User blog:Rampantlion513/First Look at the Matches feature.

Hello, Battlefielders. This comes strait from MP1st and the Battlefield Blog.

Matches will allow players to set up competitive games with other players. You will also be able to change the date, time, game settings, and the players that will be allowed in (wouldnt want anyone stumbling into your game). To set up a match, you have to be renting a server at the time of the match, and you may not set up matches on DICE or other player's servers. Additionally, you can set up what weapons will be allowed, friendly fire, 3D spotting, squad-leader only spawning (the system where regular squad members are only able to spawn on the squad leader, while the squad leader can spawn on anyone in the squad), kill cams, and natural heath regeneration (health regen without a med pack nearby), essentially the normal descions you have to make on a custom server anyways. After that, you can choose your teams roster from either your friends list (on Battlelog) or your platoon members. You also have to choose a leader for the other team who will pick their team's roster. Next, the match begins, with a warm-up phase (kind of like the times where there are not enough people to start the game. You can still do everything, but no point are awarded) that continues until all players have "readied up" or signaled to the game that they are ready to begin. After the game/ games are over, you can view the results on Battlelog, such as the amount of games played, what maps were played on, the scoreboard, and so on. This feature will be simple to access and will allow players to set up competitive matches without doing it informally. You can view the MP1st article below, with more pictures on the process of setting up a match.

(I hope you guys like this new format that I am using. I will be looking to incorporate a simiar format into the weekly news blogs.)