#battlefield-2042
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It was nowhere near as fast compared to bf3
Also really no reason to use into burst when the full auto was so good
Bullets travel so.. shoot from the roof instead of trying to be an action hero
As Val is a nice gun too
You must love the BSV then

see, thats just it, battlefield is an "action hero" game
No that 2042 model looks ugly
I sure as hell do. That gun fucks at all ranges
Nope
Yea but thats the thing
Bracing yourself on a roof means more accuracy.
Jumping through the air like an idiot you deserve to die anyway
Shame on you
You're totally free to shoot while jumping though
Serpentine
That thing has been nerfed twice and is still one of the best guns in the whole game
"bracing yourself on a roof" just sounds like slow headglitching gameplay
Well because standing on two feet is stable
I kinda wish the Glock in 2042 was fully automatic
jump shooting is fast and fun, requires more skill than abusing headglitches
Instead of semi
Who hurt you
They’d have to nerf the damage if they did that. Lmao. That Glock is a shred machine in burst
fuck this shitty game if they ever add that shit
stable? thats for horses
Glock is already best handgun . No need for fullauto there
No
YEP
That’d be sweet
Bro people thinking jumpshotting is unreal and they get happy when rendezook is in the trailer
Get a better comeback kid
I wouldn’t mind some akimbo weapons in BF
I’m not even attacking you
It's like how shooting while crouched is more accurate than shooting while standing. Shooting prone is mkre accurate. Bipods are more accurate.
Shooting while moving is less accurate and thus jumping will make you way less accurate.
it's actually wild how people want to act like Battlefield is Squad
Dessert eagle akimbo
Why are you so aggressive lmao
Only akimbo we had was hardline scorpio smg
Sure
Used to run those in BO1
I’d like to see Deagles in this game
If you jump around off rooftops you might get lucky but theres no logical reason to make shooting while jumping around more accurate
Not that it’s unreal, it’s just fucking annoying
Purely a skill issue on your part

You can do same thing
You could try to aim down sights whike jumping which might help
you can track them and shoot them in midair, you know
jumping doesnt make you invincible
But it won't be great
You cannot maintain a sight picture while jumping
I don’t really die that often to jump peeking. Usually I kill them then talk shit about how it ain’t COD
Bro the MTAR is a Beamer
Ye instead aim better to shoot the guy Who is jumping duh
It's called game balance for fucks sake
I think it might be one of my faves
I had a guy a while ago that i would have missed him if he ran off the cliff.
But he jumped before going over the cliff
Realistic baby 
You also can’t be rezzed after getting hit by a car at 3 MPH
we are playing a game where defibs bring people back to life infinite amounts of time, but jump peeking is not realistic
what
Jump peeking is a balance issue.
You cannot be revived after being crushed by a tank
no it isnt
BUT HERE WE ARE
For fucks sake are you like. Actually dense.
Tano man
You cannot be revived if you get hit by any vehicles at all
You can't reeaally see too well jumping to look over something so i dont really see that as vital
He’s trolling you dawg
That’s what made the Bolte spam such an annoying thing.
Tank can be repaired by a blow torch looking thing
HES IN YOUR HEAD MAN YOUR DAMN HEAD
I'm not trolling at all about jump peeking preston
it's a fun part of fps games
Fair enough
and part of BF and it should stay that way
Switch torch from heal to kill when its a bad tank
Since fucking when was it a part of BF
This
ehh id rather have those jump nonsenses removed
It wasn't in any of the ones I played
Things that we can't do in real life and games let's us is one of the best part of video games

I killed like 8 repair people once from a tower cahse they kept trying to protect this tank
Just fucking activate noclip on Garry's Mod and kill enemy spawns if you want to be like that
Like getting 8 hours of sleep
Rocket the tank again
okay dude
Gamers evolving they stream themselves sleeping 12 hours nowadays 
Lmao
anyone notice that they removed the the screen shake you’d get while sprinting after season 1 launched
Instead of complaining about jumping. Why not git gud simply
I’d argue it wasn’t really a part of gaming until recently.
Bunny hopping has been around. I mean they made a returning bunny sniper a character on BF friends.
But jump peeking is kinda a “new” thing in games. Which explains its prevalence in this title.
They countered bunny hopping and dolphin diving with accuracy penalties
Bf2 bunny hop dive into prone sim
I liked bf5s counter to it
BFV's sliding is fucking stupid.
True gamers never sleep they just let themselves go in psychosis
Was always a thing. Until bf1. Slide aim till they nerfed it to hell
The whole fall on your back and on your side thing was good
I used to slide backwards a lot. Lol
shit was fun though
bfv's slide was fucking dope
literally
Like. It doesn't even slow you down. There are no limitations. You can slide up staircases.
Yeah bf1 slide was pretty sick
strafing with the slide back and forth sideways
Why the fuck would I want that shit
god it was good
You can do that in basically any game that lets you slide.
In bf1 before slide nerf.
Because stairs are just inclines. They don’t have the hitboxes of each step.
When are they adding wallrunning and titans to battlefield ?
oh nvm
100 years
BF1's 'nerfed' sliding is exactly where it needs to be: a perfectly good way to help dive into cover that cannot be spammed by some braindead fucking ROF-shitter.
Battlefield titanfall. 
God I’d pay so much for that
I’m the opposite. I would pay no money for an advanced movement futuristic battlefield
1's movement in general is just great. There's a few things from V I'd add to it, like rolling to break falls and grabbing ledges from a jump, but otherwise it works well
Cold War Battlefield game or bust
True cold war.
You ever get a chance to play titanfall ?
No. It didn’t interest me
yea its just nothing like battlefield, it would be hard to make it work with large maps
Not bloody Vietnam, I'm talking F-15s and Mig-29s going at it over the German countryside while people duke it out on the ground
That’s understandable
1 felt sluggish to me
I feel like im in a fucking asylum full of demented ridden old people that can do nothing but repeat the same words loop like a broken record
If i'm perfectly honest
Nice
1 is very much not sluggish, especially in comparison to what came before it.
In comparison to V it feels like molasses to me
hey
im not good at english
bfv isnt "stupid fast" its just not slow
If you like it slower of course you're gonna say BF1 isn't sluggish
there are games that make bfv look slow
Which is valid...just not objectively true
We're not fucking Titan Pilots, we don't need to sprint at 40kph
That’s alright friend you can try your best 
V is nowhere near that fast lol
Well it sure looks like it sometimes.
You’re right we need faster sprint 
I remember being able to change my FOV for the first time in BF1
Good lord I felt like the flash
What do you need help with?
Whats the most played modes? Cause I tried a game last night around 1-2 AM and 2 128 player modes were pretty empty
im noob battlefiled2042
I think the game is pretty empty in general during night on weekdays
Fuck no, it's just observing some of those goddamn level 500s
i need my teacher
I swear to god max ranking gives a passive 20% speed boost.
no, lightened stock gave you a speed boost
and good players always used that in bfv
Also rank 500s are just scary man
I didn’t even get close to max rank in V
Ask Way
teacher plz
And I played it a lot
hell I was like rank 320-something
Bfv had other attachments that weren’t scopes?
them dicking with the ttk for the 2nd time killed my passion for bfv
170 for me. With over 570 hours.
5.0 was dope, 5.2 was the wack one
Never went back to pre patch. But it did get better
fg42 on 5.2 
oh wait yeah
FG-42 was the worst case scenario though
There were still weapons that weren't awful
You can hear way crying rn
yea there were like 6 god guns that patch
But it got so much better
FG-42 after all the TTK fuckery got real good
Funny that the madsen was like the only consistent gun in that patch
there's no teacher for me? TT
teach you what
IM good at BF1 and IM bad at BF5 and IM noob 2042
we aren't here to teach you lol
How would we even
OK sry TT
we dont have magic powers
THX U
We can help with like. Recommending good loadouts and stuff. But that it really
not really actually
well, not yet
the metas not built for classes and won't be for a few weeks
im from south korea and I can't found discord asian server or korea sever
I suppose. But guns didn’t change much really. Can still recommend an good gun
the meta didnt wildly shift that much
Guten morgan
at least the guns
as noted it's impossible to draw one way or the other
guten tak
the meta hasn't shifted, because people haven't adapted yet
but that's not the meta for the update
Yeah good guns still exist
There isnt some difference in bf1 and 2042 so wildly insanely different that you'd be good in one and awful in the other. The same point and click applies unless you were a bombet abuser or something
They didn't change terribly much
AM40 is still based
Indeed
am40 is a melter
Its solid
it rewards bursting rather than full mag dumping
Like...the MTAR! :)
am40 is dope
Maybe I just got good at controlling it. But I could full auto that bad boy at range
it just gets bad spread on top of the recoil after like 20-25 bullets
Maybe I've got the wrong attachments
I'm never good at figuring out meta attachments
Is the mtar solid btw I haven’t been able to get my hands on it
its whatever
Ugh
am40 feels much better
Indeed
very similar guns
MTAR is a monster up close, but it has a lot of recoil making it a bit lackluster at range
Sounds about right, thanks for that
I've gotten a lot of high-kill games with it so far
Drill sgt said when you fire automatic say "die mf die" and thats about as long as your bursts need to be
It applies pretty well to games too
Honestly MTAR works best when used like an SMG
Sounds abt right
The MTAR is balanced for BF3, which actually, ya know, had recoil in it.
hipfire is quite nasty with it
it's not a bad gun, i just hate the reload speed
compared to am40 standard ammo its slow as hell
Yea, they usually feel a bit slow cus I lowkey need something new to play with and the am40 is a solid pick
balanced in BF3
that's not because of the recoil, that's cause the game purposely made you miss you half your shots
bf3 gunplay was not peak fps design, enemy missing their shots making you miss your shots? no thanks
Bf1 didnt shake your vision at all on full auto so you could spam off shots only stopping for weapon heat
BF1 just had suppression which was STUPID :)
2042 visual recoil stuff is pretty close to reality id say
Blends right in with the orange clouds
Well
Am I the only one that feels like whenever you hop in one of those you're in for a wild ride?
I swear every pilot I've met using that skin is built different
And probably not correctly
Like they're not bad but man are they insane
No cause you csnt see the camo color from the spawn screen
Yeah but once you get in it you can see the camo
You can see the outside from the inside
Or when I see them on the enemy team
on the turret cams yes
If i saw it from there id just get out at next convenience
The front turret can't i dont think
I usually end up on the miniguns anyways lol
But you can figure the camo color out by being 4" off the ground all the time
If youre clipping light poles...
Might be an orange camo
If you're hitting traffic cones..
Definitely orange
lmao
Bring back suppression I want to be rewarded big boy points for shooting at someone
I’m sorry I’m jk gecc I swear
yeah, the RAW experience
What, you don't already?
Radio on always
For missing shots u mean
Yes absolutely
Nah but now I will

Yo devs idk what magic you sprinkled on the last patch but overall the game feels very solid now 👌
bitchdust 
Damn the game actually feels so good now
oo hell yea just sniped a bid for a rtx 3080 for 473 bucks lol
Nice
when u place a bid for the last minuite lol
Fr
Good battlefield 5 matches lasted like double
that seems like a long time
Could’ve sworn I played a few that were longer than that
keep in mind were not a milsim game lol
I’m just glad the game is playable now
20 min game, 5 mins end of round screens, 30 sec timer to load into a new game.
maybe in some specific modes hemp, but a lot of bfv games were 20-30 for me
also i think in the future i can imagine dice introduing a new feature like persistant battlefiled where the battle is always going, something akin to planetside 2
I only played strategic conquest
They need to throw me into another match immediately
Would be cool, but hard to implement
This
Yeah the downtime is excessive
Game ends. End of round shit for like 2 minutes, 30 second timer. Then the 5 minutes of loading into a new game with 2 minutes being cutscenes
Its like they designed this end of round thing for people to take a whole bathroom break for number 2
P O O P
50 minute bf1 war pigeons games 
War Pigeons either lasted 5 minutes or 50 lol
I swear when bf1 first came out each single match lasted like an hour
That mode was so much fun when it was a good match
You could be close
It would be the last pigeon
And some guy shoots in the air
and gotta do it all over again
Also does match making do like skill based balancing
yea but thats nothing new
Youd think more than 10 fingers would be advantageous
Sometimes I wonder if my team has W keys on their keyboards
Or analog sticks on their controllers
some lobbies are just painful, where your team is "sniping" without hitting targets
been like that forever
They dont even have a keyboard. Just 1 joy con and a trackpad.
Or maybe theyre playing with a raching wheel
there’s no sbmm
please dear god no SBMM
look at mw2
bf2042 was never a competitive game
turning it into one is a bad idea
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read what i just said
bf in general never was one
How about skill INFLUENCED match making 😜
thats just SBMM with extra steps
Bing bong
Just stop putting me on teams using vehicles as suicide 1 person transports
bf being random lobbies is a selling point for the game
If i have 5 friends how do we play together?
Ea: u dont have 5 friends. Stop lying.
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You suffer with the terrible squad management system and lack of persistent servers
why do u think we are in this discord, its to find ppl to play with lol
U missed the point. You cant play together in large groups.
good
I mean, you can
How do we do that?
i was tired of clan stacking
you definitely can lol
i see groups larger than 4
remeber when the entire enemy team is a clan
there is a team chat and a team voice comm option
Say you have two squads. How do you do that?
so clearly people do it
it's not exactly difficult
Join the same match every time?
Join game Split squad invite others
Lmfao
^
it's literally done every single week dude
FNB has multiple squads playing with each other
yea ive seen groups of like 8+ lis players in videos
just spamming lissiles together
But what if my squad is full?
then it creates a new squad?
So i have to leave my squad to split join on the odd man/squad out?
you're clearly not listening whatsoever lmao
the point is u can join on ur friends
squad/party voip exists but there is no team voip, only the team text chat (along with squad and party chat)
it doesnt matter if ur squad is full
if there are 8 PEOPLE in a group 4 join the first squad, the 5th person JOINS the first 4, that creates a new squad, and the other 3 join the 5th
its not hard to understand
and it's not rocket science
precisely
Ok if i have a fully squad, with 4 people total, and i have another friend alone who wants to play with us, what do i do to get us into a game?
one of you hits the new squad button and he joins
you all just won’t be in the same squad, but you can all be in the same squad
3 and 2
Have solo guy join a game, and we all join on him?
We need to do this after every 20 min match?
well yeah dude, cause squads don't have 5 people
Whelp looks like my application to EA student volunteer got accepted
or in this case, “change squad” which randomly makes you join a diff squad, or you make a party and invite the others into that party once you’re in a different squad, which will then make a new squad
it’s a little confusing due to the lack of good squad management, but very possible
congrats!!
just because something 'never has' doesnt mean it shouldnt. Lol
yea a real "new squad" should exist but thats what i meant
This will help me with my career path in the future so can’t wait to see what’s it like
is that an internship ?
It shouldnt be this much work to play with a group greater than 4
yeah it’s possible to make a new squad, but yeah no clear button
guess what dude there's bigger reasons why squads aren't 5 people outside of your "we have 5 people" reasons
hope you enjoy it
Something like that
the world doesn't revolve around you
Whats the reason?
nice, congrats
To help me with some more exposure to game development
game balance squad count the fact there's 64 not an even number of people in a team
do math my guy
there isn't 70 players in a team, it's a 128 player game, 64/5 =/= a coherent number
they nerfed it recenty didnt they
squad revives only gives u 25 % health now
I just wanna be able to easily play with more than 4 people, all on a server
And not have to do invites back and forth each match
you already can stop whining
Its annoying and make me just not want to play the game. Thats all im sayin
making it easy will also enable clan stacking which break the entire games balance
So no clans in bf? Lol
not officially but its not hard to make a clan server with a diiscord
if right clicking a username and setting up a discord voice comm is so inconvenient I don't know why you're playing a squad game to begin with
go play a 32v32 game
you can play with large groups in portal, otherwise its best to stick with a group of 4 for the main game
If there were 64 people that wanted to play together what would happen?
that shit would break the balance 64 organized players vs 64 randoms is just pub stomping
Lol do yall even play the game yo?
dude is acting as if platoons didn't exist in battlefield 3
Or just sit in discord yelling at people with questions
think you need to learn your history of this franchise my guy
ive been playing since bf3
yes
i know what u want and it not good for balance
guess what clan stacking DID exist in prior games
people clan stacking just to pad their K/D is stupid
and it ruined entire fucking servers
yup
bfv clan stacking was obnoxious as fuck
in NA there was usually 1 breakthrough server and on one side there would be 6 people from the same group usually
I know the 2042 matchmaking system isn't as popular, but it's helped a bunch in reducing the instances of it
infact I'll give a little example me and 15 others in battlefield 3 would regularly join games together in 64 players matches, and it was such a snooze fest for us that we stopped doing it
even 4 stacking with a solid group turns into a snore
and it wasn't fun for our team or our enemies either
i rather have bf 2042 MM than the clan stacking BS in previous games might be fun for the clan playing but for the random enemies on the other side its will basicly be a constant rotation of players leaving and new players joining
perhaps, but 4 is a reasonable number at least compared to say: 8+
we had that much of an impact on the game state that even if we were 600 tickets down, we would still win the game
it isn't fair on a server having 4 squads being able to intercommunicate
4 organized players in a squad can already shift a game lol
u dont need more than that
I dont even have a clan. I just wanna play with more than 4 people together on a server without doing extra clicks setup. When the matches are already short. Soo much wasted overhead time setting up getting into a match together.
then go create your own server dude
portal exists for a reason lol
you have the opportunity to, stop whining over nothing
Spend 1 hr playing bf2042, at least 25mins total waiting around getting things together.
well you must click a few buttons to do that in 2042, and its not going to change
Wack.
what you want to do is have DICE give you a reason to destroy public lobbies
they arent adding server browser, and i dont see the squad management changing either
So you want 5 or 6 man squads? I'm fine with that, but they would need to rebalance the spawn system and I doubt they would do it that late now
They would need to shift to squad leader only spawning IMO, which has its own problems too
No i dont want a squad size increase, but i wish they had a more intuitive friend/squad management system
Lol ea is a joke it’s Friday bought the game Tuesday and still haven’t got it
It's not impossible ha
having 6 player man squads for u, and everyone else only having 4 because it was random is the most bs game balance idea ive seen
it is, 64 players means having 5 or 6 man squads will always have the final squad never full
Wat?
So what, that happens sometimes in the current game anyway
it's not healthy for matchmaking or the game
Sometimes if im in a match i cant even invite the last dude in
Whats up with that? Did you just not download it?
good luck telling the playerbase that if they join a game last, they're never going to have a full squad
@little zealot you cant divide 64 by 5 or 6 without a remainder
I don't think that makes any major impact though
I still get games in 2042 where I happen to be in a 2 or 3 man squad
Didn’t got my game in my account it still says payment pending when my money is gone
yeah, but you can still get to 4
Contact EA support then lol
Like you should have the option to lock the spawns on ur vehichle to ur squad
sure - well if we're talking about theoreticals here then, cause we are
you cannot get to the maximum under any circumstance with 5 or 6 players
then I would just say IF the next game had 5 or 6 man squads
you adjust the total player count accodingly
For example, make it 120 players
yeah, go 80 total and you can have 5 man squads again
Did it 10x everyday they said we can’t do anything about it we need to wait for the bank to deposit to ea
My money is gone. There is no bread sergei...
128 was a pretty odd number to choose anyways from the start, 100 would have been totally fine
Well if your bank hasn't deposited it theres your problem lol
We're all talking theoretical/next game here, no way is 2042 changing squad sizes - its insanely unlikely
-sad russian violins-
yeah I agree
I mean, it's not necessarily odd - just double
No it’s not my bank it’s the bank from the payment option
but it didnt have to be specifically, I get it
The provider
Its all bit numbers
they do so for being a multiplier ig
some modes in the past were 16v16
I mean it makes sense from a simplicity standpoint, just double 64 and boom
4 members per squad and 4 classes seems perfectly fine to me
7 classes
(Or so they thought)
Thats console only
anyone who plays bf knows 64 player can have zerging issues. and they double it 
Was it
Yeah but thats why they made the maps so much bigger I'd wager, to try and alleviate that issue
Not that it really worked
But yknow
Split sniper from recon medic from support and make a class just for spray and prayers so thst when they tap enter it just says "ptfo!" So they dont have to waste time
Gotta try to evolve the franchise somehow
it didnt work in the slightest on breakthrough
yum big empty maps, just manifest my shit up
128 BT is a joke
128BT doesn't exist anymore for that reason
bf3 on console was 24 max
not 32
they should have known better that adding double the entirety was going to destroy the map flow of the game
(except the recent event which was quite fun IMO)
right
but Im saying older BF games on PC were 64
32 to 64 works fine because the maps are big enough
so it wasnt foreign to the franchise
128bt on not-spearhead would work
but I don't excuse them for not thinking ahead to the obvious
Spearhead 128 BT was mid. it would play much better with 80-100
I mean we have the benefit of hindsight now
Hourglass or something would do better than spearhead
64 players defending one point is just too much
Back at launch, 128BT was very one-sided
the game didn't need to be out for folk to know, it was already discussed as soon as the game was announced
Dropping it to 64 did help a lot
I think one mistake was that they thought larger counts (128p) required larger maps - but I don't necessarily think that's needed. Having higher density in open spaces is totally fine too. I think they needed larger CAPTURE ZONE areas, more than anything
3 flags per sector for 128p
Exactly
like dont get me wrong you can do some funny shit like get 10 kpm in a tank on 128 spearhead
but its dumb imo
and I think "3 small capture points = 1 sector" didn't quite translate as well as they hoped
nah they would still run into general design problems due to player spam, drum mag use is a symptom not a cause
We have the benefit of hindsight now, they didn't have that and may not have been able to really determine how it would truly play out
because the actual combat spaces to control an area are suitable for like, 10 players
10kilometers per minute
player spam as in, too many players?
hindsight was always the easy excuse
it wasnt rocket science to see it was never going to work
Doesn't make it any less true
If the zones were larger, it would mean longer cap point fights, but eventually one side woul win
too many bodies to shoot at and too much utility/gadgets to fight through
I'm fine with less frequent caps if the combat in those spaces involves more players
lis missile squads are also a symptom
all you had to do was look at the map design, the spawn regions of each map and it was obvious
I'm not saying it wasn't inherently a flawed plan
the other alternative could just be simply more capture points outright
64 has worked for so long that there's not much point in changing it anymore I don't think
you still run into 1 final point with the whole team
128 has potential honestly
I do think Battlefield had to do something to innovate. More players was a valid choice, dont think it was implemented as well as it could have
Agreed 100%
it's pretty clear whoever came up with sectors has played planetside extensively, but the franchise was never going to be that type of game
they have to keep innovating tho, even if they fail
I think Battlefield needs a 'new generation' of Conquest. Something where there are more roles on a field. It's still a ticket based system, but offer more things to do than flags only. Titan Mode I think is a good example
planetside 2 was and still is terrible for all the same reasons
considering its still got an active playerbase, and is still being developed, that's not a straightforward answer
makes me lol whenever people bring it up in here
it's its own niche of game
Maybe it could be flags + but also give each team a main base that if breached and destroyed, significantly hinders the team, and then maybe give some other smaller objectives that impact the match. So folks can decide what to o
you might not like it, but others do
planetside 2 was fun, it has issues but it was fun
it's dead jim, they can't fill a continent and keep closing servers
? have you seen the game lately
it literally just had a massive content expansion last month
i follow it extensively, new stuff comes out and bumps the player count for a week before it drops to lower than before
@solar tinsel i want to see a bf game without conquest so they can make the maps for Frontlines / Breakthrough instead of trying to make it work for both
like bc2 focusing on Rush maps
3 td day i am trying connect to game and is impossible (xbox). Did EA still have problems with bf 2042?? Tha nx for any tip
good, if you follow it extensively you know it's got around 80k players daily
?????????????????
and for a game that's been out for over a decade that's pretty damn good
there's 400 per server MAX, where are you getting this?
I think 128p could've worked if there were more capture zones. Too big of a capture zone and you get into games of hide and seek trying to clear objs, and have a much harder time defending. The problem was that there was far too much dead space. Look at pre-3.2 breakaway, half the map doesn't have ANY objectives at all. The ice fields and the glacier are just empty. If there were 10+ objectives scattered around the map you might've gotten some pretty interesting and dynamic gameplay that would've effectively spread out those 128 players.
look at fisu or voidwell player counts, or nice.kiwi
there is potential in having huge battle zones, ive even seen it in star citizen during the jump town event where air assets, ground assets like tanks and infantry all work together in trying to secure an area, ive seen huge battles consisting of more than a hundred people
They could also do a mode of like 32 players and then add bots to make the game feel bigger
Give real players a different icon
tbf in sc we dont have quick respawns but there is potential here if dice figures it out
bots being an always on thing would suck
please see emerald server
200 people now, like 600 at peak
and thats only because connery is soft closed due to lag and bad continent rotations
anyways the population isn't the point, it's that it's managed to sustain itself for this long
and considering the state the game has been through 3 publishers, that's a testament, not a downside
it's been on life support since 2015
it was literally acquired by a new studio
daybreak is SOE in a trench coat, no they didn't
On an unrelated note, I noticed Irish and Crawford's mastery progression didn't change at all - do you think it's impossible for DICE to change mastery progression parameters for some technical reason? I dont think anything has ever had mastery progression changed
they got divested from sony proper and had to name change
eg7 is an investment firm, daybreak still develops and publishes their own games
they said as much when questioned about the weird directions ps2 keeps taking
they are a subsidiary, DG are not their own company anymore
and EG7 have given them the financing to continue development
you can try and twist it, but that's what happened
they take the money out of everquest and don't even mention ps2's existence on financial reports
so what?
there's a 4th construction rework coming because minecrafters are the only people who spend money on the game and everyone else is leaving in droves
it's a shambling corpse of a game and not a model of success
that's why the daily count keeps going down every month i'm sure
it's been stable for months at where it is now
fisu has the receipts
https://ps2.fisu.pw/population/ increases over 200 are artificial bumps from new content or the "we're trying the world record again" event
and..?
they immediately lose all those players again by the next month and then keep declining
dude, they lose those players and it still stays where it is
they literally return
that's not a "declining playerbase", that's an active, recurring one
you need to look at the 50 other games that model on that same system
including this game
if you want 2042 to be the same zombie ps2 is then be my guest
I really don't have an opinion about the game in all honesty, you just have an apparent hatred for it
they both have their niches, people like this, others like PS2, insert x other niche category
are we back to judging playerbase numbers by lackluster data
apparently
ah yes the developer provided API produces garbage numbers because i said so
fisu isnt steam numbers, that's every person who logs in as scraped from the player api
why bring up steam numbers if they don't mean anything then?
they do? people you know, take the time to open and play the game?
fun fact, 2042 had less players, than PS2 did at one point
..?
it's literally the only semi reliable tool that exists to track aggregate numbers?
Snipertards get the rope
That is all
17 and 42
I'M HELPING
😔
No you're feeding my friend
Dude if I'm going positive and I'm lemming into the meat grinder
And you're neg when sitting at the extreme edge plinking?
We've got an issue
I'm absolute DOGSHIT at this game and I can manage to keep up and help push/res
Watching the squad I'm forced to play with sit on the edge of the map and miss every shot the entire match makes me want to scream, man
And sniping isn't even hard
How do they go negative
by getting killed is my guess
You're not supposed to know that....🤫
coming back to this, i played it for years and watched it get squandered at every opportunity, it's my job to make sure it doesn't get used as a measure of success or to justify terrible game design decisions
it's not your job dude
your opinion has no more weight than people who enjoy the game
Even if 2042 is actually fun now
stop thinking there's some duty to protect it
EA/DICE should be sued for the bait and switch between the Tech Test and Release tho
you can't sue them for that lol
Damn what are we arguing about now?
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I KNOW
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I could deal with most of the BS from the tech test and beta
But when they added in 3/4's ADS bloom I dropped it
Actual nut punch
I am
Rush XL is the most fun I've had in this game since release
Most fun I've had since full squads with friends in 3 and 4 in a BF game
Yo next bf are we getting 256p lobbies?

I still hate their dumbass operators
But I've got the ones I use most looking generic enough to be acceptable
If we're going to keep upping the number just completely rip Planetside at this point
I’ve never played planet side but I’ve heard it’s suuuuper buggy
Planetside with not gigashit devs on a modern engine f2p would have made EA shitloads of cash
PS2 is just janky older battlefield with no player cap
Persistent fighting across multiple 10x10 km maps
I’d love it if they made it for Xbox tho I’d try it out
Its dead now since the devs squandered it slowly over the last decade
its too fun, just massive shit going around all over the place
"""Dead""" but nothing like it used to be
What’s the possibility of them working on a 3rd game?
I just wish it didn't play so clunkily
They announced one a few years back
Haven't heard dick about it since
Especially after Planetside Arena flopped lmao
the game didn't have a good period from its dx9-11 transition, was when most of the playerbase left
planetside arena died in 3 months because they were chasing battle royale long after the trend stopped being interesting
mostly down to Sony not knowing what to do with the game
The rework of Breakaway, at least on the 64p version, has fundamentally changed it in a pretty good way. Namely, I've noticed that it develops actual frontlines.
Hell they added a premium only faction
Yeah ikr
nso is free and also garbage
Planetside 2's double XP income rates are what it should be by default ngl
Like, people are setting up defence positions and holding like it's mini-breakthrough
NSO you have to have membership last i checked
it's free
Since when
a while now
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Get fucked
I remember hearing about a new faction coming and thinking hey that's p cool
Ah alright I see now tbh I’ve just been looking at games that might be a large scale war like bf like competitor wise
nso was considered pay2lose when it was a membership feature
Then the other shoe drops that it was member only
lmfaoooo
God the building system feels so tacked on too
And how expensive it appears to be to unlock everything to actually make it useful
Never bothered
planetside did try, but it was never going to succeed
the game simply isn't built for the same type of combat
Battlebit: Remastered looks p good
I know there’s a game based on the war in Ukraine that’s being made that’ll be like 50v50
It does look good but I’m only on console unfortunately
even tanks in the game aren't anywhere near the same as the ones in battlefield
RIP
So I’m mean hopefully it will come to console but who knows
Nice lmk how it goes
i joined their playtest discord and ive been slacking on playing it 
Like it’s been awhile since bf had a actual competitor I guess if you don’t count cod mw2
battlebit is more like squad. imo
But mw2 ground war isn’t even that good
mw2 is wack
MWII sbmm is spastic though and ruins it if you aren't a literal bot
Yeah I’ve seen squad it looks like a awesome game but the devs said it couldn’t run on next gen console but I’ve also seen other arguments that it could
SBMM is the single reason I won't buy MW2
as soon as it was announced I stayed clear of it
you not missing much. the amount of maps they released is laughable
Squad devs are mega mongs so don't hold your breath at all
Game runs like ass on PC half the time too
😂
Wdym?
I actually really like the combat for mw2
got bored literally first week playing same 3 maps
They're incompetent morons
but won't buy it
Oh shit really? Lmao
ew
long story short squad has gone through 3 rebuilds from scratch, the first iteration tried to compete with Battlefield, and it's why it got so much attention, then they tried changing it to give it its own identity, but then all the original players stopped playing it
I really want to try out WW3 when and if it comes to console I’ve heard some bad stuff about it but it’s free so I won’t complain
and now it just doesn't function properly so meh
Wow yeah I didn’t know it was that bad honestly
my only gripe with squad is you have to deep search for a good server. then have fun for like a week or 2 until the server owners screw it all up by breaking their own rules.
i've played WW3 on PC and honestly i had alot of fun with it.
I just play Arma 3 most of the time for """milsim"""
it's worse than that summary if I'm being honest, development has been a mess
@sharp marten Arma Reforger is a p good pvp hardcore shooter
ww3 gunplay is pretty fun. their servers are ass cheeks tho
Its got bad reviews due to lack of content on steam and because people still think its supposed to be Arma 4, but what it has is still solid
I have played reforger before it’s pretty cool and I’ve heard that it’s like the testing grounds for the next arma to come to console
I'd be wary of Arma on console but how well Reforger runs and looks absolutely blows me away
especially for battlefield players
they are apart of my.games and they love to hold games back
The only thing that holds me back on reforger and I know it has mods and all but I’m just looking for a large modern shooter
I’m just not a fan of ww2 or ww1 Vietnam Cold War eras games
Once and awhile I’ll hop on HLL with the Homies but that’s about it
still cant believe I paid for world war 3, game was somehow more fun back then than now
Really?
Don't remind me
I bought in when it was in the beta for F2P
Had fun
And then it just got worse and jankier
unfortunate really, had excellent gunplay from the getgo
yeah so tldr sort of a similar story as squad, ironically, it started out as a semi competent hardcore shooter, but then got dumbed down over time
it's now got killstreaks which is where it's at now
How bad are the servers?
not terrible, but bad as in, dead
its actually funny that medic actually carries 2 different defibrillators, not 1
Yes roll back ads ❤️❤️❤️
they said soon so idk when
I wish they would just hotfix it
Yes indeeed
Saw that coming
I mean I think the idea of the change is a good idea
The execution just wasn’t good
Like I said Alex was just testing the waters there’s nothing wrong with that
yes, ext/drum mag needs nerfs but not ads speed lol
sure, but dont do it on production without good testing
I mean I’m pretty ok being a test rat for balance changes would a CTE be good yes but it’s not that bad if they wana test some stuff and if they get a lot of negative feedback they’ll change it
So far a lot of changes they’ve done I say most of them have been pretty smart
i dont mind preemptive changes, but make sure they are decent first. its not that hard, this one was beyond obvious
This
Throw shit at the wall and see what sticks
I honestly don't even notice the change in ADS
Nevermind that its purely visual
😂
CTE would be the best to test this type of stuff if the devs arent sure about changes
Finally
There has to be a reason CTE hasn’t come back, right?
the live servers are the cte
“Finally” my brother in Christ it’s been 3 days
EZ money saved
Tbh I just switched to the extended mag instead of drum but the devs are always WATCHING 👀 so if it gets enough feedback they might to a CTE
Ext mag was completely fine too
The drum mag shouldn’t been touched in the first place
DICE seems to be way more communicative now than before, so we'll see i guess
You’re not wrong man
If the dev team listens to their community only then will a game truly strive towards being great
if you want to nerf drums without making them feel shitty to shoot, you change reload speed or weapon draw time
or up the recoil, or lower fire rate
many ways to nerf them without making them obsolete or annoying to use
By the way funny thing, the anti-class brigade said Classes will kill the playerbase they said, it will dwindle the play count they said. Looking at the steam chart it seems quite the opposite 😂
Alex rn 
My strawman detector is going off the charts rn
one can hope 🤞
Yea I can think of decreasing the reload speed instead of the ADS speed decreasing, I’m not sure if it’s a good change
reload speed and draw time makes more sense than recoil and fire rate lmao
reload speed is already slower than the other mags
I do think increasing ADS time is a good nerf, but the level to which they did it was way too much
i dont see why a drum should change the gun's shooting stats
dont fuck with the "how it feels" part
the point of the nerf was to reduce "in combat" time, im guessing to make it so you cant just use 1 mag and get a lot of kills, like an LMG could
Drum mags do have an impact on a guns handling though IRL
They have so much weight
Compared to a standard magazine
They’re big, bulky, and awkward
Maybe nerf the draw time speed?
you dont need to make the shooting part worse
draw time is also kinda frustrating tbh but it would work better than ads speed for sure
pulling out a drum glock should take longer than a small gun
I think ADS speed nerf would be fine! Just not to this extent
like the Ruby was a fast pullout gun in bfv, it had a niche
not at all. then LMGs would have to be nerfed too
I mean as long it is implemented well
50 round mag of a SFAR is not the same as 200 round mag of an Avancys man
I actually don’t know that I would hate that
I like when LMGs feel heavier anyways
I admittedly loved BFV MMGs
yea but you cant make an AR with a drum mag feel like an LMG, thats just wrong
yeah felt nice setting those bad boys up in a window and let it E A T
Is this me or it seems like the engineer’s proficiency can be used when crouch spamming?
That’s what I’m saying, just not to the extent we had currently. I’m talking a very slight nerf that’s noticeable but not completely neutering
@dapper night true crouch "spamming" makes you a slow target
I’m talking an extra tenth of a second or two
why not just nerf something else that would actually make a tangible difference?
that wouldnt be impactful enough to switch from drum mags
Why not both?
MG-42 users 
Ok but the MG-42 was fun as hell
(Except if you sat in a corner or something, fuck those people)
two tenths of a second is forever in an fps
Aggro MMG for the win
Better than what we have rn
That’s how most of the players that I’ve encountered especially on breakthroughs 
200ms delay on top of the current one? pretty drastic actually
yea thats not gonna feel good
draw time makes much more sense, but that wouldnt be enough by itself
HE REACTED TO MY MESSAGE WHAT DID I TELL YOU HES IN THE GODDAMN WALLS

Idk specifically how much to do it. My point is maybe very slight
Oh and also adding the Neopup 20mm grenade launcher would fix the ADS issues yes yes
^ fix the GL issues on portal maps first though 🥱
Adding mortars would also help the ADS issue as well
YES mortars
What
Fuck that I’ve suffered enough way back jn BF1
you get 6 of each type
Oh shit
noob tube is packed
yep that needs nerfing
3 extra mags
Especially the Air-burst users and Artillery trucks
nades included
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I didn’t know that was a thing
That’s funny
yea +3 nades for any AR underbarrel
Does the k30 drum mag have 3 mags or 2
1 in the gun and 2 reserve I think
Yess
150 pool ye
150!
And you’ll fucking suffer more
Idk if this a great idea but would changing the class gadget of the Assault to ammo-crate instead of med pen and placing it between C5 and Plates would be a good idea?
Am I the only one that's noticed with the thermal scopes you zoom in before way you ads
The Rail Tank and Stealth can handles those like I how I handle Heli players way back in BF4
I watched a video last night that actually argued against this sort of thing. Right now, assault is a great tip of the spear anti infantry class, but it’s entirely reliant on other classes which encourages support players to resupply. Splitting assault kills that
There’s going to be mortars and you’re going to like it one way or another grabs bat
nah, the proficiency would have to be changed again too
Ok grabs APS
free ammo box as a gadget would lead to some crazy nade spam, which is already crazy sometimes
if ammo crate goes anywhere itll be engineer imo
Maybe add a ammo crate instead as one of the pool gadgets?
Same issue
but assault needs a proficiency, what would it be?



