Play battle bit, that shit was awesome. We had people roleplaying as an unspoken rule, everyone was just having fun.

yawn

Here are some better recommendations for games that aren't owned by EA.

Operation Harsh Doorstop - free and moddable tactical shooter with big maps and vehicles, vanilla gameplay is fairly realistic but there are mods that totally change up the gameplay like Casualfield. This game has a dedicated group of youtube content creators who hate on this game... I don't get it.. because the gunplay is fantastic and the mechanics are an elegant evolution of Project Reality type squad spawns and player built basic infrastructure. Sniping is also a BLAST. Singleplayer is in heavy development but multiplayer is where it is at now with the game. It is in early access and is definitely rough around the edges, but the core gameplay is just straight up better than 99% of fps games I have played so I don't really care lol.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/

Easy Red 2 - Really fantastic WW2 tactical shooter with big maps and LOTS of different period accurate vehicles and a quickly growing population of players. The general interest this game has in portraying WW2 beyond the tired and boring moments that are usually portrayed is very cool and the gameplay is ROCK solid. This game is extremely affordable for the amount of scenarios, weapons vehicles and historical context that is brought into the game design in a clearly thoughtful way and I recommend ALL of the DLC even as an impulse buy when you purchase the base game. It is worth it, Easy Red 2 is an absurdly easy recommendation at its price point.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/

Angels Fall First - A superb Battlefront-like/Battlefield 2048 that is first person. This game is in early access and has a small playerbase but the core gameplay is polished, locked in and very very fun. Weapons feel great, vehicles are easy to jump in and start using but clearly have a lot of skill depth to them.... Overall the menu and UI is FANTASTIC, at the deploy screen the game will prompt you if a vehicle is available to take and let you spawn directly into it, you can also see a cue of vehicles that are going to spawn for your team soon.... Check it out! Even with the low playerbase it is a great bot bashing game, the AI is fun to play against and uses vehicles.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/367270/Angels_Fall_First/

Also, for kicks and giggles I am gonna recommend Empires Mod an old source engine multiplayer RTS/FPS team based hybrid that is actually still in development which is super cool. By now the UI has lots and lots of quality of life additions and tooltips and the whole thing is very impressive even if the age of the source engine and various components going into the experience are obviously very dated, Empires Mod is legitimately still an awesome game and it deserves way more players! There is a discord you can check out to find out when games are happening.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/17740/Empires_Mod/

Ok I had to add another oldie but goodie that has an open source project around it now!! That game is Enemy Territory and if you know that game you likely have fond memories of spending hours playing it like I do. No vehicles but the teamplay is very objective based a lot like payload in Team Fortress 2 (which is TF2s best mode by far so....).

https://www.etlegacy.com/

Some more obscure recommendations that didn't quite make my main list of team based objective games with a lot of depth to them but also lots of action...

Unvanquished is a spiritual successor to Tremulous, I haven't played it so I don't want to recommend it in the main list but the idea of a team of alien monsters and space marines fighting asymmetrically is super cool and riffs on games like Empires Mod in a cool way.

https://unvanquished.net/

Renegade X is a fan re-make of C&C Renegade a FPS/RTS hybrid game that was quite fun back in the day, the mod is still pretty rough around the edges so I didn't want to put it on main list with others. The same developers also are making another game called Firestorm which is based on a different time period in the C&C universe. These developers are not employees of EA or making money off this I believe, you can see the developers really had fun making Renegade-X from my brief experience.

https://totemarts.games/games/renegade-x/

EA trash, designed to squeeze microtransactions. Enjoy your daily challenges and battle royale

This is getting out of hand! Now, there are six of them

Seems like they're headed back into a more grounded, serious tone which is great. I hope this is good because I loved BF4 and BF1.

If I can’t play it on Linux, I can’t play it.

Yessssssssss. Between this trailer, and their decision on class locked weapons in the upcoming beta, my hope levels are actually rising. It's my all time favorite FPS series, pleaseeeee make a come back! 🥲

I was really looking forward to this until they started to confirm the secure boot requirement. I’m not changing my UEFI settings just for a game

This looks so generic I almost fell asleep. This franchise is on its last legs.

Give me a decent campaign and I'll bite. I'm growing tiresome of PVP in general so that's still out if I want to play it for multiplayer or not

Get ready for an undercooked campaign, BF6's development has been rather chaotic https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/07/behind-the-next-battlefield-game-culture-clash-crunch-and-colossal-stakes/

I want to be excited for this. However, they keep creating unfinished slop with features half-baked and no one wants. Dice/EA are incredibly tone deaf to their audience. I hope it is good, but based on the past few games, it likely will not be.

I'm expecting a complete shit show of disappointment but will happily be proved wrong by EA and Battlefield Studios.

If I can run it on Linux I am in.

It looks like destructive environments are back and the nod to the BF4 theme at 2:00 is interesting. Let's hope that DICE can pull their head out of their ass for this one.

Graphics are looking insane. I can't wait to be honest.

Please, for the love of god, let this campaign be significant enough to make people buy into the world that lives in multiplayer.

Locked behind a login requirement for ‘age verification’, huh.