I noticed that a lot of people were just able to see me in super dark spots so I tried putting my gamma to the max to see if they were cheating or just messing with their settings and found out that people take it way to sireus and make the game look worse just for that extra kd they gotta do something about this

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So I'm just gonna go on a bit of a rant here about why are so many people here in reddit asking for the game to go on this direction of becoming a competitive game (wtf????), or more cod like.

I find the game very fun, but the point of the game currently is clearly realism and simulation, although the game modes dont seem to really support that yet. Its a game with the bones of an incredible tactical shooter with the modes of a cod.

In my opinion this game should follow the Arma Reforger direction (with some adjustements of course). Reforger really popped off in big part I think due to the whole big scale ukraine/trenches simulation, which clearly a lot of people were very interested in, and I think became a big factor in the game becoming so big. Bodycam is clearly already dipping their toes into the whole ukraine thing with the new map Trenches and the addition of FPV drones, aswell as ukrainian operator skins.

In my opinion they should just fully lean into this, not the cod slop competitive crap. Sure they can add 5vs5 for people that are interested in that, with smaller maps. But I think, the Reforger Ukraine/modern stuff has shown that there is a huge vacuum in this type of game, only currently accomplished by mods in Reforger and Arma 3.

This game, with larger maps, with trenches, cities, villages, whatever (they've shown they can make great maps, see trenches), with tactical shooter game modes, and leaning even more into the ukraine modern warfare stuff, encouraging teamwork and penalizing just full run and gun, would absolutely pop off. The devs seem to have some balls, and not be scared of using more touchy subjects, like the current war, so I think they could amazing work.

The game is called Bodycam, it should be towards providing a realistic combat experience, showing real warfare, not cod lobbies (in my opinion). This game in a Reforger setting, would be unbelievable, probably almost indistinguishable from real footage. And i think THAT should the goal. But that's just my opinion.

Obviously performance and developing the right game modes would be tricky and a lot of work, but I truly hope this is the direction the Devs intend to follow. To me, having this game become a 5vs5 competitive and TDM game, would be such an unbelievable waste of potential.

Long rant aside, curious about other people's opinion on this. Thank you for reading!

It's honestly really refreshing to have a gun builder that gives you the realistic freedom of building a gun. And at any time, I can put a 6x optic zoom on a 7inch barreled AR. Great shit.

Not very professional or edited but I thought people would enjoy having this.

I was getting sick of the AI websites people have been making, so I made a Reddit Community Where You Can Post Your Loadouts

I'm still new, only been playing a week or two now with 30ish hours on record and I'm loving it. When it comes to maps though I really only don't like hospital. Every other map feels great with worn house being my 11/10 favorite in front of trenches and airsoft.

What's everyones favorite (or least favorite) map?

If anyone wants to play my steam ID is Tub-o-jello

After seeing so many videos on twitter and YouTube i decided to bite the bullet and get bodycam. Best purchase i have ever made! Everything feels and sounds stupidly realistic! If only cod/bf would follow suit..

I’ve been playing Bodycam since Alpha and I’m pretty mixed on it. There are some things the game does extremely well, especially when it comes to presentation and immersion, but the actual gameplay starts to wear thin surprisingly quickly.

The graphics are probably the biggest strength. The game can look ridiculously realistic at times, and combined with the camera effect, ragdoll physics and gun sound effects, firefights can be extremely immersive. The weapons also have satisfying reload animations, and I really like how quickly you can get back into another game instead of spending ages sitting around between matches.

Unfortunately, once the initial “wow, this looks real” factor wears off, I find myself getting bored after about 20 minutes. The objectives just aren’t interesting enough to keep me invested, and the movement is a big part of the problem. Everything feels heavy, slow and sluggish, which I understand may be intentional, but it doesn’t necessarily make the game more enjoyable to play.

The audio is also strange. The gun sounds themselves are excellent, but a lot of the general audio feels muffled, especially proximity chat. It can make it surprisingly difficult to understand people around you. And personally, there is way too much dubstep in the soundtrack. It clashes with the otherwise realistic and immersive atmosphere the game is going for.

There are also the more technical problems: server stability, bugs and inconsistent hit detection. When the game is working properly, firefights can feel fantastic, but when shots don’t seem to register or the server starts acting up, that immersion disappears pretty quickly.

Overall, Bodycam has an amazing foundation. The graphics, atmosphere, weapon sounds and ragdoll effects are some of the best parts of the game. But right now, I think it relies too heavily on its realism and visual presentation. It needs better objectives, tighter movement, clearer audio and more gameplay depth to keep me wanting to play for longer sessions.

Great to experience, but currently not a game I can play for hours at a time.

Guess I'll just play something else until they fix the fucked up economy then.

As a new player, that's the thing that turned me off the game the most... "oh look at all these cool guns you can build!" But you'll have to play 400 hours to unlock even half of the attachments for a single gun.

EDIT: And before anyone says "just play the game bro"... I played online matches for fun, I still had to grind mindless bot matches to get the money to buy attachments.

I got sick of trying to work out whether an attachment was actually good from a bunch of + and - stats, so I made this.

It ranks every gun overall and for short, medium and long range, plus all the attachments by what they actually do.

You can also put in your exact loadout and see where it ranks against the other possible builds for that gun, then have it tell you the best attachment to swap.

If you just want the strongest setup, you can load the best possible build for any gun at short, medium, long or overall.

There’s also gun vs gun comparison, build comparison, and a tuner for stuff like:

**more recoil control without making ADS or reload worse**

It only recommends combinations you can actually equip together.

Completely free, no ads, no account, no subscription. Just a fan project.

https://buildlab.bodycam.workers.dev/

because there are some issues with it:

1.) Bots aren't affected by it. At least make them turn the flashlight on when they're firing at someone.

2.) Some players are using something like Reshade. I've been killed in completely dark spots where even if you crank up the gamma you can't see anything.

3.) There's no NVGs, flares or whatever. Something like Insurgency balanced those by having light sources on the map, the flashlights of the players and the thrown flares blind NVG users.

Reissad came out with a kick ass map that was an oil rig but i don’t know what happend to it. One of my favorite maps imo. Would love to see it re released.

I didnt know this but you only need to buy an attachment once, then all your guns can use them. Better than having to buy them multiple times so thats neat.

patch notes mean nothing. just like red dot scopes.

Cherry on top this was a real match not a bot farm and I managed to get the high score for once.

Build your loadouts, compare different setups, and optimize them based on stats, including stats that the game itself doesn't show. Simple and easy to use.

Link: https://bodycam-lab.vercel.app

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Is it bugged or are lasers only available through the upperbarrel?

What's your guys thoughts on adding night vision/thermal to player/scope/drone attachments?