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Goretantath, do games w Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription?

I don’t think there is, gonna have to try and imply via gameplay videos.

feddylemmy, do games w Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription?

It’s been a while since I’ve done it, but maybe buying it on steam and returning it before the few hour playtime limit?

ordnance_qf_17_pounder,

That’s a good shout, although I’d like to try it for a couple of days at least. I think I already know the answer to my own question unfortunately!

quid_pro_joe, do games w Space battle games for casual player?

Try out Star Conflict store.steampowered.com/app/212070/Star_Conflict/

It has the following gameplay types that you can switch to and play as long as you like:

  • PvE missions where you and other humans (team or randos) battle AI
  • PvP missions where its you and your team up against anther human team
  • Free Space missions that you can complete solo or in teams
  • Free Space exploring where you can jump system-to-system and explore without any objectives

The game studio, Gaijin, is Russian-based and has a tank game War Thunder (infamous for real-world military leaks) and a vehicular combat game called Crossout, though I’ve never played them.

Anyway Star Conflict is free-to-play, pay-to-win (PvP), but if you play the PvE and open space parts you don’t need to invest any money to have fun. You can stick to the lower ship tiers for casual gaming, and switch between fighting styles and ship roles easily. You can pilot blazing-fast interceptors, balanced mid-size fighters, heavy-hitting frigates, or super-slow but massive destroyers, and customize each one with a huge selection of weapon types, shields, and auxillary syatems. The underlying fighting principle is kinda like rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock, so an interceptor can easily solo a destroyer, a destroyer can take out a group of frigates, frigates outpower fighters, fighters hunt interceptors, etc. And the same goes for weapons and shields too, with thermal, EM, and kinetic types and their shield counterparts. If you venture into a space region infested with pirates who use kinetic weapons and thermal shields, then equip your ship with weapons of the opposite type of their shields to maximize damage, and equip shields of the same type as their weapons to minimize damage.

Anyway go try it out and let me know what you think!

msokiovt, do games w Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription?
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I don’t think that’ll be possible. I wouldn’t even buy BF6 because of Javelicrap (EA’s botnet akin to Activision’s Ricocrap), and why I’d want a rootkit on my system is beyond me (plus, Linux users are excluded from playing BF6 in the first place).

janewaydidnothingwrong,

Not to mention the recent sale to the trumpers and the saudis

msokiovt,
@msokiovt@lemmy.today avatar

Kushner and the Saudis, absolutely. Good chance I won’t be playing their newer games after I heard about that nonsense.

Mongostein, do games w Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription?

Get it from the library?

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription?

Play it on a friend’s account that owns the game.

Aneb, do games w Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)
goombakid, do games w Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)

Aloy from Horizon series

Aloy from the Horizon series

tourist, do games w Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription?
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

Call me cheap

homie that game is $70

You’re not cheap, you’re literally trying not to get robbed

You can buy a few dozen really good indie games for a fraction of that price

That urge to buy and play it ASAP is marketing doing its job.

Easier said than done, but if you really hate EA, your only choice is to eat the FOMO.

Otherwise, you’re feeding the beast.

Disclaimer: I’m high

Quazatron,
@Quazatron@lemmy.world avatar

You maybe high, but you are right nonetheless.

Zahille7,

Spot fuckin on.

My response to OP was literally going to be: “don’t buy it, and try your best to focus on the literal thousands of other great games that are out there”

Couldbealeotard, do games w Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d4bb9e5a-003c-4c75-9598-8a0bd5436d27.webp

Aya Brea, from Parasite Eve

The perfect mix of unsuspecting hero, chosen one, and bad ass. The sequel also gives her an Ellen Riply in Aliens vibe as well. Shame about 3rd Birthday and the fact we will never get another one. For those who don’t know, the owner of the original IP didn’t want to renew the license for the games, which means the games can no longer use anything from the novel which includes all references to mitochondria and Eve. That’s why 3rd Birthday was seemingly a totally different game; they tried to make a sequel that couldn’t reference any of the main plot points of the previous games or novel.

lunatique,
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I played this one PSP and didn’t even realize what it was for years lol. Good game as I remember. They are getting a remake as well

BradleyUffner, do games w Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription?

Make friends with someone that’s paid for it.

Vex_Detrause,

This might be harder than working to get $70.

Zahille7, do games w Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription?

Nope.

Best advice would be to forget it exists. There are actually thousands of other games out there that are almost exactly like Battlefield, I doubt the Next New Thing™ will be worth giving up a little bit of sanity over.

ampersandrew,
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Could you name a few that are almost exactly like Battlefield, came out in the last decade, and let me host my own servers?

JakenVeina, (edited ) do games w Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)
ivanafterall, do games w Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)
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lunatique,
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She was the best part. It can slide

Krudler, do games w Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)

Tormentor from Tormentor❌Punisher!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/33ebba7f-6543-4745-b59e-38923f353bc2.jpeg

I have 400+ hours and was HardMode until I the students I tutored defeated me lol

In my opinion, it’s the best twin stick shooter ever made. Hugely discoverable mechanics, completely skill-based, and a nearly infinite skill ceiling.

store.steampowered.com/app/…/TormentorPunisher/

They gave it away on Epic as well several years ago, check your launcher!

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