wunty
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Post by wunty on Mar 3, 2023 9:43:46 GMT
I'll maybe have to try again. Tried at launch and a wee bit of S2, but never been back since. Glad they seem to have fixed it at last, but seems to have taken far too long. BF is not a day one purchase for me anymore after this one. I know they always take a while to bed down, but sheesh, this was the most broken one i've ever played. Yeah this is literally me just dipping my toes in. no idea what I would have thought of it a year ago. I need my classes! They've mixed it up still though and I don't know how much of a fan I am that any class can use any weapon, but it's REALLY fucking good fun.
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Post by Vandelay on Mar 3, 2023 9:52:08 GMT
I quite like the way they have handled the weapons. You can use any of them on any class, but you might as well use the one that gives you a bonus. The bonuses aren't so essential that it makes the flexibility pointless and maybe the bonuses could be a little more beneficial, but I feel it is a good approach.
I still feel the gadgets are a bit weak. Some more variety there would be good. Also, all BF games are improved with a mortar gadget.
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Post by Binky on Mar 3, 2023 9:55:37 GMT
What I would say to those looking to dip back in, is that you still don’t get that feel of turning the tide or having a major impact to what’s going on. So whereas playing something like COD is all about the W this always feels best when you’re just having fun with the moment to moment gameplay.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 3, 2023 11:45:02 GMT
What I would say to those looking to dip back in, is that you still don’t get that feel of turning the tide or having a major impact to what’s going on. So whereas playing something like COD is all about the W this always feels best when you’re just having fun with the moment to moment gameplay. Hmmm, yeah I'd have to agree here. There's a lot of stuff going on 2042 but I've never felt I was making a tangible contribution, especially as on console there's an absolute dearth of teamwork as well as people resupplying and reviving. It's incredibly easy to be one of the MVP's for revives.
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Post by wunty on Mar 3, 2023 12:00:44 GMT
Yeah, temwork in this is lacking at the mo, so I've just been doing my own thing while the boy runs around wracking up an incredibly impressive kill count (he's MUCH better than me). Spent a whole game last night driving around in a mobile AA gun shooting down the other sides planes and choppers. Nobody in this is very team focused. Compare that to BF 1 & V - where there seemed to be cohesion and team mates followed and gave orders. Nobody does that in this.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2023 12:06:28 GMT
Same experience here. Breakthrough is usually a bit more cohesive (as is co-op vs bots) but player squads acting like squads seem few and far between.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 3, 2023 12:11:15 GMT
I did have one experience where I played with randoms and I was with the same squad for 5 rounds and we actually made a difference and decimated the other team. That kind of experience has been few and far between though.
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Post by Vandelay on Mar 3, 2023 12:17:54 GMT
I still think squads can make difference. There just isn't a huge incentive to play like that, so no one does. It used to be that the support players would rack up huge amount of points, so it was always attractive to fulfill those roles.
I would also say that individuals have never really been able to make that much difference, but I would also have to admit to always having been a bit crap at BF, which might have more to do with that.
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Post by wunty on Mar 3, 2023 13:03:23 GMT
Oooo we need an FG squad.
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Post by Dgzter on Jun 12, 2023 7:43:51 GMT
I've got far too many games on the go atm, but worth noting the new season (S5) has started. Only dived briefly into the new map (Reclaimed), which is locked at 64 players and is much more CQC focused.
What I would say is that performance is SO much better now than it ever was. I'm comfortably sitting at 110-120 FPS at all times, which makes the whole experience far more enjoyable.
Think they've also confirmed that there will be a Season 6 coming too.
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Post by Vandelay on Jun 12, 2023 8:33:18 GMT
I wonder how many people are like me and keep meaning to go back to this, but just have too many other games to have the time. I do dip in once in awhile (normally around the time a new season drops) and see they have done huge amounts to get it into shape, as well as each new map being excellent, but I will only end up having a session or two with it because there is loads of other stuff to play.
They clearly have put a lot of effort into it and I hope that they are being rewarded by players coming back.
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Post by Binky on Jun 12, 2023 8:42:59 GMT
It's one of the few constant's on my hard drive. BF is in a really good place right now, the team have done a good job. I'm guessing the launch date was originally far too ambitious given the change in working practices through covid and it cost them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2023 8:44:42 GMT
I've tried several times but it's all too frantic / CoD-like for me, and some of the vehicles are basically invulnerable with a decent squad inside, makes for a lot of repetitive deaths. Battlefield V is where I'm staying - WW2 a better pace for old farts
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Post by Dgzter on Jun 12, 2023 8:50:30 GMT
Yeah, I've basically kept up with the weekly missions/bonuses in order to max out each season's standard battle pass (which I've always only unlocked with the currency earned in-game in the previous season, etc.).
I still enjoy it a lot when I do play, and the improved performance definitely helps.
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Post by ekz on Sept 30, 2023 22:50:45 GMT
Jumped into this for the first time since launch yesterday. It's come such a long way. Gameplay and performance on the 64 and 48p servers has been great and it's a shit tonne of fun. The popular portal servers here are all 128p which is a bit shit, I'd love the classic maps in a 64/48 slot server. But oh well. Really enjoying it. And it's double xp this weekend so each game feels rewarding enough.
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Post by Vandelay on Jan 16, 2024 15:07:45 GMT
Not sure if anyone here can help, but I've recently attempted to play BF2042 again, but running into tech issues on PC.
I'm getting what feels like some extreme input lag, even in the menus. I have to hold a button down for about 2-3 seconds before it will react. Mouse movement in the menus seems fine and clicking on menu items seems fine. In game, I will have all the commands delayed by the same 2-3 seconds, but this will also include mouse inputs too, making it completely unplayable (again, mouse seems fine in the menus even in game, such as the spawn menu). Movement will have the same 2-3 second delay before reacting and will continue when I release the button for another 2-3 seconds. Moving the camera around will just jerk and jump around. Everything else appears to be running flawlessly, performance-wise, with everyone else moving normally and the environments all moving about at a normal frame rate (don't seem to be able to bring up the console to bring up performance details, but seems fine to the eye). I'm not getting any of the error icons appearing to indicate any issues with frame rate, dropped packets, high ping or anything like that.
I've tried closing everything that isn't Battlefield, disabling the EA overlay, turning off Nvidia Reflex, turning off DLSS, turning off future frame generation, putting the settings to minimum, changing the polling rate of my mouse and even using a controller instead of keyboard and mouse, but nothing seemed to have much of an effect (I thought changing the Reflex options might have had an effect on the time of the delay, but it was negligible if it did and still unplayable). Searching online I can't find anything besides the things I've already tried and most of the posts date back over a year.
It's been a while since I last played (maybe around season 3 time), but didn't have any issues. Only system change I have made since then would be my GPU, which is now a ludicrous 4090, so would be surprised if that is causing an issue.
Any ideas?
Edit - in case anyone stumbled into this post with the same issue, turned out I had my arcade stick plugged in and it must have been causing some interference. Unplugging solved the issue completely. Only discovered this as I also had an issue with Cocoon picking up my controller, for the same reason.
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