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5 years ago

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

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iBeKrudei

5 years ago

@TheStraightRazor Do we contact Sony/PlayStation for a refund?

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
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
  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!
- TDawg262
  5 years ago
  @iBeKrudeiNo problem friend, I'm glad we all came together to discuss this. Me personally, I'm gonna stick around. I know that's probably a stupid thing to do, but I really want this game to do well lol. From the little time I've played, it was honestly so much fun, seeing the tornadoes and sandstorms roll in, along with all the action and chaos, it was just a blast. That's the problem with all these new BF games, they have the potential to do so well, but It's shadowed by poor decisions, and complacency...
  
  Hopefully you decide to try again when things brighten up!
  - iBeKrudei
    5 years ago
    @TDawg262 Not going anywhere mate, sticking around too. Going to try and get a refund for what I've paid since the early access was just a complete waste. I'm like you though, the game is really fun and for me is the closest thing to BF4(my favourite Battlefield game), so I want the game to be the best it can be. The biggest issue we now have is communication though.
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
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
  5 years ago
  @TheInterStellar8 Dang, now I'm glad I didn't step into the online scene yet...
  - iBeKrudei
    5 years ago
    @TDawg262 You replied to the guy who replied to me on Twitter basically saying I couldn't read lol. Made me laugh because obviously he was the one who couldn't read 😆