The next Battlefield - A modern remake of everything BF4!
Instead of spending more time or resources of any kind on BF2042 after the last season 4 drops, then I sincerely hope all EA/DICE resources/time/money instead will go to making a next Battlefield game that truly brings us back to 'the good old classic Battlefield' environment and look & feel.
And not just to make it 'easy' for the game designers and the developer team, but also because I truly think it would be what a large majority of the still existing (old romantic legacy) BF fans out there truly so long for... But my strong proposal would simply be:
A modern remake of all and everything in BF4 - It would be a big winner for EA/DICE!
And when I say 'modern', I dont mean they need to add super heros or laser beam weapons to it. No. Absolutely and exactly not!
A modern remake should keep all we had in the old original BF4, of soldier classes, weapons, gadgets, vehicles, maps, server browser, persistent community-run servers, clans, team and squad functions, spectator mode, etc etc. But the modern part would simply be aka:
- Increase server tick rate
- Increase screen resolution
- Add proximity sound (so soldiers in same vehicle could chat directly, but also so you can hear nearby enemies chatting in close quarter combat situations)
- Add cross platform function, so players can opt-in to which platforms they agree to crossplay with. This should include by player input method. (mnk vs mnk or controller vs controller players)
- Increase ease of reporting cheaters direct from within game and truly getting them permanently banned and in timely fashion. Community-run persistent servers are still probably the best insurance for this, but still blatant glitchers etc ought to be widely BF-banned by EA DICE, so they cannot just go on to another server and repeat their misdeeds.