Lol. This is why I don't play Rush. Completely broken balance with the tanks at the moment.
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Battlefield 1 Beta Impressions
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Hollywood Hitman
Gold Member
That's why rush is stupid atm
MillionStabs
Banned
It felt really broken. Then again almost no one was shooting us with the anti tank rifle. People just got into Light tanks and tried to challenge us but since they were shooting upwards and we were shooting down we just destroyed them
draughn101
Member
Battlefield One |OT| If ya can't beat 'em, Nerf 'em
endlessflood
Member
That's gotta be it.
Pestilence11
Member
Battlefield One |OT| Snipers and tanks cure trench foot
SlickShoesRUCrazy
Member
This game going to have a "hardcore" mode?
It's this.
No mention of it yet. I think they fucked themselves a bit by making the bolt actions the way they are. Hardcore might not be fun with how easy they are to use.
ndawgdrake
Member
Reached level 34. I think I'm going to put it down now.
After getting acclimated to the core gameplay, I've reached the conclusion this is miles more fun then 4 and noticeably more immersive.
After getting acclimated to the core gameplay, I've reached the conclusion this is miles more fun then 4 and noticeably more immersive.
ScherzoPrime
Member
I don't really get the complaints about the map design, at least in terms of Conquest. Unless you're trying to cross the dune sea on foot, in my experience there's always some sort of rocky outcropping or cover of some sort you can use to break line of sight with enemies. Fights seem clustered around the village and canyons, and I think it flows pretty well. I noticed on Rush though that on the third stage the opposing team can easily climb the rock arch to fire down on A and B from both sides, and there's no real effective way of clearing them out besides trying to go up there yourself.
I mean this doesn't match the beauty of Arica Harbor, but it kinda reminds me of Oasis (half the map being flat desert with village on one side). Rolling Thunder in BC2 was waaay bigger (a bit too big for 24 player conquest, honestly).
I dunno what they should do about tanks frankly. I like how powerful the tanks are and don't wanna lose that, but there should be more AT options for the other classes, maybe a more effective Light AT Grenade? (the current one is a complete joke) Also allowing Support to call in artillery would be good as well, and giving support Mines. I don't know what specific AT capability they could give Medics though.
I dunno if I have much of an opinion about the tick rate, but the medic stuff does seem problematic. Has there been any indication that DICE is taking feedback into consideration? I'm having a blast with the Beta (It's giving me strong Bad Company vibes, minus the Helos obviously), but there are definitely things that could be improved.
I mean this doesn't match the beauty of Arica Harbor, but it kinda reminds me of Oasis (half the map being flat desert with village on one side). Rolling Thunder in BC2 was waaay bigger (a bit too big for 24 player conquest, honestly).
I dunno what they should do about tanks frankly. I like how powerful the tanks are and don't wanna lose that, but there should be more AT options for the other classes, maybe a more effective Light AT Grenade? (the current one is a complete joke) Also allowing Support to call in artillery would be good as well, and giving support Mines. I don't know what specific AT capability they could give Medics though.
I dunno if I have much of an opinion about the tick rate, but the medic stuff does seem problematic. Has there been any indication that DICE is taking feedback into consideration? I'm having a blast with the Beta (It's giving me strong Bad Company vibes, minus the Helos obviously), but there are definitely things that could be improved.
ATOMICJORGE
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Battlefield 1 |OT| Above And Beyond The Call
computers putin'
Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByrSQ6rTyTw
LevelCap did a vid on how overpowered the tanks are, specifically the light tank. Sums up my thoughts on it pretty well.
LevelCap did a vid on how overpowered the tanks are, specifically the light tank. Sums up my thoughts on it pretty well.
Is rush meant to be fair?
Defence always has the advantage. It's just a matter of finding strategies to overcome the opposition.
This sounds familiar to the battlefront complaints at the start when the empire was always winning supremacy, and then people learnt the systems and maps and you slowly got rebels winning and winning.
Also keep in mind the beta has a shit tonne of locked items, something which would probably assist the attackers.
light AT nades not bouncing would be a good start.
It's meant to be winnable without an overwhelming need for coordination.
It's meant to be winnable without an overwhelming need for coordination.
2blackcats
Member
^ They've said the medic is bugged.
Big Chungus
Member
I love defending E, so much fun.
Jackfrags has a video where he goes 61-0 in a light tank and he wasn't even really trying that hard as the tanker. The AT options are just not good. The rocket gun is not usable in a lot of places, and if you are playing against a smart tank or a tank with support, you'll be lucky to get off more than one shot.
2 big AT nades don't even disable the artillery truck from behind. That's crazy. They've made it so that, unless you're an idiot and drive the tank into a crowd, it's pretty hard to die.
Hip Hop
Member
So what?I appreciate the wordplay going on with Make War Great Again but I just don't wanna think of Trump every time I click on the OT
Funny enough most of my wins in Rush in the beta come from attacking. I find it much easier to overcome a portion of my team being incompetent on attack than on defense. Then again perhaps that's because of the reduced player count as most of my recent experience with Rush is BF4 with 48/64 players.
Chubzdoomer
Banned
I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but the lack of teamwork in this game is downright infuriating. I've never seen it this bad in a Battlefield game, even going back to the betas of BC2, 3, and 4.
They improved sniping and made open ground a death sentence. Plus the game is probably attracting a lot of people new to the series that don't understand the basic roles. Add in some really unnecessary changes like the revive system, a questionable map, and gun balance that needs work... I can see why it's not really a good reflection of the BF franchise.
We getting the band back together Seks? Where's Faceless and Olympia?
Net_Wrecker
Member
I like the situations you find yourself in with E. Crossing the no man's land dunes and finding a lone wanderer or a random jeep full of people, having planes chase you overhead, guys on horseback charging across the desert, etc. it's a cool visual.
DeadlyVirus
Member
Battlefield One |OT| Party like it's 1916
lazybones18
Banned
Anyone complete one of the tracked medals? Decided to do the assault one, on the third stage.
Those people are offended about everything, though.
DeadlyVirus
Member
I found a guy on E just going around in circles on a horse for no reason
Net_Wrecker
Member
Strange things happen at E, breh. You go out there and you don't come back the same.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Capping while being a moving target so a sniper can't get him easy.
Has Sony dropped the rental service requirement to play online? No? Then I'm still on PC.
Bought a new GPU and need to get some RAM in fact
Bornstellar
Member
Lets be real, Cavalry is the best soldier in the game.
zswordsman
Member
Pretty much, my highest kill streak was like 7 with the horse and saber.
Also finally found a sniper for me. It's the one without a scope, I love it because I can shoot faster with it.
With the glitch right now? Absolutely. With that glitch removed? Eh... I mean the melee is an instant kill and you can resupply your (or someone elses) ammo and health with the sticky ammo/medic kits, but once people are able to kill you easy (due to the bug/glitch right now you have wayyy more health than even the Elite soliders), you'll be VERY squishy.
DeadlyVirus
Member
The flag had already been his for several minutes
Weird balancing, some historians have pointed out that by the armistice tanks were being knocked out/lost faster than they could build them.
Aa guns like the 77mm. tank vurse howitzer duels that ended badly for the former. 7,92mm smk armour piercing cartridges fired from machine guns and rifles that could punch through even "heavy tank" armour (12mm) up to 100 metres. All these plus break downs should result in game balancing not pumping up the tank as impervious to even foot soldiers.
Smokey_Run
Member
I was melting tanks last night when I played. Spam the two big AT nades, the small light anti-tank nade and quickly drop to the ground and get an AT gun round off. I pretty much cleared tanks out in 10 seconds if I was fully supplied.
On foot, you can use the 1911 as a primary and do well thanks to the armor + self heals. Pretty funny to embarrass people 1v1.
If a tank lets you get in grenade range they're not really paying attention. Shitty tanks aren't the problem. See LevelCaps video.
Do I really need to elaborate?
Hip Hop
Member
That's some extra level of sensitive if it gets you bothered
draughn101
Member
Nah, that was bait. Just chill.
TimeEffect
Member
the problem right now is that the medic notification is bugged, but it still needs tweaking nonetheless.
They need to remove the ability to quick forward the down state.
People are impatiently trying to spawn, and that screws with the medic's job.
I know some people want to change their loadout, but that brings me to another thing: why dont we have custom class loadouts to pre select from?
Every game with a loadout system has it, yet in BF, I have to create a loadout every time
flipswitch
Member
Has the new patch fixed the no weapons/rank spawn bug?
You have to be a really bad tanker to allow an assault trooper to sit around for that long. Two AT nades and a light one AND a rocket is just silly. Plus, it probably will disable but not kill a tank from full HP.