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Just had a 4 hour sesh with a friend in a squad and man its bad.... One of the maps, i forget the name! Where the capture flags are inside the building in the 1st floor in both adjacent buildings... it was basically camped out by hover crafts. They were literally INSIDE the building reeking havoc! You couldn't get near the building without being shot up. We both equipped rockets and fired and it definitely hit but its nowhere near enough to take them out. By the time you've reloaded and ready to fire he's either spotted you and taken you out or he's run away to heal and come back again for another round.

I've never hated hover crafts so much in my life :cry:. I remember in the older BF games, vehicles like humvees took 2 shots to take out but now you're lucky to even disable them with 3 let alone blow them up.
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Thinking this is getting about as much hate at launch as BF4 did except reviewing bombing wasn't a thing back then. BF4 was fixed 6-12 month later and is regarded as one the top 3 BF games to date. I'm betting this might end up the same way.
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Then I'll buy it cheap in 6-12 months time. In no way should anyone be paying for games too be delivered in such poor form.
 
nutsnut said:
Then I'll buy it cheap in 6-12 months time. In no way should anyone be paying for games too be delivered in such poor form.
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To be honest battlefield 4 had a lot of technical issues but you could tell they had a stupidly good game on their hands, this one even without all the technical issues is still gonna be a turd, this might be the most boring maps I've ever seen on a battlefield game, trying to play as infantry is hopeless on most of them and simply not fun, they haven't even nailed the bloody gunplay, can't believe they ditched battlefield V gunplay for this.
Game is a visual mess, everyone looks the bloody same, no classes,
unlocking weapons and gadgets (and some of them are bloody critical to actually stand a chance against choppers) is slow and takes too long.
I genuinely wonder if any of the devs actually tried to play the bloody game.
 
Jay85 said:
Just had a 4 hour sesh with a friend in a squad and man its bad.... One of the maps, i forget the name! Where the capture flags are inside the building in the 1st floor in both adjacent buildings... it was basically camped out by hover crafts. They were literally INSIDE the building reeking havoc! You couldn't get near the building without being shot up. We both equipped rockets and fired and it definitely hit but its nowhere near enough to take them out. By the time you've reloaded and ready to fire he's either spotted you and taken you out or he's run away to heal and come back again for another round.

I've never hated hover crafts so much in my life :cry:. I remember in the older BF games, vehicles like humvees took 2 shots to take out but now you're lucky to even disable them with 3 let alone blow them up.
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Dice and their "playtesters" seemed to think 4 tank shells to take out a ******* hovercraft was a good balance for it...:rolleyes:
 
There's potential there for the game long term but it's the foundations of the game that are worrying, it's going to be difficult to fully address some of the issues without a complete overhaul.
 
Gerard said:
Dice and their "playtesters" seemed to think 4 tank shells to take out a ******* hovercraft was a good balance for it...:rolleyes:
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I mean i know its the future and things are different :p but....

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Steam survey 74% - Negative - Just shows the drivel they release today, alpha version and a far cry from what the original games were good for. I was mugged for BF1 & 5. Gone are the days of paying full price for AAA games, unless you want to be alpha tester and have the worst experience.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/b...-has-a-74-negative-user-reviews-on-steam.html

Wish they'd just remaster 1942, BC2, BF2 & BF3.
 
Woodsta888 said:
Steam survey 74% - Negative - Just shows the drivel they release today, alpha version and a far cry from what the original games were good for. I was mugged for BF1 & 5. Gone are the days of paying full price for AAA games, unless you want to be alpha tester and have the worst experience.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/b...-has-a-74-negative-user-reviews-on-steam.html

Wish they'd just remaster 1942, BC2, BF2 & BF3.
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Tbh i wish a group of enthusiasts remastered them instead, these big companies that do remasters usually don't do that good of a job with them... I find the small guys who re-release games (albeit illegally and without permission) usually do a way better job bringing back and keeping the games core integrity without deviating from what made it "Fun".
 
Jay85 said:
Tbh i wish a group of enthusiasts remastered them instead, these big companies that do remasters usually don't do that good of a job with them... I find the small guys who re-release games (albeit illegally and without permission) usually do a way better job bringing back and keeping the games core integrity without deviating from what made it "Fun".
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Ah well, now you get onto the two best versions of BF2, the MODS, Project reality and cant remember what the other modded version I played was called (less hardcore than project reality).

When you could mod games and host your own servers, functionality that is all tied up now so you can only play this dribble they release these days. AAA games eh! Only AAA thing about games from bid devs is the AAA price.
 
Woodsta888 said:
Ah well, now you get onto the two best versions of BF2, the MODS, Project reality and cant remember what the other modded version I played was called (less hardcore than project reality).

When you could mod games and host your own servers, functionality that is all tied up now so you can only play this dribble they release these days. AAA games eh! Only AAA thing about games from bid devs is the AAA price.
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I'm so glad i didn't pay full price for this, got it from MM at a much reduced price! I'd be so annoyed if i had paid full price for a half arse game.

I've never played the modded versions of these games but if it adds to the realism it's defo worth going back to. Talking on discord and any mention of more realism or realistic warfare there just gets hammered by people who want it to be faster paced, more like Warzone and other fps titles because that's how it should be... no it shouldn't! BF was always a slower paced game with clunkier and clumsy movement and its about working together as a squad and a team to capture an objective. All these people who want it to be more like Warzone needs to jump off the boat and get back on those titles and away from BF. You can see how the games have progressed over the years, release after release how its gone from bad to worse and more like a Solo battle royale style game. They might have the mechanics of capture the flag but there teamwork isn't there or there's nothing to enhance or promote it. The last straw here is the specialists... that was really the nail in the coffin for this franchise.
 
Received notification from Cdkeys and PayPal this morning that my refund is in progress. I'm relieved at not having to pursue them any further. If anyone else is in the same position, stick at it and keep on at them.
 
Jay85 said:
I'm so glad i didn't pay full price for this, got it from MM at a much reduced price! I'd be so annoyed if i had paid full price for a half arse game.

I've never played the modded versions of these games but if it adds to the realism it's defo worth going back to. Talking on discord and any mention of more realism or realistic warfare there just gets hammered by people who want it to be faster paced, more like Warzone and other fps titles because that's how it should be... no it shouldn't! BF was always a slower paced game with clunkier and clumsy movement and its about working together as a squad and a team to capture an objective. All these people who want it to be more like Warzone needs to jump off the boat and get back on those titles and away from BF. You can see how the games have progressed over the years, release after release how its gone from bad to worse and more like a Solo battle royale style game. They might have the mechanics of capture the flag but there teamwork isn't there or there's nothing to enhance or promote it. The last straw here is the specialists... that was really the nail in the coffin for this franchise.
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Indeed, I don't understand how people think a fast paced game is anything to do with squad work. Then they get rid of kill streaks and the rest of it for people who feel hurt because they have poor K/D. They just want a running simulator to enjoy running onto flags and dying. Why even play a first person shooter if you not gonna 'git gud'? A kill should count as a ticket loss. So you need to have a balance of playing the objective and killing the enemy. It's a shooter after all. You need to get good at the game. Folk who say I'm not interested in K/D - then shooters aren't for them. Particularly proper shooters which require actual strategy and team work for a good shooter with low TTK. Squad play and comms in modern games is just for mates to talk. Nothing to do with strategy as the maps are so poorly designed. AAA MMO shooters are dead as DICE cant even monopolise on the decent games format they made money from. Only have to look at how easy games are these days even on the hardest settings.

I'll not be buying this one. Plenty of decent games better than this. I imagine many people who buy this weren't even old enough to play 1942, BF2 BC2 & BF3. Probably all steered by marketing demographics and people who get hurt as they want to be valued in the game for just running around a map and dying a lot.
 
Played a few rounds last night, and two or three times I joined a server where it had crashed at the end, and the overtime music was playing constantly and nobody could spawn. I've seen this a bunch of times now, and there's no excuse for it.

Most game studios would have been all over these problems at 1000mph. With the resources and money that Dice/EA have they should easily be able to sort these problems out in hours/days not weeks/months.
 
Woodsta888 said:
Indeed, I don't understand how people think a fast paced game is anything to do with squad work. Then they get rid of kill streaks and the rest of it for people who feel hurt because they have poor K/D. They just want a running simulator to enjoy running onto flags and dying. Why even play a first person shooter if you not gonna 'git gud'? A kill should count as a ticket loss. So you need to have a balance of playing the objective and killing the enemy. It's a shooter after all. You need to get good at the game. Folk who say I'm not interested in K/D - then shooters aren't for them. Particularly proper shooters which require actual strategy and team work for a good shooter with low TTK. Squad play and comms in modern games is just for mates to talk. Nothing to do with strategy as the maps are so poorly designed. AAA MMO shooters are dead as DICE cant even monopolise on the decent games format they made money from. Only have to look at how easy games are these days even on the hardest settings.

I'll not be buying this one. Plenty of decent games better than this. I imagine many people who buy this weren't even old enough to play 1942, BF2 BC2 & BF3. Probably all steered by marketing demographics and people who get hurt as they want to be valued in the game for just running around a map and dying a lot.
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Exactly mate, i 100% agree with you on this point that marketing has steered the younger generation to games like fortnite and overwatch and that's how FPS games "should be". Any slower paced movement and they just feel like its boring and uninteresting cos they can't leap across the map and knife kill someone by wing suiting down on them like a friggin vulture!

The current state of the game is so steered towards solo battle royale that i bet if you removed the team and squad function you basically have Warzone!
 
What are people's best and worst maps?

For me my two faves for breakthrough are;

Renewal
Breakaway

Worst:

Kaleidoscope
Manifest
 
Screeeech said:
What are people's best and worst maps?

For me my two faves for breakthrough are;

Renewal
Breakaway

Worst:

Kaleidoscope
Manifest
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Like:
Manifest
Orbital

Dislike:
Kaleidoscope
Renewal

I would enjoy Kaleidoscope so so much more than i do now if it wasn't for all the vehicles camping inside the buildings at E1/E2, mostly hovercrafts causing havoc. It's already a very difficult objective to cap but the hovercrafts make it next to impossible. I only managed to get up there without getting run over because i used Mackays grappling hook lol.
 
Kaleidoscope to me seems completely broken. Essentially when it gets to the last two points, you have half of the server at the top of the building and the other half at the bottom, and both teams are just messing around not doing much for like 15 mins until the tickets run out. For me it's the worst BF map of all time.

Discarded is actually ok.
 
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