JimmilBattleDad

Rick The Battlefield reddit is incredibly toxic. It's so bad that I'm starting to think it's being astroturfed by competing games publisher marketing teams to churn out relentless negativity. There was a post up there that was upvoted massively about how the devs adjusting the audio mix to make footsteps easier to hear was "ruining the game".

Rick Caspian Border is an empty map. 80% of the map is grassy plains, A flag has a few empty box rooms plus the sniper bait tower, B has the border control area but that still ends up being two small buildings and some road barriers. C is an empty hole surrounded by trees, D is an empty hilltop and E is a tiny village which is the most "full" section of the map but still only amounts to a handful of empty "studio apartment" rooms and a gas station.

Kaleidoscope was the smallest map in 2042, but each flag had it's own set piece areas, it had "verticality" which is something else Battlefield Redditors had been screaming about for years for DICE to include, it was built about a real world location not just "shipping crate sandbag bases" (another thing Redditors have been screaming for because it helps their "immersion"), it had large indoor areas as well as "room to breathe" between flags.. But it was the most whined about map. It was more "full" of stuff than Caspian Border is, especially after the rework which ironically, filled every extra piece of space full of shipping crates and sandbags.

One thing I forgot in my first post was that the reason 2042 had such huge maps is because the community had been yelling for a decade after BF4 onwards, that they wanted massive maps and to increase the player count to 128. They got what they asked for.

Hey Dick, the battlefield reddit community bitched for 2 years straight about how Battlefield 2042's maps were too big. This was after constantly screaming for 128 player, gigantic maps for a decade after BF4.

Why do you think DICE made the BF6 maps smaller? Because the community whined and moaned about the size of the maps in 2042, the last game DICE made! So DICE course corrected.

And the redditors changed their mind again and now the maps are too small! Even though they constantly ask for Operation Lockers and Metro back, where you can measure the combat zone in any give round to be the size of a walk-in closet where no-one gets to do anything but throw grenades back and forth for 20 minutes.

Then guess what happened when DICE introduced Blackwell, which was bigger than every other map in the game except Firestorm. Reddit went crazy moaning about how much it sucks because they keep getting killed by snipers or vehicles.

DICE can't win.