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Battlefield V Returns Towards World War II theme - no premium passes or DLCs
Dice and EA have unveiled the release date of Battlefield V. The WW shooter will be released on October 19th and takes place in a Second World War theme. Good to know it that there will not be any premium passes and DLCs to purchase, the pay-to-win design is gone.
A new gameplay mode, Grand Operations, was introduced. These are like the Operations from Battlefield 1but are bigger. They cover multiple game modes, take place over multiple maps, and they're all wrapped up in a four-day narrative journey that covers historical moments from World War II. The single player War Stories mode will also be returning and continues the anthology format of Battlefield 1. Once again, the aim of this mode is to bring war into perspective with untold stories of real and relatable characters and their experiences. Players will meet new characters, the men and women who changed history. One of them will be told from the perspective of a female Nowegian Resistance fighter, battling against the German occupation. The trailer shows that players can shoulder barge through doors move and shoot while crawling backwards. It also showcases the soldier customization in action, as evidence by the woman's hook-like hand.
Dice mentions there is a renewed movement system in Battlefield V with new animations, little was shared about it. It is however expected the game will run both DirectX 11 and 12, much like the current version. It was also emphasized that many environmental things can be shot, players can shoot buildings, not only with explosives; but firearms with a heavy caliber can cause damage. Another innovation is the fact that players from the support class can build fortifications with a toolbox, but can also dig trenches or set up machine gun posts.
Battlefield V is going to launch October 19 for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Deluxe Edition owners will gain early access on October 16, Origin Access and EA Access subscribers will receive a Play First trial on October 11. Moreover, those who pre-order will receive open beta access sometime before launch.
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#5549606 Posted on: 05/24/2018 08:43 AM
I can't tell whether AlmondMan means it ironically or not.
I can't tell whether AlmondMan means it ironically or not.
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#5549614 Posted on: 05/24/2018 09:10 AM
I guess EA might just concentrate on cosmetics after all. Worked for Valve (TF2, Dota2,etc...) and Tripwire(KF2) just fine.
And obviously keep crates with new weapons and progression points.
I guess EA might just concentrate on cosmetics after all. Worked for Valve (TF2, Dota2,etc...) and Tripwire(KF2) just fine.
And obviously keep crates with new weapons and progression points.
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#5549620 Posted on: 05/24/2018 10:00 AM
Same old story here, there is nothing new or game changing that I can see, they always like to hype these new games as the best they have EVER been. I don't know what I just watched. There was no tank footage, no plane footage or any other vehicle footage. All we got was 2 minutes of cinematic and 1 minute of gameplay. Then when there was gameplay all we see is this insane montage of constant explosions and gun fire, there is no in between...just constant overwhelming action. This is how Battlefield 1 feels when you play, it's as if they don't know how to have a mix of strategic gameplay and normal battlefield chaos, it's just one extreme or the other.
We all know aswell that this game is going to be bloated to the hilt with loot boxes and rubbish cosmetics, after all we have to reward everyone as easily as humanly possible. I recall in Battlefield 2 where the upgrade system took time and skills, there was non of this "squad bonus" "vehicle destroy bonus".."bonus bonus bonus" You just played, got the kills you needed and unlocked your weapon, you had to work for it. There wasn't 500 attachment unlocks and camo skins, you didnt need it...why? Because the gameplay was the focus. These games today are not focused on gameplay, all its about now is pretty graphics and giving everyone a participation award.."everyone's a winner! yay!"
Just return to simple games with simple gameplay. There is a reason why Battlefield 1942 - Battlefield 2 were the best titles the franchise ever produced. Once you start filling games with nonsense you create a cycle of having to continually add more and more to appease the masses, which just degrades the gaming experience. Battlefield V will be the first Battlefield game I will not be buying!
Same old story here, there is nothing new or game changing that I can see, they always like to hype these new games as the best they have EVER been. I don't know what I just watched. There was no tank footage, no plane footage or any other vehicle footage. All we got was 2 minutes of cinematic and 1 minute of gameplay. Then when there was gameplay all we see is this insane montage of constant explosions and gun fire, there is no in between...just constant overwhelming action. This is how Battlefield 1 feels when you play, it's as if they don't know how to have a mix of strategic gameplay and normal battlefield chaos, it's just one extreme or the other.
We all know aswell that this game is going to be bloated to the hilt with loot boxes and rubbish cosmetics, after all we have to reward everyone as easily as humanly possible. I recall in Battlefield 2 where the upgrade system took time and skills, there was non of this "squad bonus" "vehicle destroy bonus".."bonus bonus bonus" You just played, got the kills you needed and unlocked your weapon, you had to work for it. There wasn't 500 attachment unlocks and camo skins, you didnt need it...why? Because the gameplay was the focus. These games today are not focused on gameplay, all its about now is pretty graphics and giving everyone a participation award.."everyone's a winner! yay!"
Just return to simple games with simple gameplay. There is a reason why Battlefield 1942 - Battlefield 2 were the best titles the franchise ever produced. Once you start filling games with nonsense you create a cycle of having to continually add more and more to appease the masses, which just degrades the gaming experience. Battlefield V will be the first Battlefield game I will not be buying!
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#5549626 Posted on: 05/24/2018 10:52 AM
I mean... just look at this picture. Does anything at all in it hint even remotely to WW2 (other than the guns)?
Female lead with robot arm, shirtless god of war bearded bald guy, black guy with blue Scottish facepaint (AND a samurai blade in the actual trailer ROFL). I'm left wondering what the guy on the far left is doing there, he must be lost or something. So this is WW2 "revised and updated" 2018 edition... o_O
No but really, all the absolutely insane SJW crap aside, it's a horrible trailer. They completely, and utterly pissed on the BF playerbase with such a Michael Bay bombastic shitshow that will make even COD jealous.
I am extremely disappointed.
Yeah, Battlefiled V is more COD-ish than ever. And these blue face paint reminds me of the Braveheart all the time.
Exactly what I was thinking too. I was sitting there a few minutes after the trailer, trying to imagine how EA wants to earn money with no premium and no paid DLCs... that sounds very odd and very not-EA-like...
I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that there will be micro-transactions in Battlefiled V.
Initially I though it will be in form of DLC, but if that is out of the picture and there will be no loot boxes, I think they will try to make more money selling cosmetics directly or they will introduce some in-game currency for that purpose which you will exchange for real $$$.
Also EA is focusing more on a way to convert typical games to game as a service experience, what ever this means by EA standards.
Many of theirs AAA titles land pretty fast in EA/Origin Access. Almost the is no point buying their games at launch.
My guess is that they will try to get more steady income from subscriptions and micro-transactions, than just one time boost of cash from initial sales that vastly depends of title quality and its reception. They just bought a game streaming company as well.
Also, about haft of the income for Activision-Blizzard was from micro-transactions in games last year. I bet EA want a piece of this cake as well.
I mean... just look at this picture. Does anything at all in it hint even remotely to WW2 (other than the guns)?
Female lead with robot arm, shirtless god of war bearded bald guy, black guy with blue Scottish facepaint (AND a samurai blade in the actual trailer ROFL). I'm left wondering what the guy on the far left is doing there, he must be lost or something. So this is WW2 "revised and updated" 2018 edition... o_O
No but really, all the absolutely insane SJW crap aside, it's a horrible trailer. They completely, and utterly pissed on the BF playerbase with such a Michael Bay bombastic shitshow that will make even COD jealous.
I am extremely disappointed.
Yeah, Battlefiled V is more COD-ish than ever. And these blue face paint reminds me of the Braveheart all the time.
Exactly what I was thinking too. I was sitting there a few minutes after the trailer, trying to imagine how EA wants to earn money with no premium and no paid DLCs... that sounds very odd and very not-EA-like...
I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that there will be micro-transactions in Battlefiled V.
Initially I though it will be in form of DLC, but if that is out of the picture and there will be no loot boxes, I think they will try to make more money selling cosmetics directly or they will introduce some in-game currency for that purpose which you will exchange for real $$$.
Also EA is focusing more on a way to convert typical games to game as a service experience, what ever this means by EA standards.
Many of theirs AAA titles land pretty fast in EA/Origin Access. Almost the is no point buying their games at launch.
My guess is that they will try to get more steady income from subscriptions and micro-transactions, than just one time boost of cash from initial sales that vastly depends of title quality and its reception. They just bought a game streaming company as well.
Also, about haft of the income for Activision-Blizzard was from micro-transactions in games last year. I bet EA want a piece of this cake as well.
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#5549628 Posted on: 05/24/2018 10:53 AM
Take off your old-man pants and be a bit more fun.
No, and those people can still play BF3, 4 and 1. Those are all available to play and are pretty great games. But WW2 is such a traditional swashbuckling genre, look at the 60's and 70's movies about it. It's only in the late 90's that grimdark became a thing in WW2-media. And even then, BF1942 was comical and over the top.
We all know that's not true though. Even if they were fun back in the day, they just don't hold up anymore. Sure, we have fun playing BF1942 at our LAN parties, but it's because it's so comically borky that it's fun. Then there's BF2, noone wants to play it because it's a bit boring compared to the whacky fun of BF1942. BFBC2 and BF3 pulled the threads back together and combined the whackiness with fun gameplay, progression systems and various other things that allow players to express themselves. I for one am looking forward to making an absurd dude in BF5.
Also, it's not a cybernetic arm, it's a prosthetic. Here, have a look at stuff available
https://goo.gl/qqP88G
I can't tell whether AlmondMan means it ironically or not.
Take off your old-man pants and be a bit more fun.
Well, to be fair, maybe not everybody wants to play Battlefield: Saturday morning cartoon. You might think about it that way, it's a valid opinion. If they would have made it more into a Bad Company game, it might have fit the whole theme more, imho.
No, and those people can still play BF3, 4 and 1. Those are all available to play and are pretty great games. But WW2 is such a traditional swashbuckling genre, look at the 60's and 70's movies about it. It's only in the late 90's that grimdark became a thing in WW2-media. And even then, BF1942 was comical and over the top.
Just return to simple games with simple gameplay. There is a reason why Battlefield 1942 - Battlefield 2 were the best titles the franchise ever produced. Once you start filling games with nonsense you create a cycle of having to continually add more and more to appease the masses, which just degrades the gaming experience. Battlefield V will be the first Battlefield game I will not be buying!
We all know that's not true though. Even if they were fun back in the day, they just don't hold up anymore. Sure, we have fun playing BF1942 at our LAN parties, but it's because it's so comically borky that it's fun. Then there's BF2, noone wants to play it because it's a bit boring compared to the whacky fun of BF1942. BFBC2 and BF3 pulled the threads back together and combined the whackiness with fun gameplay, progression systems and various other things that allow players to express themselves. I for one am looking forward to making an absurd dude in BF5.
Also, it's not a cybernetic arm, it's a prosthetic. Here, have a look at stuff available
https://goo.gl/qqP88G
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#5549630 Posted on: 05/24/2018 10:58 AM
Don't worry people, we talk about EA here, they gona find a way to f*ck this up as always
Pre order now, regret later. Game as service is another cancer coming, and because people have short memory as hamsters, they need to be burned again to think clearly.
The trailer looks like crap. Yeah the graphics is nice and all, but it looks like a Bad Company squad went fighting at WW2. Gameplay wise at this point it seems to be very similar to BF1, which personally I do not like. I'm hoping to see some real gameplay footage soon, but as always open beta will decide.
Don't worry people, we talk about EA here, they gona find a way to f*ck this up as always
Pre order now, regret later. Game as service is another cancer coming, and because people have short memory as hamsters, they need to be burned again to think clearly.
The trailer looks like crap. Yeah the graphics is nice and all, but it looks like a Bad Company squad went fighting at WW2. Gameplay wise at this point it seems to be very similar to BF1, which personally I do not like. I'm hoping to see some real gameplay footage soon, but as always open beta will decide.
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#5549636 Posted on: 05/24/2018 11:24 AM
Take off your old-man pants and be a bit more fun.
This slightly autistic brain is incompatible, sorry
I just don't understand WHY they felt like this SJW gender bullshit was needed. Almost every BF game (even Hardline, which was the previous rock bottom) sells millions of copies. This nonsense will likely not get them anything extra. I just don't get it.
Take off your old-man pants and be a bit more fun.
This slightly autistic brain is incompatible, sorry
I just don't understand WHY they felt like this SJW gender bullshit was needed. Almost every BF game (even Hardline, which was the previous rock bottom) sells millions of copies. This nonsense will likely not get them anything extra. I just don't get it.
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#5549639 Posted on: 05/24/2018 11:33 AM
This slightly autistic brain is incompatible, sorry :p
I just don't understand WHY they felt like this SJW gender bullshit was needed. Almost every BF game (even Hardline, which was the previous rock bottom) sells millions of copies. This nonsense will likely not get them anything extra. I just don't get it.
Inclusivity, I guess. I just can't care. It does not even register with me. It's inconsequential to anything to do with history. BF is a fantasy. In this particular fantasy, women are fighting there as well. Cool. Let's have a clan of all women-characters.
This slightly autistic brain is incompatible, sorry :p
I just don't understand WHY they felt like this SJW gender bullshit was needed. Almost every BF game (even Hardline, which was the previous rock bottom) sells millions of copies. This nonsense will likely not get them anything extra. I just don't get it.
Inclusivity, I guess. I just can't care. It does not even register with me. It's inconsequential to anything to do with history. BF is a fantasy. In this particular fantasy, women are fighting there as well. Cool. Let's have a clan of all women-characters.
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#5549645 Posted on: 05/24/2018 11:49 AM
Exactly what I was thinking too. I was sitting there a few minutes after the trailer, trying to imagine how EA wants to earn money with no premium and no paid DLCs... that sounds very odd and very not-EA-like...
I love that pic! In 0.001 seconds after they said no Premium, no DLC, i was like - "They are gonna start a subscription service".
Exactly what I was thinking too. I was sitting there a few minutes after the trailer, trying to imagine how EA wants to earn money with no premium and no paid DLCs... that sounds very odd and very not-EA-like...
I love that pic! In 0.001 seconds after they said no Premium, no DLC, i was like - "They are gonna start a subscription service".
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#5549649 Posted on: 05/24/2018 11:54 AM
Looks terrible, who did the trailer Michael Bay? Don't really mind women in a game but this just looks nothing like WW2.
Looks terrible, who did the trailer Michael Bay? Don't really mind women in a game but this just looks nothing like WW2.
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#5549651 Posted on: 05/24/2018 11:59 AM
I'll download, finish the singleplayer, delete and forget.
I'll download, finish the singleplayer, delete and forget.
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#5549654 Posted on: 05/24/2018 12:05 PM
Uhm yes, those people might want to play WW2 with up to date graphics and mechanics, not 1942... not everybody walking around was the one man army commando trooper. But I agree with you that it was more protrayed like a cowboy's war, and indeed it was highly irregular in many ways.
I personally don't have such a huge problem with the theme as it is, they already said with BF1 that they made some compromises between playability and historical accuracy, and after all it's a video gamen made to entertain, not to teach you about historical accurate happenings. You just have to get used to it, like many people complained about BF1 and it's theme when it was released, and eventually I found it to be very interesting too.
I just meant, that if it was the next BF:BC game, they could have maybe opted to put more focus on that coop game mode and your own company creation, even in WW2 times, that would have worked and fit pretty well with the Bad Company idea I think. Not that it couldn't work now.
No, and those people can still play BF3, 4 and 1. Those are all available to play and are pretty great games. But WW2 is such a traditional swashbuckling genre, look at the 60's and 70's movies about it. It's only in the late 90's that grimdark became a thing in WW2-media. And even then, BF1942 was comical and over the top.
Uhm yes, those people might want to play WW2 with up to date graphics and mechanics, not 1942... not everybody walking around was the one man army commando trooper. But I agree with you that it was more protrayed like a cowboy's war, and indeed it was highly irregular in many ways.
I personally don't have such a huge problem with the theme as it is, they already said with BF1 that they made some compromises between playability and historical accuracy, and after all it's a video gamen made to entertain, not to teach you about historical accurate happenings. You just have to get used to it, like many people complained about BF1 and it's theme when it was released, and eventually I found it to be very interesting too.
I just meant, that if it was the next BF:BC game, they could have maybe opted to put more focus on that coop game mode and your own company creation, even in WW2 times, that would have worked and fit pretty well with the Bad Company idea I think. Not that it couldn't work now.
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#5549655 Posted on: 05/24/2018 12:06 PM
Watch someone else play it on youtube.. It's 2018.. get with the times my dude..
xD
I'll download, finish the singleplayer, delete and forget.
Watch someone else play it on youtube.. It's 2018.. get with the times my dude..
xD
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#5549658 Posted on: 05/24/2018 12:22 PM
This is not a good sign. Every time there are spectacular videos released before the actual game is revealed, turns out to be a big ol dud. Supposedly June 6th is when you will actually get to see actual gameplay. So I will reserve judgement until then. But I must say the "reveal" on May 23rd was less than informative and interesting. They skimmed over so much it makes me weary of the final product. All I got out of it was bullets will go thru walls and kill.. Umm ok? And I was in the Marine Corps and in Afghanistan, and I don't remember seeing any blue face paint, on either side!
This is not a good sign. Every time there are spectacular videos released before the actual game is revealed, turns out to be a big ol dud. Supposedly June 6th is when you will actually get to see actual gameplay. So I will reserve judgement until then. But I must say the "reveal" on May 23rd was less than informative and interesting. They skimmed over so much it makes me weary of the final product. All I got out of it was bullets will go thru walls and kill.. Umm ok? And I was in the Marine Corps and in Afghanistan, and I don't remember seeing any blue face paint, on either side!
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Exactly what I was thinking too. I was sitting there a few minutes after the trailer, trying to imagine how EA wants to earn money with no premium and no paid DLCs... that sounds very odd and very not-EA-like...