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Battlefield 1 |OT2| "All Quiet on the GAF Front"
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TimeEffect
Member
I did it
I got the tripwire kills. God almighty.
Now I have to do this dumbass plane challenge. Everything else should be gravy
Edit: apparently this is an easier challenge than it appears. Wish me luck
Destroyed a wing. I pray it counts
I got the tripwire kills. God almighty.
Now I have to do this dumbass plane challenge. Everything else should be gravy
Edit: apparently this is an easier challenge than it appears. Wish me luck
Destroyed a wing. I pray it counts
CaptainofIndustry
Member
Played again for the first time in months and had a great time. I was trying to decide between COD WW2, Destiny 2 or Battlefront 2, but I might just buy the premium expansion to this game and play it instead. We shall see....
TimeEffect
Member
i freaking did it!!
The rest of the unlocks should be a piece grindy cake
The rest of the unlocks should be a piece grindy cake
Your escape plan when tanks come rolling by is killing me. Go prone and lay under them.
You're after my heart with the AlwaysReloading 8 .35 kills though. That double 8 .35 headshot and then double auto revolver kill on Giants Shadow was delicious. Gotta love it when people line up like that.
Everdred
Member
That's what I did.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
I gotta say I am really liking how many different unlocks I am working on at once. There are gun assignments, perk assignments, medals. It feels very rewarding.
Finally gave the Sabslater 1905 another chance to get 50 kills and once i figured out its weaknesses and strengths, I started getting a lot of kills with it. It's a long range weapon and you do unfortunately have to lead your shots. Especially with my 130 ping. But it hits like a brick at any range so if you are patient, you can get a lot of kills without ever putting yourself in harm's way. Went 38-10 in an operation where my team was struggling to get past the first sector without the train. i went on a crazy 25 kill gun streak furiously reviving people and providing covering fire.
I didnt particularly care for the Mondrogon Storm. it's just not my gun. Going to give the Cel-Rigotti another shot now that there is a weapon assignment for it.
Both operations are great. Very challenging for attackers, but very rewarding once you group together and get past those first tough sectors.
Finally gave the Sabslater 1905 another chance to get 50 kills and once i figured out its weaknesses and strengths, I started getting a lot of kills with it. It's a long range weapon and you do unfortunately have to lead your shots. Especially with my 130 ping. But it hits like a brick at any range so if you are patient, you can get a lot of kills without ever putting yourself in harm's way. Went 38-10 in an operation where my team was struggling to get past the first sector without the train. i went on a crazy 25 kill gun streak furiously reviving people and providing covering fire.
I didnt particularly care for the Mondrogon Storm. it's just not my gun. Going to give the Cel-Rigotti another shot now that there is a weapon assignment for it.
Both operations are great. Very challenging for attackers, but very rewarding once you group together and get past those first tough sectors.
Psychoward
Banned
Still haven't played on Albion or Volga River yet but I've gotta say Brusilov Keep is easily my favorite map so far, but that could be because I thought the others were so poor.
Tsaritsyn is the new shotgun map especially when attacking as red army. All those houses make it easy ,the best cheat is the stacks of wood at the cathedral sprint and jump then you can look in and shoot.
Was fun doing it last night watching iRAW inside cathedral while i was shotgunning through window.
Was fun doing it last night watching iRAW inside cathedral while i was shotgunning through window.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Suprised we won since our team had issues with the first map.
I just got premium because I'm completely weak. I've already put a bunch of hours into the new maps and they are ok. I play pretty much exclusively as infantry though so if they're useless for vehicles I don't care. Of course DICE would make a 3 flag map with a huge building in the middle so everyone can meat grind lol.
50 repairs and shooting 2 planes down with an LMG. Yeah, take off eh.
50 repairs and shooting 2 planes down with an LMG. Yeah, take off eh.
That volga river 2nd sector was rough only changed when people used vehicles to cap points. Didn't expect next map be a full crush and be over that quick
I think it took me four hours to get the 50 repairs and that was all I was trying to do. People just drive away, nobody cares about repairs it seems because they can just auto repair.
I want to comment on the framerate on the regular PS4. I'm pretty sure it's going below 30 FPS maybe the majority of the time on some maps. It's an embarrassment. It looks sub 900p at times too. I don't know if it's got a dynamic resolution or what but it seems like it does. 64 player CQ I'm talking about.
Jack Scofield
Member
DIVE could at least unlock all the weapons from They Shall Not Pass.
I think DICE considers those things as part of the gameplay of Battlefield 1.
Psychoward
Banned
I don't blame them when others constantly talk about how the game lacks progression and "depth" because there's not enough gameplay unlock grinding :/
I like the new maps. Some seem to be a bit too open, allowing one side to take certain positions and artillery the hell out of the competition - but if they do that they risk not capping points. Overall I like these conquest maps a hell of a lot more than the old ones.
Lagging players have been a drag though. I have super low latency so I die from two shots of pretty much anything. But I see a lot of 120+ latency people running around just soaking up bullets. It's a drag to pump 30-40 rounds of a sentry gun into some lagger just to have him slowly walk through the stream of bullets and melee you - then in the kill cam you see he has like 80 health. Cmon Dice. Punishing me for having a good PC and connection.
Lagging players have been a drag though. I have super low latency so I die from two shots of pretty much anything. But I see a lot of 120+ latency people running around just soaking up bullets. It's a drag to pump 30-40 rounds of a sentry gun into some lagger just to have him slowly walk through the stream of bullets and melee you - then in the kill cam you see he has like 80 health. Cmon Dice. Punishing me for having a good PC and connection.
BLAUcopter
Gold Member
I feel like there's some extra controller lag on these maps (PS4 Pro)
Theres definitely something not right, I noticed it straight away. Maybe the maps are too open and are pushing the engine and the PS too hard?
Theres definitely something not right, I noticed it straight away. Maybe the maps are too open and are pushing the engine and the PS too hard?
Jack Scofield
Member
WTF I didn't expect to see a new soldier on the title screen
Their picks of the Harlem Hellfighters and the Women Battalion of Death as the faces of the game are both one of my favorite and yet one of the most frustrating parts of this game. I love them for featuring people and faces from the war that history likes to ignore, but also hate it for being such wasted potential; neither of them get any time of note in the campaign, do if they did, their stories were glossed over for picks that were so safe and one sided it's as if they were telling a WW2 story instead of a WW1 one.
There have been a few people complaining about sub-30 framerates on PS4 and XBox1. I have the game on an SSD, so maybe I get a little advantage streaming assets, but I don't see a huge difference between the base maps and these new ones. Yes there are some dips below 30 in some cases, but it's usually pretty solid. Its the same on the base maps as well, so I didn't understand the posts of people complaining as it's not new and I wasn't expecting any performance improvement in the DLC.
I only played Albion and Volga so far.
It's a shame I don't have enough time to play BF1. It's my favorite MP Shooter this gen, but I barely find time to play because the matches take a relatively big amount of time.
At least I'll find some time at the weekend... hopefully I'll see every new map, but I like Albion and Volga. A little bit to open, but they looked and felt pretty good.
Little Old Man
Member
Things became so broken last night on Tsaritsyn Conquest that we managed to trap the other team inside their spawn behind A point. I've never seen anything like that before in Battlefield.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
this happened during the CTE to me. DICE as always did nothing about it.
Cool. Sounds good to me.
Well you're going to see a lot more of it. I had a couple games where one team didn't even break 300 points.
I'm sure it will be fixed eventually, like Suez was.
oh wait
Tried to play this after a while, installed 10 GB worth of updates and new NVIDIA drivers as the game required. Now full screen mode does not work: game starts in a window and toggling fullscreen in settings does absolutely nothing. Alt + enter flashes a glitchy streched image for half a second and goes back into windowed mode. Any ideas?
TimeEffect
Member
That map is a hell hole meant to appease fans of Metro and the like.
Absolute garbage, but it's the kind of map meant to satisfy the appetites of kill-hungry.
Saucycarpdog
Member
Here's my opinion on the new weapons. I've unlocked all of them except the Liu rifle.
Model 1900: Finally the double barrel shotgun makes an appearance in the regular game. It's fun and pretty generous when hip firing. Too bad the new maps don't really work with shotguns besides Tsaritsyn.
SMG 08/18: Mediocre SMG. It has a large magazine and low recoil but it's damage output is pitiful compared to Hellreigel and automatico. Would not recommend.
Fedorov Avtomat: My new favorite medic rifle. Not surprising considering it's the only gun in the game that functions like an assault rifle. Great gun.
Parabellum MG14/17: Has the highest rate of fire of any other LMG, so it just melts people if you can manage the recoil. Good gun.
Perino Model 1908: Decent LMG. Large magazine with low recoil Doesn't do anything different from some of the other LMG's imo.
Mosin-Nagant M91: Good long range sniper. I don't enjoy the sweet spot mechanic in BF1 so I can't really comment on anything more.
Vetterli-Vitali M1870/87: Eh, the SMLE and Martini are better imo.
Model 1900: Finally the double barrel shotgun makes an appearance in the regular game. It's fun and pretty generous when hip firing. Too bad the new maps don't really work with shotguns besides Tsaritsyn.
SMG 08/18: Mediocre SMG. It has a large magazine and low recoil but it's damage output is pitiful compared to Hellreigel and automatico. Would not recommend.
Fedorov Avtomat: My new favorite medic rifle. Not surprising considering it's the only gun in the game that functions like an assault rifle. Great gun.
Parabellum MG14/17: Has the highest rate of fire of any other LMG, so it just melts people if you can manage the recoil. Good gun.
Perino Model 1908: Decent LMG. Large magazine with low recoil Doesn't do anything different from some of the other LMG's imo.
Mosin-Nagant M91: Good long range sniper. I don't enjoy the sweet spot mechanic in BF1 so I can't really comment on anything more.
Vetterli-Vitali M1870/87: Eh, the SMLE and Martini are better imo.
guitarguy316
Member
This game is $40 with dlc pack. Worth it?
Sometimes the hit detection seems to be completely off. Today I spotted a sniper standing still. Aimed directly at his head, shot, hit, he didn't move, shot again, no hit, shot again, no hit, he turned into my direction, he shot, I'm dead.
Besides some minor issues absolutely worth it.
Besides some minor issues absolutely worth it.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
yes if you enjoy previous battlefield games.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
i didnt enjoy previous battlefield games at all and love this game. Conquest imo is a terrible mode where everyone is running around each other and randomly getting killed by planes, tanks and snipers on the other side of the map.
Operations and Frontlines on the other hand add that focused slightly more linear combat the series maps have always needed.
The gun mechanics are the best in the business. Going back to Destiny and Blops 3 is very strange even though i used to think they had the best shooting mechanics.
the gun balance is even better because you no longer have Assault Rifles sniping you from a 100 meters away. LMGs take six bullets to drop people which means you have a shot at surviving if you can find cover quickly. Same goes for Sniper rifles which are no longer guaranteed 1 hit kills and Medic rifles which are all semi auto, have very few rounds per mag and require a lot of patience and skill.
CoD went back to boots on the ground this year but their gun balance and shooting mechanics are all off. DICE knew they had to ground the game to focus on gun v gun battles and everything from the kill sound notification to the hit markers changing color on headshots and the feedback of each weapon on hits makes this a great shooting game. Even Doom felt weird to me.
TimeEffect
Member
I have the Parabellum. Youre right on, I suck at the recoil, but melted like 7 people on one of the TSNP DLC maps.
About to unlock the Fedorov. While Im a bit unsure I want to see guns crossing classes (SMGs should be what Assault excels at), I know its a AR type, but I'm hoping it doesn't outclass SMG range.
And Im also hoping the other semi rifles are not obsolete.
I know theres a big balance change coming, but my hope is they can make all the guns viable. No point in adding more and more guns if they can't all do something neat for players to enjoy. But if one gun is the clear stronger option, I don't want that to be the case either.
Interesting. I don't have an issue with Conquest, and find most of those kinds of deaths come from poor positioning, like spawning on a friendly.
I agree that CQ feels lame because of running in circles, and I wish DICE could design maps that didn't result in middle chaos.
That said, they are changing the conquest to classic, which hopefully results in more people playing defensive. They generally need to encourage defence.
Would like to see more maps like Armoured Kill from BF3 too.
jakonovski
Member
The expansion seems pretty ok, I don't know what balance changes they did but it all feels better now. The gun truck is still pretty nuts. Was kind of funny shooting down two bombers with it on the Russian winter plains map. Fitting too, since it looks like an AA truck.
I did that stupid "get 5 kills while prone behind a sniper shield" bullshit and it didn't even count. I got at least 10 kills doing it so it must be glitched. It's the complete opposite to how the game should be played and absolutely zero fun so I won't even bother trying again. DICE plz
jakonovski
Member
BTW no Tsar tank as behemoth? Is it coming as a later release or Dice just randomly drop the ball on the coolest war machine ever made?
TimeEffect
Member
It unlocked. The UI is just bugged. Restart the game and youll see its completed
The balance cbanges arent live yet
Yeah, a bit weird that there are no new behemoths in the expansion.
Jack Scofield
Member
I thought I read something about a new bomber behemoth? Or is that just a normal vehicle?
Same. I placed it right in front of an entryway in the church and just kept pulling the trigger when someone popped into view. I ended the map with somewhere north of 15 kills, all from behind the shield, so something is up.