Portal shows you that DICE understood the sandboxy experience of playing all out war. But I think throwing the community into that sea of possibilities without a baseline entails a slow and frustrating learning curve. We just need the devs experience and knowledge in putting standard settings for mainstream elements and modes such as classes and HC mode.i saw the portal trailer while writing this, I am so f@!*ing hooked.but still! The devs need to see the effect of the learning curve on the general fan base that won’t be designing hardcore modes and class based servers

I would imagine there will be some basic pre sets available.But yes, I can see that being an issue with a plethora of "why won't my perfect server fill" threads.

@SmackChatHC I'm pretty sure there are "basic" settings for a multitude of options that you can simply toggle on / offThen there is that Logic editor to really get into the nitty gritty details of things,somewhere on the main game page under Portal they do talk about that briefly, about things like classic settings and whatnot.

@SmackChatHC I don't think one baseline will be sufficient. But I am pretty sure we will very fast get common baselines for a Normal, a Classic and a Hardcore mode. We all know that people will go from there, with limiting weapons classes, toggling friendly fire, toggle bots etc.But I guess most of the standardization of our creations will go into the Descriptions like "Classic Mode, BF3, Friendly Fire On, No-Regen, No-Autorepair, delayed vehicle spawn"

I hope we get some classic conquest in portal with all the maps 24/7 servers

@SmackChatHC I would imagine the mode starts at default 2042 settings, more presets would certainly help people start with a baseline they like and tweak from there.In terms of how much different each portal game will be, yeah gonna be alot of trial and error, its the reason I'm going to stick to only a handful personally.

The Portal will cause havoc if each server will have its own class configuration

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R1ckyDaMan19
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@SmackChatHC I would imagine the mode starts at default 2042 settings, more presets would certainly help people start with a baseline they like and tweak from there.

In terms of how much different each portal game will be, yeah gonna be alot of trial and error, its the reason I'm going to stick to only a handful personally.
TrasteTh
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@SmackChatHC if there are no such "default templates" offered by Dice, I am pretty sure the community will soon develop some and eventually there will be some kind of "gold standard" templates to work from.
SmackChatHC
4 years ago
@TrasteThI totally believe in the community and in what it can do. But I hope dice can help us enjoy portal faster by giving us the much needed baseline
kregora
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@SmackChatHC I don't think one baseline will be sufficient. But I am pretty sure we will very fast get common baselines for a Normal, a Classic and a Hardcore mode. We all know that people will go from there, with limiting weapons classes, toggling friendly fire, toggle bots etc.
But I guess most of the standardization of our creations will go into the Descriptions like "Classic Mode, BF3, Friendly Fire On, No-Regen, No-Autorepair, delayed vehicle spawn"
MegatronNerd
4 years ago
@SmackChatHC I'm pretty sure there are "basic" settings for a multitude of options that you can simply toggle on / off

Then there is that Logic editor to really get into the nitty gritty details of things,

somewhere on the main game page under Portal they do talk about that briefly, about things like classic settings and whatnot.
Trokey66
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I would imagine there will be some basic pre sets available.
But yes, I can see that being an issue with a plethora of "why won't my perfect server fill" threads.
SirBobdk
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Trokey66 wrote:
I would imagine there will be some basic pre sets available.
But yes, I can see that being an issue with a plethora of "why won't my perfect server fill" threads.
It will definitely happen to begin with. It can get a little chaotic if everyone wants to try it. I reckon there will be some good clan servers where we can rebuild the community and have fun on discord.
I look forward to that more than the game itself
GrizzGolf
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I hope we get some classic conquest in portal with all the maps 24/7 servers
SirBobdk
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@GrizzGolf wrote:
I hope we get some classic conquest in portal with all the maps 24/7 servers
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yaaaaaaaa, Good old BF whitout those trait/specialities Dice think is such a great idea. And no bots.
DrunkwoIf
4 years ago
I have more faith in the community figuring things out than i do any devs adding some baseline when they thought adding specialist was a good idea.