This development team is something else. Do they not understand what this is going to do to infantry ops as well? The APS was the only thing that made Redacted playable. So there is going to be even more explosive spam on Redacted; that is all we needed. The clown show keeps on giving.
@Adamonic wrote:This development team is something else. Do they not understand what this is going to do to infantry ops as well? The APS was the only thing that made Redacted playable. So there is going to be even more explosive spam on Redacted; that is all we needed. The clown show keeps on giving.
At first I was going to respond that this was not affecting grenades etc.
Then I realized that since this nerf affects AT launcers, people in Redacted will be able to spam RPGs right into corridors.
What the heck are they thinking?!
They didn't think about Redacted. Looking at the game Battlefield, they just tried to balance things mainly looking at a large scale all out warfare.
Redacted is a niche map in this game. Not really a battlefield map but i understand it is popular.
They should apply special rules and restrictions to these smaller infantry maps if they choose to include them in a game that is known for large scale war game with vehicles. Obviously these changes don't work for both kinds of maps.
@Adamonic wrote:This development team is something else. Do they not understand what this is going to do to infantry ops as well? The APS was the only thing that made Redacted playable. So there is going to be even more explosive spam on Redacted; that is all we needed. The clown show keeps on giving.
I'm wondering if these types of changes are really about server performance. Many months back I noticed the server performance icon was ocassionaly popping up. Indicating the server was having issue maintaining the 45hz tickrate.
Several of the changes they have made have been geared to slowing things down and reducing actions. In some cases these reductions would also minimize usage of cpu cycles.
In season 5, they put a cooldown on the Irish sentinel so that it would only intercept every 5 seconds. I imagine this greatly reduced the amount of computation needed to calculate the projectile's intercept based on velocity, directional vectors, etc. for every sentinel on the map and every map on the virtual machine.
Same could be said for eliminating sundance anti-armor functionality which would require the server to calculate positions and vectors for tracking moving air and land vehicles.
By reducing these ocurrences of these, or eliminating them they reduce server cpu usage. This means they sqeeze more virtual game instances into the same number of amazon game hosts and reduce overal costs.
For those of you reading if you don't know what the 7.2 update is going to bring for the aps Sentinel on Irish amongst others please take the time to review it now because I don't have time to copy and paste it all.
Few patches ago they nerfed Casper's drone for having the ability to EMP at all. This was to stop Casper's drone from permanently or near permanently disabling vehicles. However this caused issues on other aspects versus people hunkering down on objectives and over fortifying. Without that EMP to have the ability to hit gadgets only instead of just removing the ability to disable vehicles it is causing a huge issue already. This being said has direct correlation to what I'm about to say about irish's Sentinel.
If you remove the ability to shoot down vehicle projectiles you are going to not only increase the Noob Tube recoilless spam and RPG spam Etc on close quarter combat Maps, which might not necessarily be an issue for some of you guys that like to have larger scale Warfare. however if dice or EA can actually read this thread and understand that if they did not remove the ability to EMP on Casper's drone, then Casper's EMP drone which would only affect gadgets at this point, would be able to take out irish Sentinels and help alleviate the enemies fortifications...even vehicles campers using Irish shoot down sentinals...
In layman's terms
Casper Drone could counter Irish Sentinels if they added ability to emp gadgets only on Casper Drone, removing the need to nerf Irish Sentinal in the first place...EA / DICE caused what they are nerfing because they don't care....plain and simple.
Fix it
