BF 2042 Practice/Test Range
[Repost from BF General Discussion Forum] A leading indicator to me on whether BF2042 will be a critical success is the humble Practice Range. BF5 lacked a PR at launch and the one that was subseque...
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@OskooI_007 I mean no disrespect when I say this because I know you were coming from a good place but I fear the devs may be thinking like this and I truly hope that is not the case.
I am not a Battlefront 2 player but from the research I have done it appears you can do an Instant Action mode which is basically single player vs bots which sounds similar to what is being planned here. However it only has two AI difficulty modes: Normal and Elite. No option for NULL AI (AKA just bots that stand still) which is needed to be able to conduct tests and accumulate damage statistics.
Just in case anyone is having difficulty conceptualizing this, imagine trying to test heli rocket damage vs a tank only to have the AI blow up you or your tank while doing so.
While being able to *practice* against active bots is undeniably a great thing and something I fully support it doesn't fulfill the requirements for *testing* with bots which is distinct task. Fortunately this should be dead easy to implement - just a simple toggle switch in the options screen that allows you to initiate an AI
Separately, I do hope that there will indeed be an option to keep bots out of MP for those that want that.
I am not a Battlefront 2 player but from the research I have done it appears you can do an Instant Action mode which is basically single player vs bots which sounds similar to what is being planned here. However it only has two AI difficulty modes: Normal and Elite. No option for NULL AI (AKA just bots that stand still) which is needed to be able to conduct tests and accumulate damage statistics.
Just in case anyone is having difficulty conceptualizing this, imagine trying to test heli rocket damage vs a tank only to have the AI blow up you or your tank while doing so.
While being able to *practice* against active bots is undeniably a great thing and something I fully support it doesn't fulfill the requirements for *testing* with bots which is distinct task. Fortunately this should be dead easy to implement - just a simple toggle switch in the options screen that allows you to initiate an AI
Separately, I do hope that there will indeed be an option to keep bots out of MP for those that want that.
@rainkloud wrote:
@OskooI_007I mean no disrespect when I say this because I know you were coming from a good place but I fear the devs may be thinking like this and I truly hope that is not the case.
I am not a Battlefront 2 player but from the research I have done it appears you can do an Instant Action mode which is basically single player vs bots which sounds similar to what is being planned here. However it only has two AI difficulty modes: Normal and Elite. No option for NULL AI (AKA just bots that stand still) which is needed to be able to conduct tests and accumulate damage statistics.
Just in case anyone is having difficulty conceptualizing this, imagine trying to test heli rocket damage vs a tank only to have the AI blow up you or your tank while doing so.
While being able to *practice* against active bots is undeniably a great thing and something I fully support it doesn't fulfill the requirements for *testing* with bots which is distinct task. Fortunately this should be dead easy to implement - just a simple toggle switch in the options screen that allows you to initiate an AI
Separately, I do hope that there will indeed be an option to keep bots out of MP for those that want that.
Indeed @rainkloud ,
As @OskooI_007 hints towards, then I am of the strong opinion also that the BF2042 Portal should be able to do most of what you have on your great wish list there for us!
And that would include specifying no AI Soldiers to join in. For testing various weapons and vehicles, and potential ammo damage effects, then you dont really care about of the Portal game experience that you set up for your private server there is ranked or not. And if going for the unranked, then I think we are OK to specify zero AI soldiers and aka 4 players in total max. Yes also to make it private, so only the players you want to join the testing fun will be able to do so.
All while checking on that all weapons and all vehicles are allowed onto the game setting. Put the ticket counter high, the ticket bleed low and the timeout value at like 400% and you will have a nice test environment for yourself for like 3+ hours. 🙂
Only thing you will not have is the time stop/start button, which I agree with you could be a very cool and helpful feature to add to it. But realistically that is probably too much pure test benchmark purpose and therefore probably not fitting into the higher overarching main purpose of the Portal environment.
I for one, would be happy to set up such testing servers, where only a select few can join at any point of time. It would be the ultimate learning environment to at least get all the basics well versed before aka. grapping the control stick in the heli in a real MP game and risking repeatedly crashing with all your buddies on board. So count me in!
