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WedgeTornado
4 years ago
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Why was the UI such a big issue for the devs? UI over budget?

How did the UI get over budget? Why so many issues with a simple thing as that? was it the plus menu? Or the game menu?  there wasn’t even a scoreboard until later on. 
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  • MortalitasWolf's avatar
    MortalitasWolf
    4 years ago
    @WedgeTornado It's not the UI specifically. It's more the way the engine handles the UI. I fear Frostbite isn't going to be around much longer, it seems that it's becoming too difficult to develop on and they'll probably switch to something like UE5.
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MortalitasWolf
4 years ago
@WedgeTornado It's not the UI specifically. It's more the way the engine handles the UI. I fear Frostbite isn't going to be around much longer, it seems that it's becoming too difficult to develop on and they'll probably switch to something like UE5.
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WedgeTornado
4 years ago
@MortalitasWolf I heard in a podcast with a former dev that the vehicles were fine, criterion did awesome. But the little indicator(red dot) or whatever above the tank slowed the game down a ton. They had a swat team dedicated to fixing the UI.

Hopefully they switch to a third party engine for the next title but i dont think that will be easy either.
    • WedgeTornado's avatar
      WedgeTornado
      4 years ago
      @MortalitasWolf What the heck. "feels good you trust us". Said its a solid game then after he leaves EA says it has tons of issues during the dev cycle.
      • PapaDrach's avatar
        PapaDrach
        4 years ago

        That podcast just further provides claims to how butchered the entire development process was. From design to implementation. I feel bad for new people getting hired into such a mess but GD this shouldn't be passed on to consumers at full retail. The claims from the mouths of the devs / PR along with the marketing is just blatantly wrong. 

    • edgecrusherO0's avatar
      edgecrusherO0
      4 years ago
      @MortalitasWolf Lord, "have faith, fam" guy. He was on staff at the time. I'm sure he's a wonderful person IRL, but the DICE staffers gaslighting the community about the quality and level of completion of the game pre-launch was one of the largest contributing factors to my decision to not buy games from DICE anymore.

      I expect EA and DICE proper to BS us and lie about how amazing the game is, that's advertising. I expect the senior devs that they stick in marketing videos reading a script are reading a script and not giving their 100% honest opinion.

      I don't expect devs to go out of their way to gaslight and lie about the game they're working on to their community, unprompted.

      All that positivity for nothing, because DICE lied and shipped a half finished, buggy, broken, incomplete game.

      And DICE wonders why the community doesn't trust them anymore. Because of garbage like this.
      • OskooI_007's avatar
        OskooI_007
        Seasoned Ace
        4 years ago

        Does anyone have a link to the podcast?

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