How did EA take a great fps game of the year and turn it into an unpopular game?
was it the big deal about cheat detection, forcing boot change but truth is it does nothing and cheaters run wild.
was it the forced console crossplay slop?
Lack of direction beside trying to squeeze money out of people?.
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It launched as the comeback the Battlefield series needed but, the battle pass and progression system got roasted for forcing you into modes you don't want (hello RedSec ). Cosmetics are expensive and mostly lame, maps/content drops have been slow and very small in size..
The live service roadmap was more about milking the launch hype than building something that lasts
Cheat detection / Secure Boot / Javelin anti-cheat: EA made a huge deal about it. Kernel-level, forced Secure Boot on PC, claimed it blocked hundreds of thousands of cheat attempts every month (like 580k+ in December alone) In reality? It’s been a disaster for legit players. Waves of false HWID bans since launch people getting hammered for running normal mouse software, overlays, Lossless Scaling...Appeals are a total joke (most get auto-denied) and despite the big numbers on paper, cheaters are still running wild in plenty of lobbies
And here’s the part that really stings: EA went all-in on AI during development. Their CEO straight-up said 85% of QA testing for big franchises like Battlefield is now handled by AI/machine learning. They’ve also been pushing their internal ReefGPT coding tool hard… which devs have complained creates garbage code that makes the codebase feels like spaghetti simple bugs (hitreg, netcode, UI breaks, stuttering) drag on for months with half-baked patches, if they ever get properly fixed at all.
From my end it was the PC being forced crossplay and the horrible desync when I fire on a console player.
Console players ruin the balance and redsuck gives hackers free unlimited attempts to circumvent anticheat.
The first one could be fixed by making them play the same game as PC without 12,000 different assists. The second can be solved by either removing or charging for redsuck.
They will do neither while cheering about made up achievements while the game burns to the ground.
It's insane... in a tank I'm literally shooting a console player perfect aim on target with a tank 50 cal and my bullets are just going right through his character doing nothing as he runs around. I think I'd rate this the worst BF game ever it's just total garbage.
Yet to see any obvious cheaters, I think a lot of it is people getting angry at good players.
Since yesterday, I can confirm this s**t!
My soldiers in my game never appear to be who they look the graphics know the ai is roaming to to obliterate any tolerance level of destruction . Ehaha For example: construction building stay firm and don't turn to ruin.rubble
Because at launch it was shiny and new and not a complete mess, which is a plus for BF launches. However it didn't take long for the shallow and boring gameplay and rubbish maps to start to grate with people.
Don't really buy the "Yet to see any obvious cheaters" line. DICE puts out monthly stats. They typically catch between 3% and 5% of players cheating per month. That means they probably miss an additional 3-5% of cheaters. They exist.
What do I gain from lying? I simply haven't seen them, maybe they're more common in Redsec as it's free and a BR is juicer for cheaters.
