Game balance feedback.
As someone that’s been a player tester for several games over the years, it seems impossible for me to believe that player testing is happening in BF2042. Its impossible to believe that feedback from...
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EA_Atic
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DICE TeamTo the original question, Yes we play test everything we do. @Zhukov211
Sometimes I wish the gaming industri did a PTR style build for people to experience how it looks when a build haven't been tested for issue. It's wild the difference is.
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Sometimes I wish the gaming industri did a PTR style build for people to experience how it looks when a build haven't been tested for issue. It's wild the difference is.
/Atic
@EA_Atic Nothing is stopping DICE from having PTS servers and uploading builds that haven't even passed internal QA to give players an idea of how rough they are : )
But PTS testing isn't exactly a new or novel concept. PTS testing - both closed and open - has been a thing on PC for decades.
But that seems to be missing the point of the criticism of this thread.
You seem like you're hinting at functionality/stability of early, untested builds, which is wholly separate from what this thread is discussing. It's not discussing crash bugs or anything of the sort, it's discussing the qualitative/balance aspect of testing.
Which, honestly, feels like it's not being done at all during DICE's internal tests, and players are immediately calling out significant balance problems that should have been identified during testing and need to be patched a month+ later whenever DICE gets around to pushing out the next update - if they even get to that issue which is unlikely given the long list of other issues and the fact that DICE frequently feels like they're playing a totally different branch of the game than the rest of the community.
But PTS testing isn't exactly a new or novel concept. PTS testing - both closed and open - has been a thing on PC for decades.
But that seems to be missing the point of the criticism of this thread.
You seem like you're hinting at functionality/stability of early, untested builds, which is wholly separate from what this thread is discussing. It's not discussing crash bugs or anything of the sort, it's discussing the qualitative/balance aspect of testing.
Which, honestly, feels like it's not being done at all during DICE's internal tests, and players are immediately calling out significant balance problems that should have been identified during testing and need to be patched a month+ later whenever DICE gets around to pushing out the next update - if they even get to that issue which is unlikely given the long list of other issues and the fact that DICE frequently feels like they're playing a totally different branch of the game than the rest of the community.
- EA_Atic100% on the PTR item was more of hand comment on early builds etc. @edgecrusherO0,
Our teams test changes etc, ofc developers have an idea in mind how it all works out but sometimes they miss the mark and sometimes and more then often it hits the mark.
Its not a one person team, everything is team effort we all working together.
/Atic- @EA_Atic Cool. But the feedback continues to be, "There's something wrong with the current testing processes and players are consistently calling out those balance issues immediately upon seeing them."
Like the condor/hind problems. Like the stealth helicopter problems. Like the new DMR being overbuffed due to the blanket buffs to DMR's.
Is this all intended? Because it feels like live servers are being treated as a PTS for balance. Except that unlike an actual PTS where changes are pushed more often, we instead deal with these poor decisions and unfun balance for months on end while hoping that the team even acknowledges the problem/feedback.
It's deeply frustrating and while I know it's a cruddy thing to say since I'm sure the team is all working their butts off...it doesn't FEEL like it as a player.
