Will you play Battlefield 2025?

[SorenVC]

New Battlefield is coming up. It looks a bit promising but I still can't decide if I will spend money on it. If it is anywhere near as expensive as a BlackCell battlepasses from CoD, I'll pass.

I've heard Battlefield 2025 will offer a monthly subscription which is interesting since I don't know any other fps game than Counter-Strike 2 and PlanetSide 2 which offer a subscription. Personally, I am in the mood for a new Battlefield, just not sure if it's worth it to buy those battlepasses and pay the monthly subscription.

A thing I like about Battlefield is that they use real names for the weapons and not some imaginary names like BattleBit Remastered and Call of Duty use. Noone will play Black Ops 7. I'm only interested in the Modern Warfare Makarov story at this point.

I think if this Battlefield is any good, it will revive the series. People are tired from BF 2042 and Black Ops 7. Imo Modern Warfare III had the best gameplay in the CoD series but it suffered from that magical skill based matchmaking which rigged things pretty hard. It was still fun.

[magnetaress]

Naw. I grew out of this style of FPS after my military career ended. The games just aren't realistic enough for me.

A new HALO on the other hand. Maybe!

[shovelquest]

I haven't played many of the recent battlefields, but I have been itching to load it up, so I am planning on trying this one.

[tonyadams]

Honestly, yes, still planning to check out Battlefield 2025, mostly because no other FPS captures large-scale warfare the way Battlefield can when it's done right. If the subscription includes mod tools or server customization like the old days, that alone would be worth it for me.
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[Swish]

So has it gone from season passes to monthly subscriptions now? I'm very much not up to date with FPS shooters, loved BF3 though back in the day :)

[Ekco]

bf Vietnam > all
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[shovelquest]

BF Vietnam was fantastic but you are out of your god damn mind if you think its better than Market Garden.

[Ekco]

i said what i said.

now get in the Huey

[shovelquest]

It was the most immersive FPS that ive been in (what would be considered copywrite theft today) from all the apocalypse now locations and stuff was great.

Their fooliage system was.. weird. But the best foliage in a game by far. That was immersive as fuck.

I remember I used to get so good with the sycile knife, and 1 by 1 you could kil like 6 people whlie they moved through the folliage and they would be shooting in random directions not knowing where you were. Was good times.

But nothing.

NOTHING.

Compares to flying squadded out B25 bombers over enemy airfields while they try to take off and do that to you.

[Ekco]

i never even played 1942 ;/

[shovelquest]

i never even played 1942 ;/

Oh man.

To be fair Desert Combat is even better... but you can play market garden with desert combat. :p

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[shovelquest]

There were so many amazing mods for BF1942

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RIP i can't find the GI JOE one.. they had TROUBLE BUBBLES!

Was so awesome.

[Ekco]

nightmare fuel, star wars, gundam, pirates

thats hilarious, that era of PC gaming had such dedication from the community towards modding

[shovelquest]

nightmare fuel, star wars, gundam, pirates

thats hilarious, that era of PC gaming had such dedication from the community towards modding

Someone should tell the stop killing games r words.

The nightmare fuel one had a vespa with a bazooka welded onto the side. It was hilarious.

[Wakanda]

When I saw players loading up in Helicopters I started having flashbacks from Tribes 2 and the OG Planetside. When I was a kid there was something about loading up in those large flying vehicles and flying across the map to storm the enemy base that always got my adrenaline going. I'll for sure be trying this game for that reason alone. ;)

[SorenVC]

When I saw players loading up in Helicopters I started having flashbacks from Tribes 2 and the OG Planetside. When I was a kid there was something about loading up in those large flying vehicles and flying across the map to storm the enemy base that always got my adrenaline going. I'll for sure be trying this game for that reason alone. ;)

Man I miss Tribes: Ascend. Was such a good game! One time I even got the highest possible multi kill, I think it was 10 or even 12 players in 5 seconds or something like that. (With killstreaks)

[Ekco]

obligatory mention
https://playt1.com/

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we used to fly.

[SorenVC]

If Battlefield 6 (2025 or 2026) is any good I might even wanna subscribe to that if it's not too expensive. If you sub you will get all battlepasses and that's probably a lot better and cheaper when compared to BlackCell from CoD.

[shovelquest]

2142 is legitimatly one of my favorite games ever made.

The titans:

1. accessing the titens as the enemy using jump ships and starship trooper dropping onto them.
2. navigating titans as the enemy, through air conditioning ducts and breaching the cargo bey.
3. the attrition as you move down the hallways twoards the super computer titan core.
4. the C4 destruction of the titan core, while you jump off and watch it explode and crash to the ground as you parachute down.

That gameplay loop was as immersive as ever quest to me. It was incredible.

And I haven't even mentioned the other 80% of the game yet!

2142 invented class based FPS's too.. gaining and grinding EXP in a compeditive FPS for the first time was so awesome.

Building a Special Operative or Sniper recon by purchasing skills on a skill tree, was incredible.

Let alone, functioning mech walking tanks..

Oh i and the General mode, where it turns the game into an RTS for your elected comander, as you air strike, guide your squad leaders, and drop supplies to their troops.

Pound for pound, like EQ... 2142 is one of the greatest games ever made.

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[SorenVC]

2142 is legitimatly one of my favorite games ever made.

The titans:

1. accessing the titens as the enemy using jump ships and starship trooper dropping onto them.
2. navigating titans as the enemy, through air conditioning ducts and breaching the cargo bey.
3. the attrition as you move down the hallways twoards the super computer titan core.
4. the C4 destruction of the titan core, while you jump off and watch it explode and crash to the ground as you parachute down.

That gameplay loop was as immersive as ever quest to me. It was incredible.

And I haven't even mentioned the other 80% of the game yet!

2142 invented class based FPS's too.. gaining and grinding EXP in a compeditive FPS for the first time was so awesome.

Building a Special Operative or Sniper recon by purchasing skills on a skill tree, was incredible.

Let alone, functioning mech walking tanks..

Oh i and the General mode, where it turns the game into an RTS for your elected comander, as you air strike, guide your squad leaders, and drop supplies to their troops.

Pound for pound, like EQ... 2142 is one of the greatest games ever made.

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Wtf I have never heard of this game. Reminds me of Battlefront II.

[shovelquest]

Wtf I have never heard of this game. Reminds me of Battlefront II.

Yeah! Considering battlefront was inspired from Battlefield, that does check out!

This is a fantastic game, Fan. tastic.

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Seriously, the titans are way up in the sky, to get to them as infantry, you either need someone to fly a ship that looks just like one of those clone trooperr transports, with people on it.

OR.. there is this awseome tank, with 6 ejection pods in it.

You drive the tank below/next to the titan.

YOu get in a pod, and hit the eject button.. it shoots you up in the air like a mortor cannon and you can control it as you rocket downwards towards the titan, people are shooting at you like ukraine war footage trying to shoot down a drone, you're hurling towards it like a rocket, you EXPLODE onto the deck of the titan and jump out shooting BAM your squadmate lands next to you, you push them back into the hanger, they shut the doors, now its time to breach or sneak in through the airducts.

THen the hallways are meticulously designed so that you get into these cover fire fights, and move up like in incraments of 10 feet at a time, until youre face to face with the defenders and kill them, breach the core, set the C4, win the map!!!

Its so fucking good hnngngnggggggg

[shovelquest]

0x9m58Vol1c

See the way the tunnels in the titan have like, these ribs every 10-20 feet? It creates a cover/move fire fight scenario that I have never, ever played in a game since. ANd is exactly like real life. Its incredible.

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[SorenVC]

I'm not gonna lie I am HYPED for Battlefield 6. I will even pre-order it and buy the monthly subscription, simply because right now I have nothing else to play. I only play Quake Live, NFS World SBRW Nightriderz Server and waiting for Restitched on Steam.

[shovelquest]

Sick I can't wait to play with you soren! Im excited. I have been itching to play BF for a while, and decided to just wait for this next release.

I skipped everyone since vietnam pretty much.

[Swish]

I'm not gonna lie I am HYPED for Battlefield 6. I will even pre-order it and buy the monthly subscription, simply because right now I have nothing else to play. I only play Quake Live, NFS World SBRW Nightriderz Server and waiting for Restitched on Steam.

Don't pre-order anything.

[SorenVC]

Don't pre-order anything.

I will miss beta rewards if I don't pre-order. Since Battlefield 6 will be the singular only game that I will spend money on, I can afford it. Literally stuck playing Quake Live, NFS World SBRW, and waiting for Restitched and BF6.

[shovelquest]

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[atomicpaul]

nah i doubt it, i still play counterstrike every now and then (no im not good) but if i am in the mood to mow stuff down with firearms i usually will play deep rock galactic

[shovelquest]

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[shovelquest]

I am thrilled to hear that people hate bf6.

Because I hate people.

So that means the folks on the servers will be cool.

[shovelquest]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comments/1ms7how/this_movement_should_not_be_possible_in_bf6_dice/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

ah christ I guess I will be one of the people that hate BF6 so nevermind.

[SorenVC]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comments/1ms7how/this_movement_should_not_be_possible_in_bf6_dice/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

ah christ I guess I will be one of the people that hate BF6 so nevermind.

Do you really hate BF6? I got ALL beta challenges done on 14th August. It was so much fun. Even all 4 classes are balanced and useful and can get enough points to be #1st on the scoreboard.

I like Conquest and Rush the most.

[shovelquest]

I don't like fps games that are like what you see in that video, thats just cod its not bf.

Guy jumps out a 2 story window shoots a guy then slides into another building.

Just hate games like that.

Definitely not a battlefield game.

[SorenVC]

I don't like fps games that are like what you see in that video, thats just cod its not bf.

Guy jumps out a 2 story window shoots a guy then slides into another building.

Just hate games like that.

Definitely not a battlefield game.

Well the Chopper, Jet, Tank gameplay is the most realistic it's ever been in BF6.

[shovelquest]

Cool i doubt it, and bet people are jumping out of jets into tanks and then driving through their teams without killng them 50 mph.

[shovelquest]

Now this would be fun.

https://i.imgur.com/hgX9xpM.jpeg

[shovelquest]

I tried out bf6 last night, and it was 1:1 my experience trying out the latest call of duty multipplayer. Like exact same experience.

Except there was nobody in the blakhawk wearing a spawn costume.

But other than that it was the exact same experience.

I would't describe the experience as being similiar to any Battlefield game I was as much of a fan of for like 10 years as I was Everquest the last 25

[atomicpaul]

i havent played one since bf1942, the good one

[Ekco]

the good one

bf1942

imma need you to shut the fuck up and get in the huey, we got war crimes to commit.
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[Ekco]

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[shovelquest]

imma need you to shut the fuck up and get in the huey, we got war crimes to commit.
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that's the 2nd good one!

the 3rd good one is 2142

the 4th good one is bf 2

then that's where I got off.

I think i did a little bf 4 but it was a shadow of a good time.

[shovelquest]

Desert Combat is the best one ;)

[shovelquest]

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Your leader does not love you, G.I. He has given up on you.

[WarpathEQ]

Watched a streamer on youtube play it for a bit. Had to turn off the stream. Something so unappealing about a real life war game given the current environment in the east.

Always been good with first person shooters, war simulators, etc. IDK this one just felt to real and insensitive to those that are suffering in war torn countries as we speak.

[SorenVC]

Watched a streamer on youtube play it for a bit. Had to turn off the stream. Something so unappealing about a real life war game given the current environment in the east.

Always been good with first person shooters, war simulators, etc. IDK this one just felt to real and insensitive to those that are suffering in war torn countries as we speak.

You can train for the future of your country! :D

[Ekco]

If you think that is what war is gonna be like, you're gonna have a real bad time when you get conscripted.

90% of players should be spending mot of their time praying to the sky while some psychopaths drop grenades on them from drones.

The other 10% should just walk out of their deployment vehicle onto a landmine.

That's war now.

most/all of us are too old for conscription + we're the types most likely to frag an officer

i dare some zoomer to try to order me into the bush

i'm pretty good at flight sims though, rofl.

[shovelquest]

I deleted my post because war is sad and I feel bad making light of it.

But ekco, i hate to break it to you but they conscripted 40-60 before they did 18-30 in ukraine.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-conscription-mobilization-251058a942a253f3eaec2c53373adf03?utm_source=chatgp t.com

[SorenVC]

I deleted my post because war is sad and I feel bad making light of it.

But ekco, i want you to be reminded that they conscripted 40-60 before they did 18-30 in ukraine.

You just have to be on the right side when the war ends and you always win the war! Join the Lizard Empire the reptilians are invincible! They have started every world war and won it and they will do it again!

[shovelquest]

You just have to be on the right side when the war ends

https://i.imgur.com/eWtZcAF.png

[Ekco]

But ekco, i hate to break it to you but they conscripted 40-60 before they did 18-30 in ukraine.


that's eastern europe for ya

i know nazi germany didn't conscript kids and the elderly till the very end iirc, there's numerous reasons they send young men off to begin with instead of 30+ yr olds and unlike "the kids" we have a proven track record of being managable and well behaved and we actually know shit so they might need us

ain't too worried about it, China cranking out killer robots is gonna be a problem at some point though, just not my problem.

i identify as a Swiss, and invoke my god given right of nuetrality.

Dante can't harm me.
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[shovelquest]

i know nazi germany didn't conscript kids and the elderly till the very end iirc, there's numerous reasons they send young men off to begin with instead of 30+ yr olds and unlike "the kids" we have a proven track record of being managable and well behaved and we actually know shit so they might need us

You may not understand. I'm not talking about 12-14 year olds like the "kids", and I'm not talking about 75+ year old "elderly".

Ukraine conscripted 27-60 year olds first. And increased it to 25-65 year olds recently.

From 1935, Germany’s Military Service Law put boys through 6 months of labor service at 18, then two years of military service starting at 19. That means the typical new private in 1938 was about 19–21, while conscription legally ran up to about 40
that's eastern europe for ya
Ahctually it is unusual for "eastern Europe":

It is a progressive western idea to ensure the future generations have something to live for direct from the good ol us of a:

"Ukrainian officials should ensure they protect the youngest men to avoid further demographic decimation and help rebuild the country after the war.”
-U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/blinken-says-ukraine-needs-get-younger-people-fighting-russia-2024-12-04/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

It's ahcthually the opposite of "Eastern European" tradition:

historically, Eastern European armies tended to conscript younger men compared to Western Europe, especially during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In empires like Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, mandatory service usually began in the late teens to early 20s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_Russian_Empire?utm_source=chat gpt.com

[Ekco]

ask ai about population pyarmids and the difference between a county with 350 million people and 40 million people.

they pulled from the only demo they had, which was basically everybody

well 2 million of the 8 mil conscription age men it says
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[shovelquest]

ask ai about population pyarmids and the difference between a county with 350 million people and 40 million people.

Ok, then ask it "what do if we're going to war with a country that has 1.5 billion people?"

[Ekco]

yeah it's isolation + threatening to blow up the world and both sides have racist bio weapons of the other i imagine so it's just gonna be us ceding ground and falling back to our own local sphere of influence instead of sabre rattling about defending an island they claim is theirs on the other side of the planet.

[shovelquest]

Idk what that means.

Im just trying to inform you that, now the prime age for conscription is 30-50.

Lucky for you I am sure you have a decent job that will keep you out of the first wave.

Hopefully student loan forgiveness is offered to all conscripts so we can hope for the best before that age demo you're in is scooped up.

https://i.imgur.com/eLPgjpU.png

[Ekco]

Conclusion on Likelihood
While the potential for conflict exists—especially over Taiwan or an accidental escalation—the majority of analysts, and a significant portion of the US public, believe a full-scale war is possible but not likely (Source: CSIS polling). The costs are simply too high for both nuclear-armed powers to make it a rational decision.

As your technical partner, I'd frame it this way: The system has multiple circuit breakers (economic ties, nuclear deterrents) designed to prevent catastrophic failure, but the pressure (trade, Taiwan, regional military action) is clearly increasing, which puts strain on those mechanisms. It's a high-stakes risk management problem, not an inevitable disaster—at least not yet.

[Ekco]

Idk what that means.


we can kill every chinese person on planet earth and they could kill every non chinese person on the world without firing a single shot, it's nuclear M.A.D but scarier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon

[shovelquest]

"costs are too high"

Also:

"every country in the world is going bankrupt paying for the poorest people within them"

we can kill every chinese person on planet earth and they could kill every non chinese person on the world without firing a single shot, it's nuclear M.A.D but scarier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon

Covid?

[Ekco]

yeah you can go anywhere with the conspiracy you want, it most assuredly being worked on now or was already developed years ago

In May 2007, it was reported that the Russian government banned all exports of human biosamples.[6] The reason for the ban was allegedly a report by the head of FSB Nikolay Patrushev presented to Vladimir Putin. The report claimed about on-going development of "genetic bioweapons" targeting Russian population by Western institutions.

Putin freaked about it in 2007, so whatever Dues Ex Gray Death type plot you wanna run with is prolly pretty close to the target.

"costs are too high"


we prolly got shit that could eradicate rice and wheat and other shit also, 1. something billion people is a lot to feed and we got a shit load of cheese in caves.
U.S. Government currently stores 1.4 billion lbs of cheese
we're Americans, don't fuck with us.

[shovelquest]

Bro, all I said is that prime age for conscripts was 27-60 and gen X gamers are prime targets.

Do rods of god exist? Idk maybe. Sure.

[shovelquest]

One thing is for sure, in the new battlefield game.

FPV drones are a NON ISSUE. And that is pathetic. This game is dog shit.

If this was a real "war sim" then the sky would be darkened with FPV drones in fights like these.

All you'd hear is FFvbzzzz zzvvffzzZZBOOMFFvbzZZBOOMFvbzzzz zzvBOOMBOOMZZBOOMFFvbzZZBOOMzzzzzzzzzzz

Instead in bf6 all you hear are women screaming, oddly.

[Ekco]

not worth it, those titanium rods are the size of telephone poles and weigh too much

Elon's heavy lifters make the idea actually less retarded now than when the paper about the idea was written though

Bro, all I said is that prime age for conscripts was 27-60 and gen X gamers are prime targets.
best i can do is manifest horrors beyond normie comprehension before i put on a uniform and fight some dude who pee'd in my coke

[shovelquest]

best i can do is manifest horrors beyond normie comprehension before i put on a uniform and fight some dude who pee'd in my coke

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☝ This is way more horrifying.

I bet you think that you would fight back if you were conscripted.

But the truth is you'd walk right in as soon as you got the paper work.

I think I would totally dodge, but Im 99% sure I will go die wherever they tell me to.

[shovelquest]

I wonder if we'll be able to put aside our differences during ww3 like racists were able to during ww2.

Or the current society will just fight each other instead of going to war with others.

I can't imagine both sides of the political isle in this climate sharing bunks on a boat set out to a death zone.

[Ekco]

I bet you think that you would fight back if you were conscripted.

But the truth is you'd walk right in as soon as you got the paper work.


nah i'd go the other way, if it actually looked like a real possiblity i'd try joining up before the conscriptions started like people did before the draft happened with vietnam, your odds are prolly better.

and i'd be like over enthusiastic about it asking when i get a gun and get to kill people, maybe get a medical discharge for being insane, shit would have to get so fucking bad before we saw the kidnap vans of conscripts in ukrarine here that we might light the sky on fire

carpet bombing with nukes is how i'd handle drone swarms, just sayin. if you're gonna lose anyway why not. that's what scares me about the russkies

[shovelquest]

and i'd be like over enthusiastic about it asking when i get a gun and get to kill people, maybe get a medical discharge for being insane

Worst case scenario for that historically is brutal punishment or execution for cowardice or desertion.

Best case scenario is you spend the rest of your life in a low security prison hospice because you proved you were too crazy to fight for your own freedom.

carpet bombing with nukes is how i'd handle drone swarms, just sayin. if you're gonna lose anyway why not. that's what scares me about the russkies

Yeah, if the FPV drones don't get you the rads will.

[sammoHung]

nah not playing Battlefield 2025, waiting for the real life version to drop any day now

[shovelquest]

nah not playing Battlefield 2025, waiting for the real life version to drop any day now

The ultimate roguelike (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike).

[shovelquest]

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[SorenVC]

I'm still waiting for pink skins and camos in BF6. Don't judge me they put in lime green already.