Those in charge of Battlefield 3’s Twitter account are encouraging gamers to take screenshots of a suspected booster’s Battle Report as evidence when submitting a complaint. According to multiple tweets on the game’s official Twitter page, the team has already banned and stats-wiped hundreds of accounts this week and they don’t plan to show mercy anytime soon. Let's hope this is sorted out soon.EA and Dice are working at a feverish pace to ban cheaters and boosters in Battlefield 3.
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I was able to pull passable frames with every setting on full whack – meaning that performance issues are firmly in DICE's court. Notably, playing 2042 solo results in far better performance than online. This feeds into the Escape From Tarkov-esque extract-'em-up mode Hazard Zone, which pits player squads against each other as well as AI. On an RTX 3070 and Ryzen 9 3900X, I have had to turn many graphical settings to their lowest to get a tolerable 50-80 frames per second at 1080p, with severe lag and frame drops sucking the life out of the experience.Īs for another missing feature, there's no single-player campaign – though there is the ability to play solo with and against bots.
DICE has confirmed that it is working on this, though a "fix" could be months down the line. Don't expect to have much fun with 2042 if you don't have an extremely powerful and contemporary rig, and even console players are reporting lacklustre performance. While an Nvidia GTX 970 could run Battlefield 4 on ultra settings, it looks like the days of pristine optimisation are behind us. It paid off – and, as things stand, Battlefield 1 is probably the last great entry in the franchise. It even took a major risk with Battlefield 1 (2016) focusing on the First World War. But it too has bounced around different settings to varying success, with the modern-era Battlefield 3 and 4 (2011, 2013) held as the defining games of the series. Like Call of Duty, Battlefield started out as a Second World War game, establishing the rivalry we have today. It is also home to the insanely powerful Frostbite engine. While COD's multiplayer scene mostly favours modestly sized team deathmatch, Battlefield is epic in scope with 64-player objective-based gameplay, soldier classes (scout, assault, medic, support), enormous maps, air and land vehicles, destructible environments, "levelution" (actions players can take to drastically change the terrain), and somewhat realistic projectile ballistics (as opposed to COD's hitscan programming). Hourglass is set in a sandblasted Doha, Qatarīattlefield, on the other hand, is for grownups. It's flip-flopped from WW2 to present-day combat and back again, tried sci-fi, and even the Battle Royale trend with the free-to-play Call of Duty: Warzone (2020), which has been thoroughly ruined by hackers and developer inaction. Here's where I stand: COD jumped the shark with Modern Warfare 2 in 2009. Fans of each franchise are loyal to the point of zealotry with little crossover between player bases.
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The multiplayer military FPS market is dominated by two forces: Activision's Call of Duty (COD) series and EA's Battlefield.
After the bum note of the first-person shooter (FPS) franchise's return to Second World War theatres with Battlefield V (2018), I stupidly assumed the next entry from EA-owned Swedish developer DICE would be a return to form.
I wanted to love Battlefield 2042, I really did. On that note, it's time to look at another newly released shit show – Battlefield 2042. So bear these things in mind if you were ever tempted. The post-level 60 "watermark" system for gear drops is also infuriating and tedious, but not something we were able to address in the column. Around this time, item duping exploits became rife and every attempt Amazon Games made to fix it just broke something else. Since the last edition on New World, we hit level cap and the "endgame". The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column.