Current state of Heroes v Villains
Product: Star Wars Battlefront II Platform:Microsoft XBOX One What is your issue related to? General Summarize your bug I along with a lot of other people including streamers I watch have had the ...
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@VetteC5RX who knows what's causing these issues. I haven't heard anyone say what you're saying and in my opinion I just think the game is so buggy (H v V) with abilities not registering a lot that your theory looks possible but I doubt they would handicap higher ranked players or everyone would just make low rank accounts or even stop playing the game. Too be honest If this next update doesn't resolve a few issues that have been ruining H v V I'll stop playing this game anyway
@VetteC5RX I forgot to mention also that your theory there's no way of telling if it's true because there's a bug where u can't even tell who a low level is with the stats being messed up. Look at my screenshot. The grievous has a low level then later in the match the same guy with grievous is a high level. I've noticed since the last update all the stats are messed up so sometimes it might look like a low level has killed u when they're not a low level
@o_JA50N_o The reason I came to the handicap conclusion is because I’ve spend hours specifically dictated to testing the theory to try and determine if a pattern or consistency is present ... and there is.
if you don’t do that it’s going to be much harder to consider what the issue is beyond just a “bug”.
Actual bugs fall into two categories no matter what; those categories are:
1.) completely random
2.) specifically generated
Specifically generated bugs are things like map glitches or a bug that causes an error with a specific action that’s repeatable. Random bugs are ones who’s problem occurs at random and cannot be repeated 100% of the time by doing the same thing.
Taking my Kylo who is level 260 and comparing it to my friend who’s is level 9; if I am observing consistent instances where my abilities are being ignored and his are not that’s not concrete but it’s a start. It indicates that the issue isn’t a bug because BOTH of us should experience the problem to SOME extent but we’re not.
from there you keep making observations, both with random players as well as with other friends.
The consistent pattern is those who experience “issues” are higher level.
Keep in mind this is SEPARATE from actual bugs which we know ARE in the game.
my testing was SPECIFIC to in game mechanics attributes such as, observing my dodge / evade ability compared to a lower level with the same character; something like that is not a bug, that’s the programming.
I am also seeing bugs and that’s not what I’ve been tracking.
so, yes, there are still plenty of bugs in the game but that’s unrelated to the specific items I’ve been testing for and those tests DO indicate that a handicap has been applied. That combined with the bugs makes the gameplay beyond bad.
@VetteC5RX @Well if what you're saying is true then that's a disgrace and completely unfair. No way should any developer be allowed to handicap any loyal player that has a high rank due to their dedication. What about the people who have a high rank but are bad at the game? They get handicapped even more. The thing with your theory is no-one at DICE will admit this is true or there would be bedlam
@o_JA50N_o You’re absolutely right! I don’t expect that anyone at EA / DICE is going to admit what they did!
This thread alone has a number of people who are specifically experiencing the same things and when you separate what is known to be a bug and directly compare mechanical game stats that’s when the pattern appears.
By implementing the handicap to coincide with the movie release AND maintaining these triple XP & double XP weekends the result is that newer players joining the game are praising the title.
in fact, just yesterday, on the actual official BF2 forums EA disclosed that they had some of the “highest customer feedback” periods and were promoting that on a quarterly webcast! ... gee, that’s a hell of a coincidence isn’t it?!
it would seem that by hook or by crook EA got exactly what they wanted ... a sales spike and skewed community feedback. Anyone playing the game and experiencing poor gameplay (ie higher level players) are likely chalking their experiences up to “bugs”but truthfully; if you dig into it you find that many aspects aren’t bugs.
I agree it’s a CRAP thing to do and it needs to be reversed! They may very well do that. If you troll these forums you’ll find entires where players were complaining about getting beat by higher level players. These were from newer players who aren’t familiar with the game. Rather than those players taking the time to get used to the game or use the single player methods to get used to it they have been complaining.
The video clip I posted of Rey is just one of dozens of examples I see every game. There was no “bug” involved; Rey was highlighted white, indicating that the game mechanic identified her as an active target within Kylo’s AOE yet Freeze simply was ignored. If it was a singular occurrence that could be a bug but the point I’m trying to get everyone to see is that sort of thing is happening regularly every match.
Even though they'll never admit it I don’t need them to; I just want them to fix it so the more attention and activity these topics get the more EA will realize they need to address it. Hopefully with this next update that was just delayed it can be undone.
