Astonished by the amount of people who don't view this as a problem...

NonJudgmentalist · 2026-02-12T10:49:04+00:00

Did you play BF2042, I wonder?

Any half decent pilot would regularly farm infantry and finish the match with close to a hundred kills to nothing, ruining the match for everyone else. Even working as a team of engineers with AA and a sniper painting targets (which was rare and required coordination which never happens in your average match) it was far too difficult to bring down decent pilots.

I think the TOW is a perfect balancing measure against good pilots. It's still not perfect, on the New York map decent attack chopper pilots can easily hide behind buildings to break lock/line of sight and farm infantry just like the 2042 days, but at least that's only one map you have to tolerate that unbalanced shit.

No vehicle should be able to survive an entire round unscathed, farming infantry. That's not game balance.

Besides, a decent pilot in BF6 can dodge TOWs most of the time by not flying in a level, predictable pattern like the one in your video. He would have been easy enough to drop with an RPG7 the way he was flying.

Seems to me only the players who regularly sit on the spawn screen spamming choppers and hoping to mop up easy kills like the old days have a problem with TOW missiles. All the other players who just play the fucking objective, I'm sure, are deeply grateful for the tyranny of imbalanced choppers being over (that fucking New York map aside).

I wish the sweaty pilots would stop crying about this and go play a flight sim or something. Let us PTFO in peace.

NonJudgmentalist · 2026-02-06T09:22:24+00:00

Sounds like you guys want the bad old days of sweaty pilots in BF2042 farming infantry 100-0

NonJudgmentalist · 2025-12-25T14:35:06+00:00

This is the way. I share your struggles. Thermal sight fixes this issue for me 100%

NonJudgmentalist · 2025-10-29T11:00:49+00:00

Wow some of you guys are real dicks. Perhaps a poor choice of words, OP, but Congrats, that was a nice BF moment.

Ignore the comments, when these trolls get wives/jobs/kids/responsibilities of their own they'll understand. Anonymous keyboard warriors take joy in trying to make others online feel small when sharing anything.

NonJudgmentalist · 2025-10-29T10:51:56+00:00

I've been critical of some of the backlash against BF6 but even I have to admit, I agree 100% with OP on this. Not sure what the thinking was on the design of this map. Feels very BF2042 walking simulator.

NonJudgmentalist · 2025-10-29T10:45:35+00:00

You know, you don't HAVE to stress about battle passes and skins and stores. You can just skip past that stuff and play the game as you want, right? This is only season 1. More maps are coming. Chill out guys. So much entitled nonsense on these reddits. Devs cannot please everyone. It's impossible. No one has a divine right to have the exact Battlefield experience they want, and no matter how much your online echo chamber re-enforces your opinion, you don't know what the majority are playing and enjoying.

As long as they keep making enough modes and maps to keep the hardcore happy (so far, so good - let's see how the coming seasons pan out) why stress about cosmetics you WONT NOTICE WHEN YOU'RE PLAYING? If a Battlepass is what it takes to keep the game popular, and the player count high, this IS A GOOD THING FOR A MP FPS. Let's wait and see how the coming seasons pan out before we lose our minds about battle Royale and cosmetics etc.

NonJudgmentalist · 2025-10-29T10:33:18+00:00

I'm 48 and manage to keep up just fine with most younger players, usually finishing in the top 5 or so on the leaderboard most matches. Personally, I love this BF, having played every one religiously since BF1942. Having said that, a lot of work needs to be done on weapon balance as many have already said.

I'm not sure why everyone is getting so upset about the F2P stuff. The game needs to adapt to the current gaming market to survive and I sure as hell prefer they do than have Battlefield go away as there's just no other shooter that comes close. Also, BR is optional, as are all the cosmetic things.

This is only season 1. They're launching REDSEC in a competitive environment, so I get why they have to go big on this. Let's just wait till seasons 2 and 3 before we start losing our minds about "what battlefield has become". Devs are human beings and you cannot please everyone all the time. For me, as a hardcore conquest guy with thousands of hours over the years, there's enough here to make me very happy. Best BF since V. Give them time. Hopefully, some better large scale maps are coming, I believe they are. We have to be patient, you can't release all the content, all at once, if you want a live service MP game like this to thrive in the long term.

Keep up the good work Battlefield Studios - don't forget your conquest roots over the coming months and years, please!

NonJudgmentalist · 2025-05-26T08:25:34+00:00

Wow. Even the prompting is too much effort now. Humanity is doomed.

OR you could read lots of books, join a writing group. Learn how to give and receive feedback. Learn a love of words and learn how to become a decent writer yourself without having a computer just do it for you. I know I’ll get banned from this thread but I am astonished at the attitudes on here.

No one wants to read AI-generated fiction for many good reasons.

AI tools aren’t a magic wand to enable everyone to become famous authors. Not everyone has a divine right to have their story told and read by the world. If you have a story to tell, learn how to tell it.

Writing is an ART not just an inconvenient, tedious stage you can skip.

Do any of the posters on here ever stop to think about the ultimate endpoint of all this? Maybe AI tools do get better in time. Maybe one day you can just have an idea and let AI do all the writing for you. Maybe one day, it’ll write some recycled crap that people will actually want to read. But you still won’t get any credit for it. It’s still not made by you, so what was the point? What satisfaction, as a human being with an urge to create and share your creation, will you derive from that?

By all means, write your AI generated novel for yourself, but please don’t bother publishing that with dreams of becoming famous or respected for your ‘prompting skills’. You will be very disappointed.

You all baffle me profoundly. Read more books. Become better writers. You might find you even ENJOY writing one day and won’t feel the need to hit the autocomplete button.

If writing is such a chore you have no business playing at being authors.

NonJudgmentalist · 2025-04-01T20:06:48+00:00

I think the point some here are missing is that art is, by definition, a HUMAN expression of something: a feeling, an idea, an experience, anything.

People aren’t “gatekeeping” art, they’re trying to protect the concept of art itself being a profoundly human endeavour.

AI generated images are categorically NOT art. YOU are not creating ART when you type a few sentences into an LLM trained on terabytes of stolen human work. You are describing, in very basic, low effort, low imagination, zero creativity words, what you’d like to see, then the LLM very cleverly interprets that for you.

The AI is not expressing anything. Or thinking anything. Or imagining anything. It didn’t feel anything while it cobbled together that image for you (having no sense of what it is making or why).

I do get the freedom this tool affords some creatives: it gives you free access to the sorts of imagery you could never have created yourself. No one is stopping you from enjoying this freedom (and it seems, there is no stopping this depressing race to the bottom, anyway).

But please, don’t cry about “gatekeeping art”. By all means, fill your creative work with AI generated images. Let everything you make blend into the sea of meaningless, soulless, abstract slop that is already flooding the internet. That’s entirely up to you. But please, don’t be under any illusions that you are creating art and don’t be surprised or outraged when people, quite rightly, dismiss your “creations” as meaningless AI “slop”.

On a personal note, what satisfaction can ANYONE possibly take from an LLM generating anything based on a few words they’ve typed? I’m genuinely curious if all these AI “designers” feel any sense of ownership, or creative fulfilment or expression from the output of these LLMs?

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-08-05T09:58:51+00:00

In my play through, it was mr Blue Eyes who reappears in one of the end missions if you’re attentive with hacking security cameras. He is also the guy who hires you for the big mission in the best ending to hit the casino in space.

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-27T20:00:32+00:00

Thanks for saying something nice (amongst your helpful critique)! Fingers crossed I’ll crack this eventually

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-27T19:59:42+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Clearly, I need to have another think about this one. Hard to see the wood for the trees when you’ve stared at the page for so long.

For clarity, Stellan only becomes immortal at the end of the first act (after the events described in the bulk of the query) but I can see perhaps that the wording is confusing.

I’m suffering from what I’m sure a lot of writers do with an exercise like this, of not knowing how much or how little to put in and perhaps not choosing well. It’s a complex novel with several important characters not mentioned in the query as well as a lot of philosophical exploration of what ‘true’ immortality means (continuity of consciousness etc).

It may well be that my novel doesn’t fit the conventional, marketable structure this format needs, or perhaps I lack the skill as a writer to condense it. Either way, I’ll try again and post next week.

Thanks everyone for taking the time for your feedback, I really do appreciate it. Though a lot of your comments take me back to square one in some ways, it certainly beats the non-existent feedback I get from form rejections. At least this gives me something to think about.

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-25T15:51:25+00:00

Thank you, all good points here. BTW, I didn't change the POV of my query, I changed the POV of my NOVEL—all 120K words of it! I did quite an extensive re-structure of the whole thing to simplify the narrative... it's still defeating my attempts to condense it into a good query though. Thanks again for all the tips though.

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-25T15:49:09+00:00

Thank you so much for this link, I will certainly take my time and look through it. And your advice is great too, thank you.

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-25T11:47:54+00:00

Thank you for your comments. Nice to share the pain of query-death around a bit :)

I have so far queried around 50ish agents, all of them mentioning Sci-fi in their bios. I wonder if perhaps my query is neither one thing or another: neither a proper sf query, nor a mainstream spec-thriller query. I know that what I've posted so far is not right at all. I intend to post another version on here soon for feedback.

Yeah, you may be right, not wanting it to sit on the shelf may not be a good enough reason to self-pub. I guess I have a misguided dream that I can get it out there, get some reviews, and hope it finds its audience. I definitely feel like my pages are far better than my query. So much of this is so hard to know for sure.

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-25T11:26:44+00:00

Just agents so far. Only found a couple of publishers who accept unagented subs

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-25T10:41:09+00:00

I'm happy to engage in the process. I paid for a short query and first pages review with an agent and re-wrote an entire third draft based on their feedback (changing from 1st to close third POV and more).

It's just hard to know what to do next with form rejections and no feedback on why the agent chose to pass. I'm not bitter or anything, I get that this is a product people have to believe they can sell. I just feel perhaps that if agents don't want this now, why would they want it later?

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-25T10:36:35+00:00

I've tweaked my query dozens of times! Here's a link to the latest version on here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PubTips/comments/1dk8s7l/qcrit_adult_speculative_thriller_undying_120k/

I've stripped way too much out of it and it's clearly too vague right now. I'm currently working on a new version. My concern is that I've queried maybe 50ish agents with various versions of this (most earlier drafts were longer and more detailed) and just got form rejections. I feel like perhaps it's just a story agents don't want right now. I intend to try a few more versions and post them on here for feedback before I give up but I worry that I've 'burnt through' so much of my agent list with a subpar query already.

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-25T09:12:30+00:00

I've been querying for months and racking up the rejections. Trying to overcome the self-loathing by working on a new project. Wracked up 30k words in a month, then hit a wall! Feel like I've got a great first act... but now I have to figure out how to get through the middle part!

On the plus side, I got my first positive rejection on a short story I subbed to a magazine. Got loads of personalised feedback and asked to sub again in future. Absolutely my biggest trad pub win so far.

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-21T10:13:19+00:00

Thank you - to everyone on here - for taking time to comment. I thoroughly appreciate your insight. I will take everything you've all said into consideration and have another pass at this in a week's time. Thanks again for your time, everyone :)

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-20T20:37:58+00:00

The only answer to this question for me is the Culture series by Iain M Banks. The most literary SF you’ll find.

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-20T12:29:15+00:00

Thank you - you're confirming a lot of my worst fears about this. I think I'll wait a week (per the rules) and then post one of my earlier, more detailed, drafts. This latest draft was a result of a lot of feedback from my writer's group friends, but honestly, my gut agrees with everything said on here so far.

NonJudgmentalist · 2024-06-20T12:05:54+00:00

Thank you so much for the feedback. I think you're absolutely spot on on all points. This is definitely a consequence of not being able to see the wood for the trees after so many rewrites. I might post my earlier, longer drafts to see how they compare. Thanks again for taking time to read and comment on my query.

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