BF 4 - will it impact PS2 population? - Page 7

Calista · 2013-10-04, 06:34 PM

SOE needs to do something to get everyone off Indar for a while. I think it is hurting the game pops when that is pretty much all that is fought over every single day. Or maybe just limit pops on it and spread the fight out to other conts but the dilemma is no one ever leaves Indar because that is where the fight always is and the fight is always on Indar because no one wants to leave the fight. Maybe when Hossin launches they can turn Indar into a giant pain field for a few weeks

Raymondo · 2013-10-04, 10:18 PM

Originally Posted by Calista

SOE needs to do something to get everyone off Indar for a while. I think it is hurting the game pops when that is pretty much all that is fought over every single day. Or maybe just limit pops on it and spread the fight out to other conts but the dilemma is no one ever leaves Indar because that is where the fight always is and the fight is always on Indar because no one wants to leave the fight. Maybe when Hossin launches they can turn Indar into a giant pain field for a few weeks

Thats my main problem with the game at present

Im fed up with being stuck on Indar all the time!! After playing for over a year now & 90% of that time has been on bloody Indar you start to get very bored

LeilaniRock · 2013-10-05, 04:00 AM

^Maybe use the warp to another continent option for a while?

I seem to always be able to find fights on Amerish or Esamir

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Dodgy Commando · 2013-10-05, 04:22 AM

Same here, Esamir is pretty popular these days on my server since the continent was updated. I find less fights on Amerish, though.

almalino · 2013-10-05, 04:36 AM

Played PS2 yesterday for 2 hours may be. Boring like hell. Fights are only on Indar and fight were pretty boring themselves. Every platoon or squad I join are silent. Probably those were using some other VOIP rather then in game one.

camycamera · 2013-10-05, 08:26 AM

so i just played the BF4 beta. it was a good game for an FPS game (wish there was more bf2/2142 in it

)... but i got frustrated allot and it felt empty, as in it didn't seem to have much point as the map just reset and we did the same thing again.

after, i played PS2, and i had a much better experience imo. hell, i dont even know if i can go back to the beta after playing PS2. the persistence and the scale, and the (largely) absence of loading screens is just more appealing to me.

HydroBIG BANG · 2013-10-05, 05:05 PM

You need to rename the title "BattleCOD3.5- will it impact PS2 population?" Ive played the open beta and it doesn't have much new to offer,just some rehashed stuff to be milked by EA and the fact that it is still only 64 players max so I can see people getting bored if this is just about all they have to offer.
I bet none of the maps will even be as big as the BF2 PR maps.I also heard that many of the maps were designed with 24-32 players in mind and PS2 is a massive scale combined arms game which dwarfs BF4 in that regard.

Sledgecrushr · 2013-10-05, 05:35 PM

I would like to +1 this post ^

Raymondo · 2013-10-05, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by LeilaniRock

^Maybe use the warp to another continent option for a while?

I seem to always be able to find fights on Amerish or Esamir

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Mattherson is pretty much just Indarside

Only time people leave Indar is for alerts & soon as they finish everyone ups an leaves to go back to Indar straight away

Heck you even get people who just avoid Esamir/Amerish alerts all together & just stay on Indar

almalino · 2013-10-06, 05:36 AM

To solve the Indarside problem, SOE must add Nuclear plant on Indar that should explode time to time with a warning 5 minutes before the explosion and if you do not leave the continent you just die instantly unless you are wearing some heavy anti-radiation suit that makes you slow and lasts max 30 minutes under radiation. Like STALKER

and after an 2-3 hours or so it should be possible to get back to Indar and to collect and fight for unique artifacts

That would be fun.

Some people might return to Indar earlier only in case they have anti radiation suit that lasts say 30 minutes. During that time you might be able to search for artifacts and fight other stalkers and zombies (\- those are players who died during explosion and then ressurected as mindless AI zombies. Oh, dreams.

almalino · 2013-10-06, 05:43 AM

Yesterday I had some epic fight on PS2. And after watching BF4 beta fotage I think I will stick to PS2.

Emperor Newt · 2013-10-06, 05:44 AM

To fix Indarside they need to bring more people into the game or merge servers. When there are just enough players to fill a single continent, people are more likely to flock to Indar. Everything else is just fighting the symptoms.

Rolfski · 2013-10-06, 06:27 AM

I've been playing the BF4 beta for a while now and it pretty much plays like BF3 (new stuff like commander mode is not in though).

BF4 scores points on well-executed spectator mode (PS2 needs this badly if it ever wants to take e-sports seriously), amazing sound, non-stop immersive action (vs ghost-capping/waiting for bases to flip) and more PTFO-oriented gameplay (vs kill-farming).

If anything, it makes me realize how much potential PS2 has over games like this but how short it still falls to live up to it.

Levente · 2013-10-07, 06:15 AM

in bf4 beta i saw finnaly they managed to bring in the voice commands , so if you yell something others will hear it too, like in bf2. so yes BF4 is getting close to what we like in bf2 but still not enough, i still cannot name my fuckin squad, i still cannot manage my squad to invite players. and there is no move waypoint option. thesee 3 things are still missing in bf4.

Rahabib · 2013-10-07, 10:42 AM

I played the BF4 beta. I am bored of PS2 for now, but this game just sucks. The guns feel horrible - perhaps even worse than BF3. They inaccurate at any decent range. Then the tanks, its like a rush to tanks and the rest is hide and seek from them.

The last BF game I bought was BF2. The guns still sucked but I bought it because you could mod it (and did with my BF2C mod). Then everyone bitched because they like cone of fire more than recoil enhancements. The BF players deserve what they got. Good riddance!

So until PS2 gets a resource revamp or some new content, I am off to try other games. BF4 wont be my reason for my break though.