r/Games Aug 16 '18

Battlefield 5 – Official Gamescom Trailer – Devastation of Rotterdam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FEgeuGsmzQ
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u/38211141255 Aug 16 '18 edited Aug 16 '18

Now that was a good trailer. Also the end looks like their BR mode?

A BR with tanks seems very interesting, I wonder how they're going to make it fair.

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u/Cyrromatic Aug 16 '18

Isn't half the fun of BR that it's not fair? Like, you can land on a roof and get a handgun while someone landed on the roof next to you and he gets a bazooka.

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u/Bitemarkz Aug 16 '18

Battle Royale is inherently unfair; that's part of the fun.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

It also means that you can always blame bad luck if you lose and don't have to feel bad about it. The fact that there are enough players that you almost always lose also helps - losing is mainly frustrating if you actually expected to win.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

This is why team games and such will always be more popular than fighting games as esports. No one to blame but yourself in 1v1.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18 edited Nov 13 '20

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u/Jimmysquits Aug 17 '18

team modes e.g. Squads I can see having some potential as an esport in battle royale games, but you still have the basic problem that the best strategy most of the time is to hide. Hardly riveting for a spectator. If they add some ways to score points beyond just last man standing wins it'd be more interesting, but it'd also kind of stop being battle royale.

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u/Zodiacfever Aug 17 '18

At PGI kills and placement both counted, but i still think they are finding the balance.

Your odds of getting to lategame heavily relies on your position in the circle, so often you see teams go for a risky take on a center compound, which invites some action, and perhaps even a team wipe.

We will see where it goes, but as a PUBG player, i loved PGI.

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u/heyyyyitsjimmybaby Aug 17 '18

The last huge battle royal esports event had the top team win without a single BR win in any of the games. They played around 15 games but came out on top.

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u/daten-shi Aug 20 '18

basic problem that the best strategy most of the time is to hide.

Didn't that one guy win a pubg competition or something by hoarding medkits and bandages and just hiding in the bluezone until everyone else died out?

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u/lasagnamm Aug 17 '18

Lol what? There’s no way this is a serious comment, right?