I played Planetside 2 for eight years, and that game could have fights involving two, three or even four hundred people in a relatively small area. Generally they tend to break up into smaller-scale conflicts within that area (one group will attempt to take and hold a building, another will go for a capture point, etc.) and that's where support becomes critical. Just one person pulling clutch revives or keeping ammo topped off can make a difference.
Sucks to be EA.So it's possible that the source code for the Frostbite 3 engine (which BF2042 is believed to use) has been stolen.
Major EA Hack: FIFA 21 and Frostbite Engine Source Code Reportedly Stolen - IGN
Hackers reportedly steal 780gb of data from EA, including the source code for FIFA 21 and the Frostbite Engine.www.ign.com
Cheat makers will be all over this, I'm sure.
What they did to the new Conquest game mode sounds very Planetside. Instead of just flags that need to be captured, you need to capture all the flags in an area to capture the whole area. So the whole map is composed of several smaller hubs that need to be fought over. Sounds like a good idea, but then even 128 players sounds kind of too little for that kind of gameplay.
You'd think they'd just do hero personas for classes rather than give the specialists personalities to begin with though. That way you have more potential skin options to go with rather than a set or somewhat set specialist.
From the old 2142 days Support were mostly based round disabling stuff and having access to infantry tracking tools to try and find people camping in an area. Also portable shields were quite useful in choke points.
See, this is the kind of stuff that actual makes multiplayer seem interesting if I had more time. I had quite a bit of fun playing stuff like Killzone 2 Warzone back in the day using the different classes in revolving objective-based rounds for each match. This sounds a bit insane in terms of scale but perhaps in a good way.
I'm curious how the weather will effect visibility. I can already imagine a scenario where they give snipers some sort of scope to balance the gameplay that accidentally gives them a huge advantage and then have to nerf it. The cynic in me wouldn't be surprised if it just so happens to be in dlc.
I heard that BFV had visibility problems in general, beyond just tweaking graphics settings. I think DICE is addressing that in this game, supposedly enemies will have a different filter on them to make them stand out more.
A vehicle where the pilot can't directly get kills is a rare treat indeed. Although it looks more like a gun platform than a troop transport, I can't think of the last vehicle in battlefield that had 3 turret positions.
I think the C-130 Spectre in Desert Combat had three; the gatling canon, a 20mm canon and the 105mm canon. Needed four people to make it work properly.
I like to refer to it as BlueFilter 3. What the hell was up with that particular color choice?
