I love battlefield games and i was disappointed that they were going to do a world war 1 game so I admit im biased. I have already preordered the game and dont plan on cancelling the pre order. I will play this game but it looks to me like a game I will only play every now and then for something different like battlefront and hardline.
The graphics are great but i watched a lot of footage and i felt like falling asleep it was just really boring i know playing it will be better than watching but it was just so slow. Alot of the guns are so slow and the reloads so slow (yes i did expect this as its world war 1) but it just doesnt look like a great game.
The hype is high for this game so people wont like me saying this and will call me a cod fanboy even though im not or whatever but battlefield is my favourite game and favourite gaming franchise. For me this game just doesnt look great. Its like people want to like it so they will rave about it no matter what but it looks like a game that people will tire of fast and be back on BF4.
Im 99 percent sure ill still be playing BF4 and not this. Everyone will give me hate for saying this but a few months after release i think it will be spoken of in the same way battlefront and hardline are spoken of. Great graphics but just an ok games for a bit of fun now and then but a huge let down.
I thought the live steam was boring with no player voices, dull commentary and random unedited play coverage however bearing in mind this was the first play for many players and only unlock level 1 play, id imagine normal play/ coverage will be much more interesting than snoop doggs opinion
But even watching lvlcap play it was just dire to watch. It wasnt that people didnt have a clue what they were doing it was more the mechanics and the slowness of it. Also the guns are so slow and “realistic” but then it still took a few shots to kill. So its “realistic” but you shoot someone and they dont die u have to do it a few times. This makes more sense in modern shooter as the fire rate on guns is so much higher so a few bullets in somone only takes a split second but in this it takes a while so any realism of the slower guns is destroyed by having to shoot people multiple times.
Its just my opinion but it really didnt work for me. But more than anything it looked boring. I had to force myself to keep watching
i guess it depends on what you are watching for, i found the destruction and tactics very interesting but hard to follow on the stream and the footage wasnt really set up to show highlights…in my opinion its just what 64 players on a map looklike and thats dull. i found the 44 min unedited footage of lvl a little less interesting overall but then a 44 min uncut with no commentary is always going to be boring compared to a 5 min highlight reel with commentary.
Theres a reason other games dont show 64 player matches and its because they are dull apart from revealing a game you havent seen before.
But i watch footage and play BF4 on 64 player server and its so much more enjoyable to watch that that. Its mostly due to the weapons. It reminds me more of playing BF4 on a pistol only server. Yeah it can be fun but I wouldnt be into playing that mode too often if you know what i mean its a nice little diversion every now and again.
That was the main reason I had major doubts about a WW1 BF game because of the weapons and from what I have seen its playing like I expected although I had hoped I was wrong.
Some people will love the slow weapons but i think the majority of fans will move on fast and it will have a very small community just like battlefront and hardline.
I already like this game more than bf4 and all other frostbite 3 games, i still play bf3 i got bored of bf4 quickly i just hope they will make good rush maps. I watched jackfrags snipping gameplay and it looks better than bf4 more snapier and faster withought trail and all other things i didnt like about bf4. Game reminds me of mix of bf2 and cod2 (only good cod game imo). But we all need to play it before to see how it feels with mouse in our hands.
I also feel that considering it’s a WWI game everything is just way too fast. Obviously, we don’t want a realistic reconstruction of trench warfare, that just wouldn’t be fun. But some slowing down of the general pace is in order, at least for the hardcore mode.
Made a thread about it here: Hardcore mode and why it needs more than just increased damage and lack of crosshair
I agree that for WW1 game it probably is too fast but for a game I would actually want to play on a regular basis its much too slow. I have the game verdun its a nice game but I dont play it much. I dont think many people play it much even though they like it. Its a niche game. I like playing lots of pvp shooters online i buy most of them but there are not many that I actually play that often.
I play battlefield 4 a lot and i play R6 seige alot but as much as like the others they rarely catch me enough to put in multiple hundreds of hours and unfortunately i think BF1 will be the same. I also think it will be the same for most people once the hype has died down. I even play BF 1942 online sometimes as there are still a few servers that run the game.
I would honestly much prefer a second season pass for BF4 with another 5 expansion packs than this game. I wish they would do both as then i wouldnt be so down about BF1 because i could casual play it and know that i have more BF4 to look forward to.
Well I understand your concerns, I said in BF4 CTE Subreddit that if the next BFF Game is set in WW1 I’ll stick to BF4, but DICE teacher me better with their concept.
But for real the stream showed that the game pace is everything else than slow. In the spectator mode it looks slower yes, but if you watch from 1st person it’s absolutely not.
Well, nobody plays Verdun, because there are literally no options in the game. You spawn in a trench with a nolt action and that’s it.
However that has nothing to do with the speed of the combat. The Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2, still has hundreds of players playing every day. That thing is like 10 years old!
Point being, making a game that plays like Quake can get boring as quickly as a game that portrays trench warfare as it actually was, there needs to be a balance.
Having players run around 3x the speed of a vehicle and having the reload become a gimmick, rather than a vital gameplay mechanic, because it¨s so fast IS NOT BALANCE
Im more referring to the rate of fire of the guns i just dont really enjoy those type of guns and that in turn slows down the speed of the game as I dont particularly enjoy those kind of fire fights. As I said earlier I am biased as I didnt really want a WW1 game.
I sometimes play project reality but If BF1 has only a few hundred players I dont think it would be deemed a success. I know BF2 is old so obviously it would have a lot less.
I didnt watch spectator mode i watched lvlcap playing first person for a long time. Its usually really enjoyable to watch him play but this was really boring i just didnt find it engaging. Im sure i will like the game a bit im not saying its a bad game I just dont think I will play it that much and I dont think that many people will after the first month or two.
I much prefer using modern weapons im not a huge fan of future or old fashioned weapons. I like that stuff but it just never really connects with me the same as modern weapons. It feels like a step back to use them its not as engaging or fun. If im playing BF4 I definitely dont go looking for the slowest rate of fire weapons in general.
Like i say i think this will be a nice game but I dont think it will live up to the hype and I think when the hype is gone most people will go back to BF4. Problem is that if they are waiting for new content they might not even go back to BF4 at all. I know BF4 started off badly but i think its a great game but that came out a few years ago and since then EA released hardline and battlefront which i enjoyed but were not anything special and in my opinion have diluted the battlefield brand and I think this will just further dilute things which is not good for the franchise long term.
If they were releasing BF5 this year as a modern shooter and BF1 was like an offshoot game similar to hardline then id be all for it but I think they have messed up. Everyone has been raving about BF1 since the first trailer which contained no gameplay footage and I think that the hype will continue until the game is out about a month and then people will realise its just not that great. I also think it got a lot of hype due to the backlash against cod for pay gating the remake of modern warfare. I dont think cod games are anywhere close to the level of BF games im just saying that part of the hype is in my opinion a backlash against cod and also people are hyped by the graphics which are actually excellent in this game from what i have seen.
But i do not expect this to have the player base of bf4 i think it might be somewhere between hardline and battlefront.
I do hope im wrong on this but its my honest opinion im not just saying it to be controversial.
Looked very fast pace, with chaotic fighting and a gorgeous setting. I felt the maps I saw looked very vibrant and detailed. So much so, that I honestly cannot wait to just get on the maps and look around them.
Bahnisko I think i just would have preffered a modern day BF5 and that BF1 had been made a side game like hardline was.
I think even WW2 would have been a much better choice of game. I think Dice made the wrong call choosing WW1 as a main game rather that a side game.
I may turn out to be wrong but I think this game will be another miss step and bad decision. I thought this from the first announcement and trailer but I had hoped that upon seeing the gameplay footage that I would feel different but it actually makes me feel even more sure that this game will be probably a flop.
I think it will sell a lot of copies so not a flop in that sense but a flop in the sense that the community will shrink fast and it will be regarded as a not great game.
Well this is the problem. People shouldn’t buy games unless they are absolutely sure they’ll love it. Then EA can make the same not so good games, over and over, because they can just trick people into buying them.
Yeah but i will get my moneys worth from it but it wont be like BF4 where i played literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours in it and still i love it.
Same thing with insurgency they brought out the WW2 mod and everyone raved about it but it was pretty dead after a month or two.
I knew why i preordered that I probably wont fall in love wit this game. My problem is not with money if it was i would just cancel my preorder. My problem is that I dont think I will really love it and I have been waiting for more content for a long time and now this just means ill have to wait another year or two.
I just wish they would make a second season pass for BF4 I would much prefer that.