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Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription? (reddthat.com)
submitted 2 days ago by ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com to c/games@lemmy.world
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Call me cheap, but I hate EA and don't want to give them any money on principle, but I'd like to try BF6 and see how it's changed since the beta.

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[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago

Not many comments seem to be from anyone who has played it. So if it helps, I am playing it and very very much so loving it. It feels like an actual BF game, again! Also to preface, the BF series has probably been my favorite multiplayer shooter since BF2, and I did not like 5 or 2042.

It is a very solid core of a game, and I can easily see this only (hopefully) getting more content and even better with time.

Some new things that are awesome: Dragging away downed team mates to revive. Being able to ride on the back of the main battle tanks, hop off and repair, then jump on the back again. All 4 classes come with outstanding starter guns. The amount of weapon customizations, it's like a diet Tarkov. The War Tapes audio setting got a new and even more intense version. Not exactly new, but it looks amazing and runs well.

At the very least I'd try it with the EA pass. If you're a fan of the series, especially BC2, BF3, and 4, then I'd bet you enjoy it.

[–] teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Haven't bought an EA game since Mass Effect 3 where the day one DLC caused the DRM to block the game from launching and tech support just gave up and hung up after their script failed to fix. Downloaded a crack for my fully bought and paid for game and fixed it myself in 5 minutes. Screw them, their games are shovelware anyway.

[–] lath@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

If you Really want to try it out, a helpful steam user, as much as steam users can be helpful, suggested using a streaming service such as GeForce now to play it even on Linux.

I'm not sure, but I believe this bypasses the many requirements this "game" needs.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago

I was under the believe you need to have the game in question in your library to use Geforce Now?

Unlike xCloud

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It hasn't changed much.

  • There are 5 or 6 new maps (making 9 total now), 2 are smaller and limited to certain game modes. None of the new maps are great, a couple are quite bad.

  • Some new game modes added like Ecalation.

  • Visibility is still appalling.

  • Inconsistent footstep audio hasn't been fixed.

  • Shotgun secondary on Assault wasn't removed, so there are still loads of OHK shotguns in every match.

  • The movement penalties that existed in the beta are heavier (bigger weapon sway when landing from a jump, etc).

  • Physics engine is kinda fucked. Infantry movement feels floaty and you can bounce off objects and fly in the air like there's low gravity.

  • Spread was increased and gunplay feels worse. Sometimes the recoil feels inconsistent, like there's a bug and the game is not registering your input (like in 2042). I've also found the hitreg a bit inconsistent. I switch off targets that should be dead but one of my bullets hasn't registered damage so they are left alive with very low HP.

  • They added a ladder as a default gadget to the Assault class. There are head glitches everywhere now, it's very annoying to attack into on game modes like Breakthrough.

  • Not sure if this was the case in beta, but smoke is locked to Support so you basically have to play that class on game modes like attack Breakthrough if you want to reach the objective.

If you liked it in the beta, you will probably still like it. If you disliked it, you will probably still dislike it. If you were on the fence like me, you will be glad that you only paid for a month of EA Play Pro and not the full game.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Call me cheap

homie that game is $70

You're not cheap, you're literally trying not to get robbed

You can buy a few dozen really good indie games for a fraction of that price

That urge to buy and play it ASAP is marketing doing its job.

Easier said than done, but if you really hate EA, your only choice is to eat the FOMO.

Otherwise, you're feeding the beast.

Disclaimer: I'm high

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 points 1 day ago

Just play ravenfield.

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

You maybe high, but you are right nonetheless.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Spot fuckin on.

My response to OP was literally going to be: "don't buy it, and try your best to focus on the literal thousands of other great games that are out there"

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nope.

Best advice would be to forget it exists. There are actually thousands of other games out there that are almost exactly like Battlefield, I doubt the Next New Thing™ will be worth giving up a little bit of sanity over.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Could you name a few that are almost exactly like Battlefield, came out in the last decade, and let me host my own servers?

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Planetside 2, and it's free

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

Planetside 2 gunplay is hot garbage and always has been, BF6 blows it out of the water in that respect

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It doesn't let you host your own servers, and it didn't come out in the last decade.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Battlebit Remastered

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perusing the Steam forums seems to indicate I can't host my own server.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dunno what you've found on the Steam forums, but the game comes with the dedicated server software used to self host.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I found this. If it still requires an internet connection, it doesn't pass that test. But that user could be wrong, and plenty of devs and publishers don't even care enough to let me know on the store page if their game is worth my time and money.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You want to host a PvP game server but not if it requires an internet connection? Who would you be playing against without an internet connection?

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It requires an internet connection for me to play with a friend who lives in a different home. It should not require a connection to Steam or the company's server for my friend to find my server.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It has LAN, too, but it was pretty horribly laggy last I heard. Though, I never tried it myself to know first hand if that is true.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

That seems strange that it would be worse than internet play, but this isn't exactly the strongest recommendation to try it out. Thanks for the suggestion, at least. If the dev ever returns to try to finish their early access game, I'll keep an eye on it.

[–] Ancalagon@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Squad and Arma.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We have very different definitions of "almost exactly like Battlefield".

[–] groet@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every game with a billion Dollar budget like battlefield will have a turd like EA attached.

If you want to be morally superior and boycott them you will have to make some drawbacks in production quality. No game by an Indie or AA studio can be "almost exactly like battlefield".

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Production quality has nothing to do with it. Battlefield 2 was made 20 years ago by a much smaller team than makes Battlefield today, and I'd be happy to see teams that size or smaller approximating the game mode, map size, and systems of a Battlefield game. The truth is that the genre evaporated. Everyone chases live service, and if you're just making a live service, what niche do you fill that Battlefield proper doesn't serve? I'm starved for some good shooters lately.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you want good FPS, there are tons of really excellent. But I'm getting more that you are after arcadey military FPS.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What I don't want is a live service, and I can't find any multiplayer FPS made lately that are built to survive the servers being shut down. The most recent I've found is Hypercharge: Unboxed, which has a decent deathmatch, and even that was 5 years ago.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

So being specific, you are looking for a local multiplayer FPS? Or are you open to self-hosted dedicated servers as a multiplayer option? Also do you want it to be military or are other genres ok? Just trying to really narrow it down so I can see if something I know would work.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I like many kinds. Split-screen multiplayer is great; privately hosted servers that work on LAN without a call home are great; both are rare. I know there's been a resurgence of "boomer shooters" that harken back to the mid to late 90s, and I can appreciate one of those every now and then, but the kind I miss most are the ones that came out of Half-Life, from the late 90s until the 2010s. They typically had a campaign and a deathmatch built out of reused assets from the campaign. Maybe there was co-op to the campaign. Maybe there was capture the flag. Battlefield's thing is Conquest, and that's still great. I hunted down a copy of Battlefield 2 and booted up my old copy of Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) to get my fix lately, lol.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

There is definitely a dearth of good FPS that fit that mold. I was a fan of the same kinds growing up. Started on Doom and moved through the whole development of the genre. Stopped enjoying stuff as much when slow shooters and cover shooters became prevalent. Hated Halo for example. It's ok now, but not a formula I enjoy as much.

Anyways that said, if you are looking for deathmatch without centralized servers, I can't think of anything recent off the top of my head. There is a lot of good fps single player experiences out there. I liked Hrot for example because it taps in to some of the Quake 1 vibes, but has no multiplayer. Doom 2016 and Eternal were fun single player wise. But their Deathmatch is centralized servers. Turbo Overkill was a lot of fun, but no multiplayer. Same for Wrath, Ion Fury, Ultrakill, Prodeus, stalker 2, and others. There's a new Painkiller coming out Oct 21 but I think multiplayer will likely be centralized servers since it's crossplatform.

I can go on listing great games but I am coming up blank on anything matching exactly what you are after. Everything I can come up with has a comprise to it. Sorry man. Hard to find something exaclty like the gold classics like that.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 38 minutes ago

See, I was way more into the Halo era of shooters that you weren't as much of a fan of. I'm sure the pendulum will swing back again, but it just hasn't happened yet. Doom 2016, for instance, was a game I enjoyed, but I was absolutely not looking for more of it by the time I finished it. Metal: Hellsinger was a good twist on Doom's formula and got me more interested in playing it than Eternal or Dark Ages did. But outside of that, I can't say I'm too hungry for that kind of shooter. I'm more interested in Phantom Fury than Ion Fury.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Make friends with someone that's paid for it.

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This might be harder than working to get $70.

[–] msokiovt@lemmy.today 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think that'll be possible. I wouldn't even buy BF6 because of Javelicrap (EA's botnet akin to Activision's Ricocrap), and why I'd want a rootkit on my system is beyond me (plus, Linux users are excluded from playing BF6 in the first place).

[–] janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not to mention the recent sale to the trumpers and the saudis

[–] msokiovt@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kushner and the Saudis, absolutely. Good chance I won't be playing their newer games after I heard about that nonsense.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

I bet the launcher saw a recent update

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Play it on a friend's account that owns the game.

[–] feddylemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I've done it, but maybe buying it on steam and returning it before the few hour playtime limit?

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's a good shout, although I'd like to try it for a couple of days at least. I think I already know the answer to my own question unfortunately!

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

I have another idea if you really really want to play BF6 without waiting for a sale and such. If you have a friend on Steam who owns this game, then you could join their Steam Family and play the game for free.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago

You don't think you'd know if you like it in less than 4 hours? A few days is almost certainly enough to beat the campaign.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Get it from the library?

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I don't think there is, gonna have to try and imply via gameplay videos.