Battlefield 1 - set in World War 1

[Sam Ecorners]

I was hoping they'd do the risky thing and make Battlefield 1 a real First World War game

Ok, skipping over everything else, I want to ask about this. Why? Why would anyone hope that EA's Battlefield game would be anything more than an arcady shoot shoot? It's the same as expecting Bethesda to develop a good RPG, or of Bioware to have good writing.

Because it is possible for a big nasty company to get a developer to make something good.

Bethesda, for all we hate them, did it with Dishonored and Wolfenstein: The New Order.

Sony did it with Uncharted and The Last of Us.

Why isn't it possible for EA to get someone to make a great WW1 game?

EA could get someone to make a good WW1 game, but it's not going to be DICE and it's not going to be a Battlefield game. I'm talking about established developers, making games they are known for, and players thinking that a new title in an established series can be drastically different from established patterns.

Dishonored was made by Arkane, Wolfenstein -- by, essentially, Starbreeze and Naughty Dog has been at the forefront of well done cinematic console popamole for years. So, personally, I see nothing surprising with these games. Look all I'm saying is, frame your expectations according to the developers. DICE are not ones to make a realistic shooter. They make fun arcady team based shooters, and this time they managed to make a good, cinematic popamolish SP experience.

 

[Great Deceiver]

I usually think TotalBiscuit is a twat, but that BF1 video was pretty great, he sounds lucid and sincere (as opposed to his usual contrived and stuffy) and his points are all valid - and something that is completely dissonant from everything 'big media' and the rest of the big shittubers are saying.

 

[HumanTotemPole]

Modern military shooters and the WWII shooters that dominated the FPS market before them are largely arcadey in their gameplay and cinematic in their presentation but they maintain a serious tone by spreading a thin layer of popularly conceived realism over the whole package. I would say that the issue with BF1 campaign is that the popular conception of how WWI was fought is completely incompatible with its presentation.

It is a war mostly commonly known for things like bolt-action rifles, trench warfare and the futile expenditure of large numbers of soldiers. Therefore features like the abundant availability of rare weapons of the period, relatively small scale military operations and that bloody mary sue power armour sequence are far more dissonant than they would be otherwise (that power armour sequence would be equally ridiculous in a modern military or WWII FPS mind). It makes it impossible to take the campaign as seriously as it wants to be taken when it completely lacks the scraps of popularly conceived realism necessary to maintain a degree of verisimilitude.

 

[MercenarySnake]

 

[Daedalos]

100+ hours into this, still not tired of it. It's fucking great.

Can't wait for DLC's too :D

 

[Sam Ecorners]

since the thread got bumped, I've finally played through the power armor mission, so here are my thoughts:

Positive:
- It's short

Negative:
- It's retarded

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Is the multiplayer better and more fun than Battlefield 4? Also are the maps well designed?

 

[Spectacle]

Is the multiplayer better and more fun than Battlefield 4? Also are the maps well designed?

That depends entirely on what you like.

The main practical differnce between BF4 and BF1 is that classes matter more in firefights. Each class tends to have guns that excel at particular ranges but such at others, so positioning is important if you want to play to your class's strenghts. Vechicles are the same, they have specific roles and need to be used carefully.

Map design is consistently good. Some players complain that the maps are too open and give too much room for snipers and tanks, but that is a matter of taste.

 

[sullynathan]

Since I've played the game I'd say it's better than bf4 but isn't great.

 

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Hop!

At least, hitboxes are decent enough.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Best BF game since Bad Company 1 IMO.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Bough it on my birthday, and been playing since (when my internet allows me to). And it is really much more fun and addicting than BF4 (wich is my favourite until now).

The gunplay and the gun porn in this game are so satisfying.

The operations and war pigeons mode (specially this one) are a very pleasent surprise.

Changing the way you unlock weapons by buying them (and level up the class) is much better than the predifined way you unlocked them in BF3/4.

And the maps are also very good, although they need more urban maps and definitivly more trenches (the lack of trenches in this game is so fucking strange). Something like this is sorely missed:

It's a multiplayer map from CoD 2, and besides what you see in here there's also a underground section in this map (that is the bunker tunels). Pretty fun map to play (specially shogun or rifles), be it full of players online or just 1 to 4 friends in a LAN Party.

Speaking of wich, even though I am happy with the decision of implementing dedicated servers, I can't understand why they force someone to pay 80€ a month to rent a server. Can't I just create a tempory server like there used to do in games that had dedicated servers or make a LAN match? No? Thanks EA.

 

[Spectacle]

And here we go!

 

[Daedalos]

CYKA BLYAT

 

[Reinhardt]

How many black lesbians russian army had in WW1?

 

[Sentinel]

Lmao females in the russian army. 50% of the men will probably be niggers as well.

Glad I didn't buy this garbage. I played it in the EA Trial shit and the game was complete shit, it even had some very impressive grind just to unlock weapons/equipment. Fuck DICE.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Actually BF1 weapons are all balanced, even the starter weapons. Only COD reserves the best weapons for lifers only.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Hoaxmetal]

That numale music Felt like I was still watching the Sims4 expansion video.

 

[Silva]

I've been curious with a WWI shooter for a long time now ans decided to get this in the current sell.

LOL and people call Rainbow 6 Siege popamole.

Full-auto guns, suppressed pistols, scoped anti-material sniper rifles. This shit is WWI in apparel only. What a bummer.

 

[Alienman]

It's WW2, but Hell Let Loose is having a free weekend if you wanna shoot some stuff.

 

[Silva]

I've been curious with a WWI shooter for a long time now ans decided to get this in the current sell.

LOL and people call Rainbow 6 Siege popamole.

Full-auto guns, suppressed pistols, scoped anti-material sniper rifles. This shit is WWI in apparel only. What a bummer.

Oh boy, but this Operations mode is fun as hell.

 

[Sam Ecorners]

I really enjoyed my time with BF1. It's no sim, but it's a fun mp shootah

 

[Tehdagah]

This trailer looks no different from Battlefield V yet the reception was highly positive. Wtf?