Yall really didnt like BFV?
This is the biggest surprise I have gotten comming to these forums. Out side of crashes my only gripe with BFV at launch was the ammo/health crates not showing on the maps when they got dropped.
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The game was fun and feels way more like a BF game than BF2042. However, I did not like the setting and the tone of the game.
Yes the other complaint was that it was meant to be a ww2 game and coming from bf1 which was pretty good at trying to be a ww1 game, bf5 decided to do a woke take on ww2 and this set the tone for the game. If I remember the one armed woman character in the trailer as being a catalyst for this type of thinking.
@ro7hbard wrote:Yes the other complaint was that it was meant to be a ww2 game and coming from bf1 which was pretty good at trying to be a ww1 game, bf5 decided to do a woke take on ww2 and this set the tone for the game. If I remember the one armed woman character in the trailer as being a catalyst for this type of thinking.
The bionic arm woman trailer with the fortnite main characters killed BFV pre-orders along with Dice PR coming out with woke comments.
Then when the game came out, the shift towards a more hardcore style with less ammo, non regen health and no 3D spot with soldiers blending into the backgrounds killed the playercount.
It never recovered from that.
It`s not like I fell in love with BFV. But having into consideration the rough launch of 2042, I am more willing to admit that BFV has bigger potential in 2022, and I`m not even joking.
I really love the idea that a player's health cannot be fully restored before prior use of a personal med-pack, and this one item has to be replenished by the ammo bag or the flag. This one change for me is simply amazing and more tactical. What killed the game is pointless 8 damage at 25m proximity on some of the weapons that happen to be not a pistol or even SMG. BFV by no means is a hardcore game but requires hell a lot of ESL league players' skills to perfect it. The game received not enough content at launch also. I was not even criticizing the game back then, but I have finally enough seeing the next iteration that has both 2 and 4 in the title and happens to be "a modern" battlefield.
The bionic arm lady, steampunk atmosphere in supposedly WWII game with real factions simply killed the launch. Most of the people had Private`s Ryan moments in their mind, not some strange-looking lady with blue makeup saying "eLLou Ould FriEnd".
Everyone's Battlefield statement and promo - learn for once that 5-year-olds and 90-year-olds cannot be a prime target of the game labeled as WWII. Companies should always prioritize their target audience. By doing so, the company should release a separate game for younger audiences like BF: Heroes 2. Some titles like BF3/BC2/2/4/2142 for the 18+. The middle ground is going to kill the series as we know it completely and only anger the hardly earned community.
What kills the atmosphere of tension between factions in a game is the absolute dominance of political correctness, usually full of woke and progressive slogans usually praising "the good guys". I have no idea how to tackle this one problem efficiently without receiving "a heretic" or a "bigot" label on one side of the barricade. Real war stories with personal dramas and traumas, inability to choose in given circumstances might be one of the clues. The war is not only Zeroes and Ones, good or bad faction. What the majority of reasonable people would expect is a depiction of true struggle on both sides and a depiction of decisions that could potentially either save or kill in given circumstances. War is full of miscalculations and checking the other sides' bluffs also. It`s hard to depict a conflict in a mature way without trashing the other adversary forces at the same time.
I kind of like BFV but I would rather play modern 4 or polished and complete BF1. If Battlefield V launched 9-12 months later it would be one of the best Battlefields (not having in mind a marketing campaign).
I feel like too many games are rushed out of the door and destroy the franchise.
