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I'm awaiting an announcement about Mouse & Keyboard support for PS5, if it doesn't supports it then I will not buy the game. My PC won't support it and I am not upgrading purely for BF2042.
Honestly I was willing to pre-order, it looks very good, but I'm extremely disappointed by the decision to make it "always online". This is the deal breaker for me.
No offline mode for the bots = no purchase. Not now, not ever.
I got burned too many times already by "always online" games. Either crappy performance by busy servers or poor routing, or being locked out at launch because of overwhelmed servers, or problems with my ISP with so many people working from home these days/
"Always online" games are just not worth it.
It's not fun being locked out of the game when the servers are very busy. I have limited spare time at my disposal.
- 5 years ago
Forced crossplay with PC.
- 5 years ago
Im thinking that Ill get myself old bf 2 again. I was looking today at mods and some say RUSmarines mod is the best, not sure if that one has 127 bot support already. And supposedly it has over 110 maps, I wonder if just versions for various player amount.
In bf 2 grass was almost nonexistent so identifying enemies wasnt so difficult compared to say bf4. Newer oversaturation with colors, unrealistic depiction of fire itself is also rather jarring. (not that the old one was flawless by any means, it was a solid game) Bullets dont fly like medieval arrows as in bf 4 in many cases. That mod looks rather funny mainly for SP I guess. I might actually download that old game. More clarity on screen, weapon selection menu better, since you know what equipment you have as a whole, not just push numbers to discover. No healing on its own or repairs, stamina for non-endless need for speed edition of infantry movement. I would not have expected myself to really ever go back to older or by today, ancient titles. Not dependent whether they patch the game or not. Bf2 was very fun infantry-wise, tanks were not bad I suppose. (2 hits to tracks tank explodes or 1 hit somewhere else I didnt find out) Flight physics pretty much identical to modern games, but I guess still better executed, even though not comparable to bf42/vietnam in the gravity regard. After trying bf 3 and 4, the last modern era ones, compared to bf 2, I dont feel like they are really comparable. When you were close that grenade spam was atrocious to be sure.
And I'm for real, I wont have to be bugged about new 2042 unless the game gives at least the features like 42 and 2 did.
In old bf 42, vietnam, 2 , 2142 I did not require to log in online at all, yes, I didnt get the nice weaponry, but mods took care of it anyway. Obstructions didnt work out well.
So, I might look from time to time whether EA delivered on their promises. If not ? Too bad. Here they are trying to build hype for the next big thing, while I will be doing the last great thing from 16 years ago :P I wont be dependant on EA after I give them money (by preordering) on whether they decide to deliver. What I know is that I will spare myself the disappointment like being forced by them to be always watched like some criminal by constant logging in, or thats how peoples democracy somewhere probably looks like. If they dont want you offline with bots, well, it might be that such a game is only to be worth by playing for free. Is them spying on you not the price enough ? If not, then why trying to force online ? What is the point ? They wont tell. I can go back to old bf 2, but are console people really free to choose ? How are they set up ? It is always better from power perspective, that they are dependent on you more than you on them. This is what is at play. When you are totally dependent on somebody, they get to control you and you will not have control over yourself. They will decide. Same happens in larger scale like politics. Countries too dependent on another, not diversified find themselves in a subordinate position. This is not off topic, this is just taking the point to make people understand how real world works and that it is better when you are independent of whoever would like to sell you something. They gain no leverage over you. Like constant log in. You dont see what they do, but they see what you do. This is not a relationship of sovereign equals. They keep pushing and you either diversify your options like I, or you end up in total dependence in either a monopoly or a cartel. This is how you really do not want it to be. And I'm not singling out any company or basically entity here.
Cheers and bye 🙂
this is not spam, so next time you try to delete this very important post, be ashamed, I am not afraid of your bans for showing the people way out of your corporate greedy practices.
EA is trying to make me silent. Peoples democratic practices.
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