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Battlefield 2042 |OT| Back to the Future Part I
- Thread starter iRAWRasaurus
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Was 2024 and BFV developed by different studios? Is there any chance of improving the spawn system to be like BFV (3rd cam before spawn)
not really no. Also with the pokeballs and 128 players. Impossible to have good flank even with a silencer.
nope
they should absolutely remove proximity mines, they are broken
With auto-marking turrets, proximity grenades, wall hack skills, spotting drones, spotting from vehicles, and shots on Paik spotting, stealth is basically only effective against people actively texting on their phones.
The BC2 weapons are still broken, when you run and then stop and shoot the bullets go everywhere just not where you pointing your gun at. And I am pretty sure there was a cheater in my last game because he killed us with an LMG from across the map and behind cover.
They said the fix for Portal weapons is coming in the next update
It's a sad state of affairs. People threw a hissy fit for one specialist having a on use ability blind to the obvious fact that everyone will just be spotted always all the time anyway. They had such a good direction in V and now this, disheartening to say the least.
I understand this sentiment but to be honest, I haven't witnessed many uncoordinated matches like you describe since the first few days of early access. Also, I think Rao is becoming more prominent now that people are realizing what an AA contributor he can be.
And I wish what you said about 25 kills was true, I've hardly ever seen anyone in my squads get more than 15 kills lol.
Just curious but are you playing with crossplay enabled?
Good to know. It seems to work with the BF3 weapons though.
The proximity grenades is like, the big problem that needs an overhaul in my experience: a lot of other spotting stuff in the game are either brief map spots or require the user to be pretty close before it's useful and I've definitely been able to get around that relatively fine in the fights where it's just been that stuff, if I wouldn't mind some tweaks here and there.
Casper's drone does need some nerfs but one of the biggest things in its favour is that it doesn't really risk attention to it when it's doing its job passively: it has the durability of a wet paper towel so even just getting active warnings about being drone spotted would help if it meant people would actually shoot at it a lot more often from the current "how is nobody else noticing this right now???". (I think a fourth of my intel ribbons so far has been from just the one person to realize there was a drone spotting us and shooting it)
And then there's proxy sensors: they're like casper's drone in terms of how well they work, except instead of at least needing people to be somewhat visible from its position they can just work through walls and still spot everybody in range, you can easily refill them, you start with two of them to begin with, they have a pretty big range...
Like something needs to change with those things at least on a more severe level compared to a bunch of other stuff.
Casper's drone does need some nerfs but one of the biggest things in its favour is that it doesn't really risk attention to it when it's doing its job passively: it has the durability of a wet paper towel so even just getting active warnings about being drone spotted would help if it meant people would actually shoot at it a lot more often from the current "how is nobody else noticing this right now???". (I think a fourth of my intel ribbons so far has been from just the one person to realize there was a drone spotting us and shooting it)
And then there's proxy sensors: they're like casper's drone in terms of how well they work, except instead of at least needing people to be somewhat visible from its position they can just work through walls and still spot everybody in range, you can easily refill them, you start with two of them to begin with, they have a pretty big range...
Like something needs to change with those things at least on a more severe level compared to a bunch of other stuff.
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They're still hit by it, just a smaller window of time so it's not as obvious as in BC2. I played around with it myself for a bit a few days ago.
Well, the PP is almost unusable at slightly longer ranges now. The initial recoil is crazy.
I really think they should've adjusted the damage drop-off and given it a slight recoil increase. It is still an SMG and it shouldn't have that much recoil and feel like I'm shooting with an AK. :P
MP9 is superior now and I haven't even unlocked the drum mag for it yet.
I really think they should've adjusted the damage drop-off and given it a slight recoil increase. It is still an SMG and it shouldn't have that much recoil and feel like I'm shooting with an AK. :P
MP9 is superior now and I haven't even unlocked the drum mag for it yet.
Make it a gadget and not a grenade, limit it to 1. That's all they can really do. That way more people would have to decide if they want to give up something else for it. Not having a normal grenade is barely a downside.
I think they should just make it so your operators are part of a class and that class have a pool of gadgets to pick from that best fits their class. Support can pick heal/ammo, recon can pick proximity sensor, soflam etc.
Pretty much all conquest games play out similarly from what I've seen. Sometimes one team gets rolled faster/slower than the norm but basically the same.
Stuff like Rao is nice in theory but in game no decent pilot will be low/slow enough to let you hack them. Even if you do, they'll just take off across the map out of range and by time they get to another area with lots of players they'll be back online. And that's if someone is actually running and using the AA launcher. It's pretty terrible unless you're always running with a fully coordinated squad of four. Why even go through all that effort when you can just throw a Sundance grenade straight up without even knowing a vehicle is there to force out flares?
Crossplay definitely off. Console players with excessive bloom, broken aim assist, and kind of janky controls versus mouse and keyboard one shot body snipers is not worth playing for even a minute.
My fear was that the PP wasn't OP but that the other guns were pure shite due to the bloom issues.
How's the DM7 btw? That seemed like a far bigger concern since you could take anyone down with two body shots from over 800 yards.
After a run of very frustrating games, I decided to go through the trouble of turning off crossplay on XSS and, wow, game was way more fun without PC players running around everywhere.
Downside is it took a while for my lobby to fill up. About half the players were bots when we started.
They'd better have plans for Next-gen only or input based crossplay. The way they're doing it now is utterly stupid.
Downside is it took a while for my lobby to fill up. About half the players were bots when we started.
They'd better have plans for Next-gen only or input based crossplay. The way they're doing it now is utterly stupid.
So stupid that xbox players cant turn it off ingame. Im on PS and playing crossplay off and the matchmaking takes like 5-10 sec max with full PS lobbies.
This is a change I would really like to see since it would solve a bunch of issues at once. I don't mind the specialist system too much in practice but restricting gadgets would go a long way. The specialists are already classified as Assault, Engineer, Recon, and Support so it would be an easy to understand change. I like being able to use whatever weapons on each class, keep that, but maybe add some bonuses if you use them with a certain type of specialist.
Can't switch it to a gadget because then it competes with launchers. The last thing the game needs is fewer people running anti-vehicle equipment.
Can't imagine why they don't add this when bot games and last gen consoles have 64 players games.
"Classic" mode with 64 players and no operators would have satisfied everyone but the MTX bean counters.
i want my money back at this point for that reason. When I bought the game I didn't know I would basically be forced to play against pc players with keyboard and mouse. It's so dumb that you can disable crossplay in the menus on PS5 but not on Xbox and I can't find an answer as to why from dice anywhere. I'm never giving dice another dime for pulling this shit.
Being able to turn off crossplay within game menus might be a requirement from Sony to allow cross-play as a whole. If I'm not mistaken, the same happens with other games.
I remember hearing something to that effect a while back, it's required for cert. Odd that it's not also on Xbox though
Engineer: Are you sure they fixed it?
Medic: They fixed... a lot of it...
Engineer: What does a lot mean?
Recon: I mean, probably a handful ... Two handfuls ... two good handfuls!
Engineer: Okay, do they still have massive Netcode issues?
Recon: *sighs*
Engineer: What about being kicked out of servers?
Medic: Well, you know...
Engineer: Like all the time!
Medic: How's your internet?
Engineer: My internet's fine! [...] The lag, the rubber banding [...] What about the dying, the killed in action shit?
It's kind of insane how accurate and relevant that episode is again after 8 years. God I can't wait for their first episode for 2042, shit is going to be hilarious.
I think they can make it a one time pulse that marks where people are in the moment but not continuous. Like a one time Paik pulse.
Just realized that using matchmaking leaves you blind as to what settings the servers are going to have. I was playing a few games of breakthrough then on the fourth match, game decides to put me in a server with everything turned off... I do not want to play this game without scopes with the distance involved. Im already busy grinding out one gun at the moment and not having access to damn scopes makes it incredibly hard to do anything at distance with how massive the maps are now. I think I just want a server browser for official DICE maps for 2042 content. Im tired of my settings constantly changing from that shit. If I were on last gen I would be heated as the load times would just push me away from playing the game entirely.
yes it can stay as a grenade but you get: 1 proximity nade, it is a single pulse and very small radius.
that's it.
Matchmaking is always official, default servers. Only in Portal are there any customs
Yes, I mean regular grenades are a one time damage pulse, make these a one time spot pulse.
Honestly feels like CoD with a constant spam of UAVs. It's completely ridiculous. I honestly didn't know how many spotting abilities there are until I read these spots and HOLY SHIT.
Now that I can finally play the game somewhat properly after upgrading my PC I have a ton of fun. But I realized something regarding the 2042 maps, I know 128 players need quite bit of space and I don't even find the maps too big as some do but why I everything on these maps so comically huge? Hallways? Huge! Buildings? Huge! Rooms? You bet they are huge! it makes me feel as if the game plays with toy-soldiers 😅
They are honestly not that bad at all, casper requires you to sit down and use his drone, and the wall hacks are or close quarters.
The inly dumb shit is the proximity sensors that literally requires no effort, cover basically 5km of distance (a whole ass objective and more) and you also spawn with TWO of them. They should just remove them, the game would be more fun without.
Everyone gonna switch to the SOFLAM if they nerf Casper drones and proxi grenades.
Just get to a high place and scan the area.
Just get to a high place and scan the area.
The UK Sales and EU sales are a factor. I have 2042 for both my PS5 and SX and it's a night and day difference. Especially population. I bought it on SX because I have a lot of friends who, when are schedules align, play multi together. They've all switched to PS5 to be free of PC and for the population of multi.
There was vid on one of the reddits of a Series S user trying to get a game a peak times it was surprisingly slow.
This might not be what you had in mind and I did have another player in the party, but I can get around with a reasonable level of stealth. I never ran silencers in BF prior to this game and now that is all I run.
