Replace Hazard with TDM and/or Rush???

@Stew360Hazard Zone is the biggest failure I have ever seen in a game, in recent years. It's filled with bots and people don't give a * about that mode. It's so easy to win (since you are mostly facing bots). Why do you think that HZ has no active players? Sometimes I wait for several minutes to get a match, just to get a clueless team of console players that dies all the time, even to bots.

High stake game mode, yeah right haha. They are even rewarding people with 1000 credits to play one HZ match daily because no players want to play it. They need to rethink this mode entirely.

Rush mode were many times better than Hazard Zone. A battle royale mode would have been better than this garbage. How can you seriously think this mode is good? Joking? Even when I get 50+ kills and get away, it feels boring.

No need to remove HZ, just add Rush.

Rush was more popular than HZ by far.

@Stew360 I have played (and still plays) Battle Royale games. I looked forward to Hazard Zone (from all the hype), however it feels like a poor mans battle royale at best. Big empty maps with mostly bots.

At least have a hardcore HZ mode with no repsawns, no bots etc.

Conquest is another mode that I find boring. Never really liked it. Breakthrough is far better. However it is good to have options and some "weekly quests" were easier to do in Conquest.

Player numbers are dwindling day for day. EA/DICE does not come with a statement or roadmap. I feel the game is dying slowly at this point. It's been over 2 months since release and we have not seen much new stuff yet. The only good addition was Rush but they removed it again. Their most important task was to get this out before christmas it seems. Now they can relax.

If they don't wake up, this franchise is dead.

Replace with Rush

@DeepSixxxx The pretty much won't replace the main game mode for TDM and/or Rush.

Yeah I know its confusing, calling the game Battlefield, and then have a Extraction Royal as main mode, but "Don't be sad, this is just how it works out sometimes!"

Currently we already have too many distinct match making pools, maybe they should first allow homogeneous parties to join crossplay disabled lobbies, even when the party has crossplay enabled. And when that is actually working stable, add more playlists.

@DeepSixxxx Yes replace Hazard mode with Rush. 

If this was to happen I would happily save EA/Dice the job of any announcement and would personally contact the 10 players who play it to notify them of the upcoming change.

It just feels like Hazard is empty and I have trouble finding a good game mainly shooting bots, yet in the short time TDM was official in Portal, I could always, find at least 8x8, almost always 12x12, and often 16x16 of 100% human players as there are zero bots in TDM.  It was a lot of silent teamwork and is the best gun to gun skilled challenge mode IMHO, even with the smaller 8x8 groups as the maps had been reduced in size, and they had classic maps so it was a great rotation that did not get boring.  That said, the respawn was perhaps some of the worse of all modes, as I would often respawn 2-3 meters behind an enemy who had just respawned a couple of seconds before me, and vice versa...thus that could use tweaked...

Rush, well that game had real strategy, and even with bots it was rarely boring, although they needed to add some classic maps as the map rotation was very limited compared to TDM.  Rush is what got me interested in Portal, and it is hard to go back to the more chaotic and luck based (getting bombed to death two seconds after respawn, etc) modes of 128x128...as the tend to get boring and repetitive quicker, I believe because bots are more involved, and humans are more challenging and clever, etc...

Hazard needs some work, perhaps change teams sizes (16x16, 12x12, 8x8???), and it needs random team chat as unlike TDM and Rush, it is too complicated to not have team chat.  When I went into Hazard with a team using mics, it was hard to lose a single match as it is filled with solo and duo players who can not team speak.  I'm not saying eliminate Hazard "royale", just put it on the shelf until March Season 1 massive updates, or even better release back in Portal from now until March to beta test changes to see what works, etc...

The fastest way to re-engineer about a product is to quickly prototype, and then test,  tweak prototype, re-test, etc...

Dice could get a lot of useful metric data beta testing Hazard for two months in Portal and then taking the best, most popular version and re-launching with Season 1.

Just a thought but don't be sad Dice, this is just how it works out sometimes...=)