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Is A World War 1 Battlefield What Gamers Really Want?

The rumor hitting the internet, is that the next Battlefield game will be set in World War One. This rumor has been met with a lot of mixed thoughts. Poli Games host, Joseph tells you why we need more games set during this famous war. That this might be the best thing for the Battlefield series.

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Poli_Games3389d ago

Right!? Theres not enough major AAA games that are exploring history. Other then Assassins Creed.

InactiveUser3389d ago (Edited 3389d ago )

I want excellent games.. don't care where or when they take place if they're great. Based on past games though, I'd want Bad Company 3 from the Battlefield franchise; fun and interesting characters.

SourtreeDing3389d ago (Edited 3389d ago )

No its not what Gamers want....

its what Gamers on the internet want.... and thats a small percentage.. thats how i see it

kreate3389d ago (Edited 3389d ago )

I agree. we are not the mass. Cuz we dont really play games, we just talk about it ..

_-EDMIX-_3389d ago

Not really. As a long, long time BF fan, I care about its concept.

Time frame actually doesn't matter to me.

I want to capture, defend.

I want to heal, give ammo to, support by spotting people with Recon etc.

What I love from the BF series, is actually its over all concept.

Not how it feels, not the time period etc. Most BF games don't really feel like each other, they are in different times, wars etc, but that doesn't really matter much to me.

Can I heal my buddy? Can I give him ammo? I like knowing that I'm part of the team and helping in the good fight and don't actually need to be this rambo type ALLLLLLLL the time.

I like knowing that merely reviving and healing all my team mates might change the tide of the battle and help us win even if I didn't take a single life.

BF is sorta that type of game where the overall objective of WINNING is more important then personal kills. The time period doesn't actually mean jack to me lol. Its merely just a different setting and I'm actually find with less tech as the more high tech junk shows up, the more confusing they make the game.

I don't need anymore robots thank you very much lol

Psychotica3388d ago

Small percentage? That's silly when you consider most of the game is played in online multiplayer.

Cdn_Seahawks_Fan3389d ago

a change in venue....in this case a different global conflict, is welcome as it will be different then current FPS titles.

ziggurcat3389d ago

i've been wanting a WW shooter for years, now.

sullynathan3389d ago

It's not but the N4G crowd thinks it is because "change is good and reasons"

lipton1013389d ago

Yeah. I'm looking for more of modern / near future shooter 57.5 too. Why change what hasn't changed in 10 years across just as many iterations? You're so right! Why in the hell should a company ever take a risk? They should know we all want the same game every year, spoon fed to us like the good little flock we are. /s

sullynathan3389d ago

Isn't that funny? Lets look at the recent Battlefield games. You had modern Batttlefield 3, then modern Battlefield 4 then you had cops and robbers Battlefield hardline.

Do you not see which one is different here? This thought that "we have to try something different for the sake of it" doesn't always work.

Look at another recent game, Far Cry primal. Again, another complete change in setting for a series yet did not make for a better game.

You also seem to think that somehow, making a WW1 shooter will be better or different from the countless WW2 shooters we had back in the day or the countless modern shooters we have today.

Why do you think that with the template they already have for WW2 shooters and modern shooters that they will make something different with a WW1 shooter?

kaizokuspy3389d ago

It'd be nice to not have heat seeking crap everytime you fly. Idk, I think it will be interesting to bayonet all classic like

sullynathan3389d ago

tell dice to make vehicles less op.

DOMination-3389d ago

This scenario is similar to resident evil. After RE3 people demanded change because it was getting boring. So they did. Then after RE5 everybody wanted it to go back to its roots.

After CoD4 everyone wanted modern shooters. So that's what we got. And now everyone wants WW2 again.

I just want good games. But developers should take risks and not just follow what's in at the moment

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lipton1013389d ago

I know, right?!? There's already WAY too many WW2 shooters on the current generation consoles. Man, it's like every other shooter released is a ww2 shooter... I mean come on, when technology advances, then maybe it'll be worth it, but for now I'm so sick of this more of the same nonsense!

I forgot to mention, I'm also a time traveler from the year 2005. I just learned Donald Trump may very well be the next president as well. Please, if you know how to go backwards in time, please PM me... I make $25k / year but was just about to close on a sub-prime mortgage before this time travel opportunity came up

Summons753389d ago

If you manage to make it back to 2005, please do whatever you can to stop Trumps near reign of terror....also invest heavily in Apple and Google, maybe pricy but the payout in 2016 will be worth it.

Summons753389d ago

You do realize WW2 hasn't been used in a really long time and would look so good with modern graphics and engines. Also, with the amount of events that happened in that war devs barely scratched the surface of WW2. WW1 has been severely underused and there are a lot in interesting things that happened there.

But no, let's stick with the clearly barely used not cliche at all Modern/future hybrids that recycle the same cut and paste stories, single character archtypes, unrealistic wartime scenarios. Yeah...that hasn't been done before, let's go with that.

Max-Zorin3389d ago (Edited 3389d ago )

I don't want them to literally stick to modern times, or the future. I just want them to use other war settings. Or is WW2 the only war that's worth a damn.

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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for May

Battle Engine Aquila joins PlayStation Plus Premium.

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Profchaos30d ago

Another meh month and only 1 single classic wtf Sony. I was hoping after the price hikes for PSN we might get a good month spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down and all that

crazyCoconuts30d ago

Last month had harry potter and blue prince
I wouldn't say ANOTHER meh month

OtterX30d ago

Sandland looks right up my alley and I'm excited to give it a shot. I honestly missed this game somehow, never heard about it until now.

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pwnmaster300030d ago

Maybe I’ll go check out battlefield 5 again.
Maybe this will give a little boost

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PapaBop30d ago

Some of the best psvr 2 titles leaving, nothing coming, way to support your psvr 2 owners. Still, I don't mind the games coming personally.

crazyCoconuts30d ago

Yeah I upped to premium when they started adding psvr2 with the expectation that they would keep coming. now when my sub ends I'll be scaling back

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Battlefield V now broken on Steam Deck / Linux with EA anticheat live

That's all folks. EA anticheat has now been added into Battlefield V, so it's the end of being able to play it on Steam Deck and other Linux systems.

This joins the likes of Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition, EA SPORTS FC 24, EA SPORTS FIFA 23, Battlefield 2042 and Madden NFL 24 that all have EA's own homegrown anti-cheat that make them simply unplayable on systems running Linux.

Now if you try to run it, you'll be greeted with an error. A shame to see a game that's multiple years old get broken like this and no doubt EA will continue to use their own EA anticheat in future online games. Battlefield 1 is still okay, and Apex Legends is also still running but perhaps it's only a matter of time before EA force it onto those too?

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just_looken435d ago

more comments here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/St...
https://steamcommunity.com/...

47 comments in hours bf5 won't launch anymore ea is saying meh not my prob bitch tosses a faq
https://answers.ea.com/t5/B...

Yes counter cheating that is good but when the ea app on pc is still totally broken and these cheaters are on 2042 same anti cheat this is just putting scotch tape on trumps file cabinet to prevent leaks its nothing more than a stop gap.

I mention ea app as for 4years it was in beta then tossed out with 3 year old issues and i still cant not get the products that i purchased on origin yeah i purchased digital but guess what there is no dvd games on pc anymore.

Philaroni434d ago

Likewise, I'm about to do some games with some friends here but if you wish to PM me I could share my Discord if you like to talk further. Oddly you bring up THQ that I did some work for in the past.

Also for Starfield I have just a Stock GTX 1080. Not even the 1080i version on an ultra wide and with some Ini, changes and other weird things I know I got it working at Series X frame rate. Sure not the the fancy graphics options. I know Bethesda games have always been more CPU then GPU limiting. A good application I don't see many using is Process lasso. It helps with may CPU heavy games on PC. (Battletech is the main one I use it for) Can find it here if you like. https://bitsum.com/

""Xbox has made custom engines like forza/unreal they used to support epic back in the day like slipstream like you said but they make so much cash they do not need to work as much as sony.

But the issue i find is the lack of passion behind games aswell as the mass amount of users that love the broken/microtransantion filled games we get every day. Back in the day when a game was crap or had something wrong it was a oh crap are we going to get shutdown or like thq just poof gone. But today its na who cares fix it later or write it off then oh wait never mind they like it such as the new cod.""

Going to combine me response here. You are right, MS and I do feel like what they do with not just Froza and also the tech they use in Flight Sim. Is not given enough credit. If I am correct the next Fable game is going to be using a mix of things from the Turn 10 Team, maybe Unreal? Hard to say at this point, But MS along with Sony both own a full License of the tech (Days Gone for Sony) I agree with you on the talent and passion part, games have become too much, at least AAA games the 'Milk, butter, eggs and toast" to support places now days. Innovations in gameplay and such has fell lower and lower. I still don't see mechanics and ways of playing games like I did so many years back, its a bummer.

For MS maybe the end as even though they might have a massive advantage in software and services (I use to work in Azure) They can kind of do some things at cost but seem to fail at it a lot. The cloud gaming push I don't think is going to have the effect so many hope for (Not sure why anyone wants that) I still want MS to have a chance but, if I sit here with my magic dice and roll it on MS games over the last forever, it could land on Crackdown 3 (Remember that?) The cloud powered game... and now they are trying to do it again with Kojima some what. As an engineer, its not happening now, tomorrow or anything in the next 24 years. I remember back on this interview with John,

https://www.reddit.com/r/nv...

We are not even at that point yet. So hope we get there and I hope MS is still a player but I do feel you are right in many ways, they are already trying to slowly retreat just by the rhetoric alone.

Ether way again PM me and we should talk more, would love to do so.

Philaroni435d ago

The rough part of all of this is that for those of us on PC mostly be it Windows or Linux based, the anti-cheat sucks up a lot of resources. It kind of reminds me of the conversation between, security and freedom. Too much of ether is both good if managed well or very bad. We just as gamers keep seeing this pop up over and over again. Wish I had some magic wand to stop cheaters... but I don't... hell we just seen what happened with Apex at a high level event.. getting that kind of access and such is not good... but at the same time. Can anyone, one person provide me an example where Anti Cheat has even like a hit rate above 50? I know I'm pulling numbers out of my ass, but it seems the cheaters beat the systems in place time and time again. Where there is a lock, and a smith to make it. We always will have a thief that breaks it.

just_looken435d ago (Edited 435d ago )

I can

Sense everyone seems to have brain rot and forgot the ps3 that is the solution.

The ps3 for its first half had systems that would only launch the game if it saw you had a ps3 controller along with a inhouse operating system and a real gpu/cpu it was way harder to run cheats off of along with the ability to make custom rooms.

Yes there were p2p lag switching then later on thanks to that dev kit leak cheat menus but for years games like killzone/mag had dedicated servers that were hard to crack a operating system/cpu those in public had 0 knowledge how to make stuff on them.

Right now if they put all mp files on the server so we just stream the game that would be a huge step or make the multiplayer run in a sanboxed mode separate on the system.

Philaroni434d ago

I'm glad you brought that up that Killzone had Dedicated servers. I remember the Yellow Dog Linux days of PS3, as well. EA use to do more Dedicated Servers for games but as time went on they would 'rent them out' and slowly the official servers would die down.

P2P Lag always had that magical thing (Gears 2 (Aak the shot gun) and Halo 2,3) fans know as host advantage. That alone allowed for lags switches, booting of others from games. ECT. (Though I admit, was the most fun I had when our team could beat cheaters. Man was that a good time)

I fully agree with you, the fact so much is working how it is has in a hard way compromised network/client security issue. I'll pick on COD for example where some assets are local and other are on server, between games and between even evolutions/iterations of the engines used.

just_looken434d ago

@phil

Thank you for the reply i am glad others on here remember

Now back to the series x having games with the same frame rate as a 2005 xbox 360 but the masses thinking that is fine and next gen.

Starfield on series x native 780ishp fallout 3 xbox 360 720p both 30fps gaming has "grown so much"

Sadly we are not in large numbers and see mp/sp tech wise/cheater wise has gotten worse not better.

Philaroni434d ago

I hate to say it about Starfield I'd have too look at reports from way back when. I swear to god they said it was going to launch with Creation Kit 2 (I worked with 1 alot in Skyrim mods in the block based aka cell based structure) Back then it was great, but for the life of me I don't know how a Studio like Obsidian can make a game same as Bethesda but with less bugs and bull shit. (Fallout Veg and Outer Worlds) Not that it was with out bugs but when a 3rd party does better with your own tech... I find an issue... with it all.

Frame rate stuff I only understand from two points, design and marketing. On the Design part yes back in the day 30FPS was I swear almost more common then now days. It was not a design compromise to keep it at 30 as the hardware and the way the game was being 'displayed' (Key thing there) was as impactful. Now days I feel the Marketing side wants a 4K trailer running likely rendered on a Xbox or PS system with little text saying (Oh wit was on a PC that no one is able to afford... of course teasing there a bit.)

I do understand that Starfield is a 'simulated world' where like every item you drop is there, for like forever... cool, that is not too new now days and design wise, is kind of a dumb thing.... who cares how many carrots you can collect... is it cool sure, makes for good PR in some ways. Lack of tangible game play is the issue. I can't take credit for this but a buddy of mine worked in advertising and I shit you not at Fast food. They would make wax and even 3D print now and then post render foods you would get, just for you as the client at a Burger King to not be given as you where sold on. (((( He did not work for them FYI.. but others)))

Issue with gaming as you are saying is too much is on the 'presentation.' It does not sell like it use too, that type of advertising. Most of it is word of mouth, who my friends tell me is a good game or not, what my friends are playing. Then comes the reviews.

Its dumb that our next gen systems feel like we gone all but up a step that we already went down two to three on. Take Uncharted 4 for example 30FPS SP and 60 MP. That I can deal with, and that was a PS4 game.

I do at times dis Xbox a lot, but come on, they still have yet to make there own damn game engine. Slipstream failed heavily, where Sony and most of their own studios have tech they made for the games they are trying to build. I am unsure how Xbox is again now saying the 'next' system will be the best ever. Sure it will be duh? Tech changes and grows, but I never seen a system use it so poorly. (I blame alot on the bloated Xbox OS FYI)

just_looken434d ago

@phil

You can have both presentation and framerate pc's have been doing both for decades now 4k ray tracing bla bla yeah that is different but starfield is no maxed out minecraft with its seed tech with ray tracing minecraft uses seeds also with huge buildings but for years pc's can do 60fps on that.

I mentioned 30fps because back in the day we had hd consoles alot of users had sd tv's just getting into hd tv's so i get the graphics difference but we are talking about 20years of hardware difference.

A real hardware console 6700 3700x 16gb of ram can run starfield at 60fps not maxed out but its possible this was pre performance patches:
https://youtu.be/hNM488QIKO...

Remember the apu/igpu tablet crap the consoles are using are based off of the 6700

The xbox operating system has always been windows based from windows 2000/xp xbox-xbox 360 the tail end of the 360 using vista/7 then to the series x using windows 10 that is why backwards compatibility works great its all direct x based with the same bc as a window's pc. What we see today is just the change from needing games to survive to making games as a product m$ makes more money in a week than what sony can make in months.

Xbox has made custom engines like forza/unreal they used to support epic back in the day like slipstream like you said but they make so much cash they do not need to work as much as sony.

But the issue i find is the lack of passion behind games aswell as the mass amount of users that love the broken/microtransantion filled games we get every day. Back in the day when a game was crap or had something wrong it was a oh crap are we going to get shutdown or like thq just poof gone. But today its na who cares fix it later or write it off then oh wait never mind they like it such as the new cod.

The new cod is making bank yes users hated it but the sales show the masses that do not post love it sadly

Heck did you see that wow has limited time store items now with hundreds online defending it because they think the store its what's need to keep the game online despite the $15 a month payment and m4 ownership.

I find in the end of this generation Microsoft will go the way of sega they might also just buy sony as everything sony except music/games is not making money they are a cheap buy for microsoft right now so we would just have 2 companies fighting in the gaming ring with papa os watching from the sidelines.

Great chatting 2 you may i recommend looking at rpgm games? they are out there even though i have a i9 4090 custom rig right now along with a ps5 i have been playing 4yr old games or rpgm stuff this year. Its funny i remember being a 2360/ps3 owner stacks of adventures now i am like well time to see what is in the past.

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EA anticheat and Battlefield

Battlefield V, getting easy anticheat

We're pleased to share that EA Anticheat will be extended to #BattlefieldV this Wednesday, April 3rd at 08:00 UTC.

You will need to restart your game to benefit from the changes of this Client Update.

Learn more via our updated EA Anticheat Blog:

just_looken443d ago

Other sources from battlefield official accounts.

https://twitter.com/Battlef...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ba...

So steamdeck might have issues and those out there that are anti kernal drm will get a surprise. Depending on your setup you also might get new issues as i know rgb software likes to fight with easy anti cheat.