Battlefront 1 (2015) looks and plays better than Battlefront 2 - but why?

[Deleted member 44371]

I tried playing Battlefront 2 again last night I just cant get into it. I was wondering why because I put over 300 hours into Battlefront 1. I loved the first one even though it wasnt perfect, but the map design, the walker assault mode / maps, the general reaction hit animations and especially the graphics are just so much superior.

Now battlefront 2 looks cartoonish and somehow worse than the first one, the maps are horribly designed in my opinion (by horrible designed i mean how the layout is not only the graphics).



Especially the hoth and desert maps looks so good in battlefront 1.

am i the only one? am i going mad? everywhere i see people praising battlefront 2.

whats wrong with me?



Especially the explosions of the grenades were so good in bf1.





just look at the draw distance, the details, the particle effects and even the DRAW distance was so much better.

what happened?!

 

[Secretofmateria]

Optimization. Battlefront 2 might have more
In the way of other features that are expensive so maybe visual prowess took a back seat to
Those

 

[Lant_War]

Battlefront 1 was polished to hell in both regards. Battlefront 2 had waaay more content so they couldn't focus on it on the same level of detail

 

[Railgun]

Battlefront 1 is a much better game and I will die on that hill.

 

[Patitoloco]

The graphics are arguable, but I think BF2 plays waaaayyy better than BF1. Some maps are better than others, but the core gameplay is great in BF2.

 

[PanzerKraken]

Eh BF2 in general is just busier, so much more going on. BF1 was a smaller game, less assets available on screen, smaller maps, etc so they were able to focus more on the graphics. BF2 expanded on everything and has so much more going on all around.

 

[Secretofmateria]

I do wonder what next generations battlefront moment will be? When battlefront came out in 2015 it looked so beyond anything else on the market. Was a great example of what those consoles were capable of, even with compromised resolutions

 

[Avitus]

DICE has fallen off a cliff, that's why

 

[VaporSnake]

A ton more is going on in an average Battlefront 2 match so they had to scale back effects, happens all the time with sequels.

 

[Komo]

DICE has fallen off a cliff, that's why

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Yup LA basically has to do all the work for them. Then the chance they had to make a game and have fun with it. EA was like NO ITS A BATTLEFIELD GAME.

 

[Deleted member 23475]

BF2 guns are hitscan instead they aren't in BF1.
So blasters and lasers feel a bit more "Star Wars" but honestly BF2 is much more fun once your brain understand that.

The 2 things I really miss from BF1 EA is the survival mode that was pretty fun with a friend and some maps like the Death Star trench run for example

 

[Ryan.]

The gunplay in Battlefront 1 is just so much more satisfying than 2's.

 

[Ctrl Alt Del]

Eh, maybe. Haven't played BF1 in a long while, and when that happens it starts looking better on my memory than it did in actuality.

 

[elenarie]

DICE has fallen off a cliff, that's why

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[Ferrs]

I agree, I only played BF2 beta, but I hated it. I can't exactly point you why but it didn't play as good as 2015 (which I loved). I think 2015 felt more arcadey, something that a lot of people hated but I actually liked it.

 

[janusff]

BF1 never got that Pro/X patch like BF2 did and as a result there's a lot more jaggies and blurrier. So yeah, gotta disagree there.

Now how it plays, no doubt it plays way differently. I go back and forth with myself with which one I prefer in that regard.

 

[Avitus]

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We appreciate you on the BFV OT and your work, never forget. Looking forward to what's next.

The gunplay in Battlefront 1 is just so much more satisfying than 2's.

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This is it for me.

 

[NinjaGarden]

but check out all those swirling leaves

 

[Taker34]

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Don't worry Nintendo is doomed since 1983. You're just like the new cool kid in town.

Actually you can see how much more optimised BF2 is on consoles, where the original ran at 900p on PS4 and is now at a dynamic 1080p (never dipping even close to 900p afaik). That's while boasting more complex geometry, having a ton more content and many varied maps with cool new materials used on the Naboo palace map for example. That just wasn't there and/or possible in BF1. What I remember from BF1 is that it was a solid base for future iterations but it was really lacking in content and map variety. I'm not sure why one would focus solely on the graphics in BF1 - it really can't hold a candle to BF2 in any other aspect.

 

[Com_Raven]

As others have pointed out, BF2 has been greatly optimized for consoles, and as a result feels and plays pretty great on them.

 

[Pey]

It felt more arcadey and I felt like you could be the hero of the match if you played well. I liked it way more than BF2.

 

[Deleted member 21709]

BF1 really nailed that Star Wars look.

 

[Deleted member 437]

Man, the hero characters in these games destroy it for me.

I can't enjoy it when you have some idiot doing flips and shit and 1 shotting me with a lightsaber.

Shit sucks and I bounced off of BF2 very quickly.

 

[Deleted member 44371]

The gunplay in Battlefront 1 is just so much more satisfying than 2's.

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This as well. The guns feel so good compared to BF2

 

[Pat002]

Wait what? I played the hell out of em on PS4 and i think Bf2 gunplay is MILES better.

 

[Deleted member 135]

Because they listened too much to the people who came from Battlefield expecting a core shooter instead of the arcade shooter the series was.

So the gameplay pivoted halfway to being a core shooter so now it's both a bad arcade shooter and a mediocre core shooter.

They cut down on mobility, added accuracy penalties for hipfire and firing while moving, added significant recoil, and reduced the FoV for infantry in third person.

 

[Kotze282]

I think the difference is even bigger with Battlefield 1 versus Battlefield V. If you ask me, it was the same with BF3 and BF4, but less obviously so. Going by that, we should expect the next Battlefield/-front entries to look amazing again. God I'm ready for next-gen.

 

[KenobiLTS]

No it does not.

 

[elyetis]

What a disappointment that was.
Bf2 got worst on the two things Bf1 did well, visual and gameplay ( mostly mobility ).

 

[Miggytronz]

I dislike how floaty BF2 feels compared to 1.

 

[Lowrys]

Disagree on both. Gameplay is more arguable IMO, but BF2 looks better to me.

 

[LiftGammaGain]

I prefer the first one as well. Just more fun to me. And i also think it looks better.

 

[Ste]

Dolby atmos is the reason I still play 1 and had forgotten about 2 existence.

Did they add dolby atmos?

 

[aerie]

You can find elements where Battlefront 1 beats its sequel, but when taking in everything the sequel offers, even just visually, everything going on in a map, the scale, the visual variety, it really is the better looking game. It certainly is the better playing and balanced of the two, even if again, there are somethings I preferred in the original. I really am quite fond of this series, even if the second one took a little while to come into its own. I've thoroughly enjoyed Dice's output this generation.

 

[Klyka]

BF1 has less moving parts and so they could make those fewer parts shinier

 

[CenturionNami]

B1 is utterly lacking in any content. And is a far inferior game.

I cannot understand why people even wanna die on this hill.

 

[Dog]

Battlefront 1 is a much better game and I will die on that hill.

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I'm with you.

 

[Edge]

Dolby atmos is the reason I still play 1 and had forgotten about 2 existence.

Did they add dolby atmos?

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I have no idea but I also had the best sound experience I ever had with a game with BF1.
I have a very old 5.1 sound system that I have to connect via optical out into an adapter for these red and white cables and for some reason, the BF1 sound just worked absolutely perfect with my system, it was so f'n mind-blowing.
Then I played 2 and it was bad. Just bad, the sound wasn't even nearly the same.

 

[Team_Feisar]

I also think I read somewhere that they used way more original assets in BF1 that were scanned via Photogrammetry.

 

[darthbob]

Meh, I prefer BF2 over BF1. At least with BF2 the additional content didn't fragment the playerbase.

Maybe if I had played BF1 on console I would've liked it, but the game died out very quick on PC.

 

[Siggy-P]

Its not worse.

The differen e is that BF1 was a first person game first and foremost with third person clearly tacked on.

BF2 is the reverse. A third person game first and foremost with first person tacked on.

BF1 is about accuracy and longer ranged engagements. The focus is shooting and killing.

BF2 is about getting close, movement, using abilities and such. Weapons are weaker and your opponents have more survivability.

 

[Zombine]

Battlefront 2 has a higher midichlorian count.

 

[Forerunner]

When it comes to content, BF2 is the obvious choice. However, for everything else I'd pick BF1.

 

[Deleted member 31133]

Battlefront 1 is a much better game and I will die on that hill.

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I'll die with you on that hill. BF1 lacked content, but it was the better game of the two.

 

[MorshuTheTrader]

Overall BF2 feels like a more complete game, but I agree, BF 2015 looked and played better to me. The problem was lack of content, it kinda felt like a demo for a full game we never got.

I'm guessing at least part of the reason the level of detail and polish went down with the sequel was to try to produce content more quickly.

 

[Deleted member 62561]

with how many different classes there are BF2's combat feels like a clusterfuck.

also i miss the BF1 jetpack. that was my favorite part of the game.

 

[Deleted member 44371]

with how many different classes there are BF2's combat feels like a clusterfuck.

also i miss the BF1 jetpack. that was my favorite part of the game.

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The jetpack was incredibly fun

 

[Fuchsia]

I do really like the blaster bolts visually speaking in BF (2015). I think BF2 would really benefit from those.

 

[Fawz]

Jumping into BF2 (2017) that was one of the most striking things to me where the look and feel felt noticably downgraded from BF1 (2015) when playing on PC max graphic settings for both.

With the amount of Patches BF2 got maybe it got better, and if you use some mods likely even more so. But overall the game was a big let down on mutliple fronts...

 

[Deleted member 24118]

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