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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- @ChrisAWJBethel they can't even get their * together and include voip and a scoreboard in a reasonable amount of time (like before launch) and you want client side portal bots?
they have more important things to do
- @Psubond Yes. They mave the money, manpower, and technology to do so. And I want offline bots in EVERY mode, not just Portal.
- @Psubond Like what?
@ChrisAWJBethel wrote:
@PsubondYes. They mave the money, manpower, and technology to do so. And I want offline bots in EVERY mode, not just Portal.You don't get it. There is no offline mode in BF2042 period. You cannot play Portal offline. EVERYTHING is played on EA hosted servers at this point. There are no rental servers and there are no offline / local options either.
Any Portal Experience you create on the Portal website (which is the only way you can create them) is hosted on EA servers.
Now, if your issue is the fact that there are no offline options that's one thing, but understand that the option does not currently in exist in portal or otherwise.
From my experience, portal is a non-entity. Any time I've gone into it, the server browser shows half a dozen or less servers populated with one or two players. So essentially there's nothing there. This is my experience since release.
I can understand people's enthusiasm for it as a concept, that it could be something brilliant. But the current reality is anything but. And I can't see how it goes from nothing to a vibrant community from where it is now. It's in a chicken-egg, lack of critical mass kind of situation.
Maybe I've missed something and others have had different experiences but I'm scratching my head why people are talking about it as being the saving grace of bf2042.
@FatherDed wrote:From my experience, portal is a non-entity. Any time I've gone into it, the server browser shows half a dozen or less servers populated with one or two players. So essentially there's nothing there. This is my experience since release.
I can understand people's enthusiasm for it as a concept, that it could be something brilliant. But the current reality is anything but. And I can't see how it goes from nothing to a vibrant community from where it is now. It's in a chicken-egg, lack of critical mass kind of situation.
Maybe I've missed something and others have had different experiences but I'm scratching my head why people are talking about it as being the saving grace of bf2042.
That has been my experience too, I feel Portal is a bit of a ghost town.
A few hardcore servers and as you say a couple of servers with 1 or 2 players that never fill up.
Like many others I had great hopes for Portal and thought it had great potential, unfortunately in reality it is dead in the water.
It would take a lot to turn Portal into the go to place for the masses and sadly t will probably only serve a niche market looking for a custom experience.
No one plays Portal which is a shame.
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.
@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.
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