Battlefield 6 Review - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Battlefield 6 Review (October 10, 2025)

Episode Overview

The Kinda Funny crew—Andy Cortez (host), Snowbike Mike, and Nick Scarpino—reunite for an in-depth review and discussion of the Battlefield 6 campaign, fresh ahead of the game's official launch. The trio, known for their candid and entertaining banter, break down the strengths and shortcomings of the single-player experience, contextualize it within modern FPS trends, reminisce about their favorite multiplayer moments, and preview their upcoming group plans with classic Kinda Funny energy. This jam-packed episode is essential listening for shooter fans and anyone curious about Battlefield 6's campaign.

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Main Topics & Key Insights

1. Campaign-Only Review: The State of Battlefield 6

(07:19–10:34)

• Focus: Only the Battlefield 6 campaign, as multiplayer and Portal modes were unavailable ahead of launch.
• Industry Reception:
  • Most outlets gave middling reviews; IGN’s Simon Cardy gave the campaign a 5/10 praising its safe but uninspired design.
  • Quote (Andy Cortez, 09:27):

    “A safe, dull reimagining of what Battlefield once was rather a bold reinvention of what it could be. 5 out of 10 from Simon Cardy.”

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2. Snowbike Mike’s In-Depth Campaign Analysis

(10:34–15:03, 20:10–27:32)

• Verdict:
  • “It is unfortunately not the best of times. It is not a super wow factor campaign. It is just a middle of the road, okay, mediocre, fine campaign.” (Mike, 10:34)
  • 9 missions, around 5–6 hours, mostly linear, with a few open-ended segments, but never truly achieves a meaningful “wow” factor.
  • Comparable to recent Call of Duty campaigns, but lacking in creativity or memorable set pieces.
  • Campaign serves more as a tutorial/newcomer onboarding rather than a must-play experience.
• Gameplay Feel:
  • Gunplay feels “tight,” cinematics and character visuals are excellent—standout new character is Gekko (“giving Rhea Ripley vibes”).
  • Occasional highlights, like a bomb drone and cinematic moments, but overall pacing falters after strong opening missions.

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3. Discussion: Comparing to Call of Duty & FPS Campaign Design

(16:13–21:17)

• Call of Duty vs. Battlefield:
  • Call of Duty’s campaign is praised for creativity and variety (“suddenly, there’s an Ocean's Eleven-inspired heist mission”), which Battlefield fails to match.
  • Andy:

    "Call of Duty always amazes with short little bursts of cool creativity … I was really hoping to see something like that, Mike, but it sounds like maybe that never happens." (17:17)

  • Battlefield's focus is on “all out warfare, total destruction,” but the single-player format can never fully capture the epic multiplayer scale.

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4. Gameplay Details & Structure

(12:14–15:03, 22:57–27:53)

• Mission Variety:
  • A mix of linear missions and one Modern Warfare 3–style open area (“big, open play zone like a multiplayer map”).
  • Some suspenseful moments, but action elements often undercut any attempt at stealth or tension.
  • Quote:

    "90 seconds into what should be a really cool, heart-pounding stealth, high tension mission... we're firing at red barrels. Buildings are falling down in the darkness. There is no stealth, there's no tension." – Mike (19:47)

• Character Perspectives:
  • Mostly play as Murphy, with occasional jumps to squadmates (notably Gecko).
  • Story involves a PMC threat, conspiracies possibly linked to the White House/NATO—told through high-quality cinematics.

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5. Campaign Utility: Onboarding & Teaching Mechanics

(21:17–23:07, 30:05–30:36)

• Campaign as Tutorial:
  • Great introduction for newcomers—teaches classes, vehicles, and basic destruction mechanics.
  • For veterans, there’s little that surprises or excites, but new players benefit from familiarization before diving into multiplayer.
  • Quote:

    “If you were a first timer in Battlefield, I think this will give you a great tutorial, a nice onboarding onto everything.” – Mike (30:05)

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6. Roundtable: Should You Play the Campaign? Worth It?

(26:59–27:32, 28:30–29:06)

• Vets’ Opinions:
  • Mike: Only 3 of 9 missions worth showing—rest are too bland.
  • Andy: Wait for reviews or sale if you are curious; initial first hour strong, but quality drops off.
  • Nick: Not worth it for most veterans or those seeking innovation.

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7. Notable Quotes & Moments

• Snowbike Mike on the campaign’s mediocrity:

  “It is not a super wow factor campaign. It is just a middle of the road, okay, mediocre, fine campaign.” (10:34)

• Andy on expectations vs. reality:

  “If you’re wondering, should I play the Battlefield campaign? Play the Call of Duty one.” (17:30)

• Mike on missed potential in level design:

  “They have to find this balance … and it just never works out to a really fun, tight nine missions.” (20:06)

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |---------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | 07:19–10:34 | Industry campaign review roundup, Simon Cardy/Kotaku/VGC impressions | | 10:34–15:03 | Mike’s verdict, campaign length, structure, and standout moments | | 17:17–20:06 | Andy/Call of Duty vs. Battlefield single-player design comparison | | 20:10–23:07 | Discussion of campaign tone, character intros, level design | | 26:59–27:32 | “Is it worth playing?” conclusion segment | | 30:05–30:36 | Campaign as onboarding for new players |

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Group Dynamics: The Kinda Funny Crew Shooters Plan

(32:50–44:34 and throughout)

• Upcoming Shooters Excitement: Battlefield 6, Arc Raiders, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 are all hyped as fall staples.
• Favorite Roles/Playstyles:
  • Andy wants to try being “the best medic ever,” becoming a Battlefield legend for revives rather than kills.
  • Mike and Nick lean toward anti-tank/engineer chaos, with signature wild plays.
• Recurring Themes:
  • Group struggles with ADHD/focus in large-scale shooters; they agree they work best with a strong in-game leader and squad roles (wishing for better in-game macro coordination tools).
  • Running jokes about Andy "big-timing" the squad by leaving for other games, and nostalgia for old squad memories.
  • Hopeful about Arc Raiders' extraction shooter loop sticking longer than past games (Tarkov, Cycle, etc.).
  • Frustrations with Battle.Net, Call of Duty updates, and launchers—some of the most relatable gamer banter in the episode.
• Squad Chemistry: The episode is laced with jokes, self-deprecating humor, and sharp inside references (“You always want the violence and then we die…” – Andy, 50:01).

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Notable Quotes from Banter

• On Call of Duty addiction:

  “I am a radicalized human being. It was so fun.” – Nick (58:06)

• On group commitment:

  “How do we get Andy to commit to playing this game with us 24/7 for like two weeks straight?” – Mike (45:05)

• On medic ambition:

  "I want to be the legend, like, there's this ghost, this angel, I don't even know if he's real, just healing everybody out there." – Andy (38:02)

• On squad leadership and coordination:

  “There needs to be a general…that’s a great idea.” – Nick (42:21)

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Final Thoughts & The Verdict

• Consensus: The Battlefield 6 campaign is a serviceable, visually impressive but largely uninspired addition to the franchise—a decent onboarding tool for new players, but not a reason for veterans or solo campaign-aficionados to invest time at launch. Multiplayer and other modes remain the series’ major draw.
• Group Hype: The crew is excited to tackle upcoming shooters together, with hopes pinned on Arc Raiders and classic Warzone vibes, and plans for more squad-based streams and possible Valorant league content.

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TL;DR

• Battlefield 6’s campaign is visually slick, but formulaic and forgettable; best serves as a warm-up for multiplayer.
• Most memorable for its production value and solid gunplay, not story or mission design.
• Only a few campaign moments rise above mediocrity; most squad members recommend waiting for reviews or jumping straight to multiplayer.
• Kinda Funny team is more hyped for Arc Raiders and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 this fall, but will keep returning to try to recapture the old Battlefield magic together.

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Transcript

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get a'@usaa.com bundle restrictions apply. Foreign. Hey, gamers. Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Thursday, October 9, 2025. I am Andy and I'm joined by the Lord of Levolution, Snow Bike Mike.

[Mike]

Praise be to total destruction.

[Andy]

And Nick is here.

[Nick]

Hell yeah.

[Mike]

Praise be to my boy. Come on, let's all dap up really quick. Come on, we're together on the table. Come on.

[Nick]

I'm dapping anyone until I get a cool name. I need a cool name.

[Andy]

Let's see the Lord of Loot.

[Nick]

Cuz your pack's still already a lord. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I be a duke?

[Andy]

You can have two lords. The Duke of Destruction.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Destruction is good.

[Andy]

I like that. That's pretty good. This is the kind of funny games

[Mike]

cast, distraction and more. I don't like.

[Andy]

That's a good one. This is the kind of funny games. Guys, each and every weekday we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews, comics in video games, live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the Patreon membership or the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon, which is what I really meant to say. YouTube, Spotify or Apple podcasts to get all of our shows Ad free. Watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be part of the show. Submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats. So get those super chats in and Mike will do his best to answer any questions you have about the Call of Duty or I'm sorry about the Battlefield 6 campaign. Only the campaign.

[Mike]

Tell them what we're doing today, Andy. Let's get real. We're getting excited with our squad.

[Andy]

We're getting excited for the shooting squad.

[Mike]

All season is here and we got some big shooting games coming away. Okay. Battlefield 6 this week. Arc Raiders end of the month, Call of Duty, Black Ops 7 next month. We're going to be back together. The boys are back together finally.

[Nick]

So back in town.

[Andy]

I need everybody to get strapped in for a little Battlefield 6 campaign review and then we'll hit the ads and then when we come back, we're going to talk about. We're kind of like setting out the schedule for what the Jabroni boys are going to be doing live here. So you're going to like pretty much just sit in on a meeting with us as we talk about.

[Nick]

This is just a stream team.

[Andy]

Yeah, it's just a stream team meeting.

[Nick]

I guess that's gonna happen. Let's do some old business first. I don't like that when you guys make fun of me. The audience can't hear it, but I can hear Barrett laughing.

[Andy]

Oh, man.

[Nick]

That's really what I represent the audience,

[Mike]

you know, because very professional.

[Andy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

You get it. You get it. Yeah.

[Nick]

No, I just. I just maybe.

[Andy]

Can I request one thing before we get into it? I want y' all by the end of the episode to predict who dominates the fall. Is it Call of Duty? Is it Battlefield? Because I feel like I'm hearing strong feelings on both sides. I like it. And I want to hear yalls assessment on that. Remember, we're in 11 person business. All about live talk shows. Games Daily Today talked about Ubisoft canceling a post Civil War Assassin's Creed. And after this it'll be a stream. No, wait.

[Mike]

In review.

[Andy]

In review.

[Nick]

We'll do in review.

[Andy]

We're gonna draw in review Tron Aries.

[Nick]

Is that live? Yeah.

[Andy]

The biggest mystery of them all is Nick. I overhear Nick talking yesterday. I take my headphones off and he's laughing. I'm like, what are you all laughing about? He goes, andy, it's because the movie of Tron Aries ended and Tim was like, damn, I didn't like that. And Nick was like, oh, really? Andy was into it and Tim was like, what are you talking about? He kept leaning to me and saying that this sucked. And Nick was like, Andy kept leaning to me and saying, this is awesome. So. So right now, Andy, we don't know whether you like the movie or not, and we don't want to know until the review.

[Nick]

Yeah, because you left so early to pee and then you did the thing.

[Andy]

I saw the first post credit and then I bounced. I don't know if that was the second post credit.

[Nick]

I don't think there was.

[Andy]

Okay. So I probably. I bounced at the right time.

[Nick]

You definitely did.

[Andy]

I watched the first post credit. Yeah, I guess the only one.

[Nick]

I don't know if there was one.

[Andy]

I love that you just consistently Irish goodbye at movie.

[Mike]

No, no. Don't know. Andy, I'm there for you.

[Andy]

Thank you.

[Mike]

The movie has ended.

[Andy]

You.

[Mike]

He is allowed to leave.

[Andy]

Thank you, Mike.

[Mike]

We don't have to hubbub in the lobby for 25 minutes afterwards, Mr. Social,

[Andy]

looking for any excuse to spend time with any person. This is where you're going to defend

[Mike]

in the movie theory.

[Andy]

Let's be brief.

[Nick]

Heavily. We're going to. We're going to go over all of this in the interview after this. And I can't wait to get into.

[Andy]

I'll tell you what, that I've never

[Nick]

been more excited and scared.

[Andy]

That bathroom line crazy long. And I could tell just. I'm not trying to say that I was generalizing or stereotyping, but I was like, every. All you dudes in line are here for Demon Slayer. There's a look. There's a. There's a look and there's a smell. I'm seeing, you know, just smell like Naruto. Yeah. Excited for. I'm excited for Nick and Tim to find out whether or not I like Tron Aries. But you'll have to wait until after this podcast. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today's if you're kind of funny, remember, today's Greg Way is the solution to indie game guilt. Today we're brought to you by Factor, but we'll tell you all about that later. For now, let's start with the topic of the show. Battlefield6 review.

[Nick]

Okay.

[Andy]

There wasn't the same. Like, there wasn't.

[Nick]

I thought Battlefield was doing what Call of Duty does, where they just. They just like shell for other properties to get into their.

[Mike]

No.

[Andy]

Battlefield loves that song. No. So you're thinking I'm doing the Terminator. Terminator thing. No, Battlefield has their own.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's real good, too.

[Andy]

There should be a lawsuit there.

[Nick]

I agree.

[Andy]

I always thought the same thing. We're talking about the Battlefield 6 campaign that Mike has played.

[Mike]

Yes, I have completed the Battlefield 6 campaign and we'll set the stage now, of course, Battlefield 6 comes out tomorrow. We, I'm sure me and Andy and probably Nick next week, the week after, we'll come back and talk about our multiplayer thoughts. But Battlefield six campaign only. No Portal, as they said that would come out at launch. So I didn't get to see Portal at all. And the multiplayer, we have to wait until all of you jabronis get out in the real world with it. So we will only be talking about the Battlefield 6 campaign here today during

[Andy]

my review, because unfortunately, real, real quick. Unfortunately. You know, why didn't you. Why is everybody else reviewing multiplayer? Why didn't you? All Kind of funny, they. Because of just the nature of our jobs and the nature of the review process. EA sets, you know, here's a nine to noon window of when we'll be playing on these maps. Here's a nine to noon window the next day when we're playing on these maps this next day. No multiplayer windows. You just have to, like, not play multiplayer that day. So harder for us to kind of find windows of where we can hop in, especially with kind of how quickly this job moves and how much. How many shows are on and things like that.

[Nick]

So lots of games.

[Andy]

We just didn't really have a whole lot of time to hop into these. What did you say? I said a lot of our job and content is morning.

[Nick]

Pretty morning heavy.

[Andy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick]

When it comes to that stuff.

[Andy]

So not a whole lot of opportunities for us to hop into those multiplayer windows. Nick, you wanted to say something?

[Nick]

No, I was going to say it's. It's fine, though, because when I think of Battlefield, I think the campaign.

[Andy]

Of course. Yeah.

[Nick]

Normally they come for specifically Call of Duty as well. I think I've played approximately five minutes of every Call of Duty we'll debate.

[Andy]

Battlefield 2042.

[Mike]

No campaign.

[Andy]

No campaign.

[Mike]

No. It's the first time we've had a modern setting campaign in a battlefield in a long, long time.

[Andy]

I'm so.

[Mike]

Mike played hardline.

[Andy]

I believe Mike played all of it. I played about an hour. I'm going to do a quick little review roundup from Open Critic. Hard to kind of put numbers on it because a lot of people's reviews are the whole. The total package.

[Nick]

Sure.

[Andy]

It's Single player and multiplayer are what a lot of people's reviews are. But I will say that our friend, a good friend of our Simon Cardi, gave the campaign a 5 out of 10. Just the campaign that's not good, who said a safe, dull reimagining of what Battlefield once was rather a bold A safe, dull reimagining of what Battlefield once was rather a bold reinvention of what it could be. 5 out of 10 from Simon Cardi. And then I have a couple of other blurbs from other people's reviews who were giving the whole game the total packages score, but they have little blurbs about just the campaign. We have Reed McCarter from Kotaku who says Battlefield 6's campaign is too unevenly executed to make its vision as compelling as it ought to be, but it still works well enough to inflect the entire game with a healthy cynicism unusual for the genre. And then a good friend of ours, Jordan Midler from vgc, gave the whole package of four out of five for multiplayer on campaign, but says that the single player is fine but bland. And that's kind of what I'm seeing across the industry. Snowbike Mike, do you agree with a lot of the industry's assessment on the Battlefield 6 campaign?

[Mike]

I am totally in agreement with everyone across the board here. It is unfortunately not the best of times. It is not a super wow factor campaign. It is just a middle of the road, okay, mediocre, fine campaign. There are some moments in the campaign that have the wow, the sauce, the moments that go, oh man, we're cooking here, this is exciting. And then out of the nine total missions, a lot of them are a bore. And there's just moments where they kind of step up as if they're going to do something exciting and different and they don't. They kind of miss the mark there. And so unfortunately for me, when I think about the Battlefield six campaign, about five hours, nine total missions, I give it about a five to six on the kind of funny range that's that Mediocre two Ark range for us. This is something I enjoyed playing at five hours, but this is something that I think the mass audience will not gravitate towards. As we know, Battlefield, the multiplayer is going to be the big one. This kind of an old standard of first person shooters to have the three prong attack or really the campaign with the multiplayer now we've kind of moved away from that of being like, hey, if the multiplayer works, just focus on that and make it work. The campaigns Unless you do something out of the box and different. Right. To reinvent yourself like we saw with Call of Duty over the past couple of years where they really have tried to double down on the campaign and make it worth your while. This one, unfortunately, is none of that. And so, yeah, for me, the battlefield is just right down the middle. And Andy, I want to hear about your first hour before I dive a little bit deeper.

[Andy]

Sure. Than real quick. What did you play on what platform?

[Mike]

PC for me.

[Andy]

PC. And you said about five hours to beat the game.

[Mike]

I would say this would take you about five to six hours, depending on. If you go super difficult, you might go a little bit longer. If you go on the easy mode, it might take you a little bit shorter. But it's nine missions. They range about 15 to 30 minutes. A lot of these missions are very short. They're fast and they're over with before something really awesome of sustenance can happen. And then there's a couple where they try. Think Modern Warfare 3 where they really opened it up and it's more of like a Battlefield 6 multiplayer that you would see. It's like, hey, here's three spots on the map. Attacking however you want. Do X, Y and Z in the fun playground. They did that once or twice. They also had a really long tank mission. We'll talk about that later. That was just about that.

[Nick]

Right now.

[Mike]

That was a snoop fest.

[Andy]

Nick, can you hold my hand right now?

[Mike]

Sure.

[Andy]

Now here's what I'm doing. Biggest question for Snowback Mike, did you play on controller or keyboard?

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[Mike]

I played on keyboard and mouse.

[Nick]

Wow, we got him.

[Mike]

Wow, we got him. Went deep on the convert.

[Andy]

Now, now. Okay. I'm not trying to take.

[Nick]

We almost got Barrett on keyboard mouse the other day too. It's crazy.

[Andy]

I'm not. Not almost got me before. I was like I was forced to because the controller would.

[Nick]

Because Call of Duty can't let you switch between.

[Andy]

You have to get true. That is true. If anything, it unsold me on.

[Nick]

Yeah, it really, really is bad.

[Andy]

Really bad. I don't want to take credit for Mike's journey into keyboard mouse, but I will. Is the 360 rule working for you?

[Mike]

Mike, the 360 rule here at the house is working very well, right? You look at your mouse pad, you set your dpi, you set your mouse sensitivity in game to the correct DPI and scale. So when I go across my mouse pad, I do a full 360.

[Andy]

Full 360.

[Mike]

Now, here at work, Kevin's got that wire. We're on a leash. I'm not allowed to move that mouse.

[Nick]

You don't want too much mobility in your mouth.

[Andy]

You don't want the mouse to escape.

[Nick]

You know why?

[Andy]

Whatever.

[Mike]

It runs away.

[Andy]

Your pet mouse, it is so tight on there. But, yeah, I am glad that you're, you know, you're. You're using those practices a bit more because a lot of the time I would tell, you know, my try keyboard mouse, and it doesn't work. But the 360 rule is kind of being applied across the board. It's becoming more habitual, and I think it could help out a lot of people who want to journey into the keyboard mouse world.

[Mike]

For me to get the keyboard mouse to work, the rule here at work, I have to move my mouse pad diagonal and get my mouse all the way up to the top corner of my desk. And you would think, like, oh, that's what the Valerin pros do. But they move their keyboard up forward. No, it's mine with the mouse.

[Andy]

Gotcha. Gotcha.

[Nick]

We could probably figure out some sort of longer cable for that.

[Mike]

Yeah, we'll figure it out. You know what I mean? We'll get.

[Nick]

What I will say is this, Andy, you have changed him. We are slowly but surely changing Mike. You know, he is like an old, old, old, old, old animal. Right. It's hard to train him.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

He doesn't want to learn any new tricks.

[Andy]

No.

[Nick]

He just wants to pee and poop himself sometimes.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

No, Dr. No.

[Nick]

But I will say, the other day, we were playing Call of Duty. We're playing multiplayer, and we were just comparing stats. See, we see what kd, little kd. See what everyone's KD ratios are, right. And, you know, Mike's playing on. On mouse and keyboard. I'm playing on mouse keyboard. Roger's playing on whatever device gen zers play on.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

And I had nine out of 10 times. It couldn't beat me. It couldn't beat me.

[Andy]

Wow.

[Nick]

Not saying much, though. We were all still below one.

[Andy]

Everybody's getting there.

[Mike]

Yeah. It wasn't good.

[Nick]

But I will say, once you told me, you were like, look, stop cranking your field of view up to 190. Let's start there. Don't do 120 field of view.

[Mike]

Get a little tighter.

[Nick]

Do what the pros do. 90 to 100.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Do the 360 rule. And then someone in the chat was like, nick, I'm watching you play. You. You've given me this feedback. Well, just slow it down a little bit.

[Andy]

Slow it down.

[Nick]

Slow it down a little bit. You don't always have to be the guy out front.

[Andy]

You don't got to be sprinting everywhere.

[Nick]

And it's good advice.

[Andy]

Sometimes you let the game come to you.

[Nick]

Yeah, that's what.

[Andy]

That's what the great quarter.

[Nick]

I don't even sprint anymore now. I just do a flow off. I just hit H and it walks forward for me.

[Andy]

Mike, you wanted to know what my first are with.

[Mike]

Yeah, I'd love to talk about it with you, because I want to. I want to go a little deeper on the campaign.

[Andy]

So I played at least two missions, and I thought it started off very strong and then kind of started immediately seeing where the repetition could be. Now, granted, the second sort of mission, very sniper heavy. Enjoyed that. But it became a shooting gallery and kind of very predictable. Some cool moments with low lighting in some spots that were exciting. But I found myself saying throughout those first two missions, all right, I really. This is like. This is good so far. I would say I'm really hoping that we see a cool turn not into the paranormal, supernatural stuff that Call of Duty's been doing recently. But I want to see the cool turn where in the last Call of Duty campaign, which was freaking fantastic, if you're. If you're wondering, should I play the battlefield campaign? Play the call of duty 1. If you haven't played that from last

[Mike]

year, it's really good.

[Andy]

But the, you know, suddenly you have a, you know, Call of Duty. It's a Call of Duty campaign, Nick. But then suddenly, there's a very Ocean's Eleven inspired heist mission where you are undercover in a casino with all your different operatives, and you're listening to people in the headset without trying to kind of blow your cover. Then you hear, like, all right, the back door should be open now. And you make your way, and it's, like, so cool and directed. And Call of Duty always amazes with short little bursts of cool creativity. And how do we break up the monotony of just. Shooting gallery in a room. Shooting gallery in a room. I was really hoping to see something like that, Mike, but it sounds like maybe that never happens.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's an interesting one. Andy. Right, because you start thinking of, like, where we're at with the first person shooter campaigns. You think of Battlefield, right? What is Battlefield? It is all out warfare, total destruction, absolute mayhem. 64 on 64 large scale battles, right? And so now how do you capture what that is while meeting a single player campaign, which is, hey, we're a squad of four, dagger one through three, dagger 13. And this squad, how do we get to know them?

[Andy]

I want to be called Dagger.

[Nick]

It's so Top Gun Maverick.

[Mike]

So Top Gun Maverick vibes here. There's some moments where you're like, okay, like we're going somewhere that could be good. And there's moments when we think of other campaigns. I bring up Call of Duty, Modern Warfare with Clean House, which is the we're going dark one by one, clearing rooms that everybody talked about a couple years ago, right? And there's a moment where you go to Cairo and we go dark and you're thinking, oh man, I'm getting goosebumps. Like, this could be a really good tone setter. Especially because the first two missions, as you say, Andy, kind of bring you this really awesome moment of like, mission one, everything goes to shit. Mission two, you're having this awesome cinematic moment to set the stage for this new character, Gekko, who's the sniper. And she's nasty, right?

[Nick]

And then she's a bad dope ass name for a sniper.

[Mike]

We'll talk about the cinematics. Cinematics, very good. Yeah, cinematics were like, oh, we're getting up to call, dude. The level of like, this looks good. I like what you're doing here, but we go to Cairo, lights off, let's get through the streets, let's go find the high value target, right? What is Battlefield, Nick? That I just said.

[Nick]

What's that, Mike?

[Mike]

All out, total destruction warfare. So 90 seconds into what should be a really cool, heart pounding stealth, high tension mission, me and the NPCs, we're firing at red barrels. Buildings are falling down in the darkness. There is no stealth, there's no tension.

[Nick]

That's my kind of game all out. Maybe I'd like this.

[Mike]

And so that is the give and take that you have with this Battlefield 6 campaign that I think the team struggled to find the perfect mix of. Because when I think of Battlefield, I want that. I want all these vehicles. I want to ride in the tank, I want to ride in the amphibian SUV that goes in the water onto land. I want to jet pilot a plane, right? And so they have to find this balance between the Two. And it just never works out to a really fun, tight nine missions.

[Nick]

That's a bummer. That's a bummer, man.

[Andy]

I will say, though, that again, I think it's. It's sad to hear that it doesn't quite keep the same quality from the first mission or two, because again, it starts off so strong, Nick. And if anything, I would say it's worth playing at least the first or two. First one or two missions. Because that. When that title card hits when, like, when everything goes to. And then it's just. And like. And you're just like, this is the production that I want. This is something that's getting me excited for this adventure. Now on the flip side, five hours, six hours, what I'm kind of getting from the how long to beat.

[Mike]

That's not bad.

[Andy]

That's pretty decent.

[Mike]

That is not bad.

[Nick]

That's an ideal campaign. Yes.

[Mike]

Like this for me, as the campaigns are usually used to tutorialize the video game to help newcomers come on of like, hey, here's the buttons. Here's the different equipment that you'll use. And there's some really cool moments where you use some different equipment that we haven't seen in the betas yet that I don't know if they'll be in multiplayer. Right. There is a bomb drone that you will send up. It's just like your RC car and Call of Duty, but this one's a little helicopter drone and you fly it around, you can ascend, you can descend, but you're dropping bombs from the bottom of it as you fly over. That was cool. There's also another one. I forget the name, but it looks like a mortar. The guy puts it down and you grab behind it, and you are now actively flying like remote control bombs in the air, like torpedoes and at different, you know, enemy vehicles coming in. And that was like, cool moments. Other than that, you didn't get to use the ladder. Right. I used a sledgehammer once. It wasn't that all exciting. And so it was just weird mix of. There was teases of cool equipment and then absolutely no equipment at all to make anything exciting. But gunplay, man. Yeah, gunplay is tight. Gunplay is good. The. The cinematics team really did a good job. These characters look good. This Gecko character giving kind of like Rhea Ripley vibes with the short dark hair. Totally a badass sniper. She was fun to watch. Main character kind of looks like Shadur Sanders. He was all right, you know. And then we get introduced to their ghost. This badass. What's his name. Really quick, let me bring it up. This badass named Hemlock, he's got the awesome ghost full on helmet and he's the ultimate badass of like I don't ask questions, I just murder people. And you're like all right,

[Andy]

exactly. Just like I do want to ask about freedom in the game. Not like, you know, not the American like freedom because we're all, we're all very free here.

[Nick]

Yeah, but country on the planet or else. Or else

[Andy]

I got rid of free speech.

[Mike]

We don't need it.

[Andy]

You mentioned some of the levels kind of reminding you of the Modern Warfare 3 campaign where some of the levels get a bit open ended and kind of attack this how you want one

[Mike]

level will be that.

[Nick]

Would you?

[Andy]

Yeah. Did you see a whole lot of opportunities for all right, this is free in a sense, but I can kind of see the seams of where it's like, all right, it's really just two decisions. Enter here or enter here.

[Mike]

No, no, this was just a wide open play zone like a multiplayer map that has three anti air missile launchers that you need to go blow up. And so really you're going to go 1, 2 and then 3 with how the map is laid out. But they have a area where the enemy has reinforcements hanging out in like a small town and then the AA spot that are kind of split into two.

[Andy]

Gotcha.

[Mike]

So you can go to one, kill all the infantry backup and then go to the AA launcher and take that out. Or you can just call cause all out warfare drive right in there with your car, jump out the whip, blow up the AA unit. They're like oh my God, the alarm's going off. More people come.

[Nick]

Right.

[Mike]

But there was this moment of man where is the planes flying overhead. And of course we're shooting down the AA so there's no planes. But like there's no like really wow factor to it. It's just me and four or three AI units. We run up to them one's, I mean the bases are touching each other and I'm sniping the reinforcements. The base, the main base, they don't hear any of this mayhem. As I'm dropping bombs, people are screaming really good headphones. It's like none of this matters.

[Andy]

Right.

[Mike]

And so by number two you're going to get bored and just go straight to the objective. Fight that. And then number three. And so it wasn't really this awesome freedom moment of like here's a giant kind of like Call of Duty, the recent one they had One with a giant map. If you remember on the last campaign where it's like, oh, you really can go to whichever one you want. This. There's a flow to this.

[Andy]

Okay.

[Mike]

And so that was the one only giant open mission. The rest are exactly what you think. Linear. Go from point A, hold down a spot, point B, shoot a bunch of people in a small tunnel, then go to the end, hold out for your evac. That's the mission.

[Andy]

Not trying to spoil anything, but are there other characters to control later on,

[Mike]

you jump around different perspectives from your squad. Okay, you are Murphy, pretty much through and through, but you'll have a couple missions where you'll become Gecko. There's a mission where you will become another character outside of the squad that you met earlier. But really, you are Dagger 1 3, and you are focusing on those four characters, learning about them, learning about their past. Not super far in the past. It's very much of like, hey, this is what happened six to eight months ago to get us where we're at as we fight off Pax Armada, the pmc, the private military group that maybe has ties to the inside. Maybe the White House is helping them. NATO does the president, Georgia, what's happening here? And so, yeah, you'll. You'll start to unravel that. But there's these really cool moments in the cinematics. We're like, man, this is badass. Right? We get into this house, it's all dark. They're. They're in here, they're questioning this person, and they want to know what's going on. Is it all the way to the top? And then we'll. We'll go, well, you remember what happened in Georgia. And then you'll zoom back out to the other mission and we'll play through that to kind of get the backstory of what's going on there.

[Andy]

Heck, yeah. I have a super chat here from Ian Aeronauf. Five dollar super chat says paying another birthday tax. I turned 33 today. Thanks for always being my daily form of news and entertainment. Thank you, Ian. Happy birthday, bro. Hope you have a lovely one. Hope you're gonna spend the weekend playing lots of fun games. Remember, get your super chats in for a snowbike Mike. Ask him any questions about Battlefield 6.

[Nick]

Do you think it's worth me playing this? You know, you think I would enjoy this at all?

[Mike]

I thought you would, but I. As I played, I think this.

[Nick]

I think I played maybe an hour of the Call of Duty. Last Call of Duty campaign. I think I got to that level you were talking about, I was like, this is pretty cool. And I don't think I ever went beyond that.

[Mike]

There is three missions that I wish I could show people. Other than that, the other six, I don't think you would enjoy at all. I don't think you would enjoy this package, especially at five hours. This is not what Battlefield 6 wants you to see and participate in. I think this is just.

[Nick]

This feels more like an afterthought.

[Mike]

Yeah, this is the old school thinking, we got to have a campaign. I do wish at the end, I think the final two missions, things start to ramp up where I'm like, oh, I think you could have kept going and given me more, but you just didn't have it there for the first seven out of that. So there's probably. Are they three missions that I would want to show you that had really cool moments in it?

[Andy]

Are they broken up into nine? Are they doing, like, the andor thing? Because of, like, the first three are one act, the second three or another,

[Mike]

I wouldn't call it like, they're just

[Andy]

kind of just nine.

[Mike]

I mean, it's clearly the moments, right? You beat the. You find out who the villain is, you meet the villain, the villain got one over on you. Now you gotta rally the squad and go get him, you know? So that's how that story goes for sure.

[Andy]

Okay. Very, very cool. Remember to get your super chats in gamers and we will ask Mike about the Call of Duty or the Battlefield 6 campaign. I'm just gonna keep on saying that. I'm gonna keep saying Call of Duty. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Battlefields.

[Nick]

Cool.

[Andy]

I, I think we've kind of gotten what I need out of this. I, I, I kind of immediately got the vibe that I'm gonna wait for reviews. That was my initial thought. I played an hour and a half of it or whatever and was like, this was cool. This, you know, got really neat. And if, if we keep this level of quality, then I might be in, but if we keep this level of repetition, then maybe I fall off and maybe I wait for people to see. Oh, but, man, the, the second half of it gets really, really crazy. And to hear that it's a bit more middling, kind of kind of bums me out, unfortunately.

[Nick]

Sounds lackluster.

[Andy]

Uncle Death says, how much is Limp Bizkit in the campaign?

[Nick]

That's going to really be the deciding factor for me. Because if it's just 100,limp bizkit. I'm playing that tonight.

[Mike]

He's the end credits because I was watching the end credits because I wanted to know who did the voice acting for Dagger 1 through 3. Because I liked all those characters. Really. I liked Gecko a lot. I'd like to see more Fred Durst. But all of a sudden Limp Biscuit came on and I started thinking about you two.

[Nick]

Yeah. Like, is this because you know me?

[Mike]

I don't know Limp Biscuit that well. Well. And I was like, oh, I think this is him.

[Nick]

You don't. You don't have to know. Limis a whole group of human beings. Yeah.

[Andy]

I didn't know he was L. Biscuit. I'm not familiar with Mr. Biscuit's movie.

[Nick]

It's like my favorite band, Kid Rock.

[Andy]

I wasn't aware of that, man. We have a 10 super chat from Jenny Send. Nuggie says hi gamers, nuggies here. Number one cop streamer on Twitch. I love the Blops Camp Blop 6 campaign. It was my first ever. This is my first battlefield campaign. Can you see newbies like me still having a good time solo 100 I

[Mike]

think this is what that is for. For if you were a first timer in the battlefield. I think this will give you a great tutorial, slash a nice onboarding onto everything. Right. Because you will get in the tank. You will pilot a couple of the vehicles. So you start to learn about that. You'll have a good time with the destruction instead of jumping directly into multiplayer where maybe you have a tough time, it's going a little overwhelming. This is a good five hours of learning, growing or just giving you a little ease of like, hey, let me jump over to this. Take some time away from multiplayer, then come back.

[Nick]

Smalls HD in the live chat says, hi, I'm Limp. Limp Bizkit.

[Andy]

My name is Limpium. We will get into the rest of our fall for the.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy]

For the. For the Jabroni boys. For the shooters.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Andy]

I can't wait to get into it. Talk about a lot more first person shooters, third person shooters. But we'll have to hear that after a word from our sponsors.

[Mike]

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[Andy]

I I'm prepared to become the best medic of all time.

[Mike]

Let's okay, really quick on the campaign. A fun one for you is they clearly use the classes and it's great of if you go down during the campaign, someone will come and hit you

[Andy]

with the oh, I got plenty.

[Mike]

The little res pack. They give you three. They're like he gives you two and then he's on the third one. He's like this is your last one and that's a fun little mechan.

[Nick]

We're out of ice packs.

[Mike]

If you need more of those little throw the ammo pack at you at all times. So like that was fun. That was very battlefield moments.

[Andy]

I I can't wait to become a medic.

[Mike]

Let's get real. Okay, we have a big fall coming up, boys. Three big games that are tailor made for us. Kicking off with Battlefield.

[Nick]

Okay, the real question.

[Mike]

It's time for us to squad.

[Nick]

The question is this. I agree with you, Mike and I'm sorry to have to interrupt.

[Mike]

Yeah, it's all right.

[Nick]

I think you were really trying to hype us up there but we do have a couple bones to pick here.

[Mike]

Oh, okay.

[Nick]

Because you know, you hit me up. You say, nick, you wanna, you wanna fly? You wanna ride today? I said, of course. The Gibroni boys ride again. You say Andy can't make it. We were playing cod. We filled with Roger.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Nick]

No disrespect to Roger. He's no Andy, but he's not you. He's not putting up numbers.

[Mike]

I'm well aware he didn't prove him wrong.

[Nick]

He don't got your stamina. Yeah, he played for 15 minutes and he had to go take a little.

[Mike]

That was crazy.

[Nick]

I think left us by ourselves.

[Andy]

He definitely was on that stream for an hour and had to do production stuff afterwards.

[Nick]

Took a little went over there. Greg's hell that Greg's got.

[Mike]

Oh, he's damp off the sweat, he didn't have it.

[Nick]

Greg's got that little doggy bed by his bed. Roger just curled up in that thing

[Andy]

that

[Nick]

had to step in. Barrett, it turns out, has been a Call of Duty player since, like, birth and never told me that because, quote, I don't want you guys to pick on me. What did we do? We proceeded to pick on him the entire time. My question is, Andy, what are you excited about? Because when the three of us fly, we make magic. Are you into. Are you gonna roll with us? In some. In some. In the new map and Warzone and the new Call of Duty?

[Andy]

Well, first, let's get to Battlefield, because

[Mike]

Battlefield, because that's number one, I want to list.

[Andy]

I want to become a. I want to get good at being a medic. I was watching gameplay of people running around and resin seven people per second. It felt like, you know, you're trying to keep your res stats up. It seemed like a fun way to play the video game because otherwise the core gameplay and the core loop for Battlefield 6 has never interested me.

[Nick]

No, me neither.

[Andy]

However, the Battle Royale, whenever that happens, do we know when that's happening?

[Nick]

You guys played any of that yet?

[Mike]

No, we have not played that. Seen that. We have no word on that yet. I think that's going to be a couple months out here.

[Andy]

Whenever that happens, that's where I am fully, fully into wanting to play Battlefield 6. Until then, it's. It's the weekend. It's like, yeah, I'll play it over the weekend.

[Nick]

Sure.

[Andy]

I'll have fun with y'. All. Okay. But I'm not in any way going to be, you know, super into leveling up stuff unless I get really into being a medic. Unless I'm starting to res people left and right.

[Nick]

Do you think they keep those classes, though, for the Battle Royale? They can't. Right? They're not going to keep the classes for that.

[Andy]

Right. I don't know. Mike, do you remember at what.

[Mike]

That's a great question.

[Andy]

What was it called? Firestorm, Ring of Fire. Ring of Fire.

[Mike]

I think it was Firestorm, though. Do they keep the classes? You know, maybe you have a med pack for somebody, stuff like that.

[Nick]

It's a question. I mean, maybe Perks, Call of Duty.

[Mike]

I don't know how you sort of play that out. Question.

[Nick]

Because that would be interesting. That would be a really interesting dynamic if you're like, hey, you could play as these three different classes in a Battle Royale. We haven't really seen that.

[Andy]

Right.

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[Mike]

No, usually you just generic soldier 42.

[Nick]

Yeah, usually you just. You have kind of your mini perks. That's pretty much it. Better thing like Apex. You didn't really have classes, right?

[Andy]

Well, you have your heroes, I guess

[Nick]

you have your hero. So you do. You do sort of have classes.

[Andy]

The heroes were in classes. Yeah, they had like a healing support class or whatever. Yeah.

[Nick]

Okay, so maybe they do keep that.

[Mike]

See, it's interesting. You want to be a medic during the campaign. I've changed.

[Andy]

Mainly because I was so dog.

[Mike]

I'm dropping the medicine. We're becoming anti tank boys. I'm going full rocket launcher final. If there's a vehicle somewhere there, you call on me, I'm destroyed.

[Andy]

I like it.

[Nick]

The problem with Andy's is always so pro tank and we're always anti. Like, this is really the problem. This is the divide and kind of funny.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I'm going full engineer. I'm out there. Rocket launcher. Anything you need taken down, I'm taking it down. Okay. That's my goal.

[Andy]

Because, like, I. I know I'm a. I know I'm a shooter. I know I have.

[Mike]

It's surprising. I don't want to be a recon and be snipers.

[Andy]

I know.

[Mike]

Well, I just.

[Andy]

I know I got some skills to pay the bills. I just. I just can't hang. I don't got it like, like everybody else does. So it's like, how can I have fun in this game? What. What could. What sort of meta objectives could I chase that would make me feel fulfilled?

[Nick]

What's gonna bring you back? Yeah.

[Andy]

And what are you investing and there. And I would love to just try to, like.

[Nick]

All right.

[Andy]

I had, you know, 32 resurrections of bodies the last time.

[Mike]

So you're imagining that SMG with the. With the Res back, and you're just running, running. Okay.

[Andy]

I see people needing help. I want to be the guy that people on Tick Tock are talking about. Like, there's this. I want to be. Let me solo her. The Elden Ring player who was like, hey, I want to fight Millennia Summon me to your fight. Let me solo her. I'll fight her for you. I want to be the. There's this legend out there who's healing everybody. This guy has. He's a ghost.

[Nick]

This guy's an angel.

[Andy]

He may be a legend. I don't even know if he's real,

[Nick]

you know, like, that's amazing.

[Andy]

Maybe a figment of my imagination.

[Nick]

They just look at you. You don't even have a gun. Yeah, you just have med kits everywhere.

[Andy]

Like, I'm down on the ground and they just see me floating from, like, the ceiling.

[Mike]

They're like, oh, my God.

[Andy]

Yeah, exactly. I want to be that legend on the field because it feels like I. I want to find a reason to get into this game and to play, and I want to find a reason to get into this mode because it's never worked for me.

[Mike]

You're known as the nitro rifle, though. You don't want to click heads, don't snipe.

[Andy]

I do. I just don't got it like that.

[Mike]

Like, there was so many tick tock clips of, like, that girl from C9 who was just clicking heads. Remember her? She was killing the game. You don't want to be that. You want to be the shroud 80 yards off in the distance.

[Andy]

I don't mind being the shot if I'm playing against everybody. That's like, you all, you know, what does that mean? You know, really hard work and dedicated

[Mike]

people who watched the 9 to 5.

[Nick]

Yes.

[Mike]

They don't have much time to invest

[Nick]

the people who suck at the game.

[Andy]

That's what you're trying to say. Like, I don't mind, you know, trying to be the shooter when I'm amongst people that I am equally skilled with.

[Nick]

Sure.

[Andy]

But I know that's not reality. I know I'm gonna get my teeth kicked in every time. Like, I also just don't understand the rhythm yet. That's another thing about it. I didn't have a whole lot of time with the beta and the rhythm of it. Mike just, I was dancing to a different tempo.

[Mike]

I mean, I was watching everybody else

[Andy]

dance on the floor, and I'm like, I am on a 3, 4 tempo. I'm in a swing tempo, and you all are on a disco dance. Be like, I. I was dying all the time, and I just never, ever found momentum in what I was doing. And I know that's all my fault. I'm not blaming the game for that.

[Mike]

We're talking about breakthrough, conquest, escalation, domination, King of the hill, rush squad. Death match. Team Death match. I mean, the marquee game modes are not our game mode. We're battle royale boys. We are where we like to be.

[Nick]

We are.

[Mike]

Right. But now we have to break that habit and become part of the team, part of a unit, and start to buy into breakthrough conquest where it is. Hey, squad of four, how do we help this team of 32? How are we contributing to the battlefield? Moving from point A to B, Taking over points, Maybe getting pushed off a point, Resetting. Maybe finding a point that's weak further in the distance, getting in a Humvee, driving over to it. Right. Like, it's. How do we break this cycle of. We just drop in and shoot, you know, that's what we do.

[Andy]

My biggest problem with it, Nick, is. And you suffer from this as well, the adhd.

[Nick]

Severe adhd.

[Andy]

Yeah. It doesn't allow me to see the macro.

[Nick]

Well, okay, so I'm going to disagree with you.

[Andy]

I can't fully zoom out and go hero of my objectives. I get so caught up in. I want to chase that one.

[Nick]

Yes.

[Andy]

It was killing me.

[Nick]

I. And I would agree with you, and you're absolutely right. But here's my. Here's my biggest problem with battlefield in general. It just feels like everything immediately gets disjointed because there's no level of leadership that's like coordinating what's going on. So, like, with COD multiplayer, you're. What. What's. What is it?

[Mike]

6v6 on 6.

[Andy]

We need Bruce to bully us around, like, last.

[Nick]

Yes, but. But that's hard to do when you've got that many people on the map. And to Mike's point, like, yeah, it would be cool, but the four of us are. If we're locked in and we're talking but no one else is communicating, then it just feels like chaos.

[Mike]

Now it's 4 on 28.

[Nick]

Yeah. Then I just feel like I'm just being ground down by a team that's just sitting up. What?

[Mike]

It's a sick sweater.

[Nick]

Thanks, buddy. My little white tiger.

[Mike]

I'll tell you what, I like that sweater.

[Nick]

I like on the sweater, but that's. That's the hardest thing for me is where I have the most fun playing these games, when Mike is locked in. You're locked in. I'm trying to be locked in. I'm. We've got a couple people on our squad that are killers, and we're coordinated, and we feel like we're. We're pushing the pace of the game, and I've just never felt that Way with. With Battlefield ever. I always feel we play like, with the exception of when. When Bruce was like, okay, we're going over here, which is cool. But Even then there's four of us and there's 30 other people on the map and who Lord knows what they're doing.

[Mike]

It'd be sweet.

[Nick]

It just doesn't feel like there's any rhyme or reason to it.

[Mike]

One hard to get a groove picked, as in game leader. And when they ping something, all squads see that and know. Or if we were all on like. Like squad leader Mike is the. The head honcho. And then every team has one squad. Me in your headset. And I'm like, all right, squad leaders, we're all going to be. And then they're like, all right, squad, we got to go over to B. Let's go. Captain Mike says it really does.

[Nick]

It really does need. There needs to be like a general. That's just Overwatch. That's just like telling everyone what to be able to do. That's. That's a great idea.

[Mike]

Back in COD4, they had that on a Palm Pilot. Do you remember that? You could. Somebody was on there.

[Andy]

Experience.

[Mike]

Yeah. And they were clicking on things, calling and stuff.

[Andy]

That was fun. I'm going to get.

[Mike]

I.

[Nick]

Every time this game pops up, every time a new battlefield pops up, I want to play. I want to be. I want it to be fun. I want more of that experience. That is my favorite type of experience in gaming. Getting on with you guys and trying to get kills and being competitive and having you guys dog on me and just really learning the mechanics and feeling that you have a game that you can, for lack of a better term, invest in and get better at and get like. And want to, you know, level up at and level up those guns and get those mods. To me, I love. I would. I would spend hundreds of hours on this. Like we had what we did in Warzone. It's just every time we go, it feels like we get punched in the gut. And then it's just this long, laborious experience. And I'll be honest with you, half the time I'm like, I don't even know if we're doing a dent. Oh, I have no idea who's winning this. And honestly, most of us are all. We're all just losing this at the end of the day because we've just lost three hours.

[Mike]

The worst. Sometimes when we would get put into games that were halfway through as well and they're really going to try to.

[Nick]

That's like That's a kick to not

[Mike]

let that happen anymore.

[Nick]

That's a kick to the team.

[Mike]

That is something of, like, when you think of servers and all this jazz and people trying to fill in places, when we get put in, it's like, oh, this game is like three, four over. This sucks. Right? Like, what are we even doing? Because we're waiting for the next game to help.

[Nick]

I mean, that happens in Call of Duty as well. But it's not. But the games are so much faster. Yeah. You know, there's. The average Call of Duty game is what, five minutes max?

[Mike]

Yeah. Probably six to 12.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Yeah. I mean, like, you're not going too crazy with that, but.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Battlefields. There was one map we played. We were just in the. I was like, we. This is our life now. We live in this game. This is like three hours.

[Andy]

I am. I'm gonna make it my mission to appreciate, to try to do my best to appreciate Battlefield 6. Because I know based on what everybody's been saying, multiplayer wise, that this. This feels like it's back.

[Mike]

Gameplay, gunplay, sound design. The giant allout warfare that no other game really brings. The finals brought a lot of. Lot of destruction, which was awesome.

[Nick]

Shout out to the final finals was

[Mike]

fun, but, like, Battlefield brings something special and they have a lot of great stuff right now in this sauce that I just hope us in particular. The audience I know is excited. It's like, let's just open our hearts.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Let's enjoy this. And I think that's the cool part about this conversation is like, guess what? End of the month, we switch completely to arc raiders and we get our extraction on. Then we get a little tighter. We. With the group of three, and we start salvaging metal like broken electronics.

[Nick]

My. My mind is your mind. I'm locked. And I know you're locked.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Okay, but this is always the problem, right?

[Mike]

There's somebody who's big time.

[Nick]

How do we get Andy to. Not big time. I was on this.

[Mike]

How do we get your desk.

[Nick]

How do we get Andy to commit to playing this game with us 247 for like two weeks straight?

[Mike]

Exactly. Like, give us one week.

[Nick]

Give us a week of your life.

[Mike]

That's all we want.

[Nick]

Let us come to your house.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Let us sleep in your room.

[Mike]

Let us sleep in your house.

[Nick]

Let us wear your PJs. We'll cook you some food. We'll pet your dog.

[Mike]

This could be us.

[Nick]

I am so excited about this. We had one brief, beautiful moment. We were all really into beautiful. And I'VE never felt more inspired and happy to have friends in my entire life. And then Andy just left the sand bike outside. He didn't give a anymore. I want. I'm so excited for Arc Raiders.

[Mike]

That is crazy. You left that sandbite. Don't forget that. Okay. That was up. You did that to him. He had to build around it.

[Andy]

Nick did ask me to get rid of it. I was like, I think it's funnier when you get mad about it.

[Nick]

I, I, you finally gave me the go ahead. Did I tell you what happened? You finally gave me the go ahead to let it go and I left it outside. Okay. A week goes by, nothing. Two weeks go by, still there. I go to Spain, I come back, it's still there.

[Andy]

Yeah. I go, it's resilient.

[Nick]

I get the buggy, I push it out into the middle of the desert and I put a little thomper on it and I get it swallowed by the guy. They have a word worst wallet. But that's what I don't want to have happen in our craters. I want to invest in this game. How do we do this?

[Mike]

I mean, we, we've done it right? We, we know what we're getting into with Arc Raiders. We're very excited about it. The fun part is, is I think we need to buy in to proximity chat. We as a group have to accept

[Nick]

that some kids out there and they

[Mike]

might say some bad, but we can influence the world positively like we did in Call of Duty.

[Andy]

Yeah, we got so far.

[Mike]

And then how do we got 98, Andy? We had people laughing.

[Nick]

They were positive people willing to share their information with us. We, we were homies with these.

[Andy]

Nice.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Mike]

We almost started exchanging addresses, which there,

[Andy]

there was one lady who was like, whereabouts are you from? And then Mike ignored that question and then changed the conversation to Battlefield 6.

[Nick]

Well, you know how sometimes it goes to the loading screen, you lose them for a second.

[Andy]

All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick]

We did have one kid drop some horrible words. But I see it's my thing is like, look again. I know that I'm crazier than most people this office. And if left to me, this company would probably not exist anymore. Burned to the ground a long time ago. But I will say I think we could, I think we have to turn it on and we just have to tell the audience, look, we're going to shut this shit down as soon as we hear it. But some people are, you know, it's

[Mike]

kind of part of the game. We're going to then we're going to betray them, Andy. Okay?

[Nick]

I didn't sign up.

[Mike]

We're going to get these kids.

[Nick]

See, this is where he always goes.

[Mike]

We're going to be friends. I'm going to spit them in the web. Oh, what do you guys look? I need, like, a spider. Look at my buddy Andy. He's going to snipe that robot.

[Andy]

He's a Masterman Inflator.

[Mike]

Let's all get together, and let's go attack this one mega robot. And they're gonna be like, yeah, man, that's a great idea. And we'll be six of them. And as they look at that robot, I'm gonna tell you to execute one and kill them. And then it's on. That's the thrill that this Extraction shooter is going to bring to us.

[Andy]

I think I will.

[Nick]

I still never forget how. I never forget how much I didn't even know you until we played the cycle together and you just burned that kid.

[Mike]

That guy wanted that space weed.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

He just lit that kid up, and

[Nick]

I was like, oh, that was so mean. That left a lasting traumatic. Impress me.

[Andy]

I still. I. Well, like, I still just can't forgive Mike for pulling the most Nick Scarpino thing ever.

[Nick]

Oh, God. Of.

[Andy]

Of, like, running way the hell out there, pulling the dumbest play ever, and then asking for a res, as if he was easy to get and was like, andy, you better come res me.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy]

I'm like, mike, you ran out there like an idiot. You made the worst decision possible. You got shot out there.

[Nick]

Giant, giant monster. A giant, giant spider robot out there. You just got destroyed.

[Andy]

I have a lot of stuff, and I can't be risking it out there.

[Nick]

All right?

[Andy]

I go get you. Boom. I start getting shot at. Mike.

[Mike]

God damn it, Mike. I'm sorry. I need you guys to keep me on a tight leash, because my problem, like you guys with Battlefield is, is I start to lose a little bit of interest, right? Because, like, yeah, I'm bored to hear them. Because we need. We need a straight objective. We need to focus on that objective.

[Nick]

Yes. But I think. I think we got to commit to this, and I think we got to be the guys that are dominating in the space. To me, the excitement of these extraction shooters is not necessarily going up against the NPCs. It's going. It's clashing.

[Mike]

Do you hear this, Andy? Real people wants the.

[Nick]

Andy doesn't like we got a clash

[Mike]

occasion, and he doesn't like clash.

[Nick]

I don't got a clash.

[Andy]

I don't mind the Clash. It's just my problem is. Okay. A real conversation.

[Mike]

Real. Because I know the real.

[Andy]

This is a real conversation.

[Mike]

Get real.

[Nick]

You say it. No, don't sugarcoat it. I know it's about me. I know you're gonna talk about how bad I am.

[Andy]

The. The Clash.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Asking for the Clash. Wanting the violence.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Andy]

But not being able to reciprocate in an equal man.

[Nick]

Okay.

[Mike]

Oh, maybe we're not good enough for the class. Yes.

[Andy]

You always want the violence. And then we die. And then it'.

[Nick]

And because we don't. And again, we don't clash. You're not wrong, but the more you clash, the better you get at the Clash.

[Mike]

That's good.

[Nick]

We can't play the game for two days and then clash with these jabronis that have been playing since birth. Yeah. These guys that I don't even know. You look at some of these average players, like, how long they've been in this game? Like, it hasn't even been out that long. How have you played 900 hours of a game that came out yesterday? How are you so leveled up at this game already? We just got to commit to it. That's what I'm saying.

[Mike]

That's what I thought.

[Nick]

This is our new game. We're playing this game.

[Mike]

Better or worse is we want the Clash. And the problem is, is the moment we hear a gunshot, we drop everything and we go, let's just start running over.

[Andy]

We have no loot. We have no guns. We have no bullet.

[Nick]

Why not?

[Mike]

Right? And it's like, no, no, I understand you.

[Andy]

Why are you playing it like a battle royale?

[Mike]

You know what I mean? I understand you want the Clash, but, like, let's loot. Let's get a little bit stronger and better. We'll find them on the second Clash. But, no, me and Nick hear the Clash and we're like, let's get there, right?

[Nick]

We're like a dog.

[Mike]

And then there's a turret robot up on some.

[Nick]

Yeah. That really kind of screwed us up.

[Mike]

All of a sudden, they got the drop on us because we don't know where we're running to.

[Nick]

We don't know the map. We don't know the buttons.

[Andy]

This was one of the few games that I did have a lot of fun just hopping in solo as well. Like, I.

[Nick]

Well, yeah.

[Andy]

Like, even off stream, it wasn't just to make content and, like, put stuff up on YouTube. It was like, I want to hop in and, like. And level this up and progress this thing. And had some crazy moments where I'm all alone, and I hear lots of footsteps, and I gonna do down. And I'm terrified. My heart's racing. And then I hear three more people run. And they run by me, and I'm behind a wall, and I shoot them as they don't see me. And, oh, my God, I have all this loot around me, and I'm freaking out. Like, there are so many organic amazing moments. Barrett, can you play the clip that I sent through to assets a little while ago?

[Mike]

Six.

[Nick]

Fine.

[Andy]

Oh, he's gonna die right now. He's gonna die in your arms.

[Mike]

Don't you walk on me.

[Andy]

Holy.

[Mike]

So I have 2% health.

[Andy]

I start the rest. I'm gonna shot it. Yeah, me too.

[Nick]

Oh, my God.

[Mike]

You saved me from your life.

[Andy]

I went down.

[Nick]

No. And he just leaves you. Now you're God.

[Andy]

You're by your serious. Oh, there. We're in between people. Of course. Of course we're in between people.

[Nick]

Well, I mean, why was. First off. First question, your honor. Why was Mike just out in the middle of an open field?

[Mike]

Because he got bored. That is what he does.

[Nick]

You can't get bored.

[Mike]

You got a lot. I got bored. That's what I said. You got to keep.

[Nick]

We need to get. We need to get a prescription for Adderall. We all need to take it, and we all just need to lock in what you need to do.

[Andy]

What you need to do. Okay? Because, look, Mike, people enjoy watching you stream. People enjoy you. You don't have to go all out to like.

[Mike]

I know it's.

[Andy]

But in your mind, you go, all right, nothing's happened for three minutes. Let me go in the middle of nowhere.

[Mike]

I'm ISO Joe. I gotta create.

[Andy]

Yeah. Like, I'm never. So. Joe was out of the league way

[Mike]

sooner than he would have been. Watch this.

[Andy]

He wasn't a team player.

[Nick]

Mike.

[Andy]

I'll never forget Joe Johnson reference.

[Nick]

Let me tell you, Mike. Let me tell you my favorite Mike story in recent. In recent years. Again, this will be the last Dune Awakening reference we have on this because we're not talking about that game. It is a great game. It's my game. It could be my game of the year.

[Andy]

Wow.

[Nick]

It could be. I'm gonna get Greg to play it. I started messaging him on Steam last night. Just drop it.

[Mike]

I'm gonna get Craig to start playing with.

[Nick]

I'm gonna get Greg to do. I'm gonna get Greg on my side. But Mike dies, of course, because he doesn't use his shields, which is a

[Mike]

core mechanic of the Game never use the shield.

[Nick]

One core mechanic of the game is to have a shield that you upgrade and then it saves you from, from, from attacks.

[Andy]

And then suddenly starts getting shot down and going, help me. Getting angry at us.

[Nick]

Angry at us.

[Andy]

He's three, three miles away. Help me.

[Nick]

And then I'm like, you're not even. We're doing your mission with you to get you up to speed. You're not even here anymore. You've left. And then I tune into his stream and I look over Mike's like, well, I got eaten by the worm. And you know, And I was like, did he? And his chat's like, no, he didn't. They clip it out. He's doing donuts in the middle of the open desert because he wants to die. Yeah, that's what he wants. He got eaten by the worm three times on purpose.

[Andy]

There's a lot of self sabotage.

[Nick]

There really is.

[Mike]

I'm seeking domination. I'm seeking a leader.

[Nick]

You are the leader. You're the leader.

[Mike]

I'm seeking a leader on top of the leader.

[Nick]

Okay, then I'll be your leader. I'm going to be the arc raider leader. I'm into this.

[Andy]

All right, so after Arc Raiders, let's

[Mike]

talk about Call of Duty. Call of Duty just got done with a week long beta. I came back from college.

[Andy]

I didn't play a single second.

[Mike]

I cannot believe you didn't play.

[Andy]

I'll tell you what, it was such a big file, dude. And that night that you all were playing, I was. And look, first off.

[Mike]

Okay, let's Talk about it.

[Andy]

BattleNet Battle Net sucks. Why does it feel like I'm downloading on 56K? AOL 4.0 optimized.

[Nick]

What is, what's weird to me is you get on battle.net, you get on the launcher, you go, this looks like a really nice, crisp, modern launcher. You go to Steam. It looks like something made in 1985. And Steam downloads like that.

[Mike]

Dude, that Steam is the greatest. Can we just say, why are we on battlenet?

[Nick]

Why didn't we get the code?

[Andy]

Mike is like, I got a code for you.

[Nick]

I was like, oh, cool.

[Andy]

Thanks, dude. Type in the, put the code into BattleNet, hit download. About 38 minutes later, I'm like, all right, man. It's. I'm at 28. I gotta. I'm gonna like drop out of the discord. Maybe that'll speed things up. And I know you can go to Battle Net and say, do unlimited speed, upload down. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't help.

[Mike]

Every single person in the discord said, he's never coming back.

[Andy]

It was a 28. I turn off my PC, I was like, it. It's not worth it, dude.

[Nick]

There's nothing hits harder than a Call of Duty update. And by hits, I mean hits you in the gut. When you're ready to play that game and you look at it, says, update pending. You're like, I'm done. This is gonna take all fucking night. It's 100 gigs for shaders. What even is a shader?

[Mike]

They did it again to us.

[Andy]

They did.

[Nick]

Of course.

[Mike]

You download the beta.

[Nick]

Download the beta.

[Mike]

You click on it. You click on it. Update requires restart. Yeah, of course you restart it. You turn it on. We gotta turn it off.

[Nick]

My favorite. Turn it off.

[Mike]

The crash the game. Turn it back on. What is going on here?

[Nick]

My favorite is that they still. For whatever reason, and I'm sure it has a very good reason reason. But, you know, Call of Duty has a lot of game modes. Yeah, there's a lot. You know, you got your battle royale, you've got your zombies, you've got your. You've got your classic.

[Andy]

You're walking into a buffet.

[Nick]

You've got a lot of things. So they have a launcher.

[Mike]

We're making a launch right now.

[Nick]

You've got a launcher in Battle Net that launches a launcher, and the launcher launches another game that then quits both games. And then you have to load the Shaders, and then once the shaders are done loading, update requires reset.

[Mike]

I'm trying to explain to Roger. You can't.

[Nick]

I want to die.

[Mike]

You gotta let the. You got to let the shaders download. He goes, oh, I didn't know that's how it worked. Like, that's how it works.

[Andy]

Yeah. Has he never played a PC game before?

[Nick]

No, but Call of Duty is especially egregious when it comes to that, for whatever reason. Like, I would just really like it if one time I fired up that game and it just let me play the game.

[Mike]

But let's talk about it.

[Nick]

But let's talk about it. It's back.

[Mike]

Really?

[Nick]

Oh, my God, it was so fun. As though Barrett and I are best friends now.

[Andy]

Because he plays Call of Duty.

[Nick]

He's in the squad now. We got four. We had. We had Arachnid Said Nuggies was in the squad with us. We had our guy Cam.

[Andy]

Barrett's viciously nodding his head.

[Nick]

No, Barrett's our homie now.

[Mike]

He was in bro Then he just. He's unfortunately now stuck to play with us. That's right.

[Nick]

Yeah, dude.

[Andy]

It was a mode that we were supposed to destroy. That was fun.

[Nick]

So it's the best mode. It's the best mode. We were great. Now, question for you, Andy. Actually, I'll give you a multiple choice as to how the last couple games went. First we get into search of the story. We're having fun. Cam interactive is doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

[Mike]

A lot of heavy lifting.

[Nick]

Me and Mike holding our own. Barrett. Very, very good. Jenny joined us later. Last couple games, though, Demons. The six of us against demons. The actual devil hitting the face.

[Mike]

Yells above Eclipse.

[Nick]

And I look and I've never.

[Mike]

Andy.

[Nick]

I've never seen this before. I go, oh, Mike, that's crazy. That guy just jumped and turned in the air. And Mike goes, oh, Nick, you're about to make the highlight reel because these guys are trying to360, no scope off

[Andy]

the walls, just off the wall jump.

[Nick]

They're.

[Mike]

They don't care.

[Nick]

They don't give a shit. They know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they're going to win this game. And I've never felt more demoralized, angry, and I'll be honest, radicalized.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Nick]

I am a radicalized human being. It was so fun.

[Mike]

It's been the nine to five.

[Nick]

So fun.

[Mike]

Versus the Sweats. It always has been the Sweat, right? Like the nine to five. And they just want to relax. They want to play and enjoy their game, but they don't get that. And then they've been radicalized to say, I'm coming after that kid. Okay? That fucking no job, living in his mom and dad's basement. Streamer, I'm coming after you. And then it becomes a battle.

[Nick]

Mike screaming at the other team, you're going to be my friend. I'm going to make you my friend.

[Andy]

These guys on open mic.

[Mike]

Yeah, Open mic. Oh, yeah.

[Nick]

Just screaming at these guys that he

[Andy]

wants to be their best friends. You can't force people to be your friend. Oh, he did. He got a couple of them. He beat a couple of them over with his father. What happened to that one guy in the kid. What happened to that one guy?

[Mike]

What was that guy? Beef Hammer or something like that?

[Andy]

What was it?

[Mike]

Yeah, it was something like that.

[Andy]

That was fun.

[Mike]

Fart box. Fart box.

[Nick]

You're gonna be my friend.

[Mike]

Oh, man.

[Nick]

Oh, my God.

[Andy]

And so at one point, they were doing the. What was it? The. The wasab.

[Mike]

Oh, is that Back? Back. We were bringing it back.

[Nick]

I don't think it ever left that particular city that these kids are playing

[Mike]

before he started throwing racial slurs at

[Nick]

us a couple hard.

[Mike]

And then his final parting word was. We were like, wow, you took it there.

[Nick]

Yeah, he went hard on. On that. But the game words.

[Mike]

Feels good.

[Nick]

Feels good, man. The movement is fun. I had to get a little used to the sort of wall jumping, but it. It. It's very, very. I mean, it's. It just feels good. The shooting's good. Call of Duty has always had, in my opinion, the best shooting mechanic. It just feels right. And I'm excited, man. I'm excited for that new map. When that new little tiny map comes out. That looks good. The question is, though, we keep coming back to this. Are we gonna ride. Are we gonna ride back like we did originally, or is Andy gonna big time us and go, I'm sorry, guys.

[Mike]

I have to play Liza p for the 17th time. Yeah, we understand. You're the greatest at it. I have played it twice, and he' sign up for ATDQ to speed run the goddamn.

[Nick]

There's a new Elden ring mod that lets me play on Game Boy. I gotta play it right now.

[Andy]

I played it twice. Okay, you played 19 days straight of Pokemon.

[Mike]

It was a long time.

[Andy]

It was way longer than that, actually. You were.

[Nick]

So you're playing Kingdom hearts for like 15 years.

[Mike]

Bad move. We need to know if you're back game.

[Nick]

I need to. Well, I also. No, Andy, you're important to me.

[Mike]

Yeah, Very.

[Nick]

You're important to me.

[Mike]

You are.

[Nick]

You are literally the cornerstone of the Jabroni. But really, when it boils down to it is this. I know how to get you back in. I know how to get you back in.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Okay. And I know the way to your heart. And he's in the chat right now.

[Andy]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nick]

It's through one Chris Anka. Is the weapons arbiter gonna fly with us? Are we gonna get the spaceman? Are we gonna get Maddock? Are we gonna get washed?

[Andy]

Where are they?

[Nick]

Where does JD Even live these days? Where are the. I need. I need the lineup of boys that I jump in. And I feel bad because I'm taking someone's spot who's better than me. But I take it anyway because I'm Nick Scar.

[Andy]

Pino.

[Nick]

Where's Chris Anchor? Are you back on this?

[Mike]

Chris so much.

[Nick]

He just said no. Didn't even capitalize the end. Just put no in the chat.

[Mike]

So much. Capitalize it. Me and Nick for him just to drop a stack of potatoes.

[Nick]

Me and Chris got be best friends because of triangle off Best friends.

[Mike]

We were working.

[Nick]

We're playing that one mode that's like. What was that one mode we played where it was like you all just

[Andy]

really exhausted super hard.

[Mike]

Yeah, we really worked.

[Nick]

We. I'll give me 20%. No, no, no, that's 80 the problem right there.

[Andy]

I'd go. No, I'd go.

[Mike]

I would.

[Andy]

If I were to put. If I were to go into.

[Nick]

Yeah, if I were to go into

[Andy]

Chris Anka, star artist of the Spider verse movie franchise, very busy person, very talented person, has no business dealing with our shouldn't. If I were to go into Chris Anka's mind and go, who annoyed you more? I would give 40, Mike 60. Nick, I think any given Sunday. I mean, I'm not gonna disagree with you.

[Nick]

An argument can be made.

[Mike]

An argument. 35. 65. Mike is. Wow, he's 65.

[Nick]

You think I'm 65.

[Mike]

Oh, that's tight.

[Andy]

That's tough. That's tough, Chris. Angus says Nick's right. He says Nick's right.

[Mike]

Was any given Sunday.

[Andy]

Any given Sunday.

[Nick]

Any given Sunday.

[Mike]

That's true. We did like to push his button sometimes.

[Andy]

The.

[Nick]

No, here's, here's the real problem. Here's how we really lost. Chris was cuz you all started playing Marvel Rivals like it's the second coming of Christ and he really got it and I just, I couldn't get into it. I couldn't.

[Mike]

I couldn't.

[Andy]

Yeah. So I love those.

[Nick]

Maybe, maybe the timing will work out right when Rival starts to, you know, plateau a little. Just plateau a little bit for everyone. They're looking for that new experience.

[Mike]

That game, that game had the juice we called it. That game was game of the summer game, you know, of the year. It had the juice, it stuck around and it's still around.

[Nick]

Chris Anka brought up a very good point. You push every fight with 40 bullets. No armored ranked, man. Remember how great ranked was?

[Mike]

So much fun.

[Nick]

How fun. How much fun we had in ranked?

[Mike]

It was.

[Nick]

We gotta do it again.

[Andy]

It was such a volatile place to be in that discord when you were pushing fights with no armor and six bullets in your weapon that you hadn't reloaded yet. And then you go, I didn't reload.

[Mike]

A million micro decisions being made at a moment's notice. You know, it's a lot going on in War Zone.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

There's a Nicki Minaj skin that has somehow slid, slide, cancel. Slid. Double jump. Puny hopped on top of us. How are we supposed to know what's

[Andy]

happening I got killed by a jumping front flipping 21 savage.

[Nick]

Sure.

[Mike]

We forgot our shields. That guy just did something so amazing. I didn't know the neck code could handle it.

[Nick]

And you can just feel it when they're out there looking at you, laughing.

[Andy]

A lot of bad.

[Nick]

We got to get back to ranks.

[Mike]

So at the end of the day, three big games coming.

[Nick]

The two games I'm most excited about.

[Mike]

Give. Give me your top two.

[Nick]

Yeah, give me your top two. Probably. Probably. Probably. Arc Raiders number one. Okay.

[Andy]

Wow.

[Nick]

I, I, we played it. Jumping into that environment, I was like, this team did a great job making this feel like a place that's scary and someplace that I want to explore. Like you were talking about.

[Andy]

This is.

[Nick]

I would jump in on my own. Just jump in there, see what's got.

[Andy]

This was seven months ago, and it felt super polished and close to being done that we thought it was going. We thought it was gonna be a shadow drop. That's how, like, good it felt.

[Nick]

It felt good.

[Andy]

And they've had even more time to optimize. This is. I saw a tweet this morning that was like, share this to scare the games industry. And it was the video that Barrett was just playing a little earlier, where it's DLSS is off and you are getting 4K 118 frames per second. It's like they have used. That's why they have done so much work into making sure that the game runs and looks great. The game, I mean, I think environmentally this game just interests me the most

[Nick]

because of 428 frames.

[Andy]

That's with all the frame generation and stuff. But, like the, the audio in this game, Phenomenal.

[Nick]

Perfect and all of that. You know, it might sound trivial, it might sound trite, but all that goes into building an environment that you go, I want to go back into.

[Mike]

I want to be here.

[Nick]

I want to exist in this. So I'm all in on Arc Raiders. I would like to get into that as soon as possible. And of course, Call of Duty is always there. It's going to be fun. Call of Duty. I, I am experienced enough with it to be able to jump in and just have a fun time, even if I'm not great, even if I get destroyed. But if you guys are with me, if we have a fun squad and we're all joking around, that, to me, is the experience that I want whenever I sit down on my PC. So those two games I'm very excited about. Battlefield can come and go as it pleases. I will play with you guys I will have fun.

[Andy]

That's where I'm at.

[Nick]

But I have a feeling that it's just. I don't. I just don't think we're ever going to be a Battlefield household. I think we're a cod. I think we're a war Zone household through and through.

[Mike]

They are.

[Nick]

And I. And. And the big question with arc, we, you know, we've played. We've had fun with extraction shooters before, but they don't. They never stick.

[Mike]

But we got really lost in Tarkov, and we missed. We missed.

[Nick]

Well, Andy admitted Tarkov with us.

[Mike]

Andy was here with Tarkov.

[Nick]

Tarkov is too punishing, though.

[Mike]

It's punishing.

[Nick]

But we've got. We've gone down the road. We've played every Extraction shooter that's been out in the last five years.

[Mike]

We did.

[Nick]

We did. And we have a blast. And then we just forget about him. So the question is this. How do we. Is this going to stick with us? Are we going to play this for longer than a couple days?

[Mike]

Andy, what are your top two?

[Andy]

Our graders, probably number one. And then Call of Duty, Black Ops or Battlefield 6 will be just like what Nick mentioned. I'll play whenever you guys want to play. Whenever we put it on a stream, I'm more than happy to go in and click heads like, this is not a game that I, you know, super look forward to, but it's definitely not a game that I'm like, I don't want to play Battlefield 6. Like, I'm. Yeah, it looks great. It feels great to play, and I can definitely have fun with that. One thing I want to just throw out before we end the podcast is something I've been mulling on for quite some time, and I feel like.

[Nick]

Makes me nervous.

[Andy]

I feel like we could turn this into content in a. In a big way.

[Nick]

Okay.

[Andy]

Okay. As you all know, every Thursday, I play with Team Val Frog and our Valorant Squad.

[Nick]

So cool. Yeah.

[Mike]

I watch patiently at the window just hoping to be invited one day.

[Andy]

What I really, really, really want to do, because Team Battlefrog, so far gone, we've invited some other homies who are way higher ranked, and they put our team in a higher rank.

[Nick]

That's terrible.

[Andy]

And we get rinsed. That sounds horrible. We get rinsed by everybody. I don't like that. And I'm getting my ass whooped. And I'm like, hey, I'm peak silver, too. And I look at everybody else's ranks, and the lowest they have is gold, and the highest they have. People were peeking at you.

[Nick]

You know, I want to see a diamond. You never want to see a platinum. No, you don't want to see those ever.

[Andy]

What I really, really, really want is I want to create another valorant account to. So I could still be on Team Battle Frog, but I want to make a valorant team with us. I would love that. I want, like, I would go hard.

[Mike]

Do we need to make new accounts?

[Nick]

I will train. No, no, we got hours. I'm.

[Andy]

Yeah, but, like. But my character is already on Valfrog, so I want to make a new account to. So we could get on a team and play every. Whatever it's required of us, like, every Sunday or whatever. Or, like, and we all stream it. We make it an event, and it's like, all right, I would love. Team Jabroni is going at it, you know, and it's whoever we want to invite on the squad. Like, I want to really make it a serious thing that we broadcast and make a big deal out of it, because it is a very cool feeling. Whenever your team's doing decently and three weeks into the season, you're like, oh, we're in the playoff running. We got to win the next four games, and we're in the playoff run. You know, Like, I think we could have a lot of. A lot of fun with it. Somebody says smurf. Yeah, but, like, Smurf would make sense if I was original, if I was already a platinum player.

[Mike]

Yeah, he's gotta. He's gotta play with five others that aren't that good.

[Andy]

I'm a. I'm a silver player.

[Mike]

Or at least two.

[Andy]

Like.

[Nick]

Like, I mean, I'm garbage.

[Andy]

Mike and Nick were bronze. Like, easy. Yeah.

[Nick]

Not even trying.

[Andy]

And also, yeah, our team right now is, like, they put us up in a much higher rank, and it just. It's not fun. It feels like we know who we are.

[Nick]

We're not trying to be like, aaa, you know?

[Mike]

Here's the deal then. I. We want to do this. Me and Nick. We're in. We're already ready, I think Mike. Well, I'll double. Well, no, I really want. We'll double check his account out. What do you need to do to make sure your account is ready or Nick's account is ready? I know all my account is ready. You have to be level 50, like, in Rainbow Six Siege or anything crazy.

[Nick]

Oh, you mean to play rank? Yeah, that's a good question.

[Mike]

Get there. We're ready to go.

[Andy]

I'll have to double check, but you have to, like, we've played hours. I think you do have to. To assign it to a phone number or something so that they know that you're like, give him Kevin's number.

[Mike]

That would be funny.

[Nick]

I'm kidding.

[Mike]

I'm kidding. Get so mad about that.

[Andy]

And that is the end of the games, guys. Everybody. Appreciate you all watching. If you have any questions, let us know in the comments down below. Thank you, Mike, for joining us and talking about your experience with the Battlefield 6 campaign. Nick was here. I mean, we had great discussions about shooter games.

[Nick]

I'm very excited.

[Andy]

I had a lot.

[Mike]

I'm fired up all together, and that's what we needed. We needed to bring this group together again.

[Andy]

See you next fall, all. Have a nice fall.

[Mike]

Hell, yeah.

[Andy]

We'll see you next time, gamers.

[Nick]

Stay cool.

[Andy]

Goodbye.

[Mike]

Stay frosty.