Just 1 map for season 2? That's it?
don't think dice understands this but this isn't enough. Even if you made the best map in world, the game won't survive. We needed 4 maps not 1 per season. No way dice is working on full capacity wit...
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@Echo6Echo Thank you, sir and I agree with you on the game needing to be fixed. Just seems like a waste of time for a game that isn't going to be supported in 9 months anyway.
DICE isn't going to spend time and money getting this game where it needs only to shelve it. Minimal patches and minimal content. Player base slowly and quietly dwindles. Mission accomplished. Release new BF game and hope it is good enough to make everyone forget about 2042.
DICE isn't going to spend time and money getting this game where it needs only to shelve it. Minimal patches and minimal content. Player base slowly and quietly dwindles. Mission accomplished. Release new BF game and hope it is good enough to make everyone forget about 2042.
Don't worry fam, DICE is "all in on 2042"!
They're totally not prioritizing map updates to push out more than a single update a season by focusing on maps that don't need as much work - by their own admission.
They're totally not deprioritizing maps that are absolutely TERRIBLE and need extensive work like Hourglass because that reduces how many map updates they can put out - by their own admission.
Seriously, I don't care how much DICE's dishonest GM goes out and lies in interviews about how committed DICE is to 2042 - there's literally no expression of that commitment via updates (they're nice, don't get me wrong! but not "hundreds of people working on the game that launched like trash" nice), no expression in the communications on the game (often quite the contrary). We just have to "take DICE's word" which, at this point as we've seen, isn't worth squat.
DICE can't even keep Sundance's pronouns consistent in their damned 1.2 video update lol. They kept using gendered pronouns for the only non-binary character in the game, highlighting just how little Sundance being non-binary means and how they don't even remember that irrelevant, pointless detail internally when discussing specialists.
I heard somewhere, don't recall where, that this was supposed to be a battle royal until they realized they couldn't make that happen so quick coded some * to make it into what it is today.
That's why it's so tough for them to balance anything. It was never designed for quick change...
It absolutely was going to be a PAID FOR battle royale game. Who the hell pays for a BR game? You can easily see the DNA of BR in 2042. Why do you need persistent servers in a BR game? That's not how they work. Why do you need squad management tools in a BR game? Why do you need a server browser, etc, etc, etc.
This was going to be a hero shooter BR game that EA actually thought BF players would pay for!
That idea was dropped, but the design mechanics remain in place.
We'll get 3 more maps and once S4 has deployed that will be it. I was hoping for new classic maps for Portal but that doesn't seem to be happening.
How EA, DICE and Ripple Effect have taken one of the biggest most beloved franchises in gaming history and turned it into what we have now is astonishing.
They had the easiest job in the world. Take everything good about BF5 and shift it forward to a near future setting. That's it.
2042 will go down in gaming history for all the wrong reasons.
- @ABC-Warrior-real I guarantee in a few years from now people will be saying how great 2042 is!
- @CantGetRight And in a few years, 2042 might actually BE great! (though I'm less optimistic compared to previous BF entries)
As is DICE tradition as of late: Launch a rushed, unfinished, poorly designed game. Go on a non-apology tour. Spend years fighting with the community and incrementally improving the game. Finally get the game into a good state after years of updates...and then drop support to move onto the next game. They never apologised for 2042. Most of the devs act like they have done a flawless work and most criticism is unvalid. As much as ea has the blame, dice seems to be the real culprit of the act
@CantGetRight @No, it will be forgotten like hardlin
- @edgecrusherO0 You missed 'forget everything that made the previous game good, start from scratch and introduce a while new set of issues and bugs'
