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90% of the stuff mentioned here are not bugs, but intended game design features - or lack of. And thus never will be fixed / corrected.



Battlefield franchise 2002 - 2006 R.I.P.





About Ea Games / Dice :

- ea games/ dice has performed the biggest lie campaign in pc gaming history
- it feels like none of the developers have ever played a pc shooter for one single second
- it’s obvious that this is a dumbed down, simplistic console port
- prime focus has been consoles, since pc games don’t sell well
- the game is unfinished and released too early, just to be released before modern warfare 3
- too many resources has been spent on the singleplayer campaign, which has left multiplayer lacking almost everything thinkable
- this game is 90% bad company 2
- battlefield 3 is done, and ea / dice don’t give a damn about adding features, fixing the game anymore
- battlefield 4 already confirmed in the work, ea / dice is copying mw3’s quick rollout quantity over quality methods

Generally :

- no patch / game version available ingame or in origin or battlelog
- no official channel for upcoming updates, only short hard-to-find scattered tweets
- voip broken
- squad management missing
- no battlerecorder
- no mod tools
- 3 apps to play one game: bf3, origin, webbrowser
- no way to explore maps and practice on empty private home servers
- not possible to change name in-game
- player names only a maximum of 16 characters long, should be 24+
- no special symbols in names, only brackets, underscore, hyphen
- no built in screenshot key function
- no separate mouse sensitivity for vehicles, infantry, planes, etc
- no ingame player to player messenger
- commo-rose not working as it should
- 60 second pause after round end, where only unlock info is available
- map load times too long …. background loading at end of current map could reduce this
- personal stats / unlocks / xp doesn’t get saved if one quits before round end

Graphics :

- depressing colours and environments … everything looks pale grey / pale brown … no true red, green, blue, yellow
- blue filter / low colour temperature on all maps
- most maps look the same
- no windows xp / directx 9 support
- no real “low” graphics settings to get high frames per second
- not state of the art directx 11 graphics ... looks like 2006 graphics
- some objects are highly detailed, others aren’t
- no way to control ranged graphics details: bushes and grass pop up of the ground, etc.
- tree animations looks shaky and overdone
- unrealistic human animations

Admining :

- No freecam or trackcam for admins / players means that admining is ruined, it’s virtually impossible to detect :

• glitching
• exploiting
• cheating
• hacking
• teamwounding
• deliberate teamkilling
• friendly vehicle damaging
• idling / afk’ing in vehicles
• waisting vehicles
• friendly vehicle destroying
• vehicle stealing when repairing
• vehicle blocking
• vehicle whoring
• spawnblocking
• taxiing to aircrafts
• taxiing with aircrafts
• mining main uncap base
• etc. etc. etc.


Maps / Levels / Game environment :

- only 9 maps at launch, should be 15 at least
- almost no maps with hills, mountains, gorges, valleys
- virtually no sea warfare, no true sea maps, no driveable ships
- carriers can’t be damaged, destroyed
- maps are too small
- centered flags on all maps
- 5 flags on seven out of nine maps
- no maps with captureable mains
- no maps where one team controls the majority or all flags at start
- no maps where the both teams control some of the flags at start
- no maps where one or both teams have no main bases
- too few vehicles on most maps
- stationary aa guns can’t be damaged / destroyed
- air vehicles are able / allowed to enter enemy mains, land vehicles, infantry is not
- only aircrafts can use the entire map, land vehicles and infantry are limited to the center only
- no special spawnpoints : parachute spawn, flying plane spawn, etc
- few or no vehicles spawn at flags
- no bomberplanes, no artillery
- no map edit tools

Ingame 3D markers / tags :

- markers over both friendly and enemy infantry and vehicles too small and too hard to notice
- flag markers are constantly visible and often in the center of the screen where aiming is needed

Ingame mechanics :

- being able to see some enemy infantry (spotted) on the minimap is the lamest feature ever
- minimum respawn time is 13 seconds … should be adjustable down to two
- while dead, spawn menu is unavailable until 10 secs has passed
- automatic respawn in main when selected spawnpoint is unavailable
- black screen up to 2 seconds after respawn
- out of bounds black screen should be removed, should be warn sign only
- only one teamswitch every second round, should be one per round
- no loadout customization after end of round
- no loadout customization after dying
- all vehicles have unlimited ammo
- altitude ceiling of 1 km for aircrafts too little, should be 2+
- no unguided bombs for jets
- one player can completely block teammates in narrow passages, ... player pushing has been disabled
- parachutes only 90 degrees directional controllable, not 360
- no shooting while sprinting
- no autosprint toggle, key has to be pressed all the time
- no underwater swimming
- some fire from burning objects do damage to infantry, others don’t
- not possible for players to see map rotation ingame
- the flashlight blinding effect in broad daylight is overdone and ridiculous
- irnv scope is idiotic and overpowered
- can only revive while standing up
- can’t pull dead players into safety before reviving
- can’t reject getting revived

Ingame GUI :

- the gui should totally adjustable ... locations, size, colours, transparency, etc

User menu :

- all menus are too small for pc resolution … its obvious they are designed for lowres consoles with gamepads
- keybindings take too long to clear ... no way to clear all keybindings at once
- user menu not available when dead and after end of round

Game modes :

- in reality only three modes, conquest, rush, tdm
- no new and original modes
- no capture the flag
- some vehicles only available in rush mode

Game view / Game cams :

- no freecam
- no trackcam for following individual players
- only one external vehicle cam
- no chasecam when being non-driver / pilot in vehicles and aircrafts

Destruction / Object interaction

- no terrain / ground deformation
- some things disappear when destroyed ... others don’t
- only some buildings are destructable
- some parts of buildings can be destroyed, while other identical parts of the building can’t
- some non enterable vehicles are destructable, others arent; cars are, forklifts, excavators aren’t
- some things can be moved around when shot at or bumped into ... others of same size and shape can’t
- player corpses are unmoveable

Spawn map :

- way way way too small
- not clickable with mouse
- too hard to distinguish between icons … better colour coding needed

Scoreboard / Player roster :

- no team totals for deaths, kills, score
- no player ping values
- player classes not shown (sniper, engineer, assault, recon)
- no victory ceremony / board at round end, no overall best, only team best, no winners of last rounds icons
- no unique player number id’s

Ticket counter :

- ticket counter disappears when switching to big minimap

Flag counter :

- flag counter disappears when switching to big minimap

Compass :

- compass disappears when switching to big minimap

Minimap :

- too small .... player arrows too small
- no minimap transparency and size control
- minimap changes between static / rotational
- minimap gets reset when entering / exiting vehicles + at respawn
- all teammates can't be seen on minimap
- no grid on minimap
- self avatar isn't highlighted with at distinct colour on minimap
- no minimap when dead and waiting to spawn
- big minimap has fluent zoom

Sound :

- ambient sound is repetitive
- ambient nonplayer gunfire should be removed

Crosshairs :

- infantry crosshairs hard to see - white is the worst color thinkable ... size, thickness, color should be adjustable

Ingame chat :

- chat box size uncontrollable
- layout and letter size uncontrollable
- shouldn’t have background colour

Server browser :

- 300 servers browser cap
- server browser needs to be scrolled down after refresh to show all
- can’t join servers by typing ip
- no ping filter
- ip of servers not showing
- not possible to see current round scoreboard in battlelog server browser
- not possible to see total number of servers
- not possible to see ticket setting in server settings

- not possible to see total number of players
- no full server filter in battlelog browser
- no options in server filter, not to pick an option
- can’t write own comments about servers
- server map rotation info on battlelog doesn’t show if maps get played one or two times
- many servers servers shows up twice

Server setup :

- not possible to set up servers on home computers
- no lan support
- no ingame timer possible
- no adjustable teambalance, only +- 1 per team
- not possible to control number of vehicles, extra vehicles, etc