Call me cheap, but I hate EA and don’t want to give them any money on principle, but I’d like to try BF6 and see how it’s changed since the beta.
Call me cheap, but I hate EA and don’t want to give them any money on principle, but I’d like to try BF6 and see how it’s changed since the beta.
Nope.
Best advice would be to forget it exists. There are actually thousands of other games out there that are almost exactly like Battlefield, I doubt the Next New Thing™ will be worth giving up a little bit of sanity over.
Could you name a few that are almost exactly like Battlefield, came out in the last decade, and let me host my own servers?
Planetside 2, and it’s free
Planetside 2 gunplay is hot garbage and always has been, BF6 blows it out of the water in that respect
It doesn’t let you host your own servers, and it didn’t come out in the last decade.
Battlebit Remastered
Perusing the Steam forums seems to indicate I can’t host my own server.
I dunno what you’ve found on the Steam forums, but the game comes with the dedicated server software used to self host.
I found this. If it still requires an internet connection, it doesn’t pass that test. But that user could be wrong, and plenty of devs and publishers don’t even care enough to let me know on the store page if their game is worth my time and money.
You want to host a PvP game server but not if it requires an internet connection? Who would you be playing against without an internet connection?
It requires an internet connection for me to play with a friend who lives in a different home. It should not require a connection to Steam or the company’s server for my friend to find my server.
It has LAN, too, but it was pretty horribly laggy last I heard. Though, I never tried it myself to know first hand if that is true.
That seems strange that it would be worse than internet play, but this isn’t exactly the strongest recommendation to try it out. Thanks for the suggestion, at least. If the dev ever returns to try to finish their early access game, I’ll keep an eye on it.
Squad and Arma.
We have very different definitions of “almost exactly like Battlefield”.
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Every game with a billion Dollar budget like battlefield will have a turd like EA attached.
If you want to be morally superior and boycott them you will have to make some drawbacks in production quality. No game by an Indie or AA studio can be “almost exactly like battlefield”.
Production quality has nothing to do with it. Battlefield 2 was made 20 years ago by a much smaller team than makes Battlefield today, and I’d be happy to see teams that size or smaller approximating the game mode, map size, and systems of a Battlefield game. The truth is that the genre evaporated. Everyone chases live service, and if you’re just making a live service, what niche do you fill that Battlefield proper doesn’t serve? I’m starved for some good shooters lately.
If you want good FPS, there are tons of really excellent. But I’m getting more that you are after arcadey military FPS.
What I don’t want is a live service, and I can’t find any multiplayer FPS made lately that are built to survive the servers being shut down. The most recent I’ve found is Hypercharge: Unboxed, which has a decent deathmatch, and even that was 5 years ago.
So being specific, you are looking for a local multiplayer FPS? Or are you open to self-hosted dedicated servers as a multiplayer option? Also do you want it to be military or are other genres ok? Just trying to really narrow it down so I can see if something I know would work.