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CyberDyme's avatar
3 years ago

The next Battlefield - A modern remake of everything BF4!

Instead of spending more time or resources of any kind on BF2042 after the last season 4 drops, then I sincerely hope all EA/DICE resources/time/money instead will go to making a next Battlefield game that truly brings us back to 'the good old classic Battlefield' environment and look & feel.

And not just to make it 'easy' for the game designers and the developer team, but also because I truly think it would be what a large majority of the still existing (old romantic legacy) BF fans out there truly so long for...   But my strong proposal would simply be:

A modern remake of all and everything in BF4 - It would be a big winner for EA/DICE!

And when I say 'modern', I dont mean they need to add super heros or laser beam weapons to it.  No.  Absolutely and exactly not!

A modern remake should keep all we had in the old original BF4, of soldier classes, weapons, gadgets, vehicles, maps, server browser, persistent community-run servers, clans, team and squad functions, spectator mode, etc etc.  But the modern part would simply be aka:

  • Increase server tick rate
  • Increase screen resolution
  • Add proximity sound (so soldiers in same vehicle could chat directly, but also so you can hear nearby enemies chatting in close quarter combat situations) 
  • Add cross platform function, so players can opt-in to which platforms they agree to crossplay with.  This should include by player input method.  (mnk vs mnk or controller vs controller players)
  • Increase ease of reporting cheaters direct from within game and truly getting them permanently banned and in timely fashion.  Community-run persistent servers are still probably the best insurance for this, but still blatant glitchers etc ought to be widely BF-banned by EA DICE, so they cannot just go on to another server and repeat their misdeeds.

27 Replies

  • GrizzGolf's avatar
    GrizzGolf
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    That would be amazing.

    I hope they add portal as well. 

  • ArchAngeL-PCX's avatar
    ArchAngeL-PCX
    3 years ago
    @UP_LordPlumber Stodeh is also playing COD DMZ.

    I think if the next BF is truly a return to form, then these influencers will come back. By then they might have also had their fill of COD.
  • @cso7777 @Tank2042Man If they did that, I think they should have started with the Bad Company characters. Bring those guys back and maybe remaster Bad Company so we can play the single player to get context. That wasn't on PC right?

  • Overall, I think its a good idea.  But I do agree with some posters that BF4 is still playable online...very playable.  You'll have no trouble finding games on both PC and Playstation.  Not sure about Xbox.

    But a return to Modern Warfare overall is a great idea with the following:

    • Vehicles on the map
    • Map design similar to BF4 or even the new maps like Exposure and Spearhead.
    • Game launches with 8-10 maps, maybe 1 or 2 ported from BF4.
    • Seasons will have at least 2 maps if not as many as 4.
    • They could have a fan poll to see what are the most popular maps from BF4 and run seasons where they add those maps
    • Modernize the shooting mechanics, since BF4 is from way back in the twitch ADS shooting era pioneered by COD4

    In essense, follow the BF4 pattern overall without repeating all the maps.

  • NazT55's avatar
    NazT55
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    If anything they need to remake BF2!  BF4 is still too new for a remake.

  • BtheReaper49's avatar
    BtheReaper49
    Seasoned Veteran
    3 years ago

    @CyberDymeYou have some great ideas and I think this would be fantastic but I also think Dice would just screw it up.  In order to have a proper BF4 remaster I would want the movement, gameplay and gunplay to be fairly similar and I think there's no chance of that happening.  Look at Portal.  Everyone got all excited for the possibilities of older maps (including myself) but then we had to play them with BF2042 assets and gameplay style.  Yuck.  

    Starting with BF5 and continuing with BF2042 they've gone all hyper, spazzy movement with lightning fast TTD/instadeath that caters to the Twitch and YouTube streamers. Personally I can't stand this style of gameplay.  Heck I can't even think of a fun, back & forth gunplay engagement I've had with an enemy in BF2042.  And they weren't that great in BF5 either.  I used to have those type of engagements in BF4 and BF1 and it made those games a lot of fun to play.  Not anymore.  It's strictly see an enemy and die.

    In order for there to be a proper remake of BF4 they'd have to go back and recreate that gamestyle.  Sure it invokes nostalgia and those memories of the great times in the older games help us cope and soothe the pain that comes along with playing BF2042.  But I don't think Dice is interested in bringing us back to the old days.  They're more focused on their live service (two failures in a row there) and microtransactions than they are with making a great game like we used to have.

    For the next game I'm at least hoping for something similar to BF4 in terms of better maps with a grittier gamestyle and more interactive gunplay but I'm not holding my breath.  Until then I'll continue playing the older games (and Hell Let Loose) 🙂.

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