Gaming Battlefield 2042 (PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Series S|X)

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I bloody love Battlefield but I hate how monetized it's increasingly become. £65 for a game with 7 maps and no single player. Plus they want to sell you Fortnite style battlepasses on top. God I friggin hate EA.

Might just wait for this one to hit Gamepass next year.
£65 for a game you can't play casually as you'd just end up getting feckin smattered by the little rats who only play one game to know every little thing about it. feck that.
 

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£65 for a game you can't play casually as you'd just end up getting feckin smattered by the little rats who only play one game to know every little thing about it. feck that.
To be fair that happens in like every online game where it’s pvp. There’s a massive skill gap usually.
 

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To be fair that happens in like every online game where it’s pvp. There’s a massive skill gap usually.
Yeah but while free to play games exist this will never thrive. This won’t do well.
 

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I'll be coming back to Battlefield for this game. Looks great! Last one I played was 4 I think....

@Anustart89 what you reckon?
 

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I'll be coming back to Battlefield for this game. Looks great! Last one I played was 4 I think....

@Anustart89 what you reckon?
Going to be on paternity leave until January so hopefully I'll get some gaming time in during the days.

Nah, who am I kidding :lol: I'll see what life looks like in a month or two. When does this come out? Haven't read anything about it but I like the BF series since you can be effective without a good k/d ratio.
 

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Going to be on paternity leave until January so hopefully I'll get some gaming time in during the days.

Nah, who am I kidding :lol: I'll see what life looks like in a month or two. When does this come out? Haven't read anything about it but I like the BF series since you can be effective without a good k/d ratio.
Paternity until January? Holy shit, I got a week on both occasions and was apparently lucky to get that.

I used to love battlefield, played them since the original 1942.
But bf1 and bf5 were dogshit and I gave up.
 

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Going to be on paternity leave until January so hopefully I'll get some gaming time in during the days.

Nah, who am I kidding :lol: I'll see what life looks like in a month or two. When does this come out? Haven't read anything about it but I like the BF series since you can be effective without a good k/d ratio.
Looks similar to BF3/4 but turned up to 100.
 

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Paternity until January? Holy shit, I got a week on both occasions and was apparently lucky to get that.

I used to love battlefield, played them since the original 1942.
But bf1 and bf5 were dogshit and I gave up.
Parental leave in Sweden's really good. Officially, my paternity leave's three months and two months rougly are vacation and comp leave for night shifts that I've worked over the past year, but which I would've taken out as parental leave if my clinic hadn't allowed me to take the compensation.
 

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Parental leave in Sweden's really good. Officially, my paternity leave's three months and two months rougly are vacation and comp leave for night shifts that I've worked over the past year, but which I would've taken out as parental leave if my clinic hadn't allowed me to take the compensation.
Yeah, here in the UK it's not quite so accommodating.
 

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Going to have to get this despite having no time to play :lol: when does it come out?
 

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Looks like the same old battlefield be flavour of the month for a few months then the majority stop playing it again.

Wonderful game just doesn't have that competitive element that a lot of people need to keep coming back to it over and over again.
 

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2 Weeks after COD is the issue see how long people stick around and play it, Battlefield normally has huge numbers for a month or so then sinks to a small solid community.
Thats unsurprising though considering how big the COD fanbase is. Bit like FIFA & PES (well used to be), no?
 

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Anyone played the beta? Getting mixed reviews. I haven't tried it yet but saw a few previews last night.

Still not sure how I feel about specialists replacing the classes. To me, the class system was such a BF staple so to remove that aspect seems like a mistep.
 

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The beta is an old build and it’s a beta so I’m not sure any ‘review’ holds any weight. Looking forward to trying it tomorrow.
 

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It’s seems really good but I don’t like this map. Probably should have picked a smaller map to make it more enjoyable.
 

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Watched a lot of streams haven't tried it myself but don't think i will be purchasing it this time round just doesnt look appealing a game i could play for an hour or two then no more.

Just no sense of victory or achievement its basically just a giant never-ending TDM.

I feel like every shooter should have some form of competitive ranked play thats coming out now. obviously in a 64 v 64 game its not so simple but they could have put a BR mode in there or something.

Dunno just seems to be something i associate with the battlefield series gets boring and tiresome pretty quickly the core gameplay, there is no questioning the engine and graphics they have never disappointed.
 

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I think it's decent but not brilliant.

Agree the map is too large but it plays quite well as most of the action is centred.
 

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It's got potential. You can't affect the games though, which is a major issue. With teams on that scale, it's just pure luck whether you're on the winning side, and with sbmm this will no doubt end up 50/50. Is it all going to be huge team game modes?
 

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Looks really boring, as mentioned above, you are just wandering around a giant map, hoping your team wins for the most part.
 

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Feels nothing like a Battlefield game, not a fan of it at all.

No idea why they made so many ui changes.
 

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Looks really boring, as mentioned above, you are just wandering around a giant map, hoping your team wins for the most part.
That’s always been my issue with it. You feel like such a small cog in a big match that do you really make a difference? Great war simulation though.
 

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It's got potential. You can't affect the games though, which is a major issue. With teams on that scale, it's just pure luck whether you're on the winning side, and with sbmm this will no doubt end up 50/50. Is it all going to be huge team game modes?
Pretty sure there are going to be custom servers, right? Battlefield has never been about skill based matchmaking, really.
 

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If people took it slowly and moved in their smaller team of 4, it would be. But the game would last forever. At the mo it’s 120 headless chickens desperate to find someone to shoot.
With all due respect Veev I think you underestimate how hard this game is for casual FPS fans. I get the impression from the warzone thread that you at the very least a competent player and likely above average overall. I went into the Beta yesterday and I have never been so out of my depth in a video game. There was stuff going on all around, I didn't understand or know any of the mechanics and you add vehicles on top, and it's absolutely brutal for a below-average FPS player. Don't get me wrong that doesn't make the game bad, but you really have to be a decent FPS player to enjoy the game like this.