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PaperclipPerfector  1d ago (text post)   760 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 28, 2025

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Battlefield 6 baby! Free week right now.

It definitely released somewhat under-baked, but the infantry gameplay is PHENOMENAL (with some caveats). Engine is amazing. Vehicle gameplay is shit compared to BF5 (I skipped 2042) which is disappointing, but air vehicles are not very strong and look great when they explode, which is awesome as a good BF5 pilot = just leave the server the game is over. Plus the RPG is very fast and accurate, and RPG-ing helis is a herion-tier hit of dopamine.

Plus, the popularity of BF6 means a lot of... median Americans are playing. As a PC gamer, I missed most of the golden era of cod lobby shit talk, but I have genuinely heard a smoke alarm beep being picked up by someone's PS5 controller mic they hadn't muted.

I have never farmed noobs as hard as I have in this game, it feels like many of the opposing players have Hellen Keller tier awareness and coordination, you can (literally) run circles around them, my K/D has never been this high in a FPS and I'm not even tank-whoring (which I did a lot in BF5).

The median American cannot comprehend a silencer, you can just keep killing them as they walk around a corner into you, blissfully unaware that 3 team mates in front of them just died the same way.

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