battlefield-labs-discussion

[mossy marten]

True, but people be people and decide that they can't follow an NDA

[covert nest]

Someone stole my attention

Who we sacrificing now to the blood gods

[mossy marten]

Idk
There's some tiktok videos
There's all the footage on reddit
Bilibili has stupid amounts of it
Pick your poison

[covert nest]

Florp

[winter viper]

Doesnt matter, all footage is apparently made by early Neanderthals' who woke up from the ice and happened upon a XB

[mossy marten]

True

[ocean badger]

I do :)

[nimble bridge]

It's not about min maxxing but when I'm playing solo(99% of the time) I rarely have the incentive to use classes like engineer or recon in 2042. Assault is a better engineer imo. Mackay grapple + C4 is better than even Lis imo at least against ground vehicles + assault has medpen. I rarely use anything other than assault and support in 2042 because of that.

Zain requires highest or 2nd highest skill floor in assault specialists tbh, I don't get mad when someone airbursts me because of that

Without Lis game would be unplayable in conquest imo, what are you going to use against air vehicles? Stingers? Stingers were useless since BF3. They should bring back Fliegerfaust imo. Literally only anti air in the series that's good against air vehicles.

[weak obsidian]

I wish homing missiles were actually good...

[nimble bridge]

They are good when 2 engineers coordinates, one of them baits flares or APS in tanks other shoots stinger/javelin

But coordination rarely happens 😂

[weak obsidian]

yeah good luck doing that solo queueing

the homing missiles on the AA tank in labs fires where the target is predicted to be which is neat

[nimble bridge]

My biggest issue with the labs is slower movement speed, slower ADS speed, slower ADS strafe speed and faster TTK 😭

But it's pre alpha, they will probably change a lot of these stuff, maybe even in the next test to see if people likes it more or less compared to last test

Let's just hope we won't get BFV situation with TTK changes every month or BF1 situation with no movement leading to LMG/Sniper camping meta

[weak obsidian]

I'm fine with it playing slower if the maps are good

[kindred haven]

its probably gonna take some time for this new bf to come out

in the meantime they could release a new gw game, like just make it like the first 2 ones and shadow drop it for like 40$ and boom fiscal year 2025 done

[feral garden]

Air vehicles and stingers are the way they are right now because of Lis. They cant buff stingers, because then air vehicles become even more useless. Air vehicles are pretty useless as it is anyway, there are tonnes of counters for them...Those being:

• Dumb Fire Rockets
• Ground vehicles (Not AA)
• LATV4 flak
• RAM 2nd seat Flak
• RAM 3rd seat AA missile
• Wildcat
• Lis
• Stingers
• Rao & any Launcher
• Soflam & any launcher

Only the 99th percentile of players can actually do anything in air vehicles. For a game thats meant to be casual, thats pretty terrible.

[nimble bridge]

Battlefield always had higher skill floor on vehicles especially air vehicles, if everyone could hop on to a heli and go 150-0 it would be a nightmare to play maps with air vehicles

[tepid plinth]

🙏
You need to get the ea badge and become part of the cool club

[covert nest]

what the fuck lol

How the fuck do you manage to make me, A Zain Main actually bewildered by that statement.

You can't run away because of its oppressive blast radius.

It's literally a kill gadget.

[feral garden]

A specialist that heals on kill, has extra AR mags, healing pens, and an air burst launcher being stated as high skill is wild.

[nimble bridge]

Compared to Dozer or Sundance he requires high skill, most people don't know how to use airburst so they only get to use his health regen

You can't just spam it from cover too, especially in infantry focused maps, you are always a target while using it compared to Sundance's grenades which you can spam from cover with no danger

[covert nest]

I do think his kill on heal is a POSITIVE mechanic but his airburst is the problem.

[feral garden]

Their gadget is more situational, but for regular gameplay they are no higher skill than either, and are way easier to play than Sundance.

For breakthrough their gadget is legit busted tho.

[covert nest]

I don't actually hate the concept of a riot shield for protecting teammates but I think the fact that it pushes you to bum rush people is stupid.

The fact that sundance can just fly and plant C4 down immediately is bad in itself too.

Such simple solutions to problems would make them way less frustrating in my opinion.

[feral garden]

In an ideal world, players would use it in that way. But 99% of the dozer players I encounter just hide in corners and try to get glitchy kills with them.

[covert nest]

It's so scuffed

[feral garden]

Like just cos dozer is n00b friendly, doesn't make Zain high skill. Higher, but not high.

[covert nest]

Zain requires one more braincell.

Oh yeah bsod have you messed with claymores.

[feral garden]

I haven't got a single kill with claymores I think lol

[covert nest]

Only reason why this is relevant is cause ironically the one thing I found actually making me think were claymores.

Learning offensive claymores was the most fun I've had in 2042.

[feral garden]

I play aggressive support or engineer pretty much exclusively

[covert nest]

Zain I enjoy because of his kill and heal and also fuck people sitting up on cranes.

[feral garden]

I have been playing finals mostly recently tho. I only play BF on Friday for FNB and some community events.

[covert nest]

Yeah I'm mostly done with the game and just hop on to play with my mate who streams.

If not

It's mechwarrior and terraria.

[feral garden]

Finals TDM is lots of fun. It wasn't part of the game when I played it last.

[covert nest]

That's good

[loud harness]

there is one where the player is actually good

the one using iron sight

[kindred haven]

finals tdm doesent work

game is made for cashout in mind

when do they inv me tho to play bf labs

cause they havent yet

[mossy marten]

when they select you from the pool of 600k+ individuals and you get an email

[potent pine]

when i feel like it

[winter viper]

2042 is unplayable for most people in aircraft. Lis rockets, Wildcats, and RAM and other vehicles having anti air abilities.

[loud harness]

the leak posted today on reddit titled ''CQB battle with LAV'' is amazing

the atmosphere is crazy

[fleet robin]

good ! love to see it

i truly wish all air players a happy uninstall the game day

[outer kelp]

In BF4 I would dominate in air vehicles, so I'd say I know what I'm doing with them. Wildcats are an absolute god-forsaken nightmare. Their range basically spans the entire map, it takes a minimum of 2 passes to destroy them and you HAVE to have an anti-ground vehicle loadout, and oftentimes there's 2 of them. The maps in BF4 at least were big enough you could get out of range of the AA.

[nimble bridge]

#removevehicles 🤣

[nimble bridge]

Every vehicle being jack of all trades was a mistake, every chopper has minigun and cannons. Instead of taking out the weapons of ''transport helis'' they decided to name them as ''gunships'' too

[undone lantern]

get rid of stims

[minor linden]

I honestly never understood why every game nowadays seems to love stims

If you want a small healing item, just use bandages or something that actually takes a little bit of time to use

[tall urchin]

Because slow ass bandaging just breaks up combat flow and pacing

Also if you have health regen then it just ends up becoming utterly pointless

[undone lantern]

🫡🫡👍🏾👍🏾

[minor linden]

It’s better than having an instant heal option. There’s no point in having a healing option If it’s only used to get extra health mid fight. You may as well just increase the player health

Honestly, I don’t think assault should have any health regen equipment. Relying on medic for healing means that people have to stick with their team more

[mossy marten]

why not? relying on medics in Battlefield to do their job is laughable
it's either terrible revives, bot walking and not knowing what gadgets do, or going prone with an LMG for some reason lol
having a stim for assault extends the time you can stay alive playing as your class is intended to be played. frontlines and capturing enemy objs

[minor linden]

Though, I’d be fine with a system like COD WW2’s campaign where you can keep 1-2 small med kits that take time to heal you

[tepid plinth]

their idea behind assaults is to run in, fight a bit, clear space, continue fighting with a stim then come back. So it's essentially that but they are allowed to extend their reach out a little further

[minor linden]

Again. They may as well just give assault armor or more health

There’s no reason to have a stim over just increasing health if the main goal is increasing the time you stay alive

[mossy marten]

they all do the same thing at the end, so why does it matter if it's stims?
just because CoD has stims as well?

[minor linden]

I just dislike assault having no downsides to going solo

[mossy marten]

there's always downsides

[minor linden]

Increasing health would give them the increased lifespan but wouldn’t allow them to miraculously get a ton of their health back instantly

[glad trench]

The downside of going solo is being solo

[mossy marten]

^

[glad trench]

No revives, no support/cross fire etc

[minor linden]

If someone’s on deaths door, they shouldn’t be able to go around the corner and instantly come back with a ton of health back

[mossy marten]

also not being able to replenish ammo by yourself, not being able to take out vehicles, etc

[mossy marten]

it's not instant tho, it's faster, but not instant
if you're fast enough, you can easily kill someone while they're stimming 🤷‍♂️

[nimble bridge]

I prefer consistent TTK over different HP pools. 2042 has armor plates which gives extra HP basically and it sucks. You can't even use crossbow consistently due to plates preventing you from killing enemies in one shot.

[minor linden]

I agree. I’m just saying that increasing health would be better than stims if the whole goal is increased lifespan

Personally, I want neither

[nimble bridge]

I don't think so, if you take out stims from assault people will just not use assault as support will be a better assault just like how BFV's medic was a better assault

[glad trench]

No, it won’t when assault also has better destruction capabilities

Y’all forget that about BFV assault

Gimme back my piat launcher

[nimble bridge]

In BC2 support had heals and it was meta, in BF3/4 assault had heals and it was meta, in BFV medic had heals and it was meta

BFV assault was worse than medic imo, especially with attrition, BF1 had a good balance overall but it also had perks that granted fast hp regen

[glad trench]

Anti tank grenade -> shoot piat at it… but anti infantry/vehicle boom

[mossy marten]

BFV/BF1 assault was basically anti-vehicle class over bf3/4 assault being medic/anti infantry

[minor linden]

This is why we need locked weapons

If support can only use lmg and similar weapons, it wouldn’t just be a better assault

[mossy marten]

2042 assault is anti infantry mostly

[glad trench]

Consider it more of a demolitions class

[nimble bridge]

BC2 gave LMGs to support too, LMGs in that game were OP

[minor linden]

Ok? Then they just shouldn’t make them op

[glad trench]

Anti vehicle was non existent beyond short/mid range

[nimble bridge]

Then no one will pick support 😛

[minor linden]

The medics will?

Though, if that isn’t enough, carbines or balanced dmrs would be good to give them

[nimble bridge]

Even with class locked weapons existence of carbines and/or SMGs still would make support meta

[minor linden]

SMGs should be engineer only

[nimble bridge]

Carbines are even more powerful imo

[minor linden]

And aren’t carbines burst or semi-auto?

Might be remembering wrong with that

[nimble bridge]

No, carbines are just ARs with less range and a bit slower TTK(at least in BF4)

[mossy marten]

no, carbines are shorter barreled ARs (basically)

DMRs are semi auto (usually)
three round burst just depends on the gun (m16a4, ump45, etc)

[minor linden]

Oh. Imo those should be locked to assault or engineer then

Or just merged into ARs

[nimble bridge]

Well existence of carbine class means even with class locked weapons there will be an AR or SMG option for all classes, if you take out stims from assault people will use support and use SMGs or carbines

[minor linden]

Not if it’s fully class-locked weapons? If you just don’t give every class carbines or smgs then the whole issue goes away

[mossy marten]

then how would you class lock weapons?
given the categories of ARs, Carbines, SMGs/PDWs, DMRs, Snipers, Shotguns, LMGs and only 4 classes

[minor linden]

Assault: ARs and Carbines
Engineer: SMGs/PDWs and shotguns
Support: LMGs and DMRs (if they’re actually balanced correctly)
Recon: Snipers and Shotguns

I give recon shotguns so they can be more than just the sniper class and can actually do recon stuff

[glad trench]

Why would recons not have access to dmrs…

[minor linden]

You can use a lot of semi auto snipers like dmrs

I’d be fine with giving recon dmrs and support mmgs or normal machine guns tho

[feral garden]

Skill issue

[glad trench]

Or multiple classes can use DMRs…

[feral garden]

Myself and 3 others play finals TDM all the time now. Probably sucks if youre not good at killing and playing solo tho

[minor linden]

That too. Having both recon and support have dmrs could be neat

[glad trench]

And semi auto snipers = dmrs in battlefield lmao

We get bolt actions as “marksman”/sniper rifles and then the dmr/semi autos

[kindred haven]

its almost like your hero based shooter doesent work if there isnt a objective is crazy, i mean just running around without any tension is a thing but yeah tdm ohhh so great, again hardly fits into the game, the other gamemode with the platform is a better casual game

and the other mode that nobody likes to play is also better i forgot the name

[feral garden]

The tension is you have to get to 10000 cash to win the round.

2 rounds of 10000, im not even good at the game and I really enjoy it lol

[kindred haven]

thank you for explaining tdm

[feral garden]

you can say you dont like it, without having to shit on others good time dude

[kindred haven]

after 300h of the finals i can easily say that most of the non cashout gamemodes arent as fun to play

well the platform one is alot of fun still

[feral garden]

I like cash out and TDM. Cool of you dont tho

[kindred haven]

but it wasnt about preference its more about how the gamemode tdm doesent work in the sense that people just run around trying to get kills and its a very bad thing to teach new players cause when they play cashout they will be useless as a teammate

cause if you play cashout like you play tdm well lets just say

your team will report you fro throwing lmao

[feral garden]

Imagine people running around trying to get kills, in a mode that asks you to run around trying to get kills lol

[kindred haven]

did you just read

[feral garden]

the gamemode tdm doesent work in the sense that people just run around trying to get kills and its a very bad thing to teach new players cause when they play cashout they will be useless as a teammate

Yes

Oh no, TDM is TDM in this game.

[mossy marten]

[kindred haven]

rage bait

[feral garden]

you shouldnt play TDM, cos its makes you play other non TDM modes wrong.

Like what?

[minor linden]

I think it’s more of them complaining that tdm players are terrible teammates in objective modes

[kindred haven]

if you play light in cashout run in die and use all your tokens you are useless to your team that what i wanted to go for but i feel like its was a little to difficult to grasp

[feral garden]

thats hardly the fault of a completely separate mode.

[kindred haven]

you should play word tour for a few hundred hours...

then you know what i mean

[feral garden]

I dont want to play that. I like TDM and cashout.

The other mdoes are way to sweaty, im playing for some casual fun with mates

[kindred haven]

the finals isnt that

even the casual version of cashout is very sweaty

worldtour is supposed to be that

i hope the next bf doesent have a ranked mode as if anyone wanted this for bf

[nimble bridge]

I don't think this is a good distribution but even if support only had LMGs and nothing else this game also has gunsmithing, you will probably be able to create LMGs with AR mobility

[feral garden]

Finals clearly has SBMM tho, or something similar. Which kinda sucks.

[minor linden]

A ranked clan mode could be cool, but a normal ranked mode just doesn’t work for the large player amount of bf

[minor linden]

That depends on point values. If the required points for the fast build is too much, you might not be able to have a scope, large mag, etc

[feral garden]

A ranked small team mode could work. Like 4v4 Squad rush

[inner eagle]

looks really neat i just hope they unclutter the hud a little bit

being able to see friendly pips and squad pips through buildings and what not kind of muddles up the scenery

[kindred haven]

why

[nimble bridge]

SBMM = No fun allowed

[kindred haven]

when i hear sbmm

and someone that says that it sucks

doesent make sense to me, the game has to be more or less balanced

else its not fun to play

best thing to do is not have ranked or anything in your game, cause ranked spawns sweats no matter what

[feral garden]

Its active in non ranked modes, thats why

[kindred haven]

yeah no shit it is

its so that you dont wipe the opposition

that its a fair fight

[feral garden]

Two out of four in my IRL friend group (Who I play Finals with ATM) are good at the game. So for 50% of our games its just 2 of us getting kills, the others being stomped. We still have a laugh, but its hardly ideal.

[kindred haven]

wait

wait

now you can say i9t

like usually when this is brought up you cannot say it or its stupid to do so but now is the perfect time

[minor linden]

Sbmm doesn’t cause fair fights half of the time. It just causes you to go between stomping people and getting stomped.

It quite literally just turns casual into ranked mode

[versed token]

Even a game like battlefield that doesn't have SBMM you'll end up in games where you get stomped

[feral garden]

Bro trying to make fun of me for not like SBMM, like WTF. Im a casual gamer, who has maybe 2 hours in an evening to play with mates lol

[versed token]

Getting that experience organically is what i want

Not some system that chucks you in whatever match it feels like because you played well once

[feral garden]

Im more a fan of Staged difficulty up and downgrades TBH. Like how OG overwatch did it.

At least that way, you got consistent lobbies at roughly your levels for 10 consecutive games

[versed token]

That's just what ranked is supposed to be

[nimble bridge]

Yeah

[feral garden]

But SBMM in COD and Finals has you jump between skill levels every game or 2

[minor linden]

Sbmm is also way too punishing imo

Like, if I mess around and do self-challenges it’ll kick me to the lowest level where I’ll have to fight to get back to normal games. In a non-sbmm game, you can mess around in one match and be serious in the next with no issues

[nimble bridge]

Ranked CS feels more casual than regular Black Ops 6 😂

[versed token]

Clear communication for what lvl of skill you can expect from the players in both teams

[feral garden]

I could just tell my friends to get good. But they are all 35+ and have kids (And as a result no time). 😛

[versed token]

cod you just end up with either 6 copies of you on both teams or being forced to carry 5 others

[tall urchin]

If you're losing to someone locked into an animation unable to return fire in front of you then the heal didn't matter, skill issue.

Also it's not an instant heal either, you have to finish the animation (which gets canceled by everything) and then you get a quick but gradual refill of health

[kindred haven]

so let me get this straight the game has no health regen?

so we are dead on arival?

[mossy marten]

i'm pretty sure the game has "natural" health regen

bfv was the outlier

[versed token]

bfv has partial health regen doesn't it?

[mossy marten]

yeah, but not full health

still an outlier

[minor linden]

It’s not about losing or winning. I just don’t like the concept

I feel like it speeds up the game too much since it allows you to continually push

[kindred haven]

no health regen with needing to heal manually everytime would be unbearable

i really hope they just copypaste bf4 as much as possible

[mossy marten]

How can you continually push if you can only get stims by resupplying? It makes it more thoughtful on when you use it

[tall urchin]

I'd say medics allow for more sustain and pushes than assault lol

[unkempt plover]

Bad fps players will always be bad players. With practice they will only become less bad. Good FPS players can pick up anything and still be "good". That's my experience anyway. 😆

[versed token]

I was definitely not good at fps games when I was a teen

I am now though

[nimble bridge]

Nah, I improved a lot since I returned back to BF

I started BFV with like 5-10 kills per match with 10-20 deaths

Now I get 20-40 kills with 10-20 deaths

[tepid plinth]

Watching sabello and nickel on bf4 was the start of my training arc

[mossy marten]

Mine was focus (training arc started late af for me

[tepid plinth]

Still good though

Watching how they play and seeing how much more fun the games can be when you actually understand how they work was the real kick to start actually putting work in

[mossy marten]

true, seeing the smoothness of movement and aiming on focus' videos and was like, "damn, that's butter smooth"

[tepid plinth]

One of the things that makes battlefield so fun is how you can feel your impact on the match, and their impact is felt, so playing to the level where you feel like you actually contribute just makes the whole game far more fun

[mossy marten]

before then, i was a recon main playing aggressive sniper
(symptom of my bygone CoD days)

[tepid plinth]

Nothing wrong with aggressive sniping

[mossy marten]

BFv sniping = chef's kiss

[tepid plinth]

Literally 90% of my clips

[mossy marten]

i didn't do clips back in the day... at least not often lol, i did have a bfv clip of 2 snipes then a throwing knife kill at like 30m
now i have hella zook clips, some sniper clips and some "aimer" clips (not a lot of those because i get the enemies that all turn towards me when i start shooting on flanks )

[tepid plinth]

Always good to keep them

Shows personal progress

[mossy marten]

true, i have to find those lol, i don't know if i uploaded them or not since i rebuilt and reinstalled windows a couple times since early bfv days

damn, the earliest saved stuff i have is from mw2019 beta

[tepid plinth]

let's pray that the next game is good enough to make our efforts worth it

[mossy marten]

hopefully :prayge:

[tepid plinth]

2042 managed to kill any desire to play shooters so let's hope this next one doesnt

[verbal crypt]

No joke I think I’ve saved like 3-4 clips at the most from 2042 lol. I never cared/tried enough tbh

[tepid plinth]

damn

your clip game is poor, better get to it

keep a little library of fun / cool moments

[mossy marten]

i have loads of 2042 clips
though they're mostly zooks, but i delete the ones that are gimmes

[tepid plinth]

got some absolute bangers from the early days

[verbal crypt]

To be fair I don’t stream and a lot of the time I play solo lol. I’ve def had some insane plays but don’t always have capture on. I’ve been slacking 🤣

[rugged seal]

between my screenshots and videos im closing in on 3k...

[tepid plinth]

That’s more like it

[mossy marten]

just press record and clip after, done

[tepid plinth]

Embrace the clip lifestyle

[rugged seal]

my 2042 media folder size on my ps5 is like 80+gb i think

[mossy marten]

no need to remember to press nvidia's hotkeys

[tepid plinth]

It’s ingrained into muscle memory at this point

[rugged seal]

its actually about to hit 100 wtf

[verbal crypt]

Jesus that’s a lot lol

[rugged seal]

there is a few like 15/30 minute or hour long videos i may have saved at some point that are a big chunk

[mossy marten]

i have a finals clip that i named "can ex-dice devs make an fps with working inputs?" lol

[verbal crypt]

Finals mouse input is A+

I wish more than anything I could get into the game but it’s sadly just not for me

[mossy marten]

the clip was from one of the earlier betas

[verbal crypt]

Ahhh gotcha lol

🤣

[mossy marten]

yeah, it's a fun game, but i'm bored of hero shooters by now

[verbal crypt]

Same, been replaying RDR2 with some mods

[mossy marten]

i've been on bfv and old school runescape

[verbal crypt]

And 2042 for about 10 minutes every 10 days lmao

[tepid plinth]

yeah hero shooters are rubbish

i say while playing overwatch 2

[tall urchin]

Boy I just love watching someone miss two shots across the map and still combo me while I need to hit 47% of my damage fall off pea shooter just to kill a squishy who isn't getting heal botted

[verbal crypt]

FELT THAT 😭

[tall urchin]

Why do they have someone like S76 who needs insane mechanical skill and smart positioning just to stay alive and the other 99% of characters can just push buttons and have a million get out of jail free cards?

[verbal crypt]

Cause they had all the smooth brains develop the masterpiece that is 2042

[tall urchin]

It's also crazy seeing the egos people get while playing something like Mauga or Dva

[mossy marten]

I've never played ow2 or ow1

[tall urchin]

Tracking as S76 is really rewarding

The other 99% of the game is insufferable

[tepid plinth]

just had 2 rounds that are the epitome of this exact statement

decided to not play overwatch

in my defence, i'm playing it alongside my sister who has it as their first shooter, but I do also enjoy it when it isn't frustrating

[covert nest]

I enjoyed it quite a bit messing around as d.va but this was launch hah

[fleet robin]

ow2 is good though

the fun is in all the different characters with unique playstyles

if you just want point and shoot you should play csgo or something

[fleet robin]

this is also hilarious when soldier has his own healing, sprint, and literal aimbot for an ult

[tall urchin]

I mean his ult is basically just to bait out other ults it doesn't do much. His heal is nothing compared to support heals, and his sprint is slower than most other blinks/TPs/other traversal abilities

[mortal yoke]

I mean soldier is not that good compared to sojourn

[fleet robin]

his ult melts small characters, sprint isn't teleportation but it's still good for repositioning and his heal is definitely worth something when you can keep peeking in and out of cover while regaining health

he's a simple character i won't disagree with that

and he's there for people who specifically want aiming to be 99% of what they do

[tall urchin]

S76 is probably the worst at jiggle peeking because every other DPS does better burst and can just prespam a corner with projectiles

More often than not short peeking is a death sentence

[fleet robin]

that's why you also have sprint to reposition

the new perks also make him a bit more engaging to play

[covert nest]

The other gunner is pretty standard isnt she?

The one whi can slide

[tall urchin]

Honestly the only perk that's OK for him is the heal buff at critical health

His sprint perk is OK but even with the 20% you won't outrun anyone else with a movement skill

[tall urchin]

She's super strong, her charge fills up fast, has AOE denial damage that also charges, a good movement skill, railgun is solid burst even without a headshot, and her ult just lets her rail spam

Her primary is obviously weaker out to range given projectile and spread but even then you can just charge off a tanks massive hitbox and railgun a squishy

[fleet robin]

sojourn yeah she's a pain in the ass

you need to be good at tracking with projectiles and flicking though

i love playing her

[covert nest]

I was thinking of playing over watch 2 to get better at tracking like assault did.

But I think i may as well work on my niche of being hyperreactive with ultrakill.

[fleet robin]

tbh it is useful for that

it's improved my aim quite a bit

[tall urchin]

Or you could kovaaks. Kovaaks is love, kovaaks is life.

[verbal crypt]

Never aim trained a day in my life tbh lol

[fleet robin]

those aim trainers are so boring ngl

might as well play a game to get better

[tall urchin]

They're fun as long as you don't fall for the meme of tile frenzy/gridshot spam scenarios

[covert nest]

I wish i recorded my first flick on bf5 pc

[mossy marten]

Kovaaks be helpful on atuff you are lacking in, be it target switches, flicks, tracking etc

[feral garden]

Use the classic...put two icons on your desktop and move your mouse between them as accurately as possible, then use raw input

🤣

[tall urchin]

Plus its incredibly time dense. You can drill so much in a 45 minute session compared to games.

[feral garden]

Are y'all actually spending 45 minutes in aim trainers?

[mossy marten]

Not always, but sometimes if I'm feeling extra rusty

It's also helpful, cuz glass pads are stupid fast and mouse control is very much needed on them lol

[fleet robin]

idk man

seems like a waste of time to me

i just play and improve on the go

[feral garden]

Im playing to have fun, I dont need to train to do that 😛

[verbal crypt]

Cloth pads are too goated to me. I love the feedback from the texture. Saturn Pro supremacy over here 😉

[mossy marten]

insert jeremy clarkson "this is brilliant, but I like this meme"

[verbal crypt]

🤣🤣

[mossy marten]

It's true, i likey my skypad

[verbal crypt]

I tried glass before but it was too quick for me. Maybe I didn’t give it enough time lol

[tall urchin]

I hated my glass pad until I gave it a few solid months and cleaned up my bad habits and technique

[covert nest]

To be fair its always good to practice.

[mossy marten]

Yeah, took me a couple months too
And the biggest plus? Cleaning it is a breeze

[tall urchin]

That's what I love the most, consistency and not needing a day to dedicate to drying a wet pad

[feral garden]

Practicing to play a game, to me is like watching a movie before going to the cinema to warm up lol

With aim trainers at least....and for someone liek me who games casually. Not trying to make fun of anyone who does part take

[digital radish]

What do you guys think on stims being added to BF6

[tall urchin]

Stim good, stim if chained with sliding, bhopping, or other conservation of momentum methods? Even better.

I'd need to test it first hand though.

[mossy marten]

Good
Don't see why it's all the fuss when there's way more stuff to worry about over a single use stim that needs to be resupplied

[digital radish]

I'm fine with it as long as it stays single use I think

[mossy marten]

It's the same as the 2042 stim

[rotund pier]

burn twitter

these mfs are calling the HK433 the kilo141

[mossy marten]

Reddit is the same

[weak obsidian]

what do you expect

it's only in mw19

[rotund pier]

I don't even know if it's the HK433

haven't gotten a good look

might be the 437

[weak obsidian]

it's a 433

the barrel length matches

[rotund pier]

cool cool

I hope the customization of weapons is cool

like, in depth

I want to be able to change the handguards and stocks and shit

I'd rather have it be like, stocks, barrel lenght and grips affect performance, but everything else is visual

[weak obsidian]

I wish most customization outside of magazines, optics and grips be cosmetic

otherwise it's just awful for weapon balancing

also the meta loadout just looks stupid most of the time

[tepid plinth]

How on earth can you tell based on barrel length alone

[verbal crypt]

Bro is the barrel bandit

[weak obsidian]

the 437 has a shorter barrel

[stiff karma]

how do i get notified for my playtest a friend said they dont email you no more

[inner eagle]

u could try checking ur ea playtester profile

[winter viper]

See I HATE this. Engineers get screwed every time. We should have Carbines and DMRs atleast since most of our combat is done from Close to Mid range

[young jetty]

A lot of things are subject to change, want to remind you this is a pre alpha.

[weak obsidian]

those aren't official lol

[minor linden]

I'd be fine with Assault getting SMGs while Engineer gets Carbines

Assault is supposed to be decently close to the enemy anyways

[weak obsidian]

I mean they're probably going to ape the BF4 weapon restrictions anyways

[minor linden]

Honestly, I'd be fine with nearly any combination of weapons as long as there are weapon restrictions

They add so much uniqueness to each class and help with class identity so much

[covert nest]

Engineers have always had "bad" weapons.

[covert nest]

They need something half decent at least.

[inner eagle]

i think it’s a bit early to start speculating class specific weapons 😭

im just praying they class lock them atp after 2042

[spare wigeon]

It's definitely the HK433

[rugged seal]

[weak obsidian]

hey man you're not supposed to say that...

[mossy marten]

[spare wigeon]

OK , I see

[winter viper]

I know YOU arent talking to me lol.

[nimble bridge]

I love stims, please gimme sprint and spot stims too

[nimble bridge]

BF3 engineers had carbines

They were pretty good

[covert nest]

Bf5 assault was the best version of engineer.

Or at least of AT.

[feral garden]

WTF is bro talking about. Things are subject to change, and its a fan idea? 😆

What it should really be tho, if they want decent class distributions:

• Assault: ARs

• Engineer: SMGs

• Support: LMGs

• Recon: ARs & Bolt Actions

• All Classes: Carbines, Shotguns, DMRs & Utility

Giving Recon ARs means you dont have to give them OP spotting/marking field specs to make them viable

Recon class gadget should be swapped to the spawn beacon tho.

[tepid plinth]

Honestly I would be keen to see how tugs plays out as their class gadget

In my mind, if the class gadget is one that benefits from closer ranges, I would hope it potentially brings people closer to the frontline

But if it was the spawn beacon then people may assume it’s best to hang far back and use it to just go back to your sniper spot

[covert nest]

I honestly think recon should just get pdws.

Err

Snipers and dmrs too

Dmrs being all kit but point is yes

I would want support to keep to lmgs because they're not ultra exploitable. Sure they're farming weapons but their crap handling means you need to play a specific way.

[feral garden]

Maybe if you give recon ARs/SMGs...then they also are the only one to have demo charges...it will accidentally make them an anti-vehicle class tho haha. So all of it needs testing

[covert nest]

I shouldn't go I want I want this needs to be that cause its pointless.

Yeah but recon in bf4 could run c4 and beacons, get more with the spec ops kit.

I was fine with c4 on zain or dozer because you were forced to get close by foot.

Keep in mind who I specified though

[feral garden]

I did like the idea of limited weapon gunsmithing, as a way to give classes weapon specialization

[covert nest]

Oh

Like more points in x category???

[feral garden]

Like a weapon type your class isnt specialized in having less points to spend on customization. Like 60/100 for non specialized weapons, 100/100 for ones that are.

[covert nest]

For the sake imagine black ops 6, assault can arm every attachment slot yeah

I kinda like that

But it means all kit weapons will need some weird specific balance

[feral garden]

All kit would just have 100/100.

[covert nest]

Keep in mind I dont have an idea on the attachment point budget so I'm using cod for reference

Yeah?

Could probably make the attachments stronger

Extended mag not having a strong drawback

[feral garden]

Well, extra bullets should have a massive cost IMO

[covert nest]

35 rounds shouldn't really be expensive.

And there are other downsides

I wonder if they'll do a battlefield hardline and make ext mags reduce your movement speed.

(35+1 was the standard there)

It was really good for edging

[feral garden]

the downsides of higher capacity mags are mostly irrelivant. Like they always try longer reload times, but no one ever cares and uses them always

[covert nest]

Cause battlefield allows you to control your pacing.

Yeah

35 rounds shouldn't cost much but the other options should be good.

God I hope youre following me here

In hardline ext mags weren't the be all end all cause laser sight, ap rounds were big.

Stock (which made your gun use its stock lol) would massively decrease recoil.

[tepid plinth]

The great slow-down-enining of drum mags was a fun time

[covert nest]

A hard hit to ads and reload time is one big one yeay

Though if you can reduce the downsides thats the problem when the downsides are meant to exist.

[tepid plinth]

What’s this sudden obsession with stims I’m seeing now

As in, overnight it seems like people have banded together to complain about it

[feral garden]

I have no clue TBH. Seeing the same. People just want to talk and say things about the game...and the community seems to jump on whatever the latest thing is

But stims on assault are probably the least broken thing from all that has been seen this far IMO lol

[tepid plinth]

And from experience with 2042, bfV, bf1, any game where you can heal yourself with a medical item…

[feral garden]

People act like you dont auto regen HP after 6 seconds of no damage also.

All the stim does is start the regen. Tho the way some talk about it, you'd swear its giving double HP, 5x damage and instant wall hax

[tepid plinth]

I see a lot of comments talking about the supposed ‘self sufficiency’ of it. But in reality it just isn’t like that

[covert nest]

when the asian players make good gameplay

[tepid plinth]

Ah so they must have seen someone using one and now they are on about it

[covert nest]

I did hear they're massively cut down versus 2042

yeah

[tepid plinth]

Being perfectly honest most people won’t live past using one syringe anyway

It’s one regen before then needing to resupply, but medics having unlimited is fine I guess

Ah well, Reddit be Reddit

[feral garden]

If you make an assault class completely reliant on support to heal (Like some are asking) then you might as well not have an assault class. OR people will just use engineer cos they have launchers...or support cos they have health and ammo

[tepid plinth]

The split between every other class and engineer is already insane as is

Regularly saw like 27 engineers in matches, far more than any other class

[feral garden]

People dont think about what they are asking for, when they ask for removals or nerfs. Like what will players gravitate towards if X thing is removed, and how will that affect other players, team and/or squad play.

EG...you remove Assault stims...solo players looking for that front of the line role will now use support. You now have support players using the class selfishly, not helping their team, not resupplying and reviving where needed. You have just made the game worse.

Players will obviously gravitate to support for selfish styles of course, but removing Assault stim requires them to do so.

[covert nest]

The best way you can have seflish players contribute is to give them other forms of dealing with shit.

It's why I'm a fan of bf5 assault cause of AT.

[feral garden]

I think its fine for the assault to be a dedicated "Anti-infantry" class.

Them having stims, concentration in primary weapons, M320s, ETC.

[covert nest]

Ravic did make a point on one of his streams how he's not a fan of assault being the sole anti infantry class. I think assault rifles by themselves are SUPER strong.

Well no if I remember correctly it was contributing to the explosive spam.

[nimble bridge]

Give non explosive gadgets to assault then 🤷

[covert nest]

I think it's more than that.

Rockets being fired at infantry is a byproduct but if they're used on tanks (alongside some infantry perks like better regen and stuff) then that's a better more productive way to get it done.

How assault is done right now is set in stone.

The game is being built around GL assault and it'll be what we have to deal with.

Though GL Smoke is somewhat good.

[feral garden]

Tbh, GLs have historically not really been a massive issue. Need to wait and see how the class system fully pans out.

[covert nest]

Hey, Remember! 2042!

[tepid plinth]

I really hope they keep the smoke wall launcher and not just be a big puff

[covert nest]

I'd argue they were pretty problematic there.

[feral garden]

GLs on assault are no more of an issue in my eyes, than engineers and rockets.

[covert nest]

Actually wait

Oh god

If they gave me AP M320 I'd be so happy.

As long as GL's have more utility than outright killing power I don't have a problem with it.

[feral garden]

People did a lot of crying about 2042 GLs, but I never really suffered them. Maybe it was the breakthrough players

[covert nest]

Like lemme blow walls, set things on fire. Things that don't let me plop and instantly kill someone.

I knew how to abuse them and it wasn't good.

[feral garden]

GLs in 2042 are useless now tho, so GG them

[covert nest]

You don't remember when assault could basically hold over 24 GL's?

I need to stop leaping around. Basically it was super easy to instantly kill someone with them, And it was further incentivised because you could reload them relatively quickly.

I don't like it how they over did by doing 1+0 with HE and Incin but it was needed.

[feral garden]

24 rounds of explosive GL is obviously an issue, but people asked for all the wrong things.

And got them

[covert nest]

Uhhh like 1+6 HE, 1+6 AP and 1+6 Incin

I don't recall anyone asking for it. It was a decision done for assault perks.

It was rolled back, And doubled down when season 6 came out because it was clear dice was done trying to deal with them.

I don't think they're a negative by default but I don't like it when they just "kill" instead of provding ways to play.

Incin and HE I understand its use but why not blow through walls with HE?

[feral garden]

2042s maps meant they had no purpose other than to kill

[covert nest]

For sure.

I hope that as an independent gadget they can balance it better.

And utilise it better.

[feral garden]

Plus system allowing 3 GLs is hilarious in hindsight. 🤣

[rugged seal]

i hate to make a realism comparison but i feel like its not that crazy to carry different types of grenades if you were planning for it

but the masterkey and launcher switch is definitely insane

[covert nest]

Yeah it makes sense

[feral garden]

Add a "Grenade belt" gadget, that allows expanded GL ammo capacity.

[tepid plinth]

Bit like Doorkickers

[pale swan]

🙏

[mossy marten]

🦗 chirps

[rotund pier]

Hmm so far my fear about the whole class system doesn't seem to be justified

I expected that about half the playerbase would be running around as assault since it's the selfish class and the free weapons would make it the most picked

but from what I've seen so far it's like 2/5th of the matches are playing assault

[mossy marten]

yeah, because assault has no other gadgets that help with things that aren't anti-infy focused

so of course it wouldn't have the highest pickrate of the classes

[grave talon]

there's usually like 34 level 10s running engineer and rpg in 2042 at this point

[mossy marten]

assault in 2042 has anti vehicle capabilities via c4 and the grapple or wingsuit as options as well

[grave talon]

right, but noobs either go rockets or spawn sniping.. c5 is too advanced

[mossy marten]

bf2025/6 doesn't have those capabilities, so it'll be picked less

[mossy marten]

it was in response to fidda, but noobs be noobs 🤷‍♂️
either sitting in spawn/back of map sniping, proning in corners with irish shields, or some other weird stuff

[grave talon]

and then there's c128 where they're just posted up in the most random spots laying down with an lmg

[marsh fern]

Ah, account from bf3 in 2011. but no invite.. so sad

[versed token]

Literally doesn't matter when you started playing the series

[rugged seal]

Don't know why people even started to think it would matter anyways

[glad trench]

Because everyone thinks they’re simultaneously special snowflakes while also being victims

[glad trench]

Idk how this thought process exists since DICE decoupled assault from the med bag

Any time playing BF1, BFV and 2042 will tell you the fear is unfounded

Can’t remember if hardline had assault with the med bag

[mossy marten]

it did

hardline and bf4 were nearly the same classes

[nimble bridge]

I just played an 2042 match and it was 32 assault vs 32 assault 🤯

[mossy marten]

just some differences here and there

[rotund pier]

Bf1 and v had class restricted weapons

And I do see a population of mostly sundance and…

Oh god I forgot his name

Mckay?

And falck

Even though she’s a medic dhe basically just has a better adrenaline shot so she’s basically another assault

[glad trench]

You’re literally just making shit up to fit your paranoia

Falck is a medic

[rotund pier]

I aint making shit up

I’m stating things as they are

[glad trench]

Using pretzel logic trying to justify falck as an assault is some schizo shit

[mossy marten]

the classes in the next game are very much defined in their roles
even if the game doesn't have class locked weapons, it won't be one class being selected the most

[glad trench]

And your anecdotes are meaningless because everyone’s is different. I see more useless crawfords and boris on infantry only maps/playlists than I see sundances these days

[rotund pier]

So you don’t see the sundance grenade spam

[mossy marten]

i see sundance nades on cqc maps, but nowhere near the amount i see of explosives being spammed op lockers on bf4

it's still a stupid nade to have, don't get me wrong
but bf4 lockers spam is something else

[glad trench]

On redacted, yea and sometimes on last sector exposure BT. Everything else, no

Nothing to have some weird idea of class imbalance

[tepid plinth]

News?

[digital radish]

👀

[quasi geode]

South America testing when 😩

[mossy marten]

oh?>

[tepid plinth]

Oh it’s just what they’ve been doing but just longer

[halcyon chasm]

damn I hope I get in this time

[pallid coral]

so if ive already signed up i dont need to again right?

[mossy marten]

yes, it uses the normal BF labs sign up

also

[pallid coral]

gotxch

[mossy marten]

if you get an invite for this event, does it grant access to future tests

[pallid coral]

no

[mossy marten]

@ DICE/@ EA

[halcyon chasm]

prob not

[pallid coral]

The server performance test will conclude in all regions after 72 hours, upon which game access for participants will be revoked.

[mossy marten]

fuck i missed that

RIP

[halcyon chasm]

but it might improve your chances of being selected again if you make it in and you are active

[balmy hawk]

[radiant heath]

hope i get in this time, each new thing i see looks like fun

at this point i don't even know if my signup worked at all, i get the prompt to "update my playtesting preferences" which i did, but now the link bugs the site out

[halcyon chasm]

my issue is that I heard some people got a survey to answer but I never got it when I registered

so I have no idea if it actually worked or not

[mossy marten]

survey was optional

[abstract path]

are you guys gonna add south america this decade or the next one?

[radiant heath]

i got the survey forever ago and did that. i should've told em i've never played a fps game before

[versed token]

💀

[cobalt geyser]

More people on this test ?

[pulsar warren]

They should invite real Battlefield players, not tiktokers and youtubers.

[gritty nest]

I don’t even know if I’m signed up for battlefield labs the EA play testing site is not very useful

[safe moat]

The thing is, The real BF players who are invited are not risking their access by leaking shit. Those who leak simply dont give a fun about Battlefield

[halcyon chasm]

seeing the amount of leaks there is, they clearly invite a lot of people

just not us

[tepid plinth]

Another wave of playtest questions

[gritty nest]

It says I’m signed up for the skate insider program but I click on it and have to sign up for it again

Battlefield is nowhere to be seen

[tepid plinth]

It’s not meant to be there

[sharp flame]

I think it's like that for all of us

[gritty nest]

Fair

Im sure I signed up in the beginning but I don’t even know I can’t find any emails

[sharp flame]

Definitely would've been nice to get a confirmation email

[tepid plinth]

You may have been sent one confirming registration went through but mine arrived at least a month after it

[vale burrow]

that doesnt mean you wont have access to future playtests, they revoke game access for everyone each time

idk guess we'll see

[spare zephyr]

Schedule:

This one-off Pre-Alpha Server Performance Test will start rolling out from Friday, 23rd May at 10AM CEST, with a gradual entry into the test for participants. Stay tuned to your inbox for an invite to participate over the coming days.

Most likely to get E-mails closer to Friday,just keep an 👀 on your inbox and pray 🙏

[wanton ore]

So people who have done EA Playtesting will get an email? And people who havent need to sign up from that link?

[worldly turret]

ggs im 100% not getting in

[pallid coral]

Could

[slow apex]

Pls invite me 🙏 veteran of 22 years here 😇

[pallid coral]

Pls invite me 🙏 veteran of 23 years here 😇

[slow apex]

Yis to both of us ^^

[coral basin]

If you already have access, you can participate without an invitation

[safe moat]

I have refreshed my sign up

[sharp quarry]

Same

[pallid coral]

Bro chose peace over violence now I feel bad

[halcyon chasm]

same I didn't think I could but I got the survey this time

[safe moat]

Come on EA, i got access to some test buils of other games i wanted to be in. Now give me Battlefield Labs access

[safe moat]

Its gonna get clogged in an hour i think

[slow apex]

We deserve to be playtesters ^-^

[sharp quarry]

I need it I bought all of the other battlefields instead of 1

[safe moat]

I have BF4, Hardline, 1, 5 and 2042

[sharp quarry]

I have played bf1 all my life

[pallid coral]

🙏 I ain't even 23 years old (I'm 22)

[vale burrow]

so does anyone know if you get access to future tests as well or just this one? its oddly worded

[safe moat]

I joined to BF around the end of BF4

[potent silo]

When I click the link in #game-news for http://go.ea.com/bflabs why am I being redirected to https://ea.arcsivr.com/Portal/home ??

[safe moat]

I assume so

[vale burrow]

go.ea is a redirect link

its good

[sharp quarry]

I had bf1 and just bought the rest when they were like 2 dollars on steam

[slow apex]

Ah x) I mean I have played BF games since elementary school times so it makes now 22 years of playing Battlefields :D

[potent silo]

@gleaming pendantc I don't see anything after logging for bf labs or playtedt due 23 May 🤷

[ornate pine]

Do we need to re-signup if we have already signed up for battlefield labs testing?

[pallid coral]

That's a lot of time haha

[slow apex]

Yup xD

[ripe fog]

Me exactly the same!

[safe moat]

It should be like that

[woven glen]

Any one else not have bflabs as a playtest option on the site?

[safe moat]

do a re-sign up to boost your registiration

Sometimes that is usefull

[rotund ether]

Not a single mention of BF on the portal/home

[slow apex]

Great! Lots of good memories 😇 I really hope me and many others will be lucky to get selected!

[ornate pine]

How can I re-signup? It’s not showing up as I can register for anymore

[safe moat]

EA actually reccomend you periodically redo the sign up so it wont be forgotten

[potent silo]

Should I look to log back in closer to the date? Sorry I totally missed the first round of labs and so I've never gotten in for testing

[rotund ether]

I just have skate and Apex insider on home page

[woven glen]

Same

[coral basin]

Me too

[ripe fog]

Likewise! I will never forget playing demo of Secret weapons of WW2 on our elementary school computers. Good old times

[potent silo]

Same

[ornate pine]

How can we re-signup? Does anyone see it under the ea site

[slow apex]

I clicked the link and it automatically registered me (again) so I think I redid it 🤔

[rotund ether]

Why would I care about 💩 games, I just want BF

[safe moat]

yea it redoes it

[echo ingot]

im the only one getting this error (503 Service Unavailable) when trying to connect to http://go.ea.com/bflabs ?

[safe moat]

And then you can do the survey again

[rotund ether]

It just shows the home page

[pale aurora]

do you guys get a confirmation email after re-registering

[ornate pine]

What link?

[slow apex]

Indeed xD that’s what we did too with my friends. Then I played so much Bf2 on my family PC. Only singleplayer though. In BF2142 I started to play multiplayer :)

[rotund ether]

EA doesn't know what a confirmation email is

[slow apex]

The one that was in the newest post

[spare zephyr]

Working fine here,try clearing browser cache/ switch browser?

[limpid swift]

Same

[pale aurora]

LMAO

[ornate pine]

That just took me to the ea playtest site where it dosent show bf labs

[humble harness]

How do I sign up, it isn’t an option on n play tests?

[mild girder]

I will still get no invite, i can smell it lol

[ripe fog]

Nice 🙂 yeah I think I started MP in BF 2, i played 2042 a lot too. But the game i loved the most was Bad Company 2. I played single player of the first game on my xbox one 🙂

[safe moat]

The website is starting to struggle

[echo ingot]

I will try, ty man

[limpid swift]

I got an invite a few weeks ago but missed it because I didn’t have access to my emails in the window where I had to rsvp, will I need to re-sign up or will I (hopefully) get another email for this test?

[ornate pine]

Can you dm me the link?

[safe moat]

I re-checked my EA Playtester Portal. BF Labs is on "Playtest in Progress"

[coral basin]

If you have the invitation you should be able to access already, you don't need another invitation

[ornate pine]

Where?

[slow apex]

Yes Bad Company 2 was peak for me! My teenage years :>

[rotund ether]

No single mention of BF on my portal

[safe moat]

On the Playtester portal

[ornate pine]

Did you get accepted?

[loud harness]

I did it but it's not showing any confirmation

[pale aurora]

whatt

[safe moat]

Nope, it is under the Skate one and i dont have an email yet

[loud harness]

weird

[ripe fog]

Yeah we are probably of the same age

[severe mesa]

I'm hoping

[mild girder]

i think you missed ur chance

[pale aurora]

can u dm me a pic about that

[ornate pine]

How did you do it originally?

[slow apex]

Probs ;D I am 29, you? If you don’t mind telling x)

[limpid swift]

Ok cool, thanks

[rotund ether]

That was your 1st time registering right ?

[coral basin]

Why?

[slow apex]

I just clicked the link in ”If you're interested in helping us test our server performance and stability in the coming week, be sure to sign-up for Battlefield Labs now at http://go.ea.com/bflabs. ” and it went into queue that lasted like a minute and then it refreshed and I had registered again

[verbal storm]

i remember signing up when they first announced the test signup way back but now when i log into ea playtest i dont see anything about battlefield

[rotund ether]

I already registered on day one so it just shows me the portal home

[potent silo]

Same

[mild girder]

I dont think they reinvite people into the same playtest twice (in the system its one and the same playtest)

[ornate pine]

When I clicked that it takes me right to the ea playtest portal

[pale aurora]

Same

[rotund ether]

Figured I don't have the right pronouns to make BF Labs "diverse"

[slow apex]

2nd time. I had registerd for BF labs when it was first announced in February.

[pale aurora]

I could retake the survey for unlimited times like.

[limpid swift]

Unfortunately I think you’re right, in the playtesting portal it doesn’t come up with a BF test, just apex and skate

[coral basin]

But I don't have any invitation

[mild girder]

didnt u say you missed it?

[rotund ether]

Some of the registrations in February just got skipped

[limpid swift]

Nah that was me, got the email but didn’t click the link to sign up during the rsvp window

[pale aurora]

“Ay bf labs?” You said
but EA said “skate and Apex”

[coral basin]

No, it was @limpid swift , you misquoted

[mild girder]

ah ok

nvm

[coral basin]

np

[rotund ether]

Because apparently a multi-billion dollar multinational isn't able to get servers

[pale aurora]

I haven’t got any kinds of confirmation since feb/march when they started the program

[rotund ether]

Never got a single confirmation

[crisp mason]

Sounds like there is gonna be a lot of invites

[pale aurora]

only one with “welcome to ea playtesting”

[rotund ether]

Yeah that's just from creating the playtesting account

Nothing to do with the BF playtest

[pale aurora]

though i registered everytime 😭

[rotund ether]

My Playtest account dates a while back... Seeing the Anthem playtest on my account hurts my heart

[mild girder]

damn

[dark mist]

I still can't seem to be able to even register to the playtest, same issue for everyone here ig ?

[rotund ether]

Link gets me to the portal, no mention of BF on the portal

[pale aurora]

Same

[mild girder]

did u already sign up for it tho?

[glad trench]

No they didn’t

[dark mist]

yeah, same for me and it does this ever since they started the playtest back in february

[rotund ether]

Yeah... I know that's a while back. Mentioning that game makes me feel old, and it's not even that old

[woven cedar]

Where can you find if you did?

[mild girder]

u cant, only indicator is, if the labs sign up is gone

[rotund ether]

Yes they did as I re-registered 2 days later, even if the site told me "thanks for registering" the 1st time

[mild girder]

and if you got a confirmation mail (which is also not 100% always getting send but you are still signed up)

[pale aurora]

We just ain’t lucky enough

[dark mist]

real

[pale aurora]

• even not lucky enough to get a confirmation email sometimes

(Jk

[rotund ether]

Not the right genre to get into the playtest

[mild girder]

That email was only done because so many people expected one

and bc it was a last minute decision, the email was even "broken"

[pale aurora]

yeah like the message on the website is already enough actually

[mild girder]

(idk if they fixed it already)

[mild girder]

yea but people cant read, like the NDA

so many people said "Hey im in labs when do we play" or just streamed footage

[pale aurora]

for crying out loud- holy

[glad trench]

It didn’t skip you, you’re just making shit up because of a bug that didn’t send out confirmation junk mail

Had no bearing on you getting selected

Just more low information, bs being spread around by salty children

[mild girder]

True, true

[dark mist]

But you guys had at least a register option the first time you clicked the link ? Cuz I never did so I never had the chance to even register as the link automatically redirects me to the home screen where it show you your playtests

[rotund ether]

Oh I got no email at all from either registration

[safe moat]

The first Labs test, we had people streaming it on TWITCH

[rotund ether]

When I tell you it didn't register it really didn't, had no effect on me getting in or not, if you knew how to read you'd have noticed that I didn't even imply it having changed anything at all.

[pale aurora]

NDdisAgreement i guess 🤣

[rotund ether]

But hey, literacy is hard nowadays apparently

[vivid spindle]

Hey yall, How do I see the playtests that I've signed up for ?

[rotund ether]

That's the fun part, most of the time you don't

[coral basin]

And from My Account > Profile, it doesn't let you register?

Right top corner

[glad trench]

And you have no proof of that

[rotund ether]

And you have no proof that it didn't happen

I had to complete that survey twice in 3 days

[covert nest]

When you're in the playtests you'll know.

[vivid spindle]

Nice

[covert nest]

And by the way yeah on my end I ended up doing the survey twice which was annoying.

Yeah I'm sorry I wish I could provide more of an answer.

[rotund ether]

I mean I'd like my homepage on the portal to at least SHOW BF LABS

It's just nowhere

Clicking the link brings me to the portal homepage, portal doesn't show BF, no mail

[glad trench]

I mean I have a friend who did the survey multiple times and was picked. The survey never locked me out from retaking it despite getting confirmation emails

[tame grove]

Let's go, another week of not getting an invite🔥🔥

Hoping this reverse psychology kicks in

[rotund ether]

I can't retake the survey and never got a confirmation email

[coral basin]

Me neither, I guess I'll show up when I'm invited

[glad trench]

Again just a bunch of kids whining about not getting picked for a super limited play test

[glad trench]

Wow bugged system is bugged

[dark mist]

nope, I only have preferences, EA Account, Add Family Member and Update Profile

[rotund ether]

I'm not saying everything about not getting in, once again literacy must not be your strenght

[glad trench]

Doesn’t mean you got skipped

You wouldn’t be complaining about the bugged ass sign up if you didn’t care about getting in

It’s called literacy

[rotund ether]

I care about getting in, the thing I'm complaining about is the lack of feedback

[coral basin]

You are right, it is not the best website

[rotund ether]

36 Billion dollar company can't send an email or getting a working website ?

Damn

[jagged summit]

Yeah idk if I'm signed up either. When I click on the thing to sign up it says "Welcome Back" but there nothing there

I tried before and took that survey but I dont remember getting an email

[covert nest]

It's a bit cruel them announcing the tests publicly like this.

[coral basin]

You must have an email titled "Welcome to Electronic Arts Playtesting! ACTION REQUIRED! "

[jagged summit]

Only email I got was saying to update my preferences, which is did

[jagged summit]

Yeah that's what I got

[rotund ether]

I had that email... back in 2019, when I signed up for the Anthem playtest

[coral basin]

Then I guess we must have to wait for an invite

[jagged summit]

I guess lol

[rotund ether]

It's just for the playtest account creation

[coral basin]

https://tenor.com/view/sussa-gif-5432297967573209335

[jagged summit]

I just wish it had Battlefield Labs under my playtests or something

[rotund ether]

Not BF specifically, just EA account

[sharp quarry]

Radical Larry is it really you do you take people in to your pocket dimension

[dry bluff]

As i read it, new invites are not out

[jagged summit]

✅

[tardy crown]

There is no battlefield sign up under "Playtests Available"

[jagged summit]

Yeah i get it now, i just wish it was more clear

[sharp quarry]

Same I had the same question

[jagged summit]

Faintest secret lab logo in the pfp lol

[sharp quarry]

Thx

[rotund ether]

No bf in :

• PLAYTESTS IN PROGRESS
• PLAYTESTS AVAILABLE
• YOUR PLAYTESTS

[half halo]

Inserts tinfoil hat
BFLabs is a hoax. Nobody is playing, all we see are bots POV, tests are not real.

[jagged summit]

Dead Battlefield Theory

[loud harness]

lol

[rotund ether]

They're all chinese, I've only seen chinese on the leaks

Chinese BF theory

[loud harness]

bf 6 is all a lie

[jagged summit]

I haven't seen it so it must be fake

[rotund ether]

I'll call it.... CBT

[fleet plinth]

What if BF6 are the friends we made

[jagged summit]

I'll call it, Battlefield Friends...

[fleet plinth]

😭

[rotund ether]

I wanna get PROMOTED

[jagged summit]

[rotund ether]

You need to roll nat 20 on a... DICE

[vale dagger]

What do I do if I got invited but didn’t see the email so I didn’t get to see the email were they asked for some extra steps I didn’t do because I missed out on the email do I still get invited or what ?

[coral basin]

I believe you are still invited

[twin fractal]

one off playtest for the newly invited players
<this is under NDA please don't share!

If they aren't getting back in after this playtest what exactly is stopping them from leaking?

[rotund ether]

Ok so what they say is that there is no guarentee that because you get into that test that you'll be in the later tests.
You could still get back in.
If you leak you loose that slim chance

[rugged seal]

It just sounds like a one time 72 hour test and then going back to whatever they were doing before

Not a one time for anyone new that gets invited

[vale dagger]

I’m so mad I missed out on the play test just because I ain’t checked my damm email bro I’m so unlucky BF6 looks good

[twin fractal]

I signed up within the first hour of the sign ups opening and haven't received an invite

[vale dagger]

Literally signed up months ago never got invited to the early play test so I thought Oka maybe just ain’t going be the ones then boom just last week they email me and I missed it yikes 😬

[twin fractal]

And they said that there was an issue and some people needed to resign up but everytime I tried the battlefield labs thing said I was signed up

[rugged seal]

#battlefield-labs-discussion message

[twin fractal]

Oh I'm aware

It just sucks

[brittle zodiac]

I don't see on the game test page whether I have registered for battlefield labs

[tepid plinth]

you aren't supposed to

[brittle zodiac]

Can you open the regular battlefield labs page? When I go to log in I come to the ea playtest area.

[mossy marten]

because that's where it's supposed to go
the ea playtest page is where you go to register for interest in BF Labs

[brittle zodiac]

Unfortunately, I don't see this part for battlefield labs on the EA Playtest site

[mossy marten]

have you done the registration before by any chance? if so, then you don't need to do it again

[verbal crypt]

I’ve already come to accept I’m not getting invited lol. Each day gets easier expecting not to get one 🤣

[neat tartan]

hey Devs, since BF6 will have gyroscope aiming, can we bring it to Apex too ?

[sand quarry]

Anybody know if doing the survey for the BF labs signup actually gives you a higher chance at getting selected for play tests?

[mossy marten]

they say it doesn't

[brittle zodiac]

Yes In the first phase of registration thx

[faint turtle]

Aw man

no LATAM

[rotund ether]

What's really needed is flick stick + gyro

[digital raft]

Me too I saw the email a day after the test took place

[vale dagger]

Sucks can’t get over it smh 🤦‍♂️

[digital raft]

Me neither bruu

[neat tartan]

Even better

[craggy stirrup]

Do I need to register for the upcoming play test again if I've already previously registered with Battlefield Labs ?

[rotund ether]

Yeah, I'm a keyboard and mouse player but really flick stick is goated, I tried it on a steam deck once and loved it, now if I wanna lay back and play on controller it's what I use if it suits the game... it's probably the aiming control that feels the best for me on a controller.

[mossy marten]

no

[neat tartan]

Indeed, nothing will beat mouse and keyboard, but gyro is the second best option we have. Thankfully gyro seems to be catching up nowadays. More and more developers are implementing it. Now it's mostly a matter of how well the implementation is. Some are so bad that we're better off just turning it off lol.

[rotund ether]

The big + of flick stick is that it's positional you can basically do instant 180 or any other rotation super reliably and then make the precise adjustment with the gyro

[oak condor]

gyro is pretty much off the table for cross-platform shooters because microsoft refuses to implement it, and we've already gone well past the point of no return on "aim assist" (dev-provided cheats) anyway

[neat tartan]

Not really. Perhaps in super competitive games like valorant and the likes. But Fortnite, CoD, The Finals, Fragpunk, Arma are all crossplay and allow for gyro regardless. So far only the valorant devs have confirmed the only reason they haven't implemented it its bc of Microsoft. I suspect most devs just think it's worth the energy and money since its such a niche feature.

Not worth*

[weak obsidian]

it's because xbox rollers don't have gyro support lol

[mossy marten]

http://go.ea.com/bflabs
then login with EA acc, do the BF labs stuff
if not there, then you already signed up for labs interest previously

[real cipher]

Whats an NDA? I signed for. A play test and didnt see anything mention it

[tepid plinth]

It’ll be there, essentially means you aren’t allowed to talk about the contents of the tests

Doing so can forfeit your access to tests

[cedar flax]

Hey everyone, what if they added The Sopranos into the next battlefield game

[mossy marten]

🤷‍♂️

i'm just a normal dude

[gleaming dagger]

72 hours stress test and the SEA player still left in the dust

[minor linden]

You only have to sign the NDA if you get invited

[real cipher]

Ooh so thats after I get the invite in my email

Thanks

And how long does it take to receive the invite?

[minor linden]

1 minute to never

It's a complete luck of the draw

[real cipher]

Do they announce when they will give out invites

[minor linden]

Not really. They post some news in #battlefield-labs-news, but you really have to look out for playtest time leaks

I'd check your mail often though since it can really come at any time

[cloud loom]

Chat what does "will be revoked" means?
there will be no more tests after this test?

[mossy marten]

Anyone who gained access just for this test will not have access to future labs tests (unless reinvited again??)

At least that's what I understand from it

[cloud loom]

that make sense

[dim temple]

Kinda sucks seeing people breaking NDA all over the place that are invited while people like me who genuinely would just want to test/play are in the dark (this might be a bit of copium 😅, but kinda true though)

Anyway is there a way to know if you signed up? Because I remember doing it when BF Labs was first announced and never found a way to check if im actually signed up, also because the sign up page currently doesn’t take me anywhere essentially or anything BF Labs related at least

[potent pine]

if you got the confirmation email it should be fine

i think

[clear viper]

There are a ton of people who don't break NDA who have been invited, you just only ever hear about the stupid ones because they're the only ones saying anything

[hallow fossil]

Will the previous test qualification be withdrawn?

[narrow basalt]

Since we cant talk about leaks...can we shit talk marathon?

[stark sentinel]

yes

[loud harness]

If it wasnt for them, we wouldnt have gotten no leak at all

[steel torrent]

I signed up a long ago for bf labs and everytime I log in to check I only see skate play testing and another game. Nothing about bf labs. What do I need to do to get an invite???

[nimble bridge]

Create a new account with 0 hour playtime, they are only inviting noobs 😂

[near zinc]

this 23rd i hope Thailand join to test

[prime vale]

Are the time slots only for 1 day or is it a starting time for the whole weekend?

[surreal cloud]

starting time if I'm reading it right

[spare wigeon]

Can players who previously participated in the game test continue to join the test on the 23rd?

[tall urchin]

Why would you shit talk a bland, overly generic dart boarded corporate shooter, where the only ounce of appeal is down to an aesthetic from a stolen portfolio?

I cannot fathom anything bad to say about such a slog of an experience where people just let the aim assist do all the work for loot no one cares about.

Next you'll tell me they used an actually interesting name tied to an original IP it has nothing to do with.

[steel obsidian]

would be great if teh website to signup wasn't "not secure", I cant even get into the website

[gleaming dagger]

it wont lol

we SEA people are left in the dust

[fresh solstice]

Why was my message on the same playtest deleted?

i was only asking if there was anything else i needed to do

[rugged seal]

because talking about any participation in the testing goes against the nda

[fresh solstice]

o damn

[rugged seal]

any information regarding it would be sent to your email

[fresh solstice]

i see

mb

[rugged seal]

just check all inboxes including spam

over the coming days

[fresh solstice]

any way i can respond with questions?

[paper imp]

the upcoming test when new people are invited and when it ends do the these people that got invited in this upcoming playtest get invited to the future playtests?

[summer helm]

Oh you have to be joking….i was selected and I’m on vacation FML 🤦‍♂️

[nimble bridge]

Don't be sad, this is just how it works out sometimes

[gleaming dagger]

DICE EA PLZ INVITE ME

[frail sparrow]

finally got to play

[paper imp]

read the red text below the email

[nimble bridge]

[frail sparrow]

is approve live on 23 Friday

[paper imp]

nvm

[gaunt topaz]

do we need to sign up twice for Battlefield-Labs? or if we already are signed up we don't need to do anything

[nimble bridge]

If you signed up once then that's it

Just check your mails, and don't share them unlike other people in here who casually breaks NDA

[visual light]

Do you guys think the pre alpha will include console players?

[nimble bridge]

I'm still waiting for them to include KBM players

[lethal grail]

Is the upcoming playtest for all platforms? I might have gotten the wrong one...

Because if it requires a sub, im screwed

[fresh solstice]

Ye I realized to late mb

Unless that was for someone else

Hard to tell when the message was deleted :p

[fresh solstice]

[upper sinew]

Never recive any Email sad

[lethal grail]

Is there no forum for playtesters only or something like that?

oh i am so screwed, it requires a sub

Battlefield Labs will be available on PC via the EA app, PlayStation 5 (PlayStation Plus subscription required) and Xbox Series X|S (Xbox Game Pass Core (formerly known as Xbox Live Gold) required)

I dont know why i got a console code if i didnt apply for it

[versed token]

It's for whatever platform you put in when signing up for playtesting

[gaunt topaz]

Thanks Sir

[lethal grail]

Yeah but i dont see a pc only option. The sign up survey just says: "We'll only reach out with Playtesting opportunities based on your preferences" with the options being
-Both Console/PC and Mobile Playtests
-Console/PC Playtests only
-Mobile Playtests only

@viral pollen @past valley sorry for the ping, but I hope you can help me out. Thank you!

[azure comet]

Has this invitation ended yet?

[vale burrow]

no they go till friday i guess

[shell oracle]

😄 Today is a fine day

[sweet arch]

Same I was given the PS5 one, but I don't have online access

Is there any way to change the platform?

I don't use the PS5

[versed token]

Your preferences in your profile settings matter

[sweet arch]

Damn

I think I accidentally chose it

[versed token]

I know a bunch of people set their preferences for multiple platforms just to increase their chance to get an invite even though they don't have that console or a pc

[sweet arch]

I do own one, but I don't use it

I don't have PS+

I main PC 😦

I thought it was asking what I owned

Although dumb of me

[versed token]

They were asking what you were actually playing on

[cloud loom]

😭 bro if you can give it to me i would do anything

[sweet arch]

Forgot that PS+ was a thing

[nimble bridge]

Probably account and IP locked

[sweet arch]

So technically I do play a PS5, but it's useless in this sense

I wouldn't mind it if I don't need PS+

I can still use it

[cloud loom]

you dont need PS+

[sweet arch]

Is there confirmation anywhere?

[nimble bridge]

If it wasn’t IP locked we would’ve seen people on ebay selling bf labs access for $1000 😂

[sweet arch]

So I can play without a sub?

[cloud loom]

yeah you dont need a sub to play bf lab

[versed token]

If it states you need it in an email, you will probably need it

[cloud loom]

my friend also have ps access and dont need ps+

[covert nest]

Online tests can be fucky you should just have ps+ / gold to play.

Ugh have they changed it???

[cloud loom]

yes last week

[covert nest]

Wait sorry i mean the names and usage for online play

I think its fine that you get games and online access too

[sweet arch]

I don't need it because I have PC

Would be a waste

Dang I'm gonna be stuck with 60fps

[covert nest]

I remember way back in the doom 2016 MP alpha I didn't have gold but it glitched and allowed me to play without it 95% of the time.

[tepid plinth]

Maybe you just accidentally had it lol

[slow apex]

I think everyone would really appreciate it if EA or DICE announced later/before the playtest starts that all the invites has been sent out. People could sleep better knowing not to wait for an invite 24/7 x)

[feral garden]

You do

It's listed on the labs FAQ

[cloud loom]

No bro you really dont need it

I saw him playing bro

[mild girder]

I doubt they will put that in the FAQ for the lols

[dense nest]

For the love of god! When will I get a go!?!? I have BF4,1,V AND 2042 installed on my PS5, easily over 1000hrs of time on them combined. Crickets over on my email inbox.

[feral garden]

WHAT PLATFORM(S) WILL BATTLEFIELD LABS BE AVAILABLE ON?
Battlefield Labs will be available on PC via the EA app, PlayStation 5 (PlayStation Plus subscription required) and Xbox Series X|S (Xbox Game Pass Core (formerly known as Xbox Live Gold) required)

Source: https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/faq

[mild girder]

Wait till the beta

[tepid plinth]

Wait it’s not called gold anymore?

[mild girder]

Like the rest of us :c

For a long time lol

[nimble bridge]

It's core now

[weak obsidian]

a few of my friends from the states got in 🙁

[sweet arch]

Damn so if I need PS+, I can't even play then

[tepid plinth]

How are you playing any battlefield without it?

[sweet arch]

PC

[feral garden]

Bro what?

[sweet arch]

I figured they were just asking what consoles I owned, not what I played

[slow apex]

Yeah the system is random so no need to worry. Everyone has equal chances to get in! All though some people showed on reddit their invites, it said ”hand selected” but I still think it’s random because at no point the Labs registration asked for any specific gaming hours on each title.

[cloud loom]

Nah trust me you really dont need ps+

[sweet arch]

Because they also mention other consoles like Xbox One and shit, which obviously wouldn't be running it

[feral garden]

Why would I trust you, lol

[tepid plinth]

I think I’d rather trust dice’s on faq

[cloud loom]

Ok what ever

[coral basin]

You need to do pull-ups, each pull-up increases your chances of being chosen by 1%

[feral garden]

Lol

[coral basin]

I was going to tell you that you needed to buy things at the store, but I didn't want to be responsible for your wallet lmao

[sweet arch]

See when it asked about consoles that we regularly play on, it mentions Switch, PS4, and Xbox One. You obviously wouldn't play BF6 on a Switch, so I didn't think me including my PS5 that I own would be my actual preference

It even mentions mobile

[nimble bridge]

BF6 mobile when?

[sweet arch]

I wish I knew that

Or at least wish there was an actual main preference option

[tepid plinth]

considering the last mobile bf died, that's unlikely

but they should bring back companion apps!

As niche as they were they were so cool

[torn vector]

Does BF6 not have passenger helicopters like the Black Hawk? Or will they be added in the future?

[covert nest]

We dont know.