Really looking forward to seeing the feedback at launch (no preoder). They're bringing back things like true front and rear tank armor/weakness, including side hits. Sorely missing from COH2. Updated engine for better multi-threading will hopefully bring some even more enhanced destruction and cover opportunities. May or may not check out this campaign demo, but will be looking forward to seeing what's what in November.

Hoping for a Skylines 2 announcement sooner rather than later!

It's pre-alpha, what do you expect... I also played the pre-alpha test a few months ago and enjoyed it despite the bugs and lots of placeholders. It's a really good thing they are letting us testing it and give feed back while they still have tons of time to work on it and polish. Unlike most alphas and betas these days which are just glorified demos 1-2 months before full release. My friends and I will be taking this for a spin and giving our feedback, we really enjoyed the previous games and happy to see things like proper side and rear armour hits return (COH2 only has a half baked 50/50 front/rear hit system for vehicles, COH1 has proper hit boxes all around the vehicles for weak points and disables).

Need to know where he is going so I can avoid purchasing whatever he touches.

Just having the admin control through Portal being able to kick hackers is a huge improvement/step back in the right direction. Hopefully their anti-cheat actually exists this time, but if not just find some good community run Portal servers with active admins and favourite them like back in the BF4 days. Great way to develop some strong squads and rivalries too >:D

Looking forward to giving the beta a go next week. Especially to test my rig and see how it plays even if it is beta code.

Would be really cool if this also lead to an announcement that Battle Recorder was coming back. Man the community would make such awesome shit if they brought that back.

Wow ok. I mean this kind of covers pretty much everything.... server admin stuff, people who want to yolo solo vs ai only or customize coop vs ai. Extra maps. And they can keep adding to it with more past and future content.. SSD space might actually be the only problem with this lol O_o

Can't wait for the open beta to test it out and see how my rig handles it at various settings.

I don't recall BF1 or 5 having many crashes or major bugs at launch. Hopefully they nail it with 2042 considering the hype and player load it looks like they're going to see (working servers, end of round server reporting etc.. BF5 still has issues with that now "no end of game report" bug).

VaranDragon wrote on Jun 10, 2021, 05:55:
I stopped watching when the pilot ejected from his F-35 so he could shoot a hand-held missile at the Su-57. I get it that's its a game, that it's set in the close future, and that the trailer has probably very little to do with the actual gameplay, but this trailer is so ridiculously over the top that it was painful to watch. What little interest I had in this game (and I actually did have a little interest) has now waned almost completely

That happened in game for the first time back in BF3 and the move is a called a RendeZook. Here's the original: [url=]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOaGhE_sejI[/url] and it's been duplicated many times since (well the actual original happened in 1942, but this clip is much more famous).

Sorry that you're so salty over this, but to veterans of the series it's awesome to see DICE paying homage to one of the top crazy "only in Battlefield" moments that a player pulled off in the middle of gameplay.

Awesome stuff, I'm stoked!

Right now I only have 2 issues:

1: Specialists. 10 at launch, so far we know of 4 (which are named after the typical Battlefield classes):
- Recon (Drone gadget + local motion sensor passive perk). He is Casper from South Africa
- Assault (Grapple gadget + Nimble perk). He is Webster from Canada
- Engineer (Turret gadget + turret buff perk). He is Boris from Russia
- Support (Health dart gun gadget + defibs for insta revive @ full hp). She is Maria from Germany

I really don't like this because I HAVE to be Casper to get that specific "Recon Specialist" gadget/perk combo. Likewise for medic, I HAVE to play as Maria if I want the HP Darts + Defibs. 64 players on a team, we're going to have 20 Maria's running around PER TEAM O_o (just want to say, I have zero problem with women on the battlefield, especially one set in 2042).

A big concern here is also that customization (helmets, etc) will be tied to specialist type.

Why in the sweet hell can't I just pick for myself? I just want a generic solder I can customize - I want to be Canadian (cool if they let us rep that on Dog Tags like BF4), I want to pick any Specialist class, and then I'll do up my clothing/armor and weapons.

Issue #2 is I'm just hoping and praying for good netcode with 128 players on higher tickrate servers

Also reallyyy hoping for community servers with full admin control at launch... anyway still really pumped and can't wait for more info & gameplay!

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Enjoy!

Wolcen is pretty much fucked with all the exploiting going on. Infinite magic find stack exploit was fixed with the hot fix but the gold dupe is still working and so super easy that people ARE doing it and not even realizing it (has to do with stacking gems, which was a feature just added on launch day). I have a couple friends who were jonesing for a diablo filler but this one is DOA without some sort of complete wipe and re-do. Ideally after another 6-12 months of bug fixing and polish but ofc that won't be happening.

If the price is right I'll pick this up as I've just got back into it to check out 2.2 which I'm enjoying so far.

There was some talk on the reddit about how this is essentially a stories update and the coders focused on their own update/fixes. I haven't really come across anything yet but that could be good news.

I really hope Stellaris 2 they bring in full multithread support. I want huge galaxies and minimal late game lag

Yep congrats to them on an excellent city builder, and big cheers to the modders as well because there are some fantastic mods for quality of life and features.

Hoping that they are working on the next one with full multi thread support and vastly improved traffic/sim AI.

What an excellent game, especially with all the mods available for it. The dev is extremely active on the reddit and forums which is also great.

It says it will be "available" which is probably an options to have it on/off like other games.

Even with the shitty server admin controls, they can still kick the 13 yo's spamming n-this and n-that. So just play on a server with active admins.

Also pretty sure you can mute individuals in squad voip from the squad menu in BF1. Been a while since I had to, but sometimes when only a couple friends are on and in discord and then you get a random in the squad who talks, need to mute the other discord friends in-game so you don't hear double when talking back thru squad voip.

SpectralMeat wrote on Aug 30, 2018, 16:06:
I was not planning to buy this game anyways.
So far what I have seen RTX ON or OFF was very underwhelming.
I might check out the open beta if it will be offered for longer than it takes to download it, but I doubt it will change my mind.

Pretty sure preload starts Sep 3rd if that helps.

That's good, would rather it get more polish and balance. Feedback from Gamescom has been good but the real test will be open beta next week.

This also most certainly means there will be at least one more week of beta as well before the new launch week.

I really don't get the argument against the characters and cosmetics (women, prosthetic, etc). I'll gladly take those if it means all DLC/maps are free and no more splitting of the community.

Also keep in mind this is a FPS game, not a historical reenactment... parachutes popping out of people back during BF3/4 didn't bother anyone every time you jumped off a building. You can nit pick that stuff all day long.

I'm super excited the dorito map hack/targets are gone above enemy heads and that there's limited HP regen and limited ammo (especially for vehicles - no more hill camping tanks all round). My group played Classic Mode prior to BF1 and can't wait to get into this.

Timmeh wrote on Jun 27, 2018, 11:20:
logged in on PC

searched for a server with players on it... after about 15 min of trying different combinations of filters.. finally found one.

thats pretty pathetic.

You're either bullshitting or doing something very wrong with your searching. Or looking for a dead game mode maybe, I only play conquest so dunno how the other modes are doing. But 3 of my 5 favourited clan-ran conquest servers are full right now in the middle of the afternoon (EST) and a quick look at the general browser shows at least a full page of conquest servers full or less than 5 slot from full. Some of them are Europe though to be fair since I didn't tweak any search settings. Either way I would have zero problem jumping into a full server right now.

Anyway, I am really looking forward to not having the community split up with maps and DLC packs in BFV