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Who gives a shit what milieu a shooter is based in? The only thing that matters is how good the game play is.
Sucky games suck, great games are great. I suppose eye candy does matter a bit but in the end the question will still be; is it fucking fun as hell or are you bored? I'm trying to see the functionality argument but every single one of these types of games are of the -here's the weapon sets, here is an assortment of environments to use them in- and there's not a ton of realism so who really cares. /shrug
I've never seen a situation where the fact that you're using theoretical bullets vs say laser beams is the deciding factor for whether it's fun.

Oddly we haven't had anyone come here (that I noticed) and say Yeah I got it and it sucks all the dogballs. Mostly the opposite in fact although the paucity of field reports is also telling.
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Who gives a shit what milieu a shooter is based in? The only thing that matters is how good the game play is.

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mkopec

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I'm still potato at sniping, but every once in a while you have a moment like this and it feels good...

 
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Shrug, it's a great engine, game atmosphere is a blast as in there are times your audio and visual senses go into overload with the amount if war shit blowing up, shit falling down, being destroyed etc. Squad play is fun and important, entire 32 player teams need to play together to win often, tank play is fun, air combat is fun, blowing people the fuck up with bird shoot with my m30 shotgun is fun. Construction of defense I could go either way but it does add another element of game play. It plays slow at times as it's strategically smart to slowly creap to advance or hold to actually defend a god dam POI.

If I had one complaint it's all the God dam snipers, but fuck the recon ability to spot is so valuable.

It's just the next in line and evolution of BF games. It's a refreshing change of pace from the rise of Fortnight etc...
 

mkopec

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Yeah im liking it. Im like 55 hrs into it between me and my kid, lol, which swore off this "shit game" and then played it like 20 hours on this past weekend asking me for a copy so we can play together. There is a fair number of bugs, like HUD disappearing on death, or when you click the assignments tab in game, those two happened to me like 2-3 times and are the worst, because it leads you to quit the game to resolve, but other than that its solid.

Hit detection is pretty good, probably the best I have seen in a BF game so far. The guns are all pretty good too with a few standouts. TTK is ok, but the TTD is kind of whatck I guess the server code cannot keep up with all the shit going on still. So the same shit persists as in all these games, like getting shot through walls, seeming like you got one shot. etc...

The progression is nice with tons of shit to do, right now 50 levels overall and 20 levels each class. The starting guns are already perked up but the others you have to level to get perks on them, then you do achievements to unlock skins, pinnacle of which is the gold skin. Classes all have their own achievements too to unlock more clothing skins, some of are pretty awesome. They also have an armory which you can buy skins with in game currency too. But no real money shit (yet). Which is all cool because you always have something to work towards. I just wish the achievement system worked in the background, kind of you play and you complete them automatically. I hate that you have to exit the game to pick 4 then go back into game to complete. But thats just a minor thing as im sure they will add a way to do this in game (as they already said they would)

Weakest class at the moment is the medic IMO because their guns suck, they can only use SMG and other than 10-20 meters they are useless, but int hat 10-20 meters they are pretty good. But they said they are adressing this. So youre not seeing too many medics as time goes on. But they get shit like smoke nades, etc.. Assault has AR and Carbine with shit to kill armor like C4 and rocket launchers. Heavily reliant on medics to heal them and support to give them ammo. Support has your LMG and HMG and of course ammo. They have some of the most OP guns in the game like the MG 34 and MG42, the MG42 which can fire at 1200/rpm, but they are balanced in that to use them in any proper way you have to be prone or at least tripoded. But they can also shred entire squads if properly positioned in defensive areas. The other LMG are all good and even become lazers with the tripod out. they also have anti vehicle mines. Then of course recon with your standard BF recon shit. Bolt action 1hit headshots, then they also have an assortment of self loading rifles too which do like 2 hit kills or 3 depending on distance. Throwing knives which 1hk depending on distance, spotting scope which is underused but SOOO fucking op since this game has hardly any spotting otherwise. It even helps the bombers since they know exactly where the armor, player concentration is. Spwan beacon...

The maps are all really well done, the desert one is fucking huge, probably the biggest they have ever done. There is 2 sides to it, one which has a ton of tank/vehicle play, and the other has ruins all over the place which is cool for infantry play. My favorite is the country side one. 4 points on the outskirts and one central point in town center. Whats missing IMO is pure infantry maps like lockers/metro which I fucking loved in BF4. I hope they add this in.

Vehicles are not too OP, like I said the assault has C4 and rockets to take care of them. Most of their main guns suck vs infantry, they literally have to headshot you with them to 1HK you with them, which just leaves their machine guns, which can only fire on direction. There are light tanks, heavy slow tanks, and even the highly mobile tank on wheels you see in some of the videos and shit. They are great for pushing points with but you have to be careful because only one good assault can lay waste to a tank quick.

Planes are kid of OP now, especially the bombers. They lay waste to concentrations of troops down on the ground if properly aimed. Fuck they can be annoying. (and getting nerfed I hear) But there is plenty of AA shit to take them down if some annoying bomber ace is fucking up your shit. Or you could always take a smaller fighter up to try and deal with them too.

Game modes and servers are still lacking IMO. They have "infantry play" which is shit like TDM and small scale conquest mix on smaller versions of the huge maps. Large conquest of course, and then they have grand operations which are 3 day battles which span across multiple maps which have the attackers parachute in and advance on points/destroy points, etc... Kind of a mix of all the above game modes. Whats missing is hardcore, rush (which is kind of grand operations now) and private servers which you set up your own rules, ala BF4. But those could be added later. Also they split up the grand operations into its own smaller modes like airborne, breakthrough etc... Which are just parts of grand operations split into ther own game modes that can be completed in shorter time.

Overall I would give this a 7.5/10 or of your a battlefield player a 8/10. But this score kind of depends on their support for this game. If we get constant updates/maps than this will be good, if we have to wait 3 months between new content/maps than this will not be so good.
 
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The snow map is just a pure meat grinder. Nothing but choke points everywhere.

Medic is really fun if you can get up close in large firefights. Just pure chaos of attacking, healing, and rezzing. Also, smoke is huge in this game. Lets your whole side close the gap with little risk of being picked off. Pretty awesome seeing 10 infantry all advancing together.
 

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Yeah I guess the snow map could be considered like a meatgrinder. Also I forgot the mention, the sound in this game is fucking outstanding. I really think they have nailed the sound for an all out war scenario like this. From the whistles of bombs and howls of the stukas over head to the screams of people dying and all that shit in between is awesome.
 

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Nerfing vehicles, esp planes, is what has resulted in me quitting every modern BF game. BF3 started it with every infantry getting portable SAMs and A-10 main gun being turned into a peashooter. Playing as infantry in BF has always been the most boring aspect to me
 

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Meh, they need a nerf. These things do carpet bombing runs. Dropping upwards of 16 50KG bombs per run, not to mention to other larger bombs like the 500 KG or the 1000KG. And good pilots know exactly where the troop concentration is, they are getting like 5-10 kills each pass. Im not saying to decimate them or nothing, they still need their place. Maybe tone down the blast radius of the bombs a bit. But on that snow map above mentioned, you get to know the choke points really well, and a bomber can have a field day ont hat map. I have seen dudes get like 10 kills per pass. Couple this with them having the ability to have 2 extra gunner seats, a well coordinated team of 3 can own the fucking sky with a bomber.

Its definitely a fine line to balance shit like this. Because you have to allow the skilled players to own, yet you cannot have them piss off the other 32 players. You have matches which these fucks are getting 100+ kill games where the second best is like 40 lol.
 

Hekotat

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Watched a fee vids on it, looks good and free dlc.

Trying to resist
 
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BrotherWu

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I loved the old Battlefields, starting at the OG 1942 beta. The BCs were obviously great and I had a shitload of fun playing 3 and 4. I skipped Hardline, skipped the SW games, didn't really care much for 1, and had sworn off this one after seeing purple-haired cyborg cyberpunk third-wave feminists as WW2 protagonists. However, a lot of people are saying it is pretty good. Not sure how I feel about a return WW2. I think BF games are at their best with modern tech but maybe that's just me.
 

Hekotat

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I'm going with the 10 hour trial, hopefully that will pull me out of purchasing it, however this is what got me interested. Watch at your own peril.

 

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Watched a fee vids on it, looks good and free dlc.

Trying to resist

Game review: Battlefield V is not quite as epic as it should be | Metro News

One of the last few gaming sites I trust with reviews.

Basically, lack of content held back for games as a service and it shows in the final product. Which for me, means wait for a sale or rent it. And by waiting for a sale, wait until all the free content is out that they ripped from release and buy it for $19 when it's all said and done if ever bought.

Or yeah, 10 hour trial for 5.99 on XBox One X or Origin Access whatever that costs.

I may do that as well depending on how bored I get this long weekend. But that decision remains around 4% possibility.
 
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mkopec

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They really fucked up with that trailer IMO. It basically has 100% nothing to do with Battlefield 5. Not even in the story mode. We have no gimped prosthetic arm bitches to choose from. Its all dudes and gals which look like dudes (although the bitch screams when they die are fucking classic). You honestly cannot even tell them apart in game other than speech or when you really walk up close to them, like a foot apart. On German side they are all white, and on English side you can choose from a couple of black dudes/chicks.

But yeah, they really fucked up with that trailer. Turned so many people off from the franchise with that feminist SJW bullshit. I still see people bitching about it. They should of just showcased real gameplay clips which can be fucking epic in this game. Like a bomber flying 50 ft above your head. Or that V1 rocket hitting a target toward the end of the match. and the epic sounds of this game, I still cannot get over it. They nailed the fucking sound in this game. In the breakthrough mode, especially the beginning, you really feel like youre in war, bombs going off, bombers over head, fighters and that classic WWII scream of them diving... The tanks, people shooting at you and tracers going everywhere. even if the players hit a mound of dirt in front of you it sends up clouds of sand in the air and shit, its really epic feeling.

As for the longevity of the game? Well it depends on Dice and how they choose to support this game. If we dont get regular content drops regularly for this game people will drop it. None of this release a map every 3 months bullshit they pulled in BF1.
 
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Well, that and when the blow back started not having an executive officer saying "Don't buy it then".

That right there will be enough to piss everyone off regardless if they patched it all out or not.
 

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I'm watching that "potential for greatness" video... Well, skimming it. Is it just me or did they use 100% of the content from BF1 in BFV? The cathedral at the 3:45 mark is straight from the Russian DLC for BF1. I guess that's one way to get mileage out of DLC barely anyone buys...
 
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Hekotat

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Glad I just got the trial I'm already hating it.


Picking up ammo animations take precedence over shooting, died several times trying to kill a tank with Dynamite due to the animation popping up and not being able to throw the fucking dynamite.

People are insanely hard to see.

Large majority of people still do not use team play, no one revives, drops ammo, marks objectives, etc., this makes gameplay much worse in this game without a dedicated team of good players.

Same shit with DICE map design where there is sometimes ZERO cover if you want to flank and try to get to another obj. Leaving snipers and tanks plenty of time to kill you.
 
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Upgrading my computer and now it's flying.

It's a significant change from old BF. Feels like the people in charge of making it had a hard on for hardcore mode since that's effective how it plays now.

Shits me how you have to set the assignments you're working on, and there's no tip for what you need to do for them while playing.
Medic crates seem completely pointless. Supply crates too a little but at least they have a purpose in restoring gadgets.
Nice to see grenade spam gone.
 

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this game officially launched today, right? pretty weird how poorly its doing on twitch, literally not a single streamer over 1k playing it
 
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Just bought this. I haven't played BF since BF4. I'm looking forward to playing is over this long weekend. Will check back with an old timer game review. 😉
 
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