I am m8 - still remember those online goes of BF2142?
I've cracked lvl10 now - purely through dogged determination to have a pop at being the commander for once. The netcode is broken - regardless of ping. I've shot way ahead of people and somehow they still die. I've observed people from in a building killing me with a pistol - clearly their end put them looking out the window that they were nowhere near when I saw them. Longy shot me point blank with an RPG last night - yet I survived. Silly auto-repair ruins a lot of things - bringing the shoot-hit-hide routine in as the de-facto standard for using armour. Splash damage on core mode is utterly laughable - enemies running over little hills after being blasted by several 30mm AA rounds. Remember the flying infantry on BF2142 where a well aimed tank round would blast them up and in the air from the splash damage? Yeah, well forget that now. Most infantry are shell sponges and it can take crazy amounts of fire to kill one of them.
It's not all s**t though. When you work with a team - it flows pretty well. I tanked up with another dude and we conducted several pincer moves on other tanks - one hitting them head on and the other from a flanking position. Not quite sure about the IR sight on the tanks though - they are a MAJOR advantage - spotting snipers hiding in shrubs and stuff from a pretty big distance. I also like how the enemies home-base cannot be entered into - that was long overdue, lol.
All in all, it's a 6.5-7 out of 10 from me. Too many COD introductions now - the paint and skins of equipment increasingly making it comical for me. I know for certain that I won't be buying Premium and BF5 has a big '?' as a potential purchase. Which is a bit of a pisser as I've stuck with (and praised) the series from the start.
D.