Alzir

You need to jump on TS mate if you’re after a game of BF42, and I’m certainly up for it even though it’s not as good as BF3. I had a few rounds on it the other day, and while it was certainly a good game for it’s time, it was incredibly frustrating in many ways that we tend to forget through the fog nostalgia. Although BF3 is not perfect, it’s a much more balanced experienced than BF42 ever was, with aircraft no longer as ridiculously overpowered as they once were in the series. The guns take a bit of getting used to again as well, and I have to say that while I was initially against the ADS system which I first saw in COD4, and which BF3 adopted, going back to the older style of really just hip firing, shows why it had to change. The game’s these days are so much more complex and better for it. One thing I do like though is the old gold silver bronze medal system and the way you can just not care at all about stats. You don’t get the same rewards for team play but still it’s nice when a drunken death streak doesn’t show up on your permanent record for all time 🙂

Regarding BF4, remember that right now we only have videos to go by and it’s very easy for people to say that it “looks like a bf3 clone”, and some people are even saying that as a criticism. We have to be realistic about it and I would expect the game to play similar to BF3, but there could be some massive differences. Commander mode is making a comeback from BF2, and it’s no small thing that you’ll be able to play as commander from an ipad in your living room (in fact we may have to monitor how this works as you could have people, like max, playing as commander from the train on the way to work with a 17 million ping, which could ruin the game for others). The class abilities are being shuffled around a bit and the guns are being changed, along with modifications which will affect what you can do in certain situations. The maps of course will also be different, and I’m hoping we see a little bit more imagination in how the control points are distributed, compared to BF3. It would be nice to have more tactical advantages to holding flags again, aside from simply the vehicles which spawn there and the effect on the ticket count. That’s one thing BF42 did well, with maps like Iwo Jima, where you could set up a monster defence on the mountain, simply because of the geography, but you’d be in for a tough time if you lost control of your airfield; also on Midway if you controlled the island, you’d have a much easier time of it, as you would in Market garden if you could stop the germans crossing the two bridges. There are some similar situations to the above in BF3 maps, but only really on the linear ones and on the old maps converted from BF42/BF2. It happened in BF42 and in BF2, but quite often you’re running around capping for the sake of capping in BF3, with little tactical value gained from controlling a particular area. That’s a hard thing for them to get right in a game, in particular when it comes to the game’s balance, but it would be nice to see a bit more of it. Oh and although I’ll not be holding my breath, one thing EA are apparently promising (again) is that BF4 will have a few more features which will aid competitive play, which I really hope to see.

Anyway, I’ve said this before, but if I was in your position WET, i’d get onto BF3 asap and get used to what will feel like a completely new style of play for a FPS game. You’ll have a potentially frustrating learning curve ahead of you if you want to be able to avoid continuously dying in BF4, and the sooner you get started the better. How you move, how you aim, and how you control your weapon has changed dramatically since bf42, and you’ll have to pick that up overnight, compared to the rest of us who’ve been able to learn it gradually over the years as it’s evolved through various games.

Oh and one final thing that I want to see in BF4, and probably the most important from XDC’s point of view, and that’s a server browser which does not discriminate against custom setting servers. We have a very happy compromised agreed between the hardcore and normal mode fan boys, but have been completely unable to implement it due to the issues with the server’s listing on battlelog. I’ll not hold my breath on this though.

Of course, give me a shout on TS, especially if you’re about during the day today 🙂

If I’m in the AFK channel I’#ll not be away for long, only have to pop out for an hour or less after lunch. I’ll be free all day until about 7 or 8 this evening.

Which server’s it on again?

Use the page up and page down keys above the arrows for leaning….if it’s something really necessary. I normally find the ability useless in most games, but that’s where I map the two options on my own arrow key setup.

Nice Max, just in case we didn’t catch your message on the other thread 🙂

That’s a great website Paddy, although not had a chance to watch that particular documentary yet.

Once you install steam you’ll have this dilemma wet. Origin is for bf and that’s all. EA are rip off merchants, so don’t fall for their sales patter. Bf3 is awesome, bf4 looks like bf3 and will also be awesome, but by buying it we shall be propagating a route to a slightly different textured but very similar in style game called bf5. Until ea shake their money focused image, steam is where you’ll find the best deals and the best games (other than bf). I have a 250 gb ssd on which I have windows and the 5 or 6 games I play most often. I uninstall and reinstall accordingly.