Battlefield 2042: Don't be sad, this is just how it works out sometimes

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StevoMcQueen: Dec 29, 2007

Tormented posted:

How is Battlefield V? How does it stack up to Battlefield 1 as I'm enjoying it without any DLC.

I know its coming free next week to Twitch Prime.

As others have mentioned, it has good and bad points. I still play it regularly because aside from horse murder, BF1 just didn't quite scratch the itch for me.

Good points: movement/mantling, squad revives, calling in arty or other reinforcements, constructing fortifications, hitching and moving AT or AA weapons.

Bad points: Assault having the best of most worlds (AT rocket, dynamite, assault rifles like the STG44), weapons sometimes wildly unbalanced (sten and bren come to mind), and the usual bugs related to spawning and the like.

The biggest negative imo, though this is typical for a lot of fps's these days, is the unlock system for weapons/vehicles, which in some cases make weapons/vehicles considerably better (eg, better accuracy for a weapon, more powerful cannon on a tank, faster/more maneuverable aircraft).

Each level unlocks a new tier, but you can only reset your choices once you complete all tiers (so better make a good choice and don't nerf yourself!), 4 for launch vehicles(UK/Germany), 6 for Pacific update (USA/Japan). And instead of being a class of vehicle (fighter/bomber, light/medium/heavy tank), it's individual vehicles. So you get to slog through unlocking your way through 2 flavours each of Spitfire/ME109/P51/Corsair/Zero, or a Valentine/Sherman/Panzer IV.

As someone who just finished up grinding out the unlocks for the Pacific aircraft :shepface:

, the difference between stock and tier 6 is ridiculous, and I really hope they haven't done the same for 2042.

If it's free, I'd give it a whirl for the change of pace (I did the same for BFH at a friend's behest).

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jisforjosh: Jun 6, 2006; "It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"

Xander77 posted:

Downloaded Battlefield 1 with the Amazon Prime trial.

Stupid question - how exactly do I access the campaign challenges \ codex entries from in-game?

Also, any tips on plane controls? I've tried controlling the plane with mouse and keyboard (outright impossible) and gamepad (slightly less impossible, but still absolutely terrible) both, and neither allowed me to shoot down a single enemy plane after 5 minutes of "dogfighting" during the starting mission.

Fairly sure the plane controls in the mission are completely different than multiplayer lol :dice:

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Shrimp or Shrimps: Feb 14, 2012

Hell if it's free give it a go. I put 100+ hours into V and and it's fine mostly. But the pacific maps are better which you probs won't get for free, though you will get Mercury which is just a beautiful map imo.

The one thing I don't like about BFV is how hard it is to see enemies. Going back to BF1 and BF4 I always end up doing far, far better, especially if the map has a darker or more muted palette which is all the vanilla V maps. Part of this may be a lack of spotting which I actually prefer, but player models in general do blend in more because visually V just shoves so much detail at you.

I keep it installed because breakthrough on the pacific maps is legit good but you have to get lucky with more balanced teams, though in fairness that's true of all battlefields. The infantry gunplay is good too.

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StevoMcQueen: Dec 29, 2007

Shrimp or Shrimps posted:

Hell if it's free give it a go. I put 100+ hours into V and and it's fine mostly. But the pacific maps are better which you probs won't get for free, though you will get Mercury which is just a beautiful map imo.

Eh, should get Pacific included, BFV didn't have paid dlc in order to avoid splitting the playerbase (instead they just introduced a bunch of skins for $$$).

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Julius CSAR: Oct 3, 2007; by sebmojo

jisforjosh posted:

Fairly sure the plane controls in the mission are completely different than multiplayer lol

I think it uses the same controls, you just can�t roll fully inverted, only to like, 60* or something.

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Shrimp or Shrimps: Feb 14, 2012

StevoMcQueen posted:

Eh, should get Pacific included, BFV didn't have paid dlc in order to avoid splitting the playerbase (instead they just introduced a bunch of skins for $$$).

Oh yeah of course! Been in bf4/1 mode too much recently.

In that case definitely give it a go for free and find pacific map servers.

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Supaflywallace: Jan 3, 2020

Been enjoying the model 1900 and gas grenades in BF1, but I can't seem to get the model 1900 slug to work for me. Seems wildly inconsistent compared to the factory variant

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jisforjosh: Jun 6, 2006; "It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"

BFV's biggest sin is being a WW2 game that for almost a year didn't have any majorly known (in the US atleast) battles of WW2 and did not feel like WW2

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Insert name here: Nov 10, 2009; Oh.
Oh Dear.

Did they ever revert the TTK changes they made to BFV? I bailed after they tried to cram that down everyone's throats the second time and stopped paying attention after that.

Captain Beans posted:

Is this a bad thing though?

There are a lot of great BF1 ops maps that never get played because they are the 2nd or 3rd map in the OPs string.

Yeah I never quite got the hate for that change myself. It could have been handled better but getting stuck on the first set of attack points for three whole tries sucked rear end don't @ me

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HarmB: Jun 19, 2006