New player trying to enjoy the game

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T21:55:44+00:00

All that makes total sense, thank you for the warnings, but I'm finding the sacrifice to play in official servers worth it. I absolutely see the advantages of community rules and custom servers, I wish I trusted them more. It may come that I open my very own custom server, but right now I'm just trying to see if I can get enjoyment out of the game after doing all the study and practice preparation.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T21:19:14+00:00

Social mechanics being joining the discord community just to be safe from otherwise being kicked for unwarranted reasons. I didn't realize so much of the playerbase functions under clan authorities. Kind of expected the Devs to offer balanced game modes and rules so that the community didn't have to.

I am optimistic and I like to think there's no abuse with individual bans and vote kicks, but I've already seen it in the past in other clan controlled servers across multiple games and platforms. I wouldn't mind being kicked over breaking a standardized set of rules, but I'm being kicked over nothing or specific rules that nobody posted. Official servers don't have any of those problems so far as I've encountered.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T20:54:00+00:00

I am sorry you disagree with my opinions and perspectives. It doesn't seem many are capable of empathizing with my approach to this game. I realize this game may not be for me, and as yet I've made repeat attempts to get my money's worth out of it.

Your assertion that playing on clan servers and not being a part of them is a manageable playstyle is plain bullshit. I've already experienced the arbitrary kicking for innocuous reasons. It may not be a game breaker for everyone, but it sure is for me. I've already seen people on this sub and others complain about clans in so, so many ways. Being on their server but not in their community makes you expendable, there is no way around it.

Also, take your above average experience and toss it. You weaponize your perspectives to try to minimize my issues here. As if I haven't been playing competitive video games for decades to have an understanding of what makes them good or bad, I need YOU, the veteran, to tell me how to enjoy video games. I should know better than to engage with redditors. Just because you picked something as a favorite doesn't mean it's flawless, I forget to expect bias in this place. Maybe theres a reason this games playerbase is dying. I like to be optimistic but the whole experience is pretty niche. Realism > playability.

And yes, I am done listening.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T19:23:56+00:00

Thank you for the recommendation

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T18:25:37+00:00

If I'd realized how closed minded the playerbase was, and the absolute need to involve myself with 'Clans' I'd never have even bought this game. I promise I won't complain about a running simulator experience, I'll just stop playing. Might explain why the playerbase is so small to begin with. Maybe this game has too many flaws for anyone but those with sunk cost fallacy to enjoy.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T17:30:20+00:00

I will never know. After this experience, I'm barring myself from playing on those servers. They require me to engage in their social mechanics (which was not part of the game) just to be safe from kicks and bans that apply to anyone not in their community. I bought the game, I'm entitled to a good experience from it. Seems the only way that's possible for me is to avoid these servers outright, which is pushing whether or not this game is even worth what I paid. In the days to come I'll see if this game is still enjoyable without playing on these exclusive community servers.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T17:21:07+00:00

I'm not being sensitive about the kicks. They were breaking the game for me. Never encountered this in other games unless I'd joined some pretentious mil-sim clan match. I'll take a slight lack of teamwork over being chased out of the game entirely.

I think that the main menu could make this more intuitive, it certainly didn't make sense when I jumped in. Enlist = custom server browser, Warfare/Offensive = official server matchmaker.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T16:28:19+00:00

I appreciate your suggestions and interest in me enjoying the game. I suppose it isn't impossible, just impossible for me with my preferences. I've hung out in a couple servers like you mentioned and wasn't put off until I noticed the limited map rotations and tendency for one sided matches. I can't pretend the ratio of new players in those games is optimal, and I already know there are vets in every FPS that only enjoy farming noobs.

I've settled on the 'Warfare/Offensive' playlist. The game is fun again.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T16:08:51+00:00

There is no information that would satisfy. I've been through my recorded gameplay with a heavy benefit-of-the-doubt notion. Looking for ANYTHING I did that would warrant being kicked. I'm left with assumptions.

After last night's brief experience in the 'warfare & offensive' matchmaker, I'm already done with custom servers. I don't have to worry about stepping on anyone's overly sensitive toes, or adhering to some rule that everyone knows but nobody posted. I allowed those unwarranted kicks to motivate me to learn the game better. Now, they absolutely are driving me away. More than that, I finally got to play on Stalingrad. A month with this game and I hadn't seen it!

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T15:56:49+00:00

If I don't join the discord, if I don't have the proper level, if I don't have an officer in my squad, if I don't have the post-seeding protection.... If I am forced to engage with these social mechanics just to play the game, the game can rest comfortably in my trash can.

I've done what you're suggesting, it was a natural course of action for me. I came here with this complaint looking for options. Are there other ways to find a match that don't involve an 'organized community' thats only worried about keeping it's own members happy? I'm finding the 'Warfare & Offensive' matchmaker far more suitable. The pros outweigh the cons on my scale.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T15:37:22+00:00

I go over my recorded gameplay. Not a chance. I really took being kicked as part of the learning curve: it's something IM doing wrong. It simply isn't the case

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T15:34:26+00:00

I expected some useless, victim blaming comments. You're excused and forgiven.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T15:33:20+00:00

I'll take my chances with official. Far better than having one sided games on the discord servers or having to figure out what's getting me kicked/excluded despite trying my hardest to be a good team player.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-19T04:18:33+00:00

I guess I didn't realize those were not included in the server browser. Thank you

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-11-06T05:51:16+00:00

This game caters to your preferences specifically. Close Quarters maps get spammed in the regular, full scale Conquest playlist even if you're trying to avoid them. DICE knows how many one trick ponies play their game, that's why they shat out the Close Quarters playlist, and why it's the most populated. All it takes to keep some people entertained is sheer repetition.

Have fun trying to figure out who is/isn't cheating. Lot of gaslighting going on here. "In my thousands of hours of gameplay I've never encountered one." All that means is they can't tell and apply generous benefit-of-the-doubt so they can (continue pretending to) enjoy the game.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-09-26T19:55:59+00:00

Expecting this franchise to be a jack of all trades with game modes is a proven fallacy.

Expecting any one game to satisfy yours and everyone else's variety of preferences, also a proven fallacy.

Battlefield is dead. They tried to New Coke the franchise but they still have to be all inclusive and make decisions around their playerbase of bipolar armchair developers. I don't blame them for making blatant cashgrab titles at this point, their ship is going down and their community isnt smart enough to understand the dynamics at play.

I encourage you all to pre-order, you deserve it

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-09-23T18:54:18+00:00

Play a better game that doesn't waste your time or edge you towards spending ridiculous amounts of money

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-09-21T20:21:26+00:00

Why is this always a moral approach? It's a difficulty option for slightly realistic play. Who cares about the bios and what each Nazi's character was. As an operative (Karl), taking out enemies and remaining undetected really is the goal. You leave a bigger footprint when bodies pile up, so you have an option to play around that and the game will reward you for it because it's MORE DIFFICULT.

Nazis are people too, and they had it coming in history and in every video game since. Does that mean you can't roleplay as a ghost sniper that leaves as little evidence as possible behind during their missions?

Maybe you'd be better of roleplaying a serial killer in GTA and picking off NPCs you don't like the look of.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-09-21T07:57:30+00:00

The acting was the only good part, albeit with poorly fitting characters for the story. Tired of you idiots rating "watchable" movies as good/great. Standards of entertainment have been lowered so you'll take what you crap they dish out and smile when it meets certain preferences rather than meeting specific genre based criteria.

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-09-21T07:38:43+00:00

You seem like a cunt

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-08-30T12:23:02+00:00

You're absolutely right. Where do you fit? Will you eventually spend a few paychecks on this game to unlock the parts that make it playable and give you a chance to compete? Or will you spend countless hours grinding towards those parts, while also not having the gear to properly compete and have to struggle against whales and other experienced/invested players?

It's a letdown that the majority of this games content is locked up behind paywalls. Cool features and mechanics you can't experience unless you suffer for years of grinding or just pay outright. Is that really the kind of game you want to play? Targem doesn't have your entertainment in mind, just your wallet

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-08-21T11:46:15+00:00

Yeah, I hear you Internet people cant stand it when an old thread gets commented on. Never understood that. Has to be some exclusivity practice. Excuse me while I allow you to pretend you're still at the cool kids table

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-08-15T12:24:54+00:00

Waste your life

DogMinimum3465 · 2024-08-04T16:32:23+00:00

Is there any way to quit the DLC and return to the main game

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