This Game Is Starting To Feel Like A Crumbling Building

Something has been feeling really off to me as this event has progressed. I have more than 800 hours in this game and a lot of that time has been fun. But it’s starting to feel like this game was built on a shoddy foundation, and they keep just stacking more on the top and it’s starting to crumble. More and more it seems as if there is something inherently flawed in the overall design of the maps and modes, on top of the many small bugs that persist.

They’ve been able to do little to nothing for match balance, as we know very few games have that satisfying back and forth. I can’t even say whether the gunplay changes overall have been good or bad, because matches feel wildly inconsistent when it comes to hit reg/who has priority/im not really sure what to call it. The game is jsut different than it was at launch, with more maps yes, but better or worse idk.

This season has brought us Tsuru which features the most horrifically balanced Breakthrough ever (what the fuck is happening in battlefield labs?), carrier strike which obviously has a huge camping problem, gauntlet jet sweep where we’re forced to watch that dumb video before every match, and new jets which are cool, but leave us no way to have those new jets in older maps without making the OG jets irrelevant.

The everyone is a medic bug on the mini map is still there, the map rotation has done nothing for better match making, they took away Augur which was massively popular, told us it was coming back at the end of season 3 after they balanced it and then did nothing for balance and delayed it. Strikepoint is still mia and you can’t tell me it’s that hard to fix it in the grand scheme of game design.

And these are just a few things I can think of off the top of my head. It feels like there is some really mediocre management keeping this game down. The roadmap always looks great, and then ends up somehow being a facade or poorly implemented. I do not really expect this situation to improve much, but I hope I’m wrong.