Post by Tig on Oct 17, 2019 20:32:10 GMT -5
I've been playing this game since release and I just now realized I never wrote a review for it. It's probably because this is easily one of the least remarkable of the entire Battlefield series games I've played. This will be a short review because, even after putting in 90 hours of work into this game, I really don't have a lot to say about it. The graphics look great running smooth on my old rig, but the gameplay is nothing new and, like BF1, it's limited by the restrictions of historical weapons (slow rate of fire, limited ammo, etc.).
The biggest problem I have with this game is the map structure. There are three or four beautifully drawn huge maps that are sectioned up to make smaller game maps. The problem with that is when several maps come off of one larger territory, the entire group all share the same environment and look the same. So rather than having a cityscape, a desert, a forest, grasslands, shipping yard, all sorts of different environments like what we're used to seeing in Battlefield 2, 3, and in the Star Wars series, you have several smaller maps of exactly the same thing over and over. There's an urban landscape, a countryside, snowy mountains, and open desert of North Africa. I swear I've played North Africa maps so much I'd almost forgotten what the others look like; it's all so repetitive. All of these maps are very inconducive to sniping both with overproduced haze, lens flare, and glare as well as structural layout. It sucks because sniping is what I love the best about any Battlefield game but sniping in this game is almost impossible in some rounds.
Tanks are manageable and fun as always, but flying airplanes is beyond difficult. There is a practice range where flying is included but even if you do get good at it, grabbing a plane in the game takes a feat of magic. Someone else is always in the plane and there's never more than two or three allowed in the sky.
There have been some minor map updates but nothing spectacular, and the loot crate drop cosmetics are laughable. There is a theme of objectives released every few weeks that you follow to unlock new weapons and costumes and that's cool, but grinding through the uninteresting environments over and over kills a lot of the desire to follow along.
90 hours later I uninstalled the game. I realized I had put more than two standard work weeks worth of time in the game and I had very few fun moments I could recall from it. No "wow" moments like from my time with BF2, 3, and even One, exist. I'm not alone in this as articles about poor sales and dropping server populations sprouted up immediately after release. Indeed, just weeks after buying the game I logged in one night after work and couldn't find a running game with more than just a few people. I'm afraid the BF series has died a slow death with BFV. It's certainly dead to me.
The biggest problem I have with this game is the map structure. There are three or four beautifully drawn huge maps that are sectioned up to make smaller game maps. The problem with that is when several maps come off of one larger territory, the entire group all share the same environment and look the same. So rather than having a cityscape, a desert, a forest, grasslands, shipping yard, all sorts of different environments like what we're used to seeing in Battlefield 2, 3, and in the Star Wars series, you have several smaller maps of exactly the same thing over and over. There's an urban landscape, a countryside, snowy mountains, and open desert of North Africa. I swear I've played North Africa maps so much I'd almost forgotten what the others look like; it's all so repetitive. All of these maps are very inconducive to sniping both with overproduced haze, lens flare, and glare as well as structural layout. It sucks because sniping is what I love the best about any Battlefield game but sniping in this game is almost impossible in some rounds.
Tanks are manageable and fun as always, but flying airplanes is beyond difficult. There is a practice range where flying is included but even if you do get good at it, grabbing a plane in the game takes a feat of magic. Someone else is always in the plane and there's never more than two or three allowed in the sky.
There have been some minor map updates but nothing spectacular, and the loot crate drop cosmetics are laughable. There is a theme of objectives released every few weeks that you follow to unlock new weapons and costumes and that's cool, but grinding through the uninteresting environments over and over kills a lot of the desire to follow along.
90 hours later I uninstalled the game. I realized I had put more than two standard work weeks worth of time in the game and I had very few fun moments I could recall from it. No "wow" moments like from my time with BF2, 3, and even One, exist. I'm not alone in this as articles about poor sales and dropping server populations sprouted up immediately after release. Indeed, just weeks after buying the game I logged in one night after work and couldn't find a running game with more than just a few people. I'm afraid the BF series has died a slow death with BFV. It's certainly dead to me.
