Planetside 2, and it’s free
Could you name a few that are almost exactly like Battlefield, came out in the last decade, and let me host my own servers?
Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 days ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It doesn’t let you host your own servers, and it didn’t come out in the last decade.
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Planetside 2 gunplay is hot garbage and always has been, BF6 blows it out of the water in that respect
Ancalagon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Squad and Arma.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We have very different definitions of “almost exactly like Battlefield”.
groet@feddit.org 2 days ago
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”.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
Battlebit Remastered
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Perusing the Steam forums seems to indicate I can’t host my own server.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
I dunno what you’ve found on the Steam forums, but the game comes with the dedicated server software used to self host.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.