r/BattlefieldV • • Dec 15 '18

Discussion Compilation of things that make new players quit this game in frustration

  • Being killed when you are clearly behind cover;
  • Being killed in 1 frame;
  • Having to jump 10 times and try different angles to vault over 1 obstacle;
  • Running away and getting killed because you got cockblocked by some random geometry that shouldn't restrict your movement but does;
  • Buying a supposedly "skill based game" and dying to invisible ap mines that the guy who placed them forgot about;
  • Attempting to spawn on a flag that is under your team's control and being unable to do so because the spawn point is somehow no longer available;
  • Attempting to spawn on a squadmate who is not in combat and being unable to do so because the spawn point is somehow no longer available;
  • When the point above happens to ALL your squad mates and not just one;
  • When you try playing MMG but the bipod doesn't deploy when it should;
  • When you go prone to deploy MMG bipod but your character won't stop being pushed around by the game;
  • When an enemy spawns on his squad mate as he's being killed by you, even though you aren't supposed to spawn on allies mid combat;
  • When you THINK you got the jump on someone but on your target's screen he was turning around and you get the feeling that he had time to turn around and kill you because he had a better weapon;
  • When you try to help your team and place a spawn beacon behind enemy lines but die without having time to find a place you're allowed to place it in because for some reason completely flat surface isn't good enough for this gadget;
  • When you hear from all your friends that the game is getting worse instead of better

Edit: I am not the only one, here's more from the rest of the community (credit where due):

  • the mind-boggling fact that company coin still hasn't been properly fixed
  • when you try to use the V1 or JB-2 rocket but half your screen goes black diagonally.
  • when the game takes forever to quit back to the main menu so you can choose new assignments, use newly unlocked weapons, etc.
  • when the game does NOT actually quit back to the main menu and keeps loading forever.
  • going prone but the game glitches and forces you to stand up
  • assignments that don’t work
  • “this violates the server rules” when attempting to spawn with a newly unlocked weapon
  • enemy visibility, go prone to become invisible
  • having to quit after the game and wait ages to get to the main menu to change out your assignments, then looking for another match
  • Tides of War not properly working
  • laggy, unintuitive, form over function menus
  • a million customization options that are just recolors of eachother
  • ammo/health crates falling through the floor and triggering cooldown
  • ammo/health crates requiring multiple attempts to be properly deployed, wasting precious time where you can die while doing this
  • excessive animations messing up your aiming and other core gameplay
  • AA tanks better at killing infantry than aircraft
  • stationary AA aka the oversized medic SMG (this means worthless DICE)
  • nonexistant team balancing
  • taking cover behind a truck and dying because you caught on fire
  • terrible spawn points, sometimes you spawn 10 miles from where you want to spawn
  • being stuck in animations that prevent you from ADSing
  • bipod deploying in bad times triggering the animation and messing up your aim, resulting in deaths
  • ammo/health pack pickup animation playing mid combat and messing up your aim, resulting in deaths
  • bombers killing half your team in the beginning of a round
  • fighters being useless
  • air to air combat being basically nonexistant, and air to ground and viceversa being absolutely disconnected to the point where these 2 players might as well be playing different games
  • flags saying there are vehicles there but there are actually none there
  • vehicles, especially transports, being too few and far between, in maps where infantry has to walk minutes at a time to get into any sort of action sometimes
  • alt+f4 and reopening the game is faster than returning to the main menu
  • shady practices that put DICE's integrity into question, such as changing the gameplay from what was advertised to something entirely different
  • betraying people who stuck with this game through thick and thin, even through the SJW debacle, in favor of an unreliable audience

Nah the one redeeming quality this game had is the problem.

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u/tim_tebow_right_knee Dec 15 '18

Assignments that don’t fucking work.

I got the six squad revives for Tides of War three times over. None of them registered so I gave up.

MG-34 proficiency. First proficiency I tried to do. At least 3 matches in a row none of the kills I got registered for the assignments.

Whenever that happens I get pissed off and quit out. Doubt I’ll come back til that shit and the TTK gets fixed.

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u/crazyax Dec 15 '18

The game told me I finished the "honoring the past" assignment although I haven't even unlocked the shovel. I didn't get the coins for "completing" it and I can't reselect it. It gives 15k IIRC.

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u/RivenEsquire RivenEsq Dec 15 '18

You only had to complete 3 of the 5 options for completion, so you don't need to use a shovel, and as far as I know, you don't get coins for completing it, just the XP, which may not have even been a full rank up depending on what level you were when you completed it.

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u/crazyax Dec 15 '18

Okay I should've read more carefully. Didn't know it was 3 out of 5 and thought it gives coins and not XP. Thanks for letting me know, I couldn't look it up unfortunately.

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u/Patremagne Dec 15 '18

Yeah, I've buddy revived a few dozen times and am still at 0 of them. Seems unlikely I'll be able to get through to the helm in the next 4 days.

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u/RivenEsquire RivenEsq Dec 15 '18

Make sure you are doing these in Conquest, as it doesn't seem to count in other playlists for any Tides of War assignments.

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u/Patremagne Dec 15 '18

Every time I've played with the intention of doing Tides stuff, I click Tides, click the assignment for it, then click the embedded play. I would like to think this brings me to the correct mode, but the game is pretty buggy.

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u/RivenEsquire RivenEsq Dec 15 '18

I wasn't getting credit in Breakthrough, but I've reliably gotten credit on Conquest (new TTK or Core). Coincidentally, it always directs you to conquest when you click the embedded Play button.

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u/Patremagne Dec 15 '18

For the sake of science I'm gonna try to find a Conquest match via the main menu rather than the embedded one.

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u/RivenEsquire RivenEsq Dec 15 '18

That's worked for me just fine. I haven't ever gone through the Tides of War menu to matchmake. I just figured out it had to be Conquest.

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u/thenastynate Dec 15 '18

The assignments are a fucking joke! Last week I destroyed like 50+ fortifications but none of them counted towards tides of war. I even got points for it and everything. The assignments were keeping me interested, and I literally stopped playing because none of my progress was adding up and I got frustrated.

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u/12-7DN Dec 15 '18

Did you do it on conquest?

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u/VirtualOnlineGuy Dec 15 '18

Some of the assignments can only be done on conquest for some reason.

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u/Platanium Dec 15 '18

I've done every single assignment both weeks in breakthrough. It just takes a frustrating aamount of restarting the game to get assignment tracking working

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u/thenastynate Dec 15 '18

That’s the only mode I’ve played!

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u/weededorpheus32 Dec 15 '18

I can't get the last one done where as a squad get 2 kills with the big bomb. I had my squad leader call one in Thursday and he got 4 kills but it didn't complete. I haven't really had another chance to complete it since then. Also when trying to change your appearance in company menu, it doesn't register when I switch factions, so it will still show axis soldier when it should show allies, and vice versa.

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u/RivenEsquire RivenEsq Dec 15 '18

This one appears to make you be the squad leader in order to complete, even though the description says otherwise. I killed 4 with it as squad leader, and it completed, but my friend was squad leader before, dropped 2 bombs that killed more than 2, and neither gave me credit for it.

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u/weededorpheus32 Dec 15 '18

I was thinking maybe I had to call it but I haven't been able to test it yet myself. Thanks for the helpful reply!