Battlefield Franchise Megathread V2 - 'The Future of Warfare Is in the Past' Edition

[Bradyns]

[QUOTE=ilikecorn;50539365]I actually have one of these. It kicks like a god damned mule, but you can cycle the bolt fast as fuck if you're even remotely competent.[/QUOTE]

Can you take a pic or make a quick video of it?

[ss013r]

[QUOTE=usaokay;50538329]So I bought Battlefield Hardline for $5.

I liked the campaign. Haven't tried the multiplayer because it's fucking dead.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I did the same and I was pleasantly surprised by how good the campaign was.

[Codemaster85]

[QUOTE=ss013r;50540888]Yeah, I did the same and I was pleasantly surprised by how good the campaign was.[/QUOTE]

honestly the campaign was the highlight of the game. the only good part in 4 was the beginning where the car flips into the water. the rest was a black man being mad at an asian woman for being asian.

[editline]17th June 2016[/editline]

and the only likable character was Pac who gets killed halfway anyway.

[Daemon White]

[QUOTE=codemaster85;50541326]honestly the campaign was the highlight of the game. the only good part in 4 was the beginning where the car flips into the water. the rest was a black man being mad at an asian woman for being asian.

[editline]17th June 2016[/editline]

and the only likable character was Pac who gets killed halfway anyway.[/QUOTE]

"killed"

He shows up again later without reason :v:

[ScottyWired]

[QUOTE=ilikecorn;50541314]Have 3: [URL]http://m.imgur.com/a/ShdLa[/URL]

its serial number (originally) is 8386, all parts are matching.[/QUOTE]

Are you on a boat? I'm trying to figure out what that hole in the ground is

oh right yes guns nice gun man definitely the focus of the images that gun

[Codemaster85]

[QUOTE=Daemon White;50541410]"killed"

He shows up again later without reason :v:[/QUOTE]

if you chose differently. its still stupid how he just disappears and you're stuck with the two racist dipshits.

[theobod]

[QUOTE=ss013r;50540888]Yeah, I did the same and I was pleasantly surprised by how good the campaign was.[/QUOTE]

"Good" Yea riiight

[Daemon White]

[QUOTE=codemaster85;50541432]if you chose differently. its still stupid how he just disappears and you're stuck with the two racist dipshits.[/QUOTE]

...there was a choice to make?

[DeVotchKa]

Bad Company 2 was good imo, mostly because of the characters.

[StrawberryClock]

Finally some good tank gameplay.

[video=youtube;ZUogI1oGNh8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUogI1oGNh8[/video]

[Wulfram]

[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;50541546]Bad Company 2 was good imo, mostly because of the characters.[/QUOTE]

I still feel like BC2 played it too straight. I think it was supposed to be a parody of the super serious CoD style story, but there wasnt enough wink wink nod nod type stuff and it just felt like it fell into the trap of the thing it was trying to make fun of.

[editline]17th June 2016[/editline]

Bad Company 1 is great though and I even like 3 to an extent. At least it was compelling. 4 was just trash though, and I couldn't finish Hardline because the lack of a FoV slider in singleplayer was making me nauseous

[editline]17th June 2016[/editline]

Something else I noticed in watching gameplay was the music was all orchestral

[ss013r]

[QUOTE=theobod;50541439]"Good" Yea riiight[/QUOTE]

Have you tried it yourself? Visceral actually tried something different for the Hardline campaign (as in, they didn't go for your standard linear military shooter). They did a pretty good job at giving it a "cop drama" theme, complete with [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnTheNext]"Next time on Hardline..."[/url] and [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PreviouslyOn]"Previously on Hardline..."[/url] when you exit or start up the game, respectively.

But it wasn't just the theme that they did well, they actually changed up the gameplay a bit. You can choose which guns and gadgets to bring along, and you can either use stealth or combat to get through the level. The stealth mechanics, IMO, also don't suck.

For the singleplayer of a Battlefield game, they honestly did quite good. Since most were going to buy the game just based off the merits of the multiplayer, I especially commend the developers for being ambitious with the campaign.

[Ripsipiirakka]

[QUOTE=Wulfram;50541680]
Something else I noticed in watching gameplay was the music was all orchestral[/QUOTE]

Finally. I've been missing a proper ingame music in battlefield since bad company 2. Don't get me wrong at least BF4 had couple of good tracks in it. Too bad they were really rarely played ingame, just in like 2 maps. Less toilet noices this time i reckon.

[Mr_Plumrich]

[QUOTE=Daemon White;50541462]...there was a choice to make?[/QUOTE]

I can not tell if you're serious or not, but there are three choices. Sacrificing Irish(the black guy), sacrificing "Hannah"(The chinese girl) or the 'hidden' choice, doing nothing and watching the battleship blow up.

[PsychedelicLiz]

[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;50541668]Finally some good tank gameplay.

[video=youtube;ZUogI1oGNh8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUogI1oGNh8[/video][/QUOTE]

pre-alpha my ass

[DeVotchKa]

Like i said, i mostly liked it due to the characters v:v:v

[Anven11]

[QUOTE=Megadave;50543248]pre-alpha my ass[/QUOTE]

What do you mean?

[markfu]

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J2Ocg9Ixlw[/media]

Neebs impressions.

[PsychedelicLiz]

[QUOTE=Anven11;50543546]What do you mean?[/QUOTE]

The game looks pretty good, considering coding shit that isn't even a late alpha. It looks refined and what not. I do see bugs and what not, but it doesn't look plain and untextured like Battlefield 4 alpha did.

[Daemon White]

[QUOTE=Mr_Plumrich;50543234]I can not tell if you're serious or not, but there are three choices. Sacrificing Irish(the black guy), sacrificing "Hannah"(The chinese girl) or the 'hidden' choice, doing nothing and watching the battleship blow up.[/QUOTE]

I know that, I meant in response to that chain of comments.

[quote]and the only likable character was Pac who gets killed halfway anyway.[/quote]
[quote]"killed"

He shows up again later without reason[/quote]
[quote]if you chose differently.[/quote]
[quote]...there was a choice to make?[/quote]

Because Pac "Dies" at one point and shows up again on the Valkyrie for no reason or explanation when you show the Chinese that Jing Jie is still alive, [B][I]before[/I][/B] you do the end-game decision.

[Mr_Plumrich]

[QUOTE=Daemon White;50543845]I know that, I meant in response to that chain of comments.

Because Pac "Dies" at one point and shows up again on the Valkyrie for no reason or explanation when you show the Chinese that Jing Jie is still alive, [B][I]before[/I][/B] you do the end-game decision.[/QUOTE]

But there is an explanation, he says it himself. He crawled through human waste with a hole in his guts until he got back. But there was no reason more than 'Hey, I survived guys! You thought I was dead. And I thought you guys were dead!', fun stuff.

Honestly, the BF4 campaign have so many turns that it felt ridiculous.
Hannah is your friend, now she's your enemy. Oh wait, plot twist, she was your friend all along.

[StrawberryClock]

[QUOTE=markfu;50543610][media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J2Ocg9Ixlw[/media]

Neebs impressions.[/QUOTE]

Wow, so it WASN'T just me being insane. At 1:48 they explain that they DID switch up the teams and spread out the skill because EA was like "wait a sec, you guys are just gonna steamroll and spawn camp all match".

[RaptorRed]

So, I got Hardline since it was sold for a fairly cheap price, and this was my experience with it so far.

[thumb]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/443983599443039815/BDD9033D19E4EE309913001D822D76A13DEA729E/[/thumb][thumb]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/443983599443038794/230568617F70BA0B0E21CAB55280804D3C35AE20/[/thumb]

They weren't joking when they claimed it'll be completed next year.

[Raidyr]

wow battlefield 1 looks cool I think i'm gonna reinstall the ol bf4 and relive that battlefield experience

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ta99X1y.jpg[/IMG]

oh

nothing says battlefield quite like the clan on the other team made up of people with 2000+ hours of game time camping your spawn with your attack helicoper

[Daemon White]

Had a great round in Rush at Dragon Valley 2016. We stole the attacking team's little bird and demolished them :v:

[Jebus]

Is the Skill score in Bf4 an accurate representation of... anything? I mean I can look up how it's calculated, but it seems so detached from the game.

Just had a round with over 1000spm, 2.0 KDR, played the objective like mad, got a bunch of revives, and my skill still goes down 6 points.

[Raidyr]

[QUOTE=Raidyr;50547569]wow battlefield 1 looks cool I think i'm gonna reinstall the ol bf4 and relive that battlefield experience[/QUOTE]

add one victory and four more losses to this and you have my session tonight. I guess it cures the hype i had for battlefield one.

are wallhacks ubiquitous? I feel like I'm constantly being hunted down by people on foot or in vehicles when I'm hiding in the most obtuse spots no where near the objective. They don't have anyone near me, they don't have a MAV, no commander, I can't figure out how I'm possibly being spotted but they just hunt me down while I'm fucking off somewhere trying to put down a spawn beacon or MAV?

[DieselSquiggles]

[QUOTE=Raidyr;50547919]add one victory and four more losses to this and you have my session tonight. I guess it cures the hype i had for battlefield one.

are wallhacks ubiquitous? I feel like I'm constantly being hunted down by people on foot or in vehicles when I'm hiding in the most obtuse spots no where near the objective. They don't have anyone near me, they don't have a MAV, no commander, I can't figure out how I'm possibly being spotted but they just hunt me down while I'm fucking off somewhere trying to put down a spawn beacon or MAV?[/QUOTE]

You'd be surprised how far spamming Q over a general area can get you.

[recl]

[QUOTE=Jebus;50547828]Is the Skill score in Bf4 an accurate representation of... anything? I mean I can look up how it's calculated, but it seems so detached from the game.

Just had a round with over 1000spm, 2.0 KDR, played the objective like mad, got a bunch of revives, and my skill still goes down 6 points.[/QUOTE]

[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/1rlm5x/how_skill_is_calculated_solved/[/url]

[StrawberryClock]

[QUOTE=Raidyr;50547569]wow battlefield 1 looks cool I think i'm gonna reinstall the ol bf4 and relive that battlefield experience

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ta99X1y.jpg[/IMG]

oh

nothing says battlefield quite like the clan on the other team made up of people with 2000+ hours of game time camping your spawn with your attack helicoper[/QUOTE]

Oh, uh...

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Oio1rYU.png[/IMG]

[I]Wooops![/I]

[editline]19th June 2016[/editline]

To be fair you probably had shitty luck with the autobalancer (if it even had any).