ok, so those who are playing bf1, what do you think?

[TickTak77]

@thegeneral782

@Marmion

@thegeneral782

Ok so for anyone considering buying Battlefield 1, Here it is plain and simple DONT! You will be disappointed and you will be wishing you could get your money back. Here’s my review. Single player campaign mode is your typical cookie cutter campaign. Follow some story through WW1, fight some battles and get a feel for the vehicles and weapons. Nothing to brag about, descent if anything, not enough to justify the price. Now multiplayer. This is where it takes a turn for the worst. The maps are nothing to write home about, mediocre and limited in variety not to mention sloppy and unorganized. But they’ll do. Given how terrible other parts of this game are the maps sucking is small potatoes. Your character starts off with a pathetic selection of weapons, each one specific to each class. Nothing special. Now one of them being the M18 trench gun it’s fully auto but recoil is so terrible it’s stupidly inaccurate. But hey! It’s the beginning of the game so naturally you can’t have the best there is. But wait it still gets better, your character is so fragile that pretty much 2 bullets maybe 3, and I’m not talking from the best gun in the game or a special character, no that would be justified. Any old run of the mill even the worst gun in the game will have you dead as a doornail in 2 to 3 shots depending on the shooter. So if dying is something you are unfamiliar with. No worries, the two of you will get well aquatinted. Next the melee weapons work oh once in a blue moon. No more of that creeping up on someone like Battlefield 4 hitting a button and the stabbing or melee event occurs. Nope not here. I ran up on a players back hit the melee button expecting a shovel to his neck, and all that happened was I hit him, he turned around, I wasn’t expecting the lack of the automatic melee and in the end I was the dead one despite having the element of surprise. How nice! Moving on the combat, it’s fast paced lots of dying (but that’s expected with paper mache soldiers) and you will see lots of out in left field things, for example. Bullets that go through walls, and not any wall, big huge concrete walls. Imagine that. Next you’ll see bullets that go around corners. Don’t ask me how, I didn’t think that technology existed in WW1, but who knew? You will see a great deal of camping because who can blame the campers if you can die as easy as it is to breathe. Next is my favorite the aim bots or hip shot dots or whatever they are (either way I call them cheating tools. But to each is own) well those guys will give you a run for your money. You’ll see handguns that have a reach of 50 to 100 feet+ and the ability to kill like a sniper rifle, this happened to me personally. Shotguns that can wipe you in two shots from a very long distance, not typical of a shotgun but then again this is no typical game. Iron sight kills from across the map. What are the odds of that? Either way the “privileged” players or cheaters as I like to call them are there. I know some people are skeptical and the game is brand new. But let’s face it cheating and an edge in games has become a part of life and whether you choose to accept it or not, it happens i.e. modded controllers, aim dots etc. So the list as it sits of right now is pretty much almost guaranteed to give you an online experience that you will hate. But maybe you’ll choose to press on and go for some of those challenges that DICE and EA like to put in their Battlefield games. Well, don’t worry they are not as ridiculous as BF4 was, where if you want a fancy sniper rifle you have to go to a specific tower on a specific map and make 2 head shots, across the map, while hanging upside down, with one eye covered, while singing Mary had a little lamb in Japanese. Thank god right? Eh hate to rain on the parade but, not so fast. Even though the challenges seem like they are doable, it’s an illusion. The game is so difficult, the campers so sneaky, and the cheaters so advantaged plus you’re so fragile that even the easiest sounding challenge will be for the most part impossible. So at the end of the day this game is clearly another attempt by DICE and EA to woo people with visuals and a different spin on an FPS while delivering utter garbage. Maybe they are still trying to redeem themselves from BF Hardline, which was also an extreme disappointment. Either way, they once again succeeded amazingly at failing. Hopefully DICE and EA get the hint with this pathetic game that BF4 was as good as it would ever get for them. Sadly the one thing this video game did well was usher in the end of the run and gun concept, leaving the player with camping as a means to an end in order to get an descent score. If I believed BF Hardline was eligible for 0 stars, this one would get a half star. And only because of visuals and a half way marginal single player campaign. Sadly though those two merits alone are not enough to give gamers what they want or what they payed for. Thank you for reading, keep in mind this is my opinion, and how I feel about this game but I do hope that readers find this informational. If not, I’m sorry to disappoint, it is your money and time and hopefully this article can save you from wasting both.

Thanks again.

oh god, do you expect anyone to read this and make a decision out of that?

Well I’d rather be thorough and descriptive. Instead of just saying “This game sucks, don’t buy it” it’s always better to give reasons don’t you think? Isn’t that the purpose of a review to give as much information possible?

You can be thorough and descriptive without providing a blob of text that no one is going to read, is what he/me/everyone is trying to say lol.

[AhoyDrogon]

@Sindari

@JFK001NBF2

@kaliyl777

Love it, cant get enough of it.

You don’t have a lot to compare it to. I’m guessing you played cod more than battlefield.

The loading times are ridiculous and so is the fact that I can’t seem to find anyone that speaks English in matches that do not contain friends. I’m getting sick of French, silent and whoever else squadmates that don’t understand basic commands.

Are you going to go through this whole thread telling everyone who likes BF1 that they shouldn’t or they are not qualified to like it?
Because, you know, opinions.

Yes. If I have to.

People are entitled to opinions and are able to like the game. I have no real quarrel with the game, it’s alright for a ww1 setting. My issue is with DICE’s handling of the multiplayer and the community. I’m a team player but no one I have ever played with that wasn’t a friend is and that is what pisses me off

[NAVSPECWARCOM]

@GUVNA-D

Personally i wouldnt even consider this a battlefield game.Its been casualified down just like they did with Battlefront.You really dont feel you skillfully did anything except maybe sniping.All the full auto guns you will mainly use hipfire up close, rarely ever ads.Its a spam fest of throw all your nades and any other explosives at them, then just run around hip firing as many as you can.Unless your sniping.
Theres a bunch of really cheap crap added in to guarantee even the worst players can kill a couple people before they die, gas grenades, hero characters, and the behemoths.If you liked Battlefront then you will like this, but if you like bf4 maybe give it a miss.Imho this game will last a month before everyone goes back to bf4, just like battlefront.

Amen. I went back to BF3 & BF4. I even played several hours of Bad Company the other night. My lord that is still a killer game. Hands down it beats BF1 any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

[Zombie_Be_Gone]

I’ve stopped playing and moved on to other games. I’ll play when the next patch rolls out and give it another shot.

I was hopeful for BF4, meh, I was hopeful for BF1, Meh… Now I’m hopeful for Battlefield Competitive next year.

Dice is like that crazy person you once had a relationship with once in your life, At the beginning they are great (BF3) then they said it will be magical (BF4) then you follow the chicken feed getting what ever you can before you admit its over (BF1) and then you give it once last chance before it’s time to move on (Battlefield Competitive).

[aseveredfoot]

@Zombie_Be_Gone

Dice is like that crazy person you once had a relationship with once in your life, At the beginning they are great (BF3) then they said it will be magical (BF4) then you follow the chicken feed getting what ever you can before you admit its over (BF1) and then you give it once last chance before it’s time to move on (Battlefield Competitive).

This made me laugh because it’s kinda true. Haven’t had the same level of enjoyment since BC2.

[WALKINGCORPSE1]

yeah man, bc2 was awesome

[WALKINGCORPSE1]

so, haven’t heard anything about the game in a while, good or bad, what does this mean, lol

[Comrad18]

@GUVNA-D

Personally i wouldnt even consider this a battlefield game.Its been casualified down just like they did with Battlefront.You really dont feel you skillfully did anything except maybe sniping.All the full auto guns you will mainly use hipfire up close, rarely ever ads.Its a spam fest of throw all your nades and any other explosives at them, then just run around hip firing as many as you can.Unless your sniping.
Theres a bunch of really cheap crap added in to guarantee even the worst players can kill a couple people before they die, gas grenades, hero characters, and the behemoths.If you liked Battlefront then you will like this, but if you like bf4 maybe give it a miss.Imho this game will last a month before everyone goes back to bf4, just like battlefront.

Another one of these it’s been too casuallized folks. If you run around hipfiring in anything but a shotgun you are an idiot. Secondly, the hero characters don’t provide you easy free kills unless the enemy team is mentally challenged and let you go unchecked. There were plenty of explosive spamming in bf4 and 3 except now we no longer have wire guided launchers and 5 rpg rounds at your disposal. You can’t run around like your lmg is an assault rifle anymore. The only thing I can really agree with you here is on the behemoths. But then again didn’t bf4 have the ac130?

[Comrad18]

If this game is too casual you could always play verdun on pc if that’s the rig you play on.

[lessthanjake123]

@JFK001NBF2

The sweet spot mechanic has ruined not only this game but the entire series for me. I can’t go to BF4 because I’m used to the damage effect in BF1 but BF1 anger and me to point of breaking something because the damage is terrible and makes zero sense. In what conceivable universe do bullets do LESS DAMAGE THE CLOSER YOU ARE?

This is such a hysterical criticism. The sweet-spot mechanic in BF1 wrecked games that do not even have the sweet-spot mechanic? Huh???

It’s also just a generally silly point because sweet-spot hits are not actually that common. As people have complained about after the change to the Martini-Henry, even when you are within the sweet-spot range, you don’t get the one-hit-kill if you hit the person’s arms. Considering that the arms take up a lot of peoples’ sides and a good bit of the front torso area, 100 damage body shots from bolt-actions aren’t even THAT common. It doesn’t have some giant effect on gameplay, so I find it difficult to understand how it could have “ruined” the game for you, let alone ruined other games as well.

To the extent that you are objecting to the fact that it’s not realistic, gameplay is more important than realism. How guns operate in games is always fairly unrealistic. Consider, for instance, that your muzzle velocity in BF4 went down when you were suppressed. Was that remotely realistic? No. Nor was the fact that, even when not suppressed, your muzzle velocity in that game was way lower than the actual guns’ muzzle velocities are in real life. Choices like this are made for gameplay purposes. And the sweet-spot mechanic is a good way of differentiating between different bolt-action rifles and making weapons more effective at their intended range while not making them OP at other ranges.

[KakeHC]

Medal syatem sucks. And I feel its missing stuf.

I love the gameplay but it feels unfinished in every other way.
Examples.
1.Server browser.
2.Lack of content and achievements.
3.Dogtags suck.
4.Platoons/ clan tags
5.Career page and this forum is inferior to old battlelog.

I would love to find real servers easyer with less horrible players…

[AhoyDrogon]

I’m just gonna say that I don’t like how casual it is.

Before you all say that it is not casual here is why I say it is: I am not a good player, i suck most of the time and yet, without trying, I am tipping the leaderboard on my team more often than not ( I have to literally do nothing but long range snipe to come lower). This shouldn’t happen! If I go on BF4 I’m near middle on the board and that feels correct but to top the board? Really? Without trying? It just doesn’t seem right to me

[lessthanjake123]

@JFK001NBF2

I’m just gonna say that I don’t like how casual it is.

Before you all say that it is not casual here is why I say it is: I am not a good player, i suck most of the time and yet, without trying, I am tipping the leaderboard on my team more often than not ( I have to literally do nothing but long range snipe to come lower). This shouldn’t happen! If I go on BF4 I’m near middle on the board and that feels correct but to top the board? Really? Without trying? It just doesn’t seem right to me

Perhaps it’s simply because you’re experienced at Battlefield games. There’s a lot of knowledge and understanding that is helpful across all Battlefield games, so it undoubtedly helps in racking up points to have experience with prior BF games. Battlefield 4 is three years old. At this point, everyone who is still playing BF4 is experienced with Battlefield games, because, at the very least, they’ve clearly been playing BF4 for quite a while. In contrast, there are plenty of people playing BF1 who are not yet experienced in Battlefield games, since this might be their first one and the game has only been out a few months. A mediocre player who nevertheless has a strong knowledge of how Battlefield games work will be able to outscore those players. When BF1 is three years old, it’ll be a lot tougher to top the leaderboard there too.

[smokintom214]

Overall the game is great. However id love to see fun modes that exsist outside of the current modes

[Gavyne]

If you haven’t tried Standard Issue Rifles game mode, you really should. It’s surprisingly more fun than it sounds, and it gives you more of that WWI feeling than the core BF1 game. There are normal & hardcore custom servers, try them both, just search for “standard” in the server browser.

For a lot of people that have tried my server, they’ve said they were going to stop playing BF1 until they found the standard issue rifles hc servers. So, just saying, if you’re bored of the game or find the core game lacking, or just don’t quite feel there’s enough of World War 1 feeling, give standard issue rifles a try.

[ManxPetty]

Starting to hate it… hate battlefront and this is turning into the game.
I’ve played nearly all battlefield games, on psn and lately Xbox and loved all of them..

im hoping it will improve but doubt it very much.

[MBT_Layzan]

I really don’t like the destroyer, blimp and armoured train, hardly ever changes anything, and it’s cheap spamming that crap at a side which earned victory.

[AhoyDrogon]

The game has gotten worse today with all of the idiot up noobs playing it without knowing what the fick to actually do.

Also I haven’t been able to join a single game in 4 hours.

[WALKINGCORPSE1]

Well merry Christmas to everyone if your playing or not playing bf1

[AhoyDrogon]

I think that it was crap to start with and crappier now. The BETA was more fun. I’m sick of the problems.