After clearing that evil squad from their hiding place behind the rocky outcropping, I failed to notice that another player had mysteriously spawned behind the guy I had just terminated.
The squad was not truly wiped!
Adding insult to injury this newly spawned player decided to lay upon the ground and snipe me from behind. After taking a few shots and with only 14% of my health remaining, I decided to go for broke and run this menace into the ground.
It almost didn't work...almost. ...I got him. :0)
This brief video was captured shortly after connecting a PS4 DualShock 4 controller to my PC. Most of my gameplay in the past years has been almost exclusively on the PlayStation (both PS3 and PS4). Recently, I decided to try out Battlefield 1 on PC. That was mostly because I could try it out for 10 hours before release thanks to the Origin Access Early Trial offering.
Suffice it to say, the WASD control paradigm was giving me some grief. I was doing nothing but losing. Knowing that skill with WASD comes from hours of practice and only having 10 hours to try out the game, it was time to get practical. So, I did some Googling and found an easy way to connect my PS4 DS4 Controller to my PC and BAM! I'm back in the game and have become a force to be reckoned with!
The making of this video was a brutal trial-by-fire. Although the overwhelming majority of my recent gaming action has been on consoles (Atari2600, NES, PS2, PS3, and PS4), I have many years of PC based gaming under my ever-widening belt.
Much of my historical gameplay experience has included the use of the seemingly ubiquitous WASD based keyboard control paradigm. Alas, none of that experience helped me today when I tried to play the early release "Free Trial" of Battlefield1 that has been made available through Origin Access.
To say the least, it was a slaughter and I was the sacrificial animal. All my gaming experience was rendered useless and I was reduced to less-than-noob status on the Battlefield. I simply could not move fast enough with the keyboard and mouse controls. This interface is not sufficiently intuitive to me at this point and movement required too much thought. Too be an effective player, movement has to be second nature. A moment's thought needs to translate into immediate muscle movement.
Many people say, and I do believe, that over time and with much practice, the WASD/Mouse movement system will not only become intuitive, it will be a faster and more precise interface. It will certainly be worth the effort to pursue perfection on this route but there is clearly a long road ahead of me.
The epic beat-down which was laid upon me today was captured in all of its sticky glory and is linked below for all the world to see. If you are like me and have been playing console games almost exclusively for many years, you might know the pain that put this gamer's ego back on the ground today.
Worry not! For I will overcome this infusion of humility and return to fight another battle. The BF1 war is not over! We will fight them on the beaches. We will fight them on the streets. We will fight them with growing confidence and growing strength in the air! We will never surrender!
To some it may be a mystery. To others it may be stunningly obvious. This video is for people like me who sometimes forget the more simple things in life...
UPDATE: It looks like many laptop gamers are having issues with BF1 and/or DirectX 12. I'm currently looking for a more satisfying solution to the problem but so far the answer appears to be to choose "Borderless". This setting will give you what is maybe a pseudo-fullscreen. It basically maximizes the windowed view and removes the border. You will be stuck with whatever resolution and refresh rate is default in your Windows desktop, however.
The original post below will help you find where to to switch the game view between "Windowed, Borderless, and Fullscreen."
ORIGINAL POST:
So you've just downloaded Battlefield 1 or any other PC game and you can't figure out how to make it go full screen. You've clicked everywhere in the game's window frame looking for something that will allow you to switch to full screen. But, you find nothing.
You've then search the Origin, Steam, or U-Play interfaces to see if there is some hidden configuration variable that you need to switch...some inconspicuous checkbox that went unchecked. You've even searched the Internet looking for answers. Yet, despite all of your efforts, you have found nothing.
Well, search no more!
Here's a little something that should help you solve this perplexing conundrum...
The solution is right there in the game itself. On the top row of the Battlefield 1 main menu, you should see a tab called "More". Click this tab and you will see a number of cards; one of these will be labeled "Options" and has an icon that looks like a gear. Click on this card and you will be presented with links to the "Audio" and "Video" settings.
Select "Video" and you will be taken to the screen on the left. The topmost setting on this screen is called "FULLSCREEN MODE". What you need to do from here is just click the side arrows and scroll until you find the option you want. This attribute will cycles through three options labeled WINDOWED, BORDERLESS, and FULLSCREEN. My most preferred setting is FULLSCREEN.
Even thought this setting appears to be located exactly where most people would expect it to be, it seems that I forget this almost every time I get a new PC game. That's why I made this blog post and the associated video. Hopefully, the next time I need to be reminded to check the game's internal video settings so that I can go full screen, maybe I'll stumble upon my own posts and get the answer (and the healthy dose of humility) that I need.
Below is a video which will walk the viewer through the steps necessary to switch the game from "windowed" to "full screen" mode.
I've run into this many times when downloading games from Origin, Steam, U-Play, or wherever else. The fact that I've struggled with this so many times and forgot what to do in between probably points out that I do not play enough games on PC. Yes, I am mainly a console player. Still can't quite get the whole "WASD" thing. :-p
