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!

BYGY-KHGM-8TRW-MQFQ-D28L

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

My group is excited for this. Will gladly trade Premium for cosmetics so that new maps and and things are free for everyone and doesn't split the community.

Love that there's no more random bullet deviation, very limited spotting, limited HP regen and limited ammo. Especially for vehicles, so no more tanks camping way the fuck off at the edge of the map shelling things all game.

Fortifications seem a little meh but with destruction being ramped up so much I don't think it's a bad feature to have or takes anything away from the game. I can see it being useful in a few situations to throw up some cover or replace cover that's been destroyed. But not really sure I would ever play as the Support archetype that lets you build the mounted/stationary weapons.

Sweet.

I think it's great they're getting rid of random deviation. Learning the recoil will be very useful now and with how ammo will be more limited I think that will be another factor in balancing accuracy out.

Curious to see what they're doing about suppression this time around. Guess we'll see this week.

Certain bullets/weapons through certain walls I like that, more destruction and ways to get at window snipers. Will add value to buildable fortifications as well I assume (no bullet pen).

The netcode has been hugely improved from BF4 up to now with 60hz 64 player servers. I'm sure they're continuing the trend with more optimizations.

Looking forward to seeing it all in action at EA Play/E3 and of course open beta hopefully in August like the ~8 days we had for BF1

That's fine as long as it's limited to cosmetics. If it means no more premium and no more dividing the community with DLC/map packs then that's a great trade off IMO.

As far as the women characters are concerned, I can't believe it's such a big deal for so many. It's a game, not an authentic WW2 simulator. We have a couple girls in our gaming group and they are stoked to have the choice. The more they play, the more their sig others can play so that's a win for all of us as far as I'm concerned lol.

Always so many negative nancies in comments on here lol. Oh well, my group is excited for it. We didn't play BF1 as much as BF4 but that's as much of real life getting in the way as anything. BF1 is a cinematic trip playing that and am looking forward to seeing what era they do next (WW2 being my bet).