Never liked bf3 and bf4 and I never understood why they were so liked. I played bc2 instead until they nuked the servers lol
BF3 and BF4 felt like combined arms warfare. Bad Company series felt more like an infantry focused game.
IIRC, Bad Company series didn’t support 32v32. The mainline series touches base with a lot of older PC players who were brought up on those big ass maps in Planetside and Tribes.