Make the game less COD
Dice, EA, I know you want those players but they will not give you the love that dedicated BF fans will. Please, slow the game down, movement, slide, reload speed, it all needs a tweak. If you want t...
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People always complain they want "Battlefield to be less like COD". Yet when it comes down to it, people could play a game like Squad, but that game isn't nearly as popular as Battlefield. Remember the Project Reality mod from Battlefield 2? Yeah, it's some of those guys that made Squad as a successor.
Battlefield was never all that grounded or realistic, it was always a casual experience that prioritized fun over realism.
Battlefield has been a nice middle ground between arcade and milsim.
It is now more in the arcade direction, it needs to pull back to the middle ground.
What exactly is the middle ground?
If Quake is pure Arcade and Squad/ARMA is full milsim, then Battlefield is already somewhere in between.
Battlefield 6 has slower sprinting speed than previous Battlefield titles (aside from running with the knife). Battlefield 1, 5 and 2042 already had sliding. Battlefield 4 had corner jumping, Zouzou jumping etc. Battlefield 2/2142 had prone diving. Battlefield 2042 also had slide jumping that would maintain momentum.
Battlefield hasn't become significantly more arcade over the years. If anything, it's been pretty consistent, even if the movement techniques have changed over the years. Battlefield 1 was the only game that pretty much nerfed movement mechanics into the ground and that really sucked the skill out of movement.
Battlefield has always occupied a middle ground and that balance is what made the series distinctive. BF6, however, erodes that identity. Bullet physics are gone, movement is a mirror of MW2(09)/MW19, tanks feel lifted straight from MW19 Ground War, and the UI is derivative and uninspiring. The open beta maps reinforce this shift, funneling players into narrow corridors designed to hand casuals unwarranted kills from behind. What once rewarded strategy and skill now prioritizes speed and opportunism. It’s chasing trends and catering to a newer, naive generation.
They can play games like Squad on PC, but not on console, which is a huge part of the market. It was never realistic (no game ever could be), but you didn't have unlimited sprint (you had to decide when to use it) and definitely no jump slide. The COD influence is what brought scope glint and focused weapons on close range. One of the things I hated about 2042 was the fact you had huge maps but were penalised for using weapons at long range.
Generally milsim games like Squad and ARMA have complex control systems that don't lend themselves well to console releases. The argument that people can't play those games on console is a valid one though. I don't know what I'd do as a console player either.
It's Battlefield 3 that introduced scope glint and I agree that it's probably inspired by Call of Duty: World at War. The point here isn't that Battlefield doesn't ever copy anything from COD, it's that Battlefield 6 isn't really a departure from previous Battlefield titles.
Battlefield 2042 had large maps because it needed to facilitate 128 players. It's a feature that was purely meant to increase sales, while the rest of the game didn't take it into account properly. That's why DICE had to redo pretty much all of the maps and had to introduce more cover. Snipers, scope glint or not were extremely strong at launch. However, Battlefield 2042 doesn't penalize weapons at long range. Most of the BF2042 have very low recoil and spread and can literally gun down people at ranges well above 100 meters.
