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Episode 231: A quick dive into Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders! · WASD and Beyond

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Let's get right into it. We are here to talk about two
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games in particular. This could be kind of a fast
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flowing episode because we have games to play in order for us to
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release full coherent reviews on these games, which are massive
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in scale. In my opinion.
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There's a lot to talk about with both these games.
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We got to make this quick. So the first game we're going to
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talk about is this Battlefield 6.
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And let let me start and preface this.
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Our job gave us a half more than 1/2 day.
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I would say that was more than 1/2 day.
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Yeah. To work from home, cut early and
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everybody hop on and play Battlefield 6.
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Our job did that. So like this game is what is my.
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My wife's yeah, interrupting the flow of the show.
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I'm being able that we're good, but Battlefield 6 is a game a
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lot of people have been waiting for, including Evan and myself
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and everybody at our job. So that's just what I'm saying
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is the scale of this game is massive and wow, it hit without
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it without skipping a beat. Evan, let's go.
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Let's start with you. How how have you been enjoying
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Battlefield 6 so far? Has it met expectations?
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And is there anything in the game that currently you're
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sitting here pondering like this could be better?
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First things first is, yeah, it hits all the marks other than
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like, like the campaign is really just a good introduction
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to get you used to how the games are, and I think that's fine.
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I was more fond of Battlefield 3 and 4's campaigns.
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I felt they were a bit higher quality, and this one does not,
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unfortunately, reach those heights.
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But that's besides the point. We're not really here for that
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anyway. So to talk about the multiplayer
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mostly, yeah, Wow, they nailed it.
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It's simultaneously like to disagree with a certain gaming
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publication. I think it does improve upon its
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previous games. I think IGN, as usual, IGN,
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whereas it's not a reinvention of the franchise.
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And it's like, yeah, and that's kind of the whole point is that
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2042 was the reinvention of the franchise.
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And look at how people felt about it, myself included.
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Did it get there and get to a, a decent point?
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Sure. But like it, I mean, I'll just
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say this. I've been there for the launch
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of Battlefield 3-4, Hardline 15 and 2042.
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Not a single one of them has been as well optimized as this
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Battlefield where it's like you can just load it up and you can,
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you can play. I mean, we've had we have people
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in the discord who have very old rigs who are able to play that
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game. We were able to play that game
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and say, oh, it runs actually pretty decent.
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Like it's, it's very good. I've particularly it's it's
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pretty fun for me. I'm playing it with just normal
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for PC players anti aliasing. So like it's cool to not have to
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use DLSS or DLA or something like that.
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You can just use the the base thing that they put in the game
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and it runs great. So like that's more of APC
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centric thing. But in terms of the other stuff,
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there's not something in particular where I go like this
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could be better. I think it's all an
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understanding how this battlefield is because there's,
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I think, you know, this is a new iteration of it.
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It's back to the old days and in a lot of different avenues, you
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know, no tactical Sprint, No, you know, but then they also
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have modern appointments in the movement and the gunsmith
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ability, which I think is very fun.
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I actually am very fond of the gunsmith ability and this, it
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reminds me very much of Modern Warfare 2019, which I guess is
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maybe my criticism of this is that even the end game screens
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are like the blue or the red the way that the Modern Warfare 2019
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end game screens were at, right? It's just the battlefield theme,
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but it almost looks like it's a direct copy in some instances.
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So that's kind of where my criticism might lie.
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But I'm also sitting here going, if I were, if I recall, back to
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how I felt about Modern Warfare 2019, I was like, oh shit, this
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is it. They got it right quickly.
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Fucked. It like you, yeah.
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It unfortunately became the victim of, I would say war zones
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ever marching, you know, presence of dominating the
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battle Royale scene, you know, and I think that kind of killed
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it. And then it turned into, you
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know, I mean, at the end of the day, you guys, you know, anybody
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who wants these games to like sort of thrive, especially the
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good ones like Modern Warfare 2019, Battlefield 6.
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You can't do a yearly model like because you, you want to play
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these games for a longer period of time.
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And, and that's not to say, I mean, Battlefield 3 and 4 came
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out pretty quickly after one another, but there was just this
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sort of sense of you didn't, you didn't have to buy the next one
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and continue on. You could stay playing
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Battlefield 3 for much longer and you would get, you know, you
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could spend your time, you know, unlocking the things you wanted
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to unlock and progress the way you wanted to progress.
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The same with four. You know, you didn't have to go
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to hardline and start doing that right away.
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And I feel like with the current state of the AAA shooter market,
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like Call of Duty, that's where you had to go.
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OK, 2019 came out. Year or two goes by because of
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COVID, you know, so it's a little different.
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Everybody flocks to Modern Warfare 2, Modern Warfare 3,
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Modern Warfare 3 comes out a year later.
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Everybody flocks to Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops, Cold War,
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sorry, Black Ops 6 comes out, you know, boom, everybody flocks
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to that. It's it's right away, you know,
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and then everybody stays playing war zone, which again, you know,
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to those people, to anybody who likes playing that, more power
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to you. I don't care.
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It's just not my type of it's not not my favorite battle
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Royale. Don't really like, it's hard for
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me to like battle Royals in general now, but it's really not
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my favorite. So that's my one criticism is
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that maybe it feels a little too much like Modern Warfare 2019
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specifically and only a certain, you know, art style or things
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like that. Like I guess, you know, that's
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kind of a way to put it to Battlefield 3 had that blue hue,
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right? Everything had this sort of
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blue, like, cold color grating to it, whereas this feels very
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plain. Yeah.
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This feels very plain and very safe almost.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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It feels like there's not a whole lot of like art style to
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it in some respects, which I think they should, you know,
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lean into a bit more because that's one of those iconic
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things. You know, I mean, even better
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before is pretty iconic with its imagery because you have that
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Gray background with the orange red like strikes, right, You
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know, of like the the bullets flying out of the the chamber or
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something like that. And those are like the little
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red pieces on the art. And that looks really cool.
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And I like the game also looked that way.
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It felt that way. So I think that it feels a
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little safe in some regards, but in terms of the things that it
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hits, man, every fucking moment of this game feels like a movie.
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You are being attacked by every in every direction.
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You have the helicopters, jets, tanks, I of BS, you know, normal
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transport vehicles, transport choppers all around.
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It feels just like battlefield in that regard.
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It brings me back to playing it as a kid where you are just it's
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chaos. It is like this, this perfect
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level of chaos, but you're able to look through it all is how it
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feels like there's a path here. You know, you can, you know,
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that's how those this game feels to me is that I feel like, and
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it might be just because I've been very good at it at the
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start when it when everything is the way it is, where it just
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feels like you're in the middle of this epic battle.
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And you know, you can find your way into taking down the tanks
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and choppers in the same life and killing, you know, 1015
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enemy before you finally get down.
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And then like that then, you know, you feel pretty good at
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the end of A at the end of a life.
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And I don't know, it's just been my personal experience, but as a
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long time Battlefield fan, yes, it's all of those classic Marks
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and then some and you know, leaves like a pretty good mark.
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You know, I feel good after playing it.
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I'm excited to come home from work and play it.
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Like that's a very big thing for me.
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It's been quite a while that an FPS, especially like a modern
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military shooter, competitive multiplayer online has really.
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Grabbed. I would say, yeah, I would say
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2019 was the last one. Modern Warfare was probably the
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last like AAA shooter that you really.
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And that I really got good at, yeah.
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I mean, yeah, we didn't play. We didn't play two or three
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though that much. Like there's only a handful of
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us that did. But yeah, go on.
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Sorry. But this game gets me excited to
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get off work, come home immediately, check the Discord
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and go, all right, who's online? Where's my squad?
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Who am I squatting up with? Is it going to be me?
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Evan Elliott. Brendan, me, Noah, Evan, Julian,
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it doesn't matter. There's everybody is playing
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this game and it's awesome to see that the servers on launch
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were quote, UN quote, overwhelmed.
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I get it. But I, I got right in.
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I everyone I know got right in. People are playing.
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The servers are stable. I, I, I just, I just I, it's
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unbelievable. They did it.
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They they did this launch correctly.
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It is unbelievable considering the last three launches and it's
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just a good thing to see. This is people talk about like,
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oh, nature's healing itself. And it's like this is a very
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good thing for the industry to see.
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It's when a game like this that's been marred by itself for
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the past couple years now release in a state like this, it
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gives really like this like like to everyone else going, OK,
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fine, we're back. We can we can do this again.
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This is felt like the biggest like back to three and four that
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I've played because I I played a lot of three, I played a lot of
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four and I played Bad company. Those were my Battlefield games.
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I really. Yeah, I keep I always, I always
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forget about not I don't didn't really play a lot of Bad Company
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1. I think it was too young at the
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time when that one came up. But I remember playing a lot of
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Bad Company too on my PC as a kid.
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Oh yeah, that was a lot of fun. Yeah, the Vietnam DLC too.
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Man, that that hit. Dude, so fun.
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That's so good. But yeah, so for me, man, I've
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I've loved it. I've loved every moment.
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I've loved every cinematic adventure online that I've
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created with my friends. One I'll talk about right now.
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We, me, Evan, Noah and Elliott were on a rooftop on Wednesday
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night for 20 minutes. This is a 20 minute thing where
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we I was sniping and I was getting 230 meter headshots, 3
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by longest was 350 or something like that.
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And I went, I was like, yeah, it was like 300.
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I'll take the 50 off just to because I I think I'm telling.
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Like the uni generous. I think I'm talking about a big
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fish story, but like hitting those head shots was awesome.
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And then seeing those other snipers pay attention to us
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going fuck, these assholes are on the rooftop because it's just
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we're just raining fire and I'm taking single shots and all of a
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sudden we turn around and everyone goes jet, jet, jet.
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And there's this these jets behind us crashing into our
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building and shooting and dropping people.
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People are parachuting at us. And it is, it is incredible.
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It is incredible. These moments that we're
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creating are amazing. And there's something to be said
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about spawn die, spawn die. That's a lot in this game.
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Like, you know, there are some I don't know how you fix it
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because it's a lot of takeover. You're taking over a lot of
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positions in the games we play, and if there's an enemy in that
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position, you have no choice. If you're already spawning in
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there, they're there, they're running on rushing and in
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Battlefield it's not a game where you're spawned camp.
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You can, but like most of. The time, yeah, it's hard to do,
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you know, compared to like a God, but yeah, you it's, it's
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possible. Here what's happening is I can't
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let you get If I see you pop in, I have to kill you because if I
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give you a second with that gun it's me so that's important.
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This game has consequences in the online has just been so
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awesome. Stop giving up, let the.
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Medical do your job. I got to say, I've heard that as
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a complaint from a lot of people in our Discord with this game.
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And I'm, I'm on the fence about it.
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And I'll say I'll explain why. Because leading up to this game,
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myself and several other members of the community like Chad and
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Elliot and some others, we're playing a lot of Battlefield 4
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and some Battlefield 3. And at this point in time, those
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communities are left with the people who play them all the
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time. And so they know the job, they
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know the role, they love the game because of that fact,
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because you have to do your job. So I think with this one, we're
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saturated right now with a lot of new players that are Call of
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Duty brained and they're this is their first, you know,
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battlefield. That's actually good because
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2042 was not and did not really reinforce these traditional like
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class based roles and like helping your teammates and even
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nobody wanted that the specialist system that they had
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in place. And this is absolutely return to
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a classic form of Battlefield where it's yeah, you know, I
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mean, there's a bit of a difference now.
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And I feel like there's benefits and negatives to giving the
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assault a set a separate role in putting the support.
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As someone who deals both out ammo and heels in some respect,
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I feel that dividing up the healing in the ammo reinforces
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those roles a bit more because you have to have a dedicated
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person to do one or the other. See so here's the thing, a lot
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of people as as an engineer main, a lot of people confuse
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what engineers are. Engineers are usually supposed
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to be the people flying or driving the the vehicles because
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the whole point of it is that your primary like your signature
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weapon. And this was true in Battlefield
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4. In the previous Battlefields
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before it, and in this one, your SMG or PDW was your primary,
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your signature gun. And that was because it's
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inherently meant to be. When you get the fuck out to go
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and repair it, you have a small like really fast firing gun that
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can, you know, kill a couple people and then you can start
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repairing. So in that regard, like I feel
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that assault in the traditional Battlefield games, you dealt out
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the heels and support dealt out the ammo and they had the LMG,
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which I think is is pretty good. I think if anything, you should
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specialize it. But then I feel that you split
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that class even more because you're going to have an maybe,
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you know, out of a team of 32 people, if you have, you know,
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let's say 15 supports and you know, it's, you know, 10 of them
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have heels and five of them have ammo, there's going to be a lot
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less ammo on the team, you know. And so that's why I think they
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combined that supply bag, you know, gives both.
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I almost think there should be the supports and then there
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should be a medic. See, so that's The thing is I'm
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trying to understand what the assault really does that
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benefits the team because on inherently frags other than get
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frags or make an entry like that was their idea is like, well,
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assault is meant to like make an entryway.
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Here's my thing with that is yes and yes and no, no, I don't see
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it that way, but I see it as like a, it can do, it can do
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that. I think it often times doesn't
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because people will just use it because inherently it's kind of
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shown to you that the, the third, your gadget, your first
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gadget is just another gun and it happens to be a shotgun.
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So people kind of, yeah, people kind of take that and then run
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with it and they don't go to the gadgets.
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And I think that if anything, it should be locked down to
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assaults. Get 2 gadgets just like every
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other class and it's not a second weapon.
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And you know, like I like the assault ladder that they have.
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I think that's actually a pretty good idea.
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I think it can be, I think it can be quite helpful.
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I think the other thing should be a shotgun that can maybe
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instead of like the sledgehammer that can, you know, break down a
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wall or something like that, There should be some sort of
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shotgun that can blast down doors or thin walls, wooden
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walls, things like that. Something that like they tried
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to say, you know, is the the entry man, the person who pushes
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through, you know, you know, I think there is for the assault
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like some sort of grenade launcher.
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And that should, you know, come with either high explosives or
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flash bangs. And it should be something that,
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yeah, you fired into a window and then your boys run in and
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boom, everybody gets flash, you know, other than your your team
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mates, obviously. And you know, Yeah, yeah,
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exactly. It's it's a bit more tactical
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that way, but either way, I think that it's in AI think the
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game is in a very healthy spot. I love that.
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Season 1 is literally 11 days from now.
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That's crazy. The game came out seven days
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ago. So yeah, like, and that's, you
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know, something that I really enjoy.
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I think that the we need to play more of the community stuff.
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We haven't done that, but no, if I have to give like an in like I
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can't really give an in progress review on level 3536.
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I've definitely put my time in so far.
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I'm excited to get to level 50 as of right now.
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I mean it's a nostalgia trip. So like that, unfortunately
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biases, you know, makes my review a little odd here, but
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like I'm I'm sitting at like an 8 and a half 9 like this game is
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is pretty good, even for all the frustrating things like the
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spawn die stuff, which I think can be fixed.
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It just needs to be more like a. Battlefield 4 was a bit more
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harsh on where you could spawn on your teammates.
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You had to really wait for them to be clear.
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I think that just sort of needs to happen in this one.
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And I guess the only real thing I have to say about it is if
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anything, I think that they should experiment with a slower
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time of play. You know, give give the you got
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to inherently make it either more like dense maps, things
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that have a lot more things going on, or you have to make
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just larger maps. But I think that, you know,
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people could really, I think it's actually pretty cool to to
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have like a 30 to 40, maybe 45 minute game.
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Like that's fun. And I think that that also sets
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it apart. COD is meant to be played
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10/15/20 minutes. I don't really want to feel like
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I can load Battlefield up and do the same thing.
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I want to feel like, I want to feel like how Battlefield is
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often meant to be, which is in between.
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It is between COD and Squad. It is between COD and Arma.
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It is between, you know, Cod and Insurgency Sandstorm.
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It is this its own thing, you know, that promotes tactical
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play, tells you to take your time, tells you to work with
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each other, work with your teammates, work with your squad
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mates, you know, benefit each other but also have fun, do
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crazy things, you know, snipe a jet pilot out of a jet and then
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steal it from him. You know, like, yeah, like do
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things like that. Like, you know, take a find the
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TOW missile and shoot it at a, you know, helicopter and crash
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it. You know, like, just do those
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cool only in battlefield things. But also there is a tactical
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edge to it. You know, you got to.
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You can't just run in and and, you know, as you said, spawn
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die. Spawn die.
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Yeah, it gets it, gets it for most people.
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Yeah, dude, if I had to. Get this.
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Yeah, if I had to give this my, like first impressions, this is
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great. This is what we wanted as a
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community. This is what we wanted as
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gamers. This is what we wanted is just
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people who love this game. Great start, great start.
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Get across the finish line, though.
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Let's start season one with a bang.
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See where we go from there, and let's see how this game looks in
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a year. I mean, the review is going to
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come out way earlier than that, but let's keep going, pass the
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baton, let's go. This game is great, let's do
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more. I think this game will thrive if
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done right. More weapons?
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I would I would say two more. Weapons, bigger maps, I think
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smaller maps. I want a wide variety and.
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That was an interesting point that I thought about having
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played it now. We bitched during the beta about
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how all the maps felt too small. And now I feel arguably that
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there's not a I was going to say I, I arguably feel that there's
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not enough small maps because there's only the one which is
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Saints quarter. And I got to tell you buddy,
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I've played for a while now. I'm, as I said, I'm level like
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35. I don't know the exact hours I
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have. You want to know how many times
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I've played that map A lot. Zero.
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No, you haven't, I. I have not played Saints quarter
23:16
once with. Brendan and a couple other guys
23:18
a few times. I have not even seen it.
23:22
I have played every and I've queued for it.
23:24
I've I've absolutely had it open, especially for the smaller
23:26
modes and I have not gotten it. I've gotten every other map.
23:29
So I think I might have to just hard queue it to play.
23:32
But like, yeah, I noticed I was like, I haven't played that yet.
23:35
So. But either way, I think that
23:37
speaks more to my that criticism of like I think yeah, I think
23:40
there should be I mean Battlefield 3 had an entire DLC
23:44
about close quarter maps. Yeah, it did.
23:46
So, you know, I think maybe they should kind of take after that
23:50
for sorry, I got real quiet there.
23:55
That really pissed me off. If I had to give it a rating
24:00
8859, it's it's great. It's in a great place.
24:04
Needs needs a little bit of tune up, but like it's, yeah, it's
24:08
really good. All stuff that has to be done on
24:09
the fly, it has to be done while we're playing, it has to be
24:11
done. While some of that is in the
24:13
community, I mean, some of that has already occurred, the
24:16
progression stuff we talked about today is already is
24:18
already in effect. I thought that was supposed to
24:19
roll out a week from now. They said it's already live.
24:22
So that's already exciting. But yeah.
24:25
Now let's cap the episode off. I'll give you 5 to 10 minutes.
24:31
I'm serious. You've been playing it.
24:33
I have not. I've played the beta for Arc
24:36
Raiders. I love the beta.
24:38
I thought, I thought it was Immaculate.
24:41
I thought it was beautiful. I thought the gameplay was so
24:43
fun. You've played it now for a
24:45
while. I want to give the floor to you
24:47
for the next 5-10 minutes. I'm going to you know what it
24:50
what are your thoughts so. Far first thing that came to
24:54
mind was in in this is in the nicest way possible.
24:59
It is exactly as how I played it earlier this year, which I felt
25:03
very good about it runs great. You know, again, as a as APC
25:08
player, that's important to me. So I'll just say like quickly, I
25:13
have everything on Epic slash High settings with rendering at
25:18
100%, you know, 1440P or whatever, and I'm getting 130 to
25:23
140 FPS in the game all the time, indoors, outdoors, all
25:28
that. Transitions, spinning, shooting.
25:33
Just staying. This game is a very good
25:38
testament to the idea of immersion and using your
25:42
surroundings to really get the upper edge on things.
25:48
What I mean by that is it's very important to pay attention to
25:52
the things you hear, like in a lot of extraction shooters.
25:55
But this has such clear audio to me that it it it feels like a
25:59
different style of game. Tarkov is probably the next like
26:05
extraction shooter that I played that that I played the most.
26:08
And I got to say that my biggest complaint about that game was
26:10
the sound and the audio and the audio quality and being able to
26:13
understand where people were. I was terrible at it.
26:16
No matter where, if I wore headphones in game or not,
26:19
whatever, didn't matter. Where is this?
26:22
That isn't a problem because that's not how the game works.
26:26
And the audio itself is so good in terms of positioning and
26:32
letting you know where people are at, what they're doing.
26:35
Everything has a very distinctive noise, You know, you
26:38
know, when someone is trying to break open a locker versus
26:42
breaking open a door, You know, when someone is trying to
26:46
activate some sort of like device that's like some sort of
26:50
Arc thing. Or if they're trying to, you
26:52
know, escape through one of the hatches or the elevators, you,
26:56
you know, because every sound is very unique and that matters a
27:02
lot. And it adds the immersion of
27:05
things to me. That being said, the gunplay is
27:10
still very fun. Yeah.
27:13
Like the, the bodies, the animations are very well done.
27:16
They're very detailed. I've absolutely found some ways
27:19
to cheese the movement in a way that feels like still like a
27:22
video game, but nothing that feels game breaking.
27:25
As a, for as an example, today I was playing during their service
27:28
slime event, which is this weekend.
27:30
And I jumped, I like ran towards a really tall ladder and I slid
27:36
and I slid past the elevator and turned around and like waited a
27:41
second and then hit E to like grab onto the elevator and he
27:44
like literally is falling through the air.
27:47
And when I hit E, he just grabbed onto it and then slid
27:50
down it and like landed at the bottom perfectly.
27:53
And I was like, that's like some Mission Impossible Tom Cruise
27:56
type shit. And it, but it felt so natural.
27:59
It was so. And it looked natural as the
28:01
important thing to the game really prides itself on that
28:05
sort of animation. So that aspect of it was really
28:10
fun. And it's that's the important
28:12
thing too that comes with extraction shooters is things
28:15
being tense. This game has that.
28:19
You know, my first, my first raid today after I got home from
28:23
work. I can describe it because it
28:25
lasted maybe 10 minutes. I lived, but real quick I
28:31
spawned, ran to the first building that was in front of
28:34
me. In the process of that got
28:36
noticed by three of the flying drones.
28:39
I shot at one of them and I hit him a little bit but I didn't
28:43
kill him completely. They start shooting at me, I run
28:47
towards like a door with a green button on it.
28:49
I hit it, I open the door, I run inside, I shut the door and as
28:53
the door shuts I hear a really loud boom on the other side
28:55
because they launched like a grenade at the door.
28:58
I run down the stairs. As I'm running down the stairs,
29:02
a red light comes on and it's a like turret in the basement that
29:06
noticed me because of course I'm not getting a break.
29:09
And it starts shooting at me as I run and slide just around the
29:13
corner and before I take any damage.
29:15
Then I realized that there's a hole in the ceiling and the
29:20
flying drones came through the hole and they go all the way
29:23
down into the basement. They followed me down there.
29:26
I kill all of them after just cheesing it in the corner and
29:29
then I book it towards an exit and the process of that I get
29:33
shot at by multiple other turrets and drones again.
29:36
There's it feels like an action movie.
29:38
It it felt like 1. I ended up sliding down into
29:41
like another dilapidated building and I hear like pitter
29:46
like like pitter pattering behind me and I turn around and
29:49
it's a spider drone that reminds me of like a face hugger from
29:52
alien and it just bare, just barely misses me.
29:56
And then I shoot at it. I kill it.
29:59
And I noticed like some sort of rolling drone that rolls right
30:02
towards me and explodes and like sends me back a little bit.
30:06
I jump out of a window, slide down like a little like dirt
30:10
mound like thing, run through a swamp, get to an elevator, hit
30:15
the button, wait until the very last second and get in and
30:18
escape. 10 minutes. And I was like, that was more
30:22
intense, more fun, and just more exciting than any other
30:27
extraction shooter that I've ever played.
30:29
And it felt relatively casual, Like it felt like this is how
30:34
every raid feels. Another highlight that I'll just
30:39
say briefly, I got to play with John and Russ and that made the
30:44
experience better tenfold. Playing with friends in this
30:47
game makes everything so much better.
30:50
The beauty of it right now is that it's free to play this
30:52
weekend. So obviously if you have like I
30:54
think it's APC, Xbox Series X or S or a PlayStation 5, download
30:58
it and play it. It's completely free.
31:00
It goes until Sunday night I believe.
31:02
And they're trying to stress test.
31:03
So they want to get as many people, especially new players,
31:05
into it to see if people will genuinely like, and I think a
31:08
lot of people will because it feels accessible.
31:13
Tarkov is known for being very difficult.
31:15
This is not that you're not worried about your food, your
31:19
water, your radiation levels, your, you know, any of those
31:23
things. You're not worried about packing
31:25
a mag, you're not worried about bringing the right gear.
31:29
You know, this game is simple. You have light Shields, medium
31:31
Shields, heavy Shields. You know, there's not a whole
31:34
lot that you need to really worry about.
31:37
And I don't mean that as a way of like it's, it's dumbed it
31:41
down or something like that, but it feels just optimized.
31:47
Like it feels like they know what what sort of group they're
31:51
chasing, which is, hey, you want to play an extraction shooter,
31:54
but you don't want to feel like you have to sync hours and hours
31:56
to really make any progress. And you don't need to feel like
32:00
you're going to miss out if you don't play every day.
32:02
And this game is like that. You know, there isn't a wipe
32:05
system. There isn't that aspect of what
32:09
you have to play and get better along with everyone else.
32:11
Otherwise you're going to be left in the dust.
32:13
Like honestly, this game is way more about surviving against the
32:17
arcs than it is fighting your fellow Raider.
32:20
Like I we had in one of our games as a group, we fought
32:25
another group of Raiders and only after we took out the last
32:29
one did one of them go, Oh, I was just trying to get out with
32:32
Flute. And we were like, you tried to,
32:33
we were like, you tried to kill us.
32:36
And then he's like, listen, the elevator's coming up because we
32:38
called it, you know, like if, if you guys are cool, just let me
32:41
try to crawl in. All right.
32:43
And we're like, OK, if you can crawl in here, if you can crawl
32:46
in here, then yeah, you can leave.
32:47
Like we're not going to kill you.
32:49
He didn't make it. And it's not because we did
32:51
anything. He just, he didn't.
32:52
But it was just like, there's that.
32:54
Well, there's that. Well, we couldn't, we also
32:56
couldn't revive him. The only thing we could do was
32:58
knock him out and take his stuff.
33:00
So if anything, we did the more honorable thing of just letting
33:03
him die with his gear instead of taking it.
33:07
But like, even that was like, again, I don't feel like I got
33:12
that ever in Tarkov. Every time I met another player
33:15
in Tarkov, it was an immediate oh, they're firing at me.
33:18
Yeah, it it is. It is.
33:19
You're dead. Like, you know, you're fighting
33:21
them and and you're either walking away or they're walking
33:24
away. Yeah.
33:24
Whereas with this, it felt like I even had, I had a separate
33:29
moment earlier just by myself where I was running with no
33:33
weapon out towards something else.
33:35
And another enemy like a another player turned and saw me and he
33:40
was looting and he pulled his gun out and he shot me a couple
33:42
of times and I just said over the proximity might be like,
33:45
hey, hey, I'm not trying to hurt you.
33:47
I'm just trying to run past, OK. And he put his gun away and then
33:51
he just crouched and stood up and down a couple times.
33:54
And I did it back and I was like, you did the wiggle.
33:56
And I was like, OK, we're good. And then but it's like, again,
33:59
that's just something where it's like it's, there's really no
34:01
incentive to like necessarily having to fight every person you
34:04
see. Cos isn't the big yeah.
34:07
No. And at the end of the day, if
34:08
you're trying to fight those kind of fight like the queen or
34:12
the bigger arcs that are later on in the game, you have to work
34:16
with other Raiders. You cannot do with just the
34:18
three people that you are, you know, or the two of the people
34:20
you're squatted up with. You're going to need to work,
34:23
which, yeah, I like that. You're going to have to make an
34:25
uneasy alliance. And this game seems to reward
34:29
that in a way. So yeah, I mean, those are my my
34:33
10 minutes. I don't know.
34:34
I kind of want you to talk a bit more about it because this has
34:36
just been me yapping for like 35 minutes.
34:39
Arc Raiders is a very exciting game for me to play.
34:43
I played a lot of Tarkov with Evan, Jules, Matt, the other
34:46
guys. Yeah, this game is entry for
34:50
everybody, and that's important for this genre.
34:53
This genre is killing itself slowly.
34:57
Games like Tarkov shoot itself in the face all the time.
35:00
Marathon literally hung itself and now is trying to come back.
35:03
And that's fine. I hope it returns.
35:05
But you know, Bungie does bungee things.
35:11
This game looks like an awesome entry into the into the into
35:15
this genre of game, and that's important.
35:19
The game looks great. It plays great.
35:21
Last time I played it, I loved it.
35:23
I was enamored. I didn't want to stop.
35:27
The movements of the character is so fluid and pretty.
35:31
I don't know how else to say that.
35:32
It's just pretty. It felt like an I was in an
35:36
action movie The entire time. Like Evan said, there were just
35:39
these moments that felt curated for me and my team, and it just
35:45
felt like I just never wanted to end.
35:48
I'm excited to finish this episode.
35:53
Go play Arc. Yeah, play a lot of Arc all
35:56
night and drink whiskey because the last time I played this
35:59
game, I loved it. And I The funny thing is, when I
36:02
loaded up Steam to preload it today, it was just already back
36:07
in my library. Yeah, it's just the play test
36:11
from before. And they, they, The funny thing
36:13
is, I don't know if you had to when you got home after work,
36:17
but the hot fix that they put out today was like a big fix
36:23
aimed at solving some of the crashes and errors that people
36:25
have been experiencing. And they're like, that said,
36:27
it's a full redownload of the game and it took like 5 minutes.
36:31
Oh, beautiful. It was, it was, it was quick.
36:34
I was like, oh, OK. And he's like, they're like, you
36:36
know, this is like the last time we're ever going to really have
36:38
to do that. But like, yeah, like, I don't
36:41
know. I'm, I'm very optimistic about
36:45
this game's future. I love the art style.
36:47
I think that's a huge thing. We and I'd love to talk about it
36:50
a different time. But like the art style is very,
36:52
it reminds me of Starfield where it's like NASA punk, you know,
36:56
it has that sort of like 70s, 80s space age vibe, you know,
37:03
humanity didn't get quite off. Yeah.
37:05
Well, like, you know, even just like some of the helmets and
37:08
like the other little pieces of gear that you can wear like the
37:12
weapons themselves to like, I like that it's not traditional
37:15
stuff. Like, yeah, there's you know,
37:18
there's shotguns, SMGS, pistols, rifles, so on and so forth, of
37:20
course. But like I like that one of the
37:23
first weapons is like a break action single shot rifle.
37:27
Yeah, that deals a really high damage if you're accurate with
37:30
it. But like you also have, hey, you
37:32
know, this this SMG that is like looks like this this big, like
37:36
can on the back and like, that's where it's at, like all the
37:40
weapon or all the bullets are at.
37:42
So like that. I just like that everything
37:44
feels like, yeah, like stitched together and, you know, just
37:48
like a bunch of geniuses in the the dark somewhere, you know,
37:53
just came up with these things to fight these robots and all
37:55
that sort of stuff. And I guess my only gripe so far
37:59
with this like server slam. And that's where I'll leave it.
38:03
They've only given US1 map and I I know that it's a server slam.
38:08
I understand why I totally get it.
38:11
But man, I'm so excited to get to the other maps because like
38:15
the the buried city with the desert was beautiful.
38:18
The spaceport was amazing. And to see the other two is
38:21
going to be really exciting because there were two that we
38:22
still didn't get to play. And one of them looks like sort
38:24
of like an end game area underground, like sort of sort
38:28
of like some Ark home world type thing.
38:30
Like it's like this really. Like even just the screenshot
38:33
that they show is like a really long cave with a bunch of red
38:35
around it. Like it's been trapped, like,
38:37
like there's a bunch of traps like, and it's like that, you
38:39
know, that's going to just have some sort of really intense vibe
38:43
to it. Yeah.
38:46
We got to go play it. We got to we got to stop
38:47
talking. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
38:48
I'm sorry. No.
38:49
No, no dude, thank you for hopping on.
38:52
Like I said, we are. We are splitting hairs here.
38:54
We are we are pulling so many different directions.
38:58
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