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I have crossplay turned off and it seems no one is playing portal on Xbox. 

 

I joined the BC2 Rush playlist. Total of 3 players of 4 games. 

 

Joined BF3 conquest. Maybe about 6 players in the two games I tried. 

 

Looked at the server browser and there was a were a grand total of 4 community made games. 

 

All this is last night at 8pm, peak time. There has to be an issue, I find it hard to believe that no one is playing BC2 in particular. 

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3 hours ago, Ry said:

I have crossplay turned off and it seems no one is playing portal on Xbox. 

 

I joined the BC2 Rush playlist. Total of 3 players of 4 games. 

 

Joined BF3 conquest. Maybe about 6 players in the two games I tried. 

 

Looked at the server browser and there was a were a grand total of 4 community made games. 

 

All this is last night at 8pm, peak time. There has to be an issue, I find it hard to believe that no one is playing BC2 in particular. 

 

I think it is down to two things.

Very few turns off cross play on Xbox as it is done on a system and not on a game level as on Playstation.

 

And I think there are very few console players playing BF2042. I only play 128 Conquest and by looking at the player list I would say that in any given match 80-85% are PC players, with the rest divided between Xbox and PlayStation.

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42 minutes ago, sixbuttons said:

I will preface this video by saying I would be in full support of nerfing this, but my fucking word did I have fun making this video.

 

(apologies for terrible editing, Sharefactory isn't the easiest thing to work with)

 

 

Haha this was my suggestion to the guy's I play with and they use it loads now ^_^

 

We need a way that we can utilise it on the towers now when they have the points held down, would give you another unexpected approach when attacking a point.

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2 hours ago, englishbob said:

Played Portal official 2042 Rush mode last night on PS5 about 8:30pm - no issues here - crossplay is off

 

1 hour ago, sixbuttons said:

Gotta agree with Englishbob - I get a full server on PS5 with crossplay off on almost every mode except for 1942.

 

 

Very strange. Had the same issue today. 

 

On another note I just can't get to grips with aiming on this. It just feels weird. Tracking enemies is a nightmare. 

 

I have looked online at some recommended settings for sensitivity and the like and nothing feels like BF of old. I'm just missing so many shots and going all over the place. I was a pretty high level player in the past going by my stats in previous games but I'm just really struggling. 

 

I can jump into the new Halo or CoD and with limited experience I'm doing well but with this I'm just struggling. 

 

Doesn't help the game still has hit detection issues. 

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13 minutes ago, Ry said:

 

Very strange. Had the same issue today. 

 

 

It may well be PC has the lion's share of users (who knows) and that the crossplay option burial issues just leave the Xbox version a bit dead when wanting to get a server of just Xboxers.

 

Not sure what DICE can really do about that if so. Is there a developer override, short of switching crossplay off altogether?

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A video I watched the other day seemed to think console had the most players. Apparently it sold like 4.3m copies or something daft. Even taking into account the relatively small pool of Xbox players there should be more people than that with cross play off. Maybe like someone said the option is so buried so people don't do it. Can EA over-ride the system level nature of it? I mean they probably won't, but can they?

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1 hour ago, Luseth said:

 

Haha this was my suggestion to the guy's I play with and they use it loads now ^_^

 

We need a way that we can utilise it on the towers now when they have the points held down, would give you another unexpected approach when attacking a point.

 

It worked really well in BF4 with the MAV as well (also fun was nudging smipers off the top of tall buildings with it :D). My favourite BF4 MAV game was to watch an enemy placeing explosives and then use the EMP to detonate them and kill them. Or even better detonate their own mines when one of their vehicles rolled over them.

 

How are you detonating the C5 @sixbuttons? I've been finding it slightly difficult as I've been coming out of controlling the drone and then having to switch to the detonator to blow the explosives. It makes it really awkward on moving targets (although On a few occasions I think one of their gunners has shot my drone and that has detonated the C5 and destroyed the vehicle).

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13 minutes ago, FishyFish said:

 

It worked really well in BF4 with the MAV as well (also fun was nudging smipers off the top of tall buildings with it :D). My favourite BF4 MAV game was to watch an enemy placeing explosives and then use the EMP to detonate them and kill them. Or even better detonate their own mines when one of their vehicles rolled over them.

 

How are you detonating the C5 @sixbuttons? I've been finding it slightly difficult as I've been coming out of controlling the drone and then having to switch to the detonator to blow the explosives. It makes it really awkward on moving targets (although On a few occasions I think one of their gunners has shot my drone and that has detonated the C5 and destroyed the vehicle).

 

That sounds brilliant and I need to make that happen.

 

I have tried detonating it from time to time but like you say, coming out of the drone, faffing about with the weapon selection accompanied with the ease of use of just using it as a battering ram (as well as the utter humiliation of "death by drone" instead of "got blown the fuck up") just make it too much fun to whirlybird them to pieces.

They should nerf it though. Having to detonate rather than being able to ram would be enough.

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Is Portal dead allready too? Right now, not prime time I know, there are only 4 European Portal servers with more than 20 players playing.

Fancied a quick game of TDM on my break but I guess that won't be happening.

 

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Went for a quick game of 128 Player Conquest instead. Loadout bug meaning I couldn't choose any loadout but at least I managed to spawn this time. On the sandstorm map resulting in about 5 fps when getting anywhere close to the Stadium flags.

 

This game really doesn't want me to play or like it. 🙄

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18 hours ago, koefoed said:

Is Portal dead allready too? Right now, not prime time I know, there are only 4 European Portal servers with more than 20 players playing.

Fancied a quick game of TDM on my break but I guess that won't be happening.

 

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Went for a quick game of 128 Player Conquest instead. Loadout bug meaning I couldn't choose any loadout but at least I managed to spawn this time. On the sandstorm map resulting in about 5 fps when getting anywhere close to the Stadium flags.

 

This game really doesn't want me to play or like it. 🙄

 

Part of it could simply be down to the numbers, people are leaving this battlefield at incredibly fast pace, i've reinstalled the previous 2 games myself and going to see if they are more active (they are far better games than 2042 in it's current state). I suspect a lot of people have gone back to the previous games as they feel much more battlefield and over the years it's that loyal fanbase that has kept the series going. This latest game has gone away from a lot of what the series was so has lost it's loyal base, that leaves it with a lot of gamers who have the likes of Apex, COD (Warzone) fornite etc etc all competing for their attention as well. They won't last long if they have at all.

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27 minutes ago, Ry said:

BF2042 Rush mode is the saving grace of this.*

 

Had a blast playing it yesterday. 

 

*There's still a ton of issues though

 

On the flipside we had a terrible time with it the other night, it's not the game mode but the maps are terrible. Aside from where the points are located it's just so open between points that you just get pinged by a sniper or taken out by a tank before you can get to another point. I think it was kaleidoscope, we were getting minced the first few points so obviously our team was a bit rubbish, it happens, but as soon as we got to the top of the skyscraper the other team couldn't get a foothold despite being a much better side.

 

Going back and playing the older maps in portal it's like night and day, playing rush on the bad company 2 maps immediately after crap rounds on the modern one's and it was almost enjoyable (despite when we first joined it was our squad of 4 versus 6 or 7 of them).

 

They can obviously add new maps and make them better but it's an awful lot of work to make the existing one's more bareable and I just don't see them spending time or money on doing that.

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25 minutes ago, moosegrinder said:

Oh shit, it can be done.

 

 

https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/battlefield/battlefield-2042/news/battlefield-2042-update-notes-4?utm_source=twitter&ts=1639039257088&cid=72069&utm_campaign=bf2042_hd_ww_ic_socd_twt_core-update-notesn&utm_medium=social

 

That is probably good news! But I think there should be a third option and that should be to opt out of cross play with PC. Which is the way I think cross play should work as standard on consoles, most even playingfield and a minimum of cheaters.

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For those who were mad about proximity sensors, huge nerfs going on here:

 

Lowered spotting radius from 30m -> 20m

Lowered uptime from 30s -> 14s

Lowered amount of Prox Sensor a player can carry and deploy from 2 -> 1

 

Agree with this the radius and amount to be fair, but 16s off the uptime? That's... quite excessive.

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I think the telling thing for me at the moment is that this is a new Battlefield game that's been out less than a month. Normally I would be grabbing a game every chance I get, but I haven't played in a week and I can't say I have much inclination to do so any time soon. I'll give it a go now the patches are out to see if it makes a difference, but I think the problems are more fundamental  - the switch to specialists instead of the classes, and a bunch of what I feel are very lacklustre maps.

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21 minutes ago, sixbuttons said:


What a shot 😮


I trimmed the 10 shots I took before that one out of the video….

 

But it’s one of my fave things to do is spank choppers out of the sky with unguided shells from the tanks. Used to be really good at it on BF4. Still getting used to the drop and travel on 2042

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2 minutes ago, T Pot said:

But it’s one of my fave things to do is spank choppers out of the sky with unguided shells from the tanks. Used to be really good at it on BF4. Still getting used to the drop and travel on 2042

 

I agree, that's always good times. I never have been particularly good at it so when I get my one kill every 3-4 months or so, I immediately quit the game, go off to have a furious wank, order a curry and then go to bed in absolute victory.

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1 hour ago, FishyFish said:

I think the telling thing for me at the moment is that this is a new Battlefield game that's been out less than a month. Normally I would be grabbing a game every chance I get, but I haven't played in a week and I can't say I have much inclination to do so any time soon. I'll give it a go now the patches are out to see if it makes a difference, but I think the problems are more fundamental  - the switch to specialists instead of the classes, and a bunch of what I feel are very lacklustre maps.

 

Maybe you'll feel different when the Battlefield Gameatic Universe starts and you get to spend more time with all those beloved Battlefield characters like [FILE MISSING]!

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28 minutes ago, Harsin said:

 

Maybe you'll feel different when the Battlefield Gameatic Universe starts and you get to spend more time with all those beloved Battlefield characters like [FILE MISSING]!


I totally read that as the Battlefield Geriatric Universe.

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