Feedback Thread: 128 Player Flashback CQ

I tried several games of 128 player Flashback Conquest with a friend, and here were our thoughts: 

• We immediately found the mode way too chaotic with so many players and vehicles overwhelming us.
• Our squad could not make any meaningful impact in the game because we are such a small fraction of 128 players. 
• When we tried to capture a flag, we would often get overrun by helicopters and other vehicles, which we stood no chance against. 
• On every map we played, it was basically a cycle of spawning and quickly dying because there were always enemies around. There was not any organization or flow to the game - it was just a giant mess. It ruined the objective-based strategy traditionally found in Battlefield Conquest.

We will definitely not be playing any Conquest mode that has more than 64 players in the future.

I think the community has said from the beginning that we do not care much for 128 players but went ahead and throw it into one of the more popular portal modes anyways lol. I wonder if this is a test to maybe actually throw these maps into the AOW rotation permanently since we have lack of content right now?

EA/Dice should have stayed with the foundation you guys have and kept using it. You have several other BF titles/contents that worked and were poplar for its time while also adding in new game changes per title over the years. All this could have been brought over into 2042 but fine-tuned and improved for the old/new experience of the BF franchise.

Personally, When I played the tech and beta test the 128-man games for something new and only on one map at the time, I thought it wasn't bad and didn't feel overwhelming, at times I couldn't tell there was 128 players in the server. It was honestly okay and was looking forward to new maps for launch but since launch my point of view has changed. Not so much of the over whelming odds and chaos at times in 128-man servers but it just doesn't work right with that many players technically.

The 128 players can get too chaotic quick back-to-back I tried flashback last night and did more running and dying trying to take bases because team is just rushing through and through repeatedly while the other team tails you. It felt almost mindless trying to keep up with everything going on, no balance. I don't want to play a COD where I meet players constantly and everyone trying to get a 6 k/d. I want to have some freedom and space to move while also getting into firefights if that makes sense.

There seems to be a more consistency, better performance in 64-man servers, than 128-man servers. It is just a different feeling in game play. I think for both server types more optimizations and fine tunning are needed.

Keep 128 for all out warfare the old maps aren't designed for that many players it's too much 

It is inexplicable that decisions like this are still being made at this stage. From the start, 128 players is not a good idea for a lot of reasons and you have already had very clear feedback about it. We hope you will listen to players this time. Putting 128 players on maps designed for 64 players (without even adjusting the tickets number) is obviously a bad thing. It kills all the fun and it brings a lot of bugs/performances issues. Infantry Conquest and FB Conquest 64 are the only popular modes of this game with Rush so please don't ruin them.

At first it seemed really good, but over the last couple of days it's gotten too chaotic, and i find myself firing up BF4 for some 'proper' Battlefield.

I think it's fair to say that 128 players might be too much.  

I had some matches where there were 80-90 players, and it was good.  Lots of action etc but you could still play strategically.

128 just ups the pace of the game beyond what battlefield is best known for.

Why not experiment with 48 a side?

Let us have the options in Portal to play with as many PVP ai as we want on any maps we want with XP, Ribbons and rewards. Players would have the choice to play their way and have fun their way.  I would stay in Portal all the time.

Just rename the game Battlefield Portal and Place all content of the entire game for the use of the community to make their own server matches.

Give the community the freedom without restraint.

 I like 128 players I miss the large Conquest of Orbital map. The 64 size is cut down and less freedom to flank.

128 players on the largest maps and 64 on the smaller maps.