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AcidryzeN
Seasoned Ace
2 months ago

Dear EA/DICE: You’re Losing the Battlefield Community

Dear Developers,

I want to start by saying that I honestly wish I didn’t have to write this post. I’m writing this as someone who’s genuinely sad and frustrated. It’s obvious that EA wanted to attract CoD players — and at first, I completely understood that and had no problem with it. My first impressions from the Beta were great, I was truly hyped, pre-ordered the Phantom Edition, and couldn’t wait for October 10th.

Today I’m level 110, and I think it’s finally time to share my thoughts. I’ve been playing Battlefield for around 15 years, and my favorite will always be BF2 (RIP GameSpy).

Well… we definitely got a product aimed at CoD players — but in the worst possible way. The TTK and TTD are absolutely miserable, the 4-player party limit is a joke, forced operator choices feel out of place, and there’s NO SERVER BROWSER! How can the lead producer say we don’t need one? I honestly thought it was a joke at first — and that the community feedback would be heard — but nothing ever happened.

Matchmaking is a disaster. Every second match I play is completely unbalanced. There’s no option to pick the attacking or defending side without disconnecting and reconnecting a dozen times until it finally puts me where I want to be. This problem used to be handled by server admins through the browser — they helped keep matches fair and balanced.

And don’t even get me started on the challenges.
They’re an absolute pain to complete. I honestly don’t know if they were designed by an AI or by someone who’s never actually played the game, but they’re a complete tragedy.

The overall pace of the game is way too fast, leaving almost no time for proper teamplay, even when you actually try to play tactically with friends. The gameplay experience feels on par with BF2042 — but ironically, that game still had more freedom. I honestly get the feeling that the developers haven’t played this game for more than 20 minutes… or worse, that this is intentional — which would be really sad and could bury the entire franchise.

What also really disappoints me is the complete lack of developer feedback here on the forums. I understand you can’t respond to every single post, but it would be basic respect to at least address some of the hot topics here. Right now the community feels unheard, like our frustration just keeps piling up and EA leadership simply doesn’t care.

Maps, maps, maps…
This topic has already been brought up several times — and yeah, I wouldn’t say the maps are terrible, but they are really, really small and focused entirely on running and shooting with no sense of tactics whatsoever.

As for the bugs, I’m still patient for now. We’re only in the first season, and I know updates will come — bugs happen in every game at launch.
That said, I did expect a bit more polish for a 100€ title, but I can still understand it… for now.

To end on a more positive note — the graphics are absolutely beautiful. I just wish we could enjoy this amazing world with more freedom, playing the way players want to play, not the way we’re being forced to.

Please, developers — take a little time to listen to what players here on the forums are saying and what’s frustrating them. Otherwise, this could genuinely bury the whole franchise.

Thank you for your time.

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  • I will say I absolutely love the level of customization on each gun. The guns feel like they handle really well. I just hate the damage model on the guns. The staggered damage drop off penalties are @$$ and dumb as hell. Effective range before damage drop off penalties are applied for the vast majority of guns are baby small. The head shot multipliers are complete @$$ and its an absolute joke that buckshot and flachette have no multiplier like give them something at least maybe 1.2 idk. Some guns need complete rebalancing like the double barrel pump shotgun, it might as well not even be in the game right now with how @$$ it is. Some of these probably would need testing to get just right but they had the CTE Builds before in previous games. Just bring that back. Like i get they just lost their lead director but they need to get on fixing and changing stuff.

  • mudchase23's avatar
    mudchase23
    Seasoned Newcomer
    9 days ago

    Their methods for making money has become lazy and really doesn’t cater to the consumer. Without dlc or rent-a-server there’s no long term investment to be made into the game. Battle pass holds no value over time. It’s basically just there to give you extra challenges and cosmetics that aren’t even cool/that noticeable when used. I don’t think anybody looked at the contents from bp and thought “Wow! this *insert cosmetic* looks so sick”. It’s “AAA” game with less features than what they put out 10+ years ago tbh. Bf6 kinda just feels like ground war from mw19. Doesn’t fully feel like bf anymore with how short each life cycle is due to small maps. It’s pretty wild to think that if I’m flying a jet or helicopter for more than 3 minutes/don’t die as infantry within 45 second I’m having a good life. Every respawn feels like you’re being thrown straight into the front line no matter where you go. The amount of times I respawn and get immediately flattened is pretty ridiculous. I’ve been on the other end of it as well. Example: Last night I’m in a tank and an enemy player respawns literally in the middle of my sight and I immediately direct impacted him lmao. At this point the solutions for the current situation seems to be too overwhelming for the development team. Their silence says it all. 

  • Level 180 here and im uninstalling this.

    I'm really tired of console players often being able to shoot me even when I'm already around the corner. They also have way too effective aim assist. Today while playing I died three times to a sniper who shot one bullet to the chest or thigh, I was 100hp and died from one bullet. And of course, it was a console player.

    We need our own server list back. Many games where I've been on an attack helicopter or tank and in the middle of repairing it, a teammate steals it. Then there's no way to Vote kick or ban this **bleep** from the server. Before this was possible when we had our own server.

    We've asked for bigger maps - to no avail. Not a single bigger and better map has come yet.

    Rubberband and connection issues are still huge. I keep noticing hitbox issues and bullets that hit but don't do damage. I don't understand why the devs aren't fixing these core issues.

    Killing to the Main Spawn is also unblockable, so you can't punish the player for it. If we had our own server lists, the problem would be solved - By kicking a player out.

    Reporting doesn't work at all. I've reported players who steal vehicles, send derogatory messages, and curse at others in chat on several occasions. However, the same players can do the same thing in the future without any punishment.

    Before the winter update, the game ran at a steady 105fps (medium graph). Now the FPS stays at just 98 and often drops to 68 in some situations.

  • Still they stay silent on forcing PC players to cross-play and heavily favouring cross-play lobbies.

    Disgusting anti-consumer BS utterly ignoring a serious issue because they know they don't want what players want.

  • HumpsterJ's avatar
    HumpsterJ
    New Veteran
    3 days ago

    Not as high level but very hacked off with EA and all their staff. Incompetent, Rude or ignorant

  • AcidryzeN's avatar
    AcidryzeN
    Seasoned Ace
    1 day ago

    This is so sad, man. I'm still taking a break from the game, so thanks for the intel.

  • Amshn0ck's avatar
    Amshn0ck
    Rising Scout
    1 day ago

    I used to game on PC for more then 10 years. I moved to console because of the hack cheats mods scripts macros all the stuff most PC gamers do. 

    I have played all the bf games. Been playing fps games for years even did some reverse engineering of games. Even made some games. 

    I see alot of complain about controller players with aim assistant. Look yes it has aim assistant but NOT aimbot like you say. It barely even works. If anything it feels bad like it messes your aim up. That's just to me. I truly just turn it off or low. My settings is aim assistant slow down is 0 my aim snap is 40 my sensitivity is 100 my aim input curve is linear. This feels good to me.

    Now on to what I really want to say is. You are feeling the cronus zen. I'm sorry but I a high % console players are using a cronus zen. You feel it. And what cronus zen players don't realize is it has a visible tell if they have it. The cronus zen player model twitch when ads. When a player using a cronus zen using ADS the gun will shake really fast not alot but a small shack. Almost like back in css if you spectate a player with aimbot his X hair would have a small shack. 

    This shack I think is done because of how the cronus script would handle the aim assistant. When you ADS that's when the aim assistant normally activate. Now what the cronus script is doing is spamming in micro seconds  ADS so the aim assistant stays active. This is why the player model has a shack. 

    The recoil is also a tell just because we all use the same weapons we have access to the same attachments. If they are full auto the m240 at 150+m and getting kills then definitely a cronus.

    I have noticed this as well with cronus zen kiddies they will run in single fire with the rapid fire script. I feel this is how you feel like you get deleted in 0.1 second. 

    It's just not controller players it's all the cronus zen out there. No ea is not banning this because the cronus zen came out with an update not to long after that reported ban. 

    Between cross play off and an and after 300h feels like more then half the player left are using some kind of exploit. Esp aimbot cronus zen modded controller or even editing game files to remove fog and grass. 

    Good day

    Skid marks do what skid marks do. 

  • RatedChaotic's avatar
    RatedChaotic
    Rising Veteran
    1 day ago

    What would save this game would be give the power back to the players...

    Back in the day players decided what was tolerated on their servers. Back in the 90s Players created maps, mods, their own rules.

    EA claimed they banned so many people. They stopped so many cheaters. But when we decided it was better. If we banned someone from our servers they can come to our website and petition against their bans. We had our own spectators watching servers for cheaters. 

    To me back then was better. We had guys making maps that were in war movie scenes. You want a huge map. Make it. Edit it. 

    The top clans back then had a few guys making their mods, maps, editing  and everything. We had access to all the files.

    If people wanted to cheat let them on their own server. They want to xp boost let them do it on their server.

    Want to be legit. There will be servers like that too.

     

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