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Soldato
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Just more dumbing down for instant action kids. What I would give for a BF2 remake with commander and all.
Give me some next-gen Frostbite goodness overlaid the original Strike at Karkand (possibly without the grenade spam and dolphin diving...) and the obligatory "Enemy Boat Spotted" any day of the week. BF2 really was a masterpiece.
 
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Same thing with firestorm, if it had been ftp it might have gained some traction. Ea/dice still haven't learned that when it comes to battlefield.

Not sure why it should be free tbh, go play fortnite if you want it free or Warzone.

You just end up with 1000s of people playing and not spending money. Release the game, if there's transactions in game release it cheaper at least. It's what pee's me off with COD BOCW, game costs a mint then they try make you pay £8 for a skin every other week or some glowing bullets
 
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So essentially a glofiried game of capture the flag, meeeeeeeeeeeeeh

MUCH more like The Hunt : Showdown imo, which is a good game. But lets face it, at this point your hatred of the game is so strong that it could be the greatest game mode every conceived and you'd still be posting meeeeeeeeeeeeeh :D
 
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MUCH more like The Hunt : Showdown imo, which is a good game. But lets face it, at this point your hatred of the game is so strong that it could be the greatest game mode every conceived and you'd still be posting meeeeeeeeeeeeeh :D

It's a few squads trying to capture a hard drive laden with the finest 8k porn and trying to get it back to an extraction point, basically capture the flag or capture the objective. So meeeeeeeeeeh I say!
 
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Looks more like Warzone’s Plunder to me :yawn:

I havent played Warzones Plunder mode, there was only so much of the Warzone community I could tolerate so I never tried Plunder. Is that a similar mode then? Locate item X , then extract from the zone before you get killed , single life sort of thing?
 
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I havent played Warzones Plunder mode, there was only so much of the Warzone community I could tolerate so I never tried Plunder. Is that a similar mode then? Locate item X , then extract from the zone before you get killed , single life sort of thing?

In plunder your basically scouring the map for cash as groups of 3 or 4; team with the most cash at the end works; unlimited lives; although I think there are some "special" modes that rotate in and out that limit that.
I actually quite enjoy it; not dying instantly helps with folk like me who are crap!
 
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Is that a similar mode then?

effectively you would pick up cash along the map, or large deposits of cash from supply drops (hard drive in this case I guess). You would then have to either use a recovery balloon to “bank” a small amount of money, or use a randomly placed helicopter extraction marker to deposit the full amount of held money. Being kill would cause you to drop a large percentage of your money on the floor for other players to pick up.

Truth be told it wasn’t a bad mode, but it was never taken seriously. You could level up your guns in Plunder instead of Battle Royale (couple with respawning makes it easier), and there was no consequences to stat boards etc if you left a match early. Consequently, the matches were largely full of people sprinting for kills to level up guns, or just hopping in to Plunder for 5 minutes before their mate was ready to play Battle Royale.

The issue I have with additional game modes is that is splits the player base. It’s all well and good having Conquest, Rush and Hazard Zone, but if they all were 128 players, you’re gonna end up with more bots filling empty player spaces. Unless Hazard Zone is restricted to 16/24 players kind of thing like the TDM modes used to be.
 
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I havent played Warzones Plunder mode, there was only so much of the Warzone community I could tolerate so I never tried Plunder. Is that a similar mode then? Locate item X , then extract from the zone before you get killed , single life sort of thing?

nothing like plunder

the closest comparison is Divisions darkzone from the first game with other players and lots of tough cpu squads

not the mess from the second

hazard zone is 7 squads I think so 28 player
 
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