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petazetas69
8 years ago

We cant play with friends - Bad squad system

Here the topic in spanish. Aquí el hilo en español: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Informacion-del-juego/No-podemos-jugar-con-amigos-Erroneo-sistema-de-escuadras/m-p/6422675#M195

It makes no sense spawning with random people every time. I played with 4 friends the other night and it was impossible to spawn with them or play together as a team.

The best of multiplayers games is to play with friends, and this is the first battlefield game or multiplayer game, where you cant play with friends. It makes no sense.

I have preordered the game but after trying it in the Trial (EA Access) a lot of people see a big problem.

Its not possible to play with friends!!

I do not like spawning with random people every time. I played with 4 friends the other night and I would end up spawning with one of them. This makes no sense and i cant understand how this big problem is in the final version of the game.
A lot of threads reporting this big problem:
https://battlefront-forums.ea.com/discussion/77239/the-new-squad-system-is-actually-worse-than-the-partner-system#latest
https://battlefront-forums.ea.com/discussion/80321/squad-system-needs-serious-changes#latest

Here some suggestions of the user "JumanCreative" for the squad system:

https://battlefront-forums.ea.com/discussion/80915/galactic-assault-the-importance-of-teamplay-squads

Please solve this because all of us cant play with friends.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    The fact that EA moved this to the bug forum shows how little their community managers understand this game.  This isn't a bug.  It's a terrible design decision that ruins team play.  Seriously fix this and I'll come back.  But in the meantime, I'll just play Battlefront 2015 or Battlefield 4, because this is a terrible broken mess.  If you want to play with friends, this is NOT the game to do that.

  • Rnz_Wth_Scissrz's avatar
    Rnz_Wth_Scissrz
    8 years ago

    I agree that there needs to be a new kind of squad spawn.  Also, there needs to be an adjustment to the number of people allowed to team up.  Xbox chat allows 10 people in the chat party but Battlefront II only allows 8 people to group up in a game party (same in Battlefront from 2015).  This leaves 2 people out and they usually get kicked over to another server because they aren't part of the game party.

  • GoldEagle74's avatar
    GoldEagle74
    8 years ago

    I haven't properly sat down and played this game in about two weeks. This is hugely due to the broken squad system. I want to be able to squad up and play with my mates! EA please fix this!

  • biohazardgang's avatar
    biohazardgang
    8 years ago

    This is one of the reasons why I refunded the game. I'll get it again but not until it's cheap.

    First, they give us a meh story campaign.

    Then, they give us the Custom Arcade mode.

    Too bad. You can't play all maps and modes by yourself. You gotta play online.

    Okay, I'll play multiplayer then.

    Oops! Too bad! You also can't choose maps and you can't play with your friends!

    Dear EA/DICE/whoever design this mess of a game,

    what are you expecting us to pay you for?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    @EA_David wrote:

    @petazetas69 Hi, I moved your post over from the Bug Report section as that wasn't the best spot for design feedback. I also edited out some of the requested technical details, I hope you don't mind.

    Thanks for the feedback. 

    Nice EA Admin doesn't know this feature if it is a bug or bad design!

    Until I found this forum I and my friends were thinking that we might be doing something wrong when we could not manage to team up together. Now I see that this is about the changes in the design !. It's not fun EA, we always played your games partying with friends not random players. This game doesn't give us the same test at all so we are going to ask a refund now since I see that this request is poorly being managed here.

  • Lt-Cmdr-Armand's avatar
    Lt-Cmdr-Armand
    Seasoned Adventurer
    8 years ago

    there is not fun if u cant play with ur friends and thats crite map is such a chaos...i keep calling it the slaughter map LOL

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