Battlefield 6 - No to SBMM and YES to Server Browser
Been a huge fan of the Battlefield Franchise since I first started to play Battlefield 3 back in 2011. Ever since then I have purchased every Battlefield Game, DLC Pack and what have you and and almost exclusively played only Battlefield. Before this I was a COD player. COD never attracted me back once I got in on the Battlefield Sandbox and begun to play the game as part of a squad, choosing which class I was going to be based on what was happening in the game and how I could react to this to help my team and squad out. One of the great things I liked about it too was that every game was not the same because of the Sandbox, squad and class experience. If I was playing for a couple of hours, I don't think that I ever felt that I played the same round twice in that they played out differently every time, even if I was with the same squad and on the same map. Now that BF6 or whatever the new Battlefield will be called is coming closer to releasing, I hope some things from these older BF games come back. One of these is the Server Browser and Persistent Servers. Recently I have begun playing BF4 again consistently. It is great to see the old Server Browser there and being able to pick a game mode and series of maps that I want to play that are not like Portals 1000% Hardcore servers. Just normal BF with good maps and rotations. Being able to change my region and filter by ping has also been fantastic. I really hope that the new BF6 brings this back, or somehow splits it with Portal. Maybe portal has two options, Server Browser with Persistent Servers and then the custom side which we all get to make our own games in. With the launch of BF2042 we saw that there was no Server Browser and that what we got instead was Match Making. MM has been a big pain for a lot of reasons. We cant pick what map we want to play, we cant see what map is coming up next, if we load into a map we don't want to play we have to exit out and then try MM again which sometimes loads us back into the same map. There is no region filter or ping filter. A lot of the time MM can not happen because there are not enough people to start the game in my region (Australia) and this MM saga goes round and round. This all takes a lot of time and ruins the gaming experience, ultimately damaging the franchise. Which isn't good for us players or the BF franchise either. The second thing I would not like to see happen is Skill Based Match Making come into BF6. We all see and hear people complain about SBMM in the COD community. It's a little bit in Delta Force now as well and people are complaining that they are getting loaded into lobbies with bad ping because of their skill and all sorts. IMO SBMM would kill the next BF if it is brought in. Like everything, the more you do something the better you get at it. There are some guy's that spends hours and hours just practicing sniping, or flying choppers and they are elite at it. Part of the BF experience is the cannon fodder, is learning the classes, the weapons and their attachments, the various vehicle setups and maps. This is what contributes massively to the sandbox environment IMO. It's because of all these variables as well as other players, that makes every game different. If SBMM is brought in, then I feel we will loose that experience and pretty soon, every game will start to feel the same and turn into a sweaty grindfest which looses all those cool quirky BF moments. Anyhow, it's something I have been thinking about for a while. Thought I would share it and see what others thought or felt about the same two issues.
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Da veterano di Battlefield, non vedo l'ora di mettere le mani sul nuovo capitolo. Sto iniziando a preparare il tutto per aprire un nuovo canale YouTube, in cui pubblicherò video gameplay dei vecchi capitoli Battlefield, recensioni, aggiornamenti sul nuovo capitolo e tant'altro. Ho sempre sognato di far parte di questa community. Oltretutto qui sul forum cercherò di aiutare più persone possibili per rafforzare la community e farli sentire a loro agio dopo aver risolto i loro problemi. Mi sono sempre soffermato a guardare video, leggere recensioni e giocare, ma da oggi voglio dare il mio contributo alla community, soprattutto a EA, che merita tanto, porterò contenuti rivoluzionari, sia di editing che di contenuti, ho studiato nel tempo cosa potrebbe piacere alle persone, e non vedo l'ora di condividere tutto quello che ho in mente per tutti i videogiocatori del mondo di EA. Vi aggiornerò nelle prossime settimane ❤️
CONSOLES / MOUSE AND KEYBOARD SUPPORT for New battlefield 2025
Hello! Here I am referring to the discussion about mouse and keyboard support on consoles for the new battlefield that is currently in the works. With great hope and fear that this time EA and DICE will do whatever it takes to get support on consoles because over 10,000 players signed a petition for 2042 and NOTHING HAPPENED. With the CROSS PLAY option, every game deserves to have this support. What is your opinion on this? I personally have my doubts about it. Can DICE or EA tell us anything about this?How to fix the "Missing multiplayer privileges" error on BF1
I figured out how to fix the terrible " Missing multiplayer privileges " error on BF1. It might also work for other EA games like BF3, BF4, BFV, BF HARDLINE... You probably have this issue because your Xbox subscription ended and you renewed it recently. FIRST OF ALL : make sure you have an Xbox Game Pass ULTIMATE membership active, I am not sure if this method works with Xbox Game Pass CORE so if it doesn't work, buy the ULTIMATE membership. If you are trying on Playstation and this method doesn't work, I suggest you purchase the Playstation Plus Premium membership and try again. QUICK FIX: launch BF1, and when you arrive on the multiplayer menu where you get the error, press the xbox home button on your controller, and launch BF4, accept all the pop-ups, and when you arrive on BF4 main menu press X to load multiplayer, it should load, then come back to BF1 and it should load and the error is gone. This might also work if you launch BFV instead of BF4 and when on the main menu, press RT to connect to multiplayer, it should load, then come back to BF1 and it should load and the error is gone. If you are lucky you will be asked to download an update, do it and it will be fixed. This works even if you have never played to BF4 or BFV. If this didn't work, try this longer method that will force BF1 to download an update: Make sure you have an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, not Core, because you will need the Cloud Gaming functionality. While doing this make sure your automatic subscription renewal is OFF (it worked for me this way). Make sure you have BF4 and all BF4 DLCs uninstalled. Go to the Xbox Store and launch BF4 with cloud gaming. Let it load, a lot of pop-up screens will appears, just accept everything and once you arrive to the multiplayer screen, you should see that you are connected. You might need to press X to refresh the screen. Press LB to open the left menu and navigate to BF1, you won’t have the "missing privileges error" and your multiplayer progress will be shown, BUT that doesn’t mean that it is fixed yet. It’s fixed in the cloud but not on your console. Press the xbox home button on your controller, press the triple bar button (menu button) on the controller and press on quit BF4. Try launching BF4 again and it should ask you to download the game with all the DLCs, press yes. If this message doesn't appear yet, then launch BF4 again exactly the same way through cloud gaming, then quit it the same way (press xbox home button and triple bar button on your controller, press on quit BF4), and launch it again until this message appears. Wait until BF4 is downloaded at about 20%, launch it, there should be some pop-ups about Xbox Live Gold subscription, accept everything, and once you arrive in the main menu saying the game is being installed with the % shown, press the xbox home button on your controller, press the triple bar button (menu button) on the controller and press on quit BF4. Wait until BF4 is fully downloaded, and before the Naval Strike DLC is completed downloading, launch BF4. (don't stop the other DLCs from downloading in background, let them in the download queue) Now that you have launched BF4, accept all the new pop-up messages saying you need an Xbox Live Gold Subscription. Go to the multiplayer section, you should be connected, if not, press X to refresh and you will be connected. Wait patiently in the BF4 main menu until you get a notification saying that the Naval Strike DLC has completed downloading in background. You will also see a green text message on your BF4 main menu saying an update is ready. If you don't see this green text message, wait for some other DLCs to complete downloading. Press the home xbox button, press the triple bar button on the controller, and quit BF4. Launch BF4 again to apply the update and accept all pop-ups. Quit BF4 the same way on step 13 and launch BF1. It should ask you for a forced update, accept it. Then, BF1 should load and the multiplayer should work. Yay ! DON’T DELETE BF4 AND ANY DLC RELATED TO BF4 BECAUSE THIS ERROR MIGHT COME BACK OTHERWISE. If you power off your console this error might come back, so just launch BF1, on the main menu, go back to home and launch BF4 (don’t quit BF4), on that main menu press X to load multiplayer, it should load, then come back to BF1 and it should load. Install BFV and launch it, if you have the "missing multiplayer privileges" error, press RT to refresh and it should ask you to download an update, accept it, then launch BF1. It should work forever, if it asks you for an update accept and do it. Also, if you are gamesharing your subscription with someone and he has this error, what you need is, have both accounts signed-in in the xbox home screen, then select the account that is paying the subscription, do step 20, until BF1 multiplayer is loaded and working for your main account. Still on BF1 main menu, you can switch to the account that you are sharing with, then you can disconnect from your main account, and it will still work. Recommended to do: put your xbox in Sleep power option mode (not the power saving one), to avoid completely shutting it off and keep the multiplayer data loaded continuously. I hope this will help as many players as possible! This is what I found after a few hours of being locked out of BF1, I don't think there is another solution for this error, so make sure to share it around ! See you on the Battlefield (1) !
Bad Company 3 Single-Player and a little bit of multiplayer
Considering that a lot of the story ended with Bad Company 2 to a certain extent, I want to pitch a different approach this time around, like this: Preston Marlowe gets promoted to Sergeant, and Redford takes a position off the field, but Haggard and Sweetwater are still on the squad, albeit much more disgruntled than usual due to a court-martialing. Marlowe tells them both to get their act together, despite their reluctance, and you get to use a map of different missions to partake in, optional or not. Think of the hub world in Trepang2, but with the smiley face that was on the grenade pin of the cover in the first game, stockpiles of gold and a jukebox. For the main story, it starts off like another ordinary mission in Bad Company's military career, but with a twist: A handful of VIPs have gone missing, presumed dead, and are essentially to be recovered in one piece. However, there's a sinister faction basically holding the military of other countries hostage into doing their bidding, even going as far as to hack stuff around the globe, Watch Dogs-style. As soon as their kingpin is revealed, he/she gets a kill-or-capture order on his/her head (Think the multiple endings regarding Raul Menendez in the end of Black Ops 2, but with a little more morally grey lore to incentivize picking the capture option instead of kill). But before that order can be carried out, the squad gets shot down on their way back to base (just like the "Crash and Grab" mission in Bad Company 1, complete with the preceding mission involving you controlling the chopper) and are forced to fight off anything that moves. Side missions are mostly ancillary lore and the "high-value targets" that are basically lieutenants, and you have the option to kill or capture them, as well. For capturing, basically shoot the gun out of their hands or do something that doesn't result in a fatal headshot. The reason I emphasize the capturing stuff is because essentially the first two games had way too many instances where you shot first and asked questions later, and it made the first game especially harder to take in, story-wise, so having high-value targets you don't have to kill is already a breath of fresh air, so to speak. And yes, the typical referencial humor and banter will still be between Haggard and Sweetwater, with Preston occasionally butting in or saying something that neither of them expect, since Marlow doesn't have a lot of lines in Bad Company 1 or 2 outside of cutscenes (including the opening narration) and gamers have a hard time identifying with a protagonist who's silent during gameplay without giving them a reason to stay quiet (Timeshift and Crysis 2 both had anonymous protagonists, hence their silence and obeying orders or directives they were given, but Bad Company is not that.) or they're written off as drones to be piloted by the player (which happens to be the case in a lot of Call Of Duty games, such as World At War). Multiplayer should be a mix of 2042's current suite, minus the specialists, of course, but also bring back the Gold Rush mode from Bad Company 1 with remastered maps from both games as part of the updates, but not in a copy-paste fashion that Call Of Duty is also guilty of.
