My hands on unfiltered experience with BFV

[MigueTK]

@cameldung

Thanks for your detailed report, @MigueTK. I have some questions, if you don’t mind.

Did I understand this correctly that you can’t choose your gadgets but you have to choose an archetype that has the combination of gadgets you want?

Did you get the impression that the mechanics with low health and ammo will lead to a better squadplay?

What about the squadleader? Did he get something new? Can you still request to be SL like before?

Did you notice all the women screaming? Because it kind of disturbed me when I heard it in some gameplay videos. But maybe you can ignore it while playing because you’re concentrated on other things?

I can answer some but not all of your questions sadly, and I do welcome them. You did understand correctly, I could not switch my weapons or gadgets within the support “subclass” archetype. I barely had any experience with incursions so that’s why I couldn’t remember them on the spot since I had many other things to ask. I do think that the new mechanics for health and ammo could make squadplay better in theory, but not in practice. I think this will highlight the clan stacking pub stomping problem even more because just one coordinated squad could dominate even further because of these individual player restrictions. While that may seem good for some, I do not think it will be good for Battlefield as a whole. Even within my own squad I felt limited with my friends as we could not do everything, there were only three of us out of 5 on the same stations/squad. We basically ignored the other two players because they were using controllers on PC and were pretty bad and did their own thing. As far as squad leader went, I sadly did not have a good experience with it due to technical difficulties most likely. You can still request to be squad leader from the commo rose, which is almost exactly the same as BF1’s layout. After requesting orders my friend did not provide orders so he could let me take over as leader, we couldn’t get it to work that we actually just switched computers and moved. After I was squad leader, designating targets was the same as in BF1 with the flag selection expanding slightly downwards from the main radial menu. I could not figure out how to launch a V2 rocket as promised, nor any indication of squad points to even use the new abilities on the HUD. Also, due to technical difficulties our mics were not working, so we pretty much kicked it old school LAN party mode with one earcup opened and yelling at each other lol. Because of that we could hear the general screams, but it was not as distracting for us because we had to communicate with each other. It did get annoying initially while we were trying to use our mics/adjusting audio so fair warning. Headsets provided were Astro A40 TR’s I believe.