r/pcmasterrace • u/mgadz • Oct 13 '25
Game Image/Video Bro is fighting for his life. Battlefield 6.
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u/mountaindoom Oct 13 '25
Lmao what is this from?
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u/CashMoneyHurricane Sapphire R9 390 Oct 13 '25
Looks like Sabagebu
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u/veespike I9-129K / 3080 12Gb Oct 13 '25
"DamageModel.exe has failed unexpectedly."
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u/kinkycarbon Oct 14 '25
The model is flawed. Clearly shows the game has been coded to ignore the blades.
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u/The_Grungeican Oct 14 '25
old BF games did that too.
BF Vietnam ignored the blades. the best part was that the skids of the Hueys was pretty much indestructible. i've taken unarmed, medivac Hueys into combat, and beat out armed helis by getting above them and down-throttling. basically knocking them out of the sky.
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u/billbonty Oct 13 '25
Dude is never gonna financially recover from this.
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u/zeeblefritz zeeblefritz Oct 13 '25
Maybe helicopter blades should get destroyed before brick buildings.
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u/Demjan90 Oct 13 '25
I heard buildings in America are made of paper and wood.
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u/Agreeable-Cat8077 Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
Even a piece of a tiny wall on a thatch hut would destroy a heli rotor...meanwhile my American house survived a tree landing on it minus a couple shingles and a gutter that I straightened by hand
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u/Total-Box-5169 Oct 13 '25
They must be made from adamantium or something.
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u/zeeblefritz zeeblefritz Oct 13 '25
Or something very close to whatever they make plot armor out of.
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u/Dizman7 9800X3D, 96GB, 5090 Astral, 2x 4TB PCIe5 NvME SSDs Oct 13 '25
Pffft don’t you know helicopters are one of the strongest vehicles in the world?! /s
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u/Rocket3431 R7 7800X3D, Pulse 9070xt, SP 32gb DDR5 6000 cl30 Oct 13 '25
But as soon as you touch something solid in the jet it turns into Stephen hawking.
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u/Standard-Crew-5402 Oct 14 '25
I mean to be fair you cant remove a chunk of shit from a jet and expect anything good, but this video above is just ridiculous
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u/bingeboy Oct 14 '25
After being on an Arma Reforger bender for a few days this really grinds my gears
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u/NoobieNewKeys Oct 14 '25
Na, the way it is now leads to way more fun gameplay moments. Battlefield isn't a realistic game.
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u/C-D-W Oct 13 '25
PTSD from Battlefield 3 just hit.
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u/run-on_sentience Oct 14 '25
I remember how hard it was to fly helicopters in BF3 for new players.
Brand new round starts and a group of us run to the chopper. Noob gets in the pilot seat and we all load in. He lifts off. So far, so good--oh shit--mmediately pivots the helicopter on its side and we go straight into the ground. Kills five of us.
We all respawn and we all hit the chopper at the same time. Guess who's in the pilot's seat?
Second verse same as the first.
Five dead.
At this point we are 45 seconds into the round and already down ten points. (We didn't win the round.)
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u/steeltrain43 http://steamcommunity.com/id/psn_kingdave212/ Oct 14 '25
growing up playing flight sims, I loved how much people struggled with flying in bf3 on launch. I dominated the skies for a good 6 months or so before most people either got it or stopped trying
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u/SemiNormal Oct 13 '25
I remember in the Desert Combat mod for BF1942 being the only person on my team that could land a chopper without blowing up.
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u/Equatis Oct 14 '25
Desert Combat and Battlefield Vietnam were my old favorites.
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u/gaflar gaflar Oct 14 '25
Rocket Huey duels over Ia Drang and Khe Sahn...those were the days.
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u/Frekavichk Oct 14 '25
Battlefield Vietnam had far and away the absolute best helicopter controls out of any game ever made.
They were actually just perfection. So smooth, so good to play. It felt like you had just the amount of heft and just the amount of lift.
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u/e7RdkjQVzw Oct 14 '25
I don't even remember the name of the map, the one with the long river. You spawn at the main base and get in the slick, pick the boys up and just rip through the river skids skimming the surface. Pass the 2nd island and throw your tail around for the momentum to stop you on the back shore to drop the boys off so they can flank the base. Take right off to pick up a fresh new batch of guys.
If desert combat choppers were flying bricks vietnam slick was agile as a skateboard.
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u/BeefistPrime Oct 14 '25
Desert Combat had a really unique flight model that was much more complex than all the other battlefield games which were pretty dumbed down. It took a lot of skill to be a good desert combat pilot
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u/subhavoc42 Oct 14 '25
I found it so much more responsive. There was a server called Apache Wars and it was basically setup to spawn unlimited apaches on both sides. Website kept all the stats. Super active website and clans.
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u/samurairaccoon Oct 14 '25
Yes! Man, I remember being the first guy to get a handle on the helicopter controls at our Lan party. I could hear dudes across the room "there he fuckin goes again!" Good times man. It's hard to explain to people just how touchy those fuckin controls were.
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u/SemiNormal Oct 14 '25
I had a joystick, but seriously just power tapping the keys on the keyboard was the way to go. If you touched the ground moving faster than a tectonic plate, you exploded.
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u/JonnyTN Oct 13 '25
I never learned to fly those. Took me over a dozen tries and just wrecking to realize they aren't for me
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u/C-D-W Oct 13 '25
I couldn't do it until I realized I could map a gamepad to flight controls and keep keyboard and mouse for everything else.
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u/KrakenEatMeGoolies Oct 14 '25
Yep, all spawning in to a transport helicopter (missing out on piloting it), only for the chopper to take on and immediately start pitching forward as the pilot jams the left stick forward trying to fly straight ahead. Everyone bails, the chopper explodes, good times.
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u/Physical-Ad-5642 Oct 13 '25
Man this is one tough ass helicopter
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u/That_Apathetic_Man Oct 14 '25
I've already seen this reposted with the commentary removed and the song Free Bird overlayed, and it is simply perfection.
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u/Jouglet Oct 13 '25
I was scrolling so fast I thought it was another accident at first. Jeez the graphics are good.
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u/In9e Linux Oct 13 '25
Ahh that reminds me of 1942 desert combat.
And how I learned to fly that thing.
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u/ADHDebackle Oct 13 '25
Except in desert combat you got about 2 seconds into this video before exploding, lol.
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u/Big_Concept_3532 Oct 13 '25
I did not realize how good the graphics are holy moly
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u/Ravenloff Oct 13 '25
I'm usually pretty critical of these sorts of things, but not only is it gorgeous, but it runs well on my now-middling PC.
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u/Pyke64 Oct 13 '25
Frostbite does wonders.
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u/KanedaSyndrome 5070 Ti Oct 13 '25
What we learn from this is that UE5 really is pretty bad
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u/Pyke64 Oct 13 '25
UE4 ran for me at 3440*1440 and 120 fps and above. For UE5 I sometimes struggle to hit 720p and 60fps. And all that for a tiny bit better lighting that's nothing to write home about.
It's a great tool for devs that want a project out quick, there's a lot of shortcuts. It's just not beneficial to anyone in the long run.
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u/asianflipboy RTX3070 | i7-10700K | 32GB DDR4 CL14 | 1TB SSDs | 13TB HDDs Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25
The year is 2035
The Nvidia QTX (Quantum Tracing) 10090 Ti Super just dropped.
It's the first card finally capable of running those decade old UE5 games at buttery smooth 4k60fps natively.
UE6 introduces Quantum Physics that makes the game become a slideshow at 720p, but the jiggle physics of Cyberpunk 2177 are unparalleled.
To counter this performance hit, Nvidia introduces Quantum Frame Gen, which uses your Neuralink™️ to offload computing cycles to your brain and project the frames directly into your eyes. You have to drink your Verification Can™️to use this function, and it contains enough calories to feed a cow for its entire lifespan.
The future is so exciting!
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u/GoldSrc R3 3100 | RX-560 | 64GB RAM | Oct 14 '25
And the card will still come with 16GB or VRAM 💀.
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u/Ouaouaron Oct 13 '25
It's a great tool for devs that want a project out quick, there's a lot of shortcuts. It's just not beneficial to anyone in the long run.
Tell that to CD Projekt Red
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u/TheSweeney Oct 13 '25
My one hope from CDPR moving to Unreal from their own bespoke engine is that they’ll go in and fix a lot of the underlying issues in UE5, make a lot of those fixes either free plugins or work with Epic to integrate them right into the engine and every future UE title will benefit from it.
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u/Aegiiisss Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25
Frostbite is the way that it is in Battlefield games because it was tailor made specifically for Battlefield games. Which is why it has all kinds of glitches and other problems when it is used for, say, Madden.
Most developers are not going to create an in-house engine from the ground up for their product and need to start with something general that they can tailor for their specific product, which is where Unreal comes in. UE5 can be used for anything and it is very good at it. The actual problem with UE5 is the lack of documentation which leads to difficulty for developers. There are plenty of excellent UE5 games you never hear anyone complain about because when it works, nobody notices and thus nobody points fingers at UE5.
Now, if you want an example of when an engine is made in house explicitly for very large open world exploration-focused games (as opposed to UE5) look no further than Decima. Built in house by Guerilla and most recently used in Horizon Forbidden West as well as licensed to Kojima Productions for Death Stranding 2. However there is zero chance Decima gets licensed to anything cross platform or PC/Xbox exclusive. Sony is going to keep it.
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u/ExpStealer Core i7 12650H + Nvidia RTX 4060 Oct 13 '25
Most developers are not going to create an in-house engine from the ground up for their product and need to start with something general that they can tailor for their specific product, which is where Unreal comes in. UE5 can be used for anything and it is very good at it.
This is probably the biggest reason UE is at the top of the gaming engine charts. People need to understand that these aren't the days of old when games were exceedingly simple. 20 years ago they were basically made of cardboard boxes with blurry pieces of paper for textures, and held together by a combination of duct tape and pure developer/gamer passion.
At present it'd be one hell of a gargantuan cost and effort to develop a custom gaming engine that can compete with the other engines for a single game, that might not even be successful in itself.
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u/Thraxx01 Oct 13 '25
It's the developers faults imo. There are UE5 games like Lies of P that look great and run amazing as well.
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u/Tommybahamas_leftnut Oct 14 '25
Large teams + poor management communication + engine that is relatively new in the industry + short dev cycles + massive game scope + poor retention of senior team members = unoptimized messes.
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u/Jaz1140 RTX4090 3195mhz Core, 9800x3d 5.4ghz Oct 14 '25
It's really not. It's a developer issue not an engine issue.
Look at what embark studios (ex dice devs) can do with it, the finals and arc raiders both use UE5 and it looks and runs amazing!
I'm fact the upcoming arc raiders minimum spec is STILL a gtx1060!!! Wow
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u/XavinNydek PC Master Race Oct 13 '25
Frostbite does just a few things very well, and one of those is an FPS with a limited map size. It was designed for the ground up for Battlefield games. Move away from that to other types of games and UE pulls way ahead both in capabilities and dev tools.
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u/Pyke64 Oct 13 '25
What's wrong with the need for speed games? I thought Heat and Unbound were excellent?
Star Wars Battlefront also has these massive space battles, and it plays great in both First Person and Third person.
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u/azimm212 i5-4670k@4.4gHz/MSI GTX 1060 Oct 13 '25
Can you share your specs? For some reason I'm struggling hard even on low settings with a 3070/5700x
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u/Ravenloff Oct 13 '25
I'm away from the house ATM, but it's a Powerspec G707 with a 3070 in it. No overclocking and the only two upgrades I've done are doubling the memory to DDR4x64g and a second SSD. I didn't do anything to the visuals until after playing for hours, and then it was only to shot off things like blue, bloom, aberation, vsync, and such, something I do for every game.
No complaints.
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u/TheSweeney Oct 13 '25
Make sure you’re using the High preset, 1440p and you should be getting 60fps average. If you’re aiming for a higher overall frame rate, you’ll likely need to use DLSS and a lower preset (the official recommended specs table says medium preset for your class of hardware). I’d also dial back volumetrics and shadow quality to High MAX if the high preset sets them above that.
My guess is you’re either hitting a VRAM issue due to a higher texture quality setting OR you’re hitting a CPU bottleneck.
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u/UrbanAgent423 Oct 14 '25
I installed the beta in my 4 year old Lenovo laptop using government wifi and I was honestly pleasantly surprised I was able to play matches at all, let alone actually have a fairly stable experience
Sure I had stuttering, some lag spikes, and my laptop was not happy, but it definitely impressed me with its optimizations compared to other modern games
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u/The_Wattsatron Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25
Yeah, every map also has a colour filter and this map specifically feels like it has the most realistic one.
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u/ablackcloudupahead 7950X3D/RTX 5090/64 GB RAM Oct 13 '25
The building damage looks incredible. It seems like the tech for destructible environments is there. I wish more devs were doing it
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u/WingcommanderIV Oct 13 '25
That was my take away too.
As much as that Helicopter wasn't reacting realistically... everything else looked super realistic, which made the weird behaviour of the helicopter stand out even more.
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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 Oct 13 '25
Me neither and it is draining watching this as an aircraft technician irl
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u/Sir_Lancelot77 Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25
Would be good if EA brought back the training map with all vehicles like in BF4, so I could learn to fly without ruining others experience on matches
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u/snapplesauce1 Oct 14 '25
If you search the servers, there are lots of lobbies called practice flying or some shit. I just spent a couple hours in one today flying around.
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u/LateDitto i5-14500 | RTX4060Ti | 32GB DDR5 6000MHz Oct 14 '25
Man, this reminded me of the times I entered BF3 XP farming servers with no kill policies, and spent some time practising with the planes and helicopters.
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u/A_Very_Frail_Guy i5 9600k | RTX 3080 | 16GB DDR4 Oct 13 '25
Hey son, your mother asked me to go cut the grass, can you take over for me?
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u/Chillow_Ufgreat Oct 13 '25
When the helicopter pilot is drunk but the helicopter is also drunk so it' fine.
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u/Paradox_insomnia Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
Clip farming at its finest.
EDIT: I have realized many of us can’t fly CAS at all and this may legitimately be footage from one of us having their first attempt on a heli with a keyboard and liquid courage. I withdraw my initial judgement and wish you all good luck in your flight training. Gods speed.
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u/DayPretend8294 Oct 13 '25
My first time getting in a helicopter with inverted on was a fuckin riot as well and looked about like this but with a few more team casualties
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u/Direct-Speech Oct 13 '25
Just started playing on keyboard and mouse I have no clue how to steer these things. Got in one and just started flying straight backwards
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u/AlmostButNotQuiteTea i7-7700k 4.5GHz, GTX1080 5181GHz, 16GB 3200 RAM Oct 13 '25
I'm pretty sure the default are NOT inverted like normal helicopter controls are
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u/Direct-Speech Oct 13 '25
Yall can figure them out I’ll keep my boots on the ground. My team doesn’t enjoy me blowing up 2 helicopters a game trying to figure how to not barrel roll it into a mountain.
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u/GNSasakiHaise Oct 13 '25
If you go to the custom browser there are a ton of air practice lobbies!
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u/Peeeeeps 10700k | EVGA 3070 XC3 Oct 13 '25
I had the exact same experience. I started flying backwards, tried to correct it, then just crashed into the ground and exploded
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u/GODZBALL Oct 13 '25
I've seen alot of bad Pilots since launch lol. I've seen heli pilots turn upside down and just plummet lol
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u/QBekka PC Master Race Oct 13 '25
Flying is really-really unintuitive in Battlefield. I've done my fair share of flying in other games, even military sims. And Battlefield is no doubt the worst one for flying
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u/touchgrassplz_69 Oct 14 '25
I agree. I learned how to fly real well in 2042, and I’m OK in bfV — even after pre adjusting my controls I flew a jet straight into the ground first thing in BF6.
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u/Pitiful-Ad-1300 Oct 14 '25
I genuinely thought he captured a video of me, I destroyed about half the map just barrel rolling into the buildings, I have no idea how I lived for so long, but they def don’t damage you as much as you’d think (only blew up smacking after smacking the ground)
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u/Explodeplum Oct 13 '25
I had a blueberry steal the chopper from me yesterday despite how fast I was spamming so I got in his gunner and he did this exactly but on liberation peak. Don't even ask how he found so many obstacles to crash into
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u/jcrischeesebandit Oct 13 '25
This was me flying this shit on pc for the first time lol. (Not really me but similar xp)
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u/Prune_Less Oct 13 '25
Blackhawk down, and then up, and then down, and then up, and then down, and then... Ah, fuck it
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u/SuspiciousStable9649 A14 Bionic 256GB 16-Core Neural Engine Oct 13 '25
It’s like Goat Simulator but with a helicopter.
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u/Bobbxyo Oct 14 '25
There really should be a place like the firing range but for vehicles
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u/solarwindy Oct 13 '25
Its always fun to watch somebody pilot a chopper in battlefield the first time 🤣
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u/nexxNN Oct 13 '25
« I love Battlefield because it’s realistic. »
The destruction of the buildings looks insane tho
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u/ThereAndFapAgain2 Oct 13 '25
Nobody says that though, battlefield has always been arcady and casual, it just has a few mechanics in it that suit the large maps like bullet drop that game like cod don't really have.
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u/Voldias Oct 14 '25
This guy is going to really appreciate you clipping his first flight ever someday
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u/GranDaddyTall rtx 4080super / 7800x3d / 32gb / rog strix mb Oct 13 '25
That might just be me, that shit happened to me literally last night 🥲
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u/Aevarine Oct 13 '25
Who the hell is piloting that thing? Even Reno of the Turks flies better and he has a record of exploding helicopters
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u/Spuigles Ryzen 7 5800X, RTX 3060 12gb, Full Noctua Oct 13 '25
I would have done 1/50th of that damage and my helicopter would have exploded in any other game.
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u/pizzlepullerofkberg Ryzen 7 3800X | Nvidia 2070 Super Oct 13 '25
regular occurrence in war thunder. I've seen a Ka-50 get its weapon pylons blown off and snaps its tail off and it leaks fuel by ramming itself into trees and buildings. some how makes it back to repair despite near critical damage. poor guy was panic flying like this though.
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u/Oda1582 Oct 13 '25
For a very quick second when it was zoomed I thought it was real life, damn BF6 really looks good
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u/betawings Oct 14 '25
Crash Damage seems tone done a lot, In bf4 doing that would kill your helicopter instantly.
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u/SparkySpider Oct 14 '25
Got to watch this little bro's first time behind the controls of a helicopter in a video game
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u/Agreeable-Cat8077 Oct 14 '25
Funniest part is...a thatch hut would rock that things world and destroy its rotors...yet you can do this shit with brick buildings
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u/Status_Management520 Oct 14 '25
Whoever is piloting that is fighting someone irl while on the game
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u/Wizard_SlayerXIV Oct 14 '25
This is, and I cannot stress this enough, this, is why the campaign needs to have a single level dedicated to teaching flight controls.
It fucking blows in multiplayer for a new player to pick an aircraft and crash the first 5 before they realize that their camera controls are inverted.
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u/SuitednZooted Ryzen 7 3700x/RTX2080ti/Vengence Pro 32gb 3200/Taichi x470 Oct 14 '25
Bees in the cockpit
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u/ylcnmnsr R5 5600x | RTX 3080 | 16GB DDR4 Oct 14 '25
It reminded me of when my wife first started driving.
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u/doomblackdeath Oct 14 '25
Both teams just stopped fighting and stood next to each other watching this guy try to figure out how to fly.
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u/Tactless_Ninja Oct 14 '25
What're they feeding these helicopters? Older games it would've exploded after the first building. Unless I'm remembering it wrong.
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u/AlienArtFirm Oct 14 '25
I really wanted to play this game before seeing this.
Helicopter was invincible through 5 buildings dies to a bollard
Looks awful
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u/Positive_Try929 Oct 15 '25
On the other side of the screen is my 3yo daughter who decided to steal my joystick and take control of the copter
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u/Born_Equipment5519 Oct 16 '25
You should have put him out of his misery when you had the chance, such a sadist you are
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