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@S3SSioN_SoLPortal maps are smaller than 128
player maps. Some are around 50% to 33% the size of the core 128 player, 2042 maps.
Please stop insulting our intelligence with the “vehicles numbers are a problem on portal maps because there aren’t enough vehicles” logic. Previous Battlefield games destroy this premise. Flood Zone for instance has 1 little bird, 1 Huey per team and ZERO jets. The map amazing!
If the 2042 team redid Flood Zone we’d see 2 Hind, 2 Condor, 2 attack helicopters, 4 tanks, numerous Hovercraft and Recon vehicles all spamming 30mm. Let that sink in a moment. It’s absolutely insane to even contemplate how miserable that would be for infantry.
64 player game modes in 2042:
- Half the number of total infantry(so less players with AA, less Rao hacks, less players running Lis)
- maps half the size so it’s easier for aircraft to cover all objectives
- same number of vehicles from 128 player maps = obvious game design imbalance if you deal in the realm of logic and reason.