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I recommend it so much I want to preface this with the fact I am basically an upaid shill for this game, but I think it is awesome that it is genuinely free (not lootbox, microtransaction free, genuinely free).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
Operation Harsh Doorstop is meant to be a spiritual successor to mods like Project Reality and Forgotten Hope 2 for Battlefield 2, the last game that EA allowed to have modding in it.
I don't care what EA does now with trying to innovate the battlefield genre, they killed it so I am uninterested in EA-Frankenstein's Monster here.
No, I will shill for Operation Harsh Doorstop because even if you don't like the vanilla big map, semi-realistic vehicle team based FPS mechanics of OHD, the game is moddable and already has different mods that totally switch up the gameplay, including a star wars mod, a halo mod and others.
If you don't pick OHD, maybe try out Easy Red 2 which is only WW2 but very cool and has tons and tons of vehicles and period accurate battles that are really well done.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/
Seriously, forget EA, forget AAA big map FPS team based games, AAA studios don't give a shit about them and will always try to give you almost what you want but then funnel you back into a COD style lootbox grindfest that has nothing to do with the fascinating depth of combined arms gameplay.
Maybe check out Splitgate 2?
I don't know, feel free to suggest other indie shooters here, but yeah... eew EA and battlefield are dead to me.