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

The howizter light tank is so fucking good. It has an arty gun, with a machine gun, it can also pop smoke and instantly repair. So many times I just ran into 5 guys and just sprayed them all down, they pop nades but i laugh when i press the instant repair button and just mow them down. then pop smoke and repair/escape from enemy tanks if i am low. it is gonna be nerfed on release though.

I'm so unbelievably shit at battlefield it's fucking depressing. No matter what class I play, what range I attack someone at or anything, they always kill me first in a fraction of the time it takes me to do shit to them. It's the only game I've played that is like this. Support feels weak as shit as my LMG does fuck all for me. I can't snipe for shit and even using the better assault guns, I still can't outdamage anyone I encounter no matter how much I shoot them.

[QUOTE=BrosefStachin;50996350]I'm so unbelievably shit at battlefield it's fucking depressing. No matter what class I play, what range I attack someone at or anything, they always kill me first in a fraction of the time it takes me to do shit to them. It's the only game I've played that is like this. Support feels weak as shit as my LMG does fuck all for me. I can't snipe for shit and even using the better assault guns, I still can't outdamage anyone I encounter no matter how much I shoot them.[/QUOTE] It takes a while until it clicks. I would say to slow down and move through the map more methodically and slowly. You could also try to focus on defending instead of just attacking everywhere, because you'll be more aware of your surroundings than an enemy that's running into a new area. There's a weird sort of skill that comes out of learning to spot dudes and guess where they're coming from and that only comes with experience.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/td5phJO.png?1[/img] I think I'm starting to get a hang of this!

Does the end screen only show players from the top ranked squad? The last game I played had the top scorer as a guy from the other team with 12,000 points but I had over 27,000 points. Yes, I was being a filthy light tank user and it felt fucking great. It seriously needs a nerf, AT grenades should do more than 25% damage each, more like 30-40% would be reasonable.

I absolutely hate it when half your team decides to go take a plane/tank on their own and then just ditch it as a means of getting somewhere faster, someone could be actually helping the team with that stuff. It's worst with the planes because then they are stuck with that awful pistol pilots get.

Please god give us another map. Give us the Alpha map. preze.

Playing the Behemoths is pretty fun. Currently though, the matches are too short to do anything with them. The instant when you start to turn the match around with them, the match ends and it's makes me really sad that I can't assblast people with the armored train for longer periods of time.

[QUOTE=THATCAKEISASPY;50996532]Playing the Behemoths is pretty fun.[/QUOTE] Since I have no clue how to use the artillery rounds, I spent the whole time going "CHOO CHOOOOOOOOOOOO" It was way more fun than it sounds.

The attack plane's tank gun doesn't do enough damage to tanks. It does less damage to tanks than any other artillery piece even though it's much harder to hit a target with. Also; what's with the lack of shrapnel and splash damage in general?

There should be a mandatory video for everyone who starts the beta to watch that just teaches you how to spot.

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[QUOTE=Lupin;50995944]They should have at least made it so the starting weapons for each class had iron sights, with scopes being something you unlocked later.[/QUOTE] They should remove unlocks entirely and make everyone start with everything.

I think they should make it so you gain a point for every few seconds you spend near a team mate. Encourage these Rambo motherfuckers to not try to fight the entire war by themselves. It's incredibly disheartening when you capture a point with 5-6 other people and they all immediately scatter like bugs to the various other flags. Stick together you idiots, you'll live longer.

Enforced limit on snipers please, 10% max of any given team

Gas grenades are a lot more effective than smoke nades in Rush imo. They conceal like smoke and it makes the enemy having to put their gas mask on (or die from it), making them lose the ability to aim. Plus you have two of em. At least, I found them to be quite useful as attackers.

[QUOTE=sa2fan;50996792]Gas grenades are a lot more effective than smoke nades in Rush imo. They conceal like smoke and it makes the enemy having to put their gas mask on (or die from it), making them lose the ability to aim. Plus you have two of em. At least, I found them to be quite useful as attackers.[/QUOTE] They're great for flushing people out of buildings. I threw one over a wall and got an enemy medic to run into a team mate's machinegun fire.

I wish they'd give the field guns different types of shells. You could have the standard one, a canister shot, and maybe a gas round.

[vid]https://my.mixtape.moe/ojjpsh.mp4[/VID] I had my first "magic moment!"

[QUOTE=TheBloodyNine;50996637]There should be a mandatory video for everyone who starts the beta to watch that just teaches you how to spot.[/QUOTE] Some games actually have these mini tutorials with varying degrees of in your face. Rainbow Six Siege gives you a fair bit of game points to spend on characters/skins/attachments for going through 3 1 minute tutorial videos. There are others like that but they don't come to mind right now. Considering how dumb people seem in multiplayer games I feel like you might literally have to block people from matches with a mandatory tutorial. Even then if they see that stuff there's a high chance at least a few people are just going to get up and do something else instead of watching it.

[QUOTE=V12US;50995656]Nah but you see, the way you are supposed to play with an LMG is by lying down on the ground every time you see a guy, in order to deploy the bipod. Then you fire your loud as fuck gun loaded with neon tracer rounds at the enemy for a few seconds so it becomes accurate enough that your bullets will actually hit where you're aiming (in a shocking turn of events LMGs are actually inaccurate at the start and need to continuously fire in order to slowly become accurate), and then you kill the guy. Don't fire too long, though, because your weapon will overheat after 25 rounds. Not firing for a second obviously makes your gun inaccurate as fuck again.[/QUOTE] If you deploy your bipod, your LMG is accurate and recoilless from the get-go. Overheating happens after 40-45 or so rounds of continuous fire, which means some LMGs are even incapable of jamming because only the MG15 holds that much. So do you actually play support or nah

[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;50996820]I wish they'd give the field guns different types of shells. You could have the standard one, a canister shot, and maybe a gas round.[/QUOTE] Gas would be great, this game needs more gas in general. I really hope there's a map where random shelling of gas is part of the weather, that'd be really fun to fight in.

I can't decide whether I like the standard light tank or the howitzer variant more The standard has very little drop on the shells at mid range meaning you can snipe pretty well with it, and the canister shell is pretty good at close range, but you really have to moderate how fast you put out shells because of the ammo store limit The Howitzer variant on the other hand is never defenceless because of the HMG, which is particularly useful for quickly dealing with multiple enemies from different directions. The Howitzer itself I find more difficult to use than the standard's gun because the blast is still pretty small and the shell drop happens almost immediately, but amusingly it does almost twice as much damage (45 vs about 25) against vehicles compared to other AT guns. Also, the smoke screen is borderline overpowered with how fast it recharges. I really don't get the autocannon version, the fast reload is nice but that's about it. You're sacrificing much of your defence against tanks and the autocannon isn't amazingly better against infantry than the Howitzer variant's HMG which has longer bursts

[QUOTE=Altimor;50996720]They should remove unlocks entirely and make everyone start with everything.[/QUOTE] A lot of people would feel like they have no reason to play anymore, including me. i like progression.

[QUOTE=redBadger;50996060]so apparently my issue was a simple port forwarding solution. god damnit. waste of 2 days[/QUOTE] Update: back to square 1. Apparently I was just lucky that one time

Am I the only one that hasn't had an issue with snipers? Generally they're covering areas that you really don't want to be pushing across alone anyway and there is loads and loads of cover in the map.

My main issue with snipers is 99% of the time they don't give a shit about the objectives, they're just trying to rack up kills for their k/d, so when the team fills up with snipers you inevitably lose

are servers down again tho maybe that's it

I learned the OP way to win the game now. Attack plane with the cannon rather than machine guns. GG it's over Infantry, Tanks, Planes, Bombers, nothing stands a chance except the dumb train

yep, still can't play. this is fucking ridiculous. no solution in sight.