Thoughts on BattleBit Remastered?

It gets a super heavy recommendation from me. The game is absolutely excellent. It's everything the Battlefield community has wanted from Battlefield for what feels like a decade now.

Do not let the graphics fool you. The game has solid performance, great gunplay, great progression akin to BF4, the class system feels excellent, they can do very large scale due to not having excessive graphics performance will be fully and solid, destruction is also fantastic its just got it all.

As someone who's felt let down by Battlefield for a while now and put thousands of hours into it back in the day, this scratches that itch like you wouldn't believe.

Something specific I want to touch on - unlike many other games, the voicechat culture in this one is top notch. People getting really into it calling for medics and giving orders, trashtalking the enemy team when you get downed and they're trying to drag you away, fun (imo) musical micspam that reminds me of the old days of TF2 - and, perhaps most importantly, minimal bigotry and genuine nastiness. There's a little, yes, but not nearly as much as I would expect from a game like this, and the public ban log that gets pushed in the top right of the screen indicates the devs actually do care about removing bigotry, which is nice.

Background: I loved 1942 and 2142, didn't actually know 2 came out until it was basically dead outside of Project Reality. Loved BC2 and BF3, enjoyed BF4, hated BFOne and BF5. Actually really like 2042 but lost interest after we got class buffs to weapons.

Battlebit is fun. It feels a lot like "what if someone made Project Reality for BC2?". Lots of balance issues and the same issues BF always has (Rush is love, Rush is Life. Conquest should be fun but highlights all the problems with the gameplay), although the massive player counts do help to fix some of the Conquest issues. Not super huge with the emphasis on voice comms but haven't had a bad experience yet and it is mostly just people bullshitting rather than tactical fun where you can't ignore the person reciting mein kampf because you need to be able to coordinate an attack.

I think what I most enjoy about it is just how much everything WORKS. The other night, I was playing as a medic. We were under heavy fire and hiding behind some boulders. I see someone go down. I wait for the suppressing fire to die down a bit and then sprint out, grab them, and drag them into cover on the other side where I start rezzing them. I feel like a god damned hero, everyone around me is saying "Holy shit! That was amazing", two more people die when they poke their heads out of cover, and we eventually get flanked and murdered. But it felt REALLY good for that 30 seconds or so and my widow will appreciate that I was posthumously awarded a medal of honor.

I doubt I am going to go too hard on this, but I have been fun popping in for an hour or two a week since launch.

The game is pretty great. I've been having so much fun just being a medic in it. Dodging all enemy fire to go heal people is insane when there are so many people.

One game I kept hearing a guy play Free Bird and loudly sing it. Whenever I got close enough for proximity chat I would start hearing him again. Weaving through fire and the gunshots while hearing that every now and then was amazing.

Here is 40 seconds I recorded showing what it is like to be inside a firefight.

It was a little overwhelming for me at first so I played a few hours of 32v32. Now I'm having an absolute blast in 127v127.

It's pretty fun but also very hard, maybe too hard for me. De gameplay is battlefield like with call of duty pacing to me. Theres quite a lot of maps with good variety. Some maps are more sandboxy and open. Others more urban like or with more choke points. At the end of the game you can vote for the next map, but usually the same ones get voted over and over. The gunplay is good and has depth.

I will keep playing it, but mix it up with Deep Rock Galactic for some more relaxed sessions

Highly recommended! It's so much fun and definitely scratches that BF3 itch. I've heard it described as BF3 and Squad have a baby and it plays Roblox.

Super fun game, definitely worth the £12 or whatever I paid.

If you’re looking for the type of thing that made your favourite Battlefield great you’ll find that here.

Really good, the servers are amazing, I play on 60 to 80 ping brcause my country doesn't have servers but I don't feel any lag, and I mean it.

It brings interesting mrchanics, like dragging allies and thr respawn points. It is undoubtedly fun and a dunny game by nature, you won't really notice the graphics after a few minutes.

Of course, it's a 15 bucks game AND still in early access, don't expect it to be battlefield or feel like newer battlefield titles. But it has more destruction, way too many weapons (tied to a progression system, no money involved of course)

Definitely give it a chance, it is a lovely work of passion. Especially the maps, they really impressed me on how good they were at making them feel good at every size of match (256, 128 and 64 people)

I'll echo everyone else and 100% recommend it.

One thing no one mentioned though is the community. Admins have a zero tolerance policy for racism, homophobia, etc, which leads to voice comms being fun again. So many people roleplaying and just being silly. It's one of the few games that's greatly enhanced by proximity chat

I thought the vehicles handled better in BF2 and 2142. Destruction mechanism is fun and engaging. Wish it had the ability to host servers as I do feel queuing can be a pain. Gameplay is extremely smooth and the graphics do not bother me one bit.

Given it is still under development I am super excited to see where it ends up. All my comments are nit picks of an otherwise excellent BF game with developers that are not EA.

It's fun hectic as hell. Be prepared to die quickly and often. Stay with your squad or other players. Lone wolfing can lead to quick deaths. People are good about reviving.

It was fun until I was forced to refund it due to the devs announcing they were going to move from EAC to FACEIT, locking Deck/Linux users like me out. Asshole bait-and-switch move if you ask me - I'm glad I had just under two hours of playtime.

I'm loving it. Like a nice middle point between Insurgency and Battlefield. Chaotic nonsense with a side of tactical mashed potatoes.

When the servers are behaving even on my 1080ti I get 70+fps at 4k.

The devs leaning to a less toxic community is a nice change of pace as well. Even when frustrated you can "act crazy" instead of losing it.

My main critique is that we need a metro style infantry map. Don't groan you know you love the meat grinder. Grind that meat with us, GRIND!

I really enjoy it for what it is, but I feel like they need to refine the overall experience.

People can jump through windows and spray you, yet the ttk is super low, slow reloads and gunplay is a mixed bag when it comes to mechanics (single fire over auto, bipods don’t help at al).

I’ll give it a massive benefit of the doubt due to pricing and oh, yeah…it’s made with love by three people.

The party system is amazing and allows my friends and I to be dragged into a game in mere seconds. Worth it alone for that tbh.

Anyone have experience with the Australian servers? I moved from the UK to Aus a few years ago and honestly playing online games has really been the only downside!

ui is shit but gunplay is pretty great.

most of the maps are pretty inconsistent with prop placement/congestion level when compared to server player count. some maps feel way too big and some feel way too tight.

it’s $15 USD, worth the buy at that price especially with how often they’ve been updating it. I’ve had fun with it but it’s definitely got a long way to go.

I created a community for battlebit, if anyone is interested in discussing or posting specific stuff for the game: https://lemmy.world/c/battlebit

Like others have said, it’s influenced heavily by both Battlefield and Squad and I think it’s the best of both worlds.

I love that, in Squad, you need to be so tactical and team oriented and communicative; but it can get overwhelming if you just want to relax and/or have no military experience. Battlefield is fun if you want to shut your brain off; but nobody really works together, sometimes for the worse. I think Battlebit scratches both of those itches really well.

Plus the art style makes it so even with 254 players all in one server it still runs smoothly on my midrange-for-2018 rig lol

Fun game the only complain I would have is the progression system for gun unlocks sort of suck and is quite grindy. I'm personally a big fan of the unlock system for gun attachments since it rewards good play with the guns you use.

I'm 100% broke but I want it pretty bad. That's my thoughts.

Best $15 I've spent in awhile. It's like Battlefield and Squad mixed together, but a lot more fun and a lot less serious.

Couldn't recommend enough

Not on Linux sadly plus anti cheat appear to need to root level access but otherwise reviews appear rave...

This looks so fun

Don't get it. Devs are super anti consumer. Don't allow modding, don't allow family share on steam. Don't even allow you to stream it to another device with big picture. They are in the proccess of switching to a terrible anti cheat system.

Great game. Beats Battlefield 2042 for gameplay by a mile. Brilliant value for money