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edgecrusherO0's avatar
edgecrusherO0
4 years ago

Feedback is starting but...is there a plan to address the player count for now?

Title. We know the team is slowly working on bigger changes but the game is in a very, very rough spot right now and finding full AOW matches can be difficult, much less hoping to find filled matche...
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UP_Hawxxeye's avatar
UP_Hawxxeye
Legend
4 years ago

Players will come if the game is fixed properly.

It happened with BF4

edgecrusherO0's avatar
edgecrusherO0
4 years ago
@UP_Hawxxeye That was a long time ago, and BF4's issues were more technical in nature whereas BF2042 faces both technical and extensive design problems that will take far more time to fix.

Also, there's a lot more competition for attention/money compared to when BF4 launched. The insanely steep dropoff of players in 2042 shows this, because it's highly unlikely that BF4 lost 95%+ of its playerbase in the first 4 months. Because like, they were getting new content at this point...while we're waiting on a * scoreboard.
  • UP_Hawxxeye's avatar
    UP_Hawxxeye
    Legend
    4 years ago
    @edgecrusherO0 in BF4 you could not enjoy that content though due to crashing
    • edgecrusherO0's avatar
      edgecrusherO0
      4 years ago
      @UP_Hawxxeye You'd hope that DICE would improve the quality of the games they ship in the decade since releasing BF4, usually companies are expected to get better at what they do over time.

      But in the case of BF2042, we've seen regressions both in terms of bug count and, more worryingly, basic game design.
      • UP_Hawxxeye's avatar
        UP_Hawxxeye
        Legend
        4 years ago

        @edgecrusherO0it is simple
        The frostbite engine is a nightmare and EA fails to motivate the guys who know it to keep working at DICE.

        At the same time the management puts directives to chase every freaking FPS trend

    • 0ld_yell0w's avatar
      0ld_yell0w
      4 years ago

      True that BF4 had a lot of issues but it had a roadmap ! Thus the core of BF4 was a BF game. They will have to change the whole core of 2042 to

      get players interested in investing time. But IMO they will let it die with a few updates and that was the end of something that should never have been released....

      • Lancelot_du_Lac's avatar
        Lancelot_du_Lac
        Seasoned Ace
        4 years ago

        One quick fix could be to include a few maps from BF3/4 into AOW - particularly Infantry only maps.

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