Its over
Dice has not made a good BF game since 1942. BF2 is still the best in the series, but the success of that was partly down to Trauma Studios (Dice new york), the guys behind the Desert Combat mod for 1942, who Dice acquired and closed down just before the release of BF2. Since then, it's just got worse and worse. 2142 was good game but had nothing on its predecessor.
I think the lack of a map editor, mod tools and dedicated servers is in part a problem, as the modding community in the past would push the game to its limits and come up with great ideas which in turn would inspire the devs to try new things like the Desert combat mod from 1942 did. I guess that's down to EA not wanting the game to be played for 10+ years. They want you to churn out a new title every few years.
I just don't think frostbite is capable of delivering a true BF experience. Graphically, it's top-notch and fine for a single player and lots of other games, just not the BF experience we want. We have been asking for big maps, commander to be brought back (BF4's web browser commander was a joke BTW). 6-man squads the 7 class system where each class only had access to certain weapons and equipment. Bringing back only spawn on squad leaders gives them a purpose other than attack here, defend there, and as none of these things have been done, I can only assume it's not possible in frostbite and, in turn, it feels like we have just been ignored by a company that claims to listern to its fan base, what a joke.
I get that EA/DICE want to take on CoD, but the best thing about BF's in the past is it was nothing like CoD. You should use another franchise to take on CoD like a medal of honor, as that was always its competitor in the past and stop trying to dumb down the BF franchise. What we have right now is not even a shadow of the BF's of the past. Too much destruction and too many open buildings have turned it into campers' paradise. Get rid of the tacky lock on equipment and other tacky things like spawn on any vehicle and squad member, fire and forget weapons, spawn beacons (2142's was fine as you had to drop in, so people could see there was a spawn beacon around)
I think one of the problems is most of the new guys at Dice have never played the best games in the franchise. They grew up playing CoD and Bad Company/2 and that's partly why the game is like it is. You guys should do a community event. For 2 weeks, play 1942 and 2 weeks of BF2, so your current staff and a lot of the fans that only started playing in Bad Company 2 can see what a true Bf game is like (huge maps tons of team work).
As for the battle royal mode it needs removing and rebranding that has no place in this franchise, i mean it is fun but its cleary a Cod clone rebrand it as MoH.
None of these things will happen and so it's over for the battlefield franchise. We just don't know what we will get from a BF game anymore.
Rant over.
