Battlefield 6: Marketing vs. Reality
This post provides a fact-based summary of the discrepancies between the pre-release marketing and official developer statements for Battlefield 6 and the features delivered in the final, updated pro...
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I don´t see any sources on your facts. You should include always sources when you talk about facts.
One of your reclamations, you answered yourself already.
The Core Progression System and Portal Mode
DICE and EA repeatedly stated in pre-launch communication and official blog posts that their new Portal mode would allow players to earn "full progression" and "100% XP" in verified custom experiences, equivalent to the standard multiplayer mode.
Large scale maps are equivalent to the maps in BF3&4, if i remember correctly. You are free to correct me here.
I could only find a comparison between BF5 and BF2042
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/q7s295/direct_size_comparison_between_lastgen_and/
You can see the huge increasement from 5 to 2042 and i believe that is the issue here. BF2042 was mainly a walking simulator (because teammates did not wait for you).
With Bot Farm servers, it was impossible for the community to publish any kind of new server experience at all.
This was a serious problem. Portal SDK is there for BF fans to make complete new experiences from scratch. With no possibilites to publish it, because the server are full with 1,2,8 man XP farm servers.
Nonetheless i do think, Botfill needs to be allowed for maintaining some kind of XP to get the server full. No Gamer is willingly waiting for 10-20 minutes that there are enough players to start gaming.
BTW: Europe won´t intervene here, as you will need to take a lawyer and go to court with that directive in mind. Your chance of winning is but almost 0%. I wish you luck!
You should thank XP farmers for this, no one else.
Zaxoro3 Thanks for the feedback on sourcing, but the "source" for the Core Progression System issue is EA/DICE’s own pre-launch marketing, which explicitly promised "full progression" and "100% XP" in Portal. A broken promise isn't a lack of facts; it's a fact itself.
On XP Farmers and Server Health:
You're blaming the rats for taking the cheese when the chef left a giant, gaping hole in the pantry door. DICE created a system so fundamentally exploitable that bot farms were inevitable. Instead of fixing the exploit, they used a nuclear option that killed all legitimate custom server experiences, too.
The community is not responsible for securing the game's economy; the developers are. Don't thank the farmers; thank DICE for their lazy, collateral-damage-heavy fix.
On Map Size vs. Design:
You're right that old Battlefield maps were large. The difference? They had density, flow, and cover. BF2042 maps are just large, empty canvases with massive travel times—a walking simulator by design. The problem was never the size; it was the non-existent design. That Reddit size comparison just proves they scaled up the maps without scaling up the thought process.
IIIIIPALEIIIII Nonetheless always give the source in it. That no one can question your facts.
You can push the blame on Dice or EA or the lazy boys and girls who can´t wait to be already on Rank 999 with everything unlocked tomorrow. If you got a manifestation of cockroaches in your house, what do you do? You bomb the whole house with chemicals for a few days.
It might be a harsh step for all PVE players but i am sure if all PVE players do together a petition, Dice will come up with something which suits everyone. My suggestion was in another thread to seperate PVE Achievements/attachments from PVP. At least for a time being.
Map & Design:
BF 2042 the only playable map for me was Redacted. The rest was pure garbage, as you said. They were just very big.
Now they got the right size but the design could need some polishing, at least thats my point of view.
The point of view from Dice i believe was, more space for Vehicles & Aircraft, not for Infantry.
Still trying to figure out Portal SDK to build my own but they made that very difficult for someone who does not know coding.
As i said, i wish you luck but i don´t believe you got a chance as Game works as intented and ist still being worked on.Zaxoro3 "Game works as intended and is still being worked on"
Works as intended - Nope. They just removed half the fun from the game.
Still being worked on - That's blatantly obvious, yet another "Let's patch it after release" game that was not fully finished but released anyway.
Here's one of the sources:
« (...) or put them all on one team against human-controlled players. »
They knew — and were ok — with people executing bots. Some bought the game with this intention in mind.
