Shortcuts were taken, making things harder to work with and ultimately fix in the long run. I think it begins with a significantly shorter development window, where the team simply didn’t have the time to properly build and implement the systems they needed or wanted. Westie: There are many reasons Battlefield V ended up this way. It had bright points, but those weren’t enough to redeem damaged community trust. It started out as an excellent core gameplay and gunplay loop and self-sabotaged into a mess. The game seemingly was being tugged into many directions, lower TTKs, trying to make the game feel more sandbox-like, authenticity versus something different and it ultimately, in my opinion, left the game lacking an identity, a master of none.

There is no in-between tuning which arguably does work more effectively at finding the middle ground solution, but when patches take so long, it simply isn’t worth doing. But as we have seen with DICE, the mantra is dial it up 200% or half it. It needed tweaking and tuning but there was something there to come back to. Early when the game launched it had a core identity as a more hardcore WW2 experience, guns were punchy, the TTK was fast but ultimately the gameplay loop felt decent. Battlefield V for me kept trying to fix until it found itself in a predicament that was untenable, probably resulting in the decision to shelve the game a little earlier than expected. TheTacticalBrit: The saying goes if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. While it isn’t wrong to think if you dont like it dont buy it, its not smart to say it out loud if you try to sell a game.Īlso, trying to please multiple people at the same time, one part wants the game to be more realistic and the other side wants it to be more fun and like BF3. Why do you think Battlefield V ended up the way it did now?ĭannyonPC: Lack of devtime, far less than two years, and absolutely no direction. Joining us for this Battlefield V dissection of sorts and what went wrong are: DannyonPC, TheTacticalBrit, and Westie. We’ve reached out to Battlefield YouTubers to seek their sentiment on the current situation, how we came to be in this state in the first place, and more. Having said all that, we here at MP1st decided to take it a step further. With no new Battlefield game announced, it seems that for better or for worse, Battlefield fans will either need to come to grips that no new content is coming to Battlefield V after the next content drop and be happy with it, or just go back and play the older titles in the series. Following DICE’s announcement last week that Battlefield V (also called Battlefield 5) will be getting “one more” standalone content update and that’s it, the Battlefield community has - understandably - voiced their displeasure at this news.

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