Sometimes, The Old Ways Are Just Better

[@haavikwood290]

I've always loved support classes. Since not everyone is great at shooting mechanics (like myself) so being able to support other people who are actually good at the game and being rewarded for it is such a good thing in my opinion. Doesn't work for every shooter/game but for large scale battles it's a must have imo.

[@benji_222]

In bf1 it was actually amazing. the medic class had some hidden gems when it came to weapons (like the avtomat, one of my favs) that made the class even more rewarding. You can essentially help your team two-fold if you are a skilled player by getting kills and reviving fallen allies.

[@mcbonkytron8411]

What is your favorite Support gun in BF1? Just curious.

[@neoshenlong]

This is the reason Overwatch was the game that actually got me into competitive shooters. Being able to support by playing a healer or even some of the tanks that barely have to aim and they rely more on your knowledge of the game and the way its supposed to be played is so, so good.

[@krudonovan5894]

It’s also really good if you’re playing with friends and they’re a lot better than you

[@DesFTW_]

@@mcbonkytron8411 At least for me it's probably the chauchat, though I'm a more aggressive support so I don't bipod. Parabellum is also pretty good, but feels less satisfying to me.

[@wylnd]

I was surprised to find that in bf1 most players quit their revive window very quickly as medics are the least played class. One medic with a few smoke grenades can make all the difference in capping a point!

[@garbaj]

oooh, I should consider using smokes instead of the frag. Good idea!

[@OverlyManlyMan19]

@@garbaj Hey you can "ping" the icon of the dieing player and inform them that you are planning to revive them. Sometimes they stop pressing the quit button

[@mcbonkytron8411]

@@garbaj There is also the rifle smoke grenade. I believe you get like 3 shots with it before you need more ammo for it.

[@bushmasterangelo9603]

I find the Medic weapons also being very powerful by themselves, like the Madragon storm can be used at mid to even long range and it packs a good amount of damage that could even be used at close range if you're accurate enough.

[@Astrothunder_]

Medics are sorta notorious for not reviving in bf1. On top of that, like you said, its not a very picked class in bf1, I usually only see 4-5 medics on a team. Players have kinda developed a cynical attitude not expecting anyone to revive them.

[@spaghettiwaffles]

The talk about classes reminds me of Planetside 2, where the medics can make a push seem like it has twice as many people, but they won't be getting as many kills as the heavy assault troopers. It's better in Planetside, however, because healing gives a fair amount of points, and reviving a teammate gives the same amount of points as a kill.

[@garbaj]

I love that I can improve my score by healing and reviving because I'm not an aim god but I still want to be useful to my team

[@matteelol]

@Fa Mulan Last I played Planetside 2 (~6 years ago), coordinated battles were really widespread. Those were really awesome! Nowadays, there are understandably fewer players so you're lucky if you see coordinated battles during the weekends. Joining an active clan changes things a bit, though. I really miss the old days...

[@christophernoneya4635]

I loved planetside 2 but honestly I was kinda annoyed with how they handled medics, or perhaps it was mapdesign on top of that. Every (indoor) fight would devolve into 2 teams dying over and over in a single doorway while medics revived them, it was a meatgrinder that would go on until enough players on one team got bored of being revived and then instantly dying that they chose to respawn somewhere else. The main problem in my eyes was the medics could revive more or less infinitely and without penalty, much risk, or time leading to stalemates. Honestly I think when it comes to medics I think TF2 probably handled them best, seeing as while they did create stalemates like mentioned above they also gave them the most powerful tool to end stalemates (the uber charge). Support classes are super valuable assets to a game tho, I totally agree that they should award more or less the same as the other parts of the game. No player should be punished for choosing to help their team and there should be more casual options for players who need it

[@spaghettiwaffles]

@@christophernoneya4635 Don’t get me wrong, you’re totally right about the doorways, but that’s also the whole purpose of the Light Assault as well as a large part of the infiltrator and heavy assault classes. All three of those classes have weapons and tools that are excellent for breaching and flanking (flashbangs, jump jets, and C4 on LA, cloak for infil, and concussion grenades and the thumper for HA) which help a team push so long as those people are present. The issue is similar to medics in most games: people don’t want to play them that way, primarily bc it’s difficult to do that compared to LMG Adrenoweave heavy assault with maximum HP, maximum mag size, and no need to do anything other than push up with the team and click heads Edit: also, it helps if you’re pushing with a squad bc then the person doing the breaching/flanking can communicate when they’re doing it so the rest of the squad knows to push up and clean house. Also, it takes more people coordinating the higher the population gets, so in a populated area, one LA won’t be able to clear a room the same way as in an area with only two squads total. Also about map design, there’s no area on the map that only has one entrance and is important to the battle, so there’s almost always a flanking route One thing i think a lot of people forget easily about planetside is that when you have that many people on one map, you have to win through actual tactics, not just K/D, bc even if you can kill 5 people before you die, there’s often 20 people there. You have to coordinate with a team and use strategy to win also, it’s not TDM, so high K/D only helps the team if you’re using it to capture and hold territory

[@badideagenerator2315]

@@christophernoneya4635 Tf2's medic definitely fits his role well, but he has very little in the way of playstyle diversity and most of his weapons are obsolete.

[@mcbonkytron8411]

The class system is also helpful to know what class your allies and enemies are. If you see an ally or enemy medic. You would know what style of weapons and tools they could have based off of the class alone.

[@garbaj]

maybe if bf2042 grouped the specialists into "classes" and gave each class unique weapons it might've worked better, but all know how things turned out

[@mcbonkytron8411]

@@garbaj I’ve seen that idea floating around on Reddit. It would be a quick fix to one of the problems 2042 is experiencing. If Dice were to implement this idea. I hope they would also not force players to have the specialist equipment equipped. So if you were to choose Mackay. You could have both the C5 and launcher equipped and not just one or the other.

[@arekkrol9758]

one of issues i had with planetside 1, it was impossible to know if in your group there is a medic or if he has revive certificate which did lead that medics realy didnt exist outside of coordinated groups as randoms would probably respawn mid reivive unaware of medic being present

[@flatterghast]

Community Servers is a great feature that I think most team-based online FPS games need. Not having it is like not having voice/text chat. It’s one of the reasons why games like TF2 are so well remembered and why they’re still played so much to this day.

[@fiddleriddlediddlediddle]

I mean, TF2 removed the server browser but I get the sentiment.

[@Tokoyami_Snow]

@@fiddleriddlediddlediddle TF2 still has a community server browser

[@flatterghast]

@@fiddleriddlediddlediddle It’s still there. I almost never play default casual, I tend to go for the many community servers since they have so much variety and different features and modes the base game doesn’t have

[@fiddleriddlediddlediddle]

@@flatterghast That's fine but what I'm talking about is the server browser for the official servers. You're talking the community servers.

[@flatterghast]

@@fiddleriddlediddlediddle I guess that’s fair. We at least still have the community

[@sxarexrow]

Hey garbaj, just wanted to let you know how excited I am for your game! Good luck on the rest of development! Love you man.

[@garbaj]

Appreciate it! Development is going well and I got a lot of important backend stuff done so now I get to work on the flashy stuff. More devlogs to come!

[@Newtorious]

@@garbaj will you consider a public testing period for it? Or will it be private/closed?

[@bayusa8961]

@@garbaj 👀

[@randomgamer3645]

@@garbaj whats the name of the game?

[@robloxsy9455]

"New isn't always an improvement." Best thing anyone has ever said to me. Also this quote plays a huge role in the video!

[@EpicVideoGamer7771]

@@Miguel-yx9zg True. Dirt 2 and Dirt 3 on the PS3 were really fun and if you wanted you could just let the ai racers pass and do a derby with your friend. Or drive in the wrong direction on the track and try not the get hit by the ai, etc, etc, etc. But now in Dirt 5 on the PS5, if you reverse like 5 meters you get reset! And the damage is pathetic and only visual. Why couldn't they keep the old game mechanics with the new and improved visuals??

[@EpicVideoGamer7771]

@@Miguel-yx9zg :(

[@doorwaysniffer6447]

Battlefield 1 will always hold a special place in my heart. No other game has a feel that's quite like it. I'm not trying to trivialize war at all, war is hell and I hope to never experience it, but battlefield 1 really makes you feel like you're in a war, or at least a romanticized version of what it's like to be in war. The atmosphere is amazing.

[@champstation143]

Bro getting bombed from everywhere inmidst deafening terror and seeing bodies fly around the battlefield sounds romantic? It definetly is not romanticized 😂 But the atmosphere is the best in any first person shooter.

[@micahraney732]

@Doorway Sniffer based

[@typischbar1734]

You dont trivialize war, its just that in a War game, it should feel like a war. The atmosphere, not the gameplay. And battlefield 1 does that great. Battlefield 2042 is pretty much not a war, and even battlefield 5 did not really feel like ww2. I still get annoyed when people have those over the top skins in bf5 that just look so stupid.

[@TylerL220]

Battlefield 1 is the last "modern" battlefield that I've enjoyed. I have so many memories of my buddies and I playing that shit. As a squad. You're right about it really feeling like a war, but it still had the goofy battlefield quirks and those two combined made it such a great experience.

[@gabrielj1644]

@@typischbar1734 I always had a lot of gripes with Battlefield V, but 2042 gave me a new appreciation for it

[@ShrugginAround]

"This gun kinda sucks" He says while holding one of the most used medic weapons

[@kyurget]

easily one of the TOP weapons too lmao

[@themightylordofgoblins6880]

Sl sweeper, or something like that haven't played the game in a year

[@LearnedSophistry]

@@themightylordofgoblins6880 1907 SL sweeper, most used gun for people who don’t have the fedorov avtomat

[@goof827]

Yeah isnt it like top three medic guns in the whole game lmao, ik its definetlyy favorite

[@themightylordofgoblins6880]

@@LearnedSophistry I don't have the fedorov automat, but I remember rage quitting alot after getting beamed by someone 50+ meters away

[@vimes6482]

Garbaj sounds so innocent explaining the cold corpo EA ways. This is why you care about your local indie game developers.

[@faridayasmin1701]

corpo rats

[@BeAltyrnative]

indie here, support me 😂

[@badideagenerator2315]

@@BeAltyrnative just subscribed to your channel 👍

[@BeAltyrnative]

@@badideagenerator2315 you're awesome, we're working on a pretty sweet game design at the moment based around telekinesis and time loops

[@pacifistminigun3987]

i'd always find inspiring the idea that some random, unknown people in the world are still able to come up with a really enjoyable game/movie/etc.

[@athmaid]

Quick tip for those just getting into this game: when in the server browser make sure to check "none" in the "free slots" option on the right. Sure, you'll have to wait a bit in queue but you'll have a lot more servers to choose from! The most popular moderated community servers won't show up unless you do that since they are usually full

[@dr.depressed._6547]

I love playing as a tank crew in BF1, and the land ship was very interesting as the driver of the tank didn’t have the biggest guns like you’d usually find in battlefield. Having a repairman with you can win you a fight in a tank, even against superior enemies. Being the reason a tanker (who can very easily go 20-0 like I did once in an A7V on fao) kept that streak felt great.

[@ahuman3601]

I like it when games have deeper sub class systems because it leads to more variety in gameplay but only as long as they still have the role clearly defined and unique.

[@articcenturion8387]

TF2's subclasses are so much fun.

[@gyrro6377]

BF4 in my eyes will always remain the pinnacle of the Battlefield experience. The maps, the weapons, the synergy between the classes, it all just works together so well. BF2042 tried to be "Innovative" but instead DICE seemed to just dig their own grave with it. As Garbaj says, Specialists just completely take away "Class" balance in a sense, since everybody can spec their loadout to do whatever they want, without any limit. Something I liked about BF4 was some Community Servers would put caps per team for how many of each class each team could have. I find that to be a great approach in terms of balance, which the Specialists in 2042 completely throws out the window.

[@plebisMaximus]

BF1 is already considered old? Damn, time sure moves fast. I only ever played the singleplayer, it's really good.

[@aggressivetoast]

Not rly for me bf1 is still one of the best games ever that i played

[@thephoenix4363]

@@aggressivetoast everything about the game was great Except snipers

[@imyourmaster77]

Damn you missed out, the SP was fine but multi was the shit. Im literally playing rn

[@MpSniperM1911]

sometimes i forget bf3 is a old game

[@MpSniperM1911]

@@aggressivetoast i didn't liked because the game don't like my 4 core processor.

[@kurodo9926]

I remember one of the best moments that I had from bf 1 was when our game was pretty much lost. We had the last wave, our big tech was destroyed. I was playing a sniper, but I was countlessly farmed. This is the moment when I equipped a binocular. The thing that not everyone knows, is that binocular lets you watch someone without letting your head be seen, so no other sniper could kill me. And also another thing with binocular is that it literally gives everyone a wall hack in your team. The reason why we lost so much was pretty much bc of how enemy team was continuously flanking us, but by simply showing my comrades where enemies were, it all just went our way. We had only like 50 lives, and quickly went forward winning the match. This is the best experience I had in shooters for long time. Shame that not many games are letting you do this

[@dereklewis4321]

Every new battlefield game makes me realize how brilliant BF1 truly is. They nailed the visuals. The maps are spectacular. It feels like all out war. Only thing its really missing is the great level destruction Bf4 had. Edit: ment levolution where each map had its unique thing to destroy...don't flame me xD

[@gijsbrans2338]

Bf1 has just as much destruction as bf4, possibly even more, and it's definitely simulated better. What it doesn't have is massive structures such as skyscrapers and massive dams as well as the scripted events in which you could take those down, which was called levolution in bf4. It wasn't really true destruction as they were scripted events.

[@skeemanswarmachine2617]

What all battlefields need is a megalodon

[@_R_R_R]

Bf1 had much better destruction, bf4 had better levolution

[@siluda9255]

bf1 has a lot of destruction if you see a map that doesn't have a lot of craters you will notice the difference the thing is ww1 buildins werent as big as modern ones so it doesn't seem that different

[@jobuandme2]

@@skeemanswarmachine2617 bf1 has a Megalodon😳

[@Mezurashii5]

The role of the medic in vattlefield games absolutely is to get kills. Medic weapons are hella strong throughout the franchise. Even in BF1, the assualt class has mainly short range weapons and the support doesn't do well with mobility, so the medic is sort of the default/middle ground of offensive play. This is probably the most important tweak battlefield games made to the class based formula, because in almost any other game, nobody wants to play healer since people are in it for the combat most of the time and the mechanics of healing aren't as fleshed out anyway.

[@Zorgus]

Yup, I mainly played assault in BF3/BF4 cause I was always in the middle of the action, and the defib/first aid had a huge impact on the team's stance, so it always felt like I was making some difference. Especially once I learned the "dead medic is a bad medic" rule ;)

[@niceshotd9130]

That's why i love TF2 and L4d2 so much just like you said, both of those game have community sever that people can just jump in and have fun

[@panzerjagertigerpelefant]

Old Valve gems both, I guess server browsers really is an old mechanic.

[@RW1A]

Server browsing needs to be brought back. Its one of the best ways to have custom servers and more fun to chose your game

[@pootisspencer9586]

I also miss server browsers :( grew up on source games and not being able to just find my own lobby and skip the wait is disappointing

[@BabzaiWWP]

its cause they GOTTA do skill levels so people can play competitively always

[@escalator9734]

same, grew up server browsing cs:s, dod:s, return to wolfenstein, cod 4, etc. First time I saw matchmaking after I bought a x360 didn't understand, now I'm getting really annoyed they dragged it to pc. No more [thisorthatclan] dust_2 24/7 Nocamp/Rushonly, no more promods, no more communities I hate everything now

[@BabzaiWWP]

@@escalator9734 the internet, and the world itself, is getting more and more anti social

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

Why did they even add matchmaking to tf2, it still isnt any better than quickplay, as you cant find any matches for unpopular maps, are dropped in the middle of the game almost everytime you find a match, and the guy thats been playing the game since 2009 can still play against pablo.gonzalez2007

[@BabzaiWWP]

@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 so people dont have a chance to get dropped into wacky or laggy community servers as their first time i guess

[@leonidas1571]

B1 was my first big shooter back in 2016 and I played it over 600 hours, so much fun and love put in this game In the sale recently I asked all my friends to buy it and almost 10 people bought it and were positively surprised by how good everything works actually :D I personally think the game got worse with every balance patch, I miss sliding (got nerfed to being non existent tbh), old TTK and especially old Martini Henry - I love that weapon I think the medic has some of the best Weapons in the game and it's so satisfying to play ur role as healer and reviver, B1 did so much good, especially Sound Design and feeling overall and every DLC had great maps and Weapons! I miss being 16-17 coming home and starting up B1, great memories :D Tank rounds with a full squad will never be forgotten

[@cryomaniac3217]

Oh, I'm surprised you hadn't played bf1. Great game, lots of people are coming back to it after the 2042 flop.

[@garbaj]

That's basically me, and I am very glad I did. I'm having lots of fun

[@cryomaniac3217]

@@garbaj The large scale chaos in this game is extremely unique and unrivaled, even by the other games in the series (maybe except for bad company 2 and bf4).

[@NicCrimson]

Been playing BF1 and BF4 as of recently.

[@turnip5359]

@@NicCrimson me too

[@roomfullofmischief]

That's really interesting to me that you say BF1 is a great game. I had never played a battlefield before, I just downloaded BF1 recently because it's in the game pass and a friend of mine has it. Don't get me wrong, it is fun, it has great moments and it is by no means terrible. But even in a short amount of playtime I encountered a lot of bugs. It also happened regularly that the teams were really unbalanced, which of course is caused by having to join servers and not being able to take advantage of a matchmaking system. Also, the movement feels pretty good and fluid most of the time but the few times where you just can't jump over a tiny wall or slide off of a slope just are annoying. Not to mention lying down. For some reason, the legs are always behind the player. Meaning you will get pushed away from a wall if you're not careful. Games like Rainbow 6 Siege did that so much better (If I remember that correctly, it's been a while since I last played that) Like, it's fun if you don't take it seriously. Would I play it alone (as in, without my friend)? No. Would I actually buy it if it wasn't in the game pass? Only if heavily discounted. Honestly I don't know how much it is right now and it doesn't really matter. But you saying BF1 is a great game, even if this just means it is a great game in the battlefield series... oh boy. That was surprising. Sorry for the wall of text, I just felt like sharing my experience.

[@Sekir80]

2:18 "You're in control" And THAT, sir, is where you spot the problem. I'm getting older and as far as I experienced games tend to giving you less and less control; it's a theme across decades now.

[@M4Dbrat]

To an average video game consumer in the post-7th gen console age control/player agency is a burden that gets in the way of shiny explosions and "mature" narratives

[@Sekir80]

@@M4Dbrat True story. And sad.

[@Zorgus]

I'll always remember how Ubi fucked up the parkour controls in AC3 - it wasn't much more complex earlier, but I felt like I had more control over the path & actions. AC3 killed the whole fun of traversing cities for me, never been able to go back to the franchise since :(

[@kirkmacquarrie9726]

Every game should have a server browser and the option for community hosted lobbies. Even when a playerbase has dwindled and official servers have closed the multiplayer experiance can still be preserved. Also imo battlfield 1 is by far the best game in the series, the more modern games like 4 and especially 2042 feel too fast, with everyone running and jumping around spraying automatic weapons. I think the ww1 setting really let dice slow the combat down (at least for a bf game) in a way that felt much more interesting. Also there is nothing cooler than getting a squad full of support players to rain down morter fire on an objective in operations.

[@designator7402]

Sadly, keeping a game alive is not in the corporate interest, especially if it's in a series like Battlefield. Ideally EA wants you to move on to the new Battlefield as soon as it releases. The cutting of these features is not by chance.

[@sheastewart7608]

What do you mean by more modern? Because bf4 is three years older than bf1, also the movement in bf4 is mad clunky and not fast, that's not a dig though it might be my favorite bf.

[@kirkmacquarrie9726]

@@sheastewart7608 I meant the setting, the current day/near future games are what i was refering to.

[@escalator9734]

@@kirkmacquarrie9726 "support players to rain down morter fire on an objective in operations" I hate you, good day.

[@Bamboozler2349]

Server browser is must imo, a lot easier to find games and join friends. Also I love it when you get two evenly matched teams and you go at it match after match since you stay in the same server instead being randomly split up due to match making the next match

[@4on4nam]

Hearing this as old school battlefield makes me feel like an old man. I got into battlefield late and my first was Bad Company 2

[@reyl1936]

I don’t know why but I find your voice oddly relaxing, I would listen to you rant on a topic for an hour, no cap

[@curlyfries2956]

By far my favorite battlefield. I play it every day for hours on end and it never gets old

[@solad148]

I agree, evolving/changing is good but it's not a good reason to do that just to say you evolved or changed.

[@garbaj]

preach

[@flatterghast]

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

[@CommissarChaotic]

If it aint broke, don't fix it

[@CommissarChaotic]

wait, eyyyy

[@AMoistEggroll]

Not even that. Just because you wanna get with the times and trends doesn't mean such things are the best for your case.

[@scrapjob]

Battlefield 1 is my favorite battlefield game now that im older and better at it, when I was a kid I used the normal FOV

[@slogomanscamer9249]

"A bow and arrow is old fashioned. But sometimes old ways are best" - sova

[@Dyna1One]

2:58 "This gun kinda sucks" Plays the M1907SL, personally one of the best weapons in the game. 😅 Everyone has their own preference

[@monkeywithocd]

I'm genuinely surprised such a recent AAA game had a server browser. I really wish we'd go back to this, becauseI feel like matchmaking and ranked play really facilitates the toxicness that multiplayer gaming is infamous for (and a big reason I mostly play singleplayer games now days).

[@gamingsongs-pd7xu]

I *love* battlefield 1. My favorite of the series. It has a very good campaign that focuses on the soldiers not the battles and drops the rossy view of war a lot of games hold. Especially the intro mission. I also just have a soft spot for world war 1 games. Everything feels much more balanced.

[@ScarletKobold]

That's one thing I'll never get tired of with support classes: Their job is thankless, but I enjoy giving thanks to them anyway. People who both play and enjoy support classes have always been the true MVPs for those kinds of games to me. Not the ones who went on a 30 player killing spree, but the ones who kept catching up and always giving ammo or healing or whatever else is needed. Depending on the game, damage you dealt is only as good as the ability to recover what you lost (health / ammo). There's a reason why I always thank them whenever I can - you can't easily get to the top without others first helping you up! (:

[@arcticwind1368]

I love playing as medic in fort Vaux

[@Hagebuddne983]

Not to say that the class system isnt absolutely superior to the specialist system, but there were balance issues in most of the Bf games. The medic in BfV, Bf1 and Bf4 had the best ability (healing one self) and in each case the best weapons.

[@aggressivetoast]

Weapons are good but no chance against assult class (im talking about bf1 )

[@cleo42]

Same with Bf3

[@sheastewart7608]

Sure healing is really good...but I'd rather have an rpg, lol. I think engineer in bf4 was really strong, carbines were a blast and felt multifaceted as they should.

[@TheRibbonRed]

Server Browsers should be default for Casual games. Glad you've acknowledged this from your previous talk of matchmaking. Also, timely much? There's a current Steam Refund debacle in allowing *anyone* to refund their BF2042 purchase, regardless of hours played or days since purchase.

[@unluckycatfish6866]

Also talking about support classes: I love classes that allow me to help my team by just staying back and giving a hand in healing, buffing and debuffing without needing me to be in the middle of combat

[@kikimoraharpie]

Just touching up, only 2 specialists can revive everyone. We can squad revive still ala BFV, but that was that. But yeah, I do heavily miss the class system.. And server browser.. And that scoreboard to see what roles the team needs to be filled.. And well.. Maps with actually lots of cover and not big and open fields.

[@mwgondim]

Got into fps multilayer back in BF4 (the previous title from BF1, which has a similar interface). Living in South America and having atrocious pings in random queues made me fall in love with this server browser system. All I had to do was to order servers from lowest ping to highest and set some filters for minimum population

[@lucasimonelli5038]

Bf1 is the most immersive miltiplayer game i've ever played. Playing it without the hud is amazing

[@skivernatnjilten493]

I noticed the same thing with D&D, with every expansion the classes are losing more and more of their distinctiveness. Instead of expanding the classes in a unique way, the focus turned on customizability, blending everything into a blob.

[@VeT_YT]

"A bow and arrow is old fashioned. But sometimes old ways are best." -Sova

[@NotFab]

Right on the spot, these are some of the features that made me love battlefield. Server browser allowed me and my friends to play together even if against one another, while it also allowed us to change servers in case a toxic/cheater player joined the round. The classes system was just so good because it required everyone to work together, maybe I'm good at being in the frontline, so I would pick the medic, leaving the responsibility of taking down enemy aircraft to other players. The old ways are indeed, sometimes better.

[@Vinity5]

battlefield 1 is an amazing, gritty, realistic game.

[@CommissarChaotic]

@Loud and Annoying YT It's been fifteen minutes.

[@Seph491]

Another good thing of Battlefield 1 and the older Battlefields is that there is the ability for player hosted servers. These servers can help deal with hackers that the anti-cheat cannot catch and allow communities to form with regulars. You play on there enough you might make new friends instead of randomly meeting a bunch of new people each round.

[@joel6376]

Classes in bf were always an afterthought - they were there but everyone played medic - perhaps engineer if they used vehicles. Support? Useless - can get ammo from elsewhere (mainly dead enemies).

[@Markov092]

3:06 "Role of the medic is not to get kills..." Me: (laughs and loads Fedorov and Sweeper)

[@tin2001]

Along with being able to select servers, being able to HOST your own dedicated server is also important. This allows communities to build their own infrastructure later when the official servers get shut down.

[@Skraftzz]

I remember making a comment about how server lists are pretty good and that new games need them

[@igorlukyan206]

That’s what I love about this game. Scouts actually SCOUT, having that enemy information is key to know when and where to advance/defend. Support actually SUPPORTS, holding down choke points or laying down suppressive fire for your attacking squad and handing out needed ammo

[@colincraigo5793]

BF1 is considered “old school battlefield”? Damn I am old. BF3 and Bad Co. 2 are what I consider old school which are like 8 years before BF1. I would also like to note that BF3 introduced the server browser to the franchise and it worked beautifully.

[@bloxxer02]

Another thing I like about games that have a server browser is that most of the time they have that server browser so you can host your own server so if you wanted to play with your friends you would be able to go on your own server that you own and potentially modify the game have a fun experience, etc

[@officialswordmaster3069]

Playing your class role is always satisfying for me. I normally play as a scout, and make as much use as I can out of the periscope and spot flare to help my team push objectives, and it's fun to play aggressive like that with the 1895 trench or 1903 experimental

[@ReV_RZ_67]

I like how garbaj was explaining how medic works xD

[@craftingclasher3791]

Battlefield 1 is probably my favorite shooter of all time. It just plays extremely well and is a ton of fun with cool weapons. Battlefield V is actually pretty good even now even after its rough start. Hopefully 2042 will follow and get fixed to a point where it is good. It has already gotten tons better so I still have hope even after the abysmal launch.

[@middle_pickup]

Support characters are important for immersion of a game like battlefield. It's like the healer to your party. It builds teamwork too.

[@rasmustagu]

The peak of the franchise imo. Can't believe it's 6 years old already.

[@SubparLoki]

As several other comments have noted support classes are awesome for people like me who can’t aim. I love being a medic/engineer, or in a lager scale game like bf sniper as I can take a more passive role. That’s why I love OPs like Kapkan in R6 Siege

[@zewitshe3608]

you managed to say “it was better back then, now it sucks” in a really nice way.

[@yunusileri5006]

Actually what I love about Battlefield is being a small part of a accomplishment. You might not be a most Fragger but blowing up a tank in a sneaky way could be more beneficial than ten. Sometimes you and few other guys run from very side of the map to the safest objective of the enemy team to slow a little bit down the enemy team progress is such an awesome and unique feeling. Everyone could not be a good aimer but as in real life, you can change or try to change things just by some tactics and your brain. After all effort being a part of a victory (even though some guys nails helicopters, tanks or planes) is a good feeling.

[@lando8913]

I always liked how the Battlefield games reward you for doing what your class was supposed to do. So you didn't have to kill to get points.

[@miss-sagemoon]

with the right set up, medic can hold his ground as well as any other class

[@backseatgaming2145]

This shows why older battlefields are still alive and people still enjoy them

[@timm9956]

So like, I absolutely love bf4 and bf1, they are my favourite games to play. The quick and chaotical gameplay of bf4 and the beautiful experience of bf1 are a gem to me

[@maheshdesai4577]

Garbaj :- hey everyone garbaj here Yt captions :- hey everyone garbage here

[@wheatee4987]

Here’s a tip: f you ping a dead teammate’s revive icon as a medic, you will show up on their screen as an “incoming medic.” Makes people skip their revive timer a lot less.

[@beaut4131]

Btw it seems that your only seeing a fraction of the servers because your filter of free slots is checked, if you have it set to “none” you can see even more servers normally with a q obviously, but this also opens up the game to operation, my personal favorite game mode. Because there isn’t many servers at one time playing them, there usually full and have a q.

[@springbok4015]

Old school Battlefield is still my favorite. Right back when 1942 and Battlefield 2 were around, even Battlefield 3 more or less kept the old style.

[@spinnenente]

BF3 was a huge graphical upgrade but gamplay wise a massive downgrade. Allmost all of the tactical parts of bf2 were removed in favour of run and gun spawn almoost anywhere stuff. Playing sniper was ruined with the light up scopes and unlocking parts for the vehicles made playing them a chore. I still played it at the time but imho battlefield went from good tactical gameplay to cod but with tanks.

[@RedTeaas]

This gives bed so many memories, those were good times

[@Koji44-]

When I’m in the back picking everyone up every second I can it buys time for other members of your team to get to the front lines without losing as many people.

[@sosigscuffer6442]

The role of the medic is not to get kills, but usually a good medic will have the most kills

[@jxlenny1059]

Completely agree, i think maybe you could adjust your role-weapon but if you can choose in all roles from all weapons everyone is just taking the meta weapon

[@Top_Shrimper]

I used to play battlefield 1 back when it was originally released, hands down regardless of the bugs it had it was the most fun I had in a battlefield game in a long time and was probably the last good battlefield

[@siluda9255]

it is the last good battlefield

[@Scrublord30]

Even in games like valorant or rainbow six seige I see this problem occurring where at the start each character had a unique and clearly defined role on the team but as more characters got added basing your strategy around abilities as a team became less important than just getting kills

[@JF-vz1ju]

Server browsers are legit the best way to do multiplayer and the shift away from them is probably one of the worst things to happen to multiplayer FPS or even online games in general.

[@dee_sgusting]

the server browser is now built into "portal" wich now houses not only the normal gamemodes but also the community made custom ones wich works just the way you showed but you also have the "easy" and streamlined way of "joining a multiplayer game" and thats it...i fully support your point on the classes tho...its cool that you have more variety like in 2042 but its very blurry where as in the first battlefield you had much more clear roles that you chose instead if a gadgets it feels. great video as always

[@D-Boy22]

"We gonna center a gameplay revolving around getting kills, and we'll take out the only thing players can use to track how much kill they are doing cause if they do poorly, it could make them sad" -Dice, probably

[@racer-fb7bc]

Remind me of valve games, Counterstrike series, Team fortress series and Gmod all allow us to choose whatever community server we want, pretty fun.

[@Raleks325]

Im a simple man. I see Garbaj, I click.

[@Speechrezz]

this is all the kind of stuff that team fortress 2 and titanfall 2 get right

[@IndieLambda]

Server Browsers are so cool, it also allows for custom rule sets and even modded content, you also forgot to show that not only you have filters, but you can also click on each category to sort by them, show server from lowest to highest ping, highest to lowest player counts, group by maps, group by mode, sort server names alphabetically, etc... And yes, suport classes and characters are under rated.

[@commandertaco1762]

Imo the medic gun is great, love it because it's very consistent

[@ShadyProductionsMC]

its not even old school, its just more features

[@billkammermeier]

I still play the original Day of Defeat and that game is almost 22 years old since the first public alpha release and there are still a few dozen active servers. Thank god for the server browser.

[@Calculated_Mistake]

I love a good class system! Playing roles in a game increases your fun by forcing you to make a proper strategy by teaming different classes to get closer to victory. For example, letting a tank take damage as a medic keeps healing him. There are not only gameplay advantages but overall making you more intelligent.

[@cipherpac]

I really, really liked Battlefield's server browser. It felt so good when you found a good reliable server that you could favorite and come back to day after day

[@Nekonaut_aka_Jebus]

The downside to a server browser though is that for a really popular server(s) it's difficult to join and can put you in a line and make you wait to get in. Thus making joining with friends all the more challenging.

[@4hdp3u64]

A bow and arrow is old-fashioned but sometimes old ways are best

[@toadtactics3574]

When you said the sweeper sucks I heard all the medic mains cry out in anger

[@joaquinvelasquez6252]

A scoreboard of beauty is a joy forever.

[@theacer7864]

Well ,I'm not up to date on games lately and these features seem like an essential parts of a Multiplayer game structure and being seems like a some way of kicking professionalism out of the window and turning the iconic battlefield franchise into more of a casual title ,nice video btw keep up the great work ❤️.

[@RealAshkii]

"a little bit of high ping" I want ping that good on a normal basis, bruh.

[@zenroles]

The first time I played BF1 (which was this year), I played as a medic and got to the top 3 of the scoreboard just by healing and reviving my team. It's the most fun game I've played in a while.

[@dbsterben3902]

crazy to think that all of the games people praise nowadays still implement these simple old but gold features

[@friendofp.24]

Server browsers and the ability to host custom servers are fucking essential for any video game to last long.

[@coffeehen537]

Nice vid garbaj! You bring of very valid points as to why battlefield feels so different

[@JawadBsaileh]

little did he know the medic got the best mid range semi automatic in the game that's actually capable of clearing buildings and halls by yourself

[@sacul2345]

there are actually a lot more full servers but a lot of the time people have the filter set to hide completely full servers so it ends up not showing all of them