I play Conquest almost exclusively and don't really agree but so it goes.
re: BF1
I'll second Syntax in not sharing the same experiences Idiotekque mentioned.
Every game is usually different, though if you stay on the same server with the same group of players, sometimes the experience can get redundant.
Vehicles can get a lot of flags, but I find that to be the case usually at the beginning of the game. Once everyone gets their vehicles and people set their mines, etc. vehicles can be neutralized pretty easily. On most maps, the real match is won in the trenches in close combat.
Sniping isn't really a viable strategy unless the other team just sucks. I've had a few maps where snipers post up on the hills, but we still won. If they put too many resources camping the hills they won't be taking flags and getting points. It's annoying once in a while when trying to get from point a to b, but just find another way around or run up there and shoot them.
Shotguns are useless in some maps, but great in others. I think rifles and support/attack tend to be the best balance in games. Once you unlock some rifles with scopes, the snipers aren't a big deal unless you are too far.
The most annoying map is one where the other team can camp your spawn point, which is indoors, and basically win that way. They need to fix that, but otherwise I haven't seen it in other maps
Well, there are certainly some maps that vehicles are all but ignored (whatever that one that's on the cliffs with the turret bunkers comes to mind), but there are a handful of maps that vehicles are hands down THE way to win. Sinai Desert, for instance, I group up with people in one of those quick trucks with turret gunners (driver has no weapons) and I've honestly never lost a match on that map when our team competently uses vehicles there. Whatever map that's in the city with a bridge and whatnot, tanks absolutely dominate as well. They completely shut down lanes and it's very difficult to pin them down, because they can make use of the larger alleyways to stay mobile and
up anyone who tries to push forward.
I don't really have a problem with vehicles being useful. I mean, both sides get them, so it's just important for your team not to screw itself over by piloting one like an idiot and giving them the edge, but it's pretty major, and it lends to snipers being able to control the flow of the game when the vehicles snatch flags and shut down progress.
I mean, I suppose down the line I could suddenly change my mind and see something else with snipers, but I've played enough games to get a pretty good sample size (level 16 now). It's not so much me just dying to snipers often; I've been using some marksman medic rifle I forget the name of, and it fares decently against them at mid ranges, but the damage drop off still makes it a 3 shot vs the sniper's 1. It's more watching the flow of the game and watching how when we're on x map (being a wide open map with flags that aren't afforded much cover), forced to push through certain open areas, and their team spams snipers, shutting down a lot of progress, so our team winds up mirroring it with a lot of our own scouts, leading to us clearing them out enough to get to the flag, at which point they swap upon death to more skirmish-ready classes, either fail, or push us out, rinse and repeat.
It's not like a procedural experience and how it goes every time, but I'm seeing it time and time again and seeing a definite trend. Not to mention using the scout class myself in these given scenarios and seeing how much more ridiculously easy it is to halt progress and get kills. I was never suggesting that teams are going pure snipers and never changing classes (and teams that stubbornly do that wind up failing badly), there's still shifts depending on what's needed, but snipers just tend to dominate when it comes to the frequency of wide open areas and the seemingly very low damage drop off they have. I remember playing BF3 and 4 and feeling pretty good balance between snipers and other rifles. Bolt actions would generally be 1 shots, semi auto generally were 2, while other rifles (both automatic and semi) could still pick off snipers with relative ease even at ranges (even though the sniper obviously had the optic and damage advantage). Marksman rifles seem to handle that relatively well in BF1, but 3 vs 1 shot is still a pretty wide gap. It's also something to be said that optical and marksman rifles are the only real middle ground to deal with snipers (trench guns and LMGs are terrible options up against snipers at even medium ranges), and that's a definite difference from older games.
Simply put, snipers in BF1 feel just as powerful if not more so than bolt actions in modern BF games, while all other weapons in BF1 do indeed feel more dated and unwieldy. In terms of realism, it's hard to say anything is all that out of place, but in terms of balance, the divide is a hell of a lot more noticeable.
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Damn, that's gotten cheap. I played it closer to launch and had a lot of fun with it. Pretty unique MMO, nice fast paced combat, awesome lore, easy recommendation overall. There are some reasonable qualms about end game content and how stat progression works and whatnot for people who are more hardcore, into PVP, etc, but nothing that ever bothered me.
The character creation is absolutely amazing too. You can fiddle with the details to a ridiculous extent. Outfit-wise your character will be stuck in... well rags basically unless you spend cash though. The only good-looking gear is in the cash shop, or was when I quit after everybody else I knew gave up and I was tired of logging in alone. I doubt that has changed.
Really annoyed that you can't buy the game on Steam and log in to your old BDO account though. That is pretty silly. Every other MMO I have played on Steam lets you buy it and then log in with whatever account you want.
Outfits? I played as a sorceress and tamer and never really noticed outfits being ugly. Even the starter gear looked decent (tamer may have been a little dull though). Sorceress outfits were awesome looking, I remember going up to higher gear and being sad I had to leave my old looks behind, lol.
Disappointing to hear you can't use your old login info though.
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