There are some cool servers where bolt action rifles are the only thing you can use.
Not nearly as good as BFI or BF4.
I mean setting-wise, it's not the menstruating revisionist wank that BFV was, and I'm happier with that. I maintain that the cast of specialists would have been perfect for a Bad Company 3 single-player campaign, if they were given actual factions and roles within larger military infrastructure instead of just being the No-Pat Diversity Squad. The rest of the setting (The Dark Market, etc.) would be better off getting scrubbed though.
I mean setting-wise, it's not the menstruating revisionist wank that BFV was, and I'm happier with that. I maintain that the cast of specialists would have been perfect for a Bad Company 3 single-player campaign, if they were given actual factions and roles within larger military infrastructure instead of just being the No-Pat Diversity Squad. The rest of the setting (The Dark Market, etc.) would be better off getting scrubbed though.
They also had one Australian basically carry the whole Gallipoli campaign on his shoulders, which was eye-rolling to say the least considering what a bitter defeat it was in reality and how many were lost for nothing. But it's a shooter so it can be grudgingly accepted, V was just plain disrespectful.
I would be fully on-board for another Bad Company game personally. The 2 BC games were stupendously good from the set-dressing to the (actually funny) comedy. I don't trust current year Dice to not spectacularly fuck it up mind you so maybe it's a good thing we haven't saw BC3 yet. Most companies these days are releasing their games way too early because they know they can always just patch it later. The worse part is that a large majority of us allow this shit to keep happening by not standing our ground so their is no incentive for these companies to change. I played Battlefield 4 on the Xbox 360 for a while before I upgraded console and for a full 14 months you couldn't play the map Dawnbreaker. On the 360 it would crash every time you tried to load into it! They never bothered their arse fixing it for ages because they knew no matter what the boot lickers would still be out in full force to protect the feelings of the billion dollar company.
More devs need to hear that. Far too many games have bombed because they think 128 vs 128 will by magic make their game better but it has always done the opposite.
To me that was the Code of Conduct.
People want maximum realism until it interferes with fun. The second you start making arbitrary changes to the realism that have zero to do with the fun its retarded.
Case in point: bolt action rifles in BF1. If you want that experience, play Enlisted or World of Tanks.
Doesn't matter when cheaters are just going to have 5000% jump height and do gay morse code versions of COD drop shotting going back and forth from across the map instead of prone so it will feel like you are firing blanks from your weapon. Hand delivering a rocket up their aimbot using ass changes their try hard tune real quick so the match is actually winnable while they are busy homing in on you, but just leaving the lobby and playing a different game is a far more fun experience than paying for games that the developers cant be bothered to ban these faggots from and in worst cases have actual cheaters infiltrating the devteam and banning people for "witchhunts" in the case of Destiny 2.
the thing about battlefield is that there's nothing to tryhard about, so cheating etc. is pretty much pointless. hitting rank 150 means fuck all. plus if you play on community servers with a somewhat decent admin they're usually not an issue for long (which again is a thing because BF doesn't have shit like ranked matchmaking where every server needs to run the same).
I'm glad DICE didn't try to go after the esports shit because the multiplayer experience would have been just as bad as [current year] CoD and Halo.
I beg to differ.
It's especially ironic because COD's BF-lite mode is an absolute clusterfuck because COD's zero-recoil weapons make a large, heavily populated map deeply unpleasant to play.
Haven't touched a COD game since Black Ops 1 on the 360 so I'll need to take your word for that. It makes sense though as COD's general design (in my opinion) was always intended for not very many players on fairly small maps so almost the opposite of Battlefield. Now though we've got some weird inbreeding shit going on as COD is trying their damn best to become BF and BF is trying to become COD, they're doing the old switcheroo vice versa. Nothing wrong with taking inspiration from each other however it's literally become that "copy my homework just change it up a bit" meme.
Yeah I love bolt actions in Enlisted, but I absolutely love the Winchester 1895 lever action.
iirc hardline suffers from the bf4 syndrome that certain guns are clearly better. can't remember which ones it were in hardline, but iirc it was not that annoying to grind.
don't play for win, play for annoyance. I really love to shut down planefags especially since no one goes for flaks or anything. otherwise in operations I just sit in the back and spot/smoke shit constantly - even my own teammates if they're fucking baseraping sweats.
yeah, I assume it's simply too dead for that. hotwire/heist were peak battlefield back when it was active. RIP
ironically playing for objectives usually puts you into the top 3 anyway. remember most people are dumb in the sense they just want directions. what I usually does (when I'm not farming salt on defense with a machinegun) is open my own squad/get squad leader (iirc bf1 copied the functionality of hardline where when you ask for orders and leader doesn't set any after that, you become the new leader), then just mark shit to where I'm going. not only do I get more points when attacking/defending, everyone else in the squad does too and most players understand enough of the game to know that. doesn't always work, but more often than not you get an impromptu team of buddies which even stick around for more matches, even more when they see you're actively playing and reacting instead of just pointing and shooting like a headless chicken.