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Alkydere
Jun 7, 2010
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Deeters posted:

On a BF2 server with friendly fire damage on: I hopped on top of an enemy Abrams' turret to escape an attack helicopter. Both were very confused and it took way longer than it should have for someone to hop out and shoot me.

In BF4 I got someone spouting chud conspiracy stuff banned by saying "You seem upset" and "Actually the government is good" until he threatened to find me IRL.

2142:
-Getting a roadkill pin when a rookie pilot ended up smashing his gunship against my tank as part of his attack. Somehow that one particular pilot fail has always stuck with me
-Getting on top of the enemy Titan and tossing the anti-tank mines on top of the hangar shield where they'd fly after enemy pilots
-Using enemy anti-tank mines against enemy vehicles with the mine-bait grenade. Got so many engineers kicked from servers for teamkilling that way. Was especially juicy nuking the enemy Goliath.
-Developing what would later become my Shotgun Wookie skillset with the Support's shotgun and scanner/wallhacks equipment.
-Figuring out that the engineer's anti-air launcher was a two-shot grenade launcher that would not only insta-kill infantry but make them un-revivable. Great for close-in infantry firefights!

BF1:
-The entire Goon Squad figures out that defenders on attack-defend maps have infinite revives/no tickets and that bayonet kills are melee kills that don't allow enemies to be revived. Enact successful defenses with never ending Light Brigade Charges.

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Hot Diggity!
Apr 3, 2010

SKELITON_BRINGING_U_ON.GIF
BF4 with goons whenever we would be in a server with tanklords / skylords (wigitybear, et al) would be great because it became the entire squad's mission to annoy them as much as possible

Insert name here
Nov 10, 2009

Oh.
Oh Dear.
:ohdear:

Orv posted:

A remake of 1942 would see a return of the worst BF map, Wake Island and thus I must decline.
I hope Wake returns and that no one has bothered to move the Beach Landing flagpole for 100 years

Assepoester
Jul 18, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 11 years!
Melman v2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D1eI_xoAqQ

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

Foehammer007 posted:

titanfall so good, I heard its pretty riddled with hackers now though

You're thinking of the other TF2, Team Fortress 2 as the one that is infested with hackers

Kibayasu posted:

“Prepare for titanfall.”

“Oh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-“ *explodes*

Pretty much what my reaction would be

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
It makes me happy that JackFrags has battlefield content to get excited for and I can’t wait to watch vids of him effortlessly headshotting poor blokes in a new battlefield while being a laid back cool guy. He won me over to watching game streamers pretty much singlehandedly.

You’re almost free from Verdansk, Jack!!

It does make me wonder though, if there are going to be affiliate programs for 2042 like what CoD has, or if he takes a bit of an earnings hit. Probably streaming is the bulk of it though.

Hot Diggity!
Apr 3, 2010

SKELITON_BRINGING_U_ON.GIF
Time to see how bad I am at BF4...

Oh hey I have my :cumpolice: emblem again hell yeah

Clavavisage
Nov 12, 2011
can't wait for all my hype to be deflated once it's revealed that bf2042 is hardlocked to 30hz tick rate servers because of lovely cross play requirements spread across multigen platforms

Supaflywallace
Jan 3, 2020
Played Bf4 again for the first time in years and that game really overwhelms me. I feel like I can barely tell what's happening on screen and that everything is really small compared to BF1. Must be my age :corsair:

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem

Supaflywallace posted:

Played Bf4 again for the first time in years and that game really overwhelms me. I feel like I can barely tell what's happening on screen and that everything is really small compared to BF1. Must be my age :corsair:

Nah, I always thought BF4 was rotten for visibility too, and was thrilled that I could see what was going on in BF1. Never played V, hear that's the nadir.

Assepoester
Jul 18, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 11 years!
Melman v2

Supaflywallace posted:

Played Bf4 again for the first time in years and that game really overwhelms me. I feel like I can barely tell what's happening on screen and that everything is really small compared to BF1. Must be my age :corsair:
Might also be your FOV, if it cloud saved that configuration.




drrockso20 posted:

You're thinking of the other TF2, Team Fortress 2 as the one that is infested with hackers
No Titanfall 2 has some weird stuff going on with hackers lagging out matches and crashing servers and stuff

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



BF4 seemed to have worse visibility than BF3, but didn't have the omnipresent blue tint and desaturation that BF3 did. I probably played more 3 than I did 4, but 4 feels a lot more mechanically solid. I'm hoping 2042 is an evolution of that.

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

i hope they just made the EA desktop client to make me look more fondly upon the origin client because wow its a huge piece of poo poo

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

I went back to BF4 recently and was very annoyed that they nerfed the RC plane bomb gadget with some long-rear end cooldown period.

it was super lovely to unlock it as a non-skylord like me (something like 50 aircraft destroyed using aircraft) and was a real and good counter to skylords.

Really I just want the gadgets + more from BF4.

OK really really i just want BF4 in 4k60 on my xbox.

Blue Raider
Sep 2, 2006

Mordja posted:

Nah, I always thought BF4 was rotten for visibility too, and was thrilled that I could see what was going on in BF1. Never played V, hear that's the nadir.

I can’t speak for your experience, but I played probably 150 hours of BF4 and never had a specific problem with visibility whereas in 5 I would get shot from shadows or pepper friendlies all the time. It was bad.

Raskolnikov2089
Nov 3, 2006

Schizzy to the matic

Kazinsal posted:

BF4 seemed to have worse visibility than BF3, but didn't have the omnipresent blue tint and desaturation that BF3 did. I probably played more 3 than I did 4, but 4 feels a lot more mechanically solid. I'm hoping 2042 is an evolution of that.

I wouldn't know, I never left thermal in bf4

Chronojam
Feb 20, 2006

This is me on vacation in Amsterdam :)
Never be afraid of being yourself!


Thermal sights on my SPAS-12 paired with incendiary grenades never failed to confuse anybody picking up my kit

DrBox
Jul 3, 2004

Sombody call the doctor?

priznat posted:

It makes me happy that JackFrags has battlefield content to get excited for and I can’t wait to watch vids of him effortlessly headshotting poor blokes in a new battlefield while being a laid back cool guy. He won me over to watching game streamers pretty much singlehandedly.

You’re almost free from Verdansk, Jack!!

It does make me wonder though, if there are going to be affiliate programs for 2042 like what CoD has, or if he takes a bit of an earnings hit. Probably streaming is the bulk of it though.
Me too! I love Jackfrags but am really tired of Warzone. I hope 2042 has good anti cheat and a steamer mode so he can stream it.

Assepoester
Jul 18, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 11 years!
Melman v2
If you ever play BF4 Hardcore you'll notice how much harder it is to see people without doritos

Philman
Jan 20, 2004

It sounds like people are saying the game will be bots that are regular soldiers and the players will be the specialists, as if the game is a hero shooter. That would be wierd for battlefield. Maybe that is just one mode.

Blue Raider
Sep 2, 2006

Chronojam posted:

Thermal sights on my SPAS-12 paired with incendiary grenades never failed to confuse anybody picking up my kit

diabolical

Symetrique
Jan 2, 2013




Philman posted:

It sounds like people are saying the game will be bots that are regular soldiers and the players will be the specialists, as if the game is a hero shooter. That would be wierd for battlefield. Maybe that is just one mode.

Bots confirmed and they’ll look like generic soldiers.

They’re optional though. Like yeah you could have a full pve server but id imagine most mp matches will just be full pvp. I don’t think they’re going for a titanfall bot setup.

Blue Raider
Sep 2, 2006

Philman posted:

It sounds like people are saying the game will be bots that are regular soldiers and the players will be the specialists, as if the game is a hero shooter. That would be wierd for battlefield. Maybe that is just one mode.

There’s precedent for this in both Titanfall games. They obviously aren’t similar game types but the adds in Titanfall games lend a bit of action just by being something to shoot at.

We shall see.

afkmacro
Mar 29, 2009



Symetrique posted:

Bots confirmed and they’ll look like generic soldiers.

They’re optional though. Like yeah you could have a full pve server but id imagine most mp matches will just be full pvp. I don’t think they’re going for a titanfall bot setup.

Can't wait to see pve farmers brag about their 5000 k/d against bots.

Symetrique
Jan 2, 2013




afkmacro posted:

Can't wait to see pve farmers brag about their 5000 k/d against bots.

What are pubbies to skygods, but just less intelligent bots?

Fart Car '97
Jul 23, 2003

Symetrique posted:

What are pubbies to skygods, but just less intelligent bots?

Mods?

Orv
May 4, 2011

Symetrique posted:

What are pubbies to skygods, but just less intelligent bots?

What is a plane ram if not an attempt at communication?

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





The bots in Enlisted are hilariously bad but once you are caught up in the action you kinda don’t notice it. We’ll see how they fare here.

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003

I understand wanting to fill out teams or add to the chaos of battle, but man it just sucks getting killed by a bot

jisforjosh
Jun 6, 2006

"It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"

George H.W. oval office posted:

The bots in Enlisted are hilariously bad but once you are caught up in the action you kinda don’t notice it. We’ll see how they fare here.

That's mainly because the game is so clunky that it really is hard to distinguish player movement and bit movement

moot the hopple
Apr 26, 2008

dyslexic Bowie clone
V didn't have autobalance or manual team switching so maybe adding bots was the :dice: solution for stacked teams

Assepoester
Jul 18, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 11 years!
Melman v2
Fired up BF4 again for just a few minutes and logged on to one of those million ticket servers (which seems to be the vast majority of them really, I guess one way to avoid people switching teams to avoid losing is to just have matches that never end) and managed to pull off a jihad quad, feels good after all these years.

Couldn't pull off any suicide planes or choppers though, it's much harder than I remember. Just can't do it. Maybe I need an accomplice to set and detonate the C4.

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

[Dooting Stealthily]



Malloc Voidstar posted:

It's free* on PC from Amazon Prime so if they didn't before they do now
* unless you don't have amazon prime

the steam charts 24h peak suggests it already has more players in the last day than it had for years

It's actually been the most active battlefield except for V at its launch forever, most people just play on Origin. Steam just recently even got the game, and it's never been on sale until now, so those numbers don't tell the real story at all. There's usually a ton of full servers 24/7.

Thom12255
Feb 23, 2013
WHERE THE FUCK IS MY MONEY
The last time I tried Battlefield 4 MP I just kept ending up in servers saying they were high pop but actually had nobody or maybe 5 people in them, it's a common problem with the browser nowadays.

jisforjosh
Jun 6, 2006

"It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"
Quick teaser before tomorrow

https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/1403727940995649536

Foehammer007
Dec 7, 2011

by Pragmatica
hmm

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine
I think one thing that would be nice for them to add would be a "simplified" mode for helicopters and jets where a lot of the more complicated aspects of flying are automated(like say for Helicopters on a controller becomes essentially the same as moving or aiming while on foot and most of the stuff relating to the chopper's angles and positioning just gets handled by the computer) , cause the current way they work in these games is probably too complex and unnecessarily "realistic" for the vast majority of this franchise's intended audience(like I have a feeling if the average player has between 50 and 200 hours of play per game, they've probably only touched any air vehicles for maybe 20 minutes worth at the most while probably having several hours of usage of ground vehicles cause the former are so unfriendly in how they control)

Sure keep the more advanced controls in as an option for more skilled players, but the more average player really needs a bone thrown their way

Also buff the gatling guns on transport choppers cause at least in 4 they're pretty useless in terms of both accuracy and damage

Symetrique
Jan 2, 2013




Battlefield flight models aren’t difficult.

The problem is the default control binds and not having a space to practice. Like I don’t know anyone who doesn’t immediately modify the default plane controls to something that makes more sense. There’s really not much else to simplify unless they go with a pure mouse aim mode like swbf2 or war thunder arcade, but at that point there’s no need for more advanced options since they wouldn’t give an advantage against mouseaim.

Hopefully having bots makes it easier for people who want to practice flying without getting murdered by experienced players. Bots contributing to progression should also prevent issues like bfv’s kanonenvogel Stuka, where picking the wrong tier 2 upgrade hosed up your primary load out, making it harder to actually score points.

Hopper
Dec 28, 2004

BOOING! BOOING!
Grimey Drawer

drrockso20 posted:

I think one thing that would be nice for them to add would be a "simplified" mode for helicopters and jets where a lot of the more complicated aspects of flying are automated(like say for Helicopters on a controller becomes essentially the same as moving or aiming while on foot and most of the stuff relating to the chopper's angles and positioning just gets handled by the computer)


This may sound like a good idea if you are looking to pilot a helo, but making them easier to fly would be a miserable time for everybody else because littlebirds have always been OP.

If the skill needed to fly them properly drops to "anybody can do it" that would exacerbate the problem even more.

So if they did that, they would also need to provide effective countermeasures or nerf the guns and then the crying from the skies would be deafening.

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Zzulu
May 15, 2009

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I usually have very little time in air vehicles because they are always spawn camped. Like, if I want to get into a jet I have to contend with the Obsessed Jet Man who only ever goes for the jet and I just aint gonna stand around waiting for a fuckin plane to spawn when I could be out in the field already, shooting mans. Then when you finally DO get into a jet, you have so little experience with it that you can't contend with the enemy teams Obsessed Jet Man who guns you down immediately

The air controls in battlefield games are not particularly complicated as it is

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