I'm scared of what the next game might look like....
I for one, am not looking for another "reimagining", they don't need to re-invent the wheel, all I want is a SOLID Battlefield game.
No hero/specialist nonsense with all the weird game breaking mechanics and the cringey voice lines, full-stop, just don't do it.
Focus on making the base game functional, stable with all the features that BF players have come to expect, server browsers, persistent servers, VOIP, scoreboards, squad management, platoon/clan support etc. etc.
Fix the hit-reg/lag/de-sync (a ping-limiting mechanic would probably help a ton with this) and anything else effecting gunplay mechanics, gunplay should be predictable and consistent, not randomly good or bad depending on every play session.
My advice would be to look to the older BF titles for ideas/inspiration, take all the beloved maps, modes, game-mechanics from prior BF's and implement them in the next Battlefield title. Looking at stuff like the commander role in BF2, Titan mode from BF2142 just for a couple of examples.
I could probably write several long-winded posts on this subject but long-story-short just give us an updated Battlefield game along the lines of BF2-BF4, a real successor to these titles not a "reimagining"
@RayD_O1 wrote:
@Ironhead841
100% this. 👍
Make it 200% 👍
"one of the big things we really started to understand was that a lot of our issues came from the fact that players didn't understand how the Specialists were supposed to work."
You mean to sell skins and monetize the hell out of the franchise 🙌
I'm scared of what the next game might look like....
I was waiting for this thread as soon as I read that article.
just sadness now, I have less than zero hope the game will ever be anything I’ll be interested in. It’s super clear to me now, having blamed their player base for not understanding how to play battlefield. That they are clearly on some other plane of existence.
They don't understand how many times will they waste time and money on making a BR .mode for a community that isn't interested in a BR mode?
10 commandments for EA.
1. Re-introduce back again rental servers for the communities and platoons. So players may set map and mode rotation, tickets, etc. Held their own events with friends!
2. End ridiculous presets like extremely realistic Afghan War Mayhem Fast 1000x XP -1000x damage servers. NORMAL - HARDCORE as RANKED!!! The rest shall stay as UNRANKED with private server ranking systems!!!
3. Re-introduce admin tools to control maps and plugins to balance out the teams by hitting !assist command! There is no balancer on the servers right now and only a low ticket number saves the day!
4. Do not exceed the number of players over 100 on Conquest, otherwise fidelity of the maps, game flow, destruction, levolution, and in-game latency go bonkers completely or are non-existent.
5. Make some of the map areas for RUSH game mode and Domination! Do not push for ill-crafted 128 and more maps with ridiculous empty spaces!
6. Make the maps 50-50. Vehicular Warfare and Infantry Warfare-themed maps. Making the same dull maps with all vehicles available destroys the whole balance on a particular map!
7. Re-introduce Commander. Make squads consist of at least 5-7 players, grant spawn beacon to Squad Leader, and introduce Second Team Leader to spawn on.
8. Re-introduce proper classes/operators instead of washed-out specialists with their bland roles. Do not put cosmetics/micro-transactions over other aspects of the game!
9. No auto-healing and ammo on every corner of the map. Healing and ammo on players' action! Inventory management with limited items in the backpack/on the soldier. Health and Ammo should be only replenishable only by medic/support, commander crates, and certain points by the flag. No ammo pickups on the killed enemy unless the ammo type matches specific equipment.
10. Bots and AI belongs to Single Player game not multiplayer on Conquest and TDM!
@fragnsteinTo be fair. If Dice made a BR-mode like COD (which they already tried and failed), it would not be for the BF-community, but for attracting new customers, for the live-service part of BF (the 'Fortnite-crowd').
Dice(/EA) desperately wants a bigger 'customer-base' for BF and therefore they try all these weird things, that so far have ruined the 2 last BF-games.
