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Nothing really confirmed there but what’s interesting about this whole question is how close EA are holding their cards to their chest on this. Seems like this will be a big announcement.
I’ve never been convinced by the WW1 rumours because that seems totally random and I can’t see how it would be playable given the current FPS environment (eg rifles vs automatic guns). WW2 though might well work as it’s been a long enough time since the last triple A title in that period. WW2 is also very good from a balance point of view (ok we have to live with OP aircraft and underpowered German units) but still I wouldn’t get too excited yet because there are a lot of rumours flying around atm and nothing concrete regarding the source of them. I also don’t put a lot of faith in the express beyond their ability to manufacture views and click bait.
the WW1 thing may be something or nothing, best case scenario would be a WW1 single player campaign and the multiplayer set in WW2 but who knows.
I’m out Friday night for my Dads 70th birthday so will miss the live broadcast of the announcement but i’ll be keeping an eye on twatter, faceache etc for any news as it happens. I found the balance in BF42 pretty good to be fair, the aircraft were a mare when in the capable hands of someone like TOOTHBRU5H but i’d hope they would have learnt from previous titles how they could even that out a little in a new title.
Worst case scenario would be yet another modern or worse still a 2142 remake.
@=XDC= wild egg tamer wrote:
the WW1 thing may be something or nothing, best case scenario would be a WW1 single player campaign and the multiplayer set in WW2 but who knows.
I’m out Friday night for my Dads 70th birthday so will miss the live broadcast of the announcement but i’ll be keeping an eye on twatter, faceache etc for any news as it happens. I found the balance in BF42 pretty good to be fair, the aircraft were a mare when in the capable hands of someone like TOOTHBRU5H but i’d hope they would have learnt from previous titles how they could even that out a little in a new title.
Worst case scenario would be yet another modern or worse still a 2142 remake.
Yea worst would be a 2142 remake for sure 🙂
I think most of us remember ’42 with rose tinted glasses though, it was a nightmare for air. Tooth wasn’t with us then but fuck me Digit was a cunt in the air and it was impossible to play against a team with him on it, or any team with pilots dominating the air. That said you’re right regarding the lessons they’ve learned since then on balance. The problem is always how you make air viable without making it OP though, and they failed in BF2, did slightly better but not enough in BF3, and I’ve no idea about BF4. I’ve yet to see a game balance air right, but fuck it anyway, as long as infantry is fun most of the time then it’s usually ok.
The problem I find in bf4 with air support has gone the other way for me in that as someone who always enjoyed flying but was never brilliant at it, if I try and have a fly around then it isn’t long before some flyboy has a lock on me and I’m being blown out of the sky. It just isn’t enjoyable as it was in previous titles.
Now that is a name from the past, I wonder whatever happened to digit, he was bloody good.
Here’s the IP for anyone wanting to watch the live announcement in an hour while listening to MAX having an orgasm on TS: 85.236.100.27:12607
You can watch live here: https://www.twitch.tv/battlefield
Confirmed WW1! Also the name is Battlefield 1, and not 5.
War over by Christmas without a season pass.
I just hope its a proper battlefield game and not battlefield battlefront.
Else we’ll get battleships on rails, bombers on rails and flame thrower hero pickups 😐
TBH we weren’t given a lot in the stream but it looks like melee combat is going to be quite significant. Note sure on other weapon mechanics though there is a Lewis gun (i think) shown in the hands of infantry running in the trailer, but also rifles etc in the hands of troops in the trenches. Air combat might be interesting with a more BF42 feel to it, in having gunner seats etc, though I also thought it looked quite arcady maybe to the extent of star wars battlefront.
The full trailer is here where you can make your own mind up:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7nRTF2SowQ
There’s also arty maybe back in the game.
@Gary Goat wrote:
I just hope its a proper battlefield game and not battlefield battlefront.
Else we’ll get battleships on rails, bombers on rails and flame thrower hero pickups 😐
I was wondering about that as well because they weren’t clear on things like cavalry and certainly didn’t give much away on the airships or battleships. There better not be hero pickups but battlefront bombed on PC so I’m hoping they’ve learned their lesson.
so it’s looking like its strictly WW1 and not some alternate reality bollocks. I’ve watched the trailer twice now and i think it could be pretty darn good. I’l deffo be getting it, hopefully we could see a lot of the old faces coming back.
I`ll give it a chance but lets be real, there will never be another 42 or Vietnam and whether this goes back to ww1 or ww2 it will still be a bf2 clone. 42 was insanely difficult to be good at and Vietnam more so. There was no sniping on the losing team and finishing top of the leaderboard, if you were pegged in your spawn point people were lobbing in grenades and firing a panzerfaust at your ras. when you were caught out on your own in the middle of nowhere on gazala, you were on your own.
lets face it guys, we are old farts harking back to the times of no radar, no spawn room shields, no artillery strikes, no sprint, no teamspeak, no in game comms, no q chat, no commander, no spotting,(all this was missing and you still knew what your team was doing) no revive grenades, pixel aiming, roller ball mice, 56k and if you wanted to drop on a point you had to wingwalk on a spitfire.
maybe ww1 is where we need to be.
*edit* the main character in bf1 is from the future. *wink*
The main character is From the future? Will he have a laser pointer in his pocket to blind snipers in the trenches? 😉
I agree with your points about BF42 and even now 14 years later I can fire up the game and still enjoy a game of it but I’m hoping that some of that simplicity makes it back into BF1.
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