Hello Bux
I try to check this discussion area daily, and a lot of your concerns are addressed in several discussions.
So far we may expect up to 64 bots in a 128 player match on Conquest and Breakthrough.
The quality, role and behavior of the bots is what we have to see how it works out. Star Wars Battlefront (2017) uses bots in several modes,
sometime as objectives, sometimes to make a battle feel like a battle. sometimes to help kick start a server.
But I agree that I'd prefer to play with 127 other players, too.
Crossplay is another interesting topic, where most people have ambiguous opinions about. Some like to be able to play with friends that play on a different platform.
It feels that PC player don't trust console players and vise versa, assuming cheaters only in the other group. But I guess the reason behind this is, that controller + aim assist feels different from keyboard + mouse, and that when using one set its difficult to estimate what is possible to do with the other.
Currently there is the idea presented to opt out of cross play, which may bring up other concerns. For example, will we have a server browser that shows if a server is crossplay enabled or disabled, or do we only get match making, to make that work. I believe that the planned technical play test, end of this summer is to determine if crossplay will be feasible and what will be possible or not possible.
I too like to see some kind of rental server program, or something like persistant community games, so that sever runtime does not require me to remain logged in.
To build communities I believe that a server with a specific rule set needs to be available all time. And in addition to that, we need to be able to group in form of a Platoons, that, especially in the case of crossplay needs to go beyond the XBox, Origin and PlayStation friendlists.
No matter how personalized servers will work, I'd too prefer to have there basic official rule sets like you said, Normal, Classic, Hardcore, so it becomes easier to describe what the server is about. eg, Classic + Friendly Fire + Vehicle Respawn Time +200%
See you on the Battlefield,
Kregora
