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Laserface posted:the grind was that bad because they sold Battlefield Premium which gave you better progression and they also sold fast track MTX poo poo that unlocked all items for a specific class or vehicle.
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Bohemian Nights posted:Wasn't the fast pass stuff introduced fairly late in the game's lifecycle? It could be the EXP was still tuned towards eventually selling them. I don't have a ton of hours played, but yea, unlocks feel painfully slow. Although I did just crack a shitload of battleboxes that I apparently had, and they were all filled with bonus EXP so that's helpful. e; Wait what about Premium? I also just picked it up for $8. I was confused by the name and thought it was a subscription service but it seemed to just be all the DLC in one cheap box? e2; I can't seem to connect to any servers this morning? "Joining server" just pops up forever. Sab669 fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Jun 22, 2021 |
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Sab669 posted:e; Wait what about Premium? I also just picked it up for $8. I was confused by the name and thought it was a subscription service but it seemed to just be all the DLC in one cheap box? Premium was effectively a season pass. you got extra features and all the DLC as it was released. Bob Wins posted:One thing I hate in modern shooters is the whole "shooting an unsilenced weapon makes you show up on the mini map" bit. It was nice not to have it in BF1 but with the return to modern times I bet it will be back to bug me again. I think MW 2019 has done away with that mechanic. Either way they made silencers basically a no brainer because they give you a damage range extension and silence the weapon at basically no cost. If you play vanilla MW its not a big deal since most of the maps you arent shooting that far anyway. the guns in MW 2019 sound too good to silence and mag dumping is sick as gently caress.
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Silencers function differently in core and Warzone. In Warzone they function the old way where they keep you off the minimap when you shoot. In core you don't appear on the minimap when you shoot unsilenced but it does break your ghost perk and you appear on the pseudo-minimap that is the compass. They practically required in Warzone but less so in core.
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codo27 posted:Anyone still playing cs obviously suffers from severe dementia and should be exploited as such actually CS has been the best shooter series on the market since 1.1 and has produced some of the finest pixel hunters to ruin games for everyone else for more than two decades now Sab669 posted:It could be the EXP was still tuned towards eventually selling them. you could very well be right, but remember the old adage "don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by  "
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Bohemian Nights posted:you could very well be right, but remember the old adage "don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by Ehh considering the state of the game industry these days I'm very much in the camp of "don't attribute to incompetence what you can attribute to malice". Worse and worse monetization is creeping its way into games and I fear it'll get worse before it gets better, for example. Or unfinished game because of way too tight release dates, and crunch... the list goes on. Yami Fenrir fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Jun 22, 2021 |
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Jun 22, 2021 13:44
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Bohemian Nights posted:you could very well be right, but remember the old adage "don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by I generally don't buy into the argument of what I said when people present it towards other games but the exp gain / unlocks are SO loving SLOW in this game it's wild. It very well could've been "there will be a ton of backlash if we sell them right out of the gate; lets offer them later for the people who only have a few hours per week to play". I just don't know how much later they were sold to really back that up 
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Sab669 posted:I generally don't buy into the argument of what I said when people present it towards other games but the exp gain / unlocks are SO loving SLOW in this game it's wild. I don't have an exact date but I feel like it was pretty drat early, possibly first or second expansion. I'm not sure if they weren't available out of the gate, actually.
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Jun 22, 2021 15:07
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I did some googling and the first date i can find for the weapons packs is about five months after release, so a whole lot earlier than i thought
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Jun 22, 2021 15:22
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Gonz posted:Warzone dared me to pay 20 bucks apiece for either John McClane or Rambo in the last season. That poo poo is hilarious. Not in a million years, EA and/or Activision. The audio sounds like it was recorded by a dev’s phone off a vhs copy of die hard and mcclane will NOT shut the gently caress up. I have cod points piling up from extra earned in battlepasses and there is nothing I’m interested in getting because who cares about skins, you can’t even see it yourself while you play! In battlefield the vehicle unlocks were the worst imo, especially when you can never get in one or get blown up as soon as you snag something 
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Jun 22, 2021 15:23
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Remember when they hid the UCAV behind getting jet kills? Thank god there are goons and cooperative pubbies to farm kills for that bullshit
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Jun 22, 2021 15:51
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Bohemian Nights posted:actually CS has been the best shooter series on the market since 1.1 and has produced some of the finest pixel hunters to ruin games for everyone else for more than two decades now Did CS Source die or become the standard? When I quit it was still very different in some ways
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Inspector Hound posted:Did CS Source die or become the standard? When I quit it was still very different in some ways Got replaced by CS Global Offensive.
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Inspector Hound posted:Did CS Source die or become the standard? When I quit it was still very different in some ways Source was pretty half-baked and never really took off, so professional play mostly continued in 1.6 until the eventual release of cs:go dragged the pro scene kicking and screaming into the present day. CSGO also finally introduced built in matchmaking so it was really a no-brainer for everyone else to make the switch too
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In case you guys haven't noticed, the BF4 vehicle upgrade shortcut bundle is free on steam right now until June 28th. Will make vehicles significantly more powerful for you to use. One thing I've noticed that I think is odd is how few people use thermal optics for their weapons or in vehicles.
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Jun 22, 2021 17:11
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I’ll use thermals on a map like Zavod or something similarly close quarters (for a tank) or a map that’s really busy like the warehouses in Firestorm. On something like Golmud or Lacang or Caspian I’ll use zoom optics and the HMG so I can be an annoying poo poo and snipe people with a tank.
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Jun 22, 2021 17:18
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Rumors and leaks are swirling around the "love letter" REDACTED mode with it being named Battlefield Hub primarily from Tom Henderson so take them all with massive amounts of salt. "Ultimate sandbox experience" purely structured around fun, no focus on competitive elements or balance. Remasters of old maps from older titles in the 2042 engine, with "cross-era" play featuring weapons and vehicles from previous Battlefield titles using the 2042 specialists (not classes)w
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Thermals for infantry have increased aim down sights time, which is probably why a lot of players skip them. for tanks and such it's a no brainer though. Zoom is okay but Thermals is honestly way better for one reason (the biggest reason): Engineers. It helps so much with hit and run engineers, which is all of the engineers. It helps target acquisition so much.
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priznat posted:In battlefield the vehicle unlocks were the worst imo, especially when you can never get in one or get blown up as soon as you snag something
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Jun 22, 2021 17:40
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Insert name here posted:At least in 4 you start with an unlock in every slot by default. I still remember in 3 planes not having flares for the first 1100 or so points until they finally patched it so everyone has them by default. Oh god I had so blissfully forgotten about that.
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In BF3 I flipped between zoom and thermals depending on the match, Eng support with a thermals T-90 and the light machine gun just owned bones for helping your team push the tunnels flags on Dav. peak. It was nice being in a tank and not having to worry about sky gods. Also, if the REDACTED mode happens to be like a battlefield across time thing, I would pretty much only ever use WW1 stuff. Landship supremacy in 2042.
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Yami Fenrir posted:Oh god I had so blissfully forgotten about that. Jeez me too that was brutal. I had a lot of fun with vehicles in BF2 but then 3 onward made them a lot more of a grind. BF2 LAV was my favourite that thing hauled rear end and you could dodge TOW rockets by ducking behind buildings, Karkand was the best for that (and in general)
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Played some BF1 last night and had a blast. Still so easy to finish as the MVP every game.
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Thermals on the tank/lav/boat are basically cheating and I love it. Thermals on infantry weapons in broad day are wrong and I hate them
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Bob Wins posted:In BF3 I flipped between zoom and thermals depending on the match, Eng support with a thermals T-90 and the light machine gun just owned bones for helping your team push the tunnels flags on Dav. peak. God, if they let us have the Martini Henry with that ludicrous bayonet... 
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thermals on infantry ruled hard back when you could use it to see through smoke Used to throw a smoke at my feet to engage one way invisibility screens in the middle of the open
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Same, underslung smoke launcher was what I put on when we needed to win. I would just constantly spam it and either use thermals or spam Q like a mofo and shoot doritos. Smoke facilitated waaaaaay too many breakouts on 24/7 metro servers.
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jisforjosh posted:Rumors and leaks are swirling around the "love letter" REDACTED mode with it being named Battlefield Hub primarily from Tom Henderson so take them all with massive amounts of salt. Did anyone do the work and go back and cross check everything "Tom Henderson" spewed out? I don't doubt he has some source of info, but I think he plays up what he has and puts out speculation as fact and relies on his hits obscuring his misses. I distinctly remember him stating the game will just be called Battlefield, that it is set 10 years from now and a whole bunch of stuff. He got the dates wrong every time, each time claiming that "no really this time the date I know is real". All of his leaks about the reveal trailer were wrong, what he had seen bits of were from an old internal pre viz video
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Oh yeah, weren't we supposed to be getting new info today or something?
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Yami Fenrir posted:Oh yeah, weren't we supposed to be getting new info today or something? EA Play is July 22nd unfortunately unless there is something else.
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Mr Beens posted:Did anyone do the work and go back and cross check everything "Tom Henderson" spewed out? From what he had leaked, it was near future, climate disaster, 128 players, you play multinational soldiers hired by superpowers, unique perks per class (got classes returning wrong), dynamic weather/tornado, no BR at launch, no singleplayer, and most importantly...robodog
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Orv posted:EA Play is July 22nd unfortunately unless there is something else. Oh ffs, this is like the third time this month I thought a thing would be in June instead of July. Riiiip.
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I agree we should abolish the Gregorian calendar.
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Perestroika posted:God, if they let us have the Martini Henry with that ludicrous bayonet... BF1 guns better use the BF1 headshot sound effect
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Bohemian Nights posted:$30? I stopped talking to one of my best friends about 5 years ago and the straw that broke the camel's back was he was unemployed and living with his mom in his mid 30s and obsessed with CS:Go and he got a knife skin worth $900, and instead of selling it he gave it to some titty streamer he thought he was in love with
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Au Revoir Shosanna posted:BF1 guns better use the BF1 headshot sound effect If I'm a BF 1 character and a squad leader they better let me use the whistle.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I stopped talking to one of my best friends about 5 years ago and the straw that broke the camel's back was he was unemployed and living with his mom in his mid 30s and obsessed with CS:Go and he got a knife skin worth $900, and instead of selling it he gave it to some titty streamer he thought he was in love with Anyone else care to disagree with my post from the last page re: cs?
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Bohemian Nights posted:the best thing about going back to bf4 right now is all the fresh meat Ok so you people need to go easier on me I keep forgetting which button the medkit is on
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