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FurballS2000 said:
youngsyr said:
Pretty pleased with this, now I just need a good batch of medals to work on from next week!
How tricky was the single player stuff? Haven't touched the campaign yet but have all the other trophies. Wondering if it's worth the effort to platinum!
For the 2 or 3 tricky ones there are lots of guides on line.
Considering I have a ridiculous (not proud) number of hours on bf3 and 4 (over 1800 :|) I've managed only about 3 so far on this. The game is fantastic, everything BF4 should have been but as there as no hardcore mode it put me off. Now there is one, I'm fed up that you have to go into someones top 100 pics as I cannot otherwise see hardcore in the filter. Then it takes an age to join a game, and if you do, you better be lucky otherwise (as yet again) I spawn under the map with a black screen just full of markers.
Its been fairly quick to join a game the past few weeks for me. I had a period where it was taking about ten minutes to join. Deleted and reinstalled recently (rage quit & delete 
) seems to have cleared a few errors.
Hardcore mode on 1 is pretty tiresome. In BF4 it was enjoyable - but the disparity in power, range and accuracy in BF1 between the weapons shows up massively. Teams full of snipers simply denying objectives by sitting out of range of every other weapon. Infantry rifles blind fired or quick scoped up close.
Fine, its more realistic than softcore but its a bloody grind.
) seems to have cleared a few errors. Hardcore mode on 1 is pretty tiresome. In BF4 it was enjoyable - but the disparity in power, range and accuracy in BF1 between the weapons shows up massively. Teams full of snipers simply denying objectives by sitting out of range of every other weapon. Infantry rifles blind fired or quick scoped up close.
Fine, its more realistic than softcore but its a bloody grind.
youngsyr said:
Pretty pleased with this, now I just need a good batch of medals to work on from next week!
Must admit it speaks volumes of this game (and how s
t it has been implemented). I remember you were still grinding pistols and other weapons in BF4 right up until the launch to achieve a similar status - thats a game thats worth its money. This combined with the lack of any real achievable elements once you reach level 10 sort of shows how poor it is for longevity. Even the level 10 weapons are dire bar the hellrigel. Overall I massively prefer the BF4 implementation of weapons, achievements and medals than the clearly last minute thought it is in this game. The battle packs drop is mental - come MVP, don't get a battlepack. Have the worst round of your life and get swept - battle pack.
Where's the fun in that?
Edited by Havoc856-S on Sunday 15th January 19:16
Havoc856-S said:
The battle packs drop is mental - come MVP, don't get a battlepack. Have the worst round of your life and get swept - battle pack.
Where's the fun in that?
Having seen the same in Destiny, the random element of in-game rewards isn't about fun, it's about money.Where's the fun in that?
Games with in-game micro-transactions need to limit the players' ability to earn all the rewards in their play alone, as if they do, they won't spend anything buying the in-game awards. Hence random in-game rewards.
The random element of in-game rewards also sets up acceptance of a random element to the micro-transactions, that's why even spending real money in-game doesn't guarantee you get the reward you want.
Bailey93 said:
Really struggling to enjoy this now, anything other than conquest sees me spawn killed at least 10 times per game
I really dislike the way it spawns - the notes say it won't spawn you at a point where there are enemy forces but time and time again I find myself being put in the middle of a field, miles from the objective I've asked to spawn at only to turn around and be faced with an enemy tank and 10 chaps with guns. If I ask to spawn at "A" put me there please, not closer to "B" underneath a fresh bombing run by the enemy.I also don't like the way it let's you select a point but then if that's lost for some reason it doesn't just kick you back to choose another, it has to give you a delay while it displays a message to say that point is no longer available and then let you choose an alternative... in the meantime the alternative you would have liked has also gone.
I've got Assault left to get to level 10 (at 9 presently) and then I really will have run out of motivation.
The medals frustrate me more than anything - during the load screen it often drops progress or doesn't update. It also doesn't register if you have completed a medal during a previous week. I play almost exclusively to medal challenges now, often end up like a right sitting duck trying to some obscure weapon for that kill.
The medals frustrate me more than anything - during the load screen it often drops progress or doesn't update. It also doesn't register if you have completed a medal during a previous week. I play almost exclusively to medal challenges now, often end up like a right sitting duck trying to some obscure weapon for that kill.
thetapeworm said:
I really dislike the way it spawns - the notes say it won't spawn you at a point where there are enemy forces but time and time again I find myself being put in the middle of a field, miles from the objective I've asked to spawn at only to turn around and be faced with an enemy tank and 10 chaps with guns. If I ask to spawn at "A" put me there please, not closer to "B" underneath a fresh bombing run by the enemy.
I also don't like the way it let's you select a point but then if that's lost for some reason it doesn't just kick you back to choose another, it has to give you a delay while it displays a message to say that point is no longer available and then let you choose an alternative... in the meantime the alternative you would have liked has also gone.
I agree with all this, it can't be that difficult to fix. The fact that the medals need to be completed in order of the objectives makes a lot of them a bit of a grind as well.I also don't like the way it let's you select a point but then if that's lost for some reason it doesn't just kick you back to choose another, it has to give you a delay while it displays a message to say that point is no longer available and then let you choose an alternative... in the meantime the alternative you would have liked has also gone.
I cant be arsed with the medals after doing a few, now i just do the easy ones which will complete anyway no matter how i play. Im currently doing the play a conquest/win a conquest/capture 10 objectives.... easy peasy!
I've took to just playing medic or support @ rank 10, whichever is needed and just enjoying playing with friends
I've took to just playing medic or support @ rank 10, whichever is needed and just enjoying playing with friends
No idea what's up at the moment but it's not logging any scores or progress of any kind - gameplay is fine but then at the end of the round you have a 0 score and the screens are blank.
Forget medals - was trying for "5 kills with a handgun in a life" to finish one off (I'm terrible with handguns), got my 5 and nothing happened, got another just incase, nothing. Checked tracked medals and apparently I wasn't tracking one, I was at the start of the round.
Tracked the medal again, got killed a lot, eventually got 5 kills in a life, again nothing, no tracked medal.
Hard to get enthusiastic about something and commit to it long-term when the basics are so broken... at random... for some people... some of the time...
Forget medals - was trying for "5 kills with a handgun in a life" to finish one off (I'm terrible with handguns), got my 5 and nothing happened, got another just incase, nothing. Checked tracked medals and apparently I wasn't tracking one, I was at the start of the round.
Tracked the medal again, got killed a lot, eventually got 5 kills in a life, again nothing, no tracked medal.
Hard to get enthusiastic about something and commit to it long-term when the basics are so broken... at random... for some people... some of the time...
Edited by thetapeworm on Tuesday 17th January 14:43
thetapeworm said:
No idea what's up at the moment but it's not logging any scores or progress of any kind - gameplay is fine but then at the end of the round you have a 0 score and the screens are blank.
I had that the other day and I was 48-3 and over 25k points.https://youtu.be/noqyh5SoAwI
Explain this one then...
Edited by Blayney on Tuesday 17th January 21:02
This game completely baffles me.
Three games in a row I got my arse handed to me on a silver platter then all of a sudden I can't miss.
Quite sure there is cheating though. There was a guy on tonight in a tank who seemed to have some kind of ability to see everybody on the map combined with a wall hack combined with an aimbot. Spawn - bang, spawn - bang and on and on. didn't matter where you spawned. He even killed me inside a building without damaging the wall. He ended the round at something like 64 - 2.
Generally I can accept that I am an average player that gets hammered in some rounds but cheating is still alive and well.
Three games in a row I got my arse handed to me on a silver platter then all of a sudden I can't miss.
Quite sure there is cheating though. There was a guy on tonight in a tank who seemed to have some kind of ability to see everybody on the map combined with a wall hack combined with an aimbot. Spawn - bang, spawn - bang and on and on. didn't matter where you spawned. He even killed me inside a building without damaging the wall. He ended the round at something like 64 - 2.
Generally I can accept that I am an average player that gets hammered in some rounds but cheating is still alive and well.
Edited by J-D-Stagpump on Friday 20th January 22:35
J-D-Stagpump said:
This game completely baffles me.
Three games in a row I got my arse handed to me on a silver platter then all of a sudden I can't miss.
Quite sure there is cheating though. There was a guy on tonight in a tank who seemed to have some kind of ability to see everybody on the map combined with a wall hack combined with an aimbot. Spawn - bang, spawn - bang and on and on. didn't matter where you spawned. He even killed me inside a building without damaging the wall. He ended the round at something like 64 - 2.
Generally I can accept that I am an average player that gets hammered in some rounds but cheating is still alive and well.
I got taken out with a rocket yesterday that was clearly fired by someone with x-ray vision and the ability to curve the rocket at 90 degrees down the side of a valley completely out of sight. I shrugged it off as one of those Battlefield oddities but it stunk of bot / hack. Three games in a row I got my arse handed to me on a silver platter then all of a sudden I can't miss.
Quite sure there is cheating though. There was a guy on tonight in a tank who seemed to have some kind of ability to see everybody on the map combined with a wall hack combined with an aimbot. Spawn - bang, spawn - bang and on and on. didn't matter where you spawned. He even killed me inside a building without damaging the wall. He ended the round at something like 64 - 2.
Generally I can accept that I am an average player that gets hammered in some rounds but cheating is still alive and well.
Edited by J-D-Stagpump on Friday 20th January 22:35
I must be an anomaly. This Battlefield is the best one I've played (in fairness I only properly played BF3, a little bit of 1943, 2142, Hardline beta and BF4 I played 2 rounds before selling it... what a load of ste that was).
When I die it is usually my mistake. If they sort out the spawning I'll be very happy with it.
te that was).When I die it is usually my mistake. If they sort out the spawning I'll be very happy with it.
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