Hey folks. I'm a longtime Battlefield player (since BF4), 57 years old, never been very good at the game in terms of killing but I love BF because of the team and support aspects. Out of curiosity I reloaded BF2042 and started trying to get back into it, and, well...I'm struggling.Here's the deal. I like to run and gun and aggressively play objective offense and defense, mostly as infantry, but I am total garbage at it. I haven't messed with much in the way of FPSes for over a year now so I'm rusty as hell (and that layer of rust basically only covers more rust). I'm trying to get back into the game playing Angel and throwing ammo like it's going out of style and that's OK, but I'm dying ridiculous amounts. Feels like every time I stick my head up I'm getting taken down almost instantly. I don't think it's the game, I just think I've lost whatever touch I may have had for playing 128-player Conquest. I haven't unlocked a lot of the weapons that are locked behind achievements and accomplishments (since I haven't played since, like, uh, S2?) so I'm using things like the K30 and SFAR-GL and getting mollywhopped. Oh, and I don't have a squad or platoon or group to play with in 2042. I do in BF4 but they stick to that pretty much.Anybody got any advice for a casual, bottom-percentile player to get back into BF2042 and have some fun? Nopats or weapons that are particularly easy/forgiving to use while I get my BF legs back under me? Things to avoid? Game modes to avoid (64 vs. 128? Conquest, Rush, TDM)?Performance wise the game feels a lot better since the last time I played, and I want to get back into it (and BF4) at least a little bit. Thanks.

@AOD_moose004You are spotted a large portion of the time, move with your team don't get too far ahead and stay moving a moving target is hard to hit. If you're in a squad stay with it "Unless he's a bush wookie". Don't res to quickly a lot of time a teammate will come along and revive you " Unless your surrounded by enemy then by all means release". Move from cover to cover "Cover is your friend."All I got.

@AOD_moose004Why do you “run and gun aggressively” when you in your own words are garbage at it?Play Breakthrough on Redacted and stay in 2nd row, i,e, be the guy in the row behind those pushing and help your team from there.Learn how to handle your weapon’s recoil by shooting at the walls on Redacted. Bullet holes show you where you hit. Imagine there’s an enemy at a certain spot on the wall, then try to hit it as quickly as possible with bullets sitting as tightly together as possible.Easy gun for close quarter combat: PBX-45.Easy gun for medium to long range: RM68.Weapon stats: Google for “Sorrow’s weapon scribbles”

@AOD_moose004@AOD_moose004If you want to run and gun, use SMGs. They recover from sprinting the fastest. The K30 is still a good choice, you just need to be using it at the right range (<30m)Don't use Angel, he doesn't give armor anymore. Use Falck with an ammo box. Falck can heal herself by shooting at where she's walking, at her feet - the syringes turn into one time use medkits when on the ground that can be used by walking over them. The ammo box gives rockets, whereas Angel's packs do not. It also instantly replenishes your grenade and a grenade for your equipped underbarrel launcher. If you want a buddy, find a half-decent engineer (hopefully a squadmate) and start throwing ammo boxes at him. Works pretty well.I would suggest playing the 64p modes, they're less chaotic (generally).

@Lady_One and if it's going into very close combat, rank up the 12m with the drum mag, short barrel and laser sight and use that hipfire, it's brutal in small areas or in breakthrough/rush in narrow areas as long as you don't get swarmed. I like mackay for the armour & movement, and Paik because of her 'wallhack' in places people are smoke spamming you can see where people are and obliterate them.

@AOD_moose004 Hey buddy welcome back. It’s just a really fast paced game and has a steep learning curve. Practice / just playing will help. The game still suffers from server issues and network connection compensation. If you’re in a round where you need half a mag to get a kill yet get snapped in a short burst just quit that round and try again. You’ll find that sometime it’ll feel great, and others where you just can’t win. That sums up 2042 unfortunately. The lack of a server browser still leaves you to the whims of the AMS servers and at 45hz with all the other issues mentioned makes for a sketchy experience. Sorry if I’m not selling 2042 well, I’m just sharing the straight goods eh!

Need opinions on getting back into the game after 18 months

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AOD_moose004
2 years ago
First of all, thanks @ATFGunr for the awesome tip on Portal. I unlocked several more guns in my Portal bot match and got some of the weekly Battle Pass stuff done too.
Then I went back into the land of Real Internet People and figured I'd try out Haven since I hadn't seen it yet and...hoo boy. It's a really cool map, but man, urban warfare.
Squads won't stick together and I end up on my own. I move, I die. I move slowly, I die slower. I don't move, I die from behind and don't actually contribute. Just endless Sundances and Borises with scatter grenades and sentry guns everywhere. Meta loadouts and level S200+. While I'm out here at level 75 with my newly-unlocked AKS-74U, which is positively antique in BF2042, because I dunno, maybe it was an heirloom in Mutti Falck's family from when her Papa Falck was with the East German border guards or something. But it's got wood on it, which makes it awesome no matter how crap it actually is.
Finding groups that stick together is almost impossible, and of course if you're by yourself in this game, you're messy messy roadkill. You might get one guy but there's always three more. The low point was when I was cowering...uh, strategically concealing myself...in a blown-up building and a Sundance came leaping in through the hole in the wall. I opened up first, got the first THREE FREAKING HITS WITH AN AKS-74U on her...and got deleted. Instantly. While she was jumping. Hack? Nah. Somebody with really good aim, and better reflexes than me.
But I'm not giving up, I'll keep poking away at it. It'll get better, maybe. It probably will, in fact. And if it doesn't, well, there's always the next Battlefield. Although if the past two have been any indication of how they'll treat an old broken-down part-time FPS gamer, I'm not optimistic.
Besides, going 4-14 on Haven still beats sitting through the all-day meetings I'm stuck in at work the next two days. :D
(Oh, found a Hardcore CQ64 server and tried it for a bit. Would've been better if I hadn't gotten stuck in a squad by myself. Oh well, at least I bookmarked it for later.)
ATFGunr
Legend
2 years ago
@AOD_moose004 Glad it worked out for ya! I think we are playing because the game has the bones to be good, and we keep hoping for that magical round where PFTO is a thing, network compensation is low, and we can have some fun. Those rounds happen… but man not as much as I’d like. Not nearly enough. You’ll get better, glad you’re having some fun Moose!
Lady_One
New Ace
2 years ago
@AOD_moose004 The AKS is not good, most portal guns are bad sadly. A good gun can make a massive difference. If you're not sure what's a portal gun - portal guns have only 2 magazines, regular and extended, and no different ammo types. Except the P90, which has no different mags, but it's still a portal gun. They're also all positioned below the regular weapons in the weapon select menu.

If you can do the weekly missions, you should be able to unlock the SCZ decently fast, which is a very good SMG.

I've also felt like haven can get a bit ridiculous with its terracing and the small windows people can randomly shoot out of to be honest. I've heard people say it's better on breakthrough.
CH34TC0D3
2 years ago
2042 is the worst game of the franchise. Wait until anti cheat comes to BFV in April.

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