Firestorm Rotations Update - So long and thanks for all the Duo!
Morning folks -
For those loading up Firestorm today, a note that we have removed Duo from the rotation.
Why is Duo leaving?
Duo received an overwhelmingly positive reaction at launch. It debuted during a weekend, and was initially done so only as an early first look at the mode. Duo was originally designed as a limited time offering similar to Grind and Rush, and featured as limited time content in Chapter 3.
When Duo was first removed, you told us that you wanted to see it come back and we were happy to support.
Since then, we’ve seen more folks jump back into Squads mode, with less preferring to Firestorm it up in Duo - so we’re going to get back to the original plan today and we’ve disabled it’s matchmaking.
Will Duo return?
As with other limited time modes, we never say never. We're confident that we'll see it again!
Limited Time Gamemodes
Similar to Firestorm, the core Battlefield experience receives plenty of rotation of temporary modes like Grind, Rush, Squad Conquest, and soon - Outpost.
We’re going to look at ways to ensure that you all have the opportunity to enjoy these modes after their initial availability, without compromising the matchmaking experiences for players who’d prefer to stay with the base game modes.
This is something we’re exploring as part of the development of Private Games which you can read more about here. We’ll keep you updated on that as we build out the feature via Community Broadcasts like this.
Please do let us know what you think below,
Freeman
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I didn't realise we had a UK Community Manager, can you inform us on what is happening with the AWS UK data centre being taken offline, are the servers coming back online?
You even made a vote last time, and 50% wanted to play duo. Solo and squad got 25% each....
Btw, many players bought the game just for the Firestorm Duo, and now you guys remove it....
I've tried to to stick with this game but all these limited time game modes and various bugs still in the game make me want uninstall it. That's why the player counts are low. Not because duos wasn't good. But because you rushed out an unfinished game.
this is one of the biggest mistakes that Dice had done. In the latest polls, duo was way ahead of the other two options. It could be due to matchmaking issues, easter holiday that number of players in duo mode had declined but I dont believe it justifies the removal of the mode
and I dont understand the action here. Why remove it? just leave it and the ones that prefere duos can play.
I have a friend that we play bfv nearly every day. Duos was our favorite mode. In squad mode, we are waiting for at least 3-4 minutes to find a server, as the system is trying to fit 2 persons in he game that has 2 empty slots in squads. And generally we end up not finding an available squad to be added, hence playing 2 against 3 or 4 guys in the as squad, which generally ends up with our deaths early in the round. this is very frustrating.
I hope you recover the damage before it is too big.
or renew your data analysis program / software as it seems it is not working as intended
this is one of the biggest mistakes that Dice had done. In the latest polls, duo was way ahead of the other two options. It could be due to matchmaking issues, easter holiday that number of players in duo mode had declined but I dont believe it justifies the removal of the mode
and I dont understand the action here. Why remove it? just leave it and the ones that prefere duos can play.
I have a friend that we play bfv nearly every day. Duos was our favorite mode. In squad mode, we are waiting for at least 3-4 minutes to find a server, as the system is trying to fit 2 persons in he game that has 2 empty slots in squads. And generally we end up not finding an available squad to be added, hence playing 2 against 3 or 4 guys in the as squad, which generally ends up with our deaths early in the round. this is very frustrating.
I hope you recover the damage before it is too big.
or renew your data analysis program / software as it seems it is not working as intended
keep working ... DUO MODE ACTIVATED NOW, and stop reraising us.A GREETING .
I must say I'm gobsmacked - I don't know what is going on at DICE but you're dropping the ball so frequently that it is alarming. Are the player numbers that low so soon after FS release that 3 modes can't be supported? That's alarming too.
Are you trying to kill the game early on purpose because you're doing a brilliant job so far?