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

You guys able to get in? still down for me.

I'm running to the store for some snacks, then i'll be back on to play on PC. Whos trying to Squad up? Already have a handful of you on Origin.

I'm able to get in, my friend said he was able to get in via connecting through me. If you want, you could add me via JoeySkylynx, and party up with me. [editline]31st August 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Delta616;50981530]I'm running to the store for some snacks, then i'll be back on to play on PC. Whos trying to Squad up? Already have a handful of you on Origin.[/QUOTE] Hey, I'm willing to squad up.

I finally got in but didn't have weapons on anything other than medic, but luckily vehicles worked. Gunning on a bomber/attack plane is so fun, real shame planes are going to become unplayable a month after release.

[QUOTE=Raidyr;50981553]I finally got in but didn't have weapons on anything other than medic, but luckily vehicles worked. Gunning on a bomber/attack plane is so fun, real shame planes are going to become unplayable a month after release.[/QUOTE] i accidentally spawned into a plane that was apparently already going down, so in my five seconds as a gunner i felt like indiana jones sr, blasting away until the plane crashed into the train.

So, how exactly am I supposed to progress on classes?

So thanks to the dutch servers, I FINALLY got into a proper game without getting disconnected and with access to guns! And it was P. great. Not OMFG I GOTTA PRE-ORDER great (That's for Dishonored 2 for my birthday), but great enough that I would grab it next year when I can. [editline]31st August 2016[/editline] So yeah thanks Scandinavia!

[QUOTE=Raidyr;50981553]I finally got in but didn't have weapons on anything other than medic, but luckily vehicles worked. Gunning on a bomber/attack plane is so fun, real shame planes are going to become unplayable a month after release.[/QUOTE] I have been told that the method to fix this is to goto battlefield.com and use your loadout page to unequip and reequip weapons.

Played three rounds. Some quick thoughts and first impressions: I get the Battlefront comparisons. While BF1 doesn't play [I]much[/I] like Battlefront, there's a lot of aesthetic choices that are different from all the previous Battlefield games, but are shared with Battlefront. It's little things like the styling of the menu and the way that when you die it goes to third person so you can watch yourself die. I love that not all classes have super effective anti-tank weapons. It makes things like armored cars actually worth using and super fun. At least, in the short term. I suspect vehicles will become much less of a threat once people learn to play and unlock the "meta" weapons. The emplaced AT field guns are awesome fun to use as well and very satisfying. Overall the class diversity is good. We'll see how it goes once the full game is out and people unlock everything, but for now I'm really happy with how differently all the classes play. I'm a little wary about how weak the Support class machineguns feel though. I don't mind the weird way the accuracy works, but they seem to require more bullets to kill than they should. Get rid of the "hold space to respawn quicker thing." It's a bad mechanic and it's bad for the game. The very fast spawn speed when using that is where another one of the comparisons with Battlefront comes from, and I prefer a slightly longer spawn time. I think the game as a whole would benefit from it. It also creates other problems with how medics work which makes them basically pointless. Why would anyone ever bother waiting around for a medic when you can be back in the action within only a couple seconds? My perpetual annoyance of non-faction specific weaponry/vehicles continues in modern Battlefield games to annoy me, but I know that’ll never change, and in a few specific WWI cases it’s kind of justified.

I noticed that if you click on a server in the server browser, it shows that all classes of weapons can be enabled or disabled. I have a feeling that historical realism servers or something to that effect are going to be pretty easy to make, just disable everything except bolt action rifles, pistols, MGs and shotguns. [editline]31st August 2016[/editline] And the light tank with the 20mm cannon is broken as fuck. I went 20-2 in one game with it and shot down 2 planes with it.

ill be on over the weekend for some squading.

I feel like movement speed needs to be slowed down a bit

So I didn't understand people who said it's just DICE's Battlefront, but in WW1, but now I kind of see it. The quicktimish respawn mechanic, the "rush at the guy with your bayonet" mechanic - very new player friendly and cool feeling. In other words, very casual, and that's coming from a guy who played BF3 and BF4 quite a lot (BF2 is still the best though) P.S: The game does look amazing, though. Not that impressive after Battlefront beta in all of it's PBR glory, but still

[QUOTE=halfer;50981714]So I didn't understand people who said it's just DICE's Battlefront, but in WW1, but now I kind of see it. The quicktimish respawn mechanic, the "rush at the guy with your bayonet" mechanic - very new player friendly and cool feeling. In other words, very casual, and that's coming from a guy who played BF3 and BF4 quite a lot (BF2 is still the best though) P.S: The game does look amazing, though. Not that impressive after Battlefront beta in all of it's PBR glory, but still[/QUOTE] Battlefield has literally always been casual, since 1942. I don't understand how a "quicktimish" (whatever that means, you mean how you can hold space to cancel a revive? It doesn't actually respawn you faster, just gets you to the spawn screen earlier) and a bayonet charge (which actually have uses) makes it any more casual than BF4 where all classes are effective in all scenarios due to the carbine/DMR/shotgun thing.

[QUOTE=Why485;50981642]Get rid of the "hold space to respawn quicker thing." It's a bad mechanic and it's bad for the game. The very fast spawn speed when using that is where another one of the comparisons with Battlefront comes from, and I prefer a slightly longer spawn time.[/QUOTE] ...it doesn't, as far as I can tell? it sends you back to the class/spawn selection menu sooner but you still have to wait out the deploy timer

[QUOTE=the_killer24;50981764]...it doesn't, as far as I can tell? it sends you back to the class/spawn selection menu sooner but you still have to wait out the deploy timer[/QUOTE] Thinking about it, and especially once I figured out where the spawn countdown timer was (that thing is super poorly designed) I think you're right. Either way, everything else I said about what it means for medics and the overall flow of the game I still stand by, and I would prefer a slightly longer spawn time overall. Everything just feels a tad faster than I would have liked.

It's way better than the "Stare at fucking nothing for five seconds too long" that is in BFH, 4 and 3

Planes are very fun. I love dropping bombs on people. :v:

I haven't tried it yet but the bomber seems a bit underpowered, in the sense that it's such a big and slow target it doesn't stand a chance unless the sky is 100% uncontested.

[t]http://imgkk.com/i/c9eo.png[/t] whoops

I'm loving it so far, this is pretty much my dream game.

Is anyone else crashing a lot or is it just because I'm trying to run this on a mid-range laptop?

Opps [video=youtube_share;fF0C65I44jw]http://youtu.be/fF0C65I44jw[/video]

So the Artillery SMLE is the best thing ever. I love playing offensive scout in this, I just wish the flares lasted longer and actually gave you point bonus for teammates getting kills off them. It's such a good feeling getting OHKs in the sweet spot range and then moving in and managing to two shot people because the SMLE's bolt is so fast. Also playing with multiple people in a bomber who are on coms is awesome. Calling out ground targets and incoming planes while in the front gun while taking out the emplaced AA and guys running around on the ground.

[img]http://puu.sh/qVPfw/ccac856517.png[/img] downloaded the latest drivers on amd homepage hd6950 (win10 64bit). Still keeps saying I need to update it :/

[QUOTE=Delta616;50981502]That was me (TheGubefather) covering your ass last round.[/QUOTE] yeah you were a great medic. I didn't do so well but at least you actually medic'd :v:

If you haven't tried the tank hunter attack plane yet, do yourself a favor and use what is objectively the most fun Battlefield vehicle that ever was. [video=youtube;nmY6UWwEBQI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmY6UWwEBQI[/video]

Reminder that you can go to [url]https://www.battlefield.com/career[/url] and unlock all the weapons and stuff regardless of kit level (likely a bug, when you click to buy the gun/gadget/grenade either nothing happens or it shows an error, but it will unlock ingame)

Couple questions. 1. How do you toggle zoom? 2. Resolution scale is based off your selected resolution right? So 100% at 1080p would be full 1080p resolution? 3. If the above is true how come I get such shit FPS with an i7-4770k and a GTX 980 on high/medium?

[QUOTE=Destroyox;50981991]Couple questions. 1. How do you toggle zoom? 2. Resolution scale is based off your selected resolution right? So 100% at 1080p would be full 1080p resolution? 3. If the above is true how come I get such shit FPS with an i7-4770k and a GTX 980 on high/medium?[/QUOTE] 42% is 1:1 resolution, you're currently super-sampling at double your resolution. zoom toggle should be in controls, if it isn't then your SOL.