yeah it seems to be appropriately sized, I think 3x Narvik? This is one of the medium sized maps though so there will be bigger!
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yeah it seems to be appropriately sized, I think 3x Narvik? This is one of the medium sized maps though so there will be bigger!
It's a closed technical test. It sounds like the rest went by the way it was supposed too. Your hang up's will help them smooth things out for release. Thanks for your help.
This one has some good gunplay, particularly in the second half of the vid.
Did BFV have reloads during ads? I haven't played it much and I recognized this feature from the leaked footage.
No it didn't, that and tac sprint are new (both work same as MW/WZ)
Nice additions! I think I'm gonna compile a list of all the new features that have been shown so far. Seems to be a lot looking at the alpha footage.
Oh yea both work great, the movement is very smooth it's a definite evolution of BFV's movement system. I really like the ping system as well, it's a perfect hybrid between the BFV and BF4 systems. In general this game really combines the best of BFV and BF4, and I honestly want to see this attachment system in more games now. It's so cool to make a cqb/lightweight version of a gun to speed into battle with, and then duck and put together a long range version so seamlessly
Is it normal in being two months from release and only having the alpha version of the game for testing?
After playing BF1 for a few hours, I vastly prefer 5's gunplay. Bullets actually feel like they go where you aim. Can anybody provide insight regarding the gunplay model in 2042? Does it feel more like 5? Or is it like 1 where bullets feel like they deviate out of nowhere?
Also. Another thing that sucks in 1. Constantly catching aflame when you step over a smallest trail of fire. Is this an issue in 2042?
Also. Another thing that sucks in 1. Constantly catching aflame when you step over a smallest trail of fire. Is this an issue in 2042?
The sprinting looks like is handled well. Two sprints. Normal sprint like we used to with both hand holding the gun, click again and you are sprinting with holding the gun with one hand and its faster. Penalty probably is slower to to come out of sprint and time to have the gun ready.
For BF? Yes, and these are separate from the primary builds.
From the videos it looks like somewhere in the middle, the spread is separate like in BF1 but is not as high and might not have the first shot spread increase from that game. BF3, 4, 1, have recoil and spread as separate mechanics, BFV's spread adds randomness to the recoil instead.
Actually tac-sprint seems to work differently and is infinite in 2042. At least in this build.
These are the things I noticed while watching most of the alpha footage I've come by. I haven't played the alpha myself so these are pure observations. Some might also not be any news or changes from previous games. I haven't played BFV much so it's likely that I will be incorrect about some features that might've appeared in that particular game.
Soldier changes:
Vehicle changes:
Interface changes:
Soldier changes:
- Reloading your weapon while aiming down sights is now possible. This feature is also seen in COD: Warzone.
- "Tactical sprint" is now a feature where you enable a much higher sprint speed than the regular sprint. This feature is also seen in COD: Warzone.
- The weapon categories being shown are: SMG, assault rifles, LMG, DMR, bolt action and shotun.
- A motion sensor grenade is being shown in the throwable menu.
- The gadget menu shows: rocket launcher, ammo crate, med crate, anti-air launcher, repair tool, anti-tank mine and navigation beacon. All of these can be used with any specialist.
- A player is seen using two frag grenades in their loadout.
- A player is seen using two different melee attacks: one quick attack with bare knuckles and one slower attack with a knife that replaces the gun.
- A player who is running around as Falck makes callouts indiciating that they have been spotted.
- The same player is also aiming at enemy targets and making callouts hinting that spotting is indeed back in some form.
- Every single specialist is seen using defibrillators as a revive mechanic.
- Pressing Q opens up the vehicle spawn screen on-foot, M opens up the map screen, B deploys the parachute.
Vehicle changes:
- The MBT is shown to have a mini-gun as a secondary gunner weapon.
- Turret angle and speed is now shown with vertical bars as well as numbers. For air vehicles altitude is shown instead of turret angle.
- Ammo and med kit crates have a circle around them highlighting the area where you need to stand to get resupplied.
- In the helicopter there is a radar rotating on the mini-map hinting at some automatic spotting equipment.
- The little bird now has very distinct tracer bullets coming from its mini-gun. Overheating the gun is shown with small dots that fill up in a circle around the reticle.
- The little bird has a seat called "spotter".
- The cockpit HUD for the heli now shows the angle of the helicopter.
- Briefly during a clip of a player using an attack heli there was a third camera option shown where the camera was placed beneath the left wing pylons.
- The vehicle spawn menu shows how many vehicles are currently on the map and how many you are allowed to spawn in. Vehicle types that are not available are crossed out.
- The small vehicle icon in the middle that shows turret direction now also shows localized damage, highlighting the parts that are damaged in red.
- An MBT is shown with red turret damage and the turret is moving very slowly.
- There is plenty of smoke coming from the cannon when it fires and there is lots of smoke coming from explosions in general. This will most likely make players move a lot more to get a clear view of their targets.
- A civilian pickup truck is seen being used by several players.
Interface changes:
- Kill feed is placed above the mini-map and only displays the person killed and weapon used. This seems like a placeholder though.
- During the spawn screen flags are now shown at the top of the screen with their specific names. Clusters are also shown clearly with names such as "C1" and "C2".
- The equipment that can be changed during the spawn screen is: specialist, primary weapon, secondary weapon, throwable and gadget.
- Flags on the spawn screen now have a circle outline that indicates capture status, instead of the previous "clock" animation.
- When you get close to a capture zone it is shown in the mini-map as a large white area.
- When standing in a capture zone the top bar that shows the contest status will now show exactly how many allies and enemies are in the zone.
- When a flag is capture an on-screen message appears showing exactly how many tickets were removed on the enemy bar.
- Health is shown both as a number and a colored line above weapon info. Depending on health status the line refills and shifts from red to yellow to green.
- All available equipment is now clearly shown with remaining ammo status at the bottom right of the scren.
- There is a d-pad looking icon with a T on it to the side of the ammo indicator. This icon switches to a bullet icon when aiming down sights which indicates that it's a toggle for firing modes and weapon attachments.
- During the "end game" screen ribbons are shown with progress status.
Great video, but this guy doesn't use the weapon customization either.
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cant link atm but in this guys other videos he switches them plenty of times.
My only fear still is that weapon customization really is this bare bones. since the reveal and still it looks like there are only a long range and short range scope, 3 ammo types (which in itself is a bit unrealistic for most guns) and a compensator and supressor.
it varies from gun to gun but for game of this scale I hope there is more to it. especially since even indie ganes more and more include in-depth weapon customization.
Having played the alpha and been part of previous battlefield testing the development process of these games baffles me.
It's literally like they go into the source directory and ctrl+A delete every time they start a new game. Things they've spent years perfecting and when the new game appears they've reinvented the wheel and we're back to square one.
I can't see this game being ready for release, the open testing will be a complete shit show.
For someone who "has been part of previous Battlefield testing" you clearly have no clue how these work huh
The audio feedback for hits sounds way too much like modern Call of Duty, in my opinion. I don't know how to describe it; it's this weird squishy, meaty, yet pingy sound, and very loud. Like a super audible feedback of a bullet aggressively smashing through armour, bone, and flesh, combined with arcadey dings. It's really distinct in stuff like Warzone and overwhelms ambient audio, including your own gun fire, in favour of the sound being saturated by "You did good" audio points.
I'm being picky and it's an alpha, and I'm just getting it from videos, but there's my unwarranted opinion.
I'm being picky and it's an alpha, and I'm just getting it from videos, but there's my unwarranted opinion.
I only noticed the ping sound for kills which sounds very Battlefield-ish.
All in all you can though see that the game too alot of inspiration from Modern Warfare 2019.
The animations, the recoil camera shake, reloading while ADSing, sliding.
But those are all good things in my book.
Just noticed now that when you ping a location the specialist calls out the direction and the distance. How many recordings did they have to do to cover all those combinations? xD
Operation FlashPoint and Arma have been doing this for years. Wonder what made them decide to do it now?
Ah ok i thought it was 12 for some reason. 6pm it is then!
I'm having a blast with it, even in this alpha state
Is it just me or the gunplay kinda looked like COD MW/Warzone with the ADS reloads, sound effects, and camera shake? Looks like they brought the tac sprint too. Neat.
Also probably just me but tanks move really fast here. Don't recall BF4 tanks moving that fast.
Any footage out there with tornadoes and rocket launch? Or are they not present in the alpha test?
Also probably just me but tanks move really fast here. Don't recall BF4 tanks moving that fast.
Any footage out there with tornadoes and rocket launch? Or are they not present in the alpha test?
MW/Warzone guns felt/looked kinda like bf3 to me when I played it. But adding attachments made feel slightly closer to previous CoD
They don't seem to be going faster than BF 3 and 4 tanks to me. You do know you can hold shift to make the vehicles move faster right? It's how you get away from bastards trying to throw C4 on ya.
Yeah, sorry, I misread the email! I was going off the US times I think.
After i watched that guys videos... this game will be so good when its polished. Gunplay looks good, movement/revive system looks good. The physics looks way better than previous games, the way the tank go through cars, objects etc looks cool. Also i see a decent amount of destruction here with physics applied to them. Also terrain deformation is in aswell. Sound is awesome as usual. Cant wait for this.
Oh and i like the hit markers/feedback
Oh and i like the hit markers/feedback
Probably still experimenting with the best kind of communication between players who don't use voice chat. It's likely more important now that we don't have the old spotting system back.
Wow, Falck really likes to talk doesn't she. Makes it fun to listen to because the voice actors sounds pissed delivering every line. 😂
I hope the revive animation will get more polish. It looked really good in BFV
I Hope it makes a return. I don't know why they removed it in BFV. Different Time of day would be appreciated too.
Seriously, wait until the beta to judge audio not some compressed feed. Its DICE at work, usually the audio is stellar.
Game is capped at 30 fps, I get constant drops down to the teens every few seconds. Running a 3090 5900x.
