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krumme

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I basically stopped playing this game. Its boring AF! I've been playing BF4 lately again. My god that is so much better of a game. Its just so much more interesting. The environments in BF4 are more dynamic, complex and generally just interesting. BF1 is all the same; a bunch of busted rubble everywhere, copy and paste buildings and some hills. BORING!!! Omg I hate this game basically. Its a snooze fest. Everything about it is just so...boring! Its the first BF game I've only bought the base game. I won't be buying any expansions at all, ever. Vehicles are slow and boring. Guns are boring. Environments are bland, repetitive and you guessed it, boring.

Tanks and vehicles are slow, clumsy and yes, I get it, even authentic to the era maybe, however, a few commas in this sentence later, boring! I swear to all things holy, driving in a tank up a hill is the most boring, painful experience of my entire life. Its so slow, its like, before you get to the top of the hill, it would be faster to just get out of the tank, craft a wrench in minecraft, find a way to import the magical wrench into BF1, disassemble the tank, walk each part to the top of the hill, REASEMBLE IT, and then continue driving it. All of that crap equals boring. This game just sucks. Its boring.
Stop playing conquest and start playing operations.
Play assault with a shotgun and a shovel as backup. Play to win for the team. To hell with kd. Stay out of the tanks. Play to take out the tanks.
Charge round all corners. Use incendiary granades and finish with a gun.
Then its by far the best and most fun bf ever.
 

sze5003

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I recently unlocked the rsc optical and now the medic is my favorite class. I used always play assault with the heilrigger but now I'm like the guy from hacksaw ridge trying to save everyone that gets hit.
 
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krumme

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I recently unlocked the rsc optical and now the medic is my favorite class. I used always play assault with the heilrigger but now I'm like the guy from hacksaw ridge trying to save everyone that gets hit.
Yeaa. Its outrageous effective for the win on operations.
I will try it.
 

sze5003

Lifer
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Yeaa. Its outrageous effective for the win on operations.
I will try it.
Only reason I decided to unlock it was because once I got the premium pass servers were still empty for hardcore mode so I just went and played regular.

Even on regular mode you can do serious damage with the rsc despite it only having 5 bullets in the chamber. I was hitting headshots on snipers from super far away. Just look for their scope to glisten and aim in that area. If you are quick enough you will get them.

Is operations hardcore or normal mode? I forget because I only played them once. Not particularly a fan of regular mode conquest or rush since it takes a while to get to an objective and you are literally getting sniped from all over or screwed by tanks.

I like the medic loadout but I can't do anything about the tanks when they show up. And whatever team I'm on, the other players usually never take out the tanks. They will sit there and respawn on me and get pummeled with tank shells while I run around with my syringe.
 

TheNiceGuy

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I really wanted to like the game, but it's overall just not as fun as the other battlefields I've played. Still, there was a lot of improvements to some aspects of the gameplay and obviously somebody's put a lot of work into it.
This is the only Battlefield game I bought the premium right away. I like flying the airplanes and I think they're a lot of fun. I dont care for the infantry only maps, especially that forest one.
I've only ever played alone on public servers. I think Battlefield 2 is the closest I came to truly cooperative play, most people were using the microphone and talking and cooperating, it was a lot of fun. I imagine playing with people you knew would make the game completely better A new experience.
 

sze5003

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It just seems like the game is dead. There are very few people on playing rush or some of the other game modes.

Basically no one plays hardcore mode unless it's conquest and I hate playing conquest since it takes forever to get anywhere and you have to deal with trying to get to an objective without being sniped anytime you walk in an open area.

My favorite modes were domination or rush in hardcore. Those servers are always empty. I don't know if this is what they were expecting even with the season pass.

I bought the pass so I could play the newer maps but since the servers always seem empty I just end up playing regular domination mode and that cycles through the maps I've all seen before.
 

krumme

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Only reason I decided to unlock it was because once I got the premium pass servers were still empty for hardcore mode so I just went and played regular.

Even on regular mode you can do serious damage with the rsc despite it only having 5 bullets in the chamber. I was hitting headshots on snipers from super far away. Just look for their scope to glisten and aim in that area. If you are quick enough you will get them.

Is operations hardcore or normal mode? I forget because I only played them once. Not particularly a fan of regular mode conquest or rush since it takes a while to get to an objective and you are literally getting sniped from all over or screwed by tanks.

I like the medic loadout but I can't do anything about the tanks when they show up. And whatever team I'm on, the other players usually never take out the tanks. They will sit there and respawn on me and get pummeled with tank shells while I run around with my syringe.
Operations is normal mode.
Ofc there is trouble with very different player levels. Some good players flying planes and a few tank drivers can kind of dominate it but it gives ok dynamics. The problem is when the teams is unbalanced.
Operations is nice because you play a mode between conquest and rush and get to new objectives and maps. Gives more variety and excepts for a few placed you dont end up in those cluster situatikns where things locks up.its more varied and some maps lile verdun demand the attackers to use an actual strayegy
I think its the mode of the future. There is plenty playing it btw.
 

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Operations is normal mode.
Ofc there is trouble with very different player levels. Some good players flying planes and a few tank drivers can kind of dominate it but it gives ok dynamics. The problem is when the teams is unbalanced.
Operations is nice because you play a mode between conquest and rush and get to new objectives and maps. Gives more variety and excepts for a few placed you dont end up in those cluster situatikns where things locks up.its more varied and some maps lile verdun demand the attackers to use an actual strayegy
I think its the mode of the future. There is plenty playing it btw.
I tried to get into an operations match last night. I guess I picked the one with the French at soissons but no one was joining for a good 10 minutes. Ended up playing the same hardcore conquest that has 64 players and usually a que.
 

TheNiceGuy

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I tried to get into an operations match last night. I guess I picked the one with the French at soissons but no one was joining for a good 10 minutes. Ended up playing the same hardcore conquest that has 64 players and usually a que.
I've tried several times to join, and after a lengthy load time, the server it automatically assigns me to is always empty. I've never been able to play at all. There's no way to list first to see if there's anyone in the games
 

sze5003

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I've tried several times to join, and after a lengthy load time, the server it automatically assigns me to is always empty. I've never been able to play at all. There's no way to list first to see if there's anyone in the games
With the new update they made some server changes. If you go to server browser and select free slots 1-5 it will show all the several with people in them. Of course many of them are regular mode conquest or the dlc conquest maps. Every other mode seems to have empty severs. It's pretty much like the game is dead and they aren't even done yet with the dlc.
 

quikah

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With the new update they made some server changes. If you go to server browser and select free slots 1-5 it will show all the several with people in them. Of course many of them are regular mode conquest or the dlc conquest maps. Every other mode seems to have empty severs. It's pretty much like the game is dead and they aren't even done yet with the dlc.

Not sure what has changed, it has always been like this as far as I can remember. I play rush or war pigeons, always only 3 or 4 servers busy, rest empty.
 

sze5003

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Not sure what has changed, it has always been like this as far as I can remember. I play rush or war pigeons, always only 3 or 4 servers busy, rest empty.
I can never find any rush severs available. I don't mind conquest on the they shall not pass maps as they aren't that big. My guess is that the game is more popular on consoles.
 

quikah

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I can never find any rush severs available. I don't mind conquest on the they shall not pass maps as they aren't that big. My guess is that the game is more popular on consoles.

Really, I have never seen that. Always have rush available. Are you looking for Hardcore? Those are always empty. Only hardcore games I ever see populated are conquest, this has always been the case since they introduced hardcore.
 

sze5003

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Was finally able to find some regular rush matches. Now the server browser does actually show sessions with players in it if you reset it. Still a lot less than it was when it came out but that's expected.
 

TheNiceGuy

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Anyone else having trouble getting the game to start? Every time I try to start it from origin, it has the "launching…" Pop up window, briefly kicks back to desktop while it's processing, and then kicks back to the origin screen as if nothing happened. It simply will not launch the game.
I've tried restarting the system several times, I've waited a few days, no difference.
 

sze5003

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Anyone else having trouble getting the game to start? Every time I try to start it from origin, it has the "launching…" Pop up window, briefly kicks back to desktop while it's processing, and then kicks back to the origin screen as if nothing happened. It simply will not launch the game.
I've tried restarting the system several times, I've waited a few days, no difference.

You should update origin. Not sure if clicking the game icon does this but last time I did this, it updated. Maybe uninstall and reinstall origin and point it to the game directory if that doesn't work.
 

TheNiceGuy

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It usually updates automatically. I tried to update and it said there was no new updates. Battlefield 4 works fine. I thought I had a workaround by selecting battlefield 1 from the battlefield 4 quit menu. This will allow me to access the BF1 server list and select a game, but when it tries to load the game it does the same kick back to the main menu and refuses to load it.
I tried the "repair" option last night, but lost patience after half an hour and canceled the repair option.
W10 has been nagging me to 'check privacy options' and do some major update, which I never like to do, so I'm just working through that now in the hopes it will resolve it .

How do you "point" a game to the directory?
 
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TheNiceGuy

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Well, that appears to have solved it. I updated windows 10, and then the next time I ran battlefield 1 it said there was a UI update required. Quick update, and all appears to be working well now.
 

sze5003

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Well, that appears to have solved it. I updated windows 10, and then the next time I ran battlefield 1 it said there was a UI update required. Quick update, and all appears to be working well now.
Yea there have been some major windows updates lately that I noticed on my desktop as well as the laptop. I usually ignore them until I turn off the PC and let it install the updates.

I did play the new night time map and it's pretty decent. They also changed how you achieve battle packs now. To me they are worthless as it's just skins.
 

TheNiceGuy

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Yea there have been some major windows updates lately that I noticed on my desktop as well as the laptop. I usually ignore them until I turn off the PC and let it install the updates.

I did play the new night time map and it's pretty decent. They also changed how you achieve battle packs now. To me they are worthless as it's just skins.
Ya, I think the whole rewards program thing is not very good. Maybe 10-year-olds are really into it, but it just seems like a waste of time changing the color of something. Anything, even just a fraction of improvement on weapon performance would give an actual purpose to the Battle packs.
I don't really like any of the maps with no vehicles. That tanks bonding is poorly designed on some maps. People spend half the game sitting there clicking the button waiting for it to come. It would be better if there was a que you could join our countdown timer or something.
This game is kind of bizarre. It feels almost like there was a lack of coordination and its development and execution. Some parts are really well thought out and it's obvious a lot of work went into it. And then other parts are silly and sloppy and could easily be improved.
 

sze5003

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Man, hackers are really ruining the game. Almost every server I'm joining recently has a hacker on it.
I haven't played in a while. My roommate is usually on though on my account. Ever since I got the Oculus rift I've been neglecting a few other games too. Would be cool if this game had VR support.
 

DeadFred

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Still playing occasionally, the latest map (Prise De Tahure) is really fun. Looking forward to the Russian DLC thats coming out later.

I have noticed an uptick in hackers lately.
 

TheNiceGuy

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Posted elsewhere guys, but desperate for answers:
I often have the game freeze, and my system fans go to idle, and I have to control alt delete to get back to desktop. The main problem is when I try to close battlefield, it won't allow me no matter what I do. I have to physically restart the computer, and since it's a bit older it takes quite a while, then I have to reboot the game etc. . What can I do?
 
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