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The biggest bummer in BF4 right now is the attachment unlocks through battle packs. I'm level 41 and only have the Kobra scope for the AEK-971. Very annoying how the RNG can screw you. Hopefully 2042 will go the COD route (scandalous I know) and just stick to account level and maybe weapon or weapon category level.
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ZeusCannon posted:The AA mines in BF4 were useless 90% of the time and very funny the rest of the 10%. Still fun for creating fortress rooftops with squadmates when you all go airmines and IGLA plus one support with ammo and MAPS. DrBox posted:The biggest bummer in BF4 right now is the attachment unlocks through battle packs. I still have not unlocked all the BF2 or 2142 guns after all these years.
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Oct 16, 2021 03:25
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You guys are probably grossly underestimating the things you can do with low skill in 2042 if you’re opinions are based on the beta alone. For example, a glaring omission from the beta is smoke grenades. Clearly they will exist, the tanks have the functionality, and they’ve been in prior games. That will let you get off some cheeky revives. We’ve only seen 2 out of probably 8 grenade types. We’ve only seen very few of the vehicles, and like half of the gadgets, plus what is hopefully the worst map.
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Oct 16, 2021 03:28
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DrBox posted:The biggest bummer in BF4 right now is the attachment unlocks through battle packs. I'm level 41 and only have the Kobra scope for the AEK-971. Very annoying how the RNG can screw you. Hopefully 2042 will go the COD route (scandalous I know) and just stick to account level and maybe weapon or weapon category level. The attachments for the faction the weapon “belongs” to and the first set of attachments unlock through kills. The battle pack attachments do the same thing as the ones kill unlocks but it is slightly annoying when it comes to sights and scopes because the Chinese ones are just better.
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VulgarandStupid posted:
According to dice they picked this map because of how much work was put into it and how proud they were of it.
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Sedisp posted:According to dice they picked this map because of how much work was put into it and how proud they were of it. How would you rate it against Hamada?
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Oct 16, 2021 03:52
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VulgarandStupid posted:How would you rate it against Hamada? That's like rating matter against anti matter
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Oct 16, 2021 04:20
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VulgarandStupid posted:You guys are probably grossly underestimating the things you can do with low skill in 2042 if you’re opinions are based on the beta alone. For example, a glaring omission from the beta is smoke grenades. Clearly they will exist, the tanks have the functionality, and they’ve been in prior games. That will let you get off some cheeky revives. Not saying you're wrong but when has that ever stopped DICE?
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Oct 16, 2021 05:23
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DICE will include smoke grenades and said smoke grenades will suddenly do nothing at ranges greater than 50m If enough players use smoke grenades the server will crash
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Oct 16, 2021 05:55
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jisforjosh posted:Not saying you're wrong but when has that ever stopped DICE? fwiw i did see bots in the beta using both smoke grenades and incendiary grenades so those will almost certainly be in the game
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jisforjosh posted:Same though I'm sure it would be a mess that turns away people who have barely flown even if they knew the controls; new pilots would get stomped by statistically better handling, higher flight ceiling, or more damage and then just never touch the mode again. Battle of Britain was my favourite map in 1942 and it had fun ground gameplay too, it wasn’t a strict Air Superiority map like in BF 3/4/1 where players just circled flags which I never really enjoyed. Battlefield badly needs more unique asymmetric objective-based maps like BoB that don’t just funnel players into 2 objectives per sector. The setup of BoB had Axis forces taking off from one side of the English Channel, while Allied forces defended a factory and 4 radar towers from bombing with AA guns, planes and halftracks/jeeps on the other side:  Coral Sea is another favourite map DICE could learn from; the 1943 version was miserable though, they removed the carrier bombing objective (???), 2-seater planes, island defguns, sneaking aboard the enemy carrier then on top of that there was a new 10-second death timer out of aircraft. It was so bad. psyman fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Oct 16, 2021 |
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Was looking through my liked videos on youtube and found this and had a laugh: https://youtu.be/PwzF2AO2v-c Didn’t someone here make it?
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Oct 16, 2021 14:20
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there was like a 4 month period where the only video game i played was a bf1942 24/7 coral sea server
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VulgarandStupid posted:You guys are probably grossly underestimating the things you can do with low skill in 2042 if you’re opinions are based on the beta alone. For example, a glaring omission from the beta is smoke grenades. Clearly they will exist, the tanks have the functionality, and they’ve been in prior games. That will let you get off some cheeky revives. On the first day when servers weren't full all the time, I got killed by a bot that tossed an incendiary grenade on me. I deleted my beta install so I don't have the files to look around but if you still have it on your drive, I think it was My Documents/BF2042 some cache folder had all the equipment from the beta in there, including EMP grenades.
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When I finally got a tank, some rear end in a top hat kept following me around with one of those drones that did the EMP attack thing . I couldn't see poo poo, it was so annoying
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ZeusCannon posted:Still itll be nice to having homing ground based AA again to gently caress skygod days up. I dunno, once you got good with the fliegerfaust, IE the explosive skyshotgun, pilots that over extended were easily dealt with
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Zzulu posted:When I finally got a tank, some rear end in a top hat kept following me around with one of those drones that did the EMP attack thing . I couldn't see poo poo, it was so annoying Lol. The emp drone was surprisingly useful and could lock down an afv pretty well. Managed to lock down an AA vehicle while a couple engineers slowly plinked away at it. The drone was pretty fun and I liked spotting for my team, especially around the D flags, seemed helpful around the tunnel entrances. The drones are pretty easy to shoot down though. I only ever shot down a couple drones that were either just super low, or being shot at by robodog since they're kinda small and not easy to spot. I suspect once the game comes out people will start to gravitate towards roles of sorts and there will be some more effort to shoot down the drones.
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The drone was good, it just needed a return to player button
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Drones are good in this. I had way too much fun taking out tanks with them. They need to fix spotting, and once they do drones are going to be everywhere. Also, if you fly the drone to 250m away, it will start to lose signal. If you keep flying to somewhere between 270-300, the drone will explode. But! If you leave the drone in the air, it will hover indefinitely until you move farther away. So you can constantly move up and see whats ahead of you, or leave it up above to peek at quickly to see how a fire fight is going. Once spotting works, these things will be absolutely indispensable in Hazard Zone.
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ethanol posted:there was like a 4 month period where the only video game i played was a bf1942 24/7 coral sea server Same but Lost Village in Desert Combat for me.
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psyman posted:Battle of Britain was my favourite map in 1942 and it had fun ground gameplay too, it wasn’t a strict Air Superiority map like in BF 3/4/1 where players just circled flags which I never really enjoyed. Yes, the thing I loved about 1942 was a bold map design where they gleefully messed with ideas like "what if it's a carrier group vs. a carrier group" or "what if it's an air assault," and you'd see it echo through fan made maps. They seem to have lost the will to create maps like that. I wonder why, "blow this thing up" could be a more spectacular objective as destruction came into the picture.
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Grondoth posted:Yes, the thing I loved about 1942 was a bold map design where they gleefully messed with ideas like "what if it's a carrier group vs. a carrier group" or "what if it's an air assault," and you'd see it echo through fan made maps. They seem to have lost the will to create maps like that. I wonder why, "blow this thing up" could be a more spectacular objective as destruction came into the picture. Part of it is the changing of the development team overtime but a large part of it (coupled with people leaving) is that Frostbite is a mess to develop on and doesn't really allow for game modes like that.
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It is pretty crazy that the core group of Battlefield goons have been playing together in some way shape or form for over a decade now. It's a great little community.
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ethanol posted:there was like a 4 month period where the only video game i played was a bf1942 24/7 coral sea server Yep me too. Hard to beat it
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toggle posted:Yep me too. Hard to beat it There was no point in playing other games when perfection was right there
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Duck_King posted:It is pretty crazy that the core group of Battlefield goons have been playing together in some way shape or form for over a decade now. It's a great little community. Part of me misses getting drunk and playing BC2 to the dulcet tones of Fist of Allah ranting about social anarchism
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i miss the log blog
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Eastbound Spider posted:i miss the log blog Rip
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Oct 17, 2021 00:43
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Giving all these posts a Hooah
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Hot Diggity! posted:Giving all these posts a Hooah IM GIVING IT ALL THE HOOAH I CAN - I CAN'T HOOAH ANY HARDER!
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I do recall downloading and installing an auto hooah browser plug-in
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I'm actually bummed to see that the big stat tracking thing is gone. I was the best stealth jet pilot in the county. Would've been the state if I didn't have one of the biggest cities in the world as part of my state, which tips the odds a bit
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Hadlock posted:I do recall downloading and installing an auto hooah browser plug-in :hooah:
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Oct 17, 2021 09:09
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tell me how this game wont kill the franchise
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Oct 17, 2021 10:45
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The stench of John Riccitiello and his taint on the BF franchise/frostbite engine will outlast you, the game will live on through the goodwill of bf1942/2/2142/bfbc2 players for another decade, rendering the franchise virile Cheers, please cut off your balls
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If BFV can somehow have a healthy playerbase still, then this game will probably live forever
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Oct 17, 2021 12:36
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there are no good alternatives. don't say squad/HLL
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oh dang, I thought the full release was this month's 19th, not November's.
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That's because it was iirc. Then they delayed it to November about a month ago...
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I think the lesson is that a Battlefield style game is a lot harder to make than we would think, see WW3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCTE6CeNyNE "It's too late"
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