My thoughts on the game after a year.

Hello, Some of you may know me from my earlier posts. 

TL;DR I love battlefield but I’m tired of being being treated as a second class citizen just because I want to play solo mode occasionally. 
Also how is it fair boosting servers have full xp, but completely normal rules gameplay with literally only ai backfill is heavily frowned upon.

I hope they didn’t come a cross as just complaining, But rather as constructive criticism for a series I adore and has been with me for most if not all of my adult life so far. 

Like most of us. I was really excited when I saw the marketing for 2042. Even more so for portal. 
and the thing that really excited me was ai back fill. I was like: “Finnaly no more empty servers again.”

When they promised that you wouldn’t have to worry about not having progression on portal. That really made want to get the game. 

But we all know how that turned out. I tried to live with it. I really don’t care about T1 or anything. 
I just wanted to play portal, and not be interrupted. It was just normal rules legacy games. But apparently I’m not playing battlefield correctly and deserved to be punished because I didn’t want to wait around in an empty server for who knows how long waiting for a server to fill up, or if it even would. 

The thing that was the kicker was the Zombie mode they featured a short while after the game launched. I won’t lie that was a slap in the face to all of this. The first real. You play the game how you want to or not at all. After a bit of getting over my initial frustration. I played the heck out of the Zombie mode to get back some of that lost progress. Even got a few T1’s.

So after it was removed, I deleted the game, after forcing my self for a while, the first month or too if I remember right, even tried to get a refund for the gold edition, but it was denied.

I heard the BP was delayed, so I Just went to other games. After that some time passed and season one dropped.

I thought to myself I better at least try to get some of my money’s worth by playing at again since the update.

I downloaded it again and joined a solo server to catch up on some new stuff, but much to my dismay no BP progress in solo. Minus Xp only, but that was meaningless once you got up on the Higher tiers.

The absolute Kicker of Season one was The EMP servers that came around the end of the season. Full exp and everything.

Again how was that fair that these people could get upwards of Five hundred thousand XP a round okay; by just standing at a spot in them map throwing grenades at each other. But I’m not allowed to play Normal rules battlefield. But with just ai. I mean I finished the BP but still. It went back to the play it how I want you to or else rule.

Season two rolled around and the cycle repeated. I liked Crawford and stranded actually, but I only played the season a bit. Especially when Conquest of Ages came around. I don’t think I even finished the BP for that season. Maybe around tier fourth to fifty.

And what do you know the emp servers returned. Near the end of the season.

I reinstalled for season three, and I’m liking it so far, but it’s the same old stuff. Can’t progress my BP in solo, but can in empty and boosting servers.

Honestly I’m getting tired of Battlefield 2042, at this point. I’m a patient and forgiving person.

But I’m about finished with being told you have have to play in this way other the other, or you can forget about working toward that Battle pass.

I’m not just talking about solo mode or portal with ai backfill. Yes that would me my perfect scenario. To be able to just chill on Bf3, bc2 portal, and be able to complete the weekly’s. Before you say, Oh you just want to farm Xp. No that’s not it. The system is completely broken.

There are so many Xp farm/boost.  servers in portal that get full Xp, Yet it’s not allowed to have a Normal rules. Where nothing is modified other than AI back fill, so I don’t have to play on an empty server. How is that even fair?

This was the whole reason for Xp being limited in the first place. Heck you can even get full Xp on an empty server. But as soon as you add ai. You’re punished.

If Xp has to be restricted. It should only be for the Rules Editor.

It’s like prohibition here. (For you non Americans. It was the time in the 1920’s where the government made alcohol illegal, but it was pretty much pointless as everyone still was being able to get ahold of it)

But Besides Ai Xp being it’s own topic. I don’t mind playing PvP. I’ve been playing bf since 3.

You’re essentially forced to play with cross play on. Even with the free play days and it being on Gamepass. I still couldn’t find a Cross play off game.

It’s such an easy fix too.

The Setting for CP off games could just remove the player count to start in AOW to be like Portal. Where One player can start a server.

Honestly I’d be Happy with just this.

I mean wasn’t that the sole reason for the AI backfill being implemented for?

But I’m just Tired how being told you can only play this or no Xp for you.

The fact that these are such simple changes only further frustrate me.

Im not asking for a complete rebuilding of the game or anything. Just some changes to how the game starts.

Thanks for reading. I’m not really much of a journal person, but I guess I just wanted to write my thoughts out today. I hope we can make a meaningful discussion out of this. Thanks a lot if you read this far.