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I've watched a bunch of videos of this and it really looks just like Battlefield 4, only with slightly newer graphics. It's just so lame that they decided to do a future game and then set it in such a near-future era it's basically indistinguishable from earlier iterations of the modern warfare battlefield games, instead of doing something distinctive and cool like 2142 with all it's unique modes, vehicles, weapons, etc. What am I missing? Are there any actual futuristic things that I just didn't pick up on in trailers?
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The United States posted:You're missing that this is a modern military shootmans game because modern military shootmans sell the best and they hope to appeal to the modern military shootmans crowd since coddern warfare 2019 and warzone has been eating their lunch. blech I guess my fantasy of a creative AAA shooter with cool giant robots and innovative game modes will have to remain in 2006 Raskolnikov2089 posted:Im fine with this. Some small recompense for the boring (but pretty) snoozefests of BF1/BFV. BFV was a truly awful game - I was almost astounded at how much worse they made every part of it - but I really, really enjoyed BF1. It wasn't perfect and the weapon selection was questionable in a lot of ways, on top of having many of the same problems as BFV in terms of progression and basic mechanics, but I think the maps worked really well and the classes felt pretty good once you got a hang of them. I also loved the silly WWI tanks and the behemoth system and it had a lot of hardcore servers which were just a fantastically good time with low TTK and maps that were greatly enhanced by the low TTK. BF4 was definitely still the better game in basically every way but I guess that's why I'm disappointed by 2042, it feels like it doesn't need to exist when BF4 is still more than just playable, it looks great I will say the way the steam page for 2042 mentions custom stuff is pretty promising, I'm hopeful it will mean actual distinct servers and not just the matchmaking mush of BFV.
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Sep 28, 2021 21:03
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Sab669 posted:Titanfall 1 & 2 says what? DDOSed to death I guess but I did recently play TF2 for the first time a few months ago, and I took the time to unlock everything and cap some of the grinds or whatever, and man, that was a truly spectacular online FPS. I hope this game has even a fraction of that frenetic creativity jisforjosh posted:Going back to BF4 after playing any modern FPS really shows how badly BF4 has aged in terms of movement and whatever the hell "feel" encompasses Hm, I haven't played it in about two years, but I feel like it aged fine when I was last futzing around. Same for BF1. It's only the BF2 era of games that I have a genuinely hard time immersing myself in these days, but I'm gonna have to go back and give it another try to see if it doesn't hold up like I thought it did. The levelution stuff definitely never amounted to anything but an annoyance, especially on the flood level
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Sep 28, 2021 21:26
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So does this game only have specialists? like instead of the normal classes you have a specialist and pick the weapons from the subtypes formerly associated with classes?
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Nov 8, 2021 14:50
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I don't understand the portal, how does this battlefield 1942 style stuff work? I'm way more interested in playing the old good BF games or something approximating them than I really am in this, honestly
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Nov 8, 2021 22:25
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bellows lugosi posted:you can play old maps with old weapons and poo poo but you cant use the rules editor or whatever to make zany conquest  does this mean 1942's guadalcanal will be a thing again? I don't get it, have old maps been remade in the current engine?
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Nov 8, 2021 22:51
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Hot Diggity! posted:I am going to play the game
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Nov 9, 2021 21:54
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I loving hate how EA play won't work if you have origin installed, it's just intensely frustrating and makes anything launching via EA play barely worth the effort to even get working. I'm inches away from just buying the gold version to play it tomorrow since I'd probably buy the season pass poo poo anyway as long as it wasn't just tedious cosmetics
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Nov 11, 2021 19:09
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Lube Enthusiast posted:The laser sight for the glock takes only a mere 240 kills! lol great, it'll be another BF game where I don't have attachments for like 75% of the guns in the game for the game's entire life cycle. I played like 250 hours of BF1 and just barely unlocked all but two or three of the weapons, most with barely any options. sucked enough I came close to pulling the trigger on class packs a few times but just couldn't live with that level of microtranscation
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Nov 11, 2021 19:14
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I bought the gold edition, sure hope the $30 worth of passes I prepaid for aren't just a bunch of nauseating cosmetic garbage I hate but have like, I dunno, maps or attachments or something
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Nov 11, 2021 23:35
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Hot Diggity! posted:It will almost certainly be mostly cosmetic items and probably a faster way to unlock new weapons Honestly faster unlocks works for me because I’ve never once unlocked everything in a BF game despite dedicating enormous amounts of time to basically every previous one besides hardline Also hoping it runs well at 2k on a 3070, but I guess since people are saying it can do okay on a 1070 I’m not super worried
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Nov 12, 2021 00:06
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zelah posted:You mean to tell me that this game takes place 1 year after 2041 but all the cool future stuff is gone That was 2142 and yeah it sucks they didn’t take any of the incredibly fun and cool stuff from that and do some wacky scifi but instead went with near future milsim number bajillion. Titan mode would be so sick on a modern engine with modern player counts
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Nov 12, 2021 00:44
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Anything interesting or unique would simply be too risky when you can have an AK84 and an Abrams with some extra lights tacked on I guess
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Nov 12, 2021 00:59
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Hopped into portal and I had a lot of fun but I do have a major gripe: squad only revives extend to BF1942? Not being able to revive anyone with the medic kit is a major nerf to their usefulness and scoring capacity, I always played 1942 (and everything up until now) as a dedicated revive machine and often topped scoreboards with those alone, so it’s a big loss for me not being able to do that Otherwise I absolutely love the old maps and the game runs extremely well at 144hz on ultra settings (RTX off, that caused some hitching) on my 3070
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Nov 12, 2021 23:11
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K8.0 posted:You most definitely did not play 1942 as a revive machine because 1942 had no revives. Really? Dang I must be thinking of Vietnam or something. Hopefully it’s present in the other games via portal where it definitely was a thing
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Nov 12, 2021 23:20
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Lol that conquest is still broken and it shows me the map but then that silly persistence error message, because these loading screens make the maps look cool!
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Nov 12, 2021 23:21
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Just joined a portal match where only the host had weapons and everyone else was running around with melee weapons from 1942 while the host used some crazy hovering vehicle to devastate everyone, the chat was full of people angry about being farmed
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Nov 12, 2021 23:44
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It’s a good thing the portal is fun because I can’t play the main game at all, just constant errors. I’m also having a devil of a time understanding how to get weapon customizations to stick in BC2/BF3
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Nov 13, 2021 03:00
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Curious about FOV as well, the default seems a bit low
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Nov 13, 2021 03:09
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The moment to moment gameplay is perfect but I hate the specialist quips at the end of rounds, my lord they’re awful
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Nov 13, 2021 03:29
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Warad posted:I especially love how they're (maybe) broken in Portal and they're always the same three lines again, and again, and again regardless of which game it's on. Yeah that makes them feel super out of place in the portal too, imo, but I agree it is extremely funny to see the same three to five soldiers give the same three dumb lines game after game Also I have to say these menus are awful, like, just renaming a custom loadout requires several counterintuitive clicks. I don’t understand why these menu changes are always necessary, BF4 had a perfectly good menu!
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Nov 13, 2021 03:51
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Live At Five! posted:I tried portal and it seemed cool but I could not change attachments on my guns. I would select the attachment I wanted and it would not allow me to confirm. I had a partial workaround where I could move the attachment I wanted to be the default but that was hit and miss. Me too and it’s driving me completely bonkers, I’m glad it’s not just me missing some obvious UI element
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Nov 13, 2021 04:23
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I, too, have not been able to play anything but the portal, though one of those matches was on a 2042 map because I found it via the server browser so I got to at least try it
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Nov 13, 2021 04:26
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I think it’s only for portal games via server browser because I got to level 10 yesterday only playing portal as the base game is inaccessible
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Nov 13, 2021 14:49
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Ran into a hacker last night, they were floating around Arica rush getting kills with a vehicle LMG somehow, and every kill just showed as some kind of javascript thing like {@}%0 - Light Machine Gun. Was really frustrating and ruined that match for sure
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Bonby posted:This game is awful, Yeah I hate the specialists and sounds and menus and outrageously slow progression but here I am playing anyway
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Nov 14, 2021 17:45
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Yeah they need to significantly increase XP and reduce the numbers needed for attachments, 150 shotgun kills for slugs is nuts given that 15 or so kills is a good match for me and I usually top my squad, that’s going to be basically impossible for most people (including me) using buckshot on these giant rear end maps, it makes the shotgun permanently useless, seemingly The other stuff just seems like a huge grind especially since the SMGs are better than all the assault rifles and DMRs, seemingly Also five XP for healing is bogus, it should be 15 at least
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Nov 14, 2021 18:13
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mexi posted:It was probably the recon drone. I don’t remember it having an lmg but it seems to be pretty resilient and is very annoying. One kept killing me with the lmg and it seemed impossible to put it down Nah it was BC2, no such option available, unfortunately Anyway I can’t stop thinking about how bad this sound design is compared to BF1. The way a soldier dies in BF1 compared to what sounds like a first rehearsal delivery of “I do not need any assistance!!” over and over is just night and day for basic immersion. I hate the specialist voice acting and I wish I could just turn it off entirely, if I could I’d probably refund the game because of that alone, arrrgghh
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CombatBonta-kun posted:Am I missing something or is there no IR/Thermal vision in the game? I checked all the scopes and options for vehicles and I'm not seeing it. Nope lol and I keep wondering how it is that the tanks in BC2 had such options and it has apparently been lost by 2042. Some kind of ancient lost technology, I guess, just like accurate assault rifles
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Nov 14, 2021 20:11
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I’ve developed a theory that this is just an endless war a thousand years in the future fought by armies of eternal clones which is why they don’t have even contemporary military technology half the time and there are dozens of identical people everywhere
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Nov 14, 2021 21:12
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codo27 posted:Whats the verdict after the weekend? I paid $90 for it and it’s bad but could be worse, BC2 is fun Raine posted:
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You can also play a pared down BF3 via portal and I’d say it’s a greatly diminished game compared to BF4 in terms of variety, maps, attachments, etc but there’s still something relatively fun buried under the garbage decisions Anyway best way to get EA play is to sign up for GamePass for $1, since it comes with it
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Nov 15, 2021 03:02
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The custom game modes have server browsers but for the main game not via portal you’re stuck matchmaking and as a result after like 10 hours I haven’t even played all the maps, it really seems to favor the same four
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Nov 15, 2021 03:34
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I keep leveling down, like I just hit 18 and it displays my level as 17 everywhere, it’s intensely annoying
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Nov 15, 2021 17:45
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KrunkMcGrunk posted:The part disabled thing is extra frustrating because whenever I see that, the thing I shot usually carries on like nothing happened Yeah it doesn’t disable anything I’ve spent like 40% of my 16 hours so far in tanks and a single hit doesn’t impact the tank’s function in any way. Only thing that does is hacking and stupid C5 drones Also, lol at the baby brained future stuff in this. “C4 not futuristic enough, gently caress it it’s C5 now” which is extra funny given that literally everything seems to be lower tech than BF4
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Nov 16, 2021 17:54
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Ironically a big mass of individual idiots who can’t communicate trying to take the tower works sometimes because it’s being defended by the same, I’ve taken the towers multiple times by just…taking the elevator up and dropping a spawn beacon, then someone else does the same and two squads is enough because 90% of the enemies who spawn just zip line way and nobody seems to care about objectives about 50% of the time When it’s anything less than that they’re impossible though, it’s absolutely bad game design, just like literally everything else about this game
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Nov 16, 2021 22:18
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Love how matchmaking will drop you into games with less than ten seconds left over and over so I just get a loss on my record and don’t even spawn into the map to show for it. Just really good stuff having that happen three times in a row
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Nov 16, 2021 22:50
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Yeah I don’t care about the loss it’s more the waste of time. Also, huge advantage to cross play if you have a decent PC: you’re guaranteed a tank every match because you’re locked in before 80% of the players have even loaded the game. Seriously I haven’t once missed the tank spawn when I’ve been in a game from the beginning, it owns lol Funny how the best feature so far (tank availability) is certainly at the expense of console players who never get to use vehicles apparently
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I was really looking forward to actually earning attachments in a battlefield game by occasionally using bots, especially since the requirements for unlocks are insanely high this time around. I’m not awful at the game, I’m usually first place in my squad and average 15-20 kills per match, but at that rate (and given the objective uselessness of some guns, like every AR) I’m never going to unlock stuff Come to think of it it wouldn’t feel so onerous if the PP-28 wasn’t ten times better than any other gun and the two early ARs didn’t feel like complete garbage. It’s bizarre how bad the burst on the AN whatever is, in BF3/4 the three round burst fire on the Abakan or whatever was dope and greatly enhanced the weapon, in this it’s slower and less accurate than single fire at range and purposeless in close quarters compared to full auto
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