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RMEChief
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3 years ago

So no Squad Management in Season 4?

Per Inside Battlefield Pod (last one for a little while), there are not going to be any Squad Management features added in Season 4. A bummer because without it, the class rework (in reality just a gadget restriction) is almost worthless. 

Kind of a bummer considering Season 4 has 13 more weeks. At best, we are looking at mid-June for squad management tools, only 20 months post launch. Incredible really. 

10 Replies

  • @Adamonic 

    Can't say I'm surprised, they seem hell bent on ignoring most of the highest requested features players have been begging for.

    • Server Browser in AOW
    • Persistent Servers in AOW with full map rotations
    • Squad Management
    • All chat
    • Clan/Platoon Support

    And on and on......

  • RMEChief's avatar
    RMEChief
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    3 years ago
    @Ironhead841 they did say all chat was coming, but squad management functionality to such an integral part of the BF experience. To push that out (because they only can do so much at once) seems silly at this point. If they are going to wait that long, why bother?

    I am back to just doing the weekly missions. There really is no other incentive to play.
  • Ironhead841's avatar
    Ironhead841
    Hero (Retired)
    3 years ago

    @Adamonic 

    Yep, I'm in kind of the same boat, between the awful hit-reg/desync issues, and some of the questionable design decisions while at the same time ignoring actual real problems has me playing less and less.

  • Straatford87's avatar
    Straatford87
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    3 years ago

    Squad Management is coming - just not yet within Season 4. All-chat is also coming, and that should be available to you earlier.

    In terms of Persistent Servers, we've added that as a feature within Portal late last year, where a Server Browser is available as well. We are aware of the request for a separate Server Browser within All-Out Warfare, but as previously mentioned we don't have plans right now to add one.

  • Psubond's avatar
    Psubond
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    3 years ago

    @Straatford87 wrote:

    Squad Management is coming - just not yet within Season 4. All-chat is also coming, and that should be available to you earlier.

    In terms of Persistent Servers, we've added that as a feature within Portal late last year, where a Server Browser is available as well. We are aware of the request for a separate Server Browser within All-Out Warfare, but as previously mentioned we don't have plans right now to add one.


    could you tell us why we aren't getting a server browser for the main game mode of the game?

  • Ironhead841's avatar
    Ironhead841
    Hero (Retired)
    3 years ago

    @Psubond @Straatford87 

    I'm struggling with trying to understand that decision too, it doesn't make any damn sense and we've never been given any reasoning behind it.

  • Psubond's avatar
    Psubond
    Legend
    3 years ago
    @Ironhead841 i've come to terms that it won't happen. i would think we would at least be told why for a little closure on it.
  • RMEChief's avatar
    RMEChief
    Legend
    3 years ago

    @Straatford87thanks for the reply. One of the problems in the game is half the team, if not more are confused and don't understand the game mode. Breakthrough on Flashpoint has really exposed that. Having additional tools for squad construction as well as commands and XP for squad activities helps players PTFO.

    Also, the term used for when for squad management was coming was "soon". So we understand you can't work on everything simultaneously with a small dev team, but if that is the case, list out, in order, the priorities you are working on. It would be that simple. Here are the things we are working on: first is deployment of Discarded rework, 2nd is S4 Seasonal Event, 3rd is All-Chat, 4th is Server Browser in AOW.

    Literally everyone would stop asking for stuff if they knew there was an order and timeline associated with it. Discarded release takes one sprint (2 weeks), prep for Seasonal Event (4 weeks), All-Chat (2 weeks), Server Browser (4 weeks).

  • X-Sunslayer-X's avatar
    X-Sunslayer-X
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @Straatford87 i just have one question at this point....
    what was the reason something as integral to this franchise like squad management was entireyl scrapped? i just want to know why. was it time crunch? engine level issues or simple negligence and you forgot to implement it?
  • RMEChief's avatar
    RMEChief
    Legend
    3 years ago
    @X-Sunslayer-X game started as Hazard Zone/BR game with Specialists, not traditional BF modes (would only be in Portal). Once it was given the thumbs down by senior leadership, they had to quickly make everything fit into a normal BF game. Remember, it didn't even have a scoreboard upon launch.

    Once the launch flopped, EA pulled a ton of money from DICE, who then had to downsize their dev team to match the funding. We have been living in this development environment since that point.

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