Not even a month has gone by since BF3 was released, I'm already rank 45, have all of the relevant unlocks in infantry and vehicles, and I can't play for more than 30-45 minutes without being bored. Everything I have said previously about this game (funny how CaptainCrunch and others were flaming me for judging too early) came true. It is a shallow game made simply to steal COD fan base. Instead of improving what they do great, which is "teamwork oriented large multiplayer battles with massive gameplay variety", DICE tried to nerf the game down to a point that all the COD crowd would be interested.
Well guess what, they failed. Not only the game sucks as a COD competition, with a miserably boring single player (COD's single player is years ahead of BF3's and everyone knows that), they also managed to drove all of their PC fan base away, the fans who put them to where they are right now 10 years ago now most likely won't buy another game from them. They outright lied about PC being the lead platform, they obviously underestimated it and midway they realized that they can't have the best of the both worlds, so they made everything console like.
I have played BF2 the other day, that game is so much better. Its so fulfilling, after playing it for 3 hours, you want to play more and more. You don't care about your rank or your unlocks, its teamwork. Its that feeling of success that makes you want to play more. It's all about the guy in your squad, helping him, giving orders, working as a small squad accomplishing great things in the game.
This on the other hand is boring as counter strike. It dumbs down the game to the point, you simply don't need any teamwork. Even if you wanted to, there is absolutely no way to have it. There is no VOIP, how are you supposed to communicate without one? Are these people for real? Not everyone is in a clan with 100 other people who share battle log friends lists or team speak servers, for a lot of us who just want to join good/reputable servers, we want to be able to effectively communicate with our squad members. Why is this so hard? I am in a firefight, I have 2 enemy soldiers in front of me, I have 0/0 bullets left, I got a support guy a few hundred feet away, I need to ask him "GIVE ME AMMO", and I CANNOT! I type 3 times in the chat, he doesn't event see it probably, given how ridiculously stupid the chat box is, the commo-rose is completely useless, it doesn't have basic things like "Need medic" or "Need ammo"! Why were such fundamental features were removed from this game?
Where is the ping? You claim that your lead platform is PC, yet you remove one fundamental feature from it, one that all games, dating back to 1998, have had it, it's called the PING! How hard is it to put it there? How are we supposed to know how good our connection is? Sometimes you end up spending 10 minutes in a server only to realize the reason why you aren't getting any kills is because of bad connection.
This game is a massive failure, if BF2 was Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, this is that joke movie twilight saga. It's that massive of a difference between the two.
Disappointing.
The worst part is? All those COD fanboys whom DICE tried to steal are now playing COD, COD sold millions of copies more, so all for this were for nothing.
DICE, we don't want some new functionality in this game. We don't want you to come up with features that didn't exist before. We want CORE features that have been part of all Battlefield games previously in this game.
- VOIP.
- Ping.
- Maps that are not linear and don't promote choke points for success.
How hard is it?
Well guess what, they failed. Not only the game sucks as a COD competition, with a miserably boring single player (COD's single player is years ahead of BF3's and everyone knows that), they also managed to drove all of their PC fan base away, the fans who put them to where they are right now 10 years ago now most likely won't buy another game from them. They outright lied about PC being the lead platform, they obviously underestimated it and midway they realized that they can't have the best of the both worlds, so they made everything console like.
I have played BF2 the other day, that game is so much better. Its so fulfilling, after playing it for 3 hours, you want to play more and more. You don't care about your rank or your unlocks, its teamwork. Its that feeling of success that makes you want to play more. It's all about the guy in your squad, helping him, giving orders, working as a small squad accomplishing great things in the game.
This on the other hand is boring as counter strike. It dumbs down the game to the point, you simply don't need any teamwork. Even if you wanted to, there is absolutely no way to have it. There is no VOIP, how are you supposed to communicate without one? Are these people for real? Not everyone is in a clan with 100 other people who share battle log friends lists or team speak servers, for a lot of us who just want to join good/reputable servers, we want to be able to effectively communicate with our squad members. Why is this so hard? I am in a firefight, I have 2 enemy soldiers in front of me, I have 0/0 bullets left, I got a support guy a few hundred feet away, I need to ask him "GIVE ME AMMO", and I CANNOT! I type 3 times in the chat, he doesn't event see it probably, given how ridiculously stupid the chat box is, the commo-rose is completely useless, it doesn't have basic things like "Need medic" or "Need ammo"! Why were such fundamental features were removed from this game?
Where is the ping? You claim that your lead platform is PC, yet you remove one fundamental feature from it, one that all games, dating back to 1998, have had it, it's called the PING! How hard is it to put it there? How are we supposed to know how good our connection is? Sometimes you end up spending 10 minutes in a server only to realize the reason why you aren't getting any kills is because of bad connection.
This game is a massive failure, if BF2 was Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, this is that joke movie twilight saga. It's that massive of a difference between the two.
Disappointing.
The worst part is? All those COD fanboys whom DICE tried to steal are now playing COD, COD sold millions of copies more, so all for this were for nothing.
DICE, we don't want some new functionality in this game. We don't want you to come up with features that didn't exist before. We want CORE features that have been part of all Battlefield games previously in this game.
- VOIP.
- Ping.
- Maps that are not linear and don't promote choke points for success.
How hard is it?
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