All it takes is one coordinated surge, one effective vehicle, or a few killstreaking heroes to break a stalemate.Д«attlefield has rarely cared about what side you're on. Once both points are simultaneously under attackers' control, they're permanently captured. Your duty is obvious when you're staring at one or two capture points, and I think it imbues each moment with a greater sense of urgency and responsibility. The mode lessens the effort it takes to corral a massive group of players into a coherent strategy.

Operations mixes the size of Conquest (64 players) with the focus of Rush, BF's 24-man, attack-and-defend mode. By segmenting BF1's maps into multiple sectors that unlock as the attackers succeed, both teams are focused only on a couple of capture points at a time, not seven, like some Conquest maps. Operations isn't a panacea to all of these Battlefield annoyances, but it does address them elegantly. My most unpleasant rounds are ones where I feel like I'm running around putting out fires at every flag, with no sustained sense of a frontline or feeling of progress through strategy. The way she spams everyone on my team with 'We're losing Objective Butter' probably creates more chaos than coordination.

The only person who's allowed to speak to everyone is BF1's announcer, and she's a lousy WWI commander.

The intent of this is good (who wants 30 people yelling in your ear throughout a multiplayer match?) but its impact on strategy is felt whenever I play Conquest, BF1's standard flag-capture mode. BF1 restricts voice chat to the four other members of your squad, limiting your ability to strategize with most of your team.

Battlefield 1 operations game mode