Battlefield 4 won't have co-op due to 'focus' on single and multiplayer
Battlefield 4 won't have a cooperative mode, according to a translated interview with DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson.
While Battlefield 4's debut suggests you'll be accompanied by a squad throughout the campaign, the upcoming DICE shooter won't sport a cooperative mode. DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson says the decision was made so that the developer can focus more on new single player and multiplayer modes.
The news comes from a machine-translated interview with IGN Benelux (via Videogamer). When contacted for confirmation regarding the translation, an EA representative told Shacknews: "Karl's comments are accurate."
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, Battlefield 4 won't have co-op due to 'focus' on single and multiplayer.
Battlefield 4 won't have a cooperative mode, according to a translated interview with DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson.-
Well, cross that one off of my list.
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Why? I'm not saying this as a fan of the series but to point out that Co-op was not the emphasis of the series. The meager co-op modes offered on BF3 were lackluster.
In short, if you had co-op in mind with the next BF game, I'd say that it was never on your list to begin with.
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It was just ok. Only real reason to do it was for the unlocks. I still need to get one last unlock.
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Good point. I did do that for awhile!
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Negative , neither was the singleplayer.
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wow gee golly i didn't see that coming.. BF is doo doo
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It doesn't honor our fallen heroes sufficiently
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hahahahah
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Ya killin' me Smalls.
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Which MP games do you enjoy these days for reference?
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B4TTLEFIELD
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Just for anyone who doesn't get it http://i.imgur.com/aE9B47x.jpg
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Offline bots? Bueller? Bueller?
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Bots are a waste of time.
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fine with me. Hell, drop the single player too.
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I agree on all accounts.
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Precisely sir!
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Well, that's one potential resource sink cut. Now, about the other...
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I love how whenever a feature like co-op is eliminated, it's for more "focus". But when Bioshock 2 or Mass Effect 3 add multiplayer, it doesn't take anything away from the game because "it's a completely separate team".
Just a side note, not complaining about this specific instance. I probably won't miss co-op being left out of a Battlefield game. Honestly they could leave out SP too if it got more maps, vehicles, etc. for the MP.
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Coop would be the only thing that gets me interested in the single player campaign. You're already running around with a squad of dudes, why not let other people control them instead of having worthless AI tag along?
Must be far too scripted towards to main player to deal with multiple players without breaking all over the place in some way or another. Oh well.-
If your picking up a "BF" game for SP, you're already in the wrong place.
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We know Battlefield doesn't need single player because we've been playing it from the beginning with 1942. Look around though, there are no $50-60 multiplayer only shooters. Multiplayer only fps games are either free to play now or budget releases and have been for years. EA wants a big blockbuster to compete with Call of Duty and so that's what they turned Battlefield into. You probably won't see a Call of Duty game ship without SP even though MP is where the longevity and playerbase is retained.
The reality of the situation is that many people buy these games for the SP and pretties and never really touch the MP. That's who they are making the single player for, not us who prefer the multiplayer. All I'm saying is, if they actually had coop I might be interested in it. Same as how I don't give a fuck about a game like Halo, but the coop can still be fun. That's all.-
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In Bad Company 1 & 2, the single player wasn't a weird or shockingly awful afterthought. The campaign was a significant part of those games and their success on the consoles.
Speaking of, console players this generation have only known the major Battlefield games as having single player, except for the budget priced downloadable, Battlefield 1943. ($15) This goes back to what I said about multiplayer only shooters being budget titles or free to play.
If they excluded the campaign from BF3 or BF4 there would be plenty of people out there who'd think the high cost of the game isn't worth it for multiplayer alone. Again, we know Battlefield as multiplayer focused experience and wouldn't feel that way, many people however do not and want both. Even if the SP is garbage. They don't care.-
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I know people who play BF3 on the Xbox, and I try to explain how much better the graphics are on the pc with a decent computer. They just don't understand. They see the commercials on tv and are like AMG that looks amazing. My co-worker and I bought BF3 for the Xbox to play with one of them, I made it an hour due to the small conquest maps specifically(I knew the graphics were bad coming in) and I couldn't take it, I think he might have made it 3 hours.
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Marry BF3 with BC2 and I'll be happy with BF4.
Large scale maps with sufficient environment destruction.
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The destruction was cool but just got dumb at a point. having all of the buildings leveled on a map after 20 minutes was cool in theory but terrible in practice. its not fun to spawn into a flattened arena only to get picked off by snipers and tanks a mile away.
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On the other hand, if snipers are holed up in some impossible to reach building, I'd like to drop a JDAM on it like the U.S. military has been doing for the last decade. Good examples of this would be all of Gulf of Oman, the guyed mast on Caspian Border, all of Sharqi Peninsula and the distilling towers on Kharg and Firestorm.
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Refine it of course.
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Too bad there's still orange triangles above everyone head. So when a helo or plane aims in a general direction and presses 'Q', you're spotted by everyone. Even through that plane or helo would have had no idea you were even there....
I'm done with battlefield, it has become a generic run and gun shooter. Played 1000+ hours of BF2, only 300 of BF3.-
The removal of commander mode did leave me disappointed.
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Come play Planetside 2. Its the most MP fun I've had since BF2.
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But there's spotting in that game too!!!
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try hardcore mode.
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I'm ok with this. I give zero fucks about co-op in these types of games these days. Hell, I don't even need SP for BF4. I just want the best MP experience they can give me.
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