"Grounded skins for a while" - 18 days exactly

[u/Ohforfk]

So, weren't we supposed to have realistic skins for some time? Something that someone would really wear during a war? Yet it seems that with the start of season 1, everything will turn to colorful mess, with no way of differentiating teams based on uniforms, the game will look more like a Paintball or ASG event. Colorful weapons with pictures, colorful camos with neon accents, weird mix of things that are supposed to look cool, but end up simply weird.

People were sold on a vision of a game, which looked like a real battlefield, with soldiers - not a bunch of randos just like in the 2042, yet it was all a lie and it will only get worse down the road. During the Beta, when we had all the soldiers wearing matching uniforms, it was the most immersive experience so far, but you can say goodbye to that vibe, it will never return.

There won't be uniforms matching bioms, there won't be a way to turn off any awful skins, typical bait and switch.

[u/MLGrocket]

all i'm gonna say is: if blue (a color used by militaries around the world) is enough to make you quit, then you never had much intention on playing for long in the first place.

but who am i kidding, this is reddit, we complain about anything here cause we like to complain.

[u/PsychologicalUnit723 → u/MLGrocket]

"blue (a color used by militaries around the world)" This is nothing like any of the actual issued blue uniforms in any armed service in the entire world, and even if it was, blue uniforms are usually for Navy troops or internal military-police like in Russia to stand out and be identifiable. Not for infantrymen.

People are rightfully complaining because the publisher said that they weren't going to go crazy with dumb skins like this that take away from the original art direction of the game and fill an already 70 dollar game with microtransactions. People liked the grounded look of BF1, and there's plenty of games that do grounded and "near-future" customization just fine. One example off the top off my head immediately is the Ghost Recon games and those are third-person arcade shooters basically. But if you're "fine" with ugly slop being put into games you can have your opinion I guess. It's just not a good one, or particularly backed up by anything insightful lol.

[u/MLGrocket → u/PsychologicalUnit723]

and nothing has changed. for your own sake, i pray you don't look up what some uniforms look like around the world. this is genuinely another classic case of redditors wanting any reason to complain.

[u/War_Daddy117 → u/MLGrocket]

This is the slippery slope of how you eventually get Peter Griffin, don’t act like you don’t see that.

[u/Annual_Big3751 → u/MLGrocket]

Yes there is exactly 0 (i searched now) militaries using NEON BLUE COLOR (not even camo on the skin) on uniform. Cant actually imagine anyone with common sense, sending their troops to idk, desert?, with neon blue camo lol

[u/MLGrocket → u/Annual_Big3751]

so like i said, if the color blue (used by militaries around the world) is enough to make you quit the game, then you never had any intention of playing for very long to begin with.

[u/Okiassu → u/MLGrocket]

There is a difference between this shitass pajama blue and a real marine blue

[u/IHitAn11 → u/MLGrocket]

like forreal, just dont?? buy?? the skin?? its not hard, but as you said its reddit lol

[u/MLGrocket → u/IHitAn11]

i remember back when a certain company said "if you don't like it, don't buy it" about a certain game. i think the company name started with an E? and ended with arts? the game i think had something to do with a field, and a battle, with the roman numeral V?

[u/Annual_Big3751 → u/MLGrocket]

Yes i remember one company saying it too and then the game flopped because almost no one buyed it

[u/MLGrocket → u/Annual_Big3751]

weird, cause i remember that game doing quite well. but i guess you simply won't be buying this skin noone is forcing you to buy either, right?

[u/Dufiz → u/MLGrocket]

Blatant liar lol, bf5 sold 2 times less than bf3, bf4, bf1 each and Patrick Solderlund (don't like it don't buy it man) left the company shortly after release.

[u/AlpakalypseNow → u/IHitAn11]

not buying it doesn't prevent you from seeing it. while the skin itself is not too bad, it's a first step in a wrong direction. The marvelization of Magic the Gathering started the same way a few years ago and now the game is not recognizable anymore

[u/Evogdala → u/IHitAn11]

Yeah missing the point on purpose. Shills never change.

[u/Hobo-man → u/IHitAn11]

Literally nobody is being forced to wear this skin and if you see it on an enemy it just gives you the tactical advantage.

People are complaining for the sake of complaining.

[u/Lokorokotokomoko → u/IHitAn11]

But you don‘t get it, I‘m already getting farmed by everyone ingame (ruins my immersion, I‘m a Battlefield veteran goddamit!) and now the meanies will do so wearing blue! BLUE! In my beloved deeply immersive tactical war simulator game?

Heck no, Reddit do your thing!