I wrote about why 128 player Battlefield doesn’t work and mentioned the feeling of total loneliness you have when playing. Conversely, you get absolutely shat on and have to stick around for the next six games in the hopes you finally win one.

Jumping into a lobby and seeing a stacked 10-man clan on the enemy team, their clan tag something like, before you proceed to gun them down and they all leave the lobby at once. Your own squadmates, too - the magic moment where you find those perfect randoms and you all sit at the top of the scoreboard, winning the game for your team. If you noticed ‘FlyBoyxXx’ was 70-0 in the Muromets bomber on Battlefield 1, you’d spend the next 15 minutes on a hellbent mission to destroy their plane - and it would feel great when you eventually got them. There was also something very powerful about the game-long grudges you’d build against players on the other team. You didn’t need to be a twitchy master on the sticks, you could rise up the scoreboard because you revived 150 teammates - a crucial role that many other games left unrewarded. Unlike other FPS, you could get points for reviving your teammates, capturing objectives, and destroying vehicles. Its scoreboards were revolutionary, as too was the way you earned your score. That’s not the point of FPS games, and Battlefield was always one of the ones that understood that best. This mentality of ‘everyone wins’ isn’t fun.

Diablo 3 bots in my clan