BF3 wasnt a " Bad game " like COD arena But BF2042 is a true Combine arms BF

Combined arms means infantry and armor/air supporting each other to achieve a goal.

We did have combined arms in BF3, 4 as well, slightly less in 1 and 5 with the advent of the abomination that is "press x to repair" and absolutely comical AA/aircraft balancing (looking at you again 1 and 5).

Armor or air pushing forward solo shouldn't be a kill streak waiting to happen, it should be suicide which it was on any half-decent server in 3 or 4.

Combined arms also doesn't mean every other player in a damn hovercraft or bigger and maps so open it's basically a shooting gallery for vehicles more than anything, in the sense of combined arms BF2042 isn't even trying.

Also, as someone who did play BF3 quite a bit and regarding weapons, I'll second what others have said before in the thread, the M16 was not "meta" in the slightest, it was the easy middle ground, but it go beat out in both TTK and effective range handily by a G3 with a heavy barrel (especially on effective range/damage drop-off there) and smoked by any AN-user who had figured out that two-shot bursts had an insane ROF and could tap decently fast without shifting their POI too much and was an even better laser-beam gun.

The M16 certainly saw a lot of use, but that's simply because it was easy to use and required little in the way of learning or recoil control.

Like someone posted earlier in the thread, my top two guns used in that game were the G3 and AN by some distance, the M16 only got a look-in to get the unlocks done, then it collected dust after that.

Oh, and regarding the COD comparisons, infantry only maps in BF3 with no explosives were *head and shoulders* above CoD at the time.

Free-for-all servers were indeed just a giant mess, but the ones that were well moderated/constantly balanced (almost without exception having no/very limited explosives) and with server-specific player stat trackers and ban lists were an absolute blast to play on.

Then again if the mood struck, so were armor-only or even plane-only servers.

Here's the kicker, you could play all of those modes in 3 on top of normal BF and they were all populated, you could play *any* style you wanted.

I honestly don't mind if someone "loves" 2042 even if i don't, but spouting absolute nonsense about previous titles just to try to justify your own stance just makes it look like you never actually played those old titles or you don't quite understand the terms you're throwing around.