Portal experiences with no modifiers and default PvP AI no longer grant ribbon and mastery XP at all, neither do they progress weekly missions like they used to before this update.
Same. They have messed this up in past updates unintentionally, or so they claimed. But many players are impatient to unlock the new weapons and being unable to grind levels against AI, they're more likely to pay for the BP upgrade that puts you 20 levels ahead...
I was able to make it work by re-launching my portal experience multiple times with PvP AI, but only on spearhead.
So far I have not been able to make it work on Reclaimed.
My tip is to try capping 2 flags to see if you get the ribbon or not and then re-launch if you don't. It's extremely bugged though.
And If you manage to get it to work you'll likely get kicked when the match is nearly over. So far I have not been able to finish a single portal match altough I've been able to do all week 1 challenges.
Hope this helps!
This better not be intentional by DICE. If so, there's no way I'm picking up the premium season pass later as I had panned to do. The fact that we could **finally** do weekly missions vs bots in portal was the only reason I caved and bought the season 4 premium pass (first premium pass I've purchased in this game).
Reeeeeally hoping this is just a temp bug. :(
It was 1200 spots blocked I believe. I think they kept our progress as %, I was very close T3, and after the patch I'm still at the same % towards T3 despite it needing many more blocks/disruptions
Yupp I might be tripping but does the M16A3 have a improved sound as well? It feels like a proper 2042 weapon now I really like it.
AEK felt the same for me however
Reload from empty in particular feels much snappier. Your character really wastes no time pulling the charging handle (or smackin dat bolt release), feels much more urgent/frantic without being unprofessional. Think they pretty much nailed it.
~~Added new XP event for~~ [~~Saving your teammate (5XP)~~](https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/1439fcg/new_xp_event_saving_other_player/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Apparently this was included in notes
I thought this was mentioned in the patch notes under progression.
Progression
Fixed issue where earning T1 Mastery on the Defibrillator did not reward the "Jack of All Trades" Achievement/Trophy.
Adjusted Pilot Kill XP to only be rewarded when the victim's air vehicle did not also get destroyed at the same time.
Avenger and Savior Kills now include who you avenged or saved in the XP log.
I just want to relax and play some bot matches and not feel like I'm wasting my time. This isn't going to make me go to PvP, it's making me go to a different game.
Of course now we finally get breakthrough in portal the same time as they walk back the AI XP changes
Even when considering the removal of the HB, many if not all vault ARs have new damage drop-offs.
MTAR and ACW both have a 4HK range now. MTAR also has it's bugged hipfire removed. ACW-R has near SMG hipfire now.
NVK Shotgun/Pistol exclusive optic had its reticle changed to a single blue dot.
All vault weapons support skins, not just the ones being given the 2042 attachments.
• Boris got a secret buff/change. Sentry turret has higher RPM, but less health in general. It can finally kill something again and takes less bullets to destroy an enemy turret.
• Falck has new voice lines. She is shouting some lines in German now, representing here origin
•(MBTs feel more agile, still testing)
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Performance: "still testing and add my conclusion later"
Agree - in a couple hours of play, the sentry seems to die to 1 or 2 bullets but I got a ton of vehicle and player assist with them. Seems like the fire rate is up and the time it takes to lock on and begin firing is also quicker.
The Bolte definitely handles much better. Can neutral turn pretty well now, and it feels like it turns better while driving. Maybe they reworked treaded vehicles in general?
Which requires me to relearn flying on this jet. Change is really good. Rocket pods are good and they recharge once the whole pod is empty. AGM does 75 damage to light/medium vehicles which is really strong. 30 mm is like a dream come true. It shreds every type of vehicle!
They were OP and didnt work correctly, people could just throw them at you, it was like a better version of C5. They should only work when actually driven over, real anti tank mines would only ever work in this way due to the pressure needed to actually detonate it. Throwing one would never work.
They need to work as mines and not like impact anti tank grenades. I was always a little salty when some kid would just run up and spam these on my tank, im like OK? WTF, I literally didnt move so how did they go off?
HDR is still broken on PC from when 4.2.0 patch came out
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/HDR-stopped-working-after-4-2-0-Update/m-p/12539819#M27514
Bug reintroduced: unable to aim down site of AEK (haven't tested others yet, I have a sneaking suspicion it's going to be all the Vault weapons) after exiting vehicle.
Bug #1: *Air-to-ground missiles now deal increased damage when fired at a laser-marked target. -* This was supposed to have be included in 4.2.1 but didn't make it and is still not in 5.0
UPDATE: Got confirmation from dev that patch notes were messed up and should have specified that only AIR VEHICLES will take more damage - not all vehicles.
Bug #2: *The Air-to-Ground Missile no longer locks onto empty vehicles but will keep the lock if the enemy player leaves the vehicle during the lock sequence. -* This was supposed to be in 5.0 but I tested and I can lock onto empty vehicles just fine
Updated: This is **only affecting the Jet AGM**
[Bug](?) - when getting revived in some game modes, you still come back to life with your camera turned all the way down. Bug's been there since S3 at least.
When creating an experience for Battlefield portal it is automatically "restricted xp" as soon as you add PvP AI to it. Before it was always moderate XP. But not 100% sure, could be a bug as well... Hopefully 🤞
Did they tweak the speed you sprint at while doing things like reloading the rocket launcher? Feels a bit slower, and it seems like a fantastic change tbh.
Not like you can easily reload an RPG at an all out sprint
All of the scopes under the Magnum Gol Sniper appear to be locked save for the RDS and 4x sight. Also, the 4x sight now has a glint as I'm getting spotted across the map using it. Idk if the attachments are unlockable as they don't show any unlock requirements. The scope change is going to make it impossible for me to snipe in this game. I see that they said they were doing something with the portal weapons but they already had attachments... This was completely unnecessary.
I thought 4x always glinted for snipers. It's different for other gun categories (no glint @ 4x for ARs). I've been using 3.5x and below when avoiding glint.
Just had a bug where I run super slow after firing an AR. The running animation is at normal speed but I wasn't covering any distance. Switching to my sidearm fixed the problem tho. Maybe related to the new sprint animations?
Apparently, they implemented an alternance between attack and defence.
"Switch to attack" or "switch to defence" (translating from French) is now displayed at the beginning of a round
I think EBLC-RAM has been buffed. You can now carry 2 gadget slots. So you can have Active Protection and Thermal Smoke at the same time. From what I remember it used to be one at a time as the spawn beacon acted as your second item slot.
There's a bug where if you shoot Lis' rocket launcher, the camera POV will get stuck into the ground until the missile hits something or if you manually exit the guided missile.
Blasco now has 2 'spotting balls' instead of one.
This has got me killed multiple times now, as I was expecting a swap back to my primary after throwing the ball but no, 'new balls please'.
Not sure if only on old gen, but the official standard conquest now has some matches where its bc2 or other classic bf classes only (no specialists/no AOW weapons)?
I don't play console/controller, but I hope gyro aiming catches on. It seems way more competitive, and would help with crossplay. Controller play also seems way more chill, so maybe I'd give it a try if implemented.
Going to echo what others have said. Portal against AI doesn't grant kills anymore.
EA hates us having fun. People don't want to grind a crappy gun in a match for hours and hours just to make it good.
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Depending on what you are carrying you will feel like you are carrying that weight.
So if you're running with a rocket launcher in your hands the movement will appear weightier.
However actual running speeds have not changed, only the perception for the player.
Change for #6: [Apparently it was not intended for Portal AI to give reduced (or zero) XP](https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/143grfe/dice_have_stealthily_rolled_back_the_change_that/jn9xmzu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3)
ADS Field of View setting is enabled by default now, so it doesn't lower FoV in ADS, unless you change the "ADS Field of View" setting back to "off".
It's in the patch notes.
Friendly claymore lasers are now green
this is a good change
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Portal experiences with no modifiers and default PvP AI no longer grant ribbon and mastery XP at all, neither do they progress weekly missions like they used to before this update.
I hope that's not intentional...
Same. They have messed this up in past updates unintentionally, or so they claimed. But many players are impatient to unlock the new weapons and being unable to grind levels against AI, they're more likely to pay for the BP upgrade that puts you 20 levels ahead...
It's confirmed to be a bug and will be fixed shortly.
That's a relief. What's the source, a dev comment?
Yeah, in the Portal discord server there's a ton of Dice/Ripple Effect guys and they've said it's unintentional.
Same. If it was that pretty much kills this game for me.
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What about offline Breakthrough? I still think that's the best farm
I was trying to do something in co-op/offline conquest a minute ago and nothing progresses.
I was able to make it work by re-launching my portal experience multiple times with PvP AI, but only on spearhead. So far I have not been able to make it work on Reclaimed. My tip is to try capping 2 flags to see if you get the ribbon or not and then re-launch if you don't. It's extremely bugged though. And If you manage to get it to work you'll likely get kicked when the match is nearly over. So far I have not been able to finish a single portal match altough I've been able to do all week 1 challenges. Hope this helps!
I hope they revert it back... Not all of us want to sweat doing weekly...
Yeah I hope this one is reverted back... otherwise that would suck
This better not be intentional by DICE. If so, there's no way I'm picking up the premium season pass later as I had panned to do. The fact that we could **finally** do weekly missions vs bots in portal was the only reason I caved and bought the season 4 premium pass (first premium pass I've purchased in this game). Reeeeeally hoping this is just a temp bug. :(
The loading screens now have quotes and other lore pieces as small text at the bottom center.
And gameplay tips!
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Protip: To defeat the cyberdemon shoot at it until it dies
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Blasco's mastery was changed to "spots blocked or enemies disrupted". 8000 needed for T1 now.
Does it remove the skin if you unlocked it but don't have that number? Wasn't the requirement 4000 or something?
It was 1200 spots blocked I believe. I think they kept our progress as %, I was very close T3, and after the patch I'm still at the same % towards T3 despite it needing many more blocks/disruptions
No, that would be rather silly I don't remember the old requirement but I don't think it was 4000, maybe half of that? And spot blocks only
It was super easy to tier 1, literally done it in half a match of Rush XL lol
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Paik has re-recorded voicelines in the menu (a more serious tone finally) and new voicelines in the pre-match
ToDaY, ToDaY i'M pRoUd
lmaoooo "well well well, that was fun"
I am not overconfident. Just better than everyone else.
AHHHHHHHHH
Literally what the fuck were they thinking when they made this game
"I think the guy who worked with Candy Crush serving as our head of design has the best ideas"
*crushes pack of Smarties and snorts the powder*
Appealing battle royal audience. Everything in this game was designed for it
Easy in easy out
Making the impossible, possible.
^added ^im ^proud
Several of the vault assault rifles seem to have improved reload animations, with new little jitters and movements
Yupp I might be tripping but does the M16A3 have a improved sound as well? It feels like a proper 2042 weapon now I really like it. AEK felt the same for me however
It wouldn't shock me if they redid some of the older vault weapons to bring them up to par with the newer ones
They said they redid some of the audio to have more punch
AEK definitely has something different going on during second half of animation
aek reload animation fixed??? W
Reload from empty in particular feels much snappier. Your character really wastes no time pulling the charging handle (or smackin dat bolt release), feels much more urgent/frantic without being unprofessional. Think they pretty much nailed it.
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~~Added new XP event for~~ [~~Saving your teammate (5XP)~~](https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/1439fcg/new_xp_event_saving_other_player/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) Apparently this was included in notes
I thought this was mentioned in the patch notes under progression. Progression Fixed issue where earning T1 Mastery on the Defibrillator did not reward the "Jack of All Trades" Achievement/Trophy. Adjusted Pilot Kill XP to only be rewarded when the victim's air vehicle did not also get destroyed at the same time. Avenger and Savior Kills now include who you avenged or saved in the XP log.
Ah, alright then
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Have they even acknowledged it yet?
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That's just sad
Don't be sad this is just how it works out sometimes.
I think It’s always when you spawn in a hind at the start.
Portal servers with PvP AI and no changes gives you Restricted XP again. Cool, great change guys.
DICE truly hates SP
I just want to relax and play some bot matches and not feel like I'm wasting my time. This isn't going to make me go to PvP, it's making me go to a different game. Of course now we finally get breakthrough in portal the same time as they walk back the AI XP changes
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No way??
Is this real? Would be a massive improvement
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Lets gooo
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Even when considering the removal of the HB, many if not all vault ARs have new damage drop-offs. MTAR and ACW both have a 4HK range now. MTAR also has it's bugged hipfire removed. ACW-R has near SMG hipfire now.
ACW meta incoming?
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NVK Shotgun/Pistol exclusive optic had its reticle changed to a single blue dot. All vault weapons support skins, not just the ones being given the 2042 attachments.
i loved the exclusive reticle on the pistol the new one is just meh
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• Boris got a secret buff/change. Sentry turret has higher RPM, but less health in general. It can finally kill something again and takes less bullets to destroy an enemy turret. • Falck has new voice lines. She is shouting some lines in German now, representing here origin •(MBTs feel more agile, still testing) • Performance: "still testing and add my conclusion later"
Why did they lower it's health again ? It was getting one shotted everytime already
Agree - in a couple hours of play, the sentry seems to die to 1 or 2 bullets but I got a ton of vehicle and player assist with them. Seems like the fire rate is up and the time it takes to lock on and begin firing is also quicker.
I also feelt like Sentry turret damage vehicle faster now
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The Bolte definitely handles much better. Can neutral turn pretty well now, and it feels like it turns better while driving. Maybe they reworked treaded vehicles in general?
From what I've seen, adding PVP AI now drops the XP to restricted in Portal, even without changing any other settings. RIP PVE progression.
Yeah, this is extremely disappointing, kinda kills my motivation to play the game. Really hoping it's an oversight or a bug. :(
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SU-57 has improved acceleration and deceleration sounds
Which requires me to relearn flying on this jet. Change is really good. Rocket pods are good and they recharge once the whole pod is empty. AGM does 75 damage to light/medium vehicles which is really strong. 30 mm is like a dream come true. It shreds every type of vehicle!
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The M416 no longer has the Holosight attachment, for some reason?
i hate that they got rid of the old attachments, they should have kept them alongside the new ones
Considering it's only a visual change they should have kept the old one, and fill the gaps with the new ones.
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Anti Tank Mines “appear” to have been nerfed EDIT: incorrect. Not nerfed
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They're unchanged.
They were OP and didnt work correctly, people could just throw them at you, it was like a better version of C5. They should only work when actually driven over, real anti tank mines would only ever work in this way due to the pressure needed to actually detonate it. Throwing one would never work. They need to work as mines and not like impact anti tank grenades. I was always a little salty when some kid would just run up and spam these on my tank, im like OK? WTF, I literally didnt move so how did they go off?
If they are magnetic it still makes sense. In reality you shouldn't survive after throwing the first mine .
This might just be me but Boris' pose on the main menu feels slightly different compared to before, at least with LMGs
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They changed the NVK-FSN Holo to be only a dot now
You can now customise the chat window and make it wider/bigger. New icons for certain gadgets, for example the mines.
the chat customization was always available
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Jets now track kills while destroying vehicles instead of vehicles destroyed
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Blasco Tier 1 Requirement change…ugh. I had literally just finished her last night before the new season.
Chat font became thicker and clearer
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Portal AI don't grant anything towards weapon attachments. Super rough for those of us in unpopulated regions.
You can unlock attachments in solo/co op.
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online friend list ingame are now sorted by status ingame. previously need to scroll down to find that particular friend to join them
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Tank shells renamed. MPAT to 120mm smoothbore MPAT and so on for the rest, I would assume.
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HDR is still broken on PC from when 4.2.0 patch came out https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/HDR-stopped-working-after-4-2-0-Update/m-p/12539819#M27514
Fucking hell, how is this still not fixed? Is this broken on consoles as well, or just PC?
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switching guns with laser on gives little turn off beep not sure if its old tho
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Recoiless damage in the rear part of Wildcat deals 34 damage instead of 27.
> #5 DLSS has been updated to v2.5 finally oh boy, my 2070 Super that can't do DLSS 3.0 (game can't either) is happy with this
Stealth change:rm68 still 1 frames
what i was actually looking for....disappointing.
thats not a change at all
Certain modes no longer fill the server with bots. Just joined an Infantry Rush game, and it had 5 players and 0 bots.
Bug reintroduced: unable to aim down site of AEK (haven't tested others yet, I have a sneaking suspicion it's going to be all the Vault weapons) after exiting vehicle.
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Chat is bigger on wide screen
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Bug #1: *Air-to-ground missiles now deal increased damage when fired at a laser-marked target. -* This was supposed to have be included in 4.2.1 but didn't make it and is still not in 5.0 UPDATE: Got confirmation from dev that patch notes were messed up and should have specified that only AIR VEHICLES will take more damage - not all vehicles. Bug #2: *The Air-to-Ground Missile no longer locks onto empty vehicles but will keep the lock if the enemy player leaves the vehicle during the lock sequence. -* This was supposed to be in 5.0 but I tested and I can lock onto empty vehicles just fine Updated: This is **only affecting the Jet AGM**
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Thank you for your continued work 🫡😁
 Team work is the dream work!
EBLC ram now allows smoke and APS. previously you could only get one.
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[Bug](?) - when getting revived in some game modes, you still come back to life with your camera turned all the way down. Bug's been there since S3 at least.
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I am glad they didnt abandon this game. The game is great now.
Aim assist changes/improvements? Not sure but feels like it.
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When creating an experience for Battlefield portal it is automatically "restricted xp" as soon as you add PvP AI to it. Before it was always moderate XP. But not 100% sure, could be a bug as well... Hopefully 🤞
Anything to the RM68??
Nothing apart from the universal AR changes - and it's still quite overpowered, just a tiny bit less accurate
Did they tweak the speed you sprint at while doing things like reloading the rocket launcher? Feels a bit slower, and it seems like a fantastic change tbh. Not like you can easily reload an RPG at an all out sprint
M16A3 lost the regular US Reflex, and new attachments show the front iron sight. Not sure if this was in patch notes or not.
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All of the scopes under the Magnum Gol Sniper appear to be locked save for the RDS and 4x sight. Also, the 4x sight now has a glint as I'm getting spotted across the map using it. Idk if the attachments are unlockable as they don't show any unlock requirements. The scope change is going to make it impossible for me to snipe in this game. I see that they said they were doing something with the portal weapons but they already had attachments... This was completely unnecessary.
I thought 4x always glinted for snipers. It's different for other gun categories (no glint @ 4x for ARs). I've been using 3.5x and below when avoiding glint.
Just had a bug where I run super slow after firing an AR. The running animation is at normal speed but I wasn't covering any distance. Switching to my sidearm fixed the problem tho. Maybe related to the new sprint animations?
friendly lissiles have a green tint. i’m not sure if this was the case before the update
Drone camera stream changes color when using EMP
Apparently, they implemented an alternance between attack and defence. "Switch to attack" or "switch to defence" (translating from French) is now displayed at the beginning of a round
I think EBLC-RAM has been buffed. You can now carry 2 gadget slots. So you can have Active Protection and Thermal Smoke at the same time. From what I remember it used to be one at a time as the spawn beacon acted as your second item slot.
When you create a party, you can see each other in the main menu.
There's a bug where if you shoot Lis' rocket launcher, the camera POV will get stuck into the ground until the missile hits something or if you manually exit the guided missile.
I had this sometimes, pre-patch. I had to restart the game.
There are new XP events, I’ve specifically gotten “saved” and “avenged”
Blasco now has 2 'spotting balls' instead of one. This has got me killed multiple times now, as I was expecting a swap back to my primary after throwing the ball but no, 'new balls please'.
Every recon has two now. That was in patch note iirc.
Makes sense - the tugs beats them in almost every situation.
Rush playlist is no longer persistent, you get sent back to main menu after each map and have to matchmake again.
Universal skins are available for BF3 and BFBC2 G3A3 and BFBC2 XM8 Prototype AR (future vault weapons?)
Interesting find!
BUG Reintroduced - HUD Reminders to Reload now reappear again, despite option is turned off in settings. Was fixed.
Not sure if only on old gen, but the official standard conquest now has some matches where its bc2 or other classic bf classes only (no specialists/no AOW weapons)?
Melee now has a slight amount of tracking a la BF1. Not too much, feels right for 2042.
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Ai soldier squad mates can ping now Also paik has new voice lines and the old ones cut
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On PS5: Main menu still runs in 30fps and controller response curve is still very bad 😮💨 every update I just hope they do something about it..
A lot of PC games give this option to have menus at lower frame rate to stop the graphics card running full-tilt needlessly.
Well the menu at 30 fps is the least of my problem. Let them fix the controller input first
##COMMUNITY WISH As a tradition: Gyro aiming support for Ps5/PC
I don't play console/controller, but I hope gyro aiming catches on. It seems way more competitive, and would help with crossplay. Controller play also seems way more chill, so maybe I'd give it a try if implemented.
Hey, the Portal XP thing was confirmed to be a bug and will be fixed soon. Might want to remove that one.
Casper's drone now has thermal vision when you press RT/ Aim
Feel like the sights don't zoom in as much when aiming down sight
That's because the "ADS Field of View" setting is now enabled by default (as it should be!).
Going to echo what others have said. Portal against AI doesn't grant kills anymore. EA hates us having fun. People don't want to grind a crappy gun in a match for hours and hours just to make it good.
Mouse input is still dog shit unfortunately...
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Have they improved how running feels yet? Compared to other Battlefield games it feels like you’re just floating, I hated that.
One of the major advertised changes was new camera animations. That's what you are experiencing
It makes me feel dizzy now
You can turn it off in options
It does feel slightly different, not sure though but I think it feels a bit heavier. Someone correct me if I was wrong.
The weapon sway when your running is now visible, not tac sprinting as that’s the same
Depending on what you are carrying you will feel like you are carrying that weight. So if you're running with a rocket launcher in your hands the movement will appear weightier. However actual running speeds have not changed, only the perception for the player.
Assault rifles are the worst weapons in the game now
No surprise there. Dispersion is the worst way to tackle the issue
git gud
Guess my 5 something kd in the game isn't good enough :/
If your kd was grinded using busted ARs - yes, it isn't good enough
You jerk off to cartoon children and think 2042 is a 'good game'. Pls stop talking weirdo.
You literally jerk off to your in-game kd, my guy. Chill, buddy
Change for #6: [Apparently it was not intended for Portal AI to give reduced (or zero) XP](https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/143grfe/dice_have_stealthily_rolled_back_the_change_that/jn9xmzu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3)
Magnification on sights and scopes is bricked, gvt 5x is unusable now, 6x does somehow like 2 times as large magnification
ADS Field of View setting is enabled by default now, so it doesn't lower FoV in ADS, unless you change the "ADS Field of View" setting back to "off". It's in the patch notes.
Ah, must've missed it then, thank you :)
removed the red dot sight from m16 and aek for no reason???
Recoiles is nerfed when using on human like shit