Can you please explain DICE, why is there no offline modes for bots?Thank you!

@GRiPSViGiL I'm still playing Quake I and that was released 25 years ago. There are still excellent maps made by the community that far exceed what was possible back then. Games are not meant to have an expiration date. Good games, like good music records get to live on forever. What companies like EA are doing, infesting everything with "always online" crapware (solely for profit and shoving microtransactions further down our throats) is deeply anti-consumer. No company should have the right to enforce on you, until when you can play a game you purchased. I know, I know the insidious thing is that nowadays you don't purchase a copy of the game you purchase a limited license to play the game that can expire at their discretion. Scummy behavior as expected. This is one of the many reasons why "always online" is [CM - removed] and will forever (until the heat death of the universe) be nothing more than [CM - removed] .

It's something that lot of us wanted to have but again, it's very unfortunate that it's not happening.Please consider it in the future!Here's the news for reference: https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/news/battlefield-briefing-answering-your-reveal-questions

DICE made a statement about Solo mode."SINCE AI SOLDIERS CAN BE USED IN SOLO MODE, DOES THAT MEAN I CAN PLAY OFFLINE?Battlefield 2042 is a multiplayer-only experience. So while you can play Solo against AI Soldiers if you’d like to practice, it will be in an online setting."https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/news/battlefield-briefing-answering-your-reveal-questions

What a joke, i refuse to buy always on DRMd games that can be killed completely for good at any moment, just no.

@Player55 Gotta agree. I don't get this "always online" fascination. Especially given the serious server problems a lot of games have had recently. But this might just be for launch. Battlefront 2 didn't have a legit offline Instant Action mode until Felucia arrived, and the co-op was added to offline in the months after. So DICE may add it later.

It's confirmed that bots are not coming for offline modes

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Player55
5 years ago
It's something that lot of us wanted to have but again, it's very unfortunate that it's not happening.
Please consider it in the future!
Here's the news for reference: https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/news/battlefield-briefing-answering-your-reveal-questions
PacNbowls
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@Player55 The sad part is most games are doing it now, seems like they want to keep you connected 24/7
Terofishy
5 years ago
Sad to hear this. Unfortunately this is deal breaker for me. I wont rent a game for couple of years and then DICE or EA will just pull the kill switch.
After years of fan requests to include offline mode, it is just clear at this point that DICE or EA care more about money and want to force fans to buy every new title, but for me this is the end of Battlefield series. There are many other great non AAA titles, which can be played offline.
CloudMcRip
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@Player55There are difference things I can speculate about, maybe the AI-Bots running via "Cloud-Based" services, this will require a pernament internet connection or at least a "hosted" server to play.
Another thing I can speculate about is that the pernament internet connection could be an instrument to fight against "piracy".
OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@CloudMcRip wrote:
@Player55There are difference things I can speculate about, maybe the AI-Bots running via "Cloud-Based" services, this will require a pernament internet connection or at least a "hosted" server to play.
Another thing I can speculate about is that the pernament internet connection could be an instrument to fight against "piracy".
Yeah it's probably a piracy safeguard. I doubt EA is spending a ton of money on cloud servers able to run advanced AI bots. I doubt the bots in BF2042 require any kind of machine learning (ML) hardware. That would explode EA's cloud costs and eat into their profit margin.
SOCOMDEATHDEALR
5 years ago
I would definitely prefer an offline play option, but that isn't going to ruin the game, for me. As long as AT&T gets their money, I'll be rollin. 🍺🍺
Rusty Rat
Rising Ace
5 years ago
@Player55 As I seem to remember it being confirmed you could still level up and unlock items against bots, it may also be to control quick leveling on modified systems.
UNL1M1T3D_P0W3R
5 years ago
@Rusty Rat I wonder if the compromise for Solo not being offline will still allow players to progress everything completely against AI.
ElliotLH
Hero+
5 years ago
@UNL1M1T3D_P0W3R We can use the bots for levelling and so on.
Its_Travis_199
Hero+
5 years ago
@Player55
It's probably some sort of an online Cloud service where the Bots are supported from, and they're not directly included in the game.
And so it needs an active online connection to make it work.
Maybe even cause you perform the fight with Bots on Multiplayer maps too.
Greets,
Travis