wow.

wow as in, wow so it doesn't look nothing like the reveal trailer AT ALL.

Just BFOne with a coat of paint and girls, this time?

Even the raytracing looks bad. so a new generation of horse power to do... proper SSR real-tiem reflections that means almost no visual gain? such wow.

count me out.

It is a bit disappointing that the reveal trailer was obviously made to look extra impressive.

This footage was captured with a 1080 Ti, no raytracing is enabled.

BF might have gone down the shitter somewhat since BF3, but theres no denying they know how to make their games look pretty. and that sound! still industry leaders in that regard.

Not a Battlefield fan as way to arcadey for me and respawny (would love a Harcore 16v16 mode) but the beta plays really well. Slowed the game down a bit no more 64 Usain Bolts running atound like crazy and it plays way better for it.

Battle Royale mode could be very interesting!

Yeah, Much Better than BF1.
Now everything is better, i think.
The Slower Speed feels sooooo good for me!

I like the Open Beta more then BF1 in it's "Today" State :)
It is a Good Year for Gamers :)))

The reveal trailer was never believable

Played for another couple of hours last night, Really love it. Best respawny shooter i've played in years. It also looks bloody incredible on my LG OLED infact i'd say the PS4 Pro has a new best looking game on release! Only problem is HDR on the Beta seems broken as it doesnt save the brightness and dark areas are way to dark.

Hardcore mode should be even better when released! F**K it Dice has a sale!

The game is OK. That's it. Just OK.

It's fun for a quick blast, but nothing about it is sucking me in. It just feels more of the same. Formulaic. All this talk about it being "the most immersive Battlefield yet" was bollocks. There's one or two things in there that tries to encourage team play, like the limited ammo, class balance and that, but it still suffers from the same shite as the rest, as in players just don't seem to care and just lone wolf it. The building of forts and structures seems pointless from what I've played so far. I think I saw one player do it once and that was it.

EA are slowly eroding this series into the ground. It feels like they want to compete too much with COD, and therefor feel like they have to cater to that demographic and release what feels like a new game every year. It's getting played out now, and is in need of it reinventing itself, but I suppose adding women and funky customisations is their idea of that.

Enjoying this beta a lot more than I did BF1's. If feels strangely modern. Like they've just ignored all the WW2 trappings of slower, more innacurate weapons in favour of just making it feel good to shoot dudes. I like the little bits of banter when you're running around in a group. And the movement and shooting feel good. The building seems cool too. And it's definitely used in a lot on the games I've played so far, even if I haven't touched it myself. Team play feels largely accidental though. Like when a few squads just happen to to be moving towards the same objective. Otherwise it just doesn't feel like it's happening all that much. Which I guess is the lone wolf thing mrwhite mentioned. But that's my general experience with random matchmade games in BF anyway. So it's nothing new.

Doubt I'll buy it until it's cheap. But it seems pretty good.

The player base on the PC side is probably a lot different.I've played the last couple BF's on PC, and this one is the first on a console I've played since BC2. I still really don't know what to make of it, if I like it or not. Maybe it'll click, but so far there's a lot in there that I don't like, and some braindead design choices like having to top up extra ammo at crates, which for my experience, had me run out of ammo regularly in pitch battles around a capture point, then die because I'd to use a pistol. They're trying to force team work, but that's only a romantic idea that just does not apply all the time during a round. It's a poor decision and hopefully they try a different method to keep teams supplied. The other big issue I have: the maps, and the lack of vehicles in them therein. This only exacerbates the ammo situation, and it's leading to the game feeling very chaotic, run and gun, you shoot me, I shoot you. I die, I respawn. Vice versa, no real method. The Rotterdam map could be a good one if they put an emphasis for vehicles on there, and maybe had a levolution feature from BF4 where you either had to destroy or fix the bridges in order to advance. That's the thing. Seems like this game had, or has, massive potential, but it's being squandered. My other big gripe is that it just doesn't feel like a WW2 game. It feels too modern or something. Like if Michael Bay and Chris Nolan did a collaboration on what they thought happened during WW2. I don't mind the odd liberty being taken, but when you pick up a weapon and it has a reflex sight on it that looks more modern and futuristic than a modern warfare shooter, then that's a problem.

Yeah, the shooting mechanics are good. They've got that right at least. I know it's a beta, but I don't know. It just feels off. As you say, and I said in the previous post, it feels like a modern shooter. Some of the aesthetic design choices are just fucking weird too. Takes you right out of it. They should have went the whole hog and did what they did with BF1 and made it abundantly clear it's an alternate reality WW2.

Tbh, I actually like that it feels modern and in some instances even looks modern. The funky aesthetics are great and inject some character into what would otherwise look completely derivative. My initial worries about this game when it was first announced was that it was WW2. after BF1 I don't think the older time periods work very well, and I was hoping V was going back to modern military. But they've found a nice middle ground. It plays modern but looks old...sometimes. And that's perfect to me. But it is also a bit weird because it's asks the question...why make it WW2 at all if you're mechanically going to ignore the elements that feel like an 1940's war? I'm not looking for authenticity or realism, I mean, we're talking about a game that lets you jump out of a jet, snipe someone, free fall back to your jet and start flying again. But I would have thought there would be more in there to justify the setting choice and there doesn't seem to be.

My main complaints...and this has been the case with BF since BF4. Is the classes. They never quite feel right. I miss a stand alone engineer class for instance. Now it's just been shoehorned into assault. I don't like certain aspects of the weapon upgrade system. Like why has it become a "this or that" skill tree? I also don't like that you have to manually redeem your unlocks for weapons. Like...why have this unnecessary step? And as grift said, I don't like that it defaults to squad following after a death. It should default to the map screen. Also, is this the extent of the weapon options or is it just because it's a beta? It makes it look like incredibly slim picking per class.

There's a lot to like. But it feels a bit too safe. But out of all the upcoming MP games it's definitely the one I'm the most into. It's still a unique thing in the MP space and it captures the frantic panic of ground warfare better than anything else on the market.