Battlefield 2042's developers think the game is ready for another chance: 'We've got the game and the quality to a place where the team wants to bring more players in. And we weren't there early on.'
The reaction to Battlefield 2042's launch last year was dismal. Dissatisfied players copied-and-pasted lists of"missing" features and cited criticism from a former Battlefield dev as proof that developer DICE had lost its way. The Steam user reviews were ruthless. DICE delayed the large-scale war shooter's first season by six months, and its average concurrent player count plummeted.
The dissatisfaction wasn't just about bugs and performance issues, although there were those. Battlefield 2042 went all in on scale, doubling the normal Battlefield player count from 64 to 128 with larger maps than the series has ever seen.that Battlefield's gameplay had been unoptimized and made ganglier, but most players didn't take such a whimsical attitude: They felt the maps were unserious and needed more infantry cover.
"[Players] loved the chaos," said McArthur."But with that chaos you need to be able to feel smart, you need to be able to be strategic. Chaos for chaos' sake sometimes isn't as fun." McArthur doesn't think these fan-requested alterations mean they've abandoned Battlefield 2042's identity—it's still got a 128-player playlist and specialist characters, as well as the Battlefield Portal custom mode tool—but it doesn't sound like DICE is the same studio it was when it surprised fans with the Battlefield 2042 reveal, ran a quick beta period, and then released the game.
"Much of the feedback we got was negative in that it was aggressively, aggressively negative, but that didn't make it wrong," said McArthur."And the key for us was to comb through it and go: 'If you strip out the emotions, what did they say? What are they missing?'" "They still want more content," he said,"they still wish we hadn't learned the way we did, but the conversation that they're having is turning from negative into constructive into, in some cases, positive."
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