DICE reflects on Battlefield 2042's long road to redemption

I cant even play a full match of this garbage of a game. This is how it is now, these devs want you to feel bad for them for not doing their job. This is the new society, you the consumer that forked your cash and expected to get a working game got nothing but a mess but its not their fault its yours for expecting a working game. I am done, Dice 2042 team You suck! EA, BANN ME already so I never have even the slightest thought of buying any of your products and NAZI censorship!

@Adamonic  Briefly skimmed the article until I saw the gaslighting, misconstruing how utterly broken the game was and lackluster in the "legacy features" department as being something wrong on the player's part.

A lot of our issues came from the fact that players didn't understand how the Specialists were supposed to work.

That's literally not what the issue was, like at all. The issue was literally the existence of Specialists.

"Players always know what they want, they're just not necessarily the best at explaining it. If you take that mindset into all of these things, our job as developers is to find out what they mean.

Points at BF1, Points at BF4. I think the players have communicated fairly well what it is that they want.

he says. "But what we really want to do is find new ways to connect with players now that we've really gotten the game under us."

Meh, nothings changed. I ain't buying the next Battlefield until I see the reviews for it.

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.