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Chronojam
Feb 20, 2006

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


My 2070 on medium is running like garbage, and I can't shoot on foot unless I either open the menu and close it or punch. Punching fires my shotgun. A little awkward.

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Perestroika
Apr 8, 2010

Because I am a corporate slut with no willpower I can now confirm: EA Play subscription does not currently work for early beta access, while a preorder does.

Anyhow, just squeezed in half a round. Of course, the very first spawn put had me unexpectedly piloting a VTOL because the actual pilot bailed moments before, just a true battlefield experience from the get-go. Also, Slug Lyfe is back: It seems to be a two-hit-kill to the body at most ranges, and you have a separate ammo pool for buck for when you go in close. :discourse:

Qmass
Jun 3, 2003

am I still misunderstanding a technical test if I say that the beta feels as janky as the test footage looked ?

Symetrique
Jan 2, 2013




Qmass posted:

am I still misunderstanding a technical test if I say that the beta feels as janky as the test footage looked ?

Yes. This is actually a considerable improvement

Dr. Video Games 0031
Jul 17, 2004

They just let me play on PC Game Pass. So it seems they were accidentally blocking game pass users and they just lifted the block.

Charles 1998
Sep 27, 2007

by VideoGames
Played for an hour. The gameplay is solid, but there is something awkward about movement. Doesn't feel fluid or smooth. I love how the lmg can pack AP rounds and shoot parts off vehicles.

Every Battlefield beta has been super buggy and jank, so I can ignore all that. Right now the whole game feels a bit stuttery, despite having smooth fps. Maybe it's just laggy servers and they need to optimize the net code.

Also HDR doesn't work! I was hoping to see how beautiful an HDR Battlefield could look in 2021.

Mr Beens
Dec 2, 2006

Ashrik posted:

I know the release version is more advanced than the beta we're playing but

This feels so janky. The UI needs so much love.

Westie said in his first video that the devs told him that the Beta build is 2 months old, so release version will have had 3 more months in the oven.

Dr. Video Games 0031
Jul 17, 2004

Mr Beens posted:

Westie said in his first video that the devs told him that the Beta build is 2 months old, so release version will have had 3 more months in the oven.

Every single time people say things like this, and every single time the release ends up janky. It's a dice game. do not expect it to be anything resembling polished on release (or ever)

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug
Nothing feeling stuttery to me. I don't do vehicles tho. I have seen some warping, but I haven't felt like I lost any gunfights because of it.

Charles 1998
Sep 27, 2007

by VideoGames
My biggest gripe right now is there's no faction identity. The specialists are the same no matter what side you're on.

henpod
Mar 7, 2008

Sir, we have located the Bioweapon.
College Slice
PS5 early impressions after two rounds:

- contoller feels great with the haptics, not obnoxious. Just right.
- sound effects are awesome.
- guns feel pretty good.
- running is not too fast.
- smooth frames, nice graphics.

- this map design, I dunno. It's a little too big and there are not epic bit fights going on. Everyone is a little too spread out and this doesn't feel like 128.
- graphics are good, but a little 'clean'. Everything is shiny and perfect, but there's no character (so far).
- UI needs work.

So far, a very positive impression. Want to play more, but I gotta work.

Republicans
Oct 14, 2003

- More money for us

- Fuck you


Big fan of the shotgun slugs in this game. Unlike some previous Battlefields they generally hit what you aim at.

Hopper
Dec 28, 2004

BOOING! BOOING!
Grimey Drawer

Chronojam posted:

AA truck is awesome good times...

User name post combo.... BF IS BACK

Ashrik
Feb 9, 2009

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.
After spending a bunch of hours playing New World, these wide open maps leave me dreaming for an auto-run button.

I'll tell you what though.... game's good

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

Qmass posted:

am I still misunderstanding a technical test if I say that the beta feels as janky as the test footage looked ?

Symetrique posted:

Yes. This is actually a considerable improvement
That's our battlefield

Thirsty Dog
May 31, 2007

Hit registration seems totally random, it's incredibly unsatisfying when coupled with the disappointing weapon noises.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

the fps was absolutely abysmal on an rtx even on low until I rebooted or changed some combo of graphics settings like nvidia reflex which made it okay

hambeet
Sep 13, 2002

Playing on a 3700x and rx 5700xt, 1440p all high and it’s running really well.

Is anyone collecting any tips or tricks or known bugs for people to be aware of?

- Apparently yaw left isn’t working if you’re flying with KBM?
- No map
- Running bordered window has slight performance increase.

Mega Comrade
Apr 22, 2004

Listen buddy, we all got problems!
Can someone who plays BFV tell me how the slide spam is? I really liked almost all the combat of BFV except that you could spam slide every 3 seconds with no penalty. They said they would address this, curious if its just 4 seconds now instead.

Qmass
Jun 3, 2003

the bots are bugged I think hope

I just sat at a cap and endless waves of bots would pour into range rarely hitting me, sometimes if they got inside the cap they wouldnt even look at me kinda wigging out looking around and up. Ended up with 62 kills...

VanillaGorilla
Oct 2, 2003

Game is fun, but yeah - the build is really rough. Lots of graphical hiccups (flickering, etc.) on Series X, although the framerate was fine.

Sab669
Sep 24, 2009

Played for all of 10 minutes just now before I gotta start my day, my first take:



A giant screen-wide baby blue banner alerting you to control changes is loving ugly and obnoxious.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

the game is really janky and has poor feedback lol

it could be polished though

Qmass
Jun 3, 2003

the menu fps is uncapped so if you don't have a global cap set (like in nvidia control panel) then lookout if you have an evga 3090 or you might get new world'd

Assepoester
Jul 18, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 11 years!
Melman v2
Whether I can hit what I'm shooting seems entirely different from match to match, so I'm guessing it's PING dependent to a huge degree but without any server browser or any way to see my ping it's just a crapshoot. I have not been able to hit a single thing with the shotguns, I seem to have best luck with the LMG of all guns right now.

Movement ALWAYS feels janky and slidey as others have said, feels like going back to BF3 movement on a slightly too high ping server, nothing as smooth as BF1 and BFV were, but at least you can still vault. Haven't found anything I can mantle on yet.

Parachutes are barely maneuverable and incredibly bad like the BFV parachutes.




Sab669 posted:

Played for all of 10 minutes just now before I gotta start my day, my first take:



A giant screen-wide baby blue banner alerting you to control changes is loving ugly and obnoxious.
Agreed but it does do a really good job of notifying you of map changes, which is important because THERE IS NO FULL SIZE MAP

Assepoester fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Oct 6, 2021

Orc Priest
Jun 9, 2021
I don't know if their internal build is much further along but yeah this game feels like it could use a delay into the spring. Other than that, it's fun as hell. Been having a ton of fun. The guns have a nice feel to them and Orbital is a great map. I can already tell I'm going to be playing here a lot.

Paracausal
Sep 5, 2011

Oh yeah, baby. Frame your suffering as a masterpiece. Only one problem - no one's watching. It's boring, buddy, boring as death.
oh boy this thing is coming in hot.
commorose not in yet
my bindings randomly deleted themselves? I can't aim (RMB does nothing) and I can't reload!
Performance of graphics is pretty good. Map and environmental effects pretty good. Sound effects great. Gunplay not bad, TTK feels a bit high though.
Tornado is a complete gimmick.
AI is pretty effective.

Jokerpilled Drudge
Jan 27, 2010

by Pragmatica

Mr Beens posted:

Westie said in his first video that the devs told him that the Beta build is 2 months old, so release version will have had 3 more months in the oven.

lmao

SaltPig
Jun 21, 2004

Where can you mess with your player card? I noticed that other people have several different ones, but there doesn't appear to be any options in the main menu aside from "Play" and "Quit"

Bardeh
Dec 2, 2004

Fun Shoe
Is this UI placeholder? It's loving horrible. Looks like a mobile touchscreen UI that they've slapped on.

Fart Car '97
Jul 23, 2003

Mr Beens posted:

Westie said in his first video that the devs told him that the Beta build is 2 months old, so release version will have had 3 more months in the oven.

Lmfao ok

Bardeh
Dec 2, 2004

Fun Shoe
A few thoughts:

The guns and nearly everything else don't sound good

It sort of feels like I'm sliding all over the place (honestly not that bad - doesn't feel realistic but it's quick and responsive and arcadey)

The weather effects seem pretty cool

Runs okay-ish at medium at 1440p on a 1080ti, but definitely gets sluggish with big action

Weird graphical artifacts

Generally feels janky and not really ready for release

Qmass
Jun 3, 2003

The United States posted:

so I'm guessing it's PING dependent to a huge degree but without any server browser or any way to see my ping it's just a crapshoot.
it does show your ping in a match on the top right side of the scoreboard screen thing

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Mr Beens posted:

Westie said in his first video that the devs told him that the Beta build is 2 months old, so release version will have had 3 more months in the oven.

This is literally what every developer claims every time in these cases, and then the end product always ends up being buggy. It's just marketing handwaving away all criticism.

Sab669
Sep 24, 2009

Fame Douglas posted:

This is literally what every developer claims every time in these cases, and then the end product always ends up being buggy. It's just marketing handwaving away all criticism.

Yea the correct way to interpret that is "The beta is 2 months old, so release version will have had 3 more months of new bugs being patched in"

Jokerpilled Drudge
Jan 27, 2010

by Pragmatica
release day fomo is a brain disease (yes a buy in beta is a defacto release day, sorry rubes)

Stormgale
Feb 27, 2010

Jokerpilled Drudge posted:

release day fomo is a brain disease (yes a buy in beta is a defacto release day, sorry rubes)

I got it with game pass so Truly I am the best gamer.

Spuckuk
Aug 11, 2009

Being a bastard works



Literally unplayable to entirely suspected 'cannot connect to EA servers' errors

Dead Like Rev
Sep 6, 2010

"The dead walk among us."



SOOOOOO - Falks gun doesn't revive anymore from alpha to beta? the gently caress?

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Roman
Aug 8, 2002

My very brief experience is that it's just more Battlefield. I could get pretty much the same experience just playing BF4 again. I never liked Conquest much anyway. Gonna need to play something else like Hazard Zone to sell me on this.

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