Community Transmission - Squad System Update & Release Notes

BIGJJ61191 · September 25, 2018 4:12AM

Soooooo no fix for the hero voice lines not triggering...still...awesome work.

KrocketOnBoost · September 25, 2018 4:32AM

The day we all have been waiting for!

"Fixed an issue where the chicken near the East Turbolaser would not be fleeing from the player"

This is great, is it possible that you concentrate your efforts on fixing PLAYABLE characters in the next patch? Would be really sweet if, let's say, the force powers accualy would work as intended, at least some of them pls?

Good job with the chicken.

WhyTheNerf_Herder · September 25, 2018 4:41AM

So, nerf heavy, but you over look balancing out the other classes - That is pro.

What about the sound cutting out still - why is this not being reported on?

FreeSoul · September 25, 2018 4:53AM

Sounds good

what time is the update online Central European Time?

avidplayer · September 25, 2018 5:08AM

When will we see new heroes and/or villains??

Zirius · September 25, 2018 6:06AM

F8RGE wrote: »

TAKODANA
Fixed an issue where the chicken near the East Turbolaser would not be fleeing from the player

For real, is this supposed to be a joke? Instead of focusing on fixing another Bug/glitch or w/e, you focus on fixing chickens?? Indeed it shows the "commitment". Or we're the victims of a troll

AbyssWatch3r · September 25, 2018 6:13AM

Dingbattin_1000 wrote: »

The ion torpedo had already been nerfed to the point of being useless against star fighters since most people had figured out how to dodge the torpedoes and the damage didn't do enough to have much of an effect cause the could leave the battle and get all their health back but you lowered the damage even more? The strafing damage/deaths had increased a lot already and we were are back to the same issue as before...nothing you can do against starfighters from the ground. Now you've made it even worse. Thanks. Glad I had already stopped using heavys to go anti vehicle (this was the only reason I used them) and got used to using a specialist for it. The only thing you could do to make up for this is create an anti-vehicle enforcer class and let them do the damage with torpedoes prior to these two nerfs that were done. No reason to play a heavy anymore.

Give an alternative means to take out Air Vehicles. Its near impossible for a single Trooper to pull it of, brain dead team mates are no use. Enough is enough. Make Air Vehicles suffer permanent damage.

joachimeberhard · September 25, 2018 6:21AM

Thanks for the iron turret fix, among others!

Mampfbeutel · September 25, 2018 6:36AM

Nooo, not the Ion-Torpedo...

We need this for protect our squad from air-attackers...

Is there anyone who sometimes can not block with rey and yoda after spawn?
I hate this bug. It makes lightsaber-heroes useless...

DK_Bastian · September 25, 2018 7:31AM

Cant wait to try it out later!

CobraKaiSenpai · September 25, 2018 7:34AM

Scmorg wrote: »

I have a feeling the Ion Turret and Torpedo will now rarely ever be used....I’m done with them

Me too. I'm with the rest of the community in this: this game is too hard and needs to be watered down so I can do muh button mashin'. I want it dumbed way down so that I can get easy victories and beat on my chest and call myself, Beast!

CobraKaiSenpai · September 25, 2018 7:39AM

CloudWalker wrote: »

Great, I'm inpatient to play basically the same build I played the last months.

Then go play something else. It's an old game now. New titles are coming.

CobraKaiSenpai · September 25, 2018 7:41AM

I want to mod it into a nice chicken sandwich. And be done with it.

AltoJun · September 25, 2018 8:32AM

Is this the end of the 10 seconds of agony respawn screen?

Phyrebrat · September 25, 2018 9:22AM

I hate to sound ungrateful (but) you reduced ion torp damage?!?!

Are the developers even aware of this forum!?!? How was it decided? I fail to see the merit.

Was it just an honest mistake?

pH

mega8deth8 · September 25, 2018 9:34AM

R.I.P. to my heavy and R.I.P. to Galactic assault (for me anyways). They nerfed the heavy right out of usefulness now. Why increase the ion torpedo to 3 shots just to nerf it back so far that now 3 shots equals the one shot before. I'd rather just fire once and get it over with now. The straffing kills are gonna be unbearable now. I guess I'll be running the ONLY 2 extraction maps now and exploiting officer's insane ability to get battle points and wreck that mode as wookies. Or get steamrolled in HvV because 90% of the crowd can't grasp the TEAM concept and you are stuck getting crushed by parties. Of the fun we'll have. It just gets worse (for my play style) every update. I'd like to hold on till Grievous and OB1 but I might not make it. This might be it for me.

lordscalding · September 25, 2018 10:04AM

We have added a new default setting to the ping site option. When you have this selected, the game will attempt to match you to any of the ping sites that you have the best ping to. In the real world, this means that if you are located in Europe and have a good ping to both Frankfurt [FRA] and Dublin [DUB], you could be matched to either one, meaning you should find games a lot quicker.

Been unable to join even half-filled lobbies. Only empty ones. So good for quick finding.

IdiotAlien · September 25, 2018 10:05AM

mega8deth8 wrote: »

R.I.P. to my heavy and R.I.P. to Galactic assault (for me anyways). They nerfed the heavy right out of usefulness now. Why increase the ion torpedo to 3 shots just to nerf it back so far that now 3 shots equals the one shot before. I'd rather just fire once and get it over with now. The straffing kills are gonna be unbearable now. I guess I'll be running the ONLY 2 extraction maps now and exploiting officer's insane ability to get battle points and wreck that mode as wookies. Or get steamrolled in HvV because 90% of the crowd can't grasp the TEAM concept and you are stuck getting crushed by parties. Of the fun we'll have. It just gets worse (for my play style) every update. I'd like to hold on till Grievous and OB1 but I might not make it. This might be it for me.

Because they can't do their job nor do they deserve star wars license

Mouthrax · September 25, 2018 10:31AM

Looking forward to testing out the new squad system but cannot understand why they nerfed the Ion Torpedo again or changed the Ion Turret...

Strafing and AT-ST kill streaks are back after the last nerf as it is, this update will effectively kill the Ion Torpedo and increase the amount of vehicle spam and exploiting.

As a side note - the Ion Turret now only hit's tanks which makes sense but when DICE say 'asked for by the community', could they maybe consider putting it to an official community vote?

mega8deth8 · September 25, 2018 10:53AM

Mouthrax wrote: »

As a side note - the Ion Turret now only hit's tanks which makes sense but when DICE say 'asked for by the community', could they maybe consider putting it to an official community vote?

It probably won't even do that now. It'll probably just keep targeting the locked objective (ATAT or MMT etc.) as long as ATST stay close to those they'll never get hit by anything but underwhelming ion mod attachments

djclipper74 · September 25, 2018 11:04AM

I have an AMD Radeon 7900 Graphics Card and I can not play the game now after I updated the Graphics card drivers. Everything is like 5 frames per second. Even the menu.

bfloo · September 25, 2018 11:32AM

djclipper74 wrote: »

I have an AMD Radeon 7900 Graphics Card and I can not play the game now after I updated the Graphics card drivers. Everything is like 5 frames per second. Even the menu.

The chicken running around must be bogging down your system

Stinger_Pistol · September 25, 2018 12:30PM

Bit worried the spawn system is going to make it very hard for the attackers. I've only played one game but we (the defenders) were constantly pushed up because nobody had to go back to default spawns

We'll see

Firewall17 · September 25, 2018 12:32PM

CloudWalker wrote: »

Great, I'm inpatient to play basically the same build I played the last months.

Then stop playing lol

Firewall17 · September 25, 2018 12:35PM

CobraKaiSenpai wrote: »

Scmorg wrote: »

I have a feeling the Ion Turret and Torpedo will now rarely ever be used....I’m done with them

Me too. I'm with the rest of the community in this: this game is too hard and needs to be watered down so I can do muh button mashin'. I want it dumbed way down so that I can get easy victories and beat on my chest and call myself, Beast!

Goomas · September 25, 2018 1:04PM

Alex64 wrote: »

I appreciate the changes on extraterrestrial chickens on Takodana, they now run Away in peace, i love those extraterrestrial chickens.

Yeah, that is great and all, but did they fix the blue monkeys on Kashyyyk that are stuck in place and can't move. That is very important and those poor guys need to be fixed pronto!

CrimsonSolo · September 25, 2018 1:22PM

F8RGE wrote: »

Incoming Transmission

It’s time for another Community Transmission and we’re here to talk about the Squad Update. It releases tomorrow (September 25th), so on with the details.

Squad System
The new Squad System will allow you to re-join your friends, allies, and the action much quicker than before. If you’re already playing with a group of friends, you will be placed together into a squad. If you join a game on your own, you will be placed into a random squad.

When you are defeated, you will have the ability to toggle through a spectator camera. This camera will be focused on one of your squad members and you’ll then have the ability to spawn directly onto them. Want to spawn on a different squad member? Simply toggle through the spectator camera until you find the squad member of your choosing.

The new squad system also grants you the ability to play 2v2 Private Matches of Hero Showdown.

We went more in depth on the Squad System in its own dedicated Community Transmission, you can find that here.

91st Mobile Reconnaissance Corps
The 91st Recon Cops were a regiment of the Republic during the Clone Wars. Lead by commander CC-8826, or Neyo, the 91st were involved in many battles across the Clone Wars.

104th “Wolf Pack” Battalion
The Wolfpack was a battalion that active throughout the Clone Wars and known for numerous military operations. On one such encounter, they engaged on a night assault on one of the last remaining outposts of General Grievous.
The 104th Battalion can be identified by the iconic Wolf logo that identifies the squad, and the dark blue markings upon their armour.

You can read more about some changes we’re making to the Clone Trooper Appearances by click here

Ping Site Changes
We have added a new default setting to the ping site option. When you have this selected, the game will attempt to match you to any of the ping sites that you have the best ping to. In the real world, this means that if you are located in Europe and have a good ping to both Frankfurt [FRA] and Dublin [DUB], you could be matched to either one, meaning you should find games a lot quicker.

These changes will start to arrive alongside the September update and further updates will be made in the months after, as we continue to tweak and improve the matchmaking system.

Matchmaking
End of Round (EOR) matchmaking is a feature you will have noticed before. It’s something that has been turned on and tested at intermittent periods over the last few months.

The two key benefits to the end of round matchmaking will be:
Mixing players up more often. As a result of this it’s less likely that you will find yourself stuck in a poorly balanced game for more than a few rounds.

We’re changing the matchmaking behaviour so it favours filling up existing servers, as opposed to starting new ones. This means that you should join servers that are trending towards being full, as opposed to joining an empty one.

We go into more detail on the Matchmaking within its own Community Transmission, which you can find here.

Release Notes

NEW CONTENT
FEATURES
Added ability to get into squads and spawn on squad members on Galactic Assault and Strike

Improved screen flow for quicker spawning in all modes where Squad Spawn is not present

QUALITY OF LIFE
More dynamic change of characters shown on the Home and Career screens, due to implementation of backend ability to change those in a live environment

Implemented various stability fixes for the End of Round (EOR) Matchmaking

Improved the way the game client looks for an online game, by adding an automated Default option for the best Ping site, as well as simplifying the choice of sites in the menu.

HERO CHANGES

LEIA ORGANA
Fixed an issue where Leia's Alternate Fire ability could damage a player piloting the AT-ST

VEHICLE CHANGES

U-WING
Fixed an issue where the "Repair" ability would not properly activate

LANDO’S MILLENNIUM FALCON
Fixed an issue where the Tactical Jammer ability would have no effect on Lando's Millennium Falcon

CLASSES & SPECIAL UNITS CHANGES

OFFICER
Fixed an issue that would prevent the Disruption ability to trigger in sync with the animation

HEAVY
Removed the ability of Ion Turrets to lock and fire on troopers, as requested by the community

Reduced the damage done by the Ion Torpedo for better balancing

GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS
Fixed an issue where the Resourceful Star Card wouldn't correctly lower the ability cooldown when used.

GAME MODE CHANGES

GALACTIC ASSAULT
Implemented backend timers that allow tweaking of the objective duration on Galactic Assault in a live environment

HERO STARFIGHTERS
Added animations to further enhance the look and feel of the game mode's widget

STRIKE
Fixed a spelling issue in one of the objective texts

MAP CHANGES

JAKKU
Fixed an issue where heroes could hide or get stuck behind metal barriers on Jakku

ENDOR
Fixed an issue that would leave players stuck between tree and mountain assets

TAKODANA
Fixed an issue where the chicken near the East Turbolaser would not be fleeing from the player

GENERAL CHANGES
Added Ewok Hunt and Extraction-based challenges to the list of Daily Challenges

Removed Hero Showdown-based challenges "Perfect Together" and "Vader and Kylo", based on player feedback that they are too hard to achieve in an online environment

Fixed an issue where Iden's character and description text would be missing from the Campaign's spawn and customization screen

Fixed an issue where players would not be able to change their Clone Trooper appearances during the pre-round screens on games taking place on Kashyyyk and Kamino

Added additional UI effects when unlocking an Emote, Victory Pose or Appearance from the menu

Increased the maximum numbers of players in a group to 20, and the maximum number of players who can play together to 8

Fixed an issue where the button to get more Crystals would not show up in the Emotes and Victory Poses screens

Adjusted the "Saviour Kill" stat, so that it tracks relevant kills from the whole team and not just the squad members

This update will automatically disable CrossFire functionality for players with AMD Graphics Cards running on Windows 8 / 8.1, due to lack of support for multi-GPU with the specified operating system and GPU vendor.

KNOWN ISSUES
Squad members that are inside certain land vehicles (Armor, Artillery, Speeder, Tauntaun, Mountable Turrets) are not correctly shown as being inside vehicles on the Squad Spawn screen. The fix has been identified and will be implemented in the next update.

Selecting to spawn on squad members who are inside land vehicles will temporarily disable access to the “Choose Character” screen. The issue gets resolved once players choose to spawn in the Default location. The fix has been identified and will be implemented in the next update.

The spawn screen UI will, in rare cases, remain on during gameplay on Strike, or Galactic Assault. The issue gets resolved once players choose to respawn. The fix has been identified and will be implemented in the next update.

The cooldown timer of the Shock Grenade ability would not be affected by the Resourceful Star Card. The fix has been identified and will be implemented in the next update.

Punch It

CrimsonSolo · September 25, 2018 1:25PM

How long is the wait for Rouge one content?
Director Krennic is one the best new Star Wars characters so far.
Loyalty to the Empire!

New_Roosterman · September 25, 2018 1:25PM

Love the un-announced changes I just found -

1. I just played 5 rounds of star fighter assault. Joined a match in progress on D'qar in its first round. We moved to Fondor for the next map (which is where the rotation starts). Imagine my surprise, and hatred of then going to the Unknown Regions Map, which used to be the map before D'qar. Who asked for this change? Nobody.
2. Who wanted the spawn timer added in SFA? When you died you could click on the "skip" button, select a new unit and re-enter combat. Now you click "skip" you have top wait 5 seconds before you can even pick a unit. So if you died so you could select a hero ship, good luck as it may not be available when the timer runs out. Again a change nobody asked for and does nothing but give people the manures waiting to get back into the game - I mean starting at a spawn screen for longer is what everybody LOVES right? Why don't you increase it to 30 seconds? I'm sure we'd all love that.

As to the "team balance" and "matchmaking"? ROFLMAO after what I experienced in 5 rounds of play in Starfighter Assault which I just finished. I'm a decent player in that mode, but in all 5 rounds I was on the losing team. Yep all 5 times the team I was on got beaten soundly. Great work on balance there with you great changes.

I told you in your tests after each one that your match making proposals wouldn't work, and if what I just experienced is the result, then it just shows that DICE you have not listened one iota to your community and don't give a fig what we think at all based on what we have experienced. You may know a lot about coding, but you don't know much about predicting the hardest thing known to predict - the behaviour of people.

Blue_Phoenix · September 25, 2018 2:01PM

Was bit hyped over the squad system at first, now a bit disapointed. Its nice to spawn to squad member. But its still randon. Even with 2 player party's are but in diffirent squads taking the fun away.

Gentlemen_Pyro8 · September 25, 2018 3:08PM

Im So excited to come home from school to update and and play this update!

Indiana_Jim · September 25, 2018 3:10PM

koldovi2013 wrote: »

Can we expect to see the lightsaber combat reworked?

HA! In our dreams!

Indiana_Jim · September 25, 2018 3:10PM

Omniscient wrote: »

People of the galaxy...I implore you: Stop quoting the entire OP just to comment with a one-liner.

My scrolling finger is becoming callused. Don’t make me be callous.

Or Kallus.

jstephan · September 25, 2018 3:13PM

The 2 new skins from the update of 25th September costs 40000 credits each. They wrote 2 for 1 and thart 20000 credits per skin was credited, but I paid 80000 credits for the 2 skins ! No 2 for 1 !!!

Omniscient · September 25, 2018 3:26PM

@CrimsonSolo

OK, perhaps I was not clear about needlessly quoting F8RGE’s post just to do a one-liner response. You took it to the other extreme, quoted him twice and gave no response.

Seriously, please edit/remove that space wasting post.

NightReaper23 · September 25, 2018 3:42PM

So people were still complaining about Ion Torpedo damage? Like it's fair to have vehicles just spawn killing (Starkiller Base) and ground troops can't make a push? So players can still get Tie Fighters etc. and continue to strafe ground troops without concern b/c they cried the loudest against me for wanting to shoot them down to protect my team?! Now they ruined the Ion Turret, I never get killed by one and it's a great deterrent against flankers. I've never seen it shoot anything flying (maybe it does) but it's best quality was targeting ground troops. The officer turret is a joke compared to SWBF 2015, and now the Heavy turret isn't a threat anymore either. Of course turrets are annoying, what isn't?? The constant snipers who just want to hang back and shoot? The thousands of endless grenades thrown in hallways? Rey's cheap mind trick? Lando and Chewie's stun grenade? Kylo's freeze? The constant jumping by players who you're trying to 1v1 (complete trash move, not found in any movie, comic, real life military engagement, or any tactical training but hey, it looks great in Battlefront!) My point is eventually everything gets nerfed to the ground till nobody wins and what fun is that?

No offense to anyone who feels differently, I 'loved' the Ion Torpedo and Turret.

UnknownGamer · September 25, 2018 3:45PM

Glad ion torp got nerfed... THIS Coming from a player who spams it.

AzorAhai · September 25, 2018 3:46PM

My guess is that the ion torpedo was nerfed partly to increase the utility of the ion turret.

Darthluke23410 · September 25, 2018 4:05PM

I updated my copy of bf2 and it's not connecting to the servers and it's freezing

Darthluke23410 · September 25, 2018 4:06PM

And my xbox one isn't working right

SirKillAlot · September 25, 2018 4:31PM

Darthluke23410 wrote: »

I updated my copy of bf2 and it's not connecting to the servers and it's freezing

Same here on Xbox one

Darthluke23410 · September 25, 2018 4:32PM

You having to

Darthluke23410 · September 25, 2018 4:36PM

Is anyone else having problems with bf2

WadeWazHere · September 25, 2018 4:57PM

Darthluke23410 wrote: »

Is anyone else having problems with bf2

Same here on Xbox One. Loaded up the game after installing the update the home screen showed the 104th Heavy but it says I’m offline and needed to connect but then it freezes when I try even after I restart the game, can’t even play arcade for some reason.

tyrannyofpants · September 25, 2018 5:37PM

You got rid of the ion turret locking onto troopers because of some whiny noisemakers??? Quit using these people as the voice of the players at large. That's like when the FCC takes action against a television show because a few highly motivated complainers shout at them and they are mistaken to be reflective of the majority. Yes, it's frustrating getting hit by those torpedoes. That's part of the challenge in the game. Quit being a child and deal with it. And then you nerf the ion torpedo on top of that??? Who is making these ignorant decisions?

PietSev · September 25, 2018 5:49PM

WadeWazHere wrote: »

Darthluke23410 wrote: »

Is anyone else having problems with bf2

Same here. Loaded up the game after installing the update the home screen showed the 104th Heavy but it says I’m offline and needed to connect but then it freezes when I try even after I restart the game, can’t even play arcade for some reason.

Hi i have the same problem ( x Box One )

Mehaul · September 25, 2018 5:49PM

Discount day for Hero skins!

Darthluke23410 · September 25, 2018 6:07PM

My copy of bf2 is deathey broken thanks a lot ea

Excludedgnatuk · September 25, 2018 6:08PM

Darthluke23410 wrote: »

I updated my copy of bf2 and it's not connecting to the servers and it's freezing

Same for me. UK XB1.

GAME loads OK but not connected. When I try to connect the animations freeze but the countdown globe is working. After a minute or so I get error code 770.

Tried restarting the XB.

Darthluke23410 · September 25, 2018 6:23PM

I did that 50 times

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