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Battlefield V |OT2| Empire of the Soon
- Thread starter iRAWRasaurus
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There has to be some other problem, programming a team balancer is something a single dev should be abled to do before lunch break. Or they don't give a shit.
That's kind of disingenious. Programming software is a bitch and even if a single dev should be able to do it in a short time frame theoretically, that doesn't mean the circumstances in the real world always align to make it practically doable. For all we know the code in the background could be such a mess that autobalancing is not possible without extensive amounts of work that would be better spent elsewhere at the moment.
Which is why I said there has to be some other (underlying) problem. Believe me I know how much of a bitch programming can be, but the code in the background being such a mess that they for some reason can't do autobalancing isn't really an excuse, is it? It really shouldn't be like that in the first place.
An algorithm that ranks players (or squads) in a server by some metric like score per minute and then balancing the teams by that is an absolutely trivial problem, something a computer science freshman can solve. So that really can't be the reason they aren't doing it.
Essentially there are three options:
- Something about the game is so fucked that they can't switch players to the other team after they have joined the server (which would explain why you can't deliberately switch teams either)
- They don't want balancing because they believe players don't want to get switched to the losing team
- They don't give a shit
Of course this is me talking out of my ass with limited knowledge. However, I don't feel even remotely bad about it, because they could just simply explain or even acknowledge the problem, which they choose not to for reasons beyond me.
Same goes for the blatant LOD switching issues, something that has been indirectly acknowledged in this very thread to be something they aren't allowed to talk about.
I think we can agree that this among many other things is just a symptom of a deeper systemic problem at Dice and not necessarily the inaptitude or the indifference of the programmers who work on these things.
Frostbite seems to have been a problemchild in general since EA decided to outsource it to it's other studios.
lol oh. my. god. What a waste of time 5.2 was.
r/BattlefieldV - Community Broadcast: Weapon Adjustments in 6.2
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6.2 is coming next week.
Wow.
Tank Customization will have its own separate broadcast.
They had this system in previous titles. Previously, third party plugins for servers could do it too. This is not beyond a AAA studio. It's just a matter of priorities.
DICE came out and said that "obviously the team balance situation is broken" and that they'd address it, but that was a few months after launch. Crickets since.
Not to mention the god awful UI and assignment system that actively encourages people to quit. No map voting. No basic team switch. No actual community servers with admins. It's like they're trying to commodify the Battlefield experience as much as possible while stripping away what made it Battlefield in the first place. This shit isn't annual Call of Duty. It's not FIFA. It never will be.
At least... it seems this will be close enough to 5.0 to make me reinstal the game and see the maps released since ( wake and jungle whatever ) and the new tools.
Can't say I'm going back to the game with an happy mindset thought, what a fucking shit show those 3 months were.... for nothing.
I really hope we will get some good insight of what happened at Dice kind of like we did from kotaku ( i think ) with anthem. Because on one hand we hear some things from Glassdoor post, Johann Gerell, ex people who worked on frostbite; on the other we have people working there, some time on resetera directly who come to defend EA, Dice, frostbite.... but at the end of the day what we, as consumer see, is shit like what happened this winter... last winter... things which only makes sense if the engine has some serious limitation ( way the assignement works and can't be changed during a game ), etc..
They did auto balance so well in BF1 imo and allowed for Team Switching as well. BFV? nothing.
I rather not have them include Map Voting since it'll just be the same 5 maps over and over like with BF1. If you really want to play a map, Server List is just as good.
The upcoming 6.2 update has gone full circle. It just ended up with BFV potentially losing a good chunk of their playerbase during the wasted 3 months.
I rather not have them include Map Voting since it'll just be the same 5 maps over and over like with BF1. If you really want to play a map, Server List is just as good.
The upcoming 6.2 update has gone full circle. It just ended up with BFV potentially losing a good chunk of their playerbase during the wasted 3 months.
Cheers, I really appreciate the kind words :)
And yeah, you're probably right. A big break from the game and coming back when the gunplay is fixed (next week, I guess) along with some meaty incentive should give me a boost.
So I picked the game back up after months of not playing. Solomon Islands is a pretty cool map.
Other than that, the game is pretty much 2A, and that's it, at least in the promoted squad conquest. I just got finished playing that mode, and every single person on my team is a medic with a 2A equipped. All eight of them. Every time I've died it's been to a 2A, so I'm going to imagine that the opposing team are all medics with 2As. 16 people in Battlefield rocking the same class and the same weapon because it's so OP in close quarters as to rendering everything else completely useless.
This game is so stupid.
Other than that, the game is pretty much 2A, and that's it, at least in the promoted squad conquest. I just got finished playing that mode, and every single person on my team is a medic with a 2A equipped. All eight of them. Every time I've died it's been to a 2A, so I'm going to imagine that the opposing team are all medics with 2As. 16 people in Battlefield rocking the same class and the same weapon because it's so OP in close quarters as to rendering everything else completely useless.
This game is so stupid.
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Lucky for you, the 6.2 update is going live next week, reverting the TTK to near 5.0 levels while nerfing the 2A with significant recoil
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Dice time competing with Valve time.
I swear the Tank Customization better not be just sandbags on the Tank.
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Lucky for you, the 6.2 update is going live next week, reverting the TTK to near 5.0 levels while nerfing the 2A with significant recoil
That's good to know. It's crazy how powerful the 2A is right now.
I also noticed two maps I've never seen before; Provence and Lofoten Islands. I dropped this game after that terrible patch, but these maps were added before that apparently. How have I never seen these maps before? Are they never in conquest rotation?
They are left overs from what was supposed to be their 5v5 competitive mode, sadly never reworked to be available for 64 players gamemodes.
I had no idea. They should have worked them in to the regular conquest map rotation. Too bad. Provence was fun. I still haven't tried Lofoten.
I expect them to have better than sanbags... for Boins only.
It'll be something like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/BattlefieldV/comments/fazbw7/epic_tank_body_customization_be_like/
Sandbags will be the Tank's equivalent of Goggles and Gas Masks for Infantry cosmetics.
Every time i think about reinstalling i read the last 2 pages and change my mind, thanks BFV Era..
I always enjoy reading your frustrations with the game tho :(
EA servers were hacked today by that lizard group or whatever their called.
Lmao I go to load up a round before the AEW PPV starts, and when the map loads it's just a black screen. Cool.
Fucking losers
"hacked" is not a term I would use when referring to DDoS Script kiddies with a botnet.
Drops on Thursday the 5th, they ran into a last minute issue (which they fixed) but it delayed it by a day or so.
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Very telling how DICE did leave out the most crucial and interesting thing about this patch: the weapon stats. This game is literally a fucking joke.
Just according to keikaku.
All we could hope for was them going back to 5.0 while keeping just enough of 5.2 to be able to present it as a form of fine tuning of 5.2 regardless of the new value being too low to be able to even remotely be close to achieve what was supposed to be the goal of 5.2.
I was posting that mid january on reddit, kind of sad that it was that predictable. With the "responding to your concerns update 5-2" post where they stated that it wasn't a christmas noob patch ( sure jan.gif ) which would be reverted the next year, it became a matter of some misplaced honor/saving face which would always prevent a full revert.
All we could hope for was them going back to 5.0 while keeping just enough of 5.2 to be able to present it as a form of fine tuning of 5.2 regardless of the new value being too low to be able to even remotely be close to achieve what was supposed to be the goal of 5.2.
BAR/LS26/FG42 being 6 shot kills starting at 30m shows me they haven't learned anything. Should be 3 under 10m and 5 out to 100m. These weapons received the most severe nerfs despite being universally unpopular and the revert hasn't helped them at all.
There is zero reason to use them over the Lewis. Same damage model.
Also: https://old.reddit.com/r/Battlefiel...d_sirland_just_gained_my_respect_also_showed/
There is zero reason to use them over the Lewis. Same damage model.
Also: https://old.reddit.com/r/Battlefiel...d_sirland_just_gained_my_respect_also_showed/
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After the news about this patch it got me into checking some old post I made about some cheater to see if the game was worth coming back.
And watching the gamereports that player sometime doesn't play for a couple weeks, so he might not even be banned yet.
And I wasn't alone :It's not every game but I've seens the same. When 5 minutes into a game someone is 32-0 and you are seeing this ( that's from today ) :
It's hard to argue it's anything else but a cheater ( https://battlefieldtracker.com/bfv/profile/origin/sesshomaru1121/overview ).
And that's the obvious ones, we have good video showing what happen when a bad player use less obvious cheat, it does not automatically mean top scoreboard with unrealistic k/d ratio.
For example :
That player was at the very least still playing 2 week ago ( my post was late october ... ) with result like :
And watching the gamereports that player sometime doesn't play for a couple weeks, so he might not even be banned yet.
i guess its good that every player in every server wont be using the same exact gun but the game is still a piss poor, trash ass experience in nearly every way. the sound still sucks
They enabled ToW progression in Community games/servers so that's nice.
Still need more tools to make them usable.
Still need more tools to make them usable.
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So unlocking that The Last Tiger skin is not bugged? I've been holding out on unlocking it because of it
