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The different editions of battlefield have all followed the same path: Base game Base game + expansions Base game + expansions + art and music There are some skins in there somewhere but basically it's always been like that. Buying the Game + the expansions upfront has generally saved $10 vs waiting and buying them when they come out. In BF3,4,hardline, 1 it was all basically maps and some pre-order skins. In BFV they switched to selling DLC as characters and giving maps out free. This is good because everyone can always play and you dont have a bunch of basemap only servers. The characters were obtainable thru a money->boins conversion which put them at around $10 each. They were basically skins but they did have custom voice lines, animations, and melee weapons, which justified their price. I was able to get them all for free as giveaways over the 3 years of BFV's lifespan and they did often get sold in pairs at a sale price. You could also buy them by earning the boins by playing which was more difficult at the beginning of the games lifespan than at the end. Now you can get 100 boins each week by playing and a character is 900. The boins can also be used on gun skins or vehicle skins. I expect BF2042 to be similar but it sounds like they are now putting abilities on the characters. Perhaps it's like R6 siege where only that character has that special ability or perhaps its more like they combine a few common abilities onto them. Either way i'd expect a money->boins system to pay for cosmetics & operators which can also be earned in-game. If you would normally buy all the DLC because you play loads of battlefield then you might as well get it now. If you would normally only buy DLC if you were still playing a game then you should wait. Philman fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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afkmacro posted:By the way, the new EA app (origin's replacement) is also in open beta. It doesn't do anything better as far as I can tell and you can't run both at the same time. It detects your currently installed games so at least the transition is smooth. You can get the 2042 beta there too. It's only feature is functioning with xbox game pass to let you play EA games using gamepass subscription. Otherwise I would not call it an improvement.
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Oct 6, 2021 00:19
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jisforjosh posted:
jisforjosh posted:controlled rolling to reduce fall damage, jisforjosh posted:medic distances after being downed jisforjosh posted:no grenade indicator jisforjosh posted:corner auto lean jisforjosh posted:squad mate preview before you spawn on them jisforjosh posted:taking ammo from support players' backs (semi controversial) jisforjosh posted:back in auto regening vehicle health and unlimited ammo (on the fence with the ammo portion)
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Oct 8, 2021 00:23
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removed legitimately good decisions from previous games;
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its pretty sad the pickup truck doesnt have a position in the bed of the truck. also the polaris branded ATV is lame. they should have added volvos instead.
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Oct 9, 2021 17:24
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they should have just made a radio advert instead. edit: oh this is a scratchy trailer telling me that later there will be a real video to watch.
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Oct 12, 2021 18:40
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The United States posted:
This brought back some memories. That game ate so many hours of my life.
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Oct 13, 2021 01:32
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Grondoth posted:I cannot loving believe they don't have an air superiority mode in BF5 yeah, it's a real crime they didnt remake Battle of Britain.
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Oct 15, 2021 14:19
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Hot Diggity! posted:Do you worship at the altar of the shotgun? M97 Trench Gun Namaste.
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Oct 15, 2021 19:50
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Sedisp posted:Even if you're like im buying it definitely need to play ASAP for whatever reason I am baffled at purchasing a dice game day one. Even in a world where the beta was universally loved by all launch day is going to be an unplayable mess as always. battlefield launches are great. In bfv you could carpet bomb the entire enemy team before they reached the first point.
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Oct 18, 2021 17:53
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It looks awesome. The wingsuit will be fun to use.
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Oct 21, 2021 16:27
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The compass has never really been used in BF games. It was a cool idea but in practice it's unnecessary. Maybe tank crews might start using it but i've never had it happen before.
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Oct 21, 2021 16:36
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they should only give voip to one of the operators
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Oct 21, 2021 18:57
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VulgarandStupid posted:Robot operator inclusion when? I don't think they make non-binary robots
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Oct 23, 2021 11:33
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"what a time to be alive." - Irish
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https://youtu.be/9HaZvbbVk0I Some notes about the movement from that video: 1) BFV combat roll is out and not coming back. which sucks. I like that roll. 2) BFV back prone is out and not coming back. 3) Ledge grab is in, but items were made just a bit too high on purpose for map design reasons. 4) BFV Crouch running is out. They might consider it. I have no idea why they would remove this good feature. 5) Leaning is out. They might consider it. I have no idea why they would remove this good feature. Can you peek over cover still or is only leaning around corners removed? 6) 2042 has the ability to vault over moving objects. 7) 2042 has direction control on sliding, so prepare for even more people sliding all over the place. 8) sprint speed is a little different between the games. the speed is: BF1&V = 6.4 m/s BF3&4 = 6.5 m/s but with sprint perk 7.15 m/s BF2042 = 6.5 m/s but tactical sprint is 7.25 m/s
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Nov 3, 2021 14:14
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automatic lean and peek is really good. I use it all the time when I need to defend a corner or peek out a window. I never really use manual lean the same way.
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Nov 3, 2021 15:52
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jisforjosh posted:Can't wait to own more Specialist skins...ON THE BLOCKCHAIN  soon, checking the scoreboard will take an hour and kill an entire pond of ducks.
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Skyarb posted:Yeah, did you think the beta was good? And bfv was a steal for 5 bucks. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. 
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Nov 13, 2021 17:15
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thetan_guy42 posted:the drone is the best part of this game so far, its so easy to sneak up on a sluggish tank or a bunch of unaware infantry sitting at a chokepoint Does it still fly thru building roofs? It did in the beta sometimes.
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Nov 13, 2021 22:49
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DrBox posted:On the list of "Why would they remove that!?" I think they took a look at all their features and cut the ones that weren't being used under a certain threshold, or ones that required extra work for consoles or something like that. They ripped out whole systems which really didn't need to be ripped out and have been steadily improving game over game. I'm not just talking about big ticket features like building or towables which were just new for BFV. Maybe there was some level design reason for it but it seems like this stuff could have been left in for less work than removing it was. - Leaning - Diving - Position Dependent Melee takedowns (all removed except the one you select in the customization) - Automatic bipod deployment and snapping (X to use your bipod) - Medic callouts - Medic lock on revives from BFV - Rolling I'm sure there's more I haven't thought of.
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Nov 14, 2021 15:19
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:So when I'm looking at perfoverlay, whatever the lowest number is between CPU/sim/gpu is my actual frame rate right?  It's shockingly low.
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Nov 15, 2021 13:47
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:when you cut your teeth on Desert Combat choppers everything else seems easy Battlefield has never made the miniguns on the helicopters as good as DC. The stingers in DC were super fast direct fire missiles too. I miss lost village. Maybe someone can remake some of that in portal.
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Nov 15, 2021 19:10
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BF2042: hover lovers
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Nov 17, 2021 01:55
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please dice just change every aspect of the game then I think it'll be on track.
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Nov 20, 2021 00:49
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The portal premade maps and modes for the old games are neat. I've played them all now and none of them stack up to the real thing. The feeling just isn't there.
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Nov 20, 2021 13:31
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Hazard zone is pretty cool. It seems solid after 5 matches. I definitely want to play more.
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What do you people think of the specialists? Wingsuit - flying is fun as hell. Probably the best specialist. More mobility is more fun. Shield guy- boring so far. I don't get why I would want to put up a shield and then just get shot in the back instead. Maybe with more playtime I'll find a fun Strat. Turret guy - I want to try a group of 4 turrets in. A squad. I think he's ok. I've had the ranger get kills for me. I'm not sure he's as good as the tf2 engineer. (All videogame turrets are measured against it by law.) Mackay - pretty good, but trumped by wingsuit. Missing a hockey jersey.  Irish - I think you can place his shoot down turrets near friendly vehicles so that's pretty useful. I've seen people setup shields on the ground and use an lmg prone thru the gap. Wookie droneguy - drone with c4, nuff said. Zapping tanks is pretty helpful too Indian IT guy - hacking infantry is too slow, better to shoot them. Hacking choppers and tanks is a bit slow if but you can do it then its helpful. Emp grenades are more effective aren't they? They should make this affect steering. I'm not entirely sure how his sensor ping works. Wallhack - this is alot more limited than I thought. I think it's bugged too because it's got a battery charge that doesn't recharge any differently if you use it all or only half. Paired with smoke grenades you can do some damage to confused enemies. Nurse health gun - kinda boring. Healing was more fun in bfv because you latched on during the revive and health pouches didn't need to be aimed. It somehow felt more like an action sequence. Ammo crate - cool mechanic for squad camping. You can crush allies with it 
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jisforjosh posted:So the reason helicopters behave so weird near the ground, causing you to have much harder touchdowns that normal and more difficulty having ascend counter inertia (besides the bs built in auto level) is that gravity isn't a universal value for infantry and vehicles. It's more of magnetic field on the bottom of both air and ground vehicles. They should just patch the hovercraft description to explain its a future hovercraft that can stick to walls.
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Nov 21, 2021 21:47
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Chad Sexington posted:How does she get the wing suit AND the anti-armor gently caress off grenades? Yeah no kidding. They will probably give those nades to someone else or limit it to one of each type requiring an ammo refill instead of 2 and a recharge.
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Nov 23, 2021 00:05
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It's more effective to pop an emp grenade and run away from a tank than to smoke it.
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Hopper posted:Now that people have unlocked the Bolte, it makes the pre-patch Hovercraft seem like a minor inconvenience. The Bolte is ridiculously annoying and it's everywhere. The bolte is amazing. The long range homing rockets can hit choppers from across the map. I'm pretty sure the cannon on it has less dispersion than is visually indicated. It seems like I'm hitting long range targets that I visually don't think I should be.
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SplitSoul posted:Had two games last night that never managed to fill up, which ironically improved performance markedly. On pc at peak hours ?
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Jeff Fatwood posted:The santa costume rules because it's gotten Reddit to meltdown so hard to the point of "it's actually about battlefield condition portrayal in a post apocalyptic climate change world" I would imagine that in a post apocalyptic world more people would dress up as Santa than usual.
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Alot of the critique comes from the franchise expanding the player base with different modes and also attempting to satisfy them all with one game. -conquest -tdm -breakthrough -rush -rescue (hardline's counterstrike mode) -firestorm -hazard zone? All have different fanbases who dont always like the other modes. It's just too many things to focus on. BF2042 is like 5 different products in one.
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Dec 4, 2021 22:09
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Good. I bet he was the least used operator.
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Dec 9, 2021 13:18
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Gun game was great on those bf3 cqc maps.
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Dec 9, 2021 13:19
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Throwing grenades and switching Sundance grenades is annoyingly slow
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Dec 16, 2021 18:46
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When I play Sundance and I see a use for my grenades then by the time I've chosen the right one the time to use it is over. I just default to shooting most of the time now.
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Breakthrough is alright on some maps. It's good on hourglass where one section is a 3 flag conquest mode which is fairly large. This let's you have a vehicle if you want. On orbital, and kaleidoscope its very constrained and you may never get a chance at a tank.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55om1XyqsaE BF:antichamber lookin good.
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