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RMEChief
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3 years ago
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Quotes from a Dev

Of course, on Twitter, not in the official forums: https://twitter.com/darkosupe/status/1515028334610157574?s=20&t=v6rwvYRpEP7327JlliEBFg
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  • TAW_Rinko's avatar
    TAW_Rinko
    3 years ago
    @Adamonic wrote:

    Of course, on Twitter, not in the official forums:

    At this point, I'll take it.

    There's an important note here. The sense that game needs a turnaround. That the issues are more than just tidying up the bugs and tossing around a bit of polish. A dev acknowledging that is a first.

    And perhaps I'm being merely optimistic, but the reference to the deeper code that may not show results yet is intriguing.

    One of the theories about 2042 is that what we got was a BF overlay on a BR base. If what they're doing is addressing the inadequacies of that base code for future improvements, essentially upgrading it to a BF base, that's probably a very good thing.

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BR-DuaneDibbley
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3 years ago
@Adamonic wrote:

Of course, on Twitter, not in the official forums:

https://twitter.com/darkosupe/status/1515028334610157574?s=20&t=v6rwvYRpEP7327JlliEBFg

@Adamonic

If he is a dev, he and his colleagues are responsible for all the bugs in the game. They showed (very) bad software craftsmanship and they created many of the problems. As they did for the past titles, for which they have over the months past launch always slowly squashed say 90% of said bugs. I am confident that they could do that now as well (as soon as EA or Dice allows more than the 2 people currently working on the game to return to coding and fixing bugs). But this is the extend that a dev has any influence on the matter. From all we know, most of the devs are at least not above average when it comes to SW development skills, most likely with many noob developers. Now, that the game was abandoned, I doubt that the remaining few devs are amongst the top they might have had.

So far to the bugs and general SW quality. Then major problems with BF2042 are not SW quality related though. They are caused by design decisions that no ordinary developer can really influence. Especially not at Dice if the stories about that employer are true that are floating around by ex-Dice-employees. But even in good and healthy companies, a normal developer has usually not much to say about the design of the product (the specs).

Being a senior SW developer myself I can say that I have complete control over HOW I (or we as a team) implement any of the features we have to. There is basically ZERO influence from the outside on the algorithms we use and we have absolute trust by the management on that. But we have also basically the same level (zero) of influence on the specs. In short, usually a developer can only the decide the HOW, not the WHAT. But as the major problems with BF2042 are about the WHATs and only then they HOWs, they might really and truly want to do their best to fix the game, but as they are lacking influence on the area that needs addressing, he and his fellow developers might just be the completely wrong kind of person to base any hope on, even if he has the best intentions and speaks the truth.

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