@Maxthewicked100  @BigShottt 

Thanks for the info guys, atleast it's something...

Haven't touched BF2042 since Season 3. Just became burnt out a bit, especially after trying to get the game to run smoothly after S3's CPU bottleneck problems (never had these issues prior). Thought I'd come back to check things out with Season 4, and I still think 2042 is really mediocre. Sure, it's nice to see new content and have the classes back somewhat, but the game still has issues at its core that really stick out...

Despite all that, this is the only battlefield with a decent singleplayer/coop bots mode, so that's a big thing for me. I'll probably make a portal experience for only unlocking stuff against ai, and set it up like you guys described, and then go back to my old experiences with PVE ai and modifiers when I just want to chill out and have fun.

Anyway, thanks again guys. I can't believe this thread is still alive lol. It's been almost a year and a half since I created it XD

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@Tman26242 wrote:

@Maxthewicked100  @BigShottt 

Despite all that, this is the only battlefield with a decent singleplayer/coop bots mode, so that's a big thing for me.

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We 're in the same boat together. I feel the same exact way as I waited what seems like decades for bots to make a return to the series. I also took a number of months away from 2042 with no play and have just returned about a week ago to try again.

Maybe we should play a few together as teammates, I'm in the Northeast U.S. time zone, and I'm an older player (in my 50's).

If you'd like to voice chat either on Steam or on my Discord send me a PM here on the forum.

Nice! Can you explain how you could create a portal experience with:

- Conquest (regular maps size, for 64 player)

- 128 players (hopefully AI bots)

- without restrictions for masteries, xp, weekly's and BP's progrees

I'm asking for that because, stating on some devs rules in order to keep moderate xp / weekly missions / ribbons / accessories and weapons unlock, after setting PvP AI we can not touch anything else, including bots number, difficulty etc, except for map rotation.

Thanks in advance

Welp so much for this limited mid season event that we can't partake in through other means. Oh well.

@UGCHazard 

Thanks!

@UGCHazardYea but I'm assuming there that since you changed that setting you will not be able to earn weekly missions, which is where all the extra BP's come from.

Ok thanks, Ill try changing the player count setting on a new mission tonight...are there any other settings that you've found (in addition to player count) which will not effect all the ribbon and mission earns?

Still waiting on full T1 progress that we were promised when the game launched and why do challenges still not work in Solo/Coop AOW?

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@Stormgirl9 wrote:

Still waiting on full T1 progress that we were promised when the game launched and why do challenges still not work in Solo/Coop A

The patch notes for Season 5 can't be far. Fingers crossed they loosen their finger on the trigger for restrictions. They had said they wanted to unrestrict AOW Solo/Co-op as well so maybe this season too?? Otherwise, portal VS AI is the best option.

This is the longest unanswered question about this game.

They might even be forbidden from telling us what they think

What's the max number of AI you can play against in Portal nowadays? You used to be able to do 1 v 127 but don't think you have been able to for quite a while after it was patched out. Hoping a recent season might have sneaked that in but not played in quite a while.

@Balkisback 

I've been able to play against a full lobby of bots via community spotlights with crossplay turned off but I never paid much attention to the playercounts. I know SMG Rush is a fantastic way to level up

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@Stormgirl9 wrote:

Still waiting on full T1 progress that we were promised when the game launched 

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It was never intended, to allow for full Tier 1 progression in Solo/Coop. If you followed the development of 2042 before it was released the team had already mentioned that progression would be seamless and shared between Competitive and Coop, but limited and T1 would not be allowed. 

I followed the development and was well aware of this fact long before I purchased. Not that I'm happy about it, of course. But whoever told you that they promised this has misinformed you.

Finally the S5 patch notes arrived

The bad news. Restrictions are the same. Thankfully not for the worse since we can still at least do BP challenges and such and with squad management in place I imagine we should be able to play with AI teammates. So things aren't too bad...

The good news. Well, they didn't return to adding any more restrictions so we can expect what we had this season. HOWEVER we can now play breakthrough in Portal with bots...Although it pretty much makes AOW Solo/Co-op completely obsolete

What this means is we can no longer progress the battle pass missions AGAIN. WHY DICE. WHY ARE YOU JUST DISABLING STUFF ALL WILLY NILLY WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE. SCUMMY MOVE

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@BigShottt wrote:
@Maxthewicked100If this is confirmed by other players, then perhaps a Community Manager can reach out to their contact to let them know about it.

I havent had a chance to play yet myself, but I will shortly and I'll try to report back as soon as I can.

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I can definitely confirm progression is screwed. We're back to square one. No ribbons, no mastery, no bp progression nothing.

My trust is already torn so I doubt a community manager will fix it. I dare them to prove me wrong.