Somehow I'm not surprised that BFV turned out to be not that great. After seeing that trailer, I didn't have my hopes up...
But I'm kinda surprised how much ppl are bashing Battlefield 1!
It was the game that brought me back to multiplayer shooters! It was most certainly not a hardcore competitive game. It was very noob-friendly, that's why I enjoyed it I guess lol. Up to the point where I was beginning to get better at the game, and started noticing all the stuff ppl complained about, but it was still a fun romp in the big chaotic battles. It was certainly not a competitive small-team focused tactical shooter, but that's why it felt fresh and fun, instead of being your typical depressingly stressful, run of the mill generic gray shooter.
But I as others pointed out, the abundance of automatic weapons felt kinda wrong after a while. And let's not even talk about all the aimbotting wallhacking and outright game-breaking hax ppl came up with. ( example: someone haced that him throwing an incindiery grenade at a wall constantly wiped the whole opposite team, and such "funny" things)
Even though later they added more realistic modes (rifles only and no UI of any sort), those were trashed by noobs and trolls alike. I got shot by teammates more times in a match than I could count using a calculator!
Damn shame, could have been a long-time favorite of mine.
With the utter trash that is CoD:WW2 (yes I tried it, didn't like it at all), the trailer for BFV being way too over the top silly and not giving me any chills of excitement (even through I totally ignored the "historical vs SJW" controversies. I just don't care.), and my dissapointment in BF1 down the line, I won't be buying this one on release day, that's for sure! Still got my Origin sub, so I might give it a go later...