Let’s Boycott

What are the plans for the game for the next few months? I think something that hurts the game is a lack of communication and creating buzz. Unless I missed something, I wasn't aware that superbrainz' legendary was coming out this month until the prize map was released. What is next? This game needs a bigger commitment to PR. EA is a corporate business focused on profits and we are in a social media era. Give us a teaser and someone's going to post about it on here or reddit or other social media and that fuels positive buzz. Doing things like showcasing new features helps with publicity, creating buzz, retaining players and attracting new ones and that helps meet the business goals of EA. That wizard trailer for example was awesome. They really took advantage of the gorgeous graphics of the game to create a cinematic appeal. 

Given that there has only been 4 legendary upgrades and 1 new character released so far, it appears there is a lot of content to be released in the long run. But we are left in the dark.  Showcasing new features and sharing what we can look forward to, and developers discussing them helps the community able to see the bigger picture and this would help the community with feedback too. It's a good feedback loop when developers are able to "show-off" the new content they are releasing and then get feedback which is better than the current situation. We don't know what's coming next so all we can judge upon is the current balancing and the past. 

What I think should be improved is the way events work (what happened with Lost and Found?), more communication and the addition of damage drop-off. If the developers can deal with those things, I think that is an excellent start!

All I wanted was GW3 ☹️

While this is not GW3, I want this game (and its developers) to unleash its potential to be as close as it can to a GW3 equivalent game. It's a spinoff of the series but I want it to be just like GW3. Currently the game isn't quite there, is it?

Honestly, I gave up on BfN about a month ago and have played since then.

I would have to say that I feel like the decisions made in the design of the game as well as decisions made after the launch of the game ultimately were the cause.

I understand that EA, as a publisher, has deliberately tried to squash the idea of anything other than a “live service” style game and that usually means that instead of occasional drops of decent amounts of new content we get a slow drip feed of things and a focus on making players feel like they need to log in everyday to grind towards some goal.

That was strike one for me- I don’t want another demand on my limited time by a video game, I want a game which I can play at my own pace. I don’t care about the grind but I do care when a game demands that I grind every day or be penalized.

Strike two was the fact that the game has had all challenge or skill-based demands removed from it in order for maximum appeal. No hard mode, no crazy mode, no consequences for getting vanquished in Ops, no customizable private play options and a small selection of maps and areas quickly caused the game to become boring and repetitive for me.

Strike three for me was when they broke Turf Takeover by reducing team size, reducing the TTK, and reducing the capture times for stationary objectives all at the same time and then leaving it that way for months turning that mode into a frustrating mess for defenders. During that time the game deliberately trained me to view the mode as frustrating broken and unfun to play and I learned to stop playing what had previously been my favorite game mode. When they finally restored proper team size it was too late for me and I couldn’t bring myself to return to that mode.

I think the final strike was the addition of AI to PvP, a move which not only broke matchmaking and resulted in teams being 75% or more bots but also broke some of the daily PvP challenges since the bots don’t count towards completion.

There were other things as well to be sure, little things which showed a lack of planning or play testing, but suddenly one day I found that when I loaded up the game and logged in towards the middle of June I realized I absolutely didn’t want to have to do another set of character challenges which I had already done, that I was disgusted by the daily PvP challenges I was given, knowing that I’d struggle to find the actual players which would count in the swarm of bots, and that I was done with the game completely.

It really is a shame because I really wanted to like this latest installment but I understand now that this franchise will probably never again give me a game which I’ll find challenging and will be able to enjoy playing.

Does anyone know how to toggle sprint instead if hold to sprint?