@TankerFlanker wrote:I know I'm not the only one, I will be playing the open beta still of course and I can't wait for that. And I hope it feels just like BF3/BF4, I know a lot of people like BFV but I personally hope this will not turn out be BFV 2.0 I wanted Battlefield to return to it's roots and it's seeming less likely that it's doing that from new info I'm finding out about it.
I am still hyped for it, but a lot of stuff sounds like they're chasing the CoD fan base and the one Battlefield has could not be more different.
Agreed @TankerFlanker ,
Some of the latest add-ons from EA Marketing have been a bit murky at best...
Like, why did they simply not just allow players to decide the crossplay filtering themselves? It shouldn't just have been all in or nothing at all.
If we on PS5 wanted/desired to play together with friends on Xbox, but not with PC players, then why shouldn't we have that option available to do so?
Now they confirmed that we do not...
And for the licensing model and the specialists, why have they not yet come out clear on this? Is it really pay-to-win and we need to buy all 4 full seasons to get all the 16 specialists and all their perks/gadgets? COD for sure and the mix of gadgets, as we have like no classes anymore, more like a special ability... The winning team in the past was the ones better in picking the most optimal classes and mix of classes for the team at certain points in the gameplay. Now all players will flock to the specialist and loadout that is the most OP combination, just like in COD and WarZone with limited variation. The soldier classes is actually for me one of the most important features in the past games and what makes Battlefield stand out versus COD and others!
And yes, battlefield is famous for the gameplay levolution. But I am not buying this game because of the tornado animation. Sure it will be fun the first 10 times to be sucked up and into wearing your wingsuit. But its sure as hell not like silly annoying sandstorms and game destroying tornados are going to make us sit in awe 6 months from now, when we see them in every single round we play. And they totally tear everything apart and its random who will come out as winner after the turmoil... That is not a fun part, as if its game destroying. Any levolution should add something special strategically for us to play with/decide on to do or not. Like in Shanghai map, should we take down the skyscraper as the enemy team appear to dominate us there?! (great really! ...though then EA left the map near unplayable for many after that event, as the dust kept flowing in the air for the reminder of the match... not so cool that part as not needed...more an annoyance than adding to the game fun)
Why didnt EA allow us to filter if we want to play in the game with or without the AI bots?
The functionality for the bots is there. Its technically quite simple to enable/disable a function you already have in the 'full version', so why not allow us that freedom and personal choice?
I dont really care much about how many bots i shoot down. I care about the other real people players that I play with or against in the game.
Battlefield is supposed to be the true sandbox experience and not like lining up for a tasteless repetitive pre-cooked dinner...
@CyberDymeMan I usually always agree completely with what you say especially this part
"Like, why did they simply not just allow players to decide the crossplay filtering themselves? It shouldn't just have been all in or nothing at all.
If we on PS5 wanted/desired to play together with friends on Xbox, but not with PC players, then why shouldn't we have that option available to do so?
Now they confirmed that we do not"
I think it's very dumb it's not an option there is a few Xbox players I would like to play with, but I know they damn well don't want to play with PC players either like myself, there SHOULD and NEEDS to be a consoles only option without PC because I and many others I know will definitely choose that option. I have no idea why DICE would cater to the player base that will for sure cause problems for the consoles player base like you said for Apex and Warzone.
And yeah I'm sure there will be a specialist meta, as I saw someone else say everyone will be an assault with a wingsuit or grappling hook, and vehicles will be destroyed instantaneously probably as well.
We do know that everything game play related is free for everyone so specialists will not be pay to win.
Metas have always existed so new ones with specialists will be nothing new.
Whilst there are some 'concerns, until we play the beta, they are purely speculative though. I just hope it isn't another BFV hardcore lite game.
Apparant lack of console only crossplay is annoying though......
@Trokey66With BFV’s failure I’m surprised they haven’t focused on telling us why the core gameplay for this new game is different.
I’m still concerned that the ghost of BFV may be all too present in BF2042.
@TankerFlankerYeah its a serious oversight not to have a cross play system just for console vs console.
And you raise a great point about the specialist meta. I didn't even think about this until reading that, but Google "Planetside 2 C4 Fairy" lol Light assault in Planetside 2 had jetpacks, could load out with C4, and well...you can imagine the result. Nothing worse than being in a tank and spotting one of these guys flying at you. Its why most tankers on PS4 would run with an infantry proximity radar and HE for a main gun. Even then, you often had to rely on a secondary gunner to take out the light assault or just flat run away if you couldn't get a clean hit on him.
Too often though, you'd be engaged with other armor only to immediately blow up after one of these guys uses the distraction to fly over you. So you learn to keep checking proximity radar. It was a total pain.
I REALLY don't want to see this happen in BF2042.
Check this video for a preview of what I'm talking about:
Planetside 2 - Light assault C4 compilation - YouTube
