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WedgeTornado
3 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
    3 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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RayD_O1
Hero
3 years ago
@OskooI_007
Eye opening indeed and maybe goes some way to explaining why everything seems to take so long.

As a matter of interest how long have DICE been using the Frostbite engine.?
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OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@RayD_O1 wrote:
@OskooI_007
Eye opening indeed and maybe goes some way to explaining why everything seems to take so long.

As a matter of interest how long have DICE been using the Frostbite engine.?

Frostbite debuted in 2008 with Bad Company. After Bad Company 2, EA decided to use Frostbite for most of their in-house games. Shortly after Battlefield 3, EA made the Frostbite engine team their own seperate entity no longer part of DICE studio.

After Battlefield V the lead rendering architect of Frostbite Johan Andersson (aka repi), left EA to become a stake holder and CTO at Embark Studios with former EA Executive Patrick Sunderland.

Frostbite is a great game engine, but the editor and dev tools sound difficult to work with. Jim said he doesn't understand why EA doesn't use more off the self software for the dev tools.

  • RayD_O1's avatar
    RayD_O1
    Hero
    3 years ago
    @OskooI_007 @edgecrusherO0
    Thanks guys for the detailed replies, I suppose only time will tell how the next BF will pan out, what engine it will use and who will be working on it.

    Whatever transpires I for one hope that there are brighter times ahead for the BF franchise and this community eventually gets the game they deserve.

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