Dang I was really hoping to get a real feel for Microtransactions 6: vibe coded edition.
Quick question: what exactly happens when Microsoft flips the switch on rootkits like they are planning to do? EA gonna just pack it up? (I can dream)
I haven't looked at technical proposals or anything, but I'll bet that they will propose the equivalent to the Google Play Integrity.
Your anticheat software won't work unless you are booting Windows from supported hardware with a working TPM2 module and an unmodified kernel signed by Microsoft.
Meanwhile the game by the ex-DICE devs with superior destruction physics (THE FINALS) is playable on linux and pledged to remain so! :)
It's a ton of fun, you guys should check it out.
Looks more like Fortnite than BF.
I want another game like BF1942+Desert combat, or possibly BF2142
It definitely doesn't play like fortnite, that's for sure.
It's not meant to be a superior battlefield btw. It just has old battlefield team members making it, so things like the gunplay, destruction, class structure and game balance are similar in style (though not 1-1)
The setting is that you're playing in a video game, so things aren't realistic, that's for sure. It's not supposed to be though. The issue with the crazy skins in CoD is that they're portraying themselves as a "hardcore realistic military shooter", but then you have the American Dad characters running around.
The Finals being not realistic allows them to do so much, from level design to mechanics. It does not play like Battlefield at all, but it does have better destruction than it's ever had. The gameplay is that of a fast paced movement shooter, and it's very cerebral, with a lot of ways to outplay your enemy and use them and the environment to your advantage. Even without the reaction time and skill of some people, you can play smarter and win.
Fair. It can still be a good game but I was so miss the old BF games
Then what you're looking for is roughly Squad.
Made by a team that originated as the mod developers behind Project Reality for BF2.
Currently though, it is going through a bit of an awkward phase as they are trying to transition from UE4 to UE5... but the UE4 version is still pretty solid.
Squad has less of an arcady gameplay style to it than BF proper, more milsim or milsim lite, the gameplay systems themselves reward and revolve more around being in a squad...
...fancier kit loadouts are limited for a whole team, takes multiple people to fully operate a tank or IFV, you actually have to be a pilot or crewman class to fly or drive something more conplex than basically a truck, lower TTK as weapon damages are more realistic, but also more fleshed out medical system...
... there are more gamemodes, many of which revolve much more around logistics and setting u0 and defending FOBs, you got AAS which roughly simulates a frontline by preventing the sort of willy nilly flag backcapping from BF games... flags are grouped together in sort of layers, and you can't capture any flag thats more than one layer away from the layer your team currently has...
Whole lotta gameplay tweaks, vehicles tend to respawn more slowly and players respawn more slowly, but anyway yeah, its a sort of hypothetical roughly modern era war setting, tons of factions.
Also I think there is a Starwars themed mod for it lol, there's ww2 mods for it, etc.
...
EDIT: As strongarm mentions, Hell Let Loose and the Arma series are also good choices, I am just biased because I was once part of the Project Reality team, way way back, hehehe.
OH MY GOD JUNE, ARE WE STARTING A COMEDY DUO?!?
THAT'S RIGHT SCOTTY! WE BETTER RAMP UP OUR JOKES SO THEY LAND ON THE MONEY, JUST LIKE OUR CONTESTANTS!
It's an incredible game, and the MTX model is insanely generous too, and it's free to play. You get free premium currency just by playing, and if you get like 3/4 through a battle pass you get more out than you put in, and battlepasses are purchasable with the premium currency you can get for free.
Thanks for the recommendation, Mr. The Finals
Lol. Not paid by them, but I do love the game and think it deserves more recognition for being the first truly innovative multiplayer shooter I've played in a long time, and also for not being greedy fucks.
Oh no!
Well, anyway...
As if you needed more reasons not to buy games from EA...
Also the game being developed on Godot and being a footnote in the article is a travesty....
I think it was just the player made levels that were Godot
The game is in a proprietary engine. They used Godot to make a level editor. Presumably they have some script to convert from what you make in Godot to convert to a form that works on their engine. I'm assuming this is so they don't expose components of their engine to people, but they can still ship a robust level editor.
Pro-tip: buy it on steam, open it so that Steam recognizes play time, write heinous review, issue refund.
It would be a real shame if someone were to organize a group of Linux players for the launch, to leave negative reviews about how they can't play the game on their Steam Deck...
The monkey's paw curls and… BF6 is now playable on Steam Deck, but Linux is still forbidden.
That's fine by me. If they open Pandora's box a little bit somebody will pry it open the rest of the way.
How would that work? Steam deck is Linux.
It has already happened. I don’t remember which game but basically they detect the Steam Deck and make an exception only specifically for that.
if its anything like 2047 nothing lf value was lost
They're going back to battlefield 4 for this one. Honestly I haven't been this excited for a pvp game in years, possibly since Titanfall 2. The gameplay they've been showing off looks incredibly fun.
It’ll probably be unplayable on most systems for the first 6 months if the last few battlefield releases are anything to go by 😂
Wow, I havent heard of BF since BF3... it seems i will continue not hearing about it
I know the resounding opinion is "so?" but things like this are the only things that keep me on Windows, sadly. My squad plays Warzone, and may play this. At the very least, when I upgrade I'll probably dual boot, but this is still dumb to me. You'd think the Steam Deck would encourage people. Ah well.
Bfv was unplayable due to dice
Welp, guess I'm never playing it then. 🤷
Oh no. Anyways.
I was hoping that steam deck would get some love. Those games are a pain but I have friends who play it.
I have a windows VM but ea cheat doesn't lile vms either
Tin foil hat time but I said last year on Mastodon that the reason EA was killing games like Apex and Battlefield for Linux was that soon Microsoft was going to announce their own handheld and EA has close ties with MS due to EA Play on Gamepass for example. Sure enough less than a year later Microsoft announces their Xbox Handheld with Asus and guess which games will work on that.
Basically it'll be "you want to play Madden and Battlefield on a handheld? well don't buy the SteamDeck, get this Xbox Handheld instead!"
Tpm, secure boot. I was starting to be interested in the return to bf3-4 I'll stick to Arma and squad.
I know others are like "oh well, anyway" but I remembered playing and enjoying bf3. I've avoided the other titles because of military FPS shooter fatigue.
Now though I'm almost desperate to have something that isn't souls like, but EA has to be EA. It's a shame, because I would've been up for paying the stupid amounts of money they normally charge to experience BF6.
I do have a PS5, but I don't have the monthly subscription (paying for online multiplayer is a mugs game), so I just simply won't buy BF6.
Will they also be missing out on microtransactions and quick time events??
That's fine, lots of others games to choose from.
EA did it with Apex Legends, so this is no surprise.
I'm still upset about it.
I don't have any Windows PCs anymore, and I'm not buying a $200 Windows Pro license just to buy a $70 game with questionable recent history.
Potential customer lost.
PS: I think the fact that they've made this decision also provides insight to the game itself.
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