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Rising Traveler

3 months ago

Portal completely ruined with the new player count requirements

DICE, when you reduced the minimum player count requirement to 1 for verified experiences with no bot backfill, that was the best thing you could possibly do for portal, because at that point it worked just like a normal server browser in BF3 and 4, which is exactly what everybody wanted you to do when they asked for a server browser, by the way.

Now with the requirement for 20 players, any verified experience that veers even slightly off the beaten path has no chance of ever happening, because gathering 20 people in one place will take an hour or more, and nobody will sit in the waiting room with nothing to do for that long.

At least yesterday, people could play hide and seek on the maps or whack-a-mole with the objectives while they wait for more players.

Kindly trust your customers because clearly, they know what they want and you don't.

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E_Haggis
Rising Veteran
21 days ago
Portal lighting is horrendous also. I can't stand the look of some maps in Portal, very retro 2000's looking. Maybe it's just the hand crafted ones?
Spanky668
Seasoned Hotshot
20 days ago
This made it past QA because it was working fine at release. Then the a$S hats at EA/Dice decided after the first week, and they got their money, that they would disable it and then supremely neuter it so no one who bought the game to play with friends against bots could play. That is why they suk so hard.
chinch78
Rising Adventurer
20 days ago
It's the classic bait and switch. Get people to buy the game using bogus promises only to change it after the fact. My friends and I have moved on from the game because it's unplayable now.
2CanOG
New Adventurer
20 days ago
I don't even care if it's restricted xp and progression (like in 2042 co-op), just let us play portal with bots pve style. We don't all want to be annihilated by sweats every 5 seconds. Some of us don't have the time or skill (ie I have health issues that don't allow me to compete at that pace) to be in pvp lobbies...even casual breakthrough. It'll never happen though. They don't even listen as this point. sigh.
VoidsCypher
New Rookie
2 days ago
What is the point of having a minimum player count? This is to 'support' a casual PVE experience? SOMEBODY GOT THAT WRONG! I would love to setup my own hardcore rules (or even just vanilla) with my favorite maps so me and a friend could play! What was so fun about this was that other players could join if they wanted to, which helped spice things up without becoming overwhelming. PLEASE. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THATS GOOD. REMOVE THE MINIMUM PLAYER REQUIREMENT. This will support the game going forward!