It’s worth a discount price for sure. It’s certainly got issues but at 50% it’s worth it. I think it has a lot of issues, my k/d rates and general play though are still pretty similar to prior battlefields which is why I for one stick around.
If you are on PC though a different solution is buy Origin Access Basic for 4.99 USD for one month and see if you like it. BFV is unlimited playtime on that now, no more needing Origin Access Premier. If you like it after a month then buy the full game, it’s on sale all the time. If you don’t like it, then play some of the other games Origin Access has for the rest of the month.
If I was you I would wait for Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2019.
This is the approximate date that this game should had been released if it was not being rushed by Corporate Commanders who want to please investors with short term revenue.
One a bad note, this afternoon I was in two rounds with three cheaters who were actually taunting the other players and boasting about how little they care about EA’s anti-cheat in BFV. They said they turned to using hacks because BFV is so boring, thus they amuse themselves making legit players angry, “Join us”, was the invitation one issued. They said it takes so long to be banned and it’s so easy to get a “free” replacement account (perhaps they meant hijacked) that the hack community considers BFV’s anti-cheat a joke.
This wasn’t just talk BTW, despite only having a few hours in the game they went 110-5, scores like that, and being killed by one of them was instantly recognizable as abnormal, e.g. all-headshot insta-kills without even one bullet missing. I did have the pleasure of killing two of them back to back however, in return they killed me within seconds every time I spawned from then on.
Anyway, this is the first time I’ve seen multiple hack users working together like that, or seen them boasting about it in chat.
Everyone reported them, maybe in a month they’ll have to get new accounts. So take that into account when you’re deciding if BFV is worth buying.
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I don’t recommend bfv now. Maybe in a couple of weeks but most people play it up to level 50 and just stop. There’s still an audience but it’s not exactly thriving
For$30, I’d say no.
For mine 15 bucks, sure why not.
I enjoy it for what it is but lately I mostly play with friends now. Playing it alone can be boring and sometimes frustrating
If you clan up and use Discord you’ll get something out of this game. If you’re more casual and looking just to shoot some people, then it’s a horrendous disaster and you’ll have a terrible time. It might be worth playing once RSP comes online because that may deal with some of the clan issues.
BF4 was actually pretty high up on the popularity list on PS4, BFV nowhere to be seen of course, I’m sure the days of play sale boosted the player numbers a bit, maybe on HL as well idk because I haven’t played that in awhile.
But short answer is no, BFV isn’t worth it not even for $20 imo. And plus after EA recently had their comment about lootboxes being just like a damn kinder egg idk if I can possibly even think of supporting DICE while they’re under them with the next Battlefield.
If you can get it cheaply then give it a go… and see for yourself
Gameplay can be very fun if all the stars align.
Be aware that the player population is dwindling, core game-modes are being removed, datacentres are being disabled and the game is borderline unplayable for many currently due to performance and stuttering issues.
It would almost be worth it to rent a server just for moving half the Clan Teamstack players to the other side so the round isn’t a foregone conclusion. Or when two clans/platoons are working together to stack the teams (something I see often), moving one clan so the sides are balanced, that would be fun. If they didn’t like it, oh well, they’re free to leave.
It’s different when a clan chooses to play against other clans, when they’re looking for real competition. But pub-stomping disorganized casuals, that’s punk behavior.
Premium was a good deal in BF3 and BF4, it covered all the DLC at a reduced price, it included real early access (two weeks, not two days) and even had queue priority, plus a couple of little extras like a knife or pistol skin or something. BF1 is where it all began to go wrong, that’s where EA started the process of getting rid of rented servers and hosting all the servers on AWS, where they took away admin control, where the UI we knew and liked was done away with, where annoying changes like not being able to use the scroll wheel to access gadgets came in (you console players can use your imaginations, it was a dumb thing to change) and of course making the game more “inclusive” which would come back to bite them later. Many of the dumb ideas in BF1 have survived and been amplified in BFV, so they went from broken rented servers to no rented servers at all, and they made the network performance worse, and they got rid of paid DLC and Premium so the revenue to cover large-scale expansion is gone leading to a smaller, cheaper-feeling game. Oh yeah, they brought in skin sales because that’s now more important that an enjoyable game with high technical quality, everybody gets Halloween costumes for just ten bucks each (as opposed to the four-map DLC we used to buy for fifteen bucks each).
One shudders to think where this might end up in BF6, perhaps a game with four or five maps and that’s it, no expansion ever? No PC version at all, console only (saves the cost of even an ineffective anti-cheat)? If EA wants to cut costs in the hopes we’ll keep buying smaller versions of Battlefield, who knows how far they’ll go?
After today, I can honestly say No. It doesn’t look like it’s going to get any better. If and when they start to turn things around it’ll be too late. New games coming out and another BF so no one will be playing this one.