Yeah, battlepacks and dogtags for Premium. But I recall it being like one free one a month for a year and a half? I forget what it was with BF4.
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Battlefield 1 Premium includes 4 themed expansion packs with 16 maps and more
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Yeah, battlepacks and dogtags for Premium. But I recall it being like one free one a month for a year and a half? I forget what it was with BF4.
Yeah something like that and double xp every month.
Old Gimlet Eyes
Member
And then we are getting 4 maps per year instead of 8 and have to grind to unlock anything else. I bought the r6 pass so I wouldn't have to deal with unlocking operators for ridiculous r6 credits.
It's the perfect strategy. Have metro 1918 in the first dlc pack to get people to buy it. Then have premium users get it a couple weeks earlier which then locks even more purchases.
OdysseusVA
Banned
When aren't you grinding to unlock a weapon or attachment?
R6 credits = Real money
Renown = Free in-game currency that you receive just by playing
Doesn't take long unlock operators
Old Gimlet Eyes
Member
Never because I buy the shortcuts lol. But yeah, I have a huge issue with that too.
I know the difference in the credits, just posting in between appointments at work so didn't have the proper terminology, sorry about that. It still does take a long ass time to grind the renown to unlock the operators though.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Bruuuuh
I guess it depends how frequently you play? I don't know, doesn't seem to take long to unlock operators, but Ive mostly spent renown on cosmetic stuff lol
Old Gimlet Eyes
Member
Lol, yeah I just don't have the time to play like I used to in the BC2/BF3 days, and I am not going to waste time unlocking stuff when my wallet is ready to go.
Big Green Anus
Member
With the bad reception that Infinite Warfare is getting I can see it being much less than $50. If it is $50, then it may have the rest of MW 1 maps in the season pass.
Still debating if it's worth getting now for the battlepacks or not. I mean I know im getting it eventually once the first maps drop. Should I just take advantage of it now though?Anything ever good in battlepacks or special perks with premium like double xp that non premium don't get?
Barely anyone plays dlc maps in bf4, it's really not worth the money because of that. Basically I get to play with the dlc weapons otherwise I might as well not even have premium.
I'm skipping premium this time, I've finally learned my lesson. If you could easily find full servers with all the dlc for every game mode it'd be worth it but I doubt that will be the case.
I'm skipping premium this time, I've finally learned my lesson. If you could easily find full servers with all the dlc for every game mode it'd be worth it but I doubt that will be the case.
Tarin02543
Member
Is there also a poor man's edition, just the base game?
I really don't find this argument that interesting. The "factions" are locked to whatever maps they're tied to. It's not, as far as I know, something like a class or weapon that you can freely use in any game mode or map.
breadtruck
Member
As much as I hate DLC, Battlefield has been different to me since they feel more like the expansion packs of days-past. Besides just maps, there has been vehicles and a bunch of other additions that felt like value to the game, so Ive bought the season pass on both 3 and 4.
That said, with other games going back to free maps because they realize splitting the player base is a stupid decision, its harder for me to find the value in this.
I wont be buying it this time. The base game will be enough for me.
That said, with other games going back to free maps because they realize splitting the player base is a stupid decision, its harder for me to find the value in this.
I wont be buying it this time. The base game will be enough for me.
Filthy Casual
Member
Last time I bought premium for £12 in a sale, I will wait again this time around and get it for cheaper unless word of mouth is through the roof for the quality of the DLC. On PS4 at least there were always full DLC servers in BF4 so I wouldn't worry about that too much in BF1.
You never know though, the DLC maps for BF1 could be very good. They should have went a free maps with micro transactions route. Just stuff like weapon skins, Scopes, stuff that won't have an effect on gameplay.
TimeEffect
Member
PLEASE MAKE THE OLDER MAPS FREE!!
Seriously, its fucking disgusting that they make people buy old maps when NO ONE PLAYS THEM.
It's a damn scam -- if the servers and players arent there, dont screw over people who buy the maps and are left with no value
Seriously, its fucking disgusting that they make people buy old maps when NO ONE PLAYS THEM.
It's a damn scam -- if the servers and players arent there, dont screw over people who buy the maps and are left with no value
Where do they make people buy old maps?
GinoFelino
Member
The DLC operators take fucking ages upon ages to unlock. If you've unlocked all base operators, you'd have to play like 50 hours to unlock just the one DLC operator. Source: I've played 70+ hours and have enough now to unlock one DLC operator.
But the fact that you -could- unlock them with in-game currency generates so much goodwill it's easy to see why they announced it that way.
In reality though, it doesn't make much of a difference with just paying for it. Free maps are nice though, but there's 3 free maps now after almost a year. That's incomparable with BF1's planned 16 DLC maps.
I might actually get Premium for the first time. I'm loving the game that much. That's a lot of new maps, and it's way more than a game like Overwatch produces, there probably won't be 16 new Overwatch maps by the time BF1 does, maybe not even half that. If that's the money they need to produce that amount of really big maps without waiting to rely on how well cosmetics are selling than I'm okay with it.
The Last Wizard
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I'd rather pay for maps than only get a handful of maps over the course of a games lifetime, like what we're seeing with siege.
Historically they've cycled through each map pack as Free for BF 4 and I believe Hardline, every pack has been free at one point.
Hasn't BF4 had free "sales" of old expansions in the last year or so? Could have sworn I saw Second Assault and China Rising free on XBL a few times.
I agree though, there should come a time in which old maps become free to help the population stick together.
Vital Tundra
Member
Eww locking game modes behind premium?
RichiRamjag
Member
That's all I've played since they've come out. I move on to the next pack when that's released. Plenty of people play them.
Siege's maps take such a huge amount of time to create and balance due to the nature of the game and they take even longer for players to master. It would be hugely overwhelming if they released 4 maps at once.
That's not to mention the fact that they release 2 new operators with each map that can completely change the meta game.
The only thing Siege could've done with more of with regards to DLC is new game modes. It's not really comparable to Battlefield.
With that being said, I would absolutely take slightly less content for BF1 if it meant it was free and available to all players to keep the community together in one place.
My first computer was almost $3000 in the early
80s. By the everything should follow inflation idea desktops would be around $8000 today. Technology, especially established mass market technology, tends to get cheaper not more expensive.
BibiMaghoo
Member
In general terms, I have found the Battlefield season passes to be the best value in terms of what you get for your money. Sadly every time I have bought a premium, I have moved on from the game long before the DLC is even half out. They take far too long for it to be worth it at that price. By the time it's actual released it will cost a tenner.
I think theres still a couple missing in hardline. At least bf4 had everything for free.
ffejeromdiks
Banned
Maybe on consoles, pretty much every US server on BF4 PC has every DLC map, I've never had a problem with finding a server in the 3 years it's been out. Vanilla servers are pretty rare to see in the server browser.
This is pretty exclusive to BF4 though, I don't play Hardline but the servers for it's DLC are completely barren on PC. If the game and content is good enough, the players will be there even years later.
Same for me. The only pass I have purchased. I would buy every map pack or DLC for this series, but only this series as I play hundreds of hours.
I can't wait to see the maps for this setting.
BarringGaffner
Member
Battlefront DLC has been god awful. Hope it is better than that.
They've changed this in Rainbow Six Siege where you can now buy everything with in-game R6 credits.
dano1
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Seem like a happy gamer...
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