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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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’re adorable, but nobody’s fooled here. BF6 ballistics are neutered to the point where they may as well be hitscan, gutting one of the series defining traits. Battlefield always exaggerated drop and travel to add depth and nuance to gameplay. Same with movement: you can nitpick tac sprint or slide momentum all you want, but in practice the pacing feels like MW19 because the mechanics feed the same twitchy gfuel reaction loop. And let’s not delude ourselves about the beta maps, they weren’t “stress tests,” they were corridor heavy funnels designed to pander to the CoD audience. That’s a design philosophy….. not a fluke.
When players say BF6 feels like Call of Duty, it isn’t some mystery. It’s obvious to anyone with an IQ above room temperature, and the only people denying it are either blind or playing unpaid corporate interns. Defending this slop isn’t critical thinking, it’s borderline bootlicking.
You’re adorable, but nobody’s fooled here. BF6 ballistics are neutered to the point where they may as well be hitscan, gutting one of the series defining traits.
That's moving the goalposts. You said that bullet physics are gone, they aren't. If you had said, bullet drop is not noticeable enough, I'd perhaps have agreed with you.
Same with movement: you can nitpick tac sprint or slide momentum all you want, but in practice the pacing feels like MW19 because the mechanics feed the same twitchy gfuel reaction loop.
Except it's not nitpicking. Purely from a movement perspective, Battlefield 2042 has faster pacing than Battlefield 6. Battlefield 2042 for example does have tac sprint and allows you to maintain momentum when hopping. That's a movement technique you can pretty much use constantly in that game. But I guess it's more about what you "feel", rather than staying factual.
And let’s not delude ourselves about the beta maps, they weren’t “stress tests,” they were corridor heavy funnels designed to pander to the CoD audience. That’s a design philosophy….. not a fluke.
That's just your opinion. Battlefield has pretty much had corridor nightmare maps for quite a few iterations now. Battlefield 4's Operation Locker, Battlefield 1's Fort de Vaux, Battlefield 3's Operation Metro that made a comeback in Battlefield 5 as Operation Underground. Battlefield 3 even had the Closer Quarters DLC. If Battlefield is pandering to the COD crowd, this game isn't exactly the first at doing it.
When players say BF6 feels like Call of Duty, it isn’t some mystery. It’s obvious to anyone with an IQ above room temperature, and the only people denying it are either blind or playing unpaid corporate interns. Defending this slop isn’t critical thinking, it’s borderline bootlicking.
When you do a surface level analysis, there certainly are similarities between games like COD and Battlefield, but so are there similarities between Valorant and Counterstrike. That doesn't mean there aren't significant differences though. It's been popular to hate on COD for the last few decades, so people have this kneejerk reaction at Battlefield even existing within the same genre as COD. Even to the point where they'd hate on the similarities, rather than recognizing the differences.
I'm not going to insult you. I'll let the facts speak for themselves.
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