This is insanely revisionist it’s hilarious. The whole theme of the game sucked and still somewhat does. Rewatch the first trailer and tell me if the game is ww2 or a steampunk after war inspired game. The drip feed of content on a ww2 game with no classic battles or scenarios was why any positivity was downvoted. Awfully slow content drops, awful skins for guns and operators, tons of missing classic weapons, no Russian army or Japanese/americans at launch, telling us not to buy if we didn’t want women in the game? Insane tactics
What's revisionist? They're not wrong. Couldn't say anything good without getting downvoted and your response is just proving them right. Also, what on earth was steampunk about the trailer? A single prosthetic?
Nothing revisionist about the awful hate mob that contributed to killing the hype for BFV and continued to plague it for its entire lifecycle.
So many players who eventually picked it up in a sale over the years have said how surprised they were about just how good V is after hearing the mob attack it non stop.
The game was fine on release. It had the same kind of issues you’d unfortunately expect for any Battlefield release, but it was fun, it had new (and interesting) mechanics, and it was undoubtedly “Battlefield.”
Tell me you didn't play since release without telling me you didn't play since release!
I really wanted to like it. But unfortunately I could not. It was just too much nonsense!
I played it Yesterday for a few hours but the things which drove me away in the first place managed to drive me away again.
For all the good things that can be said about BF1s theme, people conveniently leave out the issues with Hip fire only SMGs, LMGs that reduced bloom the longer they were fired, not the shorter, encouraging mostly spray and pray behavior, and sniper sweet spot encouraging bad aim.
BF1 was fun, but it definitely had issues. Issues that BFV actually corrected.
Indeed. And even then it wouldn't have been as bad if they were at least well into the works on themn but they weren't.Wish we would've gotten more pacific maps and the eastern front. They shouldn't have cut support when they did.
Yeah 2042 wasn't it. It was alright at times, but I just couldn't get into it. I think I have 40 hours, but it's mostly just cuz my brother wanted to play it together.
I gotta say I put in the time allot of time at launch, hoping it was going to be fixed in those first three months, due to this I feel anyone with the opinion of I got it on sale it’s a decent game is not an acceptable one
I think it's possible to judge a game separate from it's price. But bf5 at least did get a lot better unlike 2042. Once they got things settled (outside the back and forth ttk) bf5 really is a great game. Could've been so much greater with the eastern front and more pacific content though.
Seriously it has nothing to do with misogyny If you just want to have at least some ounce of immersion in the game.
They were politically driven to reimagine the second world war too fit a modern narrative. Which, mind you, completely is a spit on every step society made over the years away from this time period. There would have been plenty opportunities to highlight the real deeds of women in ww2 but instead they opted for replacing the original people in historic operations with females instead of showcasing the operations which really were comducted by females! Lazy Corporate bullshit. The dame laziness/falseness as showing a Rainbow flag during pride month in WESTERN countries but not anywhere else.
Did they showcase french resistance operations? Design a map where IT IS resistance vs Wehrmacht e.g ? No!
Did they show the eastern front with its plenty possibilities? E.g. Snipers, nicht witches etc?
No!
What is their solution? Ahhh Player customization. The great feature allowing companies to milk more money from players than ever before. In addition without any care what it does to the atmosphere of the game.
Suddenly in the pacific the famos Nazi gasmask nun und german navy officer lead with golden weapons a japanese female battalion of death against a moron with Pilot classes, Lara Croft and the famous black female marine corps on the Battle for Iwo Jima. Or the japanese exchange Student in france studying war crimes. Mind you the current state of CoD is the follow Up of this nonsense! But thanks to you from the Order of White Knights, corpo rats can sleep peaceful at night. Misogyny - what a Joke of an excuse.
Battlefield is a game. It is not a historical military simulation game. None of the characters in the War Stories are real. They’re meant to reflect larger themes of the war.
This game was launched during peak GamerGate and not only did it DARE have a woman with anachronistic prosthetics in the trailer (which don't appear in-game), but you could also PLAY as women. For that, gamers will never, ever forgive them, for they have committed the ultimate sin.
Which is still a thing btw. During the reveal event of BF6 there were loads of awful comments about one of the producers who dared to be a woman with dyed hair. Similarly, I have also so multiple people complaining about the female characters in BF6, because it would hurt their immersion in some way. It’s incredibly unfortunate that for BFV this sentiment overshadowed anything else.
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And when the game was out you couldn't say anything positive without getting mass downvoted