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So I've had the game for a few weeks now and thought I'd share my thoughts (as the self-proclaimed battlefield fanboy and expert).
The game itself is just gorgeous. They did a great job with the design of the game, guns and animations. The sound is particularly nice (especially when sniping people). It looks and sounds great.
The gameplay is fun and the vehicles work really well for this kind of format. The problem with modern Battlefield games is that it's hard to nerf things like tanks and jets to make them not overpowered. But with WW1 equipment, everything is a bit slower and more manual so it works well. The planes are fun, especially being a gunner, and the three types really balance each other out (though I think the bomber is a bit of a bullet sponge). The tanks are pretty powerful but slow and require many people inside of them to work well.
The maps they created are OK but to me, they often blend together. A few of them tend to be a little too small and cramped, so the battle is mostly over the center capture point (in Conquest mode) and that gets a little boring. The game will likely improve significantly with more DLC content and maps.
Onto my biggest complaint about the game -- there's nothing to upgrade. Like...nothing. While the game developers added in plenty of weapons, and those weapons actually have a multiple different options within them, as soon as you buy the weapon (with currency earned from leveling up) you unlock everything. Unlike previous battlefield games, even Hardline, there's absolutely no purpose in playing a particular weapon. There's no attachments to unlock, there's no skins to hope for, nothing. The skins are won by random draw through battlepacks. You can't purchase every weapon from the start, you need to level up the class, but once you hit level 3 in any class (which doesn't take long) you can purchase basically any weapon in the game. So everyone has purchased the best few guns in the game and that's that. There's nothing left to upgrade.
The same goes for the vehicles. There's a couple of attachments you can unlock but after that, nothing. There's not nothing to unlock.
So while the game is incredibly fun to play, I think at a certain point people will have everything the game has to offer and there won't be anything to make players want to continue grinding out to get a certain gun or feature. There are still weapons on BF4 that I haven't unlocked, despite being level 130. In this game, you get to level 20 and you pretty much have it all. I'm not sure why, at minimum, they didn't make you level up a gun to get it's different attachments. So I'm hoping they do something with DLC packs to fix this because otherwise the game is great.
The game itself is just gorgeous. They did a great job with the design of the game, guns and animations. The sound is particularly nice (especially when sniping people). It looks and sounds great.
The gameplay is fun and the vehicles work really well for this kind of format. The problem with modern Battlefield games is that it's hard to nerf things like tanks and jets to make them not overpowered. But with WW1 equipment, everything is a bit slower and more manual so it works well. The planes are fun, especially being a gunner, and the three types really balance each other out (though I think the bomber is a bit of a bullet sponge). The tanks are pretty powerful but slow and require many people inside of them to work well.
The maps they created are OK but to me, they often blend together. A few of them tend to be a little too small and cramped, so the battle is mostly over the center capture point (in Conquest mode) and that gets a little boring. The game will likely improve significantly with more DLC content and maps.
Onto my biggest complaint about the game -- there's nothing to upgrade. Like...nothing. While the game developers added in plenty of weapons, and those weapons actually have a multiple different options within them, as soon as you buy the weapon (with currency earned from leveling up) you unlock everything. Unlike previous battlefield games, even Hardline, there's absolutely no purpose in playing a particular weapon. There's no attachments to unlock, there's no skins to hope for, nothing. The skins are won by random draw through battlepacks. You can't purchase every weapon from the start, you need to level up the class, but once you hit level 3 in any class (which doesn't take long) you can purchase basically any weapon in the game. So everyone has purchased the best few guns in the game and that's that. There's nothing left to upgrade.
The same goes for the vehicles. There's a couple of attachments you can unlock but after that, nothing. There's not nothing to unlock.
So while the game is incredibly fun to play, I think at a certain point people will have everything the game has to offer and there won't be anything to make players want to continue grinding out to get a certain gun or feature. There are still weapons on BF4 that I haven't unlocked, despite being level 130. In this game, you get to level 20 and you pretty much have it all. I'm not sure why, at minimum, they didn't make you level up a gun to get it's different attachments. So I'm hoping they do something with DLC packs to fix this because otherwise the game is great.
