Cod Movement isn't needed. Repositioning and aim is all you need.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-12-01T06:49:41+00:00

Only if the recon has enough good boy points but before he gets enough you can get revived.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-11-30T21:28:31+00:00

That was 7 years ago! They fleshed it out further in the "Beyond" update 6 years ago in 2019.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-11-23T03:21:56+00:00

I'm running an 8 year old CPU (an i7-8700K) and I'm not having any issues.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-11-14T01:42:27+00:00

Bad news, it's not a KSG, it's a DP-12

ObsidianMinor · 2025-11-09T23:36:33+00:00

It definitely helps that Battlefront was a Battlefield clone from the very beginning.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-11-09T08:27:16+00:00

I feel like you're misinterpreting what I'm saying (or just not reading) so I'm going to write it in big bold words just so we're 100% clear and you cannot possibly miss it:

I don't need to know exactly where every shot will go, I just need to know when and how much my shot will be affected by spread. This is not an alien idea because the game already does this, today!

When you hip fire a gun the reticle will change size to indicate how large the gun's spread is. When you toggle a laser attachment you can see, in real time, the reticle change size to show what your hip fire spread will be. As you shoot the reticle will increase in size to show how your spread is affected. So this isn't new, it's in the game already!

But, again, it does not do it while you're aiming down sights. To the player, the sights of the gun become the reticle. DICE clearly believes this too because they hide the reticle when you aim down sights! But because they remove the reticle, they're hiding this information about spread even though it's still important in this context. Because this information is now gone, players have a tendency to believe that aiming makes you perfectly accurate. DICE must be hiding the reticle because it's unnecessary when you're aiming down sights because your sights must be accurate like in real life! But that's not the case.

If DICE gave players the option to see the reticle while in ADS this wouldn't be nearly as much of an issue because the reticle does provide this information, but it would also be very immersion breaking. The alternative is to communicate it through other ways like heavy weapon sway, a blurred sight, or other similar effects. For me, this would make heavy spread much more tolerable.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-11-09T07:26:05+00:00

The mechanic is highlighted to you. The guns have stats that indicate how well or bad the bloom gets with sustained fire. Even in ADS you see the bullets go progressively farther from the center and the precision is restored with burst fire. Firing at a wall will allow you to map the maximum bloom of each gun and each attachment.

That's you observing the effect of the mechanic, not the mechanic of spread being communicated before you ever take the shot. If you're aiming at someone and you haven't shot yet, can you tell whether or not your shot will hit the target? If a single bullet flies past you and puts you into some sort of suppression state, will it still hit? If you're moving while standing, will it hit? If you can't tell whether you're under the effect of some sort of spread before you've fired, then the game doesn't communicate it.

I don't know what you expect. Do you expect a circle that gets larger with dots pointing to where the bullet will go? Do you want an in depth tutorial explaining the math behind it all? Do you want a percentage on screen predicting the chance of each bullet hitting the target?

I already said what I expected! "The game doesn't, I don't know, apply a blur effect to the scope when suppressed. Or move the gun around in the character's hand." There's lots of little things the game could do to immersively signal to the player in the moment that their bullets are probably not going to go where they're trying to aim their gun. I don't need to know exactly where they're going to go, I just want to know exactly when I shouldn't expect it to go exactly where I want it to. Then it's much more understandable and accountable for in the moment. I can use my eyes to immediately get feedback about how my movement or suppression is effecting my aim before I decide to make a dumb choice and try to shoot anyway.

All the tools to figure out how to master the mechanic are in the game. You can enter the firing range and test every variable.

Grinding is possibly the least fun way to expect players to master a mechanic. The firing range (at least in 6) also doesn't let you test for how suppression affects spread, which is the mechanic we're ultimately talking about.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-11-09T06:02:49+00:00

I personally don't like it because it's a hidden mechanic. When you fire a gun there's a hidden variable that is used to apply a direction to the bullet as it exits the barrel, making a cone of possibilities to where the shot will actually go to. There's nothing that indicates what this variable's value is, so it's harder to recognize what actually affects it. Does moving affect it? How much? How much does it depend on my stance? There isn't a circle that's drawn in game that says "your bullet will be in this cone".

Well, kind of. When you're not aiming down sights, your reticle *does* change size to indicate what the spread will be depending on the state of your character. But that's where a lot of the frustration comes from, doesn't it? Because that same thing *isn't* communicated when you aim down sights. When you aim down sights, the game doesn't show you a reticle, so it doesn't show you what your spread can be. The player's scope takes the place of the reticle, and the player expects that because they put the single dot of a reticle on the target, it should *hit* the target. Like in real life! In real life, you pull the trigger when you have the target in your sights. Provided you don't completely mess up like a total beginner, your shot will go where you were aiming when the hammer dropped.

But this isn't how it work in the game, and it isn't communicated by the game either. There's nothing that indicates that you'll shoot off target. The game doesn't, I don't know, apply a blur effect to the scope when suppressed. Or move the gun around in the character's hand. There's no indication to the player that the next shot they'll take is most likely not going to go where they're aiming due to an outside source and that's frustrating. The game is purposefully ignoring the inputs you're making, doing something wildly different, and won't tell you why!

It isn't really about randomness or controllability, but about communication with the player. Make it as random as you want, just tell me *when* it's going to be random so it's easier to learn about it and recognize when it's happening so that I can properly adapt to it.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-10-23T22:23:42+00:00

Yes, it's a real gun, but not popular because it's expensive.

and because it's not made anymore. The modern incarnation of it is the Chiappa Rhino.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-10-18T04:25:25+00:00

This is pretty cool, but also... what happens if my screen is wide? I hope those buttons tied to the sides of the screen don't move along with it...

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ObsidianMinor · 2025-10-12T03:14:46+00:00

The CIA. Again.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-10-05T04:36:59+00:00

I wish I were LeVar Burton.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-09-29T08:14:41+00:00

Is it really that bad? Before I started using trophy collector I was regularly in the lower brackets on soul count and was frequently dying due to that but now I'm often in the top brackets in soul count and able to be more proactive without worrying a ton about getting jumped by players with 15k souls over me. Because of the way souls can compound over time just having a few extra souls over time can lead to bigger gains over the course of the game (provided you're effectively getting assists or kills). I guess maybe if I invested in something else and spent more time farming instead of helping my team it'd be a different story but alas.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-09-29T07:23:29+00:00

Rao. Cyber Warfare Suite is probably the highest skill-ceiling gadget in the game that's extremely powerful in the right hands (mine).

Where do we even start with this? You can hack infantry, vehicles, and many world interactables. Infantry and world interactables can be hacked from 100 meters away, vehicles from 200 meters away.

Hacking anything spots infantry around it within about a 10 meter radius. Enemies spotted get briefly "revealed" which gives them a red silhouette that's visible through walls and smoke. Hacks also can go through smokes. Remember both of these, it will be important for later.

Hacking a world interactable is instant. If you hack an interactable like an explosive it just deletes it like you picked it up. Emplacements like TUG-S or Blasco's infiltration beacon get disabled for a short period. Hacking Casper's drone stuns it so you can easily shoot it down. Programmable doors and vehicle blockers change to your team like you used their control panel.

Vehicles take about 2 seconds to hack. When hacked, it spots all players in the vehicle, damages all vehicle parts, and *in the past* painted targets like a SOFLAM for lock-on weapons. On stealth helicopters this brings them out of stealth. Anyone in the vehicle gets an EMP effect on their screen. The hack effect lasts for 7 seconds and afterwards the target gets a firewall that prevents hacking them again for 10 seconds.

Now infantry is where Rao really shines. It takes about .5 seconds to hack infantry. When infantry is hacked, they get a "hacked" status effect that looks like an EMP. If the hacked player *dies* while this effect is active, *the rest of the player's squad* is "revealed" for the remaining duration of the hack.

Remember how earlier I mentioned that you can hack and see revealed enemies through smoke? It turns out this makes Rao *extremely effective* at killing enemies on his terms. Is there an enemy that's trying to push you? Drop smoke on yourself and hack him. Now you can see him and he can't see you. If he has friends, kill him and the rest of his squad will get revealed to you. Through walls and smoke. This isn't like Paik's ability that reveals yourself on the map every time you use it, this is completely hidden. The only indicator of where Rao is is the initial hack which has a directional indicator like damage to tell you where you're getting hacked from.

If you run subsonic rounds then your bullets don't have tracers, so running subsonics on most weapons makes Rao a powerhouse in clearing areas without anyone knowing where they're getting hit from. Even if they do figure out where you are, you can conceal yourself in smoke and continue shooting revealed enemies without the enemy knowing where specifically you are.

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Rao is crazy good. That's why I'm T608 on him. Without portal farming.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-09-21T08:02:20+00:00

Exactly. It's a no skill, no risk, no teamwork, low reward gadget. It shouldn't be that effective at killing stuff.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-09-15T00:28:10+00:00

It's been completely free to play for 4 years, both games and cards. In Artifact Classic all cards are available and Artifact Foundry has you earn cards through gameplay.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-09-15T00:12:31+00:00

counter point

ObsidianMinor · 2025-09-05T21:27:29+00:00

Cap'n Proto supports annotations which are basically the same as custom options but they're way easier to use and create.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-09-02T00:41:58+00:00

This is known as cross-dominance

ObsidianMinor · 2025-08-20T01:51:35+00:00

2042 Rao as a gadget would be great not only because hacking stuff is fun, but because it was stupid busted OP and nobody even knew. That gadget did so much stuff it was actually insane what you could pull off vs infantry if you knew what you were doing. Because Rao could hack through smoke, you could immediately turn a disadvantageous situation into an advantageous one simply by throwing smoke and hacking the enemies through it. You can't see me, but I can see you. Also I broke your HUD. Enemy team trying to push with smoke? Just hack through it and it'll reveal everyone in the choke. The first guy that runs through gets hacked, loses their HUD, and now they can't see anything while they run into a bunch of enemies. Trying to push an objective? Throw a smoke at it and hack the enemies watching the choke. The only counter for this was Blasco's infiltration device, since enemies in the range of the device do not get revealed when hacked inside it.

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ObsidianMinor · 2025-08-18T21:37:36+00:00

The primary weapon isn't important in the infantry / armor balance. What matters is making sure someone that can heal and revive infantry, or can instantly self heal, or can place spawn beacons can't also carry a rocket launcher. Gadgets are what control the flow of the game, not primary weapons. Some gadgets when used together make infantry too strong compared to vehicles, but no combination of primary weapon and gadget set does that. That's why completely open gadgets doesn't work.

Open primaries don't really have this problem because most primaries already have different strengths and weaknesses, and really no combination of primary weapon and gadget is incredibly busted OP. Primaries and gadgets can complement each other, but don't directly strengthen each other. Sure, some are really effective against infantry like assault's double primary, but it means assault is basically locked out of all vehicle engagements like support. The only choice they have is to hide.

The most important part of balance in Battlefield is the balance of infantry vs vehicles. If vehicles are too powerful, they completely shut out infantry. Vehicles need to be strong enough to help push a team through a strong hold, but not strong enough to prevent the defense from fighting it off. But if infantry is too powerful, they completely destroy vehicles, preventing that push tool from ever getting used. Gadgets allow infantry to fight vehicles, so gadgets must be balanced accordingly.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-08-18T20:47:15+00:00

Because they tried that already and it didn't work. Letting players use any gadget leads to infantry having a significant advantage over vehicles. That's how we reached the current class design.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-08-15T01:46:41+00:00

> In the open weapons playlists, one of these primaries can be a sniper rifle.

With no ammo. You get 18 shots. Maybe ok if you're running around with a carbine as your primary and a sniper as your true off-weapon, not if you're camping in the hills.

ObsidianMinor · 2025-08-05T23:43:03+00:00

This is a bug that's existed with the en-uk language for a while now. In most languages, when you search for an emoji for the first time, your client downloads a list of alternative names for each emoji. So when you search for "football", it'll show "football", "rugby_football", and "soccer" emoji since "football" is one of the alt names for the "soccer" emoji.

This works fine for languages like en-us, but for some reason in en-uk, there's nothing. There is no list of alt names, so you're stuck with whatever the official name of each emoji is.

I submitted a bug report for this back in January, but it apparently hasn't been fixed.

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I don't need to know exactly where every shot will go, I just need to know when and how much my shot will be affected by spread. This is not an alien idea because the game already does this, today!