BF6 CTE
Will there be a Community Test Environment for the upcoming Battlefield? You know before a change goes live... jack things up and upsets the community. 😇👿
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@zenn_nme It'd be nice. Guess it depends on if it's a live service game or not - I seem to remember that being the reason for V not having one.
BF6 has not been announced so there's no information regarding any CTE but I guess that's not the point of this thread. This thread looks more like a request to include a CTE 😉
It might be an advisable request, while I also wonder what other players opinion about it is.
I'm kinda hoping for a game that probably can't really have a CTE.
Hoping for something DICE has never really pulled off. A true live service game. A game where stats, bugs with achievements, dogtags and currency + other weird rewards do not get in the way. A game where the engine is robust enough that when something goes wrong not too many things break. I want the developers to daily tweak weapon balance, vehicle balance, map balance, ALL THE BALANCES and then WHEN somethings breaks it's fine, they'll tweak and fix it further the next day until it's right. Does a developer think some extra cover in a certain part of a map is going to improve things? - add it, test it for a couple of days. Have a half finished map? Test it, if people fall through the map it will be fun!
That's what I think could be fun, have not really played something like so will be hard to tell. One thing I do know is that it will get a lot of complaints; from people having their favorite weapon nerfed or their favorite map having a house added where they like to camp with their tank. Will probably also be hard to do on consoles do to Sony and Microsoft QA needing to approve any patches.
In short, if things are going to break make it into a fun feature.
More frequent changes, is still far better than waiting 1 years for a DLC/bug fix that does not fix anything looking at you revive trap in BF2.
- @ElliotLH That was one issue. Don't forgot in BF1 and BF4 some video streamers only want to CTE to get what was new. Remember some of those video reports on new gadgets/weapons was not very fair, causing huge complaints for weeks after release into the game.
- @DingoKillr Yes I do remember that and it is a valid, decent point. A lot of people did indeed just use the CTE to play with new toys. I'd still like to see it come back still though as I did feel it was helpful overall.
@DingoKillrand @ElliotLH, this for me was the problem with PS's CTE. People went in to tryhard with the new toys and didn't strictly 'test' the changes.
Also, when it was restricted access, youtubers would whinge about proposed changes and/or new toys, their sycophants would join in and things were nerfed before they hit retail, often to the detriment of said 'thing'.
Remember the cries of woe about BF1's AA Rocket Gun? Ended up being a much use as women's bits on a fish!
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