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Ever since party systems have been part of multiplayer games, players have been able to easily find and group with their friends prior to play. This feature is something that was present in Battlefield 3, but is currently absent from Battlefield 4.
Unfortunately, DICE has no plans to add pre-game squad functions. “We have a new feature in Battlefield 4 where a new squad is created when a friend joins your game,” a representative stated on Facebook. “You can toggle this option on or off by going into the options menu. We're not offering the old squad join feature because we didn’t feel that the feature in Battlefield 3 was on par with the quality that we wanted to offer our players. We have no plans to add it in the future.”
Once the game is stabilized this week, we’ll be able to more thoroughly test the new squad functions. Stay tuned, as DICE has told players to expect a patch this week that will drastically improve game performance on PlayStation 4.
[Source: Battlefield on Facebook via MP1st]
Our TakeI’m skeptical about this new approach to squad creation. Dating all the way back to Halo 2 on the Xbox, party systems have made it easy for friends to group. More importantly, this feature ensures that players stay together between matches. Removing the ability to create your own squads seems like folly, but I’m willing to give it a try once the PlayStation 4 version stabilizes. Right now, too many crashes to the PlayStation menu have put this one on the shelf.
I knew it wasn't there! I thought I was losing my mind when I couldn't find the pre game squad room thingy. Such a dumb move to remove it
Dice is being dumb, this is hopefully the only game/company that take this course of action.
not buying this now I get battlefield to play with my friends when servers are full and my squad can't get into matches i don't have fun so you will not be getting my $60.
This is completely ridiculous! The new system sucks! If you join a server with say, 6 open slots and you have 3 friends that have to join on their own and not in a group, how do you guarantee those others lots will not be full by the time they join? Then you just waste your time going in and out of servers until you can actually get into a game together. What do they mean "not on par"? How in the world does something like that be not on par? Taking it away makes it worse, not better! I don't understand what it is with companies making "features" that suck and requiring you to use them. Facebook, Google+ on Youtube, this now.....
this doesn't bother me being that i usually play alone, and when i do play with other people i usually just search for the server theyre in anyway. if anything, this will benefit me.
but thats just me, this does seem really stupid otherwise. DICE is such a great developer and its sad to see them take away something that people enjoy (not that its anything new).
it sounds childish but i can't help but blame all their faults on the poison that is EA. DICE is partially to blame, but after witnessing how amazing BF2 and even BF:BC2 was, i can't help but think EA is to blame for all of their recent follies.
i also can't help but think the campaign is to blame. it sucks, and no one wants to play it anyway, everyone plays BF for multiplayer, because its the best MP out there. why waste your money on a campaign when you could have used it to release a stable MP... the feature everyone buys the damn game for.
This a huge step backwards for what is suppose to be a shooter that focuses on team-based gameplay. It is bad enough that Squad sizes were always so small to begin with, but know you are left to random chance that you might be able to join a friend in-game.
Honestly, who thought that was a good idea? And why did they kick the game off without private servers ready to go? Are players going to have to wait months for features that worked fine in the last game? This is so backwards.
Unimpressed.
This is just one of the dumbest steps backwards ever. After twenty minutes of me and my 4 friends trying to get in the same lobby this weekend we quit trying and went and played COD because we were just sick of trying.
This just sounds like a really lazy excuse on DICE's part. I mean, I love them, but they are very selective on what they deem to be a problem or not, and even real problems can go unfixed for a long time.
Very confusing. I'm really not sure what point they are trying to make here. Really lost to words. I'll wait for this weeks update, fire it up and give it a go, then make a judgement. With the server search working correctly, I just do a search with servers that have alot of openings and have me and my friends join up in there, but it still is a super jank way to have to go about playing together with friends. If stuff don't pan out, I have a feeling our voice will just get that much louder till change comes to this craziness. Is a sad event. Battlefield is some of the best MP around IMO.