Death of a Game: Battlefield Heroes
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- edit: Note when I said the weapon rental system originated in China I was wrong...it originated first in Special Forces a Korean game.
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I wonder if you'll bring back "Life of a Game" series because there are a lot of games of the genres you put in this series that are doing very well, some that were good from the very start, while others struggled at first then made back to the top.
I would love to see you cover monster hunter frontier Z
Do battlefield five guy, trust me it'll be an excellent video
EA: Well since you didn't pay us enough for our F2P cosmetics we are just going to make it Pay2Win.
I remember playing this because it was one of the only games that would run on my parents computer
Same!
Yeeeep
And it was even advertised that way!
That's how I started playong runescape in late 2001
Saaaaame
I still hear the launcher music in my head to this day...
This will be a painful watch, but it might be what I need to say goodbye to this game. Thank You for this
if you want to say hello to it again, download risinghub.
You don't need to say goodbye, there's an online community that still plays ! Rising hub, look it up :D up to 100k players
@@Mylifestoriesmaybe 100k? Maybe that is the capacity of the servers but is far away from 100k player.
It's a physical pain actually. Those good old times.
Risinghub mostly has 60-100 players online at a time. But enough to have some fun games
Man i used to love that game so much, just the intro sound makes me nostalgic
There is a game called rising hub its the same game only not supported by ea and everything is free i should check it ou
You can still PLAY battlefield heroes TODAY on community project. Search up RISING HUB in google
@@nucley5161 i just said that bruh
Oh gosh the music was an absolute blast! As well as the effects and everything. The whistle emote I just cannot forget.
@@dupel_granger9908 the wave emote bro, almost made me tear up hearing after all those years
This game was my childhood in a nutshell... spent so many hours... (and $$$) on this lovely mess :3
The same here, tons of playtime and money spent, even got scolded when my parents found out how much i spent on the game . It had so much going for it. I can't agree more with your statement "lovely mess" it was and god how much i miss it.
@@savagehungarian5467 Yes sirrr!!!
@@savagehungarian5467 you can still play it :)
I used my mom's credit card and drained most of the money lol. Also, I skipped school so many times just to play this game I ended up having to go to court for being absent too much. That's how much I loved this game.
I can relate :D
First game in Death of a game series, which i played, now i understand nostalgia and sadness people feel watching your other videos
I really really loved this game, but the way they gradually ruined it with more and more pay-2-win micros was just heartbreaking. There were healing items, the better ones of which got locked behind a paywall, then came the weapons with increased crit chance and mag size. Then weapon addons further boosting stats. And one major point was left out that contributed massively. The game, as most free to play titles do, had a massive cheater problem, which EA just stopped adressing altogher, to the point where cheaters were also buying cosmetics, as they were not at risk losing their accounts. I'm still mad about this game dying :(
Every time I performed slightly above par in this game, people would yell "cheater" at me. It was tiring.
Ah yes, speakinf of cheaters, one of the most notorious ones being literally the 11th place in the score leaderboard.. The memories..
Man, i forgot all about that game. I played that a lot back then
@Knight Now that you say it, that was the exact same reason i played it. It was fun for a few hours.
Same, my friend from elementary school got me into the game, he was super into military stuff and just joined the Marines a few years ago, so I guess it did something for him.
yeah same everyone at my school played it
If you are on a nostalgia trip, download rising hub (the private server). The most overpowered weapons and microtransactions are left out. I started a few weeks ago, and it is as fun as back then.
Restored on RisingHub, restored man... it's not dead
I was working for an EA Studio during the pro beta. They gave us keys and requested we give the game a try. I remember numerous lunch and down time breaks filled by quickly logging into BFH and having some fun. The whistling theme is addictive and you would catch folks whistling in the break rooms.
Played it 13 years ago for a few months, still whistling the tune...
sounds like a dream come true
@@htjohn8202 It was till it wasn't. I snuck in as a playtester. I was massively over qualified but told them I was looking to have the experience as a bucket list item. They gave me a chance and I quickly realized how out of place I was as the rest of the testers were college kids with little real world experience. Most of them were doing as a summer job. After a few weeks I got approached by QA. Apparently my multi page summaries of my experiences while testing got noticed and they offered me a contract position. my contract terms were 1 year evaluation with 6 months renewal option. If I passed evaluation I would be full time and get a decent pay bump, benefits, and have avenues to grow into other departments. It was a dream job at that point because I wanted to show them what I was worth. I love gaming and games and lived and breathed that job. Like I said when I got into the company beta for BF:Heroes I took it seriously. I played it and did write ups like I did as a playtester. I got noticed and shifted around to cover multiple games. Then when my evaluation hit I passed with flying colors.....but EA had locked the studio into a hiring freeze. They couldn't give me full time. They extended me 6 months and as that was closing EA gave them little breathing room. They were able to offer a handful of full time positions to backfill but sadly the one in my department was taken by a neopotism hire (A producers fresh highschool grad son). So they couldn't renew my contract or take me fulltime. Sucks but honestly the studio got put through the ringer a few months later and they laid off 80% of the staff and the other 20% were forced to relocate to another EA studio. I would of never relocated so maybe in the end it was for the best.
P2W destroyed this game so hard. I loved it way back when, played for months on end.
And gunners were toi OP
I remember that there were servers that banned the use of those laser weapons
Came here to say exactly this. Just like every other free-to-play game of that era, it was ruined by pay-to-win schemes.
I remember playing it religiously for a while, moving on because of other games and coming back to find massively hiked up prices. What a slap in the face that was.
@@angamaitesangahyando685 the difference is: There are dozens of Mmos so you can hop into another if it that p2w but you can’t play bf heroes 2 instead of 1
I used to play the hell out of Battlefield Heroes in high school when it came out because it was free and easy to play. I wasn't the best at it, and not being able to afford better weapons and armor didn't help that, but I always enjoyed the art style, the maps and the crazy stuff that could happen - people surfing on planes, shootouts and punch-ons in the streets and farms. I miss it terribly.
Yuuuup, you unlocked some serious core memories with this. I immediately started singing the tunes when I heard them lmao
My younger brother and I played the hell out of this when we were kids cause it was one of the only games our parents PC could run and we loved every second of it
The exact same story for me as well. I have a lot good memories playing with my little brother when we were younger and the music is super nostalgic. It barely ran on our walmart computers but it was a great time.
@@ExyGamingman me and my lil brother would often take turn to play this game on our family potatoes PC......good ole time.
haha same boat. me and my big brother would always play this on our old Toshiba laptop with the trackpad
One of my favorite games. It could have been the “Fortnite” if EA went about it well. The updates is what killed the game. It became pay to win and stopped innovating by constantly putting out reskins so they could make more money. They also did not do enough against hackers making this game a pain at the end of its life
those last 6 months with that "Thanks for playing!" sign on the website was the most fun I had out of all the years 2009-2014 playing. I didn't understand how much I would miss it
its amazing how close and yet so far they came close to some of the things that fortnite has. The artwork looks almost identical.
there wasnt fornite in 2008
@@kayu6959 actually, there was. it just wasn't released
“Communities don’t try to resurrect bad games” tell that to Shaq-Fu.
shaq-fu is a bad game?
since i do not know the game, despite having heard of it, Can someone explain why it is a bad game?
@@olivierluisin1790 Bad gameplay, terribly clunky combat, simplistically boring controls, boring protagonist, awful level design, inconsistent hit detection, shitty soundtrack and bad voice acting. The last one isn't necessarily always a bad thing, but in this case it is. Basically, every way that a game can be bad, Shaq Fu nails it!
There is always the exception to the rule.
That game is mostly because of the utter meme nature of it.
I’ll never get tired of that Detective Conan theme baybee
same, I am at episode 888
Such a good show. Saw it first on adult swim
@@Moostar95 Same!
I think the worst part of this series is I’ll see a game and I’m like “oh that looks kind of cool, maybe I’ll give it a try sometime.” Then I’ll have the immediate, “oh, right...”
Trying this one is still possible though
Well, EA old F2P games are still playable, like NFS World through Soapbox or Battlefield Heroes through RisingHub. Shame that Battlefield Play 4 Free is kinda dead, nobody plays in those private servers (Phoenix Network to be more precise), but you can walk around empty maps I suppose.. or just play Battlefield 2.
@@thegodzhilla not having speed abilities in this game sure sucks, especially in big maps.
This one hurts me like paragon :(
There's a few Paragon revival projects out there like Fault/Predecessor/Paragon 2.
@@Nersius yeah, I've tried some , they are still bad tho, hope any of them can deliver
Overall, just thinking about it now, I guess the best part about this game is the bad feeling some EA execs hopefully got after noticing that with BF Heroes they could have had their own Fortnite long before Fortnite. Add BFV style fortifications, make a BR play mode and you'd basically had it. I don't even feel bad about this lost possibility…
It is Just a slight bit of karma to throw at their faces for focusing on grinding as much money as possible rather than trying to offer creative ways to make playing the game feel worthwhile.
This was such a great game that no one ever talked about.
and it is still great, as you can still play it :) on the revive project risinghub
better than bf1?
@@sleeper5905 No, but it was never made to compete with the mainline BF games. It was a light hearted free version of the franchise
@@SpartanOfLuxon oooh
This brings back fond memories some of my oldest friends. The tune, the maps, the emotes, etc. Hard to not whistle the tune and not be sad. This got me into BF3 yrs later so on that note thank you BH. You were loved.
Bruh. this channel is like trip down memory lane. I totally forgot about so many games that ended up on this series that i played
We used to play this game for hours with friends from the office every day. We enjoyed its goofy animations and inside jokes whether we were losing or winning. Until one day, we launched it and found that we won't afford our favorite guns in a few days. We stopped playing it then and there.
Thank you for your excellent video. It brought back fond memories of the time long past. Please keep them coming!
Still one of the very best Battlefield themes overall. Whistle with me!🎶
A legendary free to play game that was way ahead of its time.
"By letting some rich kid kill you with some nuclear weapon he bought that you can't afford"
Did EA just predicted ho gta5 online mode would be?
😂
Loved this game, remember watching a guy on TH-cam back in the day who only played this and pokemon but he deleted his channel eventually. Played this game do much back in the day, only Battlefield game I've ever played lol
I know who you mean, he also played Monster Hunter, god damn what was his name, his Montages where super fun, in general Battlefield Heroes Community Videos and even the Community held NationsCup were fking amazing.
God, even though there were some super toxic people playing this game, the community was always what made this game amazing to play. Everyone just understood you have to group and get along with each other, everyone spammed the Wave emote and I couldn't stop laughing.
I remember! He was the same reason I got into BFH and competitive pokemon! For the life of me I cant remember his channels name, knowing damn well I used to watch him for hours when I was younger
was it NeonTube? th-cam.com/channels/Zg9Frc7sBZbmGkB67zDFGQ.html?app=desktop&feature=applinks
You're bringing back memories of my BFH character falling to the ground and scowling like being shot in the head wasn't a big deal. While some commando dips a bag of tea into a mug and smirks at me.
Fuck, I miss this game.
Never heard of this before now. Still it's nice to see this piece of history.
This music... Pure goosebumps omg. What a fun game was this, used to play this a lot with some friends! Thank you for this, you gave me some flashbacks to some of the most fun times while gaming
The BFH theme always slaps 🔥
Miss this game 😢
Hearing this theme is enough to make me cry
Yeah.... you can still play this
@@avivk1005 Yeah but there aren't really any Asian server from the last I checked :(
@@Kee9264 What are you mean? I can help you
please don't let this game die 😞
Man I used to play this through a Google Chrome extension all the time
Man Pandemic really made some fun games back in the day, Mercenaries was dope.
Can you do another EA's online multiplayer game called Need For Speed World? It's a really underrated game and I want to see why it is failed
worst microtransactions ever in the history o video games
plus the studio was being destroyed by EA.
That reminds me of like a motorsports online, something I played when I was younger
All of Play 4 free games by Ea failed of exact same reasons. It was microtransaction hell. Nfs world was hella grindy and if you wanted get a good car with money you would have pay ridiculous money to obtain it. It's not underrated it was shit. And content besides new cars were added slowly. In 5 years of this game's lifetime there was few game modes: circut, sprint, team escape, outlaw mode(tipycal nfs cop run mode) and treasure hunt which was just a daily rewards scattered around map to pick up. It wasn't suprising that Ea closed this game.
@@decoy033x Exactly this.
I used to play a lot of Battlefield Heroes, Play4Free and Need for Speed World, but at the time I had no context whatsoever about micro transactions. They were fun, lightweight and with a huge community. I'd just ignore everything about money and continue to have fun. I had to wait more than 10 years to have money to enjoy the main titles. Now I'm playing Cod MW for almost 2 years and waiting for the Battlefield 6 reveal next week!
This game has always been a fever dream for me. I remember being on the family computer playing this while the 2010 Olympics were playing on the TV throughout the day.
It feels like, with a lot of these games that have shops for purchasable items, that the publishers always seem focused on the short term profits and and are well aware that it'll kill the games longevity. Gotta move that needle and move to the next project. A real shame for the people who liked the game.
And then when the game fails they just blame the studio and fire them.
i used to play this game soooo much, I was 9 when this game shut down, saddest day of my life, i came home from school and wanted to play only to realize the game was shut down... it was quite literally my childhood... sucha good game, played it with my brother, memories man...
This was like my favorite game to play as a teen...sadge.
"Some rich kid can't kill you with a nuke that you can't afford"
Except maybe a sniper rifle that kills in 1 shot to ANY part of the body at all no matter what.
But that's not a nuke, so we didn't lie.
it is incredibly weird that people say it wasn’t popular. EVERYONE i knew was playing it in 2012
I remember playing this as a kid at the after school club. The theme alone gets me nostalgic tbh. Might check out Rising later today
Very nice video. BFH was an amazing game and it really saddens me that its potential was ignored as it was basically intended to be a cash grab game.
I feel like BFH actually had very much potential in competetive scene but most of the player base were casual players, so the competetive potential was totally ignored. Obviously, this was also how it was intended to be. Most of the new maps were always vehicle maps, which were basically only played by the casual players. The hardcore players were only playing on infantry maps and "VV only" servers.
The difference in competitiveness between vehicle and infantry map servers was so crazy it was like another game. I really feel like if the competetive potential was realized, the game could have been way more popular like TF2. But the development strategy was always to push away the competetive elements and appeal to casual players, the devs didnt even support any community tournaments at all, despite those being quite popular.
As someone who spent months in VV only servers as a kid I totally agree-the strategies and metas were actually really fun and unique, and honestly this video didn't really touch on just how nutty some of these abilities could be.
Not only that. devs did far too little. For instance, they rarely carried out updates aimed towards maintenance, to fix necessary things to maintain a good relationship with the community or to keep them content. People made many needful suggestions, but they were generally ignored for no good reasons. When the weight scale tipped in favor of money all the time, it got out of balance as for the players. Of course the fans were upset and annoyed. No matter how many times people demanded things to be looked on, they didn't give in because they only wanted to make profit. For example, buffing less good weapons was not priority at all. You know when even the smallest trivial thing is a chore for them to correct. It just doesn't add up.
I played this alongside Quake Live when that was a browser game running ads on billboards in the game. It was a weird time for free to play games but this was very much under-rated design wise and completely ruined with pay to win. I remember the trailer saying something along the lines of "A game where you're not shot in the face by an ultra skilled 15 yr old who plays the game for 8 hours" and it became exactly that + buyable OP weapons.
Still though it's good to hear that a community has formed around it with a private server, will definitely have to check that out now that it isn't hindered with "rent a weapon"
I used to play this when i was a teen, definition of a pay to win game.
I spent hundreds of hours playing this back in the day and the forums (mainly Off-topic section). Great game, great community. RIP BFH.
Ah, the good old off-topic section where you could find the most intellectual community members.
@@TheNorthernHeroes lmao, we were truly something
community kek
12 years later, I still have the whistling song stuck in my head and yet I don't remember playing the game that much.
The Hogan's Heroes esqe aesthetic and simple, but fun, third person shooters.
It was so fun for just a casual, not super intense, but competitive game. Great for after school.
Thanks for this. Miss this like hell. My favorite game.
Oh that music is nostalgic. Thanks for covering this game!
I played this with my friends back when I was a kid in school. Was an absolute blast. Seeing that gameplay footage and hearing that music just brought back a ton of memories. Good times.
I remember pouring days and weeks into this game back in high school, getting better at one shotting from stealth and maaan flying was just the best! Wing clipping people while flying sideways between the buildings where two players couldn't go side-by-side (9:16)... Thank you for making me remember! [:
I played the heck out of this. It was, i guess 3rd most played "free to play" game, right after Team Fortress 2. That game popped today in my head and thought, "Huh, what happened to it?" I was shocked, surprised and then happ, when I discovered that game has shut down and someone decided to revive it. I'm so glad I can play it again and I'm looking towards on what the new devs will add to it.
i fondly remember playing this game on my parents' old desktop
I was a EA Community Moderator aka "BoyOfTheEnders" for this game almost the whole time it was running and also a Closed Beta tester in 2009.
I played until the year it was shut down. It was a very "ahead of its time" game that, it it was to release today, could still make millions.
I loved being a major player in the community, working with EA staff on tons of aspects of the maps, development and more... It was a once in a lifetime experience for me and I appreciate everyone who talks about it, like they are talking about my family.
Thanks for glazing over this. The past 3 years have made everything before it seem 100 years older.
thank you so much for reminding me of this. Good times, man, i used to have a minecraft youtube channel and had friends who played a lot with me, back when we had time and the world hadn`t gone to absolute shit.
As a kid who played basically all of the F2P games, I remember, even back then, Battlefield Heroes having worse rental weapon thing than some of the Korean shooters like Combat Arms or A.V.A.
Dead of a Game on Block N Load? Very interesting team shooter that went from 8k to now around a peak of 60 players
So glad you covered this! BFH was my number one game for a long time (my alias was Mystical13, in case anyone remembers me), but I got an early beta invite, so I got to enjoy the perfect free-to-play model for years: Free gameplay, no pay-to-win. Many of the maps you talked about I never played. By that time, I had already stopped playing and my clan had disbanded. I don't even remember the rental system! They already started adding items with slightly boosted stats for real money before that. We endured for a while, but it became too much too quickly.
I think my experience also shows why these games can never stay up forever: The main customer base plays for free. Over the course of the three years I played, I spent a total of 80€. Which is great value for the amount of fun hours I got, but even releasing a new 50€ game every year would make more sense for the company.
BFH in particular was also relatively simple, but that was great for me as a 13-year-old teen. There was enough in the game to keep me entertained, but not so much that I was constantly steamrolled by people with a degree in its mechanics.
Another factor was probably the level cap and missing end game; once your character reached level 30, there was nothing left to improve and no other objectives. You could level all three classes in both factions to 30, but then that was it. XP-Boosts didn't matter, you couldn't unlock any special items by progressing further, there was just a ceiling to how much you could achieve in this game.
Okay I'll stop talking now.
This game was fortnite before fortnite. EA could have made billions, but they blew it.
Let’s hope they revive it someday
Thank you for your this wonderful eulogy of a game which was very dear to me. I used to be a really poor kid and playing Battlefield Heroes was one of the greatest times I had in F2P titles (ironic I know). But still, game's humour, art, action, and gameplay fit very well with what I considered fun back then.
It might have only 3 maps when I started playing, but the gameplay loop felt way less repetitive compared to some of the modern paid titles.
Anyhow, this was a wonderful trip down the memory lane.
I cannot state how much I respect and love your work and your videos. Just like with the DoG: Aion, I know this video will be one to which I will be returning every so often.
Thank you.
I recently got nostalgia hitting my head and i joined rising hub.I used to play the game for a couple of years maybe not more than one,but it was super fun.
My experience from rising hub is mixed though.Keep in mind that when we're talking for a small and dedicated private servers people playing there will be elitists.
So is the rising hub in some cases they will kick you off the game if you are low level but even if they don't you will get demolished.The game is fairly balanced in a lot of ways classes are balanced even though commando is the glasscanon of the three that you dont see too much of.The microtransaction even are ripped off the server,are easily felt.
Anyone thinking about trying it out,I would suggest it only if you are willing to give time in it,you wont be able to jump in a server and start having fun.The ceiling isn't too high after a couple of days i managed getting to the point that i was useful,but still far from decent.
The community on first sight looks toxic,but once you spent time you realise that they are neutral to everything.They dont kick you because they gatekeep,they kick you because you can join a different room and get more from it.They don't taunt you to tilt you,they taunt anything for nostalgia.I have no much issues with the community either way.
I loved this game for a few months when it was new, I even wrote short stories on the forums. I gave it a try a couple years later and the P2P weapons were completely crazy, it was barely a contest
Man, I absolutely adored this game. It totally was Pay2Win and some strategies could just absolutely shut down anything else, but I still loved it.
Soldier stacking was so damn broken. Put together a team with one or two Gunners so they can apply the defense buff AoE (it didn't stack, so you'd only want two tops to alternate using it on CD) and then the entire rest of your team is Soldiers who coordinate rotating out their heals. If you make sure to always move as a unit and communicate, you become pretty much unkillable.
Granted, that was impossible in PUGs and literally any even semi-coordinated team could smash PUGs, but hey. Good times.
this game still alive. If you want. lets play.
I still play it since the release of risinghub. I think its a legendary game and definitly has my childhood in it. This game will always have a special place in my heart
I remember this, and i remember the "renting guns" Get out of here with that crap! It is funny Bad Company 2 which came out at the same time (with no micro transactions) is probably the best Battlefield game they ever made.
I have had a faint memory of this game for years and i finally found it. Thank you
I loved this game at launch. Still whistle the music, now and then. It was infinitely funny to me that the broken cash shops skins like the halloween one which made you headless, was balanced out unintentionally by the sheer volume of cheaters using auto-aim and wall-hacks. Shame what happened to this.
Bro thank you. I used to love this game and to this day will randomly have the theme song stuck in my head.
"Through a web portal..."
Even if I had heard of the game, just for that I wouldn't've touched it.
It pains me that my childhood game went downhill like this, i'ma miss you BFH, thank you.
Battlefield heroes is one of my most played games ever. I loved this game, but it got destroyed by all the pay2win in the end
You can still play this with all the shit unlocked there was a private revival of this. It works
It’s almost like BFH had found itself in an “Infinite Crisis”
See what I did there?
@@Rabbitlord108 I’m like 1000% sure it’s the next one
The clue at the end is the trailers opening
I remember bc I was so hyped....but it fizzled real quick
@@Rabbitlord108 I remember that lol
Give me ultimate alliance, with Avengers level visuals, and Spider-Man’s open world.
I’d be set tbh
Your universe is not alone
That sounds familiar. But can't quite put my finger on it
the game wasnt ruined b y any of what you said, it was ruined by hackers wich was a real problem and widespread common, players stopped playing because of them and in turn stopped money flow noticably
I remember when this first came out I would play it on my grandmothers laptop in the kitchen during the summer, and I would give her cash and she would use her card to purchase helmets and other things in the game. I haven't thought about that in years. Thank you for reminding me of those good times.
Better than 2042 by far
Man, I love learning about failed games I had no idea existed until now.
God I miss this game, I had just found myself whistling that menu song and looked it up on TH-cam
I also had no idea this was a battlefield series game.
i remember this, was beta tester on this game through beta tester group i was part of, which since has closed its doors. thank you showing this
I got into the battlefield series after playing this, but damn did they screwed this one up. Another point worth mentioning regarding the game economy is that health restoratives were bought with the same in-game currency used to rent weapons, meaning when you were in-game you would often have to consider limiting your bandage use so you could still upkeep your weapon rentals, which made a pretty huge difference in your damage output. I remember at one point when I played, the base level sniper took about 2 headshots to kill, whereas the rental sniper took only one headshot to kill.
People who never got to experience this master piece....just hearing the theme brings back so many memories....and oh man how much fun I had playing this...it was wacky but at the same time there were moments that could rival and even beat normal FPS games...yes it was glitchy from time to time, yes it had issues, sometimes server lags etc but for how little it had, I think that was the charm of it...sure like 90% of the shop was for real cash but I still enjoyed it as a kid and I wasnt even into Battlefield franchises like ever...this game was just relaxing, except when some commando a-hole camped your spawn and killed you 8 times in a row :DD
That equipment rental system is always something that alienates me from the game. When you want cosmetics to be the endgame, the items are either way too expensive (Audition Online) or there's no way to acquire permanent items (Dance Online)
I seen so many copycats of this game yo know in a diferent reality it could have been more than a footnote in batlefield history
hearing that music breaks my heart damn.. played it from 2011 to the very moment it got shut down.. and then replayed it during revive, until it gets closed again. What a shame
I think you may have missed a step.
Because the weapons were always rentals. It's just that you could AFFORD the rentals. A couple rounds would get you a week of grenades, or the sniper rifle you preferred using. It was barely an obstacle at all. The change to 3-day rentals and MUCH higher rental costs was what set a lot of people off. This also included making it impossible to afford consumable items like bandages or wrenches for healing in-between skirmishes.
I personally had bought a cosmetic version of an existing, rentable gun, with real money. So when the change happened, I went from "having a fancy looking gun" to "having a more powerful gun." And that really rubbed me the wrong way. I quit playing shortly after. Also in part due to the loss of wrenches, which made plane to plane combat, a favorite for me, completely infeasible.
I remember loving this game, but being hardly able to play it. My pc was so bad it couldn't even run it, and I also live in Argentina so the servers always had high ping. It was actually not the only game that I "enjoyed" in this fashin, along with BF Heroes were: BF play4free, NSF world, free realms, APB: Reloaded and some others. Games that defined my childhood, more for their unreachable nature than the amount of joy I got out of them. Great video as always
It was a great game, it deserves official remaster/remake with more balanced weapons. It had insane potential, but obviously destroyed by EA
This game was my childhood, and I didn't even know it was a part of the Battlefield franchise until like 2019.
This game was so much fun. I even remembered why I stopped playing it: flaming bullets in the cash shop. You could literally buy ammo that did more damage by applying a fire dot on enemies. It was the first time I had ever seen a game where you could literally pay to do more damage and I was so outraged that I quit. I totally forgot about this game until seeing this video so thanks for bringing back some great memories.
I remember first time playing it was around 2009.. i think i saw it as an ad on the side of the page while playing flash games (i was 8-9 years old at that time) ...
it redirected me to an MMO site and a full page about the game with the game's official site link
I saw the pictures of the game an i was like holy sh1t this must be a whole new games experience for me.. since i never paid for games and was mostly playing flash games
I told everybody i knew at that time to download it..
Even one of my teachers (6th grade)
As soon as he got it downloaded he messaged me on MSN.. when he launched it he found out that his laptop couldn't handle it and wasn't able to run it 🤣...
Met a lot of friends there and had a lot of fun.. lol im never gonna miss those memories EVER!!
I remember sinking hundreds of hours into this before switching to Team Fortress 2.
imagine this game with updated graphics hitting on steam now after ea took all their games to steam , there would be a huge player boost
I actually played a ton of this game back when it launched in 2009, and you really hit the nail on the head as to what EA did to the game. It's a real shame, because in a lot of ways with the limited team sizes and VERY unique class abilities the game feels kinda like a very early version of Overwatch. A couple examples:
Soldier could clap his hands and fling people away from him, and if you were good you could use it to terrain kill or even reflect rockets, he could make his bullets apply burn, and grenade spam let you throw like 8 grenades at once. He was also the medic, and unfortunately shit tier matchmaking and the unbelievably dumb idea to split your progression between factions meant that you didn't always have a soldier on your team. Which meant you were fucked.
Commando could go completely invisible unless they were standing on top of you, could lay down proximity mines (and if you were good at placing them you could terrain kill with em), could mark people so your entire team saw them through walls, and had this really fun ability called piercing bullets that was supposed to be just a flat damage boost, but accidentally made a Commando with a rapid fire rifle the most effective anti aircraft unit in the game.
Gunner was the typical heavy, slow but good at taking and dealing damage. He could eat all explosives around him and heal from them, gain a ton of armor, throw explosive kegs, rocket jump, use leech rounds, and most importantly, briefly run faster than a FREAKING PLANE. Put that all together and you have a CQC master that can rocket jump at mach 10, shield himself from anything you throw at him, and then heal himself from anything you naively thought might actually budge his HP bar.
Of course this only applied to the infantry maps. Vehicle maps could go fuck themselves, 8v8 doesn't work with bigger maps, and having small teams meant those 4 guys dicking around in the planes instead of helping cap the point is half the team instead of like an eighth. There were a bunch of community servers that specifically focused on the infantry maps and I spent basically that entire summer playing around with my "clan", which was a bunch of other dumb kids who thought we were the shit for stomping in pugs.
Idk I'm high as tits and this video made me really sad and nostalgic. Thanks for reading my midnight essay on a game that I guess was a more important part of my childhood than I thought.
greatest game to ever be made
It's the first online game I ever played and I use to stay up all night on my laptop and play it
I had so much fun with the game with my brother in law. He is probably the most active player of the game still to this Day. Maybe someone remember his name Fragnator.
I remember playing the beta for this. As a TF2 player it felt completely foreign but we made fun of it for ripping off TF2 anyways.
That whistling brought me back to when they had online ads for this game.
I aws thinking this was a scam.
This was by far my favorite game when i was little, and watching this, the jingle, the everything, i kind afeel like crying
Yeah it do be like that at times