3.2 feels like a new game
Among people who are whining that Lis got over-buffed, their favorite meta toys got taken away and classes, in general, being a terrible idea, I actually feel like the game is just fantastic in most ...
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@Psubond What's up with the controls? I've been playing and didn't feel any difference for a couple of days. Only 1 extra gadget slot.
And the exploits of using any gadget with any class is exactly what caused absolute chaos balance-wise.
Sure its cool on paper when you can pull off some combo with a class. But in reality, it introduced a whole train of balancing issues and gameplay loopholes
You fly a heli and there would be a next of Angels sitting on top of a loadout crate with infinite rocket launchers.
Play a tank and everyone would switch their gadget for M5 and you'd be dead in an instant.
That also killed any variety in the game. You said it yourself. You would be playing Angel because he had OP loadout crate, or Rao because he had that stupid hack/smack combo
Many other specialists were left out of the equation simply because they lacked any meaningful "combo setup"
Now its fixed and everyone has to play a specific role. This brings more balance and variety to the game. You can't just camp somewhere with an infinite rocket launcher all day (Unless you're Lis) and shoot passing vehicles.
And the exploits of using any gadget with any class is exactly what caused absolute chaos balance-wise.
Sure its cool on paper when you can pull off some combo with a class. But in reality, it introduced a whole train of balancing issues and gameplay loopholes
You fly a heli and there would be a next of Angels sitting on top of a loadout crate with infinite rocket launchers.
Play a tank and everyone would switch their gadget for M5 and you'd be dead in an instant.
That also killed any variety in the game. You said it yourself. You would be playing Angel because he had OP loadout crate, or Rao because he had that stupid hack/smack combo
Many other specialists were left out of the equation simply because they lacked any meaningful "combo setup"
Now its fixed and everyone has to play a specific role. This brings more balance and variety to the game. You can't just camp somewhere with an infinite rocket launcher all day (Unless you're Lis) and shoot passing vehicles.
@UP_LordPlumber wrote:
@PsubondWhat's up with the controls? I've been playing and didn't feel any difference for a couple of days. Only 1 extra gadget slot.
And the exploits of using any gadget with any class is exactly what caused absolute chaos balance-wise.
Sure its cool on paper when you can pull off some combo with a class. But in reality, it introduced a whole train of balancing issues and gameplay loopholes
You fly a heli and there would be a next of Angels sitting on top of a loadout crate with infinite rocket launchers.
Play a tank and everyone would switch their gadget for M5 and you'd be dead in an instant.
That also killed any variety in the game. You said it yourself. You would be playing Angel because he had OP loadout crate, or Rao because he had that stupid hack/smack combo
Many other specialists were left out of the equation simply because they lacked any meaningful "combo setup"
Now its fixed and everyone has to play a specific role. This brings more balance and variety to the game. You can't just camp somewhere with an infinite rocket launcher all day (Unless you're Lis) and shoot passing vehicles.
They remapped the button layout. Better is subjective. So is worse. I think it is worse. Feels like a different game in a bad way. Keep hitting wrong buttons due to muscle memory and getting killed for it.
And rao couldnt shoot down a stealth helo by himself but he was a credible threat and could keep them from flying with impunity due to stealth.
Also angel with a soflam or at mines is hardly op.
If you havent played enough to notice control problems you must be on pc otherwise i question you playing enough to assess the update
- @Psubond Can't you just re-map controls to whatever you want?
@UP_LordPlumber wrote:
@PsubondCan't you just re-map controls to whatever you want?no. the weapon swap button is combined with the plus button (hit to change weapon, hold to open the plus menu). you can't remap things to make it the way it used to be on xbox because it used to be hold the plus menu button then hit Y to change optics. if you are holding Y you can't hit Y. if you change the plus menu button to another button then your weapon swap goes with it and now all that muscle memory for switching to sidearm is screwed. there is no reason that needed to be combined and because it was it is unfixable in custom settings. the grenade button was also moved (that can be fixed in custom layout but given Dice's track record of screwing * up i'm sure the custom layouts will be lost from time to time)
then there's the UI. if i want to use a stinger i have to use crawford or boris. but if i want to switch to lis i have to manually go in and unequip the stinger to mines or c5 (why a specialist gets locked out of most of their class gadgets is another thing entirely). before the update i had 8 loadouts set for specific situations and i could quickly switch. now i have to keep editing my loadouts that get bound to the other specialists in the class.
if for no other reason, this update is a dumpster fire because of the UI with loadouts and the controller settings
edit: and if you use the default layout then you have to stop moving to use the plus menu...unless you have 4 thumbs
oh, and i lost most of my playtime over the past two days because somehow crossplay got turned off (xbox one) somehow (i didn't do it, i had to go looking for it)
