battlefield-2042

[slate meadow]

I don't believe specialist are even an issue to be honest my main issue with the game is 1 terrible spawns it honestly reminds me of cod MW2 spawns and the vehicle balance is non existent right now

[hidden sand]

It makes me so sad that the little bird needs to have rocket pods to be successful, the mini-guns should be the best weapon. That's what was so fun about the little birds in BF4, the miniguns were powerful but you needed to have good aim and good knowledge of how the heli works. Still acessible, but with necessary challenge.

[velvet sand]

Vehicle balance goes hand-in-hand with specialists given how impactful specialist abilities are against them (i.e. Rao hacking being able to functionally shut them down)

[hidden sand]

The mini-guns are essentially useless with the ridiculously low dmg output they have and horrible spread. The only challenge that comes from this is the unintended challenge of the less than stellar flight physics.

[fiery shoal]

nah i dont think so either, i prefer specialists if it came with locked loadouts, im just stating off of general opinion (even if it is from a bunch of idiots)

[hidden sand]

Rocket pods are boring, and imo should be removed and replaced with AA lock-ons.

But vehicles will remain untouched, I'm sure, because DICE only listens to the loud folk.

BFV did vehicles so well and made most of the attachments for them interesting/viable. Now we're back to BF4 levels of boring with sticking to 3 specific attachments because they're the best ones.

[fiery shoal]

yea idk why dice left the "tree attachment" system

it seems easier to do/balance/differentiate

[hidden sand]

Seriously. For instance, you could make the sherman a cqc flamethrowing beast, or a medium range tank killer. Both had their flaws, but still worked and were both viable. Especially with how dmg models worked on tanks. It was so well done in BFV.

All of that nuance is gone now, and it's really unfortunate.

[lilac dust]

Loaded up 2042 for the first time in a few months. Joined a match that was about to end. Then after the end screen the game crashed 😐 Nice

I play on PS5 so crashes are a foreign concept to me

[uncut bay]

another one down

[lilac dust]

does forced bailout count as a vehicle destroy? ... cos if not then 20 vehicle kills is an absurd ask for the weekly challenge

[velvet sand]

don't normal enemy kills count as well?

[lilac dust]

Oh I couldn't finish reading the challenge objectives cos the match started

Hopefully it's not forcing 20 vehicle kills

[velvet sand]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FR_gCtWXMAImZxG?format=jpg&name=large

That's the requirements. And you have a good example while the weekly challenge should be visible somewhere during matches, too.

[lilac dust]

oh thank god lol ... I thought it was 20 enemies killed and 20 vehicles lmao

[river sequoia]

What is the weekly mission now?

[velvet sand]

click the url I linked above

[river sequoia]

Thanks

Oh, finally some good skins

Would be nice if all the soldiers had that type of theme. Like, looking military

[dapper berry]

my guess is they're planning on doing just that

[lilac dust]

they probably will all get similarly cool gear when the battlepasses start coming out

[uncut bay]

here's hoping

[radiant prism]

I do have this unlocked now but damn this looks good

[uncut bay]

it does fit quite nicely i will admit

[gray comet]

They were irritating asf but, at the end of the day, were a high skill high reward weapon. For that matter, the dynamic of infantry shooting out the pilot vs pilot shooting the infantry was also a lot better, though I can’t place my finger on why.

I think the issue at its core is as follows: there are a fuckload of explosives in this game, like WAY too many, yet none do anywhere near as much damage as they really should. The problem is that they’re your best bet though, since the guns on damn near every vehicle have atrocious spread/accuracy.

I mean seriously, the 30mm cannon on jets can barely hit a tank after the 5th round. Miniguns take 6 shots to kill but you’ll need 10x that just to make those 6 shots land on anything other than dirt. And the 20mm cannon on the helos? Jeez. It’s firing HE rounds stupidly fast at the target, but a direct impact does like what, 20 damage maybe? The autocannons on the MAV are like a 5 shot kill, even with direct impacts to the torso.

Damage model as a whole is completely busted IMO.

[lilac dust]

Am i the only one that panicks when they see someone oblivious to your location and instead of going for the takedown / finisher you just spray like a madman with your gun 🤣 This is why I will never do a succesful takedown

[flat tusk]

Haven’t played since unlocking the last weekly. this the new weekly?

[radiant prism]

Yup, headgear for Rao. Super simple challenges and looks great

[flat tusk]

Nice gonna have to get that. Looks cool

[velvet sand]

I'm actually kinda curious as to why there are "quality types" on cosmetic gear like...why is this an "Epic Headgear"?

[lilac dust]

Kinda ridiculous that even before the little bird rockets got nerfed my friends were saying "How did that single rocket you fired at that guy not kill him" ... I gotta admit it is silly when even when they were at their best they were still laughably unrealistic

[velvet sand]

Feels like a pointless addition since none of the cosmetics actually do anything nor does their "rarity" seem tied to anything.

[uncut bay]

to make people want things more. When "epic" and "legendary" cosmetics go up on the store they'll seem more desirable

[gray comet]

40mm grenades are supposed to have something like a 5m lethal explosive radius, but the ones we have are nonlethal after a few inches.

I would more than gladly trade a tenth of the explosive spam for actually effective munitions, any day.

I mean seriously a .22LR keltec does more damage per shot than the 25mm HE autocannon on the F-35/Su-57.

[lilac dust]

Yeah the minigun feels so satisfying to use, but I have no reason to use it atm

[velvet sand]

I've sorta argued for this change to their approach to vehicle gameplay/design: Vehicles need to be stronger and more impactful, but with fewer of them and longer cooldowns. Make them mini-objectives for teams to attack/defend so that taking one out feels like an accomplishment and that they're a very deadly presence on the battlefield.

[gray comet]

One thing I’d change? Stop putting us in fucking timeout after we get into a vehicle.

Also, the vehicle spawn system really sucks. Just because I want a jet shouldn’t mean you can’t have a Nightbird, and vice-versa.

[gray comet]

Theres no reason at all for using them unless there’s literally no other option given, like on transports.

[hidden sand]

I've had people tell me jets are op in this game lol

[gray comet]

Look at the LATV4. No one except people who never use it bother with the minigun. Everyone else uses 30/50mms on them.

[gray comet]

They’re OP in good hands but also really irritating to use.

[hidden sand]

The flight physics on jets needs to be reworked completely. It's astounding at just how bad it feels to fly them.

[uncut bay]

it's astounding how bad it looks to fly them. They float in the air

[arctic grove]

Guys

[gray comet]

They pitch/roll at what feels like half the rate they yaw, and yawing is damn near mandatory because they are constantly pulling up. Also, they are extremely slow.

Take BF4, jets in that topped out at 450 knots. This game? 430ish KPH. They’re half the speed they used to be, and missiles have half the range.

Plus, as I’ve already ranted, the guns suck unless you fire in 2-4 round bursts with a relatively long delay. Shooting at infantry is a real challenge.

Collision physics are such a shitshow I won’t even cover them. See for yourself.

[arctic grove]

Bf1 or bf5 ?

[gray comet]

They are totally weightless. Full speed constantly is the only way to give them some feeling.

[uncut bay]

bf5 for gameplay, bf1 for immersion

[foggy halo]

the real me comes up when im fucked up

[hidden sand]

Absolutely based

[uncut bay]

:)

[arctic grove]

Bf1 feeling better

[gray comet]

flares and dogfights are also really poor in 2042.

Whoever starts the dogfight in back usually wins, there’s very little back/forth, but when there is I will concede it can be pretty good.

Issue is, last time I checked, heatseekers were a 70 damage hit to an instakill + mobility hit

Which offers like zero ability to come back from that.

[hidden sand]

I'm willing to bet money that jets were tacked on at the very last minute

Or if not, were built and then left alone after

[gray comet]

If you’re right, it shows. If not, this game had no pilots involved in its development.

[velvet sand]

Or...vehicle gameplay was designed by Criterion and the lack of a unified vision for the game across the 4 studios working on it results in the different parts they worked on not "meshing" well.

[gray comet]

That’d make sense given the end result.

[velvet sand]

Game really feels like it was made by multiple studios that didn't share a unified vision despite "there's always a team working on BF2042 at all hours of the day!" comments.

[scenic tartan]

They should eliminate all our warfare and hazard zone from the menu and make the whole game be portal and allow dedicated servers

Focus on adding as much bad company 2 through bfv content as possible and just make it a ton of old content all able to be mixed up by server hosts

[hidden sand]

I wonder if switching to a newer version of the engine made it too time consuming to port code over, or they simply couldn't do it.

[velvet sand]

I'm still convinced they couldn't port much of the older work over, hence the scoring system going from a fairly refined system with depth to the "10XP for part damage" system we have now.

[uncut bay]

that'll never happen. They'd be wasting two entire game experiences that they spent money developing

[hidden sand]

1 actually, given AoW is accessible in Portal already

[uncut bay]

oh fair point

i guess i could see them ditching hazard zone considering how badly it's doing

[hidden sand]

Plus the character controller being so janky in comparison to BFV. The entire animation and movement system are huge downgrades, for seemingly no reason.

[gray comet]

Hazard Zone is, in theory, like my ideal game mode sometimes. One life, long(er) range, good atmosphere, but not a BR.

Except then I go to play it and realize its actually pretty boring.

[velvet sand]

Prone still being broken as a joke without any comment from DICE is beyond frustrating. Prone used to work so well, but now it barely seems to actually work - long delays between hitting the button and going prone, "jittering" when prone on a millimeter of elevation, constant sliding for no reason keeping you inaccurate.

[gray comet]

At which point I get bored of the game overall for a little while and go play stalker or something else

[lilac dust]

Hazard zone IMO just needs rewards that aren't just used to go back into the mode... There's zero purpose. It just needs a purpose to run it. Then I can enjoy how the mode works

[gray comet]

I really love the concept of satelites reentering the atmosphere and you’ve gotta retrive the intel! That’s cool.

But the gameplay…less so. It’d be nicer too if the gunplay were a bit nicer for ranged use.

[uncut bay]

yeah i'm a big fan of the concept as well, it just wasn't executed in a great way

with me being a space nerd, seeing things falling from orbit is pure ecstasy, especially when the effects are made so nicely

[lilac dust]

I just can't fathom how they made such a cool trailer, awesome concept and just nothing to go for.... Sure I like getting wins in BR but there isn't even basic stuff like win trackers and stuff if people wanted that anyway

[velvet sand]

Easy: Marketing trailers are much, much, much easier to create and look great than it is to make a good/fun gameplay mode.

[gray comet]

I kinda wanna play it now

Kinda. But…not too much.

[lilac dust]

If they weren't going to make any effort to differentiate themselves with the hunt showdown / Tarkov gamemode that got people excited when they heard about it then just give me a generic BR lol

[velvet sand]

I mean, they got us hyped on a baller-ass BF game and released an incomplete mess, so it's on-brand for 2042.

[arctic grove]

[forest snow]

they need to, put that time and extra resource into portal and AOW

[uncut bay]

i mean i doubt they're gonna do much with hazard zone

would be in their best interests to focus on aow and portal

[velvet sand]

At this point I hope they can it like they did Firestorm. It's a "tertiary" mode and seems like it'll require too much work to improve. As Ranger said, focus resources on AOW and Portal instead.

[forest snow]

hazard zone was a waste of time anyway firestorm wasn't wanted rather they didnt bother in the first place. hopefully just will just focus on core battlefield from now on. no more of this BR, tarkov BS.

[lilac dust]

If we look at it this way... All out warfare is the base game for 2042. Portal was created by a totally separate team so it's like DLC content. There's no campaign so they need some extra content to bulk up the package .... Enter Hazard Zone .... If they get rid of support for that mode then I dunno man. That'd be a yikes considering no campaign

Game would just be hella bare bones in comparison to other games

[velvet sand]

Imagine if they didn't waste time on Hazard Zone and actually delivered more multiplayer content for AOW so it didn't have less core MP content than previous BF games that included campaigns.

[forest snow]

exactly same for battlefield V wasted manpower with firestorm instead of more maps, guns etc

[lilac dust]

If I could choose a hazard zone that turned out to be a masterpiece or more AoW content. I would go hazard zone tbh. So much potential

[iron blade]

Combined arms was more forgettable than firestorm

[velvet sand]

Sure, but clearly the team working on it was either off-base with their design or simply didn't have enough time (story of the whole development process of 2042)

[cedar turtle]

Any game mode can be enjoyable if you've successfully developed the games fundamentals.

[lilac dust]

I have a friend that bought 2042 just for hazard zone and to this day it's still his favourite mode.... I kept thinking hot damn how would he feel about it if it was actually good lmao

[forest snow]

BR and tarkov style modes are not battlefield, they need to focus on the core aspects of what a battlefield game is because as of late im not to sure they know anymore.

[velvet sand]

Now...if they wanted to create a spinoff experience like they're planning for the "2042 universe" like this I'd be down with that. But as part of core 2042...it just feels kinda weirdly tacked on.

[forest snow]

yea do something like what bad company was to battlefield just a fun console spin off.

or even a single player campaign about the origins or something of the specialists I'm all for that but not in a base multiplayer battlefield game.

[velvet sand]

That's being made (though maybe not about their origins). That's what Marcus Lehto's studio in Seattle is being built for - narrative/campaign focused entries.

[forest snow]

i think people mis red what that tweet really meant, i don't think it actually meant battlefield single player games.

[velvet sand]

https://twitter.com/sleepydino/status/1518781358801231873

Literally people being hired to work at the "EA Battlefield Campaign Seattle studio"

[hidden sand]

I'm honestly confused on where this desire to make BF campaign games came from

[slate meadow]

You looove manifest

[hidden sand]

BF has never been about the campaign

[slate meadow]

It was part of the experience

[uncut bay]

i like campaigns, though i prefer linear ones rather than war stories

[velvet sand]

Not "About", but it's had a campaign in the same way that COD has had campaigns despite being a multiplayer-first game. And like, IMO the campaigns in BF1/V, while short, were very excellent.

[hidden sand]

COD was SP first, then as time went on it became MP first

[uncut bay]

the last tiger was an incredible one

[velvet sand]

It's part of the whole "AAA experience", buying a AAA mulitiplayer only game at full price, especially one with less content than previous games with campaigns, feels lame. Same criticisms were levied at EA/Respawn when they were charging full price for Titanfall 1 as a MP only game, and why they added a campaign (AND LIKE THE BEST FPS CAMPAIGN OF THE DECADE) in Titanfall 2.

[hidden sand]

Tbh I would much rather them put resources into better MP BF games than story focused ones

[radiant prism]

I'd say almost every Battlefield campaign has been mediocre at best. Even campaigns like the Last Tiger are only considered good when juxtaposed what they're surrounded by...which is incredibly sub-par.

[velvet sand]

Real, don't get me started gushing at the absolutely top-quality gameplay design of the TF2 campaign.

[uncut bay]

that's the thing though, there's zero guarantee that the "effort" that would've gone into a campaign will actually improve the multiplayer. They'd just be selling us less content for the same price, with the promise that multiplayer would be better as a result

i certainly would have an issue paying triple A price for a mp-only game

[radiant prism]

I can 100% see why DICE decided to divert effort away from a part of the game that has historically been poor quality, and that a majority of players will play maybe once, if at all.

[hidden sand]

Paying triple A price for an MP only game makes sense to me, I don't see why BF would need a campaign

[radiant prism]

The overwhelming majority of the average BF player's experience will be spent in multiplayer

[hidden sand]

BF was always Mp first and only tacked on campaigns when cod was very successful

[velvet sand]

If we had a good game packed with multiplayer content in AOW (since Portal was handled entirely by Ripple) I don't think folks would care about the lack of a campaign. But it's the underwhelming amount of MP content on top of the lack of a campaign (plus the massive quality issues) that are the source of more of the criticism.

[radiant prism]

Then I think those complaints, while valid to an extent, need to be focused on saying "we want more content" not "we want a campaign that in reality only serves as a martyr to demonstrate what we want and not actually something we'll play for more than an hour"

[velvet sand]

I mean...I genuinely want a campaign. Again, I liked the campaigns in the previous games quite a bit. But the criticism you cite and that I cite are basically two sides of the same coin.

[radiant prism]

Fair enough. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed BF campaigns in the past, but they've never been blow-me-out-of-the-water good IMO, and so I can live with them being absent.

[hidden sand]

That's what has confused me most tbh, Portal was handled entirely by Ripple Effect, yet the amount of stuff DICE Sweden managed to add was very, very little in comparison.

[velvet sand]

Plus Criterion and another support studio pitching in. 4 freakin studios built this game, including causing delays to other projects.

But you sure couldn't tell by the quality/scope of content, only by how parts of the game feel like they were made by teams who didn't really talk to each other.

[lilac dust]

It's clearly upper management saying "Look just tell the community the lack of campaign means more effort and time on multiplayer, but we'll just use that to hide the fact that we won't use any of the would be campaign time for anything extra to save money cos we're Electronic Arts 😉 "

[hidden sand]

Apparently the frostbite team was more involved than usual as well

[lilac dust]

I also just can't fathom how so many of these games end up restarting development entirely. It happened with cyberpunk, destiny, BFV I think I heard too..... why can't you just have a vision before making it

[wise zodiac]

That sounds like some Covid related issues to me.

People working remote and not able to corroborate in person.

[dry wigeon]

bf2042 free to play when?

[hidden sand]

I've seen people use the bigger maps as an excuse for the lack of content in AoW, but that's faulty reason because bigger maps are generally easier to create.

[velvet sand]

I'm sure covid complicated things, but I don't buy it as an "excuse" for the end-result. Plenty of other studios figured out how to transition to remote work and put out excellent quality games.

[wise zodiac]

Yeah, but other studios or companies aren't DICE.

Different businesses are managed differently.

[velvet sand]

Like...at my work we were frantically working to get back up to 100% operating status within a few months of WFH/covid, and we're a fairly small team with limited resources.

[radiant prism]

Like Vanguar-ah shit never mind

[velvet sand]

They're literally all EA owned studios...what?

[dry wigeon]

they stopped working on battlefront and put that team to work on 2042 alongside others

[wise zodiac]

Just because EA is the publisher doesn't mean that the other development studios or teams are managed the same.

[velvet sand]

I mean, Elden Ring was developed during WFH as well and they managed to ship an incredible banger of a game.

[velvet sand]

Then that's a massive failure of leadership on the part of DICE and/or EA.

[tiny imp]

EA blame Halo Infinite and covid. EA have done nothing wrong at all.
Halo infinite have dropped their season 2 recently. BF 2042 season 1 havent started yet....

[uncut bay]

a lot of people still hang onto the covid excuse as if there hasn't been ample time to adapt and make changes where necessary

[velvet sand]

Halo is a dumpster fire as well though, it's only doing moderately better than 2042 atm.

[wise zodiac]

And I'm not saying it isn't. 😀

[dry wigeon]

both suck, everything sucks atm tbh

[radiant prism]

Unrelated, but yknow what sucks Xero?

[hidden sand]

Moderately better? Lmao, that's a huge exaggeration. Halo is doing far, far better than 2042 is. Halos biggest problem is a lack of content and the rate its coming out.

[clear quail]

Except my crush

[wise zodiac]

I know at least here in my state, we still have people working strictly from home.

[velvet sand]

It's wild seeing the "big 3 shooters" (Halo, CoD, BF) all faceplanting out of the gate and limping along half a year later with tiny playerbases and angry communities.

[wise zodiac]

I have a feeling you're gonna tell me. 🤣

[velvet sand]

I kinda wish studios would stop pushing for such overly complex/"ambitious" games when it seems clear that the workload isn't reasonable.

[sudden wasp]

next bf will be good #hype

[uncut bay]

too soon

[velvet sand]

DICE will have finally learned their lesson, habeeb it!

[tiny imp]

I wont preorder next bf. Wont do same misstake twice

[dry wigeon]

cod sucks, also it runs like shit for 2019 game, bf sucks, halo sucks so what is there ? play 10 year old games instead

[wise zodiac]

I just want games to return to normalcy.

[arctic grove]

[radiant prism]

Getting people reaching out to me and asking me to join revitalized milsim groups that I left loooooong ago and having fake motherfuckers who treated me like shit being like "hey man I miss you come back we're getting the boys together" like they don't just want me cuz I can get a kill or two. Thankfully no one from 36th, but man, just about every group I was part of for a long time has reached out to me over the course of this year lmao

When I also know damn well I a) want nothing to do with them and b) want nothing to do with BF milsim

Anyways little rant, fuck milsim, click heads

[wise zodiac]

[hidden sand]

Man the bf2042 subreddit pre-launch was crazy regarding this. Nearly everyone completely disregarded everything DICE did during BFVs run. Hype will seriously make you one biased mfer.

[wise zodiac]

I just know that I like my teams to have some communication, organization, and give a shit about people that are a part of the community they're in.

If that's milsim, then shit. 😩 😩

[velvet sand]

EA marketing team did an absolutely killer job with the hype train for 2042. But it's also a cautionary tale about managing hype/expectations, since when you have everyone riding high in the sky on the hype train the trip back down to earth is far more brutal.

[dry wigeon]

well im kinda bored in cod style games cod and apex just make me sick same with bf tbh idk mb im just crazy

[uncut bay]

maybe you need to find new games to play

[dry wigeon]

theres nothing new to play

[wise zodiac]

That's why I like MMOs. It's always something new. There's always new content.

[dry wigeon]

tbh theres nothing new in mmo market either

[velvet sand]

While a valid point, it's also wild to me because we have so many games available to us that the biggest problem gamers face is finding time to play everything : |

[radiant prism]

Nah, I had a fairly positive experience in 36th mainly because everyone was actually decent and could just play the game. Some of the other groups I was in...sheesh.

(And also it really wasn't a milsim by the time I joined lmao)

[wise zodiac]

ESO does pretty good. Couple others I heard about I want to try. WoW released a new xpac.

[hidden sand]

Them using the "it's an old build" excuse honestly still annoys me when I think about it. Anyone who thought anything of that excuse past a surface level would realize they're misleading people. You cannot do much at all within a month or two.

[velvet sand]

GW2 expansion just dropped, ESO update is coming and an expansion too, BDO is pushing some more big updates, there's quite a bit going on for MMO's.

[wise zodiac]

It never really was to begin with. People call it a milsim because there's ranks, but it's to only help with organizing shit.

[radiant prism]

Pretty much yeah. Thank god for that though, people pulled rank over the stupidest shit so many times in other units I was in

[velvet sand]

Wait..."pull rank" in milsim groups?

[dry wigeon]

well all those are bad imo, bdo is just pvp game and it fails even in that, lost ark doesnt even have grp content and it just feels like u gotta have 6 characters to even compete and do all the shit everyday and i already burned out on that like 3-4 weeks ago when i had like close to 1k hours

[hidden sand]

LOL

[wise zodiac]

Yeah it's dumb.

[ruby saffron]

Gravy seal armchair general moment

[radiant prism]

YUP. People power tripping over being one pretend rank higher than someone else's. The run of the mill BF milsim is TOCKSICK

[velvet sand]

You don't have to be on the bleeding edge. I'm a madbad casual and play like 5 MMO's and always have tons of stuff to do since I don't care about pushing progression.

Wow...I mean I get that milsim groups might be more into milsim RP and all but thats...kinda hilarious to me.

[wise zodiac]

Probably the dumbest shit I've ever seen too.

12 year old kids who've never been in actual combat telling me, someone who has, how to maneuver on objectives.

[velvet sand]

Toby fair, a lot of games aren't remotely accurate representations of combat so a 12 year old with tons fo time in the game might actually have a better approach than someone with actual combat experience : P

[hidden sand]

Garrys Mod Milsim servers are one of the biggest offenders for this, the anpunt of people power tripping there, it's crazy

[dry wigeon]

well only game that fits my mmo is wow, but cba on that im just too tired and want to casually shoot stuff and not deal with abusing idiots like in bf4

[ruby saffron]

Milsim groups on bf are either made of veterans, or made of children who want to be a soldier but can’t

[wise zodiac]

... except the dude was trying to tell me, incorrectly, how to breach a room & how to utilize formations in combat.

[velvet sand]

Planetside 2 for shooting stuff? I haven't played in ages but apparnetly more recent update to the game have been solid. Plus there's FFXIV/SWTOR/LOTRO (just updated its model so it's MUCH better and gives more content) for more WoW-esque offerings.

[ruby saffron]

[radiant prism]

Don't forget the Wehraboos! There's a lot of those too.

[velvet sand]

I hope his voice was cracking in the process lulz

[radiant prism]

God milsim is such a fucking clownfest lmao

[dry wigeon]

i can honestly say that i have really checked almost everything known there is to check

[radiant prism]

(and also half of the people who play milsim are complete bots...just farming kills for days 90% of the time)

[dry wigeon]

nothing sticks tbh

[velvet sand]

Oh man let's go deep then...Vindictus for some Source engine action shenanigans? Elyon for Korean import with fantastic combat and an absolutely bonkers world? Fallen Earth for some post-apocalyptic vibes? : P

[radiant prism]

I wish I had more time to talk about my experience with BFV milsim, but I have to go

[wise zodiac]

And I literally told the kid that I'm a Combat Veteran with tours in Iraq, been blown up, shot at, etc etc...

Like, legit in country.

[velvet sand]

Clearly shooped, I can tell because a few pixels are out of place and I have seen many shoops in my day.

[ruby saffron]

That must have been quite insulting to hear

[wise zodiac]

Well, hey, if you do want to come back and play with us in the 36th, let me know. 🤣 🤣 🤣

[forest snow]

yea i think its purely them saying moving to the battlefield project at Seattle studio not an actual campaign for a battlefield game. why would they reveal something like that not from EA themselves.

[wise zodiac]

I shook my head, told the kid everything that he's trying to do doesn't work on video games, and left. 🤣

[radiant prism]

I think the nice thing about 36th (the group I was in with Xero) is that most of the people were actually people who’d served IIRC so everyone at least had a little damn respect

[velvet sand]

That's just the person announcing they've been hired. There were formal announcements Lehto was building a new studio for a narrative entry.

[ruby saffron]

Jesus Christ. My brother is a marine, I wonder what he would have said

[wise zodiac]

Well, hey man, I appreciate it. Would love it if you wanted to hit us back up again. I know school was kicking your ass for a bit, so I understand why you needed to dip.

We're still rocking, so just lemme know. DM me or something sometime.

[wise zodiac]

Probably the same thing. Except, with more crayon munching in the background, lmfao

[ruby saffron]

Lmfao, my family is all either marine, airforce or navy. Last time we had army was nam

[wise zodiac]

So crayon eaters, "SEALs", and hotel experts.

🤣 🤣 🤣

[ruby saffron]

I prefer to needle my father by calling him a decorated chair force officer but hotel expert works

[gray comet]

why is the new Rao headgearthe exact model of the BF4 Russian's one?

[wise zodiac]

They know where all of the good hotels with the best wifi and the best breakfasts are, so of course they're hotel experts.

[ruby saffron]

Gotta get them pancakes

[wise zodiac]

Pancakes, omelets, whatever 🤣 🤣

[uncut bay]

that's what i was thinking, same as angel's pre-order helmet too

[gray comet]

Do suppressors still reduce damage, post update 4?

[vivid nacelle]

this game is lagging hard ftm

[edgy oriole]

Whats the weekly mission I'm at work.

[edgy oriole]

Yes

[fiery shoal]

fuck the man?

[vivid nacelle]

that too

[fiery shoal]

what does ftm mean?

[vivid nacelle]

for the moment

atm was better

[fiery shoal]

ah, im surprised ive never seen that before

[gray comet]

: ((((((((((((

[slate meadow]

@fiery shoal why doe sit say at the end of each game that I have ranked up but then when the Backpage loads my rank is stioo my original lvl like for instance the game will say I've gone from 45 to 46 but then on Backpage it says 45 still

[uncut bay]

because the game is bugged to shit. Happens to me too

[slate meadow]

So it's not just me then 😂

[velvet sand]

Bug introduced in 4.0, will be fixed later. You "rank up" after every match even if you actually haven't.

[slate meadow]

Though patches was supposed to fix things not break them 😂

[fiery shoal]

its the dice specialty, bfv launch was actually solid, it wasnt until they started patching that things started fucking up

[uncut bay]

patches very often break things

software isn't simple, it's a constant battle

[fiery shoal]

of course, just in my experience dice seems to fit the phrase "one step forward two steps back" more than other studios

[patent path]

guys, season 1 when?

[hot bronze]

1-3 months

[iron blade]

Cant wait to get my hands on this new rao headgear

[hot bronze]

its pretty good

[iron blade]

The ones where u dont see the face of the specialists are my fav

[fiery shoal]

"early summer", which imo is from mid june to mid july

[iron blade]

Wish the color was more of a darker green or black, but hey ill take it

[hot bronze]

There is one where it matches the vest and gear really well

[iron blade]

Which one is that? I havent played the game since launch so idk lol

Just gonna play to get this headgear for the hell of it

[hot bronze]

its the new weekly challenge

you can get it in 1-3 games

[iron blade]

Oh wait i misread ur message nvm

[hot bronze]

once you unlock it you can compare it with the default skins. there is one that works realy well with it

[iron blade]

Ah ok, yeah im waiting for that boris altyn helmet that got datamined

I own a Spetsnaz server so im really excited for that

Hopefully they change the balaclava for it to a different color

Hopefully its like black or smth, the whitish grey color looks stupid

[slate meadow]

When are they going to make the store open I want to buy cosmetics

[uncut bay]

it's open, you can buy the year 1 pass

[slate meadow]

No I want pointless cosmetic stuff that apparently doesn't give you any advantage but you know will somehow be bugged to give you an advantage

[fiery shoal]

i suspect they dont want to sell anything when the game has problems, especially without major content

bf4 sold DLC when it was broken and people were pisssssed

[uncut bay]

yeah, wouldn't be a good look

[crude axle]

Not sure if this is against the rules or if this is the right forum, but I am looking for folks to squad with. Anyone interested?

[little dust]

#lfg-pc #lfg-xbox #lfg-playstation

[crude axle]

#lfg-pc - but does it matter with cross play?

[loud flower]

I hate the AC42, the K30 and the PP-29 with a burning passion
I'm just trying to grind my guns out there but I get literally two tapped by these three guns all the goddamn time
Makes the game more insufferable than it already is

[wide shore]

[nocturne cairn]

Do you think we'll ever have a spectator mode again? It would really make fan content pop with how versatile portal is.

dare I dream of a bf1 spectator mode

[uncut bay]

the ac is woefully underpowered, must be bad luck for you

[silk surge]

Welp that settles it

[uncut bay]

ah is that the game dev simulator? Need to give that a try

[silk surge]

I simulated DICE all the way up to BF2042. 2042 ended up being the best-selling game ever made.

[silk surge]

Yeah, its really fun.

[velvet sand]

DICE PROMOTE THIS MAN TO HEAD OF THE STUDIO

[silk surge]

I already am head of studio

[velvet sand]

EVERYONE, DIRECT YOUR ANGER AND TORCHES AND PITCHFORKS THIS WAY!

my my how the tables turn so quickly : 3

[silk surge]

That's OK, I can take it.

[loud flower]

It feels rather OPAF to me since I get one bursted and I die before the last round of the burst

[sage dock]

Piek & Rao Go To White Castle

[silk surge]

I think that the plus system doesn't get the love it deserves. When it was first announced, I thought it would be a gimmick, but it's actually extremely useful ingame. That's the biggest piece of innovation that this otherwise flawed game has.

[uncut bay]

having used it for a while, i feel like it could use a buff. Only really felt like it was effective in hardcore

[uncut bay]

i agree, i was a little concerned but it's turned out to be really nice. Allowing you to run with different playstyles on the go is great for dealing with different situations without having to redeploy, and having multiple ammo pools is also useful for when you don't have an ammo box nearby

[loud flower]

I get curbstomped by the three guns I mentioned all the time
PP-29, two hits, I die
AC42, one burst, I die
K30, one burst, I die
Oh and I forgot the PKP, just hold R2 to be good

Boy do I love getting matchmaked into games about to end

[uncut bay]

on console i guess i can understand, aim assist probably helps a ton with burst weapons

[loud flower]

It's probably not even aim assist, tbh

AH YES
A K30 SNIPING ME WHILE I'M DROPPING FROM A PLATFORM AND THEY'RE ON A ZIPLINE FROM OVER 50M

Magnificent.

[uncut bay]

vector is op as hell, probably the best gun in the game currently

[loud flower]

Love dying from a guy who barely has to look in my general direction to end me

[uncut bay]

i'm taking these opportunities to get T1

with each update the meta will change and i'll get new guns to T1 lol

[wide shore]

I get every gun that’s not meta T1 first apparently

K30 is bonkers rn but I’m trying to get the PBX

[full burrow]

why are the so many weapons in the game its so hard to choose

Joke I dont even have a second sidearm option

[ruby saffron]

Yeah having 3 sidearms is a bit lame

[loud flower]

I love spamming the parachute button when I'm about to fall or the exit button repeatedly borderline a minute before a missile hits my helo and absolutely nothing happens whatsoever

[velvet sand]

Parachute pull is very inconsistent. I usually try to pull low to the ground and despite thinking that I'm fairly consistent in hitting it high enough to pop it with some breathing room I still faceplant because my chute doesn't deploy about 25% of the time. Heaven forbid you bail while the vehicle is low to the ground and you literally can't pull your chute and just die.

[loud flower]

I find absolutely staggering the fact that it's a day 1 issue and nothing has been solved
The absolute lack of additional content is also exasperating

[velvet sand]

Excuse me, they have fixed things. Our specialists now properly hold the handles of our parachute : 3

Lots of movement in this game feels pretty inconsistent/buggy.

[loud flower]

Even that is still broken, I spam the goddamn control chute button and it only answers on the 5th attempt

I have 900mbps in download, 400mbps in upload, 9ms ping, and this game that went through early beta, beta, preseason and now started season 1 makes me wish I was back to Cold War Beta because the netcode was wonky but not THAT wonky

[velvet sand]

S1 hasn't started, not 'till "early summer"

[loud flower]

How come we've got the bundles already then ?

[forest snow]

Surely we should start hearing about S1 anytime now?

[fiery shoal]

this was easily the most rage inducing aspect when i played

[velvet sand]

We don't hear about patch content until the day before it drops, so we probably won't hear about S1 until it's 100% locked, with the build submitted and approved by first party.

[forest snow]

But surely letting the player base know what’s coming keeps them playing?

The silence for future content or lack of a roadmap is killing me

[velvet sand]

Usually, yeah. But DICE seems to dislike that approach, hence why everyone is constantly begging for roadmaps and information./

[loud flower]

I want to like the game but holy damn is it making so darn difficult for itself
Thank gosh I have a whole slew of games lined up
Such as CoD: MW19
CoD: BOCW
CoD: Vanguard
Oh and I can't wait for the release of CoD:MW22

Nah I'm (slightly) trolling, I just finished Subnautica below zero yesterday and it was an absolute blast

[forest snow]

Mean dam at this point put the specialist bundles in the store I’ll buy new stuff!

[loud flower]

No but for real, I didn't touch BF42 since the, second ? third week since they released weekly rewards
Played some CoD, some Subnautica, some Wonderlands, then I come back to it today and nothing has changed

[velvet sand]

It's less buggy and there are lots of minor improvements across teh game in the last update. But no major changes to core systems or anything.

[loud flower]

I don't think I'm bad as I'm usually the guy who outguns most of the guys in the lobby in CoD games but holy damn does it feel like I'm victim of delay all the frickin time in BF42

I see a guy, I press the ADS trigger, I'm already one bursted before even having my reticle on them

[loud flower]

And here we were flaking ATVI for firing their whole QA division but it took DICE up til now to actually make the game "less buggy"

[uncut bay]

Parachute autodeploy is a must in this game

[loud flower]

coughWarzonecough

[forest snow]

Good news is any cheaters in 2042 will go to modern warfare 2 later in the year which is good

[loud flower]

Well the good news for us CoD players is that BF42's player count is already low so there can't be that many cheaters and hats off to Activision for Ricochet because it's actually a good anticheat

[velvet sand]

They didn't fire the whole QA division, but did lay off contract workers that were promised a full time position. But QA isn't to blame for the majority of bugs that get into live-builds. Those are usually reported by QA, but it's up to producers/team leads to determine which bugs are "must-fix" and which are "acceptable" witch builds. Or they just ignore QA's feedback unless it's a literal game-breaking bug.

[velvet sand]

Oh fuck no, I don't wanna be a sitting duck high up in the sky for anyone to riddle with bullets.

[loud flower]

I mean, yeah, but most of their QA were contractors and without bug reports, bug fixes don't happen

[uncut bay]

It’s actually quite generous, it opens very close to the ground as long as there are no tall structures near you, and very helpful for when the deploy button doesn’t work or when you simply forget

[loud flower]

I mean, Warzone does it rather well with an autodeploy that opens up at 110% the lethal drop height, so you really have to bear it for a couple seconds before dropping down all the way

[velvet sand]

With bug reports, including extensive steps on reproducing them and suggested fixes, bug fixes don't happen too. QA gets a really bad rap given that they have literally no power/authority to force devs to fix bugs, so when dev teams let bugs slide folks just blame QA. QA ain't perfect by any means, but they get too much blame given that they're underpaid, largely unrespected grunt workers.

Also, #TeamRemoveArmorGadgetFromTheGame reporting in.

[arctic grove]

Remove armour all together such a cod thing to put in and they need to go back to classes

[velvet sand]

That or the game really was initially designed as a BR-esque Apex clone

[arctic grove]

Ow yes you can tell by the maps it’s a war zone design

[loud flower]

it's literally walking simulator 2021
between points, if you can't call a vehicle (if you remember to) you have to walk for 5+ mn before simply getting sniped but the first sniper in proximity

[full burrow]

I hate that thing where you aim somewhere and then your body turns to it and it just feels so unnatural

[loud flower]

@velvet sand @arctic grove
Tbh armor is pretty fckn useless, what's 20 extra HP points gonna do at the fire rates we're going at

[arctic grove]

Plus’s I don’t mean these to be horrible I no people probably put hard work in but the maps look like something some normal person done on a map editor there’s no life to them

[full burrow]

theres tons of pointless bags flying around in the air tho

[arctic grove]

Yeah drop

They got the guy that did war zone in he made war zone and they slapped a battlefield name on it

[glad mist]

didnt the treyarch pleb work on the black ops cods

[loud flower]

I disagree with the "no life in the maps comment" but otherwise you're right

[desert elbow]

5mins+ lol no

[loud flower]

I'm exaggerating of course but less than a minute, if at least in feeling only, is next to impossible

[eternal flume]

Walking across a battlefield map almost makes you wish you were playing hell let loose

[desert elbow]

Hell Let Loose generally has longer walking times

[loud flower]

I'd rather stare at my microwave heating up my snacks rather than walk through the map only to get sniped or bushcamped just before reaching destination

[desert elbow]

So traverse smartly

People want 3 lane maps and it shows

[eternal flume]

Yeah true but the way the map is designed is so that you get into combat quicker although traversing the map can be so fucking boring at times

[glad mist]

comparing Hell Let Lose with 2042

[desert elbow]

They aren’t, to my knowledge a 1:1 recreation of real battlegrounds (the scale at least)

[eternal flume]

I hate hurtgen forest though and the normandy maps

[desert elbow]

Hell Let Loose also doesn’t have Conquest, only a Frontlines type mode and a breakthrough type mode (which is fine)

[eternal flume]

Just because its historically accurate doesn't mean its a good map lol

[loud flower]

Traverse smartly ? Like, how ?
Do I have to smart out an alcubierre engine to warp the very fabric of space to make the travel time shorter ? Because I don't think you can get smarter than straight line if I want to keep it "quick"

[glad mist]

still a better game anyway

simply for its amount of gore

[loud flower]

6 days in Fallujah?

[desert elbow]

Then don’t go the quickest route lmao, go the way with the most cover

[eternal flume]

Relax bro the game hasn't even come out yet

[desert elbow]

In your opinion

[desert elbow]

Hell Let Loose

[loud flower]

Crossing a no man's land doesn't offer much cover, and going around literally triples travel time
At this point I'm better off redeploying

[loud flower]

I mean, the scale of the terrain for door to door operations is pretty realistic from the trailers I've seen

[uncut bay]

i've redeployed on several occasions because otherwise i'd waste an immense amount of time getting back into the fight

[desert elbow]

It doesn’t though

What situation triples travel time if you want to move safely

[loud flower]

Bro
Between crossing a square from corner to corner
And following two sides to reach the same corner
Which one is obviously shorter ?

[glad mist]

objectively better in every way

[desert elbow]

Answer the question

[desert elbow]

Lol okay but no

[glad mist]

cope

[loud flower]

Slaloming between covered valleys will inevitably triple the travel time of a straight line

[desert elbow]

Air combat

[desert elbow]

example

[glad mist]

boasting with 2042s air combat

[eternal flume]

Helicopters in these games are so fragile though

[glad mist]

that made my night

[loud flower]

How tf do you want me to give you example
Take your legs, go to the nearest forest, cross it straight through then on your way back, go around it instead, time both trips and compare it

[eternal flume]

Like fuck you cant even scrape the ground with a helicopter without loosing half of your health

[velvet sand]

I think we're playing different games >.>

[uncut bay]

yet light helis can tank two rockets lmao, they need less health or more damage received

[desert elbow]

In the game

[eternal flume]

Nope we're talking about 42

[glad mist]

mobile games have better flight models than 2042 does

[velvet sand]

I mean...I agree as I loathe the flight model of 2042 and can't make heads nor tails of it, but clearly a lot of folks very much can and are excellent at it.

[eternal flume]

That ain't my problem my problem is when a heli barely touches the ground ot fucking explodes immediately

[uncut bay]

yes my point is they're not fragile, collisions just deal too much damage, which has been an issue with everything since the beta

[glad mist]

yeah cause the skill floor is narrowed down to hell, obviously any shitter can now farm ants with a 2042 helo

[loud flower]

When I fly an helo, a missile will literally graze me when I'm doing an evasive manoeuver (underrated imo) and when they fly, they always have flares, tank every single missile or shot me or my entire squad are throwing at them

[velvet sand]

Fuckin flares man. I swear there's like only 2 seconds when they're actually on cooldown and not active.

[glad mist]

put those people into a BF2, 3 or 4 helo or jet, watch em get clapped

[eternal flume]

They really do need to fix collisions fr

[velvet sand]

Played a round last night and legit only hit helicopters when they were fine taking 1-2 rockets to get a few extra kills before fucking off. Every single other rocket was "FLARESFLARESFLARESFLARESFLARES"

DICE needs to not farm out vehicle gameplay design to an outside studio again or something, because I assume vehicles were handled by Critereon (much like they helped with ships in Battlefront 2 etc.)

[uncut bay]

yeah, air vehicles need immediate adjustments, and i think passive repair should be removed entirely. Zero fun to be had when 1. you don't have enough rockets to take down even a light heli 2. flare cooldown is immensely short 3. they can just fly across the map/into the sky and sit there until full health again

[loud flower]

I just spent the last three hours trying to avoid getting turned into strawberry jam trying to find a way to avoid getting curbstomped by condors
Because when I fly them shitters, no one controls the gunner seats or are bad at it
But when I get overflown by an enemy condor, the pilot is a pro at stabilising the craft in stationary flight and every gunner pod is active and accurate AND, ON TOP OF ALL THAT, you got PKP gunners at the doors

[glad mist]

they were designed as intended. To appeal the crybaby noobs and aid their PTSD of getting farmed in other modern BFs

Hence even ground vehicles play like super ass.

Hence there was no scoreboard and allchat at launch cause it hurts feelings seeing they suck at the game.

[loud flower]

How are they getting fixed so fast
I have immense cooldown before the passive repair kicks in
And I have active repair on like, two helos and they're always taken

[eternal flume]

Hence why you're not even allowed to say fuck in chat

[desert elbow]

“Wah wah no fun allowed!”

[glad mist]

wait there's a chat filter now?

[loud flower]

Literally the same thing but okay

[eternal flume]

Always has been atleast for console

[glad mist]

huh

[eternal flume]

Because apparently bf players aren't grown enough to handle a few curse words

[desert elbow]

I guess you can’t find one

[velvet sand]

Naw man, that was juust because they rushed the development and didn't have enough time for those standard "legacy features"

[glad mist]

Its 100% design lol

[fiery shoal]

literally a scoreboard at launch, its just not the one we wanted

[velvet sand]

Literally not. Showing your squad stats (sorta) and the generalized stats of others squads is not a scoreboard.

[fiery shoal]

what is a traditional scoreboard but individual stats?

[desert elbow]

You literally just described a scoreboard

[glad mist]

teamplay scoreboard in a game that doesnt focus on teamplay

[velvet sand]

That's it. Showing individual stats on a more granular level. That's the scoreboard.

[eternal flume]

Alright time to stuff my fat fucking face with BK later

[desert elbow]

Literally all the specialists have a degree of teamplay based within their abilities

[fiery shoal]

thats A scoreboard, showing squad stats is also A scoreboard...

[velvet sand]

Still doesn't accurately track XP contributions like previous BF's, but it's better than nothing.

[glad mist]

nah

[desert elbow]

Yeah

[velvet sand]

I mean, it's a scoreboard. In the same way that a plate with a single pea on it in front of you is a "meal".

[fiery shoal]

thats a horrible analogy...

[velvet sand]

It's not. The "scoreboard" we had was stripped of any meaningful value.

[glad mist]

everyone just plays the same assed wingsuit bitch and brings ammo/medikit and rpgs for themself

literally 0 encouragement for teamplay

[fiery shoal]

we got a squad scoreboard at launch, people didnt want that (100% agree), we now have an individual scoreboard.. both are scoreboard...

[desert elbow]

Uh no lol

[velvet sand]

IS someone hacking obviously because they have 120 kills and 0 deaths 5 minutes into the round? WHO KNOWS, YOU CAN'T SEE ANYONES STATS

[wide shore]

The new scoreboard shows more than it did in previous titles

[fiery shoal]

call out dice for having a shitty scoreboard at launch, dont outright lie and stick to your shitty guns because you want to say there was NO scoreboard

[glad mist]

i have never gotten revived or ammo dropped by people in all of my 100 unfortunate hours of playing this game in the past three months

[wide shore]

Oh, wait. Y’all are talking about the old one

[fiery shoal]

classic line of "2042 didnt even have a scoreboard"

[glad mist]

people pretend its a discount cod, which it obviously is

[desert elbow]

This guy just said he never got revived lmao

[wide shore]

I played BF1 for 4 whole rounds and got revived twice

It’s not like it’s anything new

[glad mist]

speaks worlds about how shit the game is, all im saying lol

[fiery shoal]

if even true, wouldnt that be more of a problem with people?

[wide shore]

That’s more about how shit players are

[desert elbow]

because you’re totally a reliable source

[fiery shoal]

its not like there isnt reviving in the game... what is this logic?

[glad mist]

i mean yeah, given EAs target audience were shitters with 2042

[wide shore]

That, and I guess, people just like to play Sundance 24/7

Judging by the trailers, I think DICE’s target audience was Battlefield players

[uncut bay]

sundance is probably one of the specialists i see the least in my games

[glad mist]

im judging from game design.
the trailers were obviously just PR to grab cash and it worked

[wide shore]

Really? I see them everywhere

[fiery shoal]

"the trailers were obviously just PR to grab cash and it worked" literally the job of trailers...

[desert elbow]

….well yeah lmao

[glad mist]

game looks nowhere close to its trailers lol

[fiery shoal]

and yet.. it does...

[wide shore]

Looks like the trailers to me

[uncut bay]

the game looks exactly like the trailers

[velvet sand]

Wait wait bro...marketing trailers are...for MARKETING. TO TRY TO SELL COPIES?! WHAT THE FUCK SOMEONE CONTACT JASON SCHREIER AT BLOOMBERG RIGHT NOW

[wide shore]

Maybe not the short film. But the rest, yeah

[uncut bay]

the only complaint is that vehicle launching doesn't work as well as it used to

[glad mist]

not to the point where the trailers advertise a completely different game than what you are getting, like mobile game ads.

in the EU we call this fraud

[desert elbow]

What was different?

[uncut bay]

dude we literally saw frame drops in the gameplay trailer lmfao this was more honest than any trailer should be

[fiery shoal]

not even close, its well within the lines of a trailer to game representation... its not even as bad as watch dogs or r6 trailer to actual gameplay...

[wide shore]

2042 ads are nowhere even in the same ballpark as mobile game ads.

[silk surge]

I love how easy it is to get killstreaks in the countdown gamemode lol

[velvet sand]

Then where are all the lawsuits for fraud, bro? Game's shit in many ways, but the whole "fraud" thing is such a pointless complaint that gets repeated despite no legal action ever happening.

[fiery shoal]

im just gonna outright say this, this dude is either dumb af or trolling, i hope trolling

[glad mist]

they arent dropping the game so they are save on that side lol

[velvet sand]

But you said the trailers were fraud.

[uncut bay]

if the game actually had as many legal issues as people like to say it would've gotten a lot more media attention, kind of like another game which actually had false advertising and faked demonstrations

[glad mist]

two seasons worth in one season of content will be enough till their contract drops and they can just claim "yeah this is our game, cope"

[velvet sand]

Game's bad and all, but like, you're being hilariously unreasonable.

[wide shore]

Well, 100k people signed a petition. And I heard one of them told their friend Dave that they’re gonna stop buying BF games.😤

[desert elbow]

Still haven’t said what they lied about in the trailers

[wide shore]

Cause they didn’t lie about shit

[glad mist]

the trailers are the absolute definition of a honeycone lol

[velvet sand]

Man, petition was nice and all but it's hilarious anyone ever thought it would result in anything. Or believed that the creator had "the best lawyers already lined up" kek

[desert elbow]

Dodge

[glad mist]

shill

[wide shore]

Absolutely hilarious.

[silk surge]

That petition was 50 shades of brain damage.

[velvet sand]

Every marketing trailer is for literally any product. Welcome to capitalism, my dude. You just wake up from a lifetime coma?

[wide shore]

One day a change.org petition will do something. But I don’t think it’ll be in my lifetime.

[copper fulcrum]

HE'S GOING TO CONTACT A LAWYER AND DESTROY EA WITH IT, WAIT AND SEEEEE

[glad mist]

ahh shidd all 5 server fanbois have assembled, time to bail

[velvet sand]

fuckin top kek

[wide shore]

Any lawyer would look at this complaint and stay as far away from it as possible.

If they valued their reputation at all

[copper fulcrum]

A lawyer will see the words "EA" and just say "Fuck that"

[uncut bay]

i think all of us here have criticised the game on various occasions. We're just not unreasonable to the point of making up things to be mad about

[wide shore]

I have a laundry list of complaints for this game.

[velvet sand]

I'm just sad that they never actually spent the money to contact lawyers like they said they would : ( In all the years of "I'M GONNA CONTACT LAWYER!" threats in gaming I don't think I've ever actually seen any random internet user do it.

[copper fulcrum]

If it didn't work with BF4, it won't work now

[wide shore]

Cause they realize how much money it would cost and while moderately braindead, even they’re not that stupid.

[fiery shoal]

ive uninstalled the game and consistently say its a bad bf game, and a 6/10 game at best..

[copper fulcrum]

And this has been pretty much the only game I've played for maybe two months. At least in terms of Online Multiplayer ones

[fiery shoal]

how people choose some sort of "shill" cop out is beyond me

[wide shore]

I agree with 6/10

[analog stirrup]

4/10 maybe 6 this summer

[uncut bay]

4/10 on release, 6/10 now

[copper fulcrum]

You're not using insults in every one of your sentences directed towards the game?

Fucking shill fanboy

[fiery shoal]

ask yourself, is that in comparison to other bf titles and your disappointment with 2042, or is that compared to all games out there?

[velvet sand]

Weak people that are unable to view the world in anything other than black and white.

[analog stirrup]

compared to all games out there

[fiery shoal]

eh, id say thats a bit low but its not like 2 points is a huge difference

[gray comet]

First week or two I played this I was called a shill nonstop.

People need to get more creative with their dismissive insults tbh.

[wide shore]

It’s the new BF, and it is still fun. So I play it quite a lot. And I do enjoy myself. I see great potential and I hope it forms into a classic. Cause it can

[velvet sand]

Shill is at least less cringy than cuck/simp/beta.

[terse valve]

Out of curiosity, why should I use a SOFLAM over the FIM-33 AA Missile? I just unlocked the SOFLAM.

[wide shore]

Bro I would LOVE to get paid by EA to shill games I already like

[velvet sand]

Spot enemies and lock onto air for M5 users/ground for AA missile users.

[uncut bay]

soflam paints the target for everybody on your team to lock on and shoot with any rocket type

[wide shore]

Please, give me the monies EA

[gray comet]

…

[copper fulcrum]

Cuck/Simp/Beta implies a woman is involved

[terse valve]

Oh damn any? Thanks! I'll switch to the SOFLAM then!

[fiery shoal]

i like how people suggest we get paid because we are reasonable...

[copper fulcrum]

Can we call Battlefield 2042 a Woman?

[wide shore]

They also act like a fat paycheck wouldn’t change their minds

[copper fulcrum]

WHY IS THIS EXAMINATION TAKING SO LONG, WHAT THE FUCK

[analog stirrup]

i'm not a biologist

[copper fulcrum]

Also EA paying random people on discord to talk politely on the game doesn't sound like a good idea.

[gray comet]

This isn’t even a question. SOFLAM lets everyone hit whatever you lock onto- from recon drones to MBTs and everything in between. Also, the SOFLAM has 3x/6x zoom and can spot enemies, plus it make you feel like a great team player!

Oh, and SOFLAM is a fun name to say!

[wide shore]

To quote the Colonel 100, “Battlefield is my pussy”

[copper fulcrum]

Typically if a company asks people to absolutely simp on a product, it kinda backfires or the person is a big influencer.

We're random people on the internet, they wouldn't pay us lol

[gray comet]

I wish EA was paying me to call this game good

[wide shore]

I’ll have you know, I have 2.5k subs on YouTube sir. 🤓

[velvet sand]

Whoa, you call this game good? Clearly a shill.

And not even paid shill! You're doing it for free! That's terrible capitalism!

[wide shore]

You use the word “go*d?” Clearly a SHILL

[gray comet]

“I think this game can have very fun and cinematic momen-“ SHILL SHILL SHILL PAID SHILL EA SIMP

[velvet sand]

Thank you for censoring that world to prevent triggering me.

[wide shore]

Yw king

[copper fulcrum]

Shrimp

[gray comet]

EA on their way to censor the word “suck” so no ones feelings are hurt in an M rated WW3 game

[wide shore]

Shit. Caught in 4K

[radiant prism]

👑

[eternal flume]

If only nobody looked the fucking same

[copper fulcrum]

As if Battlefield never had this problem before lol

[velvet sand]

I mean, generic soldiers would look the same (but that's sorta find since they're generic soldiers).

[uncut bay]

two factions with distinct uniforms is quite a bit different from a bunch of heroes with faces

[wide shore]

Huh, that’s weird. I remember in previous games that 64 players all had a total of 8 different skins

[velvet sand]

Hush about this having class-specific gear for 2 different factions!

Don't give DICE any good ideas : 3

[wide shore]

Cosmetics are kinda lacking rn though. But that’s just an issue of content lacking

I just wanna use the AN94 in AOW

[velvet sand]

Ye, I'm hopeful that we'll get a lot more good cosmetics (especially for some of the seemingly neglected characters like my girl Falck) in the vein of the more "military" outfits we've been getting.

[gray comet]

Am I the only one who changes my uniform based on the map?

[eternal flume]

Yeah and I remember them having different factions too

[wide shore]

The game has different factions

[uncut bay]

god why does the lcmg have such a long sprint to fire time, it's horrible. I'll have my gun up for a good half second before it decides to fire

[desert elbow]

I usually switch to Angel’s snow skin on breakaway but that’s about it tbh. What about you?

[eternal flume]

Its better than vanguard "my team" "enemy team"

[wide shore]

Yes

[gray comet]

Green stuff for Orbital/manifest, brown stuff for most everything else

[copper fulcrum]

and no matter what you have the annoying British fucker yelling at you for doing literally anything.

He'll even talk over himself

[wide shore]

I just use the coolest looking skin until I get T1

You get spotted so easy in this game camo just doesn’t matter

[copper fulcrum]

Wasn't there a leak for upcoming traits and one of them was something like
"Going prone removes spotting" or some shit?

[wide shore]

Idk I haven’t seen that

[uncut bay]

yeah prone removes you from the combat network

[velvet sand]

That was one of the traits tested but canceled, apparently.

[eternal flume]

Even the announcer is annoyed by himself and talks over himself at the same time

[copper fulcrum]

Double kill
We're taking the lead
Time's almost up!
Bloodthirsteeeeee!

[eternal flume]

Tbh the announcers in 2042 kinda sound like they were made using 15.ai

[copper fulcrum]

Fun fact, Roxanne Wolf and the Russian woman announcer share the same voice actor

So there's a bit of a joke there about AI voices

[sweet bobcat]

Anyone got room for 1 more

[wide shore]

I’ve noticed playing the betas over the years in COD, that you get like 50 awards just for killing somebody. Like if you’re getting consistent kills, your whole top middle screen is covered in awards

[uncut bay]

there are a lot of medals. Big dopamine rush when they keeping coming one after the other

[eternal flume]

I will now always imagine roxanne wolf announcing anything in this game

[wide shore]

Feels kinda pedantic to me.

[copper fulcrum]

I only know this because someone posted it in #screenshots-and-clips

[iron blade]

So when they refer to intel ribbons in the challenge, what do u need to do to get them

Just spot ppl?

Yeah it is nvm

[copper fulcrum]

Spotting people and using EMPs also work

[uncut bay]

spotting, destroying equipment, using emp

gaining intel for your team and preventing the enemy team from getting it

[hidden sand]

Content never should have been restricted the way it is in Portal. We should be able to mix eras together.

The complaints of a lack of content would have come a lot later had this been the case.

But I understand thinking past a surface level isn't really on DICEs to-do list lol.

I hope Portal gets explored way more throughout the time this game has. It's the best idea they've had since official mod support was taken away, imo.

[gray comet]

I love the collisions in this game

[night vessel]

great just great. weekly mission broke again for me

[gray comet]

A 30 ton jet going 430 KPH clips its wing on a sapling so naturally the jet rotates 270 degrees around it, halts to a complete stop, flips on its roof, and then blows up. Infant tree is unharmed.

Unironically seen better physics in roblox games

[arctic grove]

What is this weeks mission? Another snow skin or charm?

[gray comet]

Helmet for Rao

Picture the default BF4 russian assault helmet

[arctic grove]

Bro i dont even main Rao

[gray comet]

Goggles and all. That’s what it is. But the “challenge” is so passive you’ll get it regardless.

[arctic grove]

They really should just reuse all bf4 assets

It really would save them time and money

[gray comet]

Oh my fucking god I swear im gonna lose my mind ive queued for team russia on discarded 23 times in a fucking row now

[arctic grove]

Either servers are broken or game is dead

[gray comet]

This has happened to me since launch.

Theres no server browser so its up to the game to tell me what I want to play, which is always a trash map.

[arctic grove]

Discarded on 64 player is worst map imo

[hidden sand]

BF4s assets are clearly dated tbh

[arctic grove]

128 is better

[gray comet]

Discarded in general.

Its literally just mud and nightbird spam. Kind of a bad map in general.

[hidden sand]

Discarded is a map that was made to say "it's a big map", like most of these maps

[arctic grove]

I agree but at least they fit the whole military aspect. Skins in this game are mostly trash.

We had mostly snow skins

A Cowboy and Crysis woody.

Uhh i forgot what else.

[ionic gust]

is anyone else having issues with 2042 crashing?
Mine's crashed 3 times now

[bitter hill]

apex people seem pretty chill

[nova torrent]

they are

[nova torrent]

I find it crazy how chill the apex fanbase is considering its sheer size and the fact its a BR game

[bitter hill]

yeah, I was expecting a cringefest but they alright

[dense locust]

🐺

[iron blade]

Yay just got the headgear, looks good on the balidan torso

Now i can stop playing this game for 4 more months

[shell reef]

He guys i kinda need some help what is the weekly challenge

[ionic gust]

20 kills
3 intel ribbons
10 Objectives Neutralized or captured

[shell reef]

Damn that was quick thank you man intel ribbons is if u use the opperator gadget of rao?

[velvet sand]

any spots work for that ribbon, including using soflam

[iron blade]

I use the casper drone, camp somewhere, and have the spotting xp flow in

[shell reef]

Oh so no rao needed?

[iron blade]

I mean u could do it that way

[gray comet]

Someone please for the love of god tell me theres a way to stop bots stealing my fucking LATVs when I NEED it not to move

[iron blade]

Any spot from anything counts

[iron blade]

Bots be playing too much gta

[gray comet]

No Im trying to shoot down a helo and im making great progress than PFC brown gets in and drives it into a fucking tank

I swear this game has the worst AI Ive ever seen

Itd be cool if the get out command did anything.

[ionic gust]

is anyone else having issues with 2042 crashing?

[gray comet]

Yes occasionally

[ionic gust]

mine's crashed 5 times tonight

[gray comet]

…

2042 moment is all I can say. I dont know how to fix it.

I really wish I could teamkill friendly bots.

[hardy leaf]

Sad, must be a problem with your pc

[ionic gust]

it's fine now, I've done the weekly challenge so now I don't have to touch the game for a week

but the odd thing is, it's only started doing this today after I reinstalled it

[arctic grove]

when next

patch

[white geyser]

I’m too lazy to do weekly challenge, couldn’t care any less

[bitter hill]

I'm about to try the good ole 128 player mode

[shell reef]

Lol

[arctic grove]

When I say it’s ok for it

[shell reef]

New mapppps we need

[arctic grove]

Wait till season 1

[white geyser]

Waiting new content

[shell reef]

I heard it comes out in 2042

[white geyser]

Busy in my own custom matchup in the portal, busy killing bot zombies to do some grinding

[arctic grove]

ok.

[shell reef]

Too bad the battleroyal mode empty

[arctic grove]

i mean no1 wants BR in BF lmao

[shell reef]

Bf5 was fun tho

[loud flower]

You literally made no attempts whatsoever at using your brain to figure out how irregular terrain and geometry works
Giving you an exemple, how exactly do you want me to do that ? Sending you a video of two paths timed on one of the games map ? Convincing you, who clearly doesn't even try to see why you were wrong, is the least of my issues, if it was even an issue in the first place
So go enjoy what you're gonna assume is a victory when really it's simple auto satisfaction on blinding yourself with ignorance
Can't believe something so simple and self evident as that requires argument and example to please you, not gonna bother further

[worldly compass]

anybody wanna squad up for bf4? psn

[night vessel]

me liking theses new player cards

[arctic grove]

Cant tell if you are serious or not

[night vessel]

https://tenor.com/view/wake-up-meme-gif-23690530

currently reddit is some what having a deep shit show

https://tenor.com/view/ccc-gif-18368276

[restive saddle]

https://tenor.com/view/eyebrow-raise-alien-emoji-gif-24893196

[arctic grove]

whats going on there?

[restive saddle]

Reddit being reddit

[wide shore]

Sounds like Reddit

[night vessel]

just reddit being reddit

https://tenor.com/view/yeah-excellent-extra-hello-hello-u-gif-21823546

nobody asked

[shell reef]

Does weapon progression count in portal for 2042 weapons

[gray comet]

Uh

No I think they had farming issues so they stopped us from having fun with that. But playing against bots is perfectly fine for leveling, so we still have that.

[wide shore]

Brain farted. Yes, as long as it’s not too custom

[cedar turtle]

Surely you JEST

[night vessel]

yes only in none fully custom servers

official portal servers are full active XP and weapon progression

[shell reef]

Thank you for confirming

[shell reef]

Sorry im not as a big a vigin as u and know 1000% of a game

[wide shore]

I… Huh? My brain farted. I wasn’t saying yours did.

I accidentally responded as if you were talking about solo/co-op. Not portal, hence the edit

[shell reef]

Oh my bad dude most ppl be toxic didnt know u meant it dat way

[wide shore]

Yeah I’m sorry. I probably should’ve said “my brain farted”

[shell reef]

Been playing it once a while just hopeing they drop new content asap so we all could enjoy it

Bf3/4 and 5 still the best though

[night vessel]

yoo that's poggers

[shell reef]

What the

[gray comet]

Oh sweet, so now we can use boats on our waterless maps!

I just see ATGM bait.

4 free kills for every missile I drop sounds like a good deal I say put it in.

[dull carbon]

Hello

Just wondering do portal gamemodes give full progression now like in the twitter thread or is it gonna be added later? I mean all badges and xp

[tepid agate]

Maybe we are going to get a specialist with the ability to dive under water while swimming lol

[tepid agate]

I think it's still capped but they increased its capacity

[gray comet]

Hes gained he ability…
To hold his breath.

[tepid agate]

Exactly lol not sure why the removed that feature. Maybe bring it back with a specialist

[gray comet]

Maybe give them less idle breathing sway, a hold breath option, or automatic spotting when looking through a 4x or higher scope?

Like a dedicated sniper recon role

[tepid agate]

I remember when we could dive under water in bf4. Perfect to stealth towards boats or hide while you're stranded. Now you are just a floating duck in 2042

Yeah maybe hold your standard weapon while swimming lol

[edgy oriole]

[tepid agate]

I'm glad flashback conquest stayed and the weekly mission was easy enough. Got it done in 1 game lol

Supposed to be 64 players on flashback conquest but it only get filled with about 24 so it made the game longer to get the tasks done

[arctic grove]

We got those. Its called hovercrafts

What happen with the petition?

I want to petition to DICE to transfer all bf4 skin assets to 2042

[wide shore]

At least you can still shoot while swimming

[arctic grove]

it will save them time and money.

[wide shore]

In BF3 and BC2 swimming was a deathwish

[willow sky]

is the pp-29 still good?

[radiant prism]

Yeah, but it’s not as completely broken as it was. It’s got some notable kick now

[wide shore]

Yes

T1’d it recently

[real linden]

If you’re good at controlling recoil then you should defenitely run it

[velvet sand]

Man, can't even fuckin do shit to vehicles as Rao. Just firewall all fuckin day.

Man, all the fuckin ability play/counterplay is seriously fuckin trash so much.

[willow sky]

Yeah just realized PP-29 aint so great for mid-long range, the gun has quite a kick

[velvet sand]

remove armor from angel's fuckin ability too, jesus christ. every just plays him for his ability being two gadgets in one. trying to enjoy this game is fuckin infuriating.

sorry, trash team and all the little shit is pissing me off

[craggy cave]

haha penis

[willow sky]

maybe a nice change of pace can help, you can try playing with other players on the discord when you find the chance

solo playing tends to get pretty boring for me

[next onyx]

Pbx Is a bit of a sleeper.

[copper fulcrum]

It's accuracy and recoil control makes it versatile

That's about it really, it doesn't really excel in close ranges but does well in both close to medium range

[solar tinsel]

I was having some odd levels of success (and perhaps luck) pulling off hipfire headshots with the Rattlesnake Grip on it tonight

[lyric solar]

Wow I’m trying to get the “B guns dry” trophy, it’s quite difficult XD

[fiery shoal]

This chat

[lyric solar]

Lol

[copper fulcrum]

immature people when they're given something slightly different from their opinion

[lyric solar]

Very precise

[hidden sand]

Imo the pp-29 was never broken, the other guns were just so bad in comparison that it seemed that way

Albeit the smgs are still stronger than the ARs iirc

[solar tinsel]

I think you can get it in Single Player, if I recall, unless it got changed

[copper fulcrum]

Achievements are definitely possible in Solo or even Portal.

I got one for wingsuiting from B objective to the Rocket Pad on Orbital

[solar tinsel]

For some reason that trophy bugged for me and I got it from just falling down top to bottom at the rocket pad (or at B), didn't even have to cross 😆

Then again I've pretty much written off a platinum effort for 2042 due to the Hazard Zone trophies

[lyric solar]

Yeah that’s the issue

I’m close to the platinum, I just have those darn hazard zone trophies

And two more T1 trophies

[copper fulcrum]

👏

[fossil fox]

I am more furious how good the game is now. Fuck EA dice for killing the player base so fast. Greedy fuckers should have waited til now to launch the game

[mighty furnace]

They don't have 2042 RUSH again, so game is trash again

[copper fulcrum]

One thing that is funny about 2042 is that it's Cross-Save. So when I first started out on Xbox Series X (since it installed the fastest there) and then switched to PC, Origin lit up with achievements lol

[fossil fox]

Rush hardcore was incredibly fun

[copper fulcrum]

and then Playstation also lit up with achievements

I ran into a good community that plays Rush with slower movement, BF3 factions and faster TTK, it feels strange but also welcome

[mighty furnace]

IDK why they don't leave RUSH alone, people play it non stop. the other crap not so much, what's this stupid time limit thing, I'm Done with it.

[mighty furnace]

Yep, the best

they already kill VOIP

[wide shore]

I usually hate rush

But when I had to play it last week I had really high kill games. Still don’t like the mode.

[mighty furnace]

Thats the best mode ever, for years

An actual objective, not just occupy an area, but to set an explosive, I think gives a better game.

[wide shore]

I really liked Outpost in BFV

[hidden sand]

What don't you like about it?

[wide shore]

Honestly. I don’t know. I loved BF1 operations. I like Breakthrough (don’t really love it). But I guess I just don’t like the linearity. I tried rush when I started playing BF MP in BC2. But I just liked conquest more.

[next onyx]

Outpost was good cause there were so many ways to take care of objectives!

You can go reinforce or you can go full on attack.

And there were so many ways to attack.

Sit in a tank and shell a tower using your special rounds.

Attack hard as a squad and bomb the tower.

[wide shore]

It also farmed squad points. V1’s everywhere

[next onyx]

Rocket the points.

Yeah they were aware of that too lol.

Hence the 120 second timer on the rocket instead of a 60s.

Squad tanks though busted through them with EASE.

Sturmtiger was a bit underpowered on the towers.

And planes were a whatever. They weren't very helpful on it.

If you wanted to get an easy rocket multi kill you be you.

Bombers were busted since you could destroy a large area. Except the tower. But they were mostly used for easy kills which zzz.

[wide shore]

I suck at using bombers

[next onyx]

I've had people say I'm an accurate bomber pilot which is funny but I take pride in that lol.

It takes a bit to get your aim and eye up to speed.

You start to identify tracers and shapes up in the skies.

[wide shore]

The only achievement I’m missing in V is the destroying manned stationary guns with a bomber

I legit just can’t do it. I did 2/5

It annoys the shit out of me having 1 achievement left.

[next onyx]

You need to destroy stationaries while in a plane so that should extend to rocket planes in the pacific.

But that's a whole different beast.

[wide shore]

I have every achievo for BF3, 1943 & BF1. Just missing one in V.

[next onyx]

GOD I'm SO CLOSE to getting every one of them on 1.

[wide shore]

Doubt I’m ever gonna get the hazard zone achievos in 2042

[next onyx]

I need the triple buluk bushi achievement which doesn't show up for me and the supply drop one.

So far yet so close.

If I had more of a brain I would have done the supply drop acheivement.

[wide shore]

I did the supply drop one right away cause I knew it was gonna die fast

[next onyx]

I've never completed a 2000G game once either.

[hidden sand]

Ah good ol DICE, putting achievements on gamemodes bound to die because of the premium model

[next onyx]

Not limited to Dice but yeah, Achievements behind a paid model is always shit.

I wish we got more achievements in bf5.

[wide shore]

Surprised V never got extra achievements

[next onyx]

"Get 5/10 kills with all the pacific weapons"

"Kamikaze a tank in the A6m Zero"

"Get 20 kills across all the pacific planes"

[hidden sand]

Kamikaze a tank lmao

[next onyx]

It would be a spectacle to see LOL.

[wide shore]

Destroy a Sherman with a lunge mine

[next onyx]

Absolutely.

I loved the lunge mine. Such a funny little gadget.

[topaz field]

👀

[next onyx]

I still vividly remember charging in with my friends into a tank, Shit was hilarious seeing all of them fly.

[wide shore]

I used the hell out of it. It was my go-to secondary gadget on support.

[hidden sand]

Lunge mining infantry is hilarious too

[next onyx]

I got the golden lunge mine tag too.

[hidden sand]

Its so overkill and ridiculous lol

[next onyx]

YO That reminds me. On release with chapter 6 we were bullying the LVT's with Lunge mines and Bazookas.

They eventually started to sit in the water so we just hit them with bazookas.

My mate and I would both at once charge at tanks cause that's what you do.

One frame tanks essentially.

[forest snow]

was easy to counter lunge mines in a tank, surprised to see so many people die to it.

[hidden sand]

BFVs damage models and animations for the tanks made dmging them super satisfying

Really made you feel like you're really wackin it with the boomstick

[forest snow]

was satisfying watching infantry get more and more desperate trying to take you out so they keep coming to you and racking up the kills for you.

[dire quest]

I tried playing battlefield 1 and 5 and it didn't feel right because I'm used to playing hardcore servers in portal now

[quiet shell]

So whens that May update

[restive saddle]

May 2042

[upbeat sand]

-put [ai] next to your name
-everyone on the enemy team thinks dice made a super ai

[clear quail]

mid to end of may

[undone bone]

https://tenor.com/view/the-scope-of-my-engineering-genius-literally-knows-no-bounds-gif-22781413

[upbeat sand]

-get reported
-banned

[next onyx]

Reminds me there's a bot with my last name LOL.

That shit is weird.

[upbeat sand]

-battlefield: become human

[undone bone]

Way's subconscious is enlisted in 2042's bot army.

[next onyx]

The bot wouldn't be so botty and would be killing everyone with extreme prejudice lol.

[clear quail]

so the bot's better than way

[next onyx]

Nah.

[upbeat sand]

yes

[still path]

Ngl forgot this game was launched

[clear quail]

Ngl, we never asked :)

[still path]

[terse valve]

Does the game support in-game voice chat yet?

[forest snow]

Who honestly thought giving a transport vehicle a 50mm is balanced, so we now have armoured ac130's and 3 of them per team in some cases.

[grizzled whale]

Yes

But literally nobody uses it

[uncut lava]

anyone know a good app for checking average FPS over a whole match?

[forest snow]

ALT R for nvidia performace tab

[worthy inlet]

Imagine my shock

[white geyser]

[nova mauve]

Not offensive but when will 2042 be free:P

[forest snow]

anyone else on PC get a crash to desktop at the end of round screen?

[nova mauve]

How is 2042 so far

Got any better?

[next onyx]

It's halfway there.

If that makes sense.

The maps need a fix and it'll be an alright game.

Well, Maps and general balance.

[tepid agate]

In terms of where it should be, it's still far away. In terms of how is is now Vs launch, it's MUCH better.

On Steam, before the 4.0 update: 1k players

After 4.0 update: 3k players

Now: 1.5k players

[nova mauve]

One question,how many players online on average

💀 so bad lmao

[tepid agate]

Well, that's only on Steam, but it gives you an idea of its popularity compared to other games.

More than likely there will be bots in the servers to help fill them for you, but it feels faster to find matches than before.

[nova mauve]

I probably will get one after it gets much better

:(

Imagine playing multiple games but 90% are botz

[tepid agate]

Season 1 will be out in the next month or 2 so probably better to wait for reviews on that

Nah not 90% are bots

[nova mauve]

How are those glitches now,how many of them have been fixed

[tepid agate]

I'd say at the most it gets to 50% bots in a game but as the game goes on active players tend to replace bots

A lot has been fixed it's much better than launch

[nova mauve]

When players number increases will the server still work well?

[tepid agate]

Yeah of course

[nova mauve]

I d be expecting but only if it happens

[tepid agate]

If you want to show your black canmo uniforms or skins for getting to mastery, better to play it now before it gets even more full because killing the bots in the matches count towards it

[opal prism]

@next isle

[next isle]

what

[uncut bay]

i think you may have been trolled

slight bit of tomfoolery

[eternal narwhal]

im not playing the game ever again, i tried on launch and tried again about a month later... fr had the potential to pop off on the game... i aint touching the game ever again

[chilly jacinth]

cool story bro

[eternal narwhal]

lmfao chill

[uncut bay]

good for you man hope you get far in life

[eternal narwhal]

im so confused

[uncut bay]

nobody cares, is what we're trying to say. If you're coming here just to say you hate the game and are never playing it again then... why are you here at all? Not even any criticism, just "game bad"

[eternal narwhal]

no because of the way it launched

i dont need to go into detail why the launch was bad, everyone here knows exactly why lol

[uncut bay]

ok then move on with life

nothing will be achieved by parroting what has already been said a million times

[eternal narwhal]

?? i have moved on lol, i just came by to check in whats happening in this chat, and people were talking about glitches and how they havent played the game in agesss

you do have to agree they choked on this launch

just gotta hope it only gets better from here

[uncut bay]

i agree the game was botched very badly

[eternal narwhal]

oh yo jack frags is in this server!?

fuckinnn sickkkkk

[uncut bay]

i'd imagine a lot of youtubers are

gotta get the latest freshest news for all the views

[eternal narwhal]

yeah i just didnt notice before, been a few months since i took a look at this erver

[limpid kindle]

Does anyone know why i can't unlock the tuktuk mastery? i got 20+ kills with it but it still shows as locked

[forest snow]

dont they all play call of duty now?

[uncut bay]

they play a bunch of different stuff

[forest snow]

and there the one's EA use for feedback and future battlefields. god help us.

[clear quail]

nah, they use community feedback. From core feedbacks and discussions.

[forest snow]

But even for community feedback why not players that have put more time into the game and not others.

[clear quail]

The majority of the feedback is currently being given by players who've put more time into the game

cause nobody else cares much

Those who've stuck around and those who actually play the game are the ones who are active in giving feedback

[full burrow]

is conquest 64 staying for good?

[tepid agate]

I think it's temporary

[full burrow]

also please let us choose at least one map to exclude from our lobby searches

I know population is an issue but I hate Kolydoscope, and damn Xeno

[tepid agate]

That's what portal is for lol

[full burrow]

In the past week I have only once found a full server with good ping

[grizzled whale]

we need quickdraw back

[full burrow]

on portal that is

[grizzled whale]

that shit was the best featured mode so far

[tepid agate]

Flashback conquest is nice. Doesn't get full by its still a good experience

[limpid kindle]

You should be able to place Boris's turret on the roof of tuk tuks

[tepid agate]

I remember when they butchered portal to stop the farming, then like a week later they released a farming portal mode 😂

Quickly got removed though

[clear quail]

yes

[clear quail]

was removed too late, got 4 tier 1's

[tepid agate]

Wow I wish I played it more to help with progression I don't think I played it much lol need 5 more specialists to finish them

[clear quail]

I've only got 2 tier 1 specialists

Got 300 kills left on mackay for tier 1

[tepid agate]

I still need Mackey, Falck, Dozer, Angel & Sundance

[clear quail]

I've gotten so used to Rao that playin with any other specialist feels weird. So I don't usually play with any other specialist

[tepid agate]

Rao was actually the first one I got to mastery I just wanted a different experience than using the same characters than most players so went with that from launch 😄

[crisp junco]

Does tier 1 even do anything?

[clear quail]

makes u a pro

[tepid agate]

Just gives you a black and red uniform. Nothing special

[crisp junco]

Oh so its its pointless

[clear quail]

anyone who hasn't had a tier 1 skin would say that, yes

[tepid agate]

What would you like it to give to be worthwhile? Lol

[crisp junco]

Idk
Atleast the skin could look nice

[clear quail]

it does look nice

[tepid agate]

Well, the stores will probably be opening up soon for you to purchase "cool" skins as season 1 is soon coming

[clear quail]

especially the sundance skin

[clear quail]

exactly

[tepid agate]

I'm kinda worried since all those Santa clause tank skins and uniforms got leaked around last Christmas.

Really hoping there's no Mr blobby tanks in the future

[clear quail]

im pretty sure those were put on hold

when the community got angry about em

[tepid agate]

I remember bfV vegab to test those waters by letting you unlock some kind of winter hat for your characters ... But to go full Santa omg lol

[clear quail]

futuristic santa with an NTW

and a mounted turret sleigh

[tepid agate]

Yes. That's one of the smartest decisions they have done since launch

[clear quail]

ye

[tepid agate]

I swear the soldiers better not start dancing in the future. They will keep pushing the bar

[clear quail]

i don't think they will

dw

[tepid agate]

I would never have imagined a bloody Santa clause uniform in a battlefield game. That almost came true but they put it on hold because of the backlash. Who knows what crazy ideas they have been planning

[tacit sphinx]

imo there are some much better + more subtle christmasy skins in the files

santa boris was a bit much especially given the state of the game at the time + the lack of clarity about stuff

[clear quail]

It's like sayin COD warzone implementing fortnite building mechanics

so im sure dances are a no no

[tacit sphinx]

but i would not complain about these tbh i think they look good visually and apart from elf angel hat and i guess the MAV paint they don't really look overtly christmas to me

[tepid agate]

Yeah bfV started to do fortifications in bfV probably because of those trends but that stuff worked

[grizzled whale]

i only have Mackay T1

but i have him extra super mega T1

[next isle]

[tacit sphinx]

you could tell someone that vcar skin was the t1 and they probably wouldn't question it

[tacit sphinx]

[tepid agate]

Yes some things can be implemented but I wonder what audience they are trying to cater to

[lime crystal]

just not 2042

[tepid agate]

They could have called this 2042

Not battlefield. Then they wouldn't get so much hate. Would probably do pretty good

But maybe easier for then to transform the game

[chilly jacinth]

its still battlefield

and it wouldve been dead if it didnt have the battlefield name attached to it

[tepid agate]

Not as dead as it is now I am pretty sure

[chilly jacinth]

more dead

[tepid agate]

Honestly, if they didn't attach this to battlefield it probably would have more active numbers

[grizzled whale]

nah

[tepid agate]

This is why more of the battlefield community gamers playing the other titles over this

[grizzled whale]

the battlefield community would boycot it because its a BF ripoff

[tepid agate]

I see how that could work. If they added new features/game modes instead of conquest/rush it would be played more

[shy latch]

uhm, actually there are more modes and there were more modes on previous titles

[clear quail]

ww3 is a bf ripoff yet it wasn't boycott

[uncut bay]

because it's not made by dice

[shy latch]

ww3 sucks at the actual state

[clear quail]

if it was made by dice it wouldn't be a ripoff

[tepid agate]

No they can have more modes but removes Battlefield identify modes like conquest and rush. Then label it another game instead of Battlefield