Battlefield 6 (2025)

So far season 2 feels like a 3/5 for me. I've played a bunch, but only had the new map pop in rotation 1. It seems fun, but will need more play to experience it more. The issues players had with the game all firmly remain and after nearly 150 hours, I can confidently say they probably won't fix them. Some of the highlights of shit that needs fixed are:

• There's a glitch with sniper rifles where occasionally they pop out to 1x zoom. Ignore anyone complaining about this aspect. If you hit the zoom key, all of a sudden you will get super zoom. It is way overpowered and a glitch that needs fixing ASAP.
• Random graphical glitches on some maps where the game all of a sudden looks like someone smeared their KY jelly over my monitor.
• Battlefield is no stranger to map balance problems and VI is no different. However, because EA has sterilized the game to an extreme extent, it's not as much fun. It's not the imbalance of just having an inferior spawn point that rewards you for overcoming it, it's the turd sandwich of never being able to keep your "easy" points. I can typically tell how bad a game is going to go based on which side of the map I'm on and the players instant response. The most broken ones are easy to spot too, if you have the side of the map that has an easily takeable spawn close to HQ, you're probably going to lose. This is especially true on Manhattan Bridge. Some sides have way more places to hide squad spawners than other sides. It really is that simple.
• Recon class isn't the problem with snipers, it's the fact that there is virtually no penalty for dancing around like a coked-up clown. There needs to be significantly more movement penalty for higher zoom levels and jumping around. I know this because I abuse it like everyone else.
• Assault class has some of the best gadgets, but its special ability doesn't do anything.
• There's something funky with the net code, but that's all fps online games. Just still sucks to shoot someone point blank with a shot gun, hear the hit tick, then they destroy you with an smg and you realize you did 0 damage.
• I think a lot of what feels like cheating is simply that EA doesn't know how to make characters face the way they are facing. This is especially noticeable if you've ever flown a recon drone and you've watched someone shoot bullets out of the tops of their hands. I've also approached in someone's blind spot for them to only snap to me and shoot me quickly. I don't think the in-game character models always appropriately reflect character facing.
• We need the return of the pilot class. If you choose to fly, you should get handicapped by the pilot class. A class that all your pilot specials are tied to, but it only gets a basic gun and no real infantry equipment. Help prevent people from using the helicopters and jets as one way travel because they want to be on a rooftop or plant a spwaner on the otherside of the map.

Anyways, probably the last time I'll gripe on battlefield vi. I really need to go play something else. I still have fun, but it's definitely starting to wear on me.

I did what I just said I wouldn't do, and I bought Battlefield VI. I know. Shame on me. I got it on sale. Unfortunately, there's just nothing else that currently lives up to Battlefield. Although, in my opinion, the jury on multiplayer is still out, I had a much better second night on multiplayer. I will probably eventually give full thoughts on that when I've had more time with it, for now let me just comment on the campaign.

I overall found it to be a decent training wheels, extended, hand-holding, learning experience when it comes to controls (although they had no vehicles of flight) and it does help one get a feel for the game. It let's you experiment with several weapons and gadgets and fine tune your graphics settings on the fly, which I really needed to do thanks to my aging 3080 being paired with a 4k tv and a (albeit well optimized) heavy modern game.

The story, however, is your typical glorification of the military with less "Tom Clancy" and more "Chief Wiggum Clancy". An insufferable plot, full of holes, flat characters, and unenthusiastic dialogue. I'm not going to overly ding battlefield 6 for this, because no one is here for the story, but a little effort would have gone a long way. I think about things like Call of Duty, a curse in the Battlefield world, and how I hate their multiplayer, but typically enjoy their story and will occasionally binge on a sale just to play through it, where here, I can fully recommend never doing that. If you're not here for multiplayer, stay far, far away.

My favorite part was the graphical glitch (or feature) I got early on where the cinema was showing me flying away in a helicopter, while a blackhawk (parked on the ground) playfully engaged two enemy tanks, while they just shot at each other during my flyover.

I'm left with the thought that the DEVs are so close to producing a truly wonderful single player experience, but they just don't commit to it. The squad based special forces military p*rn could be a niche that hasn't been properly filled since SOCOM Navy SEALs. Instead we get a half-arsed plot accompied by a 5 hour tutorial with glitches, bugs, and an overly aggressive "out-of-bounds" clock.

I bought this game because my brothers in law wanted to play. This is my first competitive shooter since Halo Reach. I am getting smoked. Any tips on how to get good? It doesn't feel like playing a lot is actually that helpful.

• Am I dumb to play controller on the PC? I like controller controls better, but I get that I could aim faster if I learned M+K
• How do you get good? It doesn't seem like there are any tutorials

I got ill on the day of the launch so I've sort of been playing this in a daze-like state but t's been fun so far... I think?

I'm not usually one for day 1 purchases when it comes to FPS games, if anything I've grown out of them the older I get, but since the Bad Company 2 days in 2009 I've really enjoyed the sandbox features and all the toys and gadgets at your disposal in the battlefield titles.

There's lots of explosions, lots of screen shaking, and at times I probably look like I'm spinning around looking for my mum in the middle of a warzone. Loving the vehicles and the drag revive feature! Just wish there were bigger maps which is what the franchise is typically known for.

Had some good games this weekend including the closest possible Conquest game you can have (each team starts with 999 tickets):

BF6 is fun overall with a few flaws. Some maps encourage toxic camping, the shotgun is a one-shot kill and giving C4 to the Recon class can make urban maps awful, especially for vehicles.

While i did get pretty bad at BF due to not playing it since BF4 8 years ago, i did get a couple of good finishes with #2 being my highest rank:

NB: There is a free beta this weekend and next weekend. It's only 39GB too. However, you do need to log in to an EA account even when installing through Steam. You also have to go to your BIOS and enable Secure Boot. I had to wait about 10 minutes in queue too (160K+ waiting, but it went fast).

Just played the beta for 2,5 hours. I have only played BF 3&4 previously. This feels like basically the same game but with more destructible environments. Also any class can use any weapon and they've shuffled things around a bit. E.g. the support is now the medic. Overall, pretty good. Got a couple of sweet kills with the default rocket launcer, which was my favourite weapon in BF4, lol.