On December 13th DICE rolled out a new update to most of the weapons in Battlefield V. The update decreased the damage multipliers of all the primary weapons for the 4 classes, with the exception of the Bolt-Action Sniper Rifles. They did this because many players were complaining about them dying way too quickly and talks began of there being an issue with the "TTD" or Time to Death, which is separate from the Time to Kill. Once DICE stated that they'll be changing the TTK, players begged them not to do it, resulting the hashtag, #NotmyTTK. DICE seemingly ignored this and went ahead and updated the servers 1-2 days later.





A rather large percentage of the playerbase seems to hate the new "TTK", saying that it is horrible and that it ruins the psuedo-realistic, hardcore feeling that Battlefield V provides. Multiple Battlefield Youtubers and Influencers have also come out and said that they dislike the new TTK and that DICE isn't listening to their community or that they tackled this issue in the wrong way.





DICE came out and said that the analytics were showing that players were joining matches, only to die a couple of times and then leave, never to return. They hope that this slower TTK would encourage these players to return and give the game another chance. But all it seemed to do was infuriate the playerbase even further, comments talking about how DICE doesn't care about Veterans of the franchise and that DICE doesn't care about the players, only about sales.





DICE also stated that they changed the TTK in hopes of getting rid of the Instant deaths players were experiencing, but it didn't seem to change anything, players are still reporting that they're dying almost instantly to gunfire at times.





I have taken the liberty of creating a Questionnaire regarding the changes made, with hopes of sending it to DICE and Influential Youtubers.