Battlefield 2042 ► Game Director Speaks Out on Future of The Franchise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=desfdPxJaLI
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Buying what ? He said nothing but a single sentence .. That X and Y will interpret the way they want . ALso the guy is a " narative " director and not a gameplay director . Also if they were to change fundamentally the game inside the base game .. they will loose all the millions players who play the game everyday and love it .. They cannot fundamentally change the game at this point .. All they can do is a better job for it to make sens ..
Like remooving corny lines at the end of the match . Making specialist more serious and more enbedded into the game to make more sens and look more like the exodus type of thing .. But specialist and loadout system of the base game is here to stay and its not a narative director who would change any of that . But if he could make specialist more grounded and less corny it would be appreciated .. if they can evolve the narative and world to be better then it will be a welcome change ..
If they can create some somewhat story driven stuff that enhance the game or create some more unique game modes etc.. it would be amasing .
But peoples interpret whatever they want from a single sentence and those interpretation are wrong and bias left and right ..
BF2042 is the work of hundreads of peoples and designers . and after playing a lot and i can say a lot nearly 350 hours now and having play every single BF games ever . I can stand behind the change and the specialist and loadout system . Its simply better than the old system .
What need to improove from a design perspective is LObby size to matchmake .. Team composition we need 16 players lobby combosed of 4 squads of 4 , We need a commander or OIC with VOIP broadcast , we need command VOIP chanels to coordinate with other willing platoons /squads etc.. this is what is lacking in the battlefield franchise since matchmaking was introduced in Bad company 1 .. Since then the game was focused on 4 man squad only gameplay wich as created more individualisme or more " squad individualisme " and as decreased team cohesion .
If we can have this below in BF a command structure and system similar to MAG and bigger lobby , BF2042 teamplay and BF as a franchise teamplay will be in a better place than ever before in its history
https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Command-structure-16-players-lobby-4-squads-of-4-For-128-players/td-p/11137494
Buying what ? He said nothing but a single sentence .. That X and Y will interpret the way they want . ALso the guy is a " narative " director and not a gameplay director . Also if they were to change fundamentally the game inside the base game .. they will loose all the millions players who play the game everyday and love it .. They cannot fundamentally change the game at this point .. All they can do is a better job for it to make sens ..
Like remooving corny lines at the end of the match . Making specialist more serious and more enbedded into the game to make more sens and look more like the exodus type of thing .. But specialist and loadout system of the base game is here to stay and its not a narative director who would change any of that . But if he could make specialist more grounded and less corny it would be appreciated .. if they can evolve the narative and world to be better then it will be a welcome change ..
If they can create some somewhat story driven stuff that enhance the game or create some more unique game modes etc.. it would be amasing .
But peoples interpret whatever they want from a single sentence and those interpretation are wrong and bias left and right ..
BF2042 is the work of hundreads of peoples and designers . and after playing a lot and i can say a lot nearly 350 hours now and having play every single BF games ever . I can stand behind the change and the specialist and loadout system . Its simply better than the old system .
What need to improove from a design perspective is LObby size to matchmake .. Team composition we need 16 players lobby combosed of 4 squads of 4 , We need a commander or OIC with VOIP broadcast , we need command VOIP chanels to coordinate with other willing platoons /squads etc.. this is what is lacking in the battlefield franchise since matchmaking was introduced in Bad company 1 .. Since then the game was focused on 4 man squad only gameplay wich as created more individualisme or more " squad individualisme " and as decreased team cohesion .
If we can have this below in BF a command structure and system similar to MAG and bigger lobby , BF2042 teamplay and BF as a franchise teamplay will be in a better place than ever before in its history
https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Command-structure-16-players-lobby-4-squads-of-4-For-128-players/td-p/11137494
Interesting video, thanks for sharing. I agree that it's probably too late to turn BF2042 around, but it seems like new leadership plans on taking the franchise in a new direction.
I'm looking forward to it. See you guys in 2 years!
- @OskooI_007 get this man a medal
I'm looking forward to a change in direction.
To be honest, all of the matches i played during the weekend had 50% bots in them. The matches felt off, weird and lame. the AI is beyond stupid. But there were less people playing. And im on the west coast which usually always has a few full servers (in the past games).
I dont know what Dice has planned but if I were them, I'd focus on things most people want to see right now and get content ready when its ready.
Adding a server browser, scoreboard, voice chat, global chat, general tweaks and making the current 64 modes permanent, would not take them a week to implement. Portal already has a server browser and if you like match making maybe an option so you get to choose. Next, when you go to your left bottom during a match, there is already a half finished scoreboard. So adding stats and a bind to tab really cannot be so hard to implement. while im at it: remove pre match cinematics and post match one liners.
All of these things, they should do right now. And im not even talking content. Stop with the nonsense videos like how to play breakthrough - the game already includes a tutorial. Why are they wasting their time with this stuff?
So this next patch would be a good thing showing to the community that they are listing. Next up, they need to release season 1 with a bang. 1 map wont cut it. Add a ton of new skins, mostly headgear so we dont have to see the stupid faces, add a different color scheme to RU and maybe 3-5 new weapons.
Maybe they will do that, we dont know, but in my opinion, anything less and the game is done.
