Battlefield 6 - Thread

[Gerard]

Battlefield 6 rumour claims 98% of the series’ developers have left

While fans wait for an official reveal for the next Battlefield game, an alleged former developer claims most of its developers are completely new to the series.

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Battlefield 6 rumour claims 98% of the series’ developers have left

This just STINKS of 2042 all over again, EA bragging about how they have so many developers working on it, yeah you'd think after they made the same claims with 2042 they'd just shut up as it makes them look like incompetent ******** when the game inevitably arrives broken.

And its all noobs making this, no BF veterans that know what a BF game is supposed to be, that really bodes well. I'd be amazed if this thing doesn't turn out more like a COD clone vs an actual Battlefield game.

 

[Mark1989]

Maybe having new people on it isn’t a bad thing? The last great battlefield was bad company 2

3/4 were fab I thought but not as good as bad company 2

Everything after has been trash

 

[Rroff]

BF4 was pretty decent aside from what I feel was likely 1-2 developers letting the side down, with some netcode and underlying utility code shoddiness, a little more effort could have been put into some parts but there was a lot about the game which was really good. Personally I'd rate it above BC2 as some aspects of that felt kind of awkward in play.

Everything since has been ruined in my opinion despite some interesting settings, etc.

 

[Zefan]

BF2/BC2/3/4 (never actually played 4 but it was just larger scale 3 with commander mode from what I can gather) cru checking in once again.

All new people with something to prove and a star to aim at might not be a bad thing at all. The leadership and senior production staff need to be totally solid though to make sure the vision is there, or it'll be way more likely to miss than hit the mark. It really needs to have a reason to exist, nowadays there are so many competing draws on the audience's attention that it can't just do everything adequately, it needs to do that and also POP. No idea how they could do that mind.

 

[Rroff]

never actually played 4 but it was just larger scale 3 with commander mode from what I can gather

4 had some kind of cool, though mostly underused, features in respect to commander mode and squads which could really take it up a notch if you had an organised bunch pushing actual tactics - I jumped into a game one night with a group of actual military playing (pretty sure they were what they claimed - the banter and gruff way of talking was completely squaddie not some kids messing about and practised knowledge of military terminology, etc.) where the commander was on the same page and it was quite an experience.

 

[Zefan]

4 had some kind of cool, though mostly underused, features in respect to commander mode and squads which could really take it up a notch if you had an organised bunch pushing actual tactics - I jumped into a game one night with a group of actual military playing (pretty sure they were what they claimed - the banter and gruff way of talking was completely squaddie not some kids messing about and practised knowledge of military terminology, etc.) where the commander was on the same page and it was quite an experience.

Yep this makes me excited.

 

[SpudMaster]

This just STINKS of 2042 all over again, EA bragging about how they have so many developers working on it, yeah you'd think after they made the same claims with 2042 they'd just shut up as it makes them look like incompetent ******** when the game inevitably arrives broken.

And its all noobs making this, no BF veterans that know what a BF game is supposed to be, that really bodes well. I'd be amazed if this thing doesn't turn out more like a COD clone vs an actual Battlefield game.

In the ideal world these new devs all grew up playing BF2 and know exactly what a BF game should be..... wishful thinking?

 

[t2na]

In the ideal world these new devs all grew up playing BF2 and know exactly what a BF game should be..... wishful thinking?

I reckon more likely they grew up playing BF3 and BF4 - which is fine by me because I really liked those games.

 

[Gerard]

Maybe having new people on it isn’t a bad thing? The last great battlefield was bad company 2

3/4 were fab I thought but not as good as bad company 2

Everything after has been trash

Matter of opinion really. BC2 imo was a good game but people seem to have a rose tinted glasses view of it for some reason. It was plagued with hit detection issues for virtually the lifetime of the game, their official forums were overrun with people complaining about how they would empty a mag into someone only for the opponent to hit them 2 or 3 times and they were dead. It was kind of battlefield lite in a way with the 32 player cap

There was also some weirdness with Dice seemingly relying on console versions to see what was and wasn't working. Case in point, at one time in the pc version the tracer dart gun was broken, you could land it on a tank or whatever, switch to the rocket and it would refuse to give you the lock on prompt rendering it useless. Dice were informed about this and their response on the forum was "its working on the Xbox version".

Battlefield 1 imo was an enjoyable game. Battlefield V should have been a great game, that was their first PC return to WW2 since the original game in 2002 and they made an absolute mess of it with the whole female solider thing and devs stating they "wanted to be on the right side of history". Apparently making a game and not a political statement was beyond them. Didn't bother me as we already had female solders in in BF1 but this whole focus on smaller WW2 battles instead of remaking maps from the original game, they had a huge open goal and failed miserably. You had maps like Omaha, Market garden, El-Alemain and Stalingrad which would have been great remasters but they seemingly didn't even consider them. Dice didn't help matters at their little launch party for the game when they had some kind of slideshow set up with peoples negative comments and they were getting a good laugh out of it, these pics leaked online shortly after, they also said "don't like it don't buy it" and a lot seemingly didn't as EA considered it a commercial disappointment.

In the ideal world these new devs all grew up playing BF2 and know exactly what a BF game should be..... wishful thinking?

I'd give them the benefit of the doubt...but 2042 was also mostly made by a bunch of new hires and we seen how that turned out.