There's nothing redeeming about the campaign, it was a waste of time to play.
IIRC the campaign was thrown together somewhat last minute. The missions are all disjointed set pieces, some of which are quite cool on their own, but is fucking horrible as a whole campaign. The characters are all complete nothings with each of them being some variation of gruff special ops person. The only one that has potential is Hemlock since he glows in the dark and clearly has some shady shit going on in the background. The story is all over the place, you can't tell when anything is happening. I have no idea what the point of the mission in Egypt was from a narrative perspective. It's also the one of the only times we get to freely control a vehicle in a mission which fucking sucks. I didn't even give a shit when Kincaid stabbed Haz to death. I wasn't even looking at the screen I was just waiting for the cutscene to end like I'd been doing for the last 3 missions. It's like they wanted to emulate the CoD campaigns that people have been enjoying recently but let ChatGPT write the script and just sent it without bothering to look it over.
Yea, I would've really enjoyed a "No Russian" type of mission where you play as a CIA asset embedded into PAX who gets caught up in the whole thing. You don't really learn shit about PAX until the ending cutscene and even then it's just like "wow that's fucking gay and lame". I played through both 3 and 4's campaigns recently and while they're still pretty middling I actually enjoyed them both. Calling it "haphazardously slapped together" is a good way to describe 6's. All in all it's just a huge wasted opportunity to steal some of CoD's single player guys. They already got Zampella to turn the multiplayer into cod-lite they may as well have gone all in.
I still have friends logging in every day, and I've played during most of my free time. Escelation is a ton of fun, and it's pretty much what I've been playing nonstop. Most of the issues in the game has are either exploits like the drone shit or minor issues like challenges being bugged/xp not being fast enough. They've already had two minor patches in the last week addressing some of the issues. We're getting the Season 1 trailer tomorrow and Season 1 on the 28th. I don't get how you can say "there isn't any meat here". Have you unlocked everything? Do you just hate the maps? Has a class not clicked with you?
GaaS has really done a number on people's attention spans, if there's not a new hip-hop/movie collab every week the game is dead unc.
Yeah, it's why I wasn't surprised when the peak player count dropped from 700k to 300k. A lot of COD kids came over expecting a new autism shooter and were upset when it didn't fit what they wanted, especially after the movement got nerfed.
I've found the SCW to probably be the best SMG when used at short to medium ranges overall, even with it's low mag count it still shreds quite well.
There's sweats in the game, but I haven't come across as many cheaters given their current anti-cheat methods; however in game bugs (such as the recon drone glitch), haven't been fixed as fast as they should be. Also, some of the lock-on's are bugged being able to hit air vehicles, even when they have flared an incoming missile.
The SLAMs are dogshit. It takes 4 to destroy a tank and you only get 3 of them without sitting on a supply pack.
As far as BF titles go, this is pretty solid release and a good base for EA to improve the game. There'll be plenty of fixes and significant changes to come, just as there have been with previous BF titles. There are a lot of COD players coming over and expecting it to be some COD killer, but getting frustrated it's not all about running and gunning. I've been playing a fair bit of Breakthrough, and it's quite frustrating as a defender seeing the attackers not employ basic tactics such as smoking defender lines of sight and flanking - they'll just charge straight into the sights of the defenders like lemmings. Even playing the smaller more deathmatch like modes, such as Domination and King of the Hill, if I piss bolt straight into combat I'll get cleaned up over and over by players with superior aim and reflexes to me. But I can easily turn the tables by slowing down and flanking.
Seems like the anticheat is working really well so far. The other day, there were some screenshots from some cheating forum with posters seething over cheats being detected and having multiple accounts banned. It included a listing of which cheats were being detected and which ones weren't. Only one was listed as working, but apparently that was BS and in fact it was being detected. Think there was something else about cheats providers pulling their BF6 cheats because they weren't working.
Every map plays the same, they're too small, just meat grinders that lack the dynamic gameplay that Battlefield has been known for.
I think they nerfed them since i was able to get kills with those mines in the beta.
I don't even know how that could work with the current sandbox. Gone are the days of BF1942 where you spawned with player controlled destroyers and submarines.