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.
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
It doesn’t let you host your own servers, and it didn’t come out in the last decade.
Planetside 2 gunplay is hot garbage and always has been, BF6 blows it out of the water in that respect
Squad and Arma.
We have very different definitions of “almost exactly like Battlefield”.
That’s fair. Battlefield is the most basic of all three. COD being even more basic with the elimination small maps. They all have a class system, military assets, and the same basic concept of teams. The difference is in the realism/depth of how far you want to go. Now, what OP is asking for is not practical from a business standpoint. You need deviation to separate your product. So there is going to be that deviation to the point of it being worthwhile to compete with the battlefield. But never to be what OP is asking for. It isn’t smart business.
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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.