r/Battlefield_REDSEC

EA purposefuly killed gauntlet's player-base, manufacturing a statistic to "prove their point". Here's why EA hates gauntlet:

-Free Game Mode

-Highly competitive, has skill-based matchmaking

-Played in coordinated squads of 4, with comms (New player barrier)

-Played by mature young adults that don't waste their money on AI Slop

-Isn't streamed by braindead "influencers"

-Competes with their "new" BR game modes

I have more than 300 hours in gauntlet. It's the only mode I still play with my IRL friends and it is extremely fun. It helped us maintain our friendship when we're thousands of kilometers apart.

It is also the most entertaining competitive display battlefield has ever seen in my opinion. That Shroud tournament was a joy to watch.

EA made sure to kill it by buffing the interdictor to the point where most players just took a break... Stopped playing... Giving them there manufactured "stat".

Shameful behaviour by arguably the most evil company in the gaming industry. We need to do everything in our power to not let this go unpunished. Boycott the store. Don't buy the battlepass. Don't stop talking about it on social media. YOU paid for the game and you deserve a full experience.

Don't bow down to capitalistic greed. Fight back.

The cancellation of Gauntlet in favour of a cheap knock off of Call Of Duty’s Resurgence is once again another example of abandoning anything unique and special about Battlefield in pursuit of the “COD Market”

First it was the cancelling of Server Browser and Persistent serves in favour of a more COD-like randomised, algorithmic matchmaking that essentially nuked the vast majority of the community aspect of Battlefield and has left us playing our matches full of bots.

Then it was the launch of Battlefields Battle Royale, which is essentially another copy of Warzone. It’s nothing new, nothing unique, it’s been done a bunch of time’s before, it’s simply chasing the COD market.

This arguably affected gameplay aspects like Weapon Balancing on multiplayer, TTK and potentially the amount of resources dedicated to the main game.

Then they launch Gauntlet, an awesome, innovative Game Mode that is completely unique to Battlefield. It should never have been lumped into REDSEC with the BR, it has nothing to do with Battle Royales. It should have been part of multiplayer with multiplayer maps.

What do they do to nurture this mode? Nothing. All their efforts go into the BR and copying Warzone. Infact they they make decisions that actively harm the mode like leaving Gas in there for months, breaking the point scoring system and adding a bugged sniper for weeks.

After these actions slowly bled the player base they decide to remove it to push as many players towards their copy of Resurgence.

It’s the story of a game that had a loyal player and instead of nurturing and building on their own game and own identity, they instead sacrifice everything that makes Battlefield special and unique in pursuit of a rival.

So I've played countless matches and I find it frustrating when a team I match with decides to drop into the worst place to start in. They pick the most active area and we drop in only to be instantly taken out, which is hilarious yet dumb AF. Like not everyone on the team is a sweat, they should take into consideration that a newbie isn't going to survive that and pick a spit that's less active and make the goal to reach the reach the area they want to drop into. At this point you're asking for a quick end with 20+ players in one area.

How do you guys approach this, do you drop into an active zone or do you work your way there?

Please go check it out if you’re a gauntlet fan and upvote it. Official forums, maybe if people get talking, they’ll see keeping both modes is an easy win. Also maybe, just maybe the devs actually read the posts there? lol, who knows.

Thanks!

https://forums.ea.com/discussions/battlefield-6-general-discussion-en/why-can’t-we-have-gauntlet-and-rapid-royale/13769131

What do we think about the Season 5 “rebalance” where they switch fast plating from an Assault mechanic to an Engineer mechanic? I personally don’t think it’s correct as the entire point of assault is to be able to… assault… which means you should have the ability to plate faster to help….. assault.. lol

What are everyone else’s thoughts?

DICE says Gauntlet represents a much smaller portion of REDSEC play…but I don’t think that tells the whole story when one Gauntlet playlist is being compared against multiple BR options.

That's it. Have a smashing day.

Upon further (far out mannnnn) review…

I believe the Interdictor was put into Gauntlet in its current form on purpose to drop enough of the fanbase to finally justify cancelling the game mode.

They saw the feedback and chose to do nothing on purpose to get just enough of us to quit playing regularly.

Also kangaroos can’t hop backwards.

They seem really confident on this new mode, I wonder who was able to test it and give feedback about it, I hope it was not only WZ resurgence guys lol. At first I thought it was only launching with solos because wording was confusing but idk what changed but now this is kinda clear to me?

"At the start of Season 5, Rapid Royale Trios and Solos will join REDSEC, offering a faster-paced take on the Battle Royale experience."

They mention solos way more through the notes though on different contexts, idk why.
It will probably launch with only one map? I hope they expand quick on that.

So do you guys look forward to it? What are ur thoughts?

I personally look forward to it but I do think removing Gauntlet was absolutely not needed. This mode should bring its own player base instead of destroying another player base to try to fill it. If the mode itself is not capable of doing that then it failed and we are at the same point but with a destroyed community lol

When I first started playing the game upon release the best class was recon but it seems people use assault now so could someone explain or tell me which is best for redsec

I want to play ranked with my friends, but these strict rank limits make it really tough and ruin getting a full squad together