Good afternoon. Afternoon. Battlefield stuff.
Battlefield 6. Episode 152. Oh, fuck. They've
announced, come out today, I believe, the XP
nerf, boost, buff thingy by like 40%. Something
like that. 10%, 40%, something else. Yeah, and
it's being backdated and all. 40 % for dailies,
10 % just overall. So when I open up Battlefield
after this pod, I should level up a load of stuff.
Have you played much of it? I can't get off of
it. Yeah, I played it for about 15, 20 hours.
I can't get off of it. You were playing a campaign
the other day, weren't you? Finished the campaign.
I didn't bother. Jumped into it. Campaign's good.
Terrible reviews. You've got like fours and fives.
I must be mad. The campaign's good. I liked it.
Left on a little cliffhanger. It's only like
five or six hours. It's worth doing. Yeah, man.
War. What's your preferred game mode that you
play? Conquest. Conquest only. I like Conquest.
I do all -out warfare as well. I like escalation.
I don't like the small... the small maps. That's
not what Battlefield's about, man. I don't want
that. I want large -scale warfare. Now, here
is the nitty -gritty that really shows someone's
personality because I have feelings and opinions
on all of them. What are you playing as? Engineer
and recon. Yes! Fuck the recon bit off. No, because
I'm pretty good at sniping in that game because
I've cheated. I've cheated. I'll tell you how.
Go on. You know, you know, on all the snipers,
I presume it's on all of them, you have the zero
in distance. Yeah. So you can get it up, bang
on the headshot. Yeah. I just remapped the zero
in distance onto the shoot button and it does
it automatically. So if I'm aiming at your head
and I press shoot, it's auto, it's zeroed in
before the bullet's fired. So all I have to do
is aim at your head. That's amazing. It's cheating,
really. Is it cheating or is it just using the
game? It's just smart, isn't it? Yeah. Just a
smarty pants. I haven't touched snipers outside
of the campaign. It's really fucking satisfying.
Yeah, I've seen lots of clips, but you know what
else is satisfying? It's blowing the fuck out
of a tank. That's my main class. It's very satisfying.
That is my main class as well. I've just unlocked
the RPG. I've had that for a while. It's nutty,
but to be fair, I was playing as a medic. Fuck
the medics, bruv. Why? Because they're just fucking
useless. I'm not a useless medic. I'm dying here.
I will revive you. And they literally, it says
one meter away. Yeah, I will revive you. And
they're just dead. Can we talk about that? Oh.
Right? Because, do you enable cross play? Yeah,
I do, yeah. Yeah, I think it's the PC players
that are the shitters. Bro, I'm not a medic.
I still revive everyone I can. Same here, same
here. So what are you doing? It's either the
Xbox players, the COD players. or the pc players
or all of the above and i feel like it might
be all of the above because it ain't me and i'm
a playstation player so it's obviously not me
and my and my family it's everyone else that's
the problem because why if someone's down and
you're a fucking medic why are you running past
me and then not reviving me and engaging in battle
fucking 20 meters away yep why are you doing
that you've got defibs so you don't even Number
one, they get a 25 % reduction on fucking reviving
people anyway, or 15%. Whatever it is, it's a
lot quicker than everyone else. Number two, they've
got defibs. It takes 0 .2 of a second to go,
bring me back. There's us dragging people out
the street, and it takes like five seconds. What
the fuck? You're just not picking me up. And
then you'll understand as an engineer. Stop fucking
driving away in the tank when I'm fixing it.
Stop fucking driving away from me. Why are you
doing that? I've been sat in your tank the entire
time on the fucking heavy machine gun, killing
things with you, and then jumping out and repairing.
Why, when it's critical, are you driving away
from me? Stop driving away from me. The most
annoying part that I've had is when I'm in the
tank because I quite often use tanks, get up
on a hill and then I just bomb the shit out of
people. And then I get out to repair my tank
and someone gets in it and drives off. I'm like,
I've had this for like 10 minutes. That should
be locked for like 30 seconds. I absolutely love
the Engineer because it's made me really like
playing a tank, getting involved with tanks and
shit. My tanks are leveled up better than the
guns that I've got. just some of the shit and
then unlocking the RPG has just been a whirlwind
oh god that thing that thing fucking rips through
tanks it's an animal I absolutely love it and
then one of the things that I find really satisfying
is obviously as an engineer you get mines and
I always just instinctively just fucking chuck
them down wherever forget about them and then
about fucking 20 minutes into a game because
you've killed someone these mines What's this?
You want to fucking... Oh, what, did you throw
one on it? I just threw him off the roof, bruv.
I see him coming down the street. And then bang,
bang. Go on. I love it, man. I had... I was capturing
a point, same map. I love that. And a tank come
bowling round the corner and I ran round the
corner and I didn't have anything other than
the mines. So I quickly ran back onto the road
and threw a mine down. Fucker followed me. Bang.
Quad kill. I was like, oh, it's amazing. You've
got to bait them out. Fire a few shots at them.
Oh, look at me. I'm all weak and pathetic. Yeah,
you can get me with your big turret. I think
this video I've got encapsulates why Battlefield
is so fantastic and better than any other shooting
game in the world. Because, yeah, here you go.
Just cinematic to fuck. Shot by this fucking
chopper. Oh, look. Medics revived me. Oh, shot
by the fucking chopper again. I can't be revived
this time. Yeah. Fuming. I was a sniper at the
time. I'm not going to be a sniper anymore because
I'm fuming. Swap over to an engineer. Straight
to an engineer. RPG. Bang. See you later. How'd
you like that? You kill me twice, I switch to
an engineer, spawn on them, boom, first. That
was satisfying. And that is why Battlefield's
so good. I love it. I absolutely love it. It's
so much better than I thought it was going to
be. I thought it was going to be good, but...
The only thing that I'm not a great fan of at
the moment is the way in which you unlock the
weapons and shit like that. Yeah, slow. The menus
are a bit waft. Yeah. I'm not a massive fan of
that. Like the... Like the class challenges.
I don't even look to them. You have to be past
a certain level before you can fucking start
unlocking there. And then you've got to do X,
Y, and Z. The sniper one's horrendous. Leon was
telling me you need like 150 kills. at like 200
metres or something like that. Headshots. Fuck
off. My longest kill was 183 metres and that's
fucking almost across a map. Yeah, I think...
It can't be 200 metres. Oh, you said a shitload
of stuff. I'll see if I can scroll back but I'm
pretty sure it was like 150 headshots at 200
metres. That's mental. If I type in headshots.
Headshot. 150 headshot kills at 200 plus metres
or it might be 250 headshots. He said he can't
remember. But yeah, he said, snipers, you need
to get to the weapon level 30 on a sniper to
get the actual sniper scope. It takes multiple
days of playing. Because I've been playing it
a lot. And I've not been doing bad until I found
my groove with the engineer. 100%. Because playing
as a medic with the LMGs, I was fucking shit
with them. Terrible. No, I haven't touched, I
haven't even clicked on that class. What, on
medic, you haven't touched it? No. I haven't
even tried assault, really. To be fair, I haven't
touched assault and I haven't touched recon.
Just done medic and engineer. And now I shall
be solely engineer because I'm just not interested
in anything else. Engine is great. I did do a
boo -boo because my favourite gun in the history
of guns has always been the M4 or the AK, normally.
And I was using the fucking M4. I don't know,
it's like level fucking 20 or something. It's
quite high. Probably higher than that. And then
I was looking at some geezer's build of it and
I was trying to put the attachment on. Is this
like a pre -alpha build or something? Because
I ain't got these fucking attachments. I realise
I've been using the wrong gun for 15 hours. Nice.
Yeah, I've been using the M4 -3 something rather
than just the M4. I put the M4 on and I was like,
it's a laser beam. Now I can hit people easily.
So yeah, that pissed me off a little bit. So
now I've had to start levelling up the gun again,
which is annoying. What am I using? I'm using
the P... W5 or something? There's a second submachine
gun in. Are you using a submachine gun? Yeah.
Yeah, I like the submachine gun, man. I like
the ADS speed and the fucking bullets and stuff
like that. Also, I want the next one down. I
think you'd call it a G60, but it's known as
something else. But I think this actual thing
is a G60. I just like the submachine guns. But
is that because I've switched from an LMG? So
I've gone from one extreme to the other, fucking
taking 10 seconds to aim in and then shoot, and
then switching over to something that's absolutely
instant in aiming in. I'm just having a fucking
great time with it. I haven't used an SMG yet.
I've been killed by a lot of them from some fucking
range. From range, yeah. They're not bad at range.
Yeah, so I might have to try it, but I just want
to live up the M4 first. I've got a fucking 3
.5x scope on mine. On a sub. That makes no sense,
but it works. Works really well. I haven't even
got that on my AR. I've got it one time. Yeah,
it works really well. I don't know why. I just
like it, man. Really enjoying it. Yeah, it's
great. There's another game on there. Is it Escalation?
The one where the map shoots? There's one where
the map gets split into zones and you have to
capture whoever has the most zones and they start
getting rid of. Start getting rid of zones. It's
whoever captures three zones and then the map
shrinks. I haven't played it. People say it's
really good. It's like Conquest. I just like
playing Conquest. It's always been Conquest for
me. Like I said to you before, I pick a favourite
location and I'll just go there and I'll just
make sure I hold it. That one with the mines
off the building, that's B. I always go to B,
whatever side of the map I'm on. I had one of
the most perfect things doing exactly that where
I was defending a point. and it was just me,
and then there was one other enemy that was on
the point, but we must have been at separate
ends, and just sat there the entire time. I don't
know what he was doing, because he wouldn't have
been getting anything for it, but I filled up
my fucking defending XP to like, I think it was
like four and a half thousand, just sitting there.
And then he finally showed face, and I killed
him, and then someone else popped in, and I killed
them as well, and then fucking defended the whole
thing, and then I got my head blown off. But
it was great. I was like, yeah, you just sit
there and I'll sit here. Let me fucking gather
all this XP. I'm absolutely fine just chilling
in a bush. Yeah, that's it, man. And you wait
for them to expose themselves and then you pop,
pop, pop. It's just a fun game. Because I looked
in a lobby that I was in yesterday and it was
like 90 % PC players. So I am tempted to turn
off the cross -play just to see what the calibre
of gameplay is like in comparison, because I
know that it is easier on mouse and keyboard.
Oh, for sure. So I'd like to just see what it'd
be like without that. I changed all my settings,
all my controls, everything. So the tank now,
because I hate the way they move. So now I've
got tank on. to drive forward and backwards,
R2 and L2, to reverse and go forward rather than
this fucking stick turning this way. So what,
do you have to shoot just L1 and R1? Yeah. That's
what I shoot with anyway, on shooters. Oh, you
swap it to L1 and R1? Yeah. Only multiplayer
shooters. On normal games, I'll just do L2, R2.
Multiplayer, it's so much quicker to press these
buttons and the triggers. Triggers, you've got
to push in more. The buttons are just... I'm
not competitive, but it gives me an edge. Yeah,
it's a habit of a lifetime that I won't ever
change, unfortunately. I've gotten used to the
tank movement now, so I won't bother changing
it. I just don't like it. It just doesn't feel...
No, I don't like it either, moving with the left
stick. I'm not a fan of it, but I've used the
tank so much now that I've just gotten used to
it. The only thing is I haven't touched the jet.
Haven't touched a helicopter. I tried the jet.
I tried the helicopter. I was all right flying
in Battlefield 4, but that was so long ago now,
I've forgotten. Now I'm just... What they need
is training grounds. They do. For vehicles. Because
people... I keep seeing people in chat, why did
you get in the chopper when you don't know how
to fly? Not to me, just in general. How else
are they going to learn? I think so people go
into the custom... maps into the portal where
you can have there are flying maps there so people
go in there and then learn to fly that's what
everyone because i've been seeing the same stuff
people have been saying fucking go and use them
before you jump in a jump in a jet or something
like that um but who gives a fuck you know i
mean i wish they had more like uh you know when
you're like changing tank stuff I wish they had
a little box showing you the weapon firing. I
don't know what a fucking 50mm cannon versus
this fucking shit is. I like the ones that do
splash damage. You're firing at infantry out
of the tank and they're hiding behind a rock
and you shoot to the side of the rock and it's
splash damage. Yeah, they've got explosive shells.
Yeah, I know. But I need a visual representation
of that when I'm picking what I want on my tank.
It's just... These shells, this fucking gun,
this gun, this gun. It tells you in the description
of it. I don't want to read. I want to just look
at it. It tells you at the top fucking left in
the description of what they do. Yeah, I know.
But is it no good saying, oh, fucking 50 mil
cannon against infantry. I want to see it. I
want to see the way it fires. I want to know
if it's... Because it all matters. Can't you
go in a shooting range with a tank and test them?
No, you can't do nothing. You can only shoot
your gun. That's all you can do. That's what
I'm saying. You need a training ground for all
vehicles where you can just fly around, drive,
shoot, whatever you want to do. Yeah, I wonder
why they haven't implemented something like that.
It couldn't be that hard to implement that. No,
if they can do the driving range, they just need
an open space. You don't even need... You just
put some targets around. Just go in the tank
and just shoot the tank. And then in the fucking
jet, you can fly over the same space and just
drop bombs. Just use one of the maps they've
already got. Just have no players in it. It's
really good. Well, there you go. Fucking... There
you go, dice. So good. I want a map that I can
fly around in and not have to worry about fucking
everything up for everyone. Please and thank
you. Yep. I see the professional people that
are... Some of them are mad. I know. Mad. Like
the people in the little buzzards and stuff like
that. at least I can actually see what they're
doing. The people in the jets, I ain't got a
fucking clue how you're seeing what you're doing.
When they fly low and drop a couple of bombs
or whatever, and I go, what did you shoot at?
Because I see that you kill people, but I don't
know what you've just shot at. They don't, do
they? They carpet bomb places. They fly over
high populated areas and then they just carpet
bomb. Just drop bombs out the bottom and then
hope for the best. But even the helicopters though,
because you have to... You have to angle the
helicopter for the gun, but then you're going
forward in that direction. You're just going
to crash. So you have to go down and then pull
up again. It's fast fucking well hard. I was
all right on Battlefield 4, like I say, but I've
got no chance on this. You have to really put
the work in if you want to get good at that.
But that's the way it should be. It seems like
everyone's good. And then some cunt just spawns
in with an RPG and takes you out. Yeah, you've
been waiting to finally get the vehicle. and
you just get blown out of fucking sky. I see
someone when we spawn, they jumped in the helicopter
and I literally just watch this thing just go
up about 10 foot and then just fucking full rudder
backwards and blow up. What a fucking waste.
Why would you do that? Why would Bob be doing
that? One of the worst things in all is, as an
engineer, is running up to a tank and then not
realising that it's already got like four people
in it. So then you just jump onto the back of
it. I go, no, this isn't what I want to do. I
want to be in the guns. I want to be doing the
fun stuff, please. There's only one gun spot,
though. Yeah, one gun spot. Fucking let me in
the gunner. It's exciting, man. If it's come
out this good, season one starts soon and they're
going to be adding stuff. I completely forgot
that Battlefield 2042 was a thing, you know,
and that it did not start very well because this
is completely different. Fuck, I completely forgot
that they fucked up the last one. Oh, it was
terrible. This is completely different. We literally
spoke about it last week. I know, but I forgot
that it existed because I've been so rapt. Dying
Light's died a death. It hasn't. It has for me
as well. It hasn't, but I do need to play it.
But at the same time, the thing with something
like Battlefield is it's so easy to just sit
down, play a game, switch off, and then fucking
potter about, do whatever you want, and then
pick it up. Whereas something like, Dying Light
because Dying Light also has no autosaves unless
you're outside unless you finish a mission or
something like that you can't just randomly autosave
in between stuff as far as I'm aware no I don't
think so so if you jump in it it's like right
well I've either got to go and do a mission to
completion or I need to find a fucking safe zone
that I can sleep in and stuff like that I can't
just pick this up and put it down as easily so
yeah it's just it's just so good it's so good
God, it's good. Do you think it's good? I think
it's fantastic. I haven't played the same map
40 times in a row. No, that's nice as well. Automatically
better. Also, I remember the bug where you'd
start and you just couldn't pick a load out.
Yeah, yeah. You just couldn't do nothing. Yeah,
that hasn't happened. Have you seen the one so
far where people jump on the drones? And they
sledgehammer it. I saw that in the wild yesterday.
I saw someone doing it over across the map. And
I watched them get fucking blasted off of that
drone. Their body flew. That's how a lot of people
get hype for Miles headshots because they're
going so high in the sky. We've got to be talented
to shoot that quick. Yeah. I mean, that shit's
going to get nerfed anyway. They'll remove that.
Do you keep seeing the beams and all? You getting
that little glitch? Like a light beam. Looks
like someone's being hit with a fucking, with
a laser cannon, literally just from the sky,
just a... And there's a, it's not real, but whenever
you go on Reddit, there's loads of people that
are saying, oh, it's their way of getting rid
of hackers. That'd be good though, wouldn't it?
They've been shot with fucking these massive
beams of light. That'd be great if it was. Every
time you spawn as a hacker, you just got blasted.
They're crazy. I saw a clip of a hacker and he'd
been backed into a corner. And because he was
a hacker, he couldn't die, but he could get downed.
So what happened was they were shooting him in
the corner and then someone was reviving him
and then someone was shooting him. There was
this group, like five people, and there was just
one medic. So that medic kept reviving him and
then the other people just kept downing him and
then reviving and kept downing. I'm pretty sure
it was an XP farm. Yeah, it sounds like it. I
haven't even gone on portal. That's the problem.
A lot of people have gone on... padded up all
their kds and shit i don't think anything you're
doing portal shouldn't count towards your kd
and i don't want to touch portal though man i'm
just enjoying i don't want to spoil that i don't
need curated stuff man those are people have
made someone's made snake you literally play
snake and space invaders the stuff you can do
is insane yeah the level of ability and talent
and stuff and have the ceiling for what you could
make is mad I just like conquest and the maps
are good enough I don't need to fuck about and
then the BR will come out and if that plays like
this with being able to blow shit up mate god
almighty that's going to take over the world
yeah I'm with you on that I don't like battle
royales anymore but I will be dipping my toes
into that you've got to see you've got to check
it out you've got to see I say because this is
the destruction being able to just blow holes
in walls and shit and like you play a BR game
Apart from Fortnite, but it's a bit different.
Because it's all got health in it. Yeah, it's
just a different vibe anyway, but there's no
other Battle Royale map that you could start
and finish and the map look different. Like this
could have holes in the floor and buildings on
the floor. Oh yeah, you can't hide anywhere anymore.
Cranes falling down and stuff. Hiding around
walls and shit is just gone because someone's
just going to blow the fuck out of it and then
you're done. Yeah. Defends how they do it. Their
potential is exciting. I had that yesterday.
It was in my last game. It was... Was it Escalation,
I think? No, I think we were playing Breakthrough.
And there was... Whatever game mode it is where
you start and there's just a clear line. Attack
and defend. It weren't attack and defend, though.
I think it was Breakthrough. Or Rush. And it
might have been Rush. I can't fucking remember
if it was one of them. But basically where this
line was with the enemies, there was a building
that had been blown up, but the back of the building
was still standing. So all the enemies were on
the other side of this and then obviously spread
across this whole line. And I was in that building
and I was peeking around and fucking killing
people. And then when people were running through,
obviously they didn't know I was there, so I
was getting them while I was running through.
Well, then a tank come. from behind me and knocked
the fuck out of this wall and i just spun around
and as as this tank the wall was just falling
apart i've spun around and there must have been
about 20 people just stood there i maybe got
two of them before they just fucking blew my
ass up and i was like it's typical standard ship
obviously as an engineer i've got the anti -tank
grenades rather than the normal grenades so they
don't really do that much against yeah same and
i keep meaning to take them off because i never
throw them Yeah, I never throw them. I'm just
like, well, I've got a rocket launcher and mines.
The grenades are the last thing I think about.
And the only time I throw a grenade is when I
see loads of people grouped up and then I realise
they're not good for you. Yeah, the grenades
are my last resort for anything. I've used them
to blow tanks up, but they are the last, last
resort. And like you say, when you've got an
RPG, you do, yeah. The recon class is good. So
what I'd like to try is a recon class we've like.
with an AR or something because the binoculars
are mad, bro. You can mark, you can, so with
this recon class, you can just sit in a fucking
hill somewhere, get your binoculars out and because
it's all like thermal imaging, you can just see
someone fucking miles away out in the middle
of nowhere. They don't know you've seen them.
So you point the binoculars at them, they get
the red dot over them and then, especially with
my little zero in tactic. Cheeky, cheeky, headshot,
boom. I love it. I'm not going to play it, though.
I'm not going to play it. Because Ark Raiders
Beta is out tonight. It is out tonight. And I'm
going to have to download that and dabble my
toes. Ark Raiders is out until the 19th, I believe.
Yeah, this weekend. And then I think it's out
in a couple of weeks. Yeah. So I need to download
that because I'm telling you, man, that's going
to be massive. The game is going to be fucking
huge. You reckon, yeah? You don't think it's
going to be just overshadowed by Battlefield?
I don't think so. I think it's going to be...
flipping huge. I think if anything, I don't want
it to, but I think Battlefield will lose a lot
of players. A lot of people will come straight
back to Battlefield because it might not be their
jam, but there's going to be a lot of people
that are like, yes. How many people do you think
are going to fuck off from Battlefield over to
COD? You reckon? It's hard to tell, isn't it?
I think there's a lot of people that go to COD
just because I've seen a lot of people complain
and go like, oh yeah, Battlefield's great, it's
had a week of hype, well done. There's a lot
of salty people in there. I just feel like, Have
you seen that Instagram video I sent you earlier?
Of the Battlefield video I sent you? Which one?
I've seen a couple. So watch that and then we'll
discuss. And this is why Battlefield is far beyond
Call of Duty in my opinion. Battlefield 6 has
me getting too attached to my squad. Yeah, that's
the one. Is that the one? Watch that. Oh and
they're turning the HUD off as well as it looks
I think proper fortified though Typical fucking
assault class standing there. There's three of
them down and he's just still shooting. Do you
think they were actually squad -based and he
was chatting to them? Probably not. But my point
is, like, whilst I'm not having that dialogue
with people while I'm on a roof shooting people...
Well, he was just fucking talking to himself.
In my head, that's what I'm feeling like. Get
down, pulling the geyser over. Get up. I'm not
saying anything, but in my head, that's the feeling
you get. You're trying to fight people and you've
got people falling around you. It's very like
Saving Private Ryan, isn't it? On the beach,
isn't it? And Call of Duty is just arcade. Yeah,
it's not that vibe. Like I say, my first Battlefield
game was Battlefield 4. And then I played Battlefield
4, I played Battlefield Hardline, I played Battlefield
1, but I don't really like World War 1 and 2
stuff. I like modern stuff. And then, yeah, 2042.
But Battlefield 4 and Battlefield 1 were... and
Hardline were really fucking good. Battlefield
4 was sick, man. And they're just military shooters.
There's no bollocks in it. And much like this,
I mean, I'm sure they'll put skins in it, but
as long as they're like cool skins that make
sense, not, you know, SpongeBob SquarePants.
From the vibe that I've got just from this week,
I cannot see them going down that avenue. I just
cannot see it. It's too... Even down to the sound
design, man. When you put a headset on and you're
just roaming around and shooting guns, I'm in
love with the sound of the turrets from the tanks.
I absolutely love them. It just all sounds so
fucking good. Even down to little things. You
won't notice it because you've changed the key
bindings, but the haptic feedback on the triggers.
When you are in the tank on the machine gun,
you only have to tap the trigger and it fires.
You don't have to hold the whole thing down.
It's very, very sensitive and you can feel it
clicking. And yeah, it's just something that
you don't get from Call of Duty. But at the same
time, you can't blame Call of Duty because they
were never trying to be Battlefield and Battlefield
was never trying to be Call of Duty. They weren't...
In my mind, they weren't a comparable thing because
they're two different games. Yeah, but they are,
but Battlefield 2042 is trying to be Call of
Duty because Call of Duty introduced large maps
like Conquest. In modern warfare, they had the
large -scale stuff. World War II, they introduced
the... Yeah, so they've had the Battlefield modes
with the choppers and stuff like that in just
the general multiplayer, and then Battlefield
2042 started adding operators like Apex and stuff
like that, and, you know, Call of Duty, where
they have, you know, they didn't have SpongeBob
SquarePants, but they had Santa hats and all
that bullshit. The lines got blurred at some
point. Yeah, so, you know, exactly, the lines
got blurred. But now Battlefield's back to its
more military, its military sim lite. I mean,
it's not Armoury Forger. where that's just pure
military simulation. It's arcade -y but milsim,
if you know what I mean. It's the perfect balance.
So anyone that likes the arcade dopamine from
Call of Duty, then they'll fuck off to Call of
Duty and then the Battlefield people will stay
with Battlefield. The only reason I've played
Call of Duty for so long now is because I stopped
playing after Modern Warfare 2, I think it was,
like the old Modern Warfare 2 back in the day.
I didn't play it for fucking years and the only
time I came back was when Warzone came back and
then I was like oh this is great and then I played
all the Call of Duties because of Warzone I was
like integrated back into that and Battlefield
was nowhere to be seen I didn't like World War
1 World War 2 stuff and then they introduced
2042 which was slop so we've had no other option
so now Battlefield's back hopefully for the long
run I'm back in the Battlefield ecosystem man
and I couldn't be happier you can get a dog tag
for Render... Yeah, I see that. I don't know
what that means. I killed a man with a finisher
and I got a dog tag and it had a name on it and
a date of birth. I don't know if that was his,
like... I don't know if that was his username.
And when I go into my collection, that dog tag
is there with that name on it. If that is his
username, I've got him in my collection forever.
I don't know if it's just the first one or whatever,
but yeah. The... Renderzook? Whatever the fuck
it is. That was in the 2042 trailer, is when
you go up in a jet and you jump out, RPG someone
down, then get back in a jet. That is the...
You get a dog tag for doing that. which is quite
cool I see some crazy stuff people like I say
they're next level they're next level players
I'm boots on the ground the closest you'll see
me to stuff like that is in a tank on a hill
somewhere miles away because you know the people
don't know what they're doing which was me get
a tank and just drive straight towards an objective
but that's not how to play man you've got to
pop up on a hill somewhere and just pepper locations
where people are trying to attack because people
have got a call of duty brain is what I see when
I play so instead of like playing like you know
around the outskirts or checking around the corners
for the objectives and defending you feel like
you're not doing anything if you're just camping
essentially But no, every time you're killing
an opponent that's running to objective, you're
helping the team, right? Where Call of Duty brain
is just run straight towards people constantly.
Straight to the enemy, get kills, kills, kills,
kills. But then they're getting angry because
they keep dying. It's because there's like fucking
60 players and you're just running in the middle
of the fucking thing. There's mines, there's
tanks, there's helicopters. Yeah, you're running
into warfare. What do you think would happen?
You're just going to get your head blown off.
Exactly. It's not how it works. You're not going
to be able to run in the middle of all of that
and then... And that's why Call of Duty players
are getting so annoyed because they don't play
Battlefield. That's not how Battlefield is supposed
to be played. There might be the odd map that
you can do that on the small maps maybe, but
that's not what Conquest is anyway. Have you
seen the button for the silos? There's a map
with silos where you can obviously go up the
ladders and then it's a really good sniping spot.
But it's an oil rig thing. So there's a... like
a blow -off valve for it that's obviously on
fire um burning excess gas there's a button at
the bottom of those silos a purge button and
when you press it it purges the whole silo so
the whole top of it just bursts into flames and
emits loads of flames so the entire platform
gets lit up scorched so and so people who are
up there sniping just end up getting burnt yeah
nice I was like, that's so cool, because I see
a clip of someone doing it, and then the next
clip down was someone who was sniping at the
top of it and then got caught in the flames.
And they were like, that's a fucking thing? He
was like, how is that a thing? That's good, man.
So that's what you want. You want that kind of
shit. I think the future's very bright for Battlefield,
and hopefully they stick with this and they don't
try and deviate too much, because it doesn't
need deviation, it just needs refining. The fact
that they've already started looking at the XP
gains and how you unlock stuff and things like
that leads me to think that they want people
to stick around because the grind was... It was
too much. It was quite a bit. I've been playing
a fair amount and I'm not amazing, but I see
it like... top third of the table in most of
my games once I've fucking warmed up finished
first twice yeah I've done it once but both times
we lost as a team I've done pretty decent and
even then even with doing the challenges and
shit like that you're not levelling up like a
crazy crazy amount so they needed to do something
with it but yeah my concern is that They have
to increase the XP gain on weapons if they're
going to go with the Call of Duty model of you
have to level the weapons to use them in the
Battle Royale. Yeah, yeah. Because I have so
far not even close to maxed one gun, and I've
played it for 15, 20 hours, and I've only been
using two different guns, sniper rifle and the
M43 fucking whatever it was by accident. Some
of my scopes are like mastery level 54. That's
what I mean. My gun's level 6, 7. Exactly, and
I'll probably get, I don't know, say... 20 kills
a game or something. 80 % of them probably with
the gun I'm using. So, yeah, I don't know how
you're supposed to level up. But then it's a
marathon, not a sprint, isn't it? You know, people...
The trouble is people want everything straight
away. And once you've got everything, what's
there to do? Then people will moan. There's nothing
to do. I've done everything. Do you know what
I mean? It's a weird balance. But they do need
to increase it, though, for sure. That's what
I was thinking about today. I was like, I wouldn't...
I wouldn't want it to be like COD where everything
levels up pretty fucking quick for that exact
reason because part of the fun is the grind.
Yeah, I can't wait till I get this side. Yeah,
I like it. I like it taking time, but at the
same time, I don't want it to... to be a slog
yeah it needs improving but not not a crazy amount
because it's nice when you when you finally unlock
the RPG and then you're fucking around with that
and then you actually have the time to use the
fucking thing whilst you're unlocking everything
else and setting yourself a goal going right
I want that attachment I want this I want that
I want that gadget so you go right well this
is what I gotta do blah blah blah It just makes
it more fun. The only thing that I haven't done
yet is actually play with people. Again, I was
explaining to Mark, I like playing it solo. I
also like playing in a squad, but I like playing
in solo for the simple fact that I'm not attached
to anyone. If I want to play a game, do something
else, or if I want to fuck while I'm playing
a game, if I want to fuck off and do something,
a different section of the objective or whatever,
there's no... attachment there but I know that
it's a game that is designed to be played in
a squad for optimum fun yeah it's a bit of both
isn't it I like playing solo I like playing with
people but Yeah, I'm the same. If I want to play
and then I want to go and have a poo or I want
to go and make a cup of tea, I don't want people
waiting on me. You know what I mean? Especially
not with how quick you can get into a game. It's
like four seconds. You don't get a chance to
wait, do you? A game's finished and you wait
for, what, 10 seconds and you're in another game.
I go, what the fuck? What would be nice is I'd
want to see it so that when you finish a game,
obviously you scroll over and then you get your
challenges and your XP and your progression and
it shows all the stuff you've unlocked if you've
unlocked anything. I would like it. to show you
that when you go back into the main menu as well
so just have my previous my progress i've just
earned have that for when i go back to the main
menu so i can actually remember what it is i've
unlocked because the the transition from game
mode to game mode is so quick that you half the
time you ain't got a fucking chance to See what
you're doing. Never thought we'd complain about
loading times being fast. Too fast. It's far
too fast. It's too much. I need a bit of unwind
time. Yeah, we're older. We're getting old. It's
been a war. I've just spent 30 minutes in a battle.
Give me a couple of minutes. Because they're
nice lengths as well in those large -scale wars.
When they say 20 to 40 minutes, they are normally
on the 40 -minute end, which is nice. Yeah, I'm
a huge fan. I'm looking forward to playing it
again. For many hours, for many years. Although
I have heard horrible rumours that they want
to turn Battlefield into an annual release, which
I don't want. I'd be devastated if they did that.
I see how they could or why they would. It's
money, man. Because of money. Especially if they're
going to go down the Battle Royale war zone route
with all the guns and everything. I don't know
if they will, but that's the rumours. But then
EA have just been bought, so who knows what the
plan is now. Fuck those. Yeah, I wouldn't want
to... I wouldn't want a yearly release of it.
No. Don't turn it into Call of Duty because then
you end up with Black Ops 7. Battlefield now,
they're not deaf, they're not blind. EA are not
deaf or blind and neither is Activision. They
see where Call of Duty has slipped up. EA have
just got to toe the line that they know Call
of Duty are missing. What are people complaining
about? Well, we won't do that. We won't have
all these stupid skins in the game. We won't
make it a fucking annual thing. We won't... We
won't put too many microtransactions in it. You
know what I mean? And we will communicate. The
amount of information they've tweeted out in
the last fucking three days is mental. They never
get communication from Call of Duty. But that's
what people want. They want to know that you're
listening and be like, oh yeah, we've noticed
that it's XP thing. We're going to sort that
out. Oh, we've noticed that people are grinding
in Portal to fucking cheat their way to whatever.
So we're going to sort that out. With that communication,
people will be much more... It must be a fucking
buzz when you release a game like that and you've
got like 800 ,000 consecutive players at every
given minute. You must be... It must just be
crazy where you've just got a whole team of people.
You sit there and just fucking watch clips. You
watch TikTok, go on Instagram Reels, fucking
YouTube Shorts, whatever, and you just fucking
watch and look at some of the weird shit that's
happening and if it's crazy, we'll fix it. just
sit there and watch because there will be so
much fucking stuff going on where they'll go
right you need to fix this you need to fix that
it's just a very very good release so far because
what is the fucking if I go on Steam what is
the current or is it Steam charts in it Battlefield
6 I think it was in the 800 ,000 Fuck off. Why
does it do that? Belfield and I've opened everything
by accident. I just want to see the player count
Belford six player count So steam charts should
we look at that? There's currently three hundred
and seventy thousand seven hundred and forty
two people in game through steam And then the
all -time peak seven days ago was 747 ,440. That's
just on Steam. And the majority will be console.
So that's just on Steam. I don't know where you
get the player count. Here we go. Player count
and live statistics. Oh, this gives you top games
in the last 30 days. Fortnite, Counter -Strike
2, Battlefield 6 is third. League of Legends,
PUBG. Overwatch 2, Dota 2, Valorant, Genshin
Impact, and Black Ops 6. Do we have... Yeah,
all -time peak. It seems to be taken from Steam's
stats as well. It's doing very well. Very, very
well. Is Arc Raiders out on Steam? Does that
have... I know it's a beta slam or whatever,
but server slam. Does it have active players
on that? Arc Raiders is currently still... You
can still purchase it for... Well, you want to
see the player count for Ark Raiders. Yeah, because
it comes out today, the server slam, so I didn't
know if it would show on there. Ark Raiders player
count. Let's have a look. Steam charts? That
one. So, it's currently 57 ,509. I don't even
know how you get the... Is that because... Because,
yeah, because that's out now because that's from...
That says from 9 o 'clock today and now it's
shot right up. So right now it's, yeah, 52 ,000
from 3 o 'clock today. So, yeah, right now 57
,509 people as of five minutes ago are in the
app that are playing it. Oh, okay, 4pm. That's
why. So it ain't even out yet for everyone yet.
Yeah, I'd imagine that's why it says in -app.
So right now there's 57 ,509 people that are
sat on Steam on the page waiting for it to launch.
Yeah, because it doesn't come out until four
in England, five in Europe. So five minutes.
In five minutes' time, you'll be able to download
Ark Raiders. Yeah, and I'm going to do that.
There's now 62 ,500 people. I think that game's
going to shock you. You're going to be blown
away. You reckon, yeah? I do. I really do. I
hope I am. I've got nothing against it. No, I
know. I'm just saying, I genuinely think this
is the next big thing. I think this is going
to blow Tarkov out of the water. I mean, this
is going to be massive. I think this is going
to be like... I think this is going to be like
Apex Legends big, when it just drops and goes
bang. I'm game for it. The only real taste that
I've had from an extraction shooter is the dark
zone in the division, which I absolutely love.
And that was the original OG. That's the first
ever real extraction. And it was fucking sick.
And the whole genre was spawned from that Dark
Zone stuff. Is that where that come from? It's
the first ever. I watched a video on it last
night, funnily enough. I didn't want to mention
it last week when we were talking about it because
I didn't want to sound like a twat talking about
Dark Zone being like the genesis of it. It is.
And that's what they're saying. That was where
they come from. A whole genre spawned from the
Dark Zone in Division. And they never ran away
with it. And Ubisoft have never done it. Yeah,
I suppose the Division did because that's kind
of the main thing is the Dark Zone. Because they
put all the best shit in there. But they need
a fucking Division 3, man. You need to stop fucking
around with DLCs and events and add -ons and
shit and just fucking give me the Division 3.
That would be me gone. Hands down. Everything
else gets dropped. This is the thing. I don't
know if Artgraders is going to be my thing for
the long haul. But I think it is going to be
the thing for people. And the reason I don't
know if it will be my thing, I love the look
of it. I love the aesthetics. I love everything
about the whole shebang I love. But I am a bitch.
If I play FIFA and I need to win to go up into
the next division online, I am fucking nervous,
bruv. My hands are shaking. I get all fucking
nervous, like sweaty and shit. So when you're
in Ark Raiders or you're in an extraction shoot,
if I get killed by some little fucking twat hiding
around a corner, I'm not going to be one of these
that laugh it off. Good job, man. I'm going to
be fuming. Yeah. I won't abuse them down the
mic. I'll just shout in the living room. Yeah,
I'm not that kind of guy. But I just get too,
I get, what's it called in DayZ? Gear fear. I
get gear fear, man. You get fucking angry. But
then that's what makes the game good, right?
You cunt. You go in and you take, you take like,
you take good weapons and stuff because you want
to have an advantage on people but then you don't
want to lose them so it's their fine balance.
But what's interesting is I see like, because
the way it works is you go in, there's loads
of different stuff going on, constantly different
dynamic events and stuff. And then there's like,
multiple extraction zones but as the time is
timer on the map this one closes in 5 minutes
this one closes in 10 minutes so obviously the
longer you stay in you might be the only one
left but you don't know there's less extraction
zones to choose from but I've seen videos of
people like running towards extraction zones
because they're like bunkers so when you get
in them the doors will shut and there's people
been in them like teams and there's like solos
coming and going hello we can extract together,
you know. We don't need to fight. Fuck off. Yeah,
no, I'm killing you. Yeah, but then there's been
other people. There's a geezer that was in there.
He's fucking sniped him, ran in there, and gone,
don't worry, I'm not going to finish you. And
just let the geezer that was downed leave with
him and keep all his gear. So you've got that
friendly camaraderie as well. I was just taking
out the threat. So you won't do anything to it.
And the most interesting part of it of all, which
I didn't realise, the Ark, which are like the
robots, like the massive spider things and that.
I'm watching the trailers on a loop at the moment.
Their whole design is like, I can't remember
what they said, not AI, but it's like automated.
They didn't design it. The computer, the game,
decides how they move. They didn't design them
to walk like this. Their whole thing is... dynamic
things so they change their tactics and stuff
without any implementation from the developers
it'll probably be AI some weird stuff where it's
like so sometimes you just need to team up with
people that ain't on your team just to try and
like fight off these things it's fucking it's
incredible And I really like the fact of it being
connected to the finals and then the rich people
shooting off into space and playing these big
hunger games in space while the scums still live
on Earth or whatever. I've got an article for
it. However, we overhauled our animation workflow.
We overhauled our animation workflow with machine
learning. teaching physically based AI agents
to walk on their own instead of animating movement.
Fuck off. so i don't want that animation is a
big bottleneck in all game development characters
or creators or creatures have to be designed
scripted manually to achieve seemingly realistic
interactions with the world this makes it hard
to achieve so over the past two years we've continued
down the path of physical animation based on
reinforcement learning in short that means we
train physically based machines to walk by giving
them rewards for doing the right things like
virtual dog treats as you'll see in the examples
below achieving good movement behaviors can lead
to more immersive and interesting gameplay where
the world becomes truly alive. instead our agent
you can think of it as the ai player observes
its body and the world around it and decides
how to move the legs over the next few frames
this means that if the agent collides is hit
by or generates some force by itself it can adapt
immediately for each unique situation if you
trip on a rock or get hit by a snowball you'll
do something unique every time because no snowball
or rock is the same and it gives you a little
clip of of like one of the crab things like walking
across some blocks and then being hit by another
block and then it learning how to react to that.
It's incredible, isn't it? It's fucking incredible.
That's mad. That's what I mean. That's why it's
such an interesting concept. But what they've
done here is they've given the robot sentience.
Because they're saying, like, this clip that
I'm seeing is one of the crab things falling
over. And then, like, a caption of it saying,
I will beat it. Whatever challenge they throw
at me, I will beat it. And it is because it then
learns how to deal with that. Which is fucking
terrifying. Yeah, I know. But it's also great.
It's fantastic. And this is why it's so interesting.
Like, oh, it's very, very interesting. Seeing
a self -taught physics -based creature move and
react to its surroundings, attempt to balance
itself and try to continue to move even when
you throw stuff at it or take away a limb just
like you would expect it to is really something.
It gives rise to emergent gameplay moments in
games that even we as creators of the game could
never have anticipated. After all, we didn't
script them, so how could we? Even that in itself
is just mad, isn't it? So they've added an entire,
like, enemy, and they don't even know how it's
going to react. Or they'll know how it's going
to react, but they don't know how it's going
to move, or they're just giving it a brain and
going, well, you figure it out. You've got to
kill these people, and they're going to try and
kill you. You crack on, and we'll give you a
little treat if you kill them. And that's why
it's so interesting, because you can't just be
like, oh. Let's glitch it out. Oh, if you do
this, you get trapped in a loop because you just...
No, it will work out. You're trying to stick
me up against this wall. Run! You know what I
mean? This is very interesting. And then, like
I say, I've had a big thought about this throughout
the week, funnily enough, about AI in games.
And I really do think there is a place for it.
Not necessarily that, but... I believe there
is a place for it. I think AI in, like... say
like for example just for an easy one GTA say
like you're playing GTA and you just play single
player or whatever or even multiplayer I don't
know you want to like just you want new stuff
all the time but developers can't add new stuff
all the time so if you give like characters some
form of artificial intelligence to have their
own dialogue but make it fit within the game
you could get Like Cyberpunk, say random people
come up to you, oh, fucking such and such, nick
my purse, and then, you know, fuck, whatever.
But that's like a dynamic event. No one else
has heard, oh, such and such has nicked my purse.
It's just an easy example. But the risk of that
is them saying some weird shit, which is AI.
Yeah, yeah. So they have to, that's when it's
going to be like, well, hold on, this was...
racist or this you know that's where that's where
i think the risk is but being able to have dynamic
gameplay where people can come up basically give
you quests for random things that the ai have
come up yeah i think that is where ai is massive
like for example fifa the commentary man does
your head in if ai could artificially create
commentary throughout the game You wouldn't hear
the same shit all the time. You could definitely
work around that. You could definitely fine -tune
that to a point where you're not going to encounter
things like AI being racist or saying something
sexist or something that's going to get you in
trouble as a developer because you just prompted
not to do that. You go, here's your parameters.
Here's your filters. Do not do this. Do not do
this. Do not do this. But you can do everything
else. Just not. mention these things because
we will get in trouble. And then he'll go, actually,
I'll do that. It's like things like Red Dead
Redemption 2 or something. Imagine a game where
you could go up and talk to an NPC and have an
actual conversation with them. That would be
mental. I'm waiting for the time when, because
I don't, I believe that AI, I'm not someone who's
scared by AI. I feel like AI should be used as
a tool. And we use it for work a hell of a lot.
And it's so easily integrated into the world.
I've made pictures of myself where I'm 25 stone
through ChatGPT because it's funny. But I've
also used it to fucking help me answer like some
pretty heavy questions and solve some big problems.
So it's used as a tool. So I would... openly
accept it being used in the gaming world as a
tool to like like with that they just said creating
creatures movement and and what they're going
to do is a bottleneck when it comes to developing
so allow ai to help you solve that so you still
make the model and everything and how it looks
and sounds but let ai do the movement of it and
if it works it works But I am waiting for the
day when a game releases and it is 100 % AI.
Because it's going to happen. It's happened with
movies. It's happening with music. At some point,
you are going to get a game, and it's probably
going to be WAF, or it might not be, where it
will be fully AI developed. That's the road that
it will, if it hasn't already and we just don't
know about it, that will be something that will
happen. I'm pretty sure Elon Musk said the other
day they'd be releasing an AI. entire games of
course they will but yeah no this is what i'm
saying the ai part of it how many times in a
game have you been shooting something or fighting
something and they got stuck on a rock and you're
going that won't happen yeah it'll just kick
the rock out the way do you know what i mean
and that's that's exciting to know that ai can
um adapt input it can bear grills can't it improvise
adapt and overcome yeah yeah it can it can do
everything you want it to do I mean, that could...
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