Battlefield 2042 Lead Designer packs his bags
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Horus-Anhur
He's like the plague, going from town to town. But in this case, killing great games.
MonstroMart
CPC_RedDawn
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Great White Shark
I never thought i would see the day that Battlefield sunk this low. EA/DICE should have stuck with the developer team who made Battlefield 5.
Airbud
H-A.
Well Said Horus-Anhur
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emperorsfist
Solfaur
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Zooke
This thread is the definition of going off-topic.
KissSh0t
Loobyluggs
Ghosty
Loobyluggs
Denial
Horus-Anhur
Dragam1337
Denial
Outside of DICE Sweden, who created the thing, what other dev has successfully moved to Frostbite?
Dragon Age: Inquisition was a mess - they blamed Frostbite. ME: Andromeda was a mess - they blamed Frostbite. Anthem got completely cancelled - devs essentially blamed Frostbite.
There's tons of complaints from FIFA players when that game switched to Frostbite - in fact I can still find posts about the engine from even the new versions. Ghost Games talked about the numerous challenges of using Frostbite with Need for Speed. I'm sure I can find a bunch of Madden complaints as well.
I've honestly never seen so many AAA game developers directly blame an engine for their game woes/issues or even talk about a game engine negatively before like they have for Frostbite.
Typically developers comment on engines like "Snowdrop is great, it allows us to build NY at an amazing scale".. "Unreal 4 allowed us to not have to write C++ code and just bluerpint everything!" "Unity allowed us to make 500,000 free to play games in 13 days!" yadada. With Frostbite it's always like "Our game sucks because we spent like 5 years trying to animate a horse in frostbite" or ""Frostbite doesn't really understand the idea of stats or items or saving a game, conversations, cutscenes. Which may or may not be critical in our RPG game"
Can you even show me one other AAA developer solely blaming the game engine on the failure of the game? Let alone like 3-4 separate games?
Horus-Anhur
Mass Effect Andromeda was another great mess, being Frostbite one of the main reasons.
Anthem also had some problems, though not as big as other games.
Ghosty