Re: Bf portal?? It hasnt really gone anywhere

@Lancelot_du_Lac   I'll just settle for More Maps, in fact, MANY More Maps.

The map count in this game is something any game developer should be thoroughly ashamed of and is one of the largest reasons why this game is just so boring.

I really thought in Portal it was going to cover most of the games. I was excited to think I might be playing on a Titan map and using my old friend the mech walker. 

I too was really excited for Portal when first announced.  IMO they probably wanted to do more for Portal but when the game tanked they moved teams around and focused more on the main game to improve it.  I really wanted them to bring more BF2 maps to Portal and assets.

It's a misconception that they couldn't do more because they had to move teams around to "fix" the game.

2042 was broken at launch, crashing every round, infinite loading screens, 100% CPU usage on black screens (still a problem to this day), total lack of team play mechanics. I could go on listing all the problems I experienced...

The state of the game as it is now however, both in content and quality is how it should have launched. If 2042 launched in this state, it would've been well received even with the atrocious "specialists".

Portal was "abandoned" for the same reason the game launched poorly, negligence and poor live service.  It's a wonder that we even ended up getting the transport helicopter into All out warfare, I remember asking for it years ago. The fact that it took that long, tells you that Portal was always an after thought and not a love letter.  Another issue with Portal is the ridiculous XP restriction on using AI. More on that here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Allow-FULL-XP-with-DEFAULT-AI-in-Portal-stop-this-Moderate-XP/m-p/13670596/highlight/true#M200584

I completely agree with you, I hope that they continue with battlefield portal as well and that the next has got to do better. I was fortunate enough to get the game after a lot of stuff had been worked out so I didn't witness the launch disaster, but I was initially heavily turned away from the game because they were still going a little to futuristic for my taste, with hover crafts and such, tbch the very first thing I did in 2042 was start looking into the portal mode, I didn't even launch any actual games because I'd heard of lots of hackers and an overall mess of a game. I INSTANTLY fell in love with portal, yeah it does lack (quite a bit at that) but the fact I could combine what they had, and tweak vehicles, and weapons, and all that, it became a classic for me, but the fact that full XP isn't a thing, and weapons, gadgets, maps, vehicles and such from bf4, bf1, bfV is missing is just a shame. Maybe they'll bring it all together in the next iteration. 

I completely agree with what you've stated, I loved and still love portal, honestly just because of the potential it does have. I created a server using the El Aleman map, with 20 AI on my team, and 40 on the other, put it on night mode, and watched the carnage unfold lol, I ended up also using the bc2 assets and rained down mortars, yeah I only got player XP for it but it got me close enough to unlocking the javelin 🤣. I hope that portal is continued, but simply that they do better with it. More content for portal is a must, full XP for vanilla AI, is a must. It has/had so much potential to be something great, in a world of games that lacks heavily with originality. 

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@NazT55 wrote:

I too was really excited for Portal when first announced.  IMO they probably wanted to do more for Portal but when the game tanked they moved teams around and focused more on the main game to improve it.  I really wanted them to bring more BF2 maps to Portal and assets.

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Which stunk because I really wanted much more with Portal.

Maybe the next one will retry the portal thing? 

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@GrizzGolf wrote:

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@NazT55 wrote:

I too was really excited for Portal when first announced.  IMO they probably wanted to do more for Portal but when the game tanked they moved teams around and focused more on the main game to improve it.  I really wanted them to bring more BF2 maps to Portal and assets.

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Which stunk because I really wanted much more with Portal.

Maybe the next one will retry the portal thing? 

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Hopefully. Portal is great but could be even better with further development.

The problem with portal is that it is set up to give an inferior experience compared to the matchmaking.

Matchmaking gives you Full progression + PvP A.I to fill for the missing players. Players are 1-2 clicks away from starting a match.

Portal only gives full progression with the A.I disabled so unless you have a community of enough people to start a server, you will not be getting anywhere in portal. Players have to manually find and select your server.  Your server is also probably buried under a ton of "1000% damage hArDcOrE L33T"  and 4 man kill trading mastery progression servers

Portal could have been great but the progression nerfs kind of killed it.