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the commentary on this is fucking hilarious. so australian.



"auwh, nouh. it didn't go".

Having been here 20 years some British accents now sound quite comical.
Why on earth would people choose to speak like that?

I have some recordings of myself which are, um, hilarious.
Thats what you get growing up, some of the time, in the home counties I guess.

Battlefield 6 section when

Does it have Karkand and dedicated servers?

ah, it's good to be back.

beyond ai frames or the state of matchmaking, i think we can no longer expect a mid-2000s experience from a modern aaa title (not that the old experience is an advertising point). community is my biggest concern in all this. if the players are trash, the game is trash. what is the code of conduct? policing? if you dolphin dive, stab-paddle, or call someone a mild name, do you get account-banned across all owned titles and brought before the e-hague? prostrate and have to state your case to a community relations tryant larping HR for a company you don't even work for?

this is really sad because the trailers for this stuff sometimes look fairly nifty, until you dig into it and find out what's awful. even if it has a generic single player campaign, i'd probably wait for 80% off.

largely moved on to other genres, anyway. pve has made strides.

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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

do you get account-banned across all owned titles and brought before the e-hague? prostrate and have to state your case to a community relations tryant larping HR for a company you don't even work for?

You don't get banned across all Origin/EA titles if you get banned from a single game. I have a ban for Battlefield 4.
https://bf4db.com/player/246862656

I can still load up and play all of the other Battlefields.

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I get what you are saying about the player base and other things being ass. All of the videos look cool but you know you aren't going to get that tactical coordination with the people you randomly get matched with.

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Does anyone remember the KOF Warlord No Rules server? That was a fun time.

I was totally cheating though.

I think some dude screenshot me going 100 - 0 and reported me.

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Here are three memories I am sure you have buried.

BF2 stat padding/ knife and pistol servers


IndianScout, the user who made enforcing EA's ROE his mission.
https://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=38317&p=1

And Sergio Bennet. The Mexican who proudly got every medal before those hacked servers reset him and everyone else.
https://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?pid=948782

see, i didn't stabpaddle for stats. i did it because it was funny, was laughing my ass off with a friend, and often watched by other people laughing their asses off at the spectacle. just about long enough for the payoff when the guy we had pinned would squeak out of it and spin around with his mg like a marionette, killing everything, and then they would laugh their ass off if they weren't already. because it was the 2000s and the sweaties apparently hadn't reached peak moistness, everywhere.

no one was reporting this stuff.

i'd pick off would-be pilots before they could get to their planes, or snipe them out of the cockpit before it could take off to go get a bunch of easy spawn camps.

that, and jihad jeeps, were just considered normal, expected gameplay on reasonable servers. only had to worry about getting kicked from uptight servers.

now we have aaa games where such things are policed by companies, the bunch of game-killing killjoys. maybe the people making those rules got grenade spammed in middle school.

my "biggest" match was still with the pre-nerf blackhawk, well in excess of any of the other fun.

i feel like early tribes, quakes, battlefields, cods represented a 'wild west' pinnacle that will never really be seen again in this era of 'upscale' fps gaming.

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I wasn't around for the Blackhawk teams. I heard they were legendary when you got a crew who knew what to do.

Jihad jeeps are actually super useful in Battlefield games. Getting rid of that tank saves lives.


Refuse to use the G36E. AK-101 all the way.

Snipers get off of my infantry only server. They would run at you throw a claymore and run off. Actually hilarious in retrospect.

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I haven't heard of Tribes in a long time. That was fun. Unreal tournament still around?

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I will give credit to BF6 developers who promised no skins or characters like Fortnite and Call of Duty.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

uziq wrote:

i am simply not interested in playing a game where i can’t hang out on my favourite community or clan servers. it was the nail in the coffin of TF2 for me when that big mid-life overhaul update turned everyone into matchmaking chuds.

for me it was a large chunk of people i played it with getting pulled into the cosmetics and items aspect of the game. arguably helped keep the blood flowing, fair, but eh. not my cup of tea.

I hate progression systems to unlock things. I don't have the time or patience to grind towards getting a RDS for my AK.

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Also I just can't play multiplayer FPS while also getting stoned. So if I play a FPS I need to do it sober which is a big commitment IRT spending my spare time. Sober plus grinding levels against teens? Blah. Time for HOI4

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

uziq wrote:

i am simply not interested in playing a game where i can’t hang out on my favourite community or clan servers. it was the nail in the coffin of TF2 for me when that big mid-life overhaul update turned everyone into matchmaking chuds.

for me it was a large chunk of people i played it with getting pulled into the cosmetics and items aspect of the game. arguably helped keep the blood flowing, fair, but eh. not my cup of tea.

the thing is, this kind of stuff already existed in BF2-era games. didn't you have to buy the expansion pack to get access to an extra tier of weapons, some of which were pretty insanely overpowered/advantageously tweaked? i'm thinking of like the G36-E and whatever the support machine-gun was. that was kind of 'pay2win' in an era before gamers were aware of that stuff - indeed, before it had infected every game to its core.

BF2, almost by pure accident and happenstance probably, had default weapons that were still ridiculously competitive even at top level. part of that was the wonky game mechanics and stuff that the designers couldn't have planned for in a million years. the wonkiness of the engine/game design/kit balance was part of what made it fun and charming - deep, even.

i really miss actual server browsers just because community servers were where all the addictive fun was at. regulars who were hopeless, even after years of playing; other regulars who got noticeably better, joined a shitty clan, gradually moving to better clans, etc. long-time rivalries and 'known' personalities. knowing to avoid a certain class or a certain area of a map because player x was a beast at it, etc. you just don't get that on automated, dumbed-down 'click here to play ranked' systems.

matchmaking has a time and a place, like in tournament-style practice games with strict rulesets. let the tryhards and the min-maxxers play that to their heart's delight. but the main part of the 'ranked' game should be accessed via a public server browser, where the admins can run whatever map rotation or game mode they want. period. matchmaking for the main part of the game is joyless. it's like an homologue of those (MMO)RPG games that are designed for monsters to level with you as you go, so that every new zone you 'progress' to you're meeting level-matched enemies. that's not fun. i want to get measurably better, i want to reach high ranks, and i want to stomp privates!!!