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Mordja posted:Everyone mashes space because they think it will let them spawn faster when it doesn't. It's actually a stupid people button, because it will never help you and can only hurt you.
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Vegetable posted:Were there no helicopters in WWI? I have no idea about this stuff. Would be cool to have helicopters. Barely weapons on bi-planes either until they figured out how not to shoot the propellers  .Boogaleeboo posted:It's actually a stupid people button, because it will never help you and can only hurt you. Unless you died in terrible crossfire and being revived just would lead to getting shot immediately.
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Vegetable posted:Were there no helicopters in WWI? I have no idea about this stuff. Would be cool to have helicopters. Helicopters were WW2, in limited quantities. Korea is when they started getting more companies producing.
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Is anyone else finding the attack plane better than the fighter at shooting down other planes? It just seems to do more damage. Or maybe I'm just bad.
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Vegetable posted:Were there no helicopters in WWI? I have no idea about this stuff. Would be cool to have helicopters. Nobody made a working helicopter until 1936.
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Vegetable posted:Were there no helicopters in WWI? I have no idea about this stuff. Would be cool to have helicopters. Agreed, needs a transport chopper and a commander. Plus radio contact constantly. More chatter would be good.
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Sep 2, 2016 23:24
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There are never going to be helicopters in this game unless they just completely say gently caress it and go "this is actually alt-history WW1".
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It doesn't really make sense to hew Battlefield to a restricted timeline, especially if it leads to the exclusion of cool stuff. An uninformed player probably wouldn't think this is a WWI game anyway. There's very little period-specific flavor in Battlefield.
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LampkinsMateSteve posted:Now I'm annoyed by how many completely new players there are. I sometimes get on VoIP and give tips, but yesterday, I tried to ask our squad leader to mark some flags, and about five minutes later (maybe when he looked up his push to talk key) he shouted "nobody cares!" As a counterpoint, I was playing with my friend today, and because we were just gonna play "a round or two", we didn't bother firing up teamspeak - but we would use ingame VoIP here and there. We had a super cool squad leader who would occasionally chip in on VoIP, mark flags, revive like a boss, and was just generally a cool dude. One other guy wasn't really communicating, but was obviously listening in and responding. And our squad was beasting it (and our couple of quick rounds became many, many rounds and a lot of laughs). That's one big reason why I play BF. Ohmygodsquad posted:Is anyone else finding the attack plane better than the fighter at shooting down other planes? It just seems to do more damage. I dunno, I'm no great pilot, and never even tried the fighter plane for the longest time, but it suddenly felt like cheat mode. So nimble and quick. Being able to get behind practically any other plane is better than superior firepower. Of course in the attack plane, I did this with the tank hunter cannon shell... https://gfycat.com/IdioticNervousFairyfly
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The british responses in this are so goooood.  "Hello chum have some ammo""Cheers old boy here's a medkit"  The weirdest thing I find with the weapons is seeing rifles with vertical foregrips, was that a thing that ever happened? Earliest I could think of would be like, a tommy gun maybe? Dunno, it seems like a modern thing to me.
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Vegetable posted:It doesn't really make sense to hew Battlefield to a restricted timeline, especially if it leads to the exclusion of cool stuff. An uninformed player probably wouldn't think this is a WWI game anyway. There's very little period-specific flavor in Battlefield. Every single Battlefield game ever made has been period-specific. The only ones that blur the lines a little are the Bad Company series and BF3/BF4 but those are also pretty explicitly early 2000s to 2020-ish.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:The british responses in this are so goooood. I'm sure a player said "ay up, mate" in a Yorkshire accent when he spawned on me. Shadowplay is such great fun - I set it to record the last 1 minute, then when something cool happens, I just press a key combination. Unrelated, can you unlock the weapons now? I unlocked them through https://www.battlefield.com/career, but I think they fixed the glitch now. You need the AT gun. This took me a while to realise it was a quad: https://gfycat.com/ValidAccurateGalapagospenguin
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The tank hunting assault plane is badass, protip.. don't go head to head with it.  https://gfycat.com/AptPlainHarlequinbug
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:
If you mean the medic's rifle, yeah that was real. It was a "fancy finish" option on the Winchester 1907. I haven't noticed any other examples in the game so far, but they were weirdly committed to having real, accurately rendered guns considering how loose they are with everything else.
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Is this game going to have levelution events? Does the sandstorm count as a levelution event?
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 Everyone talking about the light tank, but the Breakthrough A7V is my favorite by far. Canister shot, great AT abilities, instant self-repair, and HMGs for the gunners. It's a murder machine.
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Vatek posted:Every single Battlefield game ever made has been period-specific. The only ones that blur the lines a little are the Bad Company series and BF3/BF4 but those are also pretty explicitly early 2000s to 2020-ish. Bad Company takes place in the World In Conflict continuity.
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Every game, regardless of era, is improved by adding an M1 Garand. Bad Company 2 understood this perfectly.
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Played more without being able to get into the party going on in another server. Took down two light tanks in one life playing support using the light tank grenades. Good times.
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Vatek posted:Every single Battlefield game ever made has been period-specific. The only ones that blur the lines a little are the Bad Company series and BF3/BF4 but those are also pretty explicitly early 2000s to 2020-ish. Also I don't think the BF experience gains anything from period immersion. Mechanics, squad play, and map design are so much more important. Period specificity restricts DICE's options and is no good for anybody.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:The british responses in this are so goooood. https://youtu.be/8R5NI-IrUU0
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Vegetable posted:I've been playing since Battlefield 2, and I don't think you can really tell each game's period unless you have prior knowledge about such stuff. What like you went to school and actually paid attention? Also every battlefield since 2 has been "Contemporary" so long as we don't count the "Vietnam" expansion packs that pop out on the reg. Like the WW2 battlefields were pretty clearly WW2 games, and as soon as you see tanks/planes in this one it's pretty easy to place it as well.
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Not to mention BF1 is explicitly advertised as being a World War 1 game and they clearly went to great lengths to make sure that virtually every usable piece of equipment in the game is specific to that period. I honestly have no idea how you can be under the impression that Battlefield games are not period-specific because that is one of the defining traits of the series. Vatek fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Sep 3, 2016 |
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Haha yea this is basically what I was thinking of. It's like a monty python skit
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All the BF games feel vaguely modern and I can't say I care enough about military technology to pinpoint which period each belongs. In any case, my main point is that period specificity doesn't add anything to the series. They could have helicopters and horses and submarines in the same game, nobody would bat an eyelash. It would also be insanely fun.
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You know what's great? When you finally figure out the ranging on the howitzers around the map and can just start picking off snipers with ease. I spent like half a game at A just dropping shells on all the blinky lights that popped up.
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Where can I read more about that wacky guns in the game?
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keyframe posted:I have discovered our lord and savior the armored AA truck. That thing is broken as gently caress it's hilarious. The best part is that it shuts down plane ghostcapping and armoured cars can't do anything to it. On a completely different note, everyone has seen light tank rampages but I hope these clips are semi educational (spoiler I am not good at videos). Namely you can disable sponson guns well before engine cripple, an autocannon is terrifying against heavy tanks and the secondary canister fire can three shot infantry 25m away, provided you ignore the positively terrible reticule and can aim (i.e not me). It's easily twice the size than it needs to be so you need to eyeball your shots when being rushed by infantry. Stick to the main gun honestly, it's like being an attack helicopter gunner but without plane rams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMujodGVrmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNiz-137HJk also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELkoOKW2YK8
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Landship was terrorizing C point. I took a pot shot at it with the AT rocket rifle thing. I disabled the main gun. Driver ragequit instantly, with "loving bullshit game". 
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I like horsing up to a light tank real quick and dropping three grenades instantly, that usually fucks up their day. I mean it's not great for anything, but light tanks especially.
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Goodness the light tank is broken, how absurd. I feel like the Landship and Mark V are strong but quite limited by teamwork and coordination and speed and coaxial limitations but the light tank just makes anyone a complete god. How much dynamite / AT grenades does it take to kill one? It seems like a lot
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I think if the light tank's turret didn't move 1 to 1 with the mouse it wouldn't be so terribly unbalanced. Actually I mean that for all tanks
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Open Beta was fun (says me). Spent most of my time bareback slashing dudes with old timey swords. I was surprised how many people didn't even see it coming. I WAS ON A HORSE.
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Lumpy the Cook posted:Bad Company takes place in the World In Conflict continuity. Massive could have made World in Conflict 2, but apparently The Division was so much better of an idea. Radical 90s Wizard posted:Where can I read more about that wacky guns in the game? In really hard-to-find books on obscure weaponry that each have like one paragraph on the gun, or you can watch C&Rsenal or Forgotten Weapons which both go into huge detail on each one (C&Rsenal does features on more common guns with the occasional weirdo, while FW likes to focus on the rarer/stranger pieces). Plan Z fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Sep 3, 2016 |
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Vegetable posted:All the BF games feel vaguely modern and I can't say I care enough about military technology to pinpoint which period each belongs. You don't need to know about military vehicles and weapons to know that this game is very clearly set in the time period of WW1, if simply from the general design and construction of the planes, along with the fact the Ottoman Empire still exists.
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