i do miss the BF4 days. Battlelog was fun and interesting. Making your own badges. Tracking stats.
NOW...
Server browser is useless. No way to favorite a server. Filters reset every time....if i set it to filter EU serves it means i`m in Europe so keep it like that. Recently they`ve messed with the stats. Portal kills don`t count but deaths do. INSANE... The only way to play HARDCORE is to play portal so the stats can only go down. Maybe we shouldn`t care about stats though, we should just play for fun.
Additionally they also ban players for playing the game. I don`t agree with farm servers but as long as the server is not removed you cannot ban people who paid for a service, that you cannot control. Soon there won`t be players to play with.
The matchmaking is in shambles. Keeps adding bots to the lobbies. Lately it won`t matchmake after a game is finished. It just hangs there. Just make official servers in each region and let people join them. Use the home screen tiles as a shortcut to join one of the existing servers, but in the background these servers are running. Make an official server section of the server browser and a community section. Matchmaking and filling the servers with bots doesn't seem to work or save you on server space. its just annoying. I want to save a few servers i like and join that community but if thats too much to ask, at least let me play hardcore on official servers without changing every week the type of game mode hardcore is available for.
I don`t understand this struggle of understanding what your gaming community, that has existed for decades, needs to enjoy your game. Soo much work has been put into this game, its a pity that now we are at the point where the same people that were happy for the return of battlefield, don`t recognize the game or not enjoying it as before. The maps require time to fix, i get it, but the friction players have with the use of the game can be solved quite quickly.
PS. the weapon and challanges grind is real....