Honestly everyone in Battlefield 1 is sick of bright blinding fog glaring like the sun, making you unable to see 5 meters, or rough stormy weather (Empires Edge).What's with BF2042 throwing storms at us on EVERY map and EVERY round? Is it THAT HARD to just let us play a shooting game? Seriously?Stop spending hours on producing this nonsense in future BF titles. We want a war-like shooting game. Make beautiful MILD weather ambience, let us shoot players, and give us a server browser, squad management, admin controls and persistent servers, ffs.Edit Note: I'm talking about extreme events. Mild weather immersion is nice.

@0_Katsui wrote:Honestly everyone in Battlefield 1 is sick of bright blinding fog glaring like the sun, making you unable to see 5 meters, or rough stormy weather (Empires Edge).What's with BF2042 throwing storms at us on EVERY map and EVERY round? Is it THAT HARD to just let us play a shooting game? Seriously?Stop spending hours on producing this nonsense in future BF titles. We want a war-like shooting game. Make beautiful MILD weather ambience, let us shoot players, and give us a server browser, squad management, admin controls and persistent servers, ffs.100% this, concentrate on getting the basics / essentials right. 👍

@0_KatsuiI could not agree more!

@Anobix I agree it's just an annoyance and doesn't "add" anything to the match.

@FlibberMeister wrote:I actually want more weather effects. Though I understand why excessive glare is annoying. I think they could be okay, if they were rare or actually made a noticeable difference. At the moment they are just a nuisance. They don't change the battlefield at all, no buildings collapse, gashes in terrain, etc. it's just something that messes with your UI and maybe pulls you into the sky if you don't lay down or hide in a building. But the randomness of it and the location can completely screw up a round of breakthrough when it goes over a defending point or whatever and just messes it up.

@Syveii wrote:@0_Katsuithe weather is a good thing tbh lol. i love the tornado it helps me the cross the map faster.Sounds like you'd prefer better gameplay instead of tornadoes, so that you dont have to cross the map.Weather can be beautiful; there's immersion etc. BF1's Prise, Soissons and Neville demonstrate that.Tornadoes are immersion breaking nonsense that forcefeed you static audio through an otherwise silent device, fritz up your screen as if your vision is via satellite feed, and stomp right through your central combat zone 100% of rounds just to ensure that whatever you were doing is interrupted. It's also always through the winning team's lines unless miscalculated - breakthrough makes that quite clear, as to whether it targets defense or attack, so there's a soft-incorporated behemoth.Came for a first-person shooter and war-zone ambience. Got repetitive scripted environmental propoganda instead. Sick of fog, tornadoes, storms, and other repetitive extreme frequency bs that ruins what the games audience actually wants.

Delete "Storms", "Fog", "Extreme Weather" from future BF's.

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SleepyWeasel68
3 years ago
@0_Katsui wrote:
Edit Note: I'm talking about extreme events. Mild weather immersion is nice.
I don’t mind the wind and rain but the tornado on every map gets old. Stranded and Kaleidoscope would be excellent with Levolution, but I think it would be hard for the devs so they won’t. I would love to see skyscrapers fall in Kaleidoscope, but these are the same guys that can’t get us to the tops of the buildings on one side of the map.
Tank2042Man
3 years ago
@tom_looken wrote:
@0_KatsuiYour forgot on renewal the gates close making you run 4 miles and having 0 way of getting a vehicle from one side to the other side unless you destroy it then redeploy it on the other side.

You team doing a good job defending c well the gates just closed time for gernade fest/death and flag loss.
One of the doors stays open during the storm so you can still cross to the other side of the map in your vehicle. On 64 player the open door is far left looking from US home base.
PapaDrach
3 years ago
Disagree. Having different patterns of day, storms, etc are fine. However when you have a HUGE map like Hourglass and the sandstorm kills visibility past what, 50m? Then that's just not worth to have from a gameplay perspective. Tornados are just a waste of resources and very underwhelming. More annoying than anything.
Tank2042Man
3 years ago
@0_Katsui wrote:
@Tank2042Man wrote:
Hopefully in a future battlefield we will see a wildfire extreme weather event moving through a forest into an urban area.
Right? Can't wait to either be burned alive, or forced out of cover into enemy gunfire on 80% of matches.
Maybe we should just play musical chairs where we take turns moving while the other aims.
Who needs strategy, teamwork, skill and tactics when we can just delete all of that and blanket over it with RNG instead?
Lol, you people are so negative!
You ask for gritty and realistic and you complain about realistic weather and real world extreme weather events that the entire concept of 2042 was marketed on.
Maybe it's time for you guys to switch to Nintendo's Animal Crossing.
Anobix
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Tank2042Man wrote:
@0_Katsui wrote:
@Tank2042Man wrote:
Hopefully in a future battlefield we will see a wildfire extreme weather event moving through a forest into an urban area.
Right? Can't wait to either be burned alive, or forced out of cover into enemy gunfire on 80% of matches.
Maybe we should just play musical chairs where we take turns moving while the other aims.
Who needs strategy, teamwork, skill and tactics when we can just delete all of that and blanket over it with RNG instead?
Lol, you people are so negative!
You ask for gritty and realistic and you complain about realistic weather and real world extreme weather events that the entire concept of 2042 was marketed on.
Maybe it's time for you guys to switch to Nintendo's Animal Crossing.
A tornado in almost every match isn't realistic. And if they wanted it to be realistic, it needs to actually affect the battlefield. At the moment it is a nuisance.
cso7777
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I still remember BF1, playing half a match in heavy fog with almost no visibility and things like getting bombed by invisible heavy bombers (/arty trucks), when capping an objective, was the pinnacle of fun...
Things that distract from PTFO'ing (extreme weather, overpowered vehicles and other 'gimmicks' ) are what destroys the fun of playing the games in the long run. While it may be fun firing a cruise missile, being on the receiving end, gets old pretty fast.
0_Katsui
3 years ago
@PapaDrach wrote:
Disagree. Having different patterns of day, storms, etc are fine. However when you have a HUGE map like Hourglass and the sandstorm kills visibility past what, 50m? Then that's just not worth to have from a gameplay perspective. Tornados are just a waste of resources and very underwhelming. More annoying than anything.
So you agree then. That's exactly what the original post says.
Try fog like in BF1. BF2042's sandstorm visibility is a literal 10x improvement to BF1's fog.
@Tank2042Man
Lol, you people are so negative!
You ask for gritty and realistic and you complain about realistic weather and real world extreme weather events that the entire concept of 2042 was marketed on.
Maybe it's time for you guys to switch to Nintendo's Animal Crossing.
Which universe does a gritty realistic battlefield contain a 100% chance of extreme weather event? Is the region having tornadoes rip through every 15 minutes? That's what you're calling realistic?
"entire concept of 2042 was marketed on" - so the game is an environmental catastrophe sim, not a first person shooter?
I recall in the marketing, specifically hearing that STORMS WOULD BE RARE, and feeling relief after Bf1's fog which can last 80% of a match and FULLY blind you past 5-10 meters.
We want to play an FPS, not have a tornado rip us around. Letting us properly play the game's genre and enjoy future games isn't a bad suggestion. But hey, if Animal Crossing will provide better FPS content, why not I guess.
wrote:
I don’t mind the wind and rain but the tornado on every map gets old.
That's the full reason for this post 😉
RetroBitPixel
Rising Adventurer
3 years ago
I actually like the dynamic weather a lot especially the sandstorm on hourglass but things like tornados nah.. but ye I remember the sun in BF1 was extremely annoying tho it needs to be properly balanced. I hope we get to see more extreme weather conditions that changes the gameplay a bit in future titles as long as it doesn't happen every single match. I truly hope one day we get maps with different times of day or maybe even a dynamic system for that if the matches are long enough.
Noodlesocks
3 years ago
@IzEagle wrote:
@0_KatsuiI like the dynamic weather change in BF V and generally its good to have a dynamic environment in battleground. But for 2042 I agree that unfortunately storms didn't add anything to joy of playing.
I did not mind it in Battlefield 5 because the extreme weather was rare. Most of the time it was just sunny, overcast or slightly rainy. Kept it a novelty without overstaying it's welcome.
That being said, I would rather extreme weather just didn't exist because it is just a silly gameplay inhibiting gimmick.
RayD_O1
Hero
3 years ago
@Noodlesocks
Imho fog, wind and rain can add atmosphere to a round, the tornado on the other hand is as you say gimmicky.

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