So it's been a while since I've been even remotely interested in a new Battlefield entry. Not since like, BF1 back in 2016. That game was good. BF6 actually looked like it was going to bring the series back around after how fucking dogshit V and especially 2042 were. So I figured I would actually try the open beta for 6 this time around. So I downloaded 36GB + a 6GB update later.

As it turns out, just to have a respectable amount of time to play the beta you need to suffer through some bullshit cunt's verified Twitch stream for 30 minutes to get "early access". To an open fucking beta? This is some bullshit, but fine, whatever. So I waited for this "Twitch drop" thing to unlock, and made it to 96%... then it goes back down to 0%. Well this is fucking bullshit. I waited another half hour and finally got the damn early access beta key. Then I click the notification and it brings up the EA code redemption page, and Twitch doesn't even let me copypaste the fucking code, so I enter it manually. Needless to say, I hate Twitch with a burning passion.

So was it all worth it? Was it worth downloading 42GB out of our limited allocation of data per month?

What in the cowafucking troglocunt is this bullfuckery? EA should have no problems hosting servers, being that they're one of the richest goddamn corpo cunts in the games industry. Whatever, I shelved the game for the time being and went back to playing Kingdom Come Deliverance II instead. Came back about an hour or two later and the queueing finally calmed down, so I did get to play a couple matches before I went to bed.

Game's alright. The maps that have been presented to us so far are a bit small for Battlefield if you ask me. Nothing like BF1 for sure. So far I think the guns feel good to use and movement is snappy. Graphics are nice and it doesn't run like ass on my specs (RTX 4070 Ti, i9-12900k, 32GB DDR4), though I have heard there is a potential memory leak issue at the moment. Can't confirm since I haven't played for long. The destructive elements look pretty nice.

Overall, I'm not super convinced so far and I would absolutely not pay full price for BF6, but I will keep playing the beta while the servers are still running. The main takeaway here is that Twitch is a fucking garbage platform.

Today marks the day that my blog page has come to fruition upon the wretched netscape. I will occaisionally just post about whatever bullshit I feel like, maybe some game reviews here and there. Maybe some TardQuest related stuff too.

Speaking of TardQuest, we have a massive update that should be ready soon. Most notably, we've massively overhauled the UI and are also making it so you can control the entire game using only a mouse or touchscreen. We've also included much improved and more detailed enemy artwork, as we felt it didn't match the art direction we've recently gone with the game. There will be a lot more details in the changelog when we drop the update. I will share a some mockups and screenshots below. You may click to open them in a new tab.

You can get a glimpse of one of the new bits of enemy artwork up there, but I'll let the rest be a surprise.