Portal Mode
So, in Portal Mode, do you need to play with real players at all? Or can you just have an all AI team and an all AI enemy team.
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@Kean_1111 wrote:My friends and I only bought BF2042 for Portal and planned on playing it only with our own group of friends. .....mostly PvE but also PvP against each other with bots filling in sometimes.
To that extent, it's been great. It fills a niche for us and gives us one more game to play together.
I had zero interest in the other changes they made to BF2042 and would have made a hard pass on this game hadn't been for Portal.
I'm not making any claims about what it means to other people but for us, it been well worth it. I had no illusions of what this game was going to offer and no real big disappointments either. It is what I thought it would be for the most part. The parts of BF2042 that I knew would suck still suck and those I was interested in are still interesting.
Glad to hear you are enjoying it and it suits your needs.
@RayD_O1 wrote:Glad to hear you are enjoying it and it suits your needs.
Yeah, I realize it's a narrow criteria but it does just that for us. We really have no interest in PvP in this current iteration / vision of BF. Had it borrowed heavily from aspects of earlier BF titles we loved and could appreciate (including a hardcore mode), it would be a different story.
Since the reveal, I had no expectations of what BF2042 would deliver and everything we had learned up to this point only helped solidify this new path EA / DICE were going. I had hopes Portal would possibly be much more popular than most anticipated but they killed that hope with their poor decision making after launch and lack of preparation prior.
Maybe they can still pull it off? ....I doubt it but who knows. I obviously want it to be more popular if for anything that EA / DICE continue to see the value in it and keep a focus on improving and adding to it. If not, it will still provide some entertainment for us until we move on to something different.
IW's MW2 will be out later this year and Activision is already seeing the sting with 2 iterations that didn't meet their expectations. Maybe IW will expend on the gameplay changes that brought a lot of people back to the franchise with MW2. It's still not BF but we had a few months of PvP fun with MW2019 while also playing other games.
If more in our group had PS5's, I'd likely be spending a heck of a lot more time in Hell Let Loose right now.
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