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New mode is fun as long as your team is half competent. That's a big ask. I had the best luck when I convinced both squads to rush to the furthest point with both lances. So easy to fend off the attack when you have all 8 players together. Then we all advanced to the second-furthest point, and after that we had a max points win in a short period of time.
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Gonz posted:Always die with your tank. Not empty quoting. I've jumped out to repair as a gunner, only for the driver to bail as I get killed and the tank getting stolen. Infuriating.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I wish there were an exposed seat, like the Brawler, where you could repair without getting out. In the right hands, the tank is so deadly though. Know what you mean though. This season's battlepass seemed a lot easier. I just played four hours straight and hit level 100. No skipping or anything. It's a double XP weekend, and they have had a few this season. For two of them now, I happened to have a 3-hr double XP token as BP reward, where it stacks as 1.5x. Just ripped through these last levels today. I try to mix it up with the specialist and 100% 3-level all the available ribbons in a match. 95k was the best I did today.
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jisforjosh posted:Imagine jet hacking in 2042 Imagine using jets in 2042. Maybe one day I'll look into figuring out why they feel so awful (probably sensitivity, I was OK with them in BF3 & 4), but it's so rare that I even bother getting one anyway. At least you have more of a chance after they separated the vehicles a bit. Radiohead71 posted:Is this game worth $20? I need a new game. My favorite BF was BC2 Rush. Is there a similar experience? Some of the Steam reviews mentioned game crashing and instability. After dealing with Division 2 crashing constantly I'd rather have a stable game, and if this is an issue I'll pass. Also, is 4k possible with a 10700k, 32gb, and a 3090? Feels like Rush is not that popular these days. You might end up playing partly with bots depending on the region and time of day. You might find that Breakthrough scratches that itch though. You just need to get more of your team on a cap point than the enemy. It's like Rush without the MCOMs. As for stability, I have close to 500 hours played and can barely remember any crashing (at least in the past year or so). Dunno about performance, as I use 1440p res, but with a 3080 and AMD 5900X get great performance on mostly high settings, so... maybe. If you get it through Steam, I think you can play for a couple of hours then get a refund if it doesn't work out for you. Henrik Zetterberg posted:I’m starting to love the poo poo out of Paik. Her goggle scanny thing can be SO good. Immediately hosing down someone you see through walls about to turn a corner toward you feels like cheating and it’s great. I get like a billion intel medals each round too. I feel I still do OK against Paik -- you get the notification that you were scanned, so my senses are heightened, I'm waiting for a Paik to jump out, and I don't blindly run around corners for a little while.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Ha, I was wondering why that yellow banner pops up from time to time, seemingly random. I assumed that someone stuck a dorito on me from far away, but it would happen even inside. I have a feeling there are still plenty of others who don't know what that is either. 
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comedyblissoption posted:i would say going for headshots in situations it makes sense matters. headshots are very rewarding in bf I have close to 1200 kills with the lever action GVT 45-70. HS rate is a tad over 60% -- just so crucial to nail those, and it's a 1-hit kill from any range, even with suppressor. I think -- it's actually been a while since I even picked it up.
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Apr 22, 2023 21:17
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explosivo posted:do missiles locked onto the dart track through countermeasures? It's been a while since playing bad co. but I could've sworn they did which is why I loved using them so much. I don't use darts (seems nobody on my team knows how to take advantage of them, they wear off pretty quickly, too), so I don't really know. But in BF BC2, a heli launching smoke countermeasure definitely disabled the dart. A quick look at reddit suggests that this is the same in 2042. Tracer dart only has a use if a stealth heli is being a pain and you have a friend who knows you are using the tracer dart. It's the only thing that lets you lock onto a stealth heli when it is in stealth mode. If you are coordinating with people, it seems you can use the dart on infantry or clumps of infantry and javelin them. So that sounds fun at least.
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Reworked Discarded map is out. Positive changes for the most part. I actually liked the old Breakthrough, but it was just such a slog between the sectors. This is much more urban-like and in general not as spread out. The weekly mission is very engineer-focused so all vehicles are getting poo poo on. You love to see it, especially the tank lords crying in chat.
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verbal enema posted:
For the side arm super 500 shotgun I have like 117% accuracy. It must be throwing off the stats when the pellets hit multiple people in one shot.
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Shoehead posted:I miss emblems. Running around around d with an LGBTQ clan tag and a rainbow emblem really upset a lot of gamers for free I think a bunch of us had Bill Cosby emblems. That... aged poorly.
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whaley posted:every little bird i come across lately is full of engineers repairing it and has the greatest pilot in the world flying it You need to be firing Lis rockets, but almost like dumb firing, from surprising angles (like from below them), before they can react. From a longer distance they can react. https://i.imgur.com/pXDAgrd.mp4 Or then you just get lucky.  https://i.imgur.com/q8yNOZO.mp4 Or then you can just use the 60mm mortar. https://i.imgur.com/Z5LcSWz.mp4 It's a shame that it's not a 1-hit kill against the attack chopper. The tactical conquest playlist up now is good for some fast-paced infantry gameplay over 3 flags. I bounced around until got on a good squad (two of them were probably in Discord together), and we were just sweeping up. I used the Super 500 sidearm shotgun only because it was part of a weekly mission, but now I've started to use it more. Just deletes people up close. As a bonus, it makes people really mad. https://i.imgur.com/uVThohN.mp4
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hello internet posted:I really want to like breakthrough but 99/100 matches never progress beyond the first sector What region are you in? I'm in EU and it feels like the attackers mostly do pretty well. I like breakthrough because you know where to go to get the action. Less running and less flag hopping. I just T1d the RM68 -- came out of nowhere, happened so quick. It really is so good. Well, got the T1 out of the way before the nerf comes that is scheduled for the next patch.
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CornHolio posted:The last sector on Exposure is a favorite, especially the flag in the cave. Almost impossible to capture but sometimes it is. Insane battles there. That can be frustrating as an attacker because your team never seems to realise that you don't even need to push so far in. A few sentinels down on the first big wall at the caves entrance and you can put a lot of bodies on the flag cap in relative safety. There are a few glitchy wall spots to the right where you can do grenade damage to the defenders as well.
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May 4, 2023 15:52
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The Finn posted:Finally got my NTW badge, I love that gun. I use a 3.5x almost exclusively and play close support with it basically, and man it's fun to send people ragdolling all over the place. Multi-kills with it are also deeply entertaining. And occasionally I can blow up a vehicle. Pair with Blasco always and I'm happy. Was playing some gun master last week, God I hated when that came up. Every action with it is soooo slow. Would have to play for hours just to get the timing of it right.
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They are going to nerf Irish's shootdown sentinel. Give it a cooldown. It's the only think that makes some rounds bearable. Welp, gonna try and T1 it before that. Need 3k shootdowns. I started in RushXL now -- got over 600 in one match. Just gotta watch out for caspers trying to kill it with their drone.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Same. I loving love the mortar. Not empty quoting. But then you end up with a tank driver who is too scared to get anywhere near the action. Even when I'm an engie and trying to tell them that I can rep.
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May 19, 2023 15:26
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People really get mad when you use Lis rockets on infantry. It's just so fun to outsnipe snipers. And sometimes I'm just a rep monkey in the transport chopper, but I can still have my fun. https://i.imgur.com/FvOkOBl.mp4
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LampkinsMateSteve posted:They are going to nerf Irish's shootdown sentinel. Give it a cooldown. It's the only think that makes some rounds bearable. Welp, gonna try and T1 it before that. Need 3k shootdowns. I started in RushXL now -- got over 600 in one match. Just gotta watch out for caspers trying to kill it with their drone. RushXL is so buggy -- the engine just can't handle that number of players and especially the explosives spam. But boy can you rack up the points. Finished my Irish T1. I'd played with Irish a little before, but my total playtime is under 8h for him.
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Hot Diggity! posted:Vehicle rework is coming in S5 based upon the most recent podcast. Some details that I've shamelessly stolen: I'm a bit pissed off, because they are removing a lot of the fun stuff that I use regularly.
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codo27 posted:Far and away the worst thing, perhaps in the entirety of Battlefield as a franchise, is that you cant loving spawn on anyone because they are always "in combat", and they had to make that awful sound effect for every time you try. Beyond infuriating Worse than that is when they are next to a spawn beacon and you have to struggle to select it. I know you can apparently use the arrow keys to select the spawn point, but it is really counter-intuitive how it actually works. Would love to be able to zoom, but I guess you would actually see too much of the enemy troops on the ground. Really liked the parrot on the shoulder view they had for spawning on squad mates in BFV.
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Hot Diggity! posted:New map appears to be a spiritual successor to Zavod Dice showing once again how great they are at trailers. The music is especially epic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edcDcLl4n7o codo27 posted:And heat buildup is already way too quick on the miniguns, in addition to their worthless firepower. Very occasionally you will get a pilot who will get you quickly up close in a good position, hold still for you to wreak destruction, then get out of dodge. And repeat. They are surprisingly effective. As a pilot, I try to do the same, but usually when I get into position, the gunners are already on cooldown because they blew their wads far too early. The worst pilots are the ones who think they are in a jet and just go zooming over the battlefield super low, not giving the gunners a chance at all. Half the time, they give me motion sickness, which I typically don't get in games. LampkinsMateSteve fucked around with this message at 19:18 on May 26, 2023 |
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New map is out with season 5, June 7. I hope there is more content coming. For both BF1 and BF V, I was having so much fun with the previous iteration that I could have done with having the launches spread out a bit. But for 2042, really annoying if they kill the live service already, because I agree with the speculation that the next BF title will likely be out October/November 2024. Henrik Zetterberg posted:Bleh, I haven't been able to finish 100 tiers of any season so far. Made it to like 75 on S4. I wish all the stuff was unlockable past the season ending. Gotta get grinding now, buddy. Double XP weekend. I 100-tiered all seasons and have 100% on every weekly mission. But most of my game time is jumping on to grind those out once a week. It's just what I find fun. I actually found this season and last season pretty easy to do -- the BP included multiple double XP tokens, and they stacked on some double XP weekends. I finished both these two latter seasons 5-6 weeks before they ended. Kind of killed my interest a bit at that point. I'm a broken-brain numbers-go-up guy though.
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Bohemian Nights posted:make 2143 you cowards Not empty-quoting. Makes me laugh that I played the free demo of 2142 (Sidi Power Plant map only) for months before buying the game. I didn't even understand what I was doing and didn't even realise about ranks or unlocks because they were disabled (or at least were not persistent).
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Wow I finally hit tier 100 for the first time. Started using the RM68 around tier 75 and drat that thing owns hard. Looking forward to unlocking extended mags on that. Nice one. I do like the RM68, but it's almost worth running it just because it makes people in chat cry.
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widespread posted:Though if you want to get technical, they could've avoided saying new maps because they're dolling up old ones to release some time in the future. And that would be perfectly fine. What a whiff Portal was, not dripping additional old maps.
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widespread posted:Too many times I'm dead with a medic nearby or coming and they either forget the smokes or don't see the ping I placed because there's an enemy literally behind that cover you're about to pass. They need to make it so that if a medic has pinged you that they are coming to revive, then they can see your pings. Right now, it's only your squadmates that see the pings.
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Hot Diggity! posted:Really? I'm fairly sure that when you ping any downed teammate it indicates that a medic is incoming separate from the other medics on the UI. BeeSeeBee posted:I think they mean that the medic can see their (non-squadmate) pings on the enemy that just killed them so they also don't get deaded by the same dude, which happens a lot. Yeah, that’s what I meant, sorry. In an ideal world you could warn non-squadmates as long as they have an active medic ping on you. So I was talking about the danger pings, not incoming medic pings.
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jisforjosh posted:
When there is a patch, I usually go to Steam and download and install it manually first. Launching the game fails to update it most times I've tried in the past. I'm enjoying the new map, but only really played Breakthrough. Far too short though.
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priznat posted:Gawd I fired up 2042 first time in forever and tried the new map both breakthrough and conquest and just got constantly spawnkilled, like almost instantly if I spawned anywhere other than the hq.. What the heck?! For me it feels like that is the experience for any new map. Takes a while to learn the flow. This season had the extra inconvenience of them switching on the ADS change plus adding the recoil to ARs to make them not be lasers at range. But it only took a few rounds to get used to the changes.
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Bohemian Nights posted:Are any of the SMGs actually worth using? I don't really use SMGs, but seems that Jack Frags uses the basic PP quite a bit, and shreds with it (but he is an excellent player). Probably not ideal, but he runs with the extended mag, which is 50+ rounds.
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WirelessPillow posted:BF2042 just takes so much resources my processor hitches. Yep, it just gobbles up cores. You have a beast of a GPU being held back by your CPU. Unfortunately, I think a sensible upgrade would require a new motherboard.
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Pontificating rear end posted:Cant stop playing this drat game. The drone class is unlike anything I ever played. You can watch the whole battlefield and clear out groups of guys by spotting them and watching your team actually do something because they are good at shooting red dots Hope you also go and zap enemy drones with EMP blasts. Seems so few people realise you can do that (also harrass enemy vehicles if they are pushing your team hard). Also, if someone has a sentinel trophy system down, you can use your drone to blow it up, then freely lob your grenades.
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Lube Enthusiast posted:Goddamn, conquest 128 Manifest is still too fuckin big, they gotta cut more space/control points I think they just don't want too many players close together. I enjoyed Breakthrough 128 and RushXL, but the engine struggles with the player count. Lots of lag, especially input lag even when just switching weapons and gadgets.
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Ytlaya posted:I also like the new mode. Seems easy to use lots of vehicles with it, at least if you get lots of points. It's almost sorta like "Breathrough, but with more vehicles." I'm a heavy PTO player, so the points system is great for me. I get to play with the high-end vehicles a lot more frequently with that. In BFV I'd rack up those squad points a lot, too, and rain down supplies and rockets.
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Ytlaya posted:The idea that people are good at using the jets with M+KB is baffling to me. I can understand how it might be theoretically possible, but I've made zero progress towards improving at it, with no signs of that ever changing. I have gotten a grant total of like 2 or 3 kills with a jet (in normal play, not counting temporary "all aircraft" modes) during the entire lifetime of this game. In BF3, I was OK in jets. In Bf4, a bit worse. In 2042, absolute dogshit. Feels like they move so fast that you run out of room and they feel like flying barges. I could fiddle with sensitivities and binds, but never bothered because they seem to have no impact on the game anyway.
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Yeah, the crazy FPS drops with input lag is not a good look. Especially for a game that is now doing record player numbers... yeesh.
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AlternateAccount posted:Is this the thing where suddenly I am in mud and can’t turn faster than Joe Biden on a broken hip or do anything for a couple of seconds out of nowhere? Yep. Apparently a small client hotfix has been pushed out already. Fingers crossed.
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Lube Enthusiast posted:You can report players ingame. Unlike, say, twitter though, ea doesn’t get back to you if they ban someone. So it’s hard to say what good it does. I think you still need the Origin overlay enabled if anyone can't see the option.
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FrancisFukyomama posted:Especially the basic UI which always takes at least 18 months to get back to the functionality of the previous release. From what I read, for 2042 they really needed to update to a modern version of the Frostbite engine, but so much of the underlying code had been hacked into an ancient engine that they just had to bite the bullet and reimplement most things.
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I'm still plodding along with this game. Got about 800 hours under my belt. Final week of the season. I pretty much only play to get my weekly missions + bonus mission done. Managed to get the bonus all 19 weeks -- just one evening a week, 3-4 hours. I still have fun. Grind out some Redacted, with PTFO play, and now I just chilled with a sniper rifle on RushXL. Not heard too much about the new season.
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