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Xbox havers can try 2042 for free from Jan 6th to Jan 9th apparently. Pretty great free weekend opportunity for folks on the fence. https://gamerant.com/battlefield-2042-free-xbox/
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nightwisher posted:Eh rush died out weeks ago, the spawns are just too broken to have any kind of balanced play. Semi decent attacking team would never lose, half the rounds end within 5 minutes. 64 breakthrough is superior in every way. It's really unfortunate because they'll blindly look at the results, conclude that nobody likes rush, and go from there. Rather than figure out why people wanted to play rush, what makes it fun, or figure out what disappointed the audience they'll chase the next trendy thing (with a similar lack of understanding).
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I have the 10 hour EA play Xbox game pass thing, and in the first round I played a vehicle took a turn near me and hit the corner of a dumpster/container and just drove (not fall/clip) into the ground I couldn't jump after reviving someone, I realized after I couldn't mantle There was a character crouched, with no rus/us thing above there head, frozen for a long time near one of the points. I would pass them frequently like green boots after playing a few rounds I can say it felt like it was always kind of laggy.
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Got my takedown kill for the weekly running the full way on top of the stadium roof to the lone sniper on it on the rim firing on A1. Ran the full way, not once did he look back or some prick in a heli come along.
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Trying to run up behind someone for a takedown yesterday made me realise there’s space slash a niche for a stealth operator. No invisibility bullshit of course, just a guy who’s passive ability is quieter footsteps. and maybe they dont glow red in killcams out to a certain distance or something.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:lol they removed Rush. rush 100% was not finished baking and needed to go back into the oven and the state it was released in was, imo, worse than not releasing it at all. They got little bits of it right, but all in all it felt substantially more rushed out than even the rest of the game.
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Wasn't there some kind of controversy over the Battlefront 2 subreddit being run or sponsored by EA?
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jisforjosh posted:https://twitter.com/OmniExxo/status/1479108559803613201?t=K625tna0o91jY06QBmrwKw&s=19 Who is this person? Guessing the DICE person is running a blocklist, which isn't too surprising. Tiny Timbs posted:Wasn't there some kind of controversy over the Battlefront 2 subreddit being run or sponsored by EA? There was an EA comment that was the most downvoted comment of all time, might be thinking of that. The main Battlefield subreddit isn't nearly as bad as the 2042 one.
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The list of everything thats been downgraded/removed from the game (which got locked by the mods) includes a few pet peeves of my own: - No persistent lobbies (seriously why do I have to matchmake after EVERY round?) - No lock-on launchers (The M5 works with the SOFLAM but that requires 2 people) - The SOFLAM is loving useless. - Cannot spawn in a passenger seat in transports at round start. - This, despite the fact that at the start of the round it gives you the impression you can spawn in a vehicle. Instead you gotta hope someone picks you up. - No laser designation kill assist points - Go back to my point about SOFLAM. - No self promote to squad lead using "request order" - this would have been nice to have - Lack of persistent servers means poor map rotation (I played for 10 hours and never saw Kaleidescope, Orbital, or Breakaway) - Playing hourglass 3 times in a row? Ugh. - No naval maps - Or vehicles really. The hovercraft really isnt a naval vehicle. Is this a joke? Tacos Al Pastor fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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90% of the time when I try to take advantage of it the diamond disappears by the time I take my launcher out. It's pretty annoying.
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happyhippy posted:Got my takedown kill for the weekly running the full way on top of the stadium roof to the lone sniper on it on the rim firing on A1. I spent a whole round of Hourglass and one of Manifest trying to do it. When it didn't do regular melee, I just got ganked before I could do it or before the animation could finish. Next round I ran across some dope lying prone on Manifest who ignored me completely while I axed him a question.
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I got the takedown within one minute of booting up the game yesterday. Dopey snipers on top of the big building on Orbital have no clue.
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Tacos Al Pastor posted:- No naval maps - Or vehicles really. The hovercraft really isnt a naval vehicle. And yet, for some reason, the title screen is a battleship.
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SOFLAM rules, its a great gadget that actually promotes teamwork and communication. It is bullshit that you dont get assist points for vehicle takedowns with it. Or any vehicle takedown assists for that matter.
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Tacos Al Pastor posted:Is this a joke? The halo subreddit did it for a little while. So I assume no?
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I tried playing again and I didn't get a chance to play rush, breakthrough was tiring though. Like, I don't even have smoke grenades? I feel stupid trying to push these long rear end distances over fields. No one was playing objective! I was gunning in a tank and the point was FEET in front of us, the last of the two and it was going to be lost in a moment. Instead of teetering the tank forward they start to back up. I hop out immediately and run into the point to try and stop it from being capped I've seen people when it's our last point just completely run in the opposite direction when it's only a couple of ticks away and all you need to do is stand! on! the! point! These issues could be mitigated with a friend in my squad, squad sucks as it is it's really rear end. No all chat? I keep forgetting but drat. And yeah the scoreboard is a pisser, I can 100% imagine it being removed because in EVERY game you'll have people with triple digit kills simply from the tiniest bit of coordination, camping corners with auto turrets and resupplying And I know dice, I've played every other battlefield (only like 60 hours in BF5 tho tbh) and considering the next content drop probably won't be until June is nuts. I would consider buying at 10. Consider
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Propaganda Hour posted:Xbox havers can try 2042 for free from Jan 6th to Jan 9th apparently. Pretty great free weekend opportunity for folks on the fence. "Try this crossplay enabled multiplayer FPS, by the way aim assist doesn't work on consoles so have fun!" Can't see how this won't drive console sales through the roof!
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whaley posted:soflam is extremely not useless You dont get assist XP so.... Uriah Heep posted:SOFLAM rules, its a great gadget that actually promotes teamwork and communication. It is bullshit that you dont get assist points for vehicle takedowns with it. Or any vehicle takedown assists for that matter. Exactly, so hence the reason you dont see it in game. Tacos Al Pastor fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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I'm home. My weekend can't start until I get this knife kill. Edit: gently caress yeah, it's Friday now Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:"Try this crossplay enabled multiplayer FPS, by the way aim assist doesn't work on consoles so have fun!" I had similar sentiments with having the free Steam weekend when they did. Granted my expectations, while being pessimistic were still too optimistic. I thought the Steam numbers would hit peak concurrent around 40-50K during the weekend (hit just under 48K) and then stay above 20K after the free weekend from sales up from the 18-19K before. It was actually under 20K and now is struggling to get above 12K. Free weekends of a unpolished game actually drive away sales.
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Tacos Al Pastor posted:You dont get assist XP so.... I am 50% sure you get assist exp if the vehicle you paint is killed within like 5 seconds. Of course it should be changed to give you assist exp as long as it has the diamond on it. You get assist exp from spotting other players though. And it's really useful to just pull out the SOFLAM and sweep it over the combat area to mark enemies for like 10s for everyone on your team. Tacos Al Pastor posted:Exactly, so hence the reason you dont see it in game. There is almost always 1 person or more using it on 128p breakthrough and conquest. Or people will just say in chat they are going to start using it and vehicles start to evaporate.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:aim assist doesn't work on consoles so have fun! does it not? one of the guys in the squad i play with is on playstation 5 and doesn't have seem to have any trouble aiming with the controller
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whaley posted:does it not? one of the guys in the squad i play with is on playstation 5 and doesn't have seem to have any trouble aiming with the controller It does, it's just not as good as they want it to be yet https://twitter.com/DRUNKKZ3/status/1469001708575596557
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Okay yeah because if it was non-existent I'd expect every console player to have 0 kills
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whaley posted:does it not? one of the guys in the squad i play with is on playstation 5 and doesn't have seem to have any trouble aiming with the controller It works if they're standing still. If they're moving, putting your crosshairs over them actually accelerates your aim so you slide off. Fortunately I don't need to aim all that well in a wildcat so...
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Got my melee on Breakthrough attack. Wingsuit to drop behind the enemies + smoke. They never turn round, so I had my pick. Luckily with the buginess of the takedown. Didn't even need the smoke.
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did the other battlefields not have aim assist? is this another thing that was working fine that they just completely broke when doing nothing would have been better?
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LampkinsMateSteve posted:Got my melee on Breakthrough attack. Wingsuit to drop behind the enemies + smoke. They never turn round, so I had my pick. Luckily with the buginess of the takedown. Didn't even need the smoke. same but it took 30 attempts because takedowns are really broken. this was working in bfv just fine.
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There is no reason to run wookie balls because SOFLAM is so effective at spotting. It rocks telling your team that SOFLAM is around a point and watching the assists roll in. And you do get kill assists in vehicles from SOFLAM but it's really spotty.
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I think i just played probably my worst game so far, and this is saying something. 128 player breakthrough, server remained at 36 x 38 for all of it. Heaps of bots and people under level 40. Terrible. At 11am oceania time. Goes to show that even in a poo poo round, a good map is still a good map. With this game’s 7 piss poor maps, a poo poo round is just a miserable experience. But it does make me get off the computer and go do something more constructive
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Tacos Al Pastor posted:The list of everything thats been downgraded/removed from the game (which got locked by the mods) includes a few pet peeves of my own: Good news! There's literally no point in being a squad leader anyway. There's no xp or points or anything for following squad orders and as far as I can tell any squad member can ping a point for 'orders'. Squad play does not exist in this game except for being mobile spawn points and sometimes getting a squad revive.
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toggle posted:I think i just played probably my worst game so far, and this is saying something. 128 player breakthrough, server remained at 36 x 38 for all of it. Heaps of bots and people under level 40. Terrible. At 11am oceania time. Oh well, DICE will just straight up remove Oceania servers due to "lack of interest" like they did in BFV and you won't have to worry about it.
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I'm starting to see servers take several minutes to fill up with enough players in the US so yeah, things are getting pretty bad
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Free weekend huh. Did they add squad assists etc yet? <Checks thread> huh nope ok nevermind ill pass. Did they add they ever add in the commrose btw?
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jisforjosh posted:Oh well, DICE will just straight up remove Oceania servers due to "lack of interest" like they did in BFV and you won't have to worry about it. Was that a pc/recent thing? I’m in australia and there were always xbox oceania servers to play on
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ZeusCannon posted:Did they add they ever add in the commrose btw? It's always been in. Hold Q.
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