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Said it before and ill say it again, so many people just hate on this game because of the release state and never tried it since which i understand but if you havent played in the last 6 months or so you have no right to make judgement on the game.
It is literally a new game compared to release.
Sadly we are not seeing enough of a content stream we used to get with BF.
It is literally a new game compared to release.
Sadly we are not seeing enough of a content stream we used to get with BF.
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It's a lot better than when it first came out, but so was BF5 and BF1 after a few years, and that's the problem with this repeated cycle. They get the same feedback over and over again and then release a game in a sorry state.
It's also nowhere near the level of the older titles and simple things like bringing back the private server option would be massive but they want to control everything about the content and your time spent playing it.
You pay £60 or whatever it is on release and you can't even choose the map you want to play unless it's on a specific playlist for an event.
It's also nowhere near the level of the older titles and simple things like bringing back the private server option would be massive but they want to control everything about the content and your time spent playing it.
You pay £60 or whatever it is on release and you can't even choose the map you want to play unless it's on a specific playlist for an event.
People only remember first impressions.
I remember then Battlefield 2 came out in 2005. Then the game had cutting edge graphics for its time and was largely unplayable due to bugs. It was a good 18 months until the game was in a decent state and it wasn't until patch 1.5 was released in 2009 that the game could be considered to be in a finished state. Despite all its flaws I still consider BF2 to be one of the most fun FPS games ever made.
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Yeah agree 100% always seems to take 2 years before it in the shape we thought we were buying on release.
Battlefield 1 was actually a pretty solid release, the only reason why was because battlefield 4 released in such a pathetic state and dice were all apologetic about it and said they'd never release a game in that state again. So the spotlight was on them to actually deliver a product that was solid out of the gates.
The real problem as we all know is the publisher, EA own DICE and all they do is crack the whip and give unrealistic release dates. Remember all that pish about 2042 being ahead of schedule? It's not a bit of wonder after BF V launched so many veteran DICE employees left, they were likely burned out as EA just wants them to be a Battlefield assembly line and nothing more. You can only make so many iterations of essentially the same game before it just gets old, yeah you're changing the years and the weapons but I doubt that matters much to developers who get tasked with cranking out yet another Battlefield game.
EA are going to bury this franchise unless they actually give the developers the actual time it makes to make the game, it takes more than 2 years to crank out a Battlefield game as there's a lot more to do vs regular fps that doesn't have vehicles to contend with. But if EA had their way they would have DICE kicking a new game out the door every 2 years. At one point in the early 2010's they wanted a Medal of Honor game to come out one year, and a Battlefield game the next in a repeating cycle, that's how deluded they are that this was even remotely feasible.
Not to mention that this DEV team is mostly new and getting to grips with the engine, and by **** does it show in 2042.
Rushing a game to release doesnt explain why they have veered so far from the blueprint that made BF successful.
Operators - wtf ! Gadgets !! uninspired maps. Easy kills on vehicles, Maps built around silly environmental effects and nothing else etc etc
They (presumably EA rather than Dice) made the mistake of trying to get make BF more like COD rather than sticking to what made BF great - and they have just ended up (over several titles now) with a watered down BF that appeals to very few BF or COD fans.
Operators - wtf ! Gadgets !! uninspired maps. Easy kills on vehicles, Maps built around silly environmental effects and nothing else etc etc
They (presumably EA rather than Dice) made the mistake of trying to get make BF more like COD rather than sticking to what made BF great - and they have just ended up (over several titles now) with a watered down BF that appeals to very few BF or COD fans.
That has already been explained, it's been heavily rumoured this was originally a battle royale type game and they changed their minds mid development and rejigged it into a half assed attempt at a battlefield game. The post mortem part of this vid at 21 mins does a good job of telling what was going on behind the scenes.
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It was free to play on Steam, hardly surprising there was a lot of players
A friend of mine got me a key while it was on sale at amazon. Absolutely brilliant game.
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Problem is if you don't make the grade at release your gonna get forgotten about by a lot of people. I played the beta at release, thought the game was awful and haven't touched it since. I've played every Battlefield game since 1942 and TBH these devs don't deserve my money for what they tried to pass off as a Battlefield game. Yeah the game might be in a better state now but to be honest I'm playing other games to even care.
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Yep i totally get this and this has been a recurring theme with BF games apart from BF1 which to be fair shipped in a good state.
Im curious what other multiplayer fps games are you playing?
Apart from Hell let Loose the odd bit of COD here and there and some insurgency sandstorm and titanfall 2 im struggling to find other titles to get deep into and the multiplayer fps scene sems to be in a slumber.
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A lot of modern FPS games are now all about FOMO. Battle passes, seasonal maps, events, weapon levelling etc. which I think is what has caused the slumber. If you don't live and breathe one game then you just end up missing out.
Compare to 10/15 years ago, BF4 had a level cap of 150 (Not S999...) and MW2 (2009) had a level cap of 70 and a prestige cap of 10. You'd play the games because you wanted to and you'd buy the DLC because you wanted to. I remember buying the Second Assault DLC for BF4 and it being so worth the money - or the Stimulus Package DLC for MW2 in 2010.
It almost feels more important at the moment to get the game out with a seasonal roadmap than it is to launch a game in a really polished state. There's such a huge emphasis on player retention now so every game has a season pass (The F1 games now have a podium pass...??) to ensure that people are mega invested.
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TBH I've not really been playing any multiplayer fps games as theres nothing outthere that takes my fancy. Modern mp fps is in a pretty poor state imo
TBH I've not really been playing any multiplayer fps games as theres nothing outthere that takes my fancy. Modern mp fps is in a pretty poor state imo
The only recent and fun online FPS I played recently was Split-Gate but that game appears to be abandoned now
Ah yes the circular logic of “all the devs left because they only make Battlefield game after Battlefield game”.
Then why does this game veer so far away from the establish battlefield formula?
“Well they were actually building a Battle Royale game with characters rather than a Battlefield game”
Then why weren’t they able to transition it back in to Battlefield formula prior to release?
“Because all the devs have left Dice due to being burned out making nothing but Battlefield games”
But I thought they weren’t making a Battlefield game?
I don’t think the issue was ever development skill. A lot of game design decisions were made at many stages that the community just didn’t agree with, and acceptance and remediation came very slow and very grudgingly from DICE. I don’t think many of the fixes were because it needed another year in development, I think it’s because they tried to go off-brand to make the next big hit, and failed miserably.
Then why does this game veer so far away from the establish battlefield formula?
“Well they were actually building a Battle Royale game with characters rather than a Battlefield game”
Then why weren’t they able to transition it back in to Battlefield formula prior to release?
“Because all the devs have left Dice due to being burned out making nothing but Battlefield games”
But I thought they weren’t making a Battlefield game?
I don’t think the issue was ever development skill. A lot of game design decisions were made at many stages that the community just didn’t agree with, and acceptance and remediation came very slow and very grudgingly from DICE. I don’t think many of the fixes were because it needed another year in development, I think it’s because they tried to go off-brand to make the next big hit, and failed miserably.
Comes as a great surprise to little Danny, who seems to be some incredible random twitter user who seems to think he's a mouthpiece for the game over the last few years.
Says the guy with almost 10% of the posts in a 6k thread
I'm a mouthpiece for how utterly crap the game is, sure it's improved but that doesn't detract from the fact its easily the worst game in the series, and took far too long to get to the position its currently at.
I'd say I hope lessons are learned for the next game, but that's something DICE have never clued into.