BF2/3/4 were all super addictive but V feels like a game you have to play seriously to get a decent score.
I’m not sure what went wrong though maybe it is the restricted respawning on squad mates, only having 4 in a squad and slower revive times that are slowing down the gun fights to much.
A lot of wasted content in this game they could have not given us and just given us more maps instead.
Like I never play the coop mode, practice range, battle royal and single player campaigns.
See, words have meanings. If you say “horse” you’d better be pointing at a horse, not a cow. And when you say “universally” you’d better stick to the meaning provided by the dictionary: "3. Done, produced, or shared by all members of the class or group under consideration: a discovery that met with universal acclaim." So if you say “universally panned” you’re saying everyone who has commented on BFV agrees it’s a bad game. But if you look at Metacitic, 51 professional critics gave the PC version of BFV an average score of 81, the console versions having slightly lower scores. User scores tend to be far lower for obvious reasons, unhappy customers being much more likely to sound off than happy customers as anyone in a business dealing with the public can confirm. For reference, Anthem got a score of 58, Fallout 76 a score of 52, and Resident Evil 2 a score of 89.
So unless you actually meant something different than the plain meaning of your words, you’re wrong, BFV did not get universally panned. If they’d asked me I’d have said the game’s most serious issues are not technical, but the short-sighting and counter-productive policies of EA like no rented servers, live service, and a weak anti-cheat. I still like the game, but I think in the long run those foolish choices by EA will make BFV a smaller and shorter-lived game than it could have been.
The core elements of the game is not bad and it could have been a really good game.
But when you release a half finished game, lack of content, with massive bugs, balance problems, no rental servers an a empty road map, then you ask for trouble. Sales and playerbase reflect this
Imo the train has left the station long time ago and EA/Dice must have come to the same conclusion. I will be surprised if they invest more in this game than a couple of maps and weapons.
So yes, I also think BFV is to be a short-lived game compared to other BF games.
It’s a pretty fun game but the frustrating silly bugs soon overtakes the fun part.
This industry needs more regulation as its just making a mockery of the consumer!
Should be still entitled to a refund if bugs are still present 6 month after launch.
Last night I played Conquest on Devastation.
A teammate and I were headed for D when we encountered an enemy.
Teammate was a little ahead of me and started fighting the enemy soldier.
I quickly checked the minimap for other enemies nearby, and then I saw the weirdest thing:
On the minimap a death symbol appeared for my teammate, yet he was still alive and fighting right in front of me on the battlefield. But sure enough, a split second later he died.
The netcode for this game is in a seriously bad condition when something like that can happen.
I couldn’t bring myself to buy this game after playing the beta, I’ve bought almost every BF game until this one. Instead of a rant I’ll just say this, the game just seem like to much work. Taking out spotting is for the HC players. I’m sure the majority would like spotting back, I couldn’t see anyone at distance unless they were moving.
Tell EA with your wallet or purse next game, don’t be so quick to pre order or purchase.
lol, didn’t this age well. Imagine thinking industry reviews meant anything. It was /is well known that the most sought after reviews were determined on ideological points as much as bona fide gaming ones.
BF V is a strange game. Somtimes i log on and have really fun playing it, other times i log on and it is just frustrating playing it.
It have the potential to be a very good game for sure but it needs work, the right kind of work.
I still stuck on every second stone. The hit indicator shows random stuff but not the direction from where the shot came, in a game with that good working camoflage and fast ttk i have to rely on the hit indicator to have, at least, a small chance to fight back
i was so happy when they announced there is no premium anymore. But now, after seeing we get almost nothing new, i prefer to pay for premium and get 4 extensions with new maps for sure.
There is still time to do the right work and make BF V to a good and populated game but if they waste more time with things like combined arms etc. the time will run out fast.
So we’ve gone from “universally panned” to not universally panned but the critics you disagree with just don’t count. Got it. Moving the goalposts, always fun.
Sorry but reviews do mean something to the consumer. Online or not people do pay attention to them and do judge the game by them. Agree or not thats the reality of it. Without those “critics” people would be blindly buying a lemon of a game and devs would never learn past there mistakes.
