Re: The Portal XP Nerf and the Betrayal of "Full Progression" - Targeted Solutions

This was a great change. Start to play vs humans if you wanna get fair progression like everyone else in a multiplayer game.

"Like everyone else"

My guy, there are quite a few people who enjoy playing against bots. Not everyone has time to spend hours a day playing a game just to get better.

Just wish I could launch my server in the portal. Broken again and cannot launch. EA/Dice cannot keep their word.

So you are pretty much saying screw ppl with bad k/d, handicapped people, or even older gamers and anybody that's not good at shooting?

Get on PC and catch up with the "fast" ppl

I think the bigger problem is EA said full progression and exp on portal... now they renege on that point after people hand over their cash. That itself should not be encouraged for any company to do whatsoever. 

facts, not all of use what to spend $100 and be forced to play with hackers, aim bot, and console kids on pc with zero cross play options.

me and my friends are over 60 years old and we just love battlefield but now that we can't unlock anything on our own server is horse sh#t  game just became dead to around 500k people at min. 

Portal full xp progression and bots feature was announced. It is not up to toxic players to decide how to play the game and buy it. Those crying about turning off xp progression must be crazy. You bought the right to play the game with money. If I can't see the feature, you gave me incomplete goods. If the feature is not there, it is called misleading content.

EA you better revert this or my support will end this is such a massive L to stroke the ego's of toxic dumdums on X that are offended by big numbers on people's profiles that they probably don't even check that often if at all people should be allowed to play how they want as well as some of your challenges are literally impossible without it 

I just want my hardcore servers back, the ones with Dice's rulesets and no bots that they made only available through portal because it would have full XP gain anyway. Idgaf about ppl grinding out challenges against bots, go hard, as long as EAs servers can handle the load and I can play my hardcore servers why not.

Removing experience points from the Portal mode is a false advertising practice. Immediately restore the full experience points in the Portal mode as promoted in your advertisements. This is yet another scam reminiscent of 2042. All PvE players are advised to request refunds and leave negative reviews on Steam if possible. BF6 = 2042.

I agree 100%

Man what I'll say will suck for you to read, but Battlefield 6, like all the previous Battlefield title, is a multiplayer game, multi >player< game, it's a game created from it's core to be people playing together/against one another on a sandbox-ish environment.

Battlefield 6, like all previous Battlefield title, is NOT a single player game, it has a campaign but that's clearly not the main focus of the game, it's just there to keep tradition and DICE can't risk another controversy by not having a campaign mode, it was clearly an issue in BF 2042 and they don't want to repeat it on their last shot at making a good game.

Those arguments of "I work and I don't have time to play 294758 hours like my opponents" or "I'm too old for this game" are such a dumb and baseless arguments. Yeah, we can't be kids/adolescents playing BF3 with all the time in the world anymore, but you also don't need to be 87/3 every single game. You and all of the people who uses those arguments like crutches to justify them sucking at the game would be so much happier by just admitting "maybe I'm not that good anymore, but guess what? The game is pretty fun regardless!".  It's okay to suck at the game, K/D is a dumb metric anyways, you can be the top 1 player on the lobby without shooting a single bullet, just doing objectives and supporting your team.

It's not fair for the game to have a mode where you can play against literal bots and have 100% progression, and if you think otherwise, you're just spoiled, I'm sorry to say. While people are playing the game fair and square, you are 381/5 playing against bots, getting all of the attachments, challenges done and weapons unlocks. Do you really think that is fair? Be honest with yourself, is that fair? Because that is not even close to being fair.

I've seen people playing this game without a single kill having a blast by reviving and supplying their team; I've seen a 70 years old playing Sniper because that "simulates" the time he used to be an actual Sniper in real life; I've seen people playing vehicles only and having a great time. That's the fun in Battlefield, you can play in so many ways, unlike most Shooters in the market.

Games are made to be fun to play, if you are not having fun for whatever reason, don't play that game; you said it yourself, you are a busy person, go play something worth the precious time you have spare. Either find your own way to have fun playing Battlefield 6 (remember, K/D is just a dumb metric to evaluate your contribution), or admit to yourself that this game is just not for you, and that is also okay.

And no, they didn't kill the game, this will also suck to hear, but you are not important, the game will get by just fine without you and the very low percentage of players that wants/plays bots only matches. The game is the top selling on Steam right now and 307k current players on Steam only, Battlefield themselves made Steam break it's current active players record, they have a Free Battle Royale mode coming next week; this game is FAR from dead.

Oh and just to add, yes they promised full progression within Portal, not full progression against bot matches within Portal, just saying :)

It's not just about the bots, we can't play certain game modes either now.  Any hardcore match is modified exp, the BFOfficial Portal lobbies are modified exp.  I don't care if i'm playing against bots or humans, but I did enjoy hardcore and I can't even play it now.

This is a fair argument and totally valid. Hardcore should've been an official mode like it was on previous titles anyways. And even if they weren't official, they shouldn't have been affected by the XP changes, granted the match is 50%+ players.

I agree!! Everyone plays differently and that’s why this is Battlefield!!!! I believe they even promised us with full xp on portal experience!! If they keep doing this then it might look good for BO7

I'm done. $100 to play for only 10 days. I will not waste any time being forced to play against a bunch of sweaty mongoloids who make the game unplayable and suck the fun completely out of the experience. I enjoyed the mixed match with bots and players or just bots so I can try out and get used to weapons instead of having to go cold against these A-holes. If you had gone back to the BF2 model where gameplay antics like bunny hopping and unlimited sprint hop and fire were impacting the aim, I can deal with that. I am not interested in an arcade. EA did not learn anything from 2042.

Could this not be mitigated with a portal option to unlock all weapons? 

Does this change have any real effect on you, or how you like to play? I would suggest it actually doesn't. Perhaps the change is good for your ego?

 It does have a negative effect on many players experience within the game though. The wider picture is, this was billed as a big plus for them pre-launch. It attracted people to part with money. Them removing the feature is out of order. I would happily fill a room with people from my friends list to play with/against humans. Sometimes, 3am going in a room to face up agains sweat squads, the odd cheater and map/mechanic abusers? Whilst enjoyable at the right time of day, sometimes that is just a bit overwhwlming. I'm sure other players feel the same.

I'm disappointed in all of you who were using Portal to grind for XP and earn weapon camo.  Your generation is soft like cotton.  You guys need to get out in the battlefield and earn your stripes against real opponents (who are probably playing as women).  LOL

for me i love playing with half and half Players and Bots.
players will give you a run for your money but Bots will always be easier to take down.
this mix gives you the high highs from a hard fight, but also gives you the fun of just taking someone out.
i think this is where most of the fun in BF has been for me for the last couple years.

i think a solution to fix the issue could be, make matches have equal bots and players.
if your match has 64 slots, and only 8 people have joined then guess what only 8 bots will be in the match.
also add official modes that are half and half so we can just quick play into these half and half matches.

i played for 5 hours today, didnt get much xp as i was forced to que up in normal servers.

what were the conquest matches like?
on my team of 32 people, 8 were over lv45, 4 were around lv35-40 and everyone else lv10-25.
everyone over lv35 had around 35+ kills by the end of the game, everyone else, maybe 5-10 kills
it wasnt fun, and trying to level DMRs, and Snipers with people with most everything unlocked, ya no.

i hope they revert this change

We got lives!!! Some of us just want too relax and enjoy the game! 

I agree.  I am 62 years old and a Marine.  I dont have the skills anymore, not that they really translated to this anyway.  It is pointless to go into a server with scriptkiddies who can afford to waste all their time leveling up and increasing their skills while I come in with a basic weapon and get blasted by 20 people with tricked out weapons and scopes.  The game is supposed to be fun for everyone, why cant we have the Portal servers back ?  Its not like it was hurting anyone, other than the fact that EA needs more servers.  They could even limit the bot servers to a maximum of 1 per player and it goes away after 12 hours or something.

Agree, 100%.  The mix of bots and humans is a stunner of a gameplay mode, imo.  4v4 humans and the rest bots is so fun.  I wish there was a BF like game with just this format.  It's perfect.

Welp.  You can still relax and enjoy the game with no XP :)