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.
Bullet physics are gone
Bullet physics aren't gone. What are you even talking about? It's quite likely that you just haven't noticed them because the distances in the beta were mostly negligible. If your scope or sight is zero'd at a default of 100 meters, then of course you're not going to notice much. The issue is that previous battlefield titles exaggerated bullet physics, to make gravity pull far more significant than in real life.
movement is a mirror of MW2(09)/MW19
This is just a lie, nothing more. This game doesn't even have tactical sprint. You can't really slide cancel the way you can in COD. You maintain way less momentum when hopping. I could go on and on, but you should get the point.
and the UI is derivative and uninspiring.
This is a non-issue and is off-topic.
The open beta maps reinforce this shift, funneling players into narrow corridors designed to hand casuals unwarranted kills from behind.
They deliberately tested smaller maps to stress test the action. Maps in full release are pretty much all bigger. To claim this is some sort of shift is disingenuous. The only thing I can't comment about is the tanks, I never cared about Ground War.
Let's stick to the facts instead of just saying things that aren't even true.
You mention BF1, BFV and 2042, but the games before that didn't have those mechanics and are seen by most of the BF community as the better games (BF4 didn't really have extreme movement either). BF1 started to slide to COD and BFV and 2042 continued it. People have been asking for the game to go back to what it used to be (when it was most popular) but they haven't gone that far. Played 2042 again and the movement did not feel that much different from the beta.
Battlefield 4 had the most advanced movement out of all the Battlefield games, but the movement was mostly the result of exploits or advanced movement, which only few people had properly mastered. It wasn't really accessible to the more casual players. Yes, you have Battlefield 5 which introduced more complex animations, but those mechanics weren't necessarily more skill-based.
If we look at sales, Battlefield 2 had 2.25 million sales, Battlefield Bad Company 2 had 6.54 million sales and Battlefield 3 had 17 million sales, which was a major outlier at the time. Battlefield 4 had 14.81 million sales. Battlefield 1 had 25 million sales. There are certainly ups and downs, but on average Battlefield has become more popular over time.
