Admittedly my only BR experience comes from playing Apex, so my two cents on the game mode may be somewhat biased:
Looting: This is just terrible. Did people actually test this? You eventually figure out what ammo you need for what gun and what gadgets you want, but because boxes and corpses just vomit all the loot into a disorganized heap of stuff, you cannot loot quickly. Sometimes you actually have to pick up things you don’t want and drop them again, so you can actually reach what you want. Try quickly grabbing much needed ammo after a fight before the next guy comes around to kill you. It’s almost impossible.
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Guns: Not sure about the tier system for sights. Seems to me that if I want to play iron sights, I have to stick to guns with hard to control recoil.
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HUD: The entire backpack constantly on your screen isn’t helpful at all. This needs to be toned down.
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Drop: I would love if you could better see where people drop to give you a choice if you want to have early game fights or loot in a quiet neighborhood. By the time parachutes are deployed you are already committed to the general area.
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Mobility: I get that this is taken from the base game, but there are so many ledges you should be able to reach but you cant. It’s frustrating. You can get stuck in stupid places in a firefight, because there is literally only one way out.
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Squad communication: OK to beat the awesome and intuitive ping system of apex is too much to ask. But when playing with random squad members it’s like four headless chickens trying to run away form their own shadow. You spent so much more time trying to figure out what your squad mates are doing, you hardly get to loot.
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Quitting/Starting a game: Now I hear that the whole “we pointlessly run around in a lobby for 60 seconds” thing is rather standard, but I wonder if it is necessary. Between finding a game, selecting your character and then spending a minute in a lobby it can take more than two minutes before you are ready to jump from the plane. And when you die you have to wait for the score to be shown before you can quit? Also if there is a “play again” button, why doesn’t it automatically queue me in the mode I played before but forces me to chose between solo and squads every time?
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On a more general note:
I am a Battlefield veteran since BF2 and when Apex Legends dropped I was immediately hooked, even though gun plan and movement are so different from BF. I had hoped to be equally hooked on Firestorm, but I am not. The main reason is that Apex is so refreshingly (almost) bug free and well tested. After all the years of BF I had forgotten that releasing a major title in a finished state is actually possible. I did go back to Battlefield the first couple of days but usually left after a few rounds because I was fed up with the many bugs and the abysmal balancing. And similarly Firestorm feels very unfinished and untested to me.
In direct comparison Respawn developers seem to play their own game a lot, where DICE developers (and now Criterion as well apparently) do not spent a lot of time testing their game. I just cannot see how the terrible looting could have gotten through proper play tests, just as I do not understand, how DICE’s sledgehammer balancing could be possible with actual testing.
All in all it is sad to see how we are being fed half finished and untested mediocre games in the Battlefield series and then get stomped on again by not being given rental servers, which kills competitive play. But then, that was already dead. It used to be that training your skill made you better in battlefield. Now its just catering to the casuals.
Well, I’m done ranting…
I would disagree. I had alteast 3 situation where I would loot a sniper rifle and SLR while other guy would get suomi and a shotgun and rush me, in this case I’m dead.
is anyone getting the “weapons swap” glitch? sometimes you just can’t change your weapon, it will do the animation but will swap back to the same weapon? kind of cost me a couple of games this bug
Watching Doc play it looks kinda fun. If I had 3 friends that play when I do I would maybe consider giving this a try. I do like the firestorm burning through buildings. That looks cool.
Well this is my firs post about that all Battlefield franchise and i wanna tell about that BR mode my few opinions.
1: You create good theme about that fire ring but it looks a little bit stupid because all burning only like a circle. Make something like in RoE where they are create zone system. You actualy can do something the same but with fire and that will be perfect on my opinion.
2: I realy don’t know who rule with that project but seems like he doing not so good job because release that mode and you can play only if you buy BF5 this is so controversial decision…If you want make something good make that game like APEX model FTP and create store with skins and many other stuff with WW2 theme.
Have a good day all of you and play fair!
I saw someone say that they added AP mines to it lol
And I don’t see how it’s even close to an even playing field when it’s luck based, you find a pistol other guy finds a assault rifle or smg where’s the fair play?
Any different then pubg. I had those moments parachuting in at a spot that was looted and got in a fist fight with another dude since neither of us had a weapon. lol
No, we did not ask for a BR BF game, EA saw the money being generated by BR games currrently and said lets do that. Did not matter what the core BF community wanted. I’d rather have a full complete game with more maps/content than a BR mode i’ll never bother to play.
-The map is really nice with lots of elevation
-Once again they missed the mark when it comes to WW2 immersion. Did we really need to have another Norway map?
-Wish we had the option of allowing the mini map to rotate like in the base game. Having a hard time adjusting to it.
-Why the stupid cars?
-Tractor is useless especially when trying to tow.
-Looting is the thing I like least about BR’s in general. Would have preferred being able to use your own loadout.
-Not a fan of the armour plates
-Footsteps are way too loud
Sadly, yes, I will be ignoring Firestorm. Battle Royale is not for everyone. I’m more interested in whether the new NVIDIA drivers have improved the CPU issues BFV has had since launch.
What does that solve? You’d just complain that someone randomly found a blue or purple gun when you still had your starting green gun.
The issue you have is the RNG aspect of BR’s. Such can’t be solved other than NOT playing a BR mode. Just like people that think vehicle system is unfair, don’t play modes with vehicles.