Communication on the Battlefield

@MoeGunnzz219 It wasn't cut for that reason, it just wasn't ready in time because this game was shipped as a minimum-viable-product.

@MoeGunnzz219 too many damn over-sensitive whiny * nowadays.
BF requires communication if you are going to PTFO with your squad. I don't want to have to message everyone and have to get a Discord or Private Party going. I want to be able to just put on my headphones and talk to my squad like every other BF game before (except BF V)

@ElliotLH They've said the April update, yeah. Though crossplay shouldn't have caused it to be delayed this long, IIRC it wasn't even being worked on pre-launch and was always planned to be added post-launch.

Since (/saltmode on) they functionally shipped BF2042 as a minimum viable product.

@CloverDeuce Give me an example of what comment would case someone to be over sensitive and whiny..

@ElliotLH A better ping system (which the game has one but it's...not great/used much) would help as well (thinking like Apex Legends ping system which is pretty great).

DICE will never tell us how everything went so sideways with this game and I don't buy the "but the pandemic" as a full excuse since so many other teams have been able to ship fantastic games built during the pandemic/WFH. I'm hoping Schreier or another one of the gaming journalists (the actual ones) does a deep dive on what went wrong like has been done for ME:A and Anthem. It'd be fascinating to get more context for why things ended up how they did, and honestly it could very well paint a much more sympathetic picture for most of the rank-and-file devs.

Hearing about them breaking down and crying in empty offices and getting PTSD from sustained stress and pressure during development is heartbreaking, and redirects a lot of the frustration off of the development teams and where it usually ends up resting: with leadership.

@ElliotLH That was in reference to the reports on Anthem/ME:A, I think both of which were posted on Kotaku. They're rough and can be a tough read, but if you're interested in the behind the scenes for those games and how things went so wrong they're well worth the read.

@edgecrusherO0 Ah I've got you - thought it was Dice devs. I will check it out as I'm on a long train journey and could do with an interesting read 👍