Re: Teamwork - Automated Squad Leader Promotion

They used to refer to this as the mutiny feature. It amazes me how much they talk about wanting to promote better teamplay and then remove so many of the incentives. Squads that followed an active squad leader would perform better on leaderboards because score was given for completing objectives (defending/capturing). Having squad management tools also incentivized players to follow squad orders so as to remain in the squad.

In the most recent Inside Battlefield podcast the producers kept talking about challenges of prioritizing game changes and improvements. This was an explanation for why many of those things aren't done. But all of these legacy features they keep talking about were present in earlier titles. Until BF1, they were even present at release.

Both BF1 and BFV also suffered this same problem where the mutiny feature was missing at release and then later added. They just keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. I can only think they just didn't get the budget and staff they had for BF4 and earlier.