This game has completely nuked its own identity. Its unrecognisable to the OG idea of this game. Watch literally any release gameplay and it seems like a comedy bit. Every player today is better equipped in 1896 than the average soldier was in the Korean War:
The "average" battle you will encounter in any 4+ star lobby will be cowboys running semi-automatic weapons (either the weapon itself is semi-automatic, or it is semi-automatic by fanning or levering), equipped with two modern fragmentation grenades and a healing syringe that would look out of place in BF 2042. Some players might even use a crossbow, which would make a Vietnam-era grenade launcher look outdated.

In addition, the game went from being a cowboy game with dark supernatural themes to a steampunk gothic game with a cowboy every 4 games. Not to mention the addition of Skill Based Matchmaking, which turned what was already an utterly stupid, comically non-competitive game into a sweaty tryhard shooter. The servers are also down and the engine sucks. It sucks!!!

This game has completely nuked its own identity. Its unrecognisable to the OG idea of this game. Watch literally any release gameplay and it seems like a comedy bit. Every player today is better equipped in 1896 than the average soldier was in the Korean War: The "average" battle you will encounter in any 4+ star lobby will be cowboys running semi-automatic weapons (either the weapon itself is semi-automatic, or it is semi-automatic by fanning or levering), equipped with two modern fragmentation grenades and a healing syringe that would look out of place in BF 2042. Some players might even use a crossbow, which would make a Vietnam-era grenade launcher look outdated. In addition, the game went from being a cowboy game with dark supernatural themes to a steampunk gothic game with a cowboy every 4 games. Not to mention the addition of Skill Based Matchmaking, which turned what was already an utterly stupid, comically non-competitive game into a sweaty tryhard shooter. The servers are also down and the engine sucks. It sucks!!!