After several days of reading about how bad the new Tactical Conquest mode was I didn't even bother to login yesterday.All I've read on reddit and also here put me off even trying it.Well today, Sunday in Australia I decided I'd jump on to see for myself and what do you know.It's really good.Map size is good, not too small, not too big and the delay between each round is significantly shorter than the main Conquest mode in AOW which had been achieved by doing away with the 45 second countdown and end of round top 3 and squad screen.Each match lasts on average about 10 minutes.Gameplay is solid. Pure infantry play minus the chaos of breakthrough chokepoints nonsense.The pace is definitely a lot slower than the regular modes and you really do get a sense you are playing a serious tactical shooter game.All in all a great change of pace and I'm really looking forward to 16 vs 16 to see how that changes it up.Hope the player numbers are good to encourage Dice to build on this mode in 2042 or in the next battlefield.

Be tactical and use insertion beacons.

Tactical Conquest: Try it before you buy into the negative narrative.

23 Replies

Trokey66
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Tank2042Man That's the problem with this 'community', it's BF2042 so must be bad even though it is pretty much Domination from previous games and plays much the same.

But hey, what can you do.....
Ne0tax
3 years ago
People are nowadays no longer able to form their own opinion.
In the reddit of BF you can no longer post anything that is positive, the people who do not even play down voting everything and the hatetrain is always at the start.
Adamonic
3 years ago
The problem for me is not the game mode concept, the maps, etc. It is the game performance, that is already terrible, with 45Hz Tick Rate servers, terrible hit registration, lag comp, and TTKvTTD issues, which makes this game mode accentuate just how bad this game is. I am already insta-killed when an enemy just looks at me. Now that doesn't even happen. I just die. If I try to get a shot off, the mouse input is so bad, my weapon doesn't fire.
Tactical Conquest, yeah, ok, it's just a slightly bigger Domination. I am fine with the game mode. Smaller maps, cool. However, they are the same maps. How about bringing back some of the best legacy Domination maps exclusively for this game mode? Nope, we will just reuse the same maps AGAIN.
We have had featured modes that were better and more creative than this, but to have an entire limited-time event centered around this game mode and almost exclusively paywalled cosmetics is a pretty lame event.
It is great to see some enjoying, but I had literally the exact opposite effect. It made me not want to play ANY games. My experience was that bad.
X-Sunslayer-X
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
the issue is more how lazy the mode is designed....
this is DICEs first "live-service" event and we get a storepile of exclusive skins worth 60€/$, a rehash of modes we used to get as part of the packaged deal and an abysmal balance system where teams are frequently stacked in 8v5 or even worse....
it is just a bare minimum effort addition and is getting called out rightly so for what it is nothing spectecular that was advertised in a manner that led many to believe they can earn all the skins from teh promotional material....
now they need to buy the game a 2nd time again if they want these skins... EA knows that they have users who are more then willing to pay that amount of money and some of them might have legitimate spending issues and are getting exploited yet again by in game transactions
SleepyWeasel68
3 years ago
I’ve played it. I couldn’t get out of the spawn.
PapaDrach
3 years ago
I did. It sucks. Its lazy, cash grab, and quite frankly way worse than the BFV Tactical option game mode.
Tank2042Man
3 years ago
@SleepyWeasel68 Try it again. Sometimes if you lose all 3 flags you will have to fight it out to grab the flag but on the wider maps like caspian and breakaway it's easy to flank to the rear flag.
Man_iLoveFishing
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Tank2042Man I tried few times, basically if you get potato team, no chance and then spawnkill begins.
UP_Hawxxeye
Legend
3 years ago
The problem my clan has with it is that we get scattered between the two teams between rounds, even if we are on the same party and squad.
Also it becomes a spawn trap too easily
Otherwise it can be really fun.
Tank2042Man
3 years ago
@PapaDrach wrote:
I did. It sucks. Its lazy, cash grab, and quite frankly way worse than the BFV Tactical option game mode.
BFV Tactical Conquest and Strategic Conquest were just playlists using the same maps in the game with no changes to the map.
I'm guessing you barely played BFV if you didn't know that.