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Hot Diggity!
Apr 3, 2010

SKELITON_BRINGING_U_ON.GIF
It looks fun which is cool because I want the game to be fun

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Fart Car '97
Jul 23, 2003

Hot Diggity! posted:

It looks fun which is cool because I want the game to be fun

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

I'm surprised they've never just done a proper remake of Battlefield 1942. That game ruled. Cruising round in a battleship shelling things. Flying a plane to the enemy carrier, parachuting onto it and sneaking around murdering nerds. Hopping in a Heinkel, flying over the Channel and bombing where I was born. ;p

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

I'd be quite content if nothing else further monetized WW2 (or 1) tbh. Even if war itself is just monetization

Beastie
Nov 3, 2006

They used to call me tricky-kid, I lived the life they wish they did.


I thought the BF1 and BFV version of guns and attachments sucked so I’m glad it’s more of an integrated menu rather than a laggy poo poo show of “trench, storm, low weight.”

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

codo27 posted:

I'd be quite content if nothing else further monetized WW2 (or 1) tbh. Even if war itself is just monetization

Battlefield: Franco-Prussian War?

jisforjosh
Jun 6, 2006

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

codo27 posted:

I'd be quite content if nothing else further monetized WW2 (or 1) tbh. Even if war itself is just monetization

In gaming or in general?

pro starcraft loser
Jan 23, 2006

Stand back, this could get messy.

So stop having classes. Just have everyone be a medic/sniper/engineer/death robot whenever they need.

I cancelled my pre-order as this looks more and more just like BF4 (which was fun) with a little more. I'll see what people think on release.

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

jisforjosh posted:

In gaming or in general?

I'd say in general. I'm sure historians could argue there are tales left to be told but America has a deep rooted curse in its endless need to glorify and seek out war, and for all the wrong reasons. Of course WW2 was different but still.

Dead Like Rev
Sep 6, 2010

"The dead walk among us."



pro starcraft loser posted:

So stop having classes. Just have everyone be a medic/sniper/engineer/death robot whenever they need.

I cancelled my pre-order as this looks more and more just like BF4 (which was fun) with a little more. I'll see what people think on release.

No one cares?

dog nougat
Apr 8, 2009

Yami Fenrir posted:

I mean all of these things are literally attachments, as in you...

attach...

them...

when you need them.

Plus in BF4 I certainly had situations where I wish I could get rid of my 6x scope on my DMR or similar things. I'm all for it.

Yeah, it looks pretty cool imo. Haven't spent too much time watching how it works, but it'd be cool if changing certain accessories took different amounts of time. Like swapping mag sizes should be pretty fast compared to switching out optics or adding a suppressor to a weapon.

Rusty
Sep 28, 2001
Dinosaur Gum
Not sure if there is anyone left who doesn't have BFV or BF1, but I had these codes I keep forgetting to post:

BFV
F3L4-KL6C-UP5R-J4YM-ZP95
BF1
GJEN-JNGE-GSTE-ARBW-WFRA

If it gets sniped by a lurker so be it, at least they will get used.

pro starcraft loser
Jan 23, 2006

Stand back, this could get messy.

Yami Fenrir posted:

I mean all of these things are literally attachments, as in you...

attach...

them...

when you need them.

Plus in BF4 I certainly had situations where I wish I could get rid of my 6x scope on my DMR or similar things. I'm all for it.

All I'm saying it that it's pushing the individual play style more instead of teamwork which is the most fun part of the game imo.

Yami Fenrir
Jan 25, 2015

Is it I that is insane... or the rest of the world?

pro starcraft loser posted:

All I'm saying it that it's pushing the individual play style more instead of teamwork which is the most fun part of the game imo.

Yeaaah uhhhhhh...

No?

The choice between scopes is the only thing that even slightly would affect that and even that is a stretch.

The specialist system could be argued, sure, but the attachment system...?

Chronojam
Feb 20, 2006

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


In the older game I used the canted irons only ever because it looked dumb and goofy, like tri green lasers. Never tactically.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

Kibayasu posted:

I don’t even remember hearing about BF Vietnam when it was released because I was still chin deep into Desert Combat.

a) hell yeah DC
b) I only bought Vietnam for a mod, I think ... Point of Existence? I forget the name but it was modern combat similar to DC.

it also gave TV guided missiles that had beyond visual range capability to the BMP and Bradley. These were balanced by being 'hard to control' I guess? except you know what made them really easy? a joystick. What did I have at the time? My trusty Sidewinder Pro.

so just imagine you're in your base waiting for the tank to spawn like you do, and as soon as you drive out the front gates out of the sky comes some utter rear end in a top hat guiding an AT-5 Spandrel missile from over a mountaintop directly onto your turret, where you can't outrun it, can't return fire, and can't get out fast enough.

where was I oh right yeah bf vietnam: owned, never played a minute of the actual game. :v:

Warad
Aug 10, 2019



Psion posted:

it also gave TV guided missiles that had beyond visual range capability to the BMP and Bradley. These were balanced by being 'hard to control' I guess? except you know what made them really easy? a joystick. What did I have at the time? My trusty Sidewinder Pro.

so just imagine you're in your base waiting for the tank to spawn like you do, and as soon as you drive out the front gates out of the sky comes some utter rear end in a top hat guiding an AT-5 Spandrel missile from over a mountaintop directly onto your turret, where you can't outrun it, can't return fire, and can't get out fast enough.



That's because they were literally just modded "aircraft" that just exploded really big when they hit something, that's why they had the caveat that they never gave you the kills since it was technically a "suicide" attack like ramming into something.

Desert Combat also had that in those very, very rare times you ended up on a map with ships, since they had cruise missiles that acted pretty much the same way. I kinda want to say later versions had them on planes too like the F-15 but I can't really remember.

jisforjosh
Jun 6, 2006

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

Chronojam posted:

In the older game I used the canted irons only ever because it looked dumb and goofy, like tri green lasers. Never tactically.

I don't know if any still exist but some of the most fun (besides randomly launching friendly vehicles or doing jihad attacks) in BF4 was using a random loadout generator and just having to stick with that and make it work

Ardent Communist
Oct 17, 2010

ALLAH! MU'AMMAR! LIBYA WA BAS!
I'm just broke brained and like using iron sights, but with current or future scopes there's almost no point. Gonna miss the BF1 style where most guns are pretty good with iron sights.
Man, can you imagine if they just did a WW2 version of bf1 instead of what we got? Like, bring back premium if it means we're going to get tons of maps and new guns. Can you imagine if BF:V had as many varied maps as BF1? We got loving russian civil war maps! There's not even any russians in your ww2 game!

Yami Fenrir
Jan 25, 2015

Is it I that is insane... or the rest of the world?

Ardent Communist posted:

I'm just broke brained and like using iron sights, but with current or future scopes there's almost no point. Gonna miss the BF1 style where most guns are pretty good with iron sights.
Man, can you imagine if they just did a WW2 version of bf1 instead of what we got? Like, bring back premium if it means we're going to get tons of maps and new guns. Can you imagine if BF:V had as many varied maps as BF1? We got loving russian civil war maps! There's not even any russians in your ww2 game!

nah gently caress premium.

Having 20 new maps doesn't matter if half the servers don't run them because it would split the playerbase.

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo
I remember playing Desert Combat while the TV was tuned to CNN showing live footage of us bombing Baghdad in 2003. Good times.

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


Remember the Pirates mod?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EebEjorqCRI

How about the Mad Max one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APapFhJHAXc

Raskolnikov2089
Nov 3, 2006

Schizzy to the matic

Best mod was Desert Combat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ityCZ2CapI&t=630s

Made me sad when Frontlines: Fuel of War bombed so hard since that was made up of Desert Combat devs.

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

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

Made me sad when Frontlines: Fuel of War bombed so hard since that was made up of Desert Combat devs.
While Trauma/KAOS was made of many former Desert Combat devs who were dropped like a hot potato once EA was done with them on BF2, they also abandoned the PC in favor of the consoles with Frontlines. They had an elaborate voicecomm system that improved upon the BF2 system, allowing you to speak directly to other people in your vehicle, for example, but only on console, nothing on PC. Their version of the Unreal engine never ran as well as the Refractor 2 engine. Frontlines also simply wasn't as good as BF2, and Homefront, while it had some neat ideas, was so unambitious that it's ideas were quickly adopted by COD instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_18AnDbpJiA

Also the final campaign mission crashed for me on 2 different computers so I never bothered to finish it.

Assepoester fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Aug 25, 2021

jkr266s
Feb 16, 2008
As good as DC was Eve of Destruction was the best BF42 mod, much better than BF Vietnam

BrassRoots
Jan 9, 2012

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere - John Coltrane
I liked 2142. The air bases were the poo poo. They should remake that so airbases are actually optimised and dont lag to all hell.

Gucci Loafers
May 20, 2006

Ask yourself, do you really want to talk to pair of really nice gaudy shoes?


jisforjosh posted:

Spotting seat seems to have 2 different options on some vehicles based on datamining

https://twitter.com/temporyal/status/1428325878409404418

Hot take,

This looks insanely OP and the Primary/Secondary will always be the AA Gun and AT Missile.

RCarr
Dec 24, 2007

I don’t care just let me play the game

Duck_King
Sep 5, 2003

leader.bmp


To this very day I still tell people about the hilarious Jeep turned komodo dragon, with all the physics intact. One of the funniest things I've ever seen in a game. If you flipped the lizard on it's back it's belly would start smoking and then catch fire and explode.

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo

Duck_King posted:

To this very day I still tell people about the hilarious Jeep turned komodo dragon, with all the physics intact. One of the funniest things I've ever seen in a game. If you flipped the lizard on it's back it's belly would start smoking and then catch fire and explode.

Now that’s Battlefield

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003

Crosby B. Alfred posted:

Hot take,

This looks insanely OP and the Primary/Secondary will always be the AA Gun and AT Missile.

Hell yes

VulgarandStupid
Aug 5, 2003
I AM, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, UNFUCKABLE AND A TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT TO EVERYONE. DAE WANNA CUM PLAY WITH ME!?




2142 rules. You could ride in a drop ship and toss an emp grenade at your feet causing the drop shop to descend, while blaming it on an enemy EMP missile.

Jer, if you’re reading this, it was me the whole time.

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

BrassRoots posted:

I liked 2142. The air bases were the poo poo. They should remake that so airbases are actually optimised and dont lag to all hell.
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henpod
Mar 7, 2008

Sir, we have located the Bioweapon.
College Slice
Titan mode was such a cool idea. Having you and your team firing up in pods, landing on the giant floating ship, fighting your way to the core, setting a bomb and running away as it exploded was amazing. Obviously it was a mess as I guess the coding was too difficult, but as an idea it was brilliant.

Charles 1998
Sep 27, 2007

by VideoGames

pro starcraft loser posted:

So stop having classes. Just have everyone be a medic/sniper/engineer/death robot whenever they need.

I cancelled my pre-order as this looks more and more just like BF4 (which was fun) with a little more. I'll see what people think on release.

Game still has classes.

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

henpod posted:

Titan mode was such a cool idea. Having you and your team firing up in pods, landing on the giant floating ship, fighting your way to the core, setting a bomb and running away as it exploded was amazing. Obviously it was a mess as I guess the coding was too difficult, but as an idea it was brilliant.
I don't think you set a bomb, you just destroyed the load bearing reactor

Sioux
May 30, 2006

some ghoulish parody of humanity

henpod posted:

We've all seen gameplay by now, but this is the best one I've seen. Gives you a much better sense of what its like to play the game with plenty of action, and a good flow of skirmishes. The movement speed / sliding doesn't seem all that extreme when someone is using a reasonable FOV. Also, the explosions look great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYWTjeHa8qs&t=484s

drat it's already gone

Philman
Jan 20, 2004

BF 2042: No war but the class war

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

Ardent Communist posted:

I'm just broke brained and like using iron sights, but with current or future scopes there's almost no point. Gonna miss the BF1 style where most guns are pretty good with iron sights.
Man, can you imagine if they just did a WW2 version of bf1 instead of what we got? Like, bring back premium if it means we're going to get tons of maps and new guns. Can you imagine if BF:V had as many varied maps as BF1? We got loving russian civil war maps! There's not even any russians in your ww2 game!

Yeah that kinda bummed me out about BF4, how the lack of visual recoil meant that non magnified optics were flat out superior to iron sights

Hope they don’t go too nuts with the tacticool guns and give us some nice wood furniture guns too

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jisforjosh
Jun 6, 2006

"It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBJTrsAMbSI

BF1 still slaps

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