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TDawg262
5 years ago

Progression not working properly for weapons and vehicles (Solo/Coop AI)

Product: Battlefield 2042 Platform:Steam-PC Please specify your platform model. PC AMD or Nvidia Model Number Nvidia RTX 2060 Super Enter RAM memory size in GB 32GB Are you using any software wi...
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TheStraightRazo's avatar
TheStraightRazo
5 years ago

They might be running down the clock on our eligibility to get a refund.

Might be for the best to get a refund now and then buy the game again, if and only after they fix it.

  • TheStraightRazo's avatar
    TheStraightRazo
    5 years ago
    @iBeKrudei Last I looked into this, for another game, Sony's policy was that they'd give refunds only if none of the game had been downloaded.

    However they didn't enforce that policy for the mess that was Cyberpunk and allowed people to refund.

    As it stands, BF2042 is not providing what was advertised, so I think Sony should honour a refund request.
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    TheStraightRazo
    5 years ago

    Note that I'm in Australia.  I don't know if Sony's policies differ based on regional consumer laws.

    Although having said that, in Australia we are entitled to a repair, replacement or refund, at our option, for anything which is not fit for purpose or does not do what was advertised.

    • iBeKrudei's avatar
      iBeKrudei
      5 years ago
      @TheStraightRazor Yeah it's the same here in Ireland so I shall contact them shortly and explain the situation. It's a shame we have to do it but at the same time, EA need to start coping on and realise that if they have the cheek to charge so much for their games... then they should bloody well make sure the games are worth that price!
  • TDawg262's avatar
    TDawg262
    5 years ago

    Alright guys, so I've done some digging around on the steam discussions and I've found a comment on a recent post that seems to be from a community manager of some sorts (His name's highlighted in orange...)

    https://steamcommunity.com/app/1517290/discussions/0/5017567849308392879/

    He claims that the progression issue is, in fact, intentional, and that they are going to re-enable it when they have certain "safeguards" in-place to combat the exploiting.

    So, I guess that's about as official as we're going to get. My biggest gripe with this, is the lack of communication. They never mentioned anything about this progression change, and it only took 3 days for a community manager to make a reply on some steam post, not even on the official bug report forums...

    And why punish All Out Warfare players? Look, I understand Portal being the issue, but like I've said numerous times, AOW has no modifiers that could cause exploits, everything is pretty barebones and exactly like online, except for the difficulty, which isn't a big problem tbh.


    Anyway, let's hope their "Safeguards" aren't going to make Solo/Coop too grind-y. They already castrated the XP side of things, and I really don't want attachment progression to be the same. Just leave the XP the way it is, and revert the Mastery and ribbon changes, or only enable progression on intermediate levels of difficulty or higher...

    Still hoping for a dev or someone to confirm this and explain more on here though...

    • iBeKrudei's avatar
      iBeKrudei
      5 years ago
      @TDawg262 Thank you for letting us know mate. So this basically confirms that a refund should be the way to go! And I can guarantee that the reason why they haven't put this on any official social media is because the game is officially out on Friday and as per usual with EA these days, money is all they care about. Don't get me wrong, I completely understand it's still a business and they need to earn money but lying and ripping people off is most certainly not the way to earn it. Oh well, maybe in a year the game will be better since that's the trend with a Battlefield game nowadays.
      • TheStraightRazo's avatar
        TheStraightRazo
        5 years ago

        Yeah, after being burned in the past I completely wrote off BFV, until friends told me recently that it came good.

        So I finally got on board when it was free on Playstation Plus!  😉

        I probably should just make this a policy going forward with EA games!

    • 33Tomato's avatar
      33Tomato
      5 years ago
      @TDawg262 Thing is we know it's intentional in Portal, the question is, is it intentional in solo/coop. And like you said, you couldn't even exploit solo/coop.

      And with the solution of only allow progression on certain difficulties, I still think it should just all be the same, regardless of difficulty. And I actually like playing on advanced, but sometimes I like intermediate or even beginner when testing/trying out things.

      The most annoying part is that solo/coop was just fun until all this, I knew Portal was going to get messy (How did DICE not see this coming?!) but, now the XP nerf etc on solo/coop, it just took all the fun away.

      And It's scary these days when backend updates can remove a feature you bought the game for.
    • TheInterStellar's avatar
      TheInterStellar
      5 years ago
      @TDawg262 well it could be worse, this could've been a permanent change but if Friday isn't the day they fix it I am going to be very mad because the sweats in multiplayer are making me very mad, can't go 5 steps without 52 hovercrafts and nightbirds (the little helicopters) slaughtering you and if you dare use a non-meta weapon like the 45-70 you just die
      • TDawg262's avatar
        TDawg262
        5 years ago
        @TheInterStellar8 Dang, now I'm glad I didn't step into the online scene yet...

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