Re: Current Issues In The Studio

 If it is taking this long for map reworks im afraid of the next game maps, which may as well be polish turds compared to 2042's. 

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This is an issue that's been speculated about a lot, but gets more confirmed as time goes on.

Can Dice create a battlefield game that meets the expectations of a battlefield game?

Every time Dice fail to meet expectations it becomes a little more easy to feel they're simply incapable. That they're not being lazy, or *, but that what's being asked from them is very hard for them.  There's no sense of them exceeding expectations, of Dice feeling they have to make up for the state of the game at launch. It's as if all they think it really needs is a bit of polish, and that 2042 is not a game built on some fundamentally flawed concepts.

All of which makes looking forward to any future battlefield game an exercise in managing anxiety.

I have to say, as things stand, I cant buy any further games from Dice until they've been released and I can tell if they're close to what was promised.

Amateur, outside opinion but like...honestly as time goes on and we have more and more reports from teams working with the Frostbite engine...I'm thinking a LOT of the problems are down to the Frostbite engine simply being a nightmare to work with and not setting the studio up for success. But sadly, EA is unlikely to abandon their investment at this point with some big sunk-cost-fallacy thinking, even if it would very likely dramatically improve the quality of games their studios make.

Just look at Respawn, they're turning out bangers and have a $1B a year game (Apex) and they use Source and Unreal Engine. Maybe the devs need better tools to make a good game, but management continues to force them to use a chainsaw to try to do detailed woodwork with.

Dice and other EA studios (Bioware) has talked about Frostbite being hard to work with many times in the past.

Seems like that they have spent way too much time on engine-features, but "forgot" to make proper tools for making the process of creating new content easier. BF games has earlier been some of the most beautiful looking multiplayer games no doubt, but has always had lots of small issues.

If they want any chance of running a live-service, they have to make sure that as much time as possible is spent creating content, instead of wasting time using a game-engine that demands usage of "voodoo".

Perhaps Dice Sweden should use all their time developing Frostbite and then some other studio could create the BF-games, they seem to not being able to do both. Seems like making quality game-play is totally lost on Dice Sweden.

Think I can confidently speak for the majority and simply say “we don’t care”