Already seeing in the comments - some newer players criticising the changes, and some veteran players praising it. A lot of players will mourn the loss of freedom on the battlefield.I'm prepared to give it a go. I started playing the franchise with BF2, so not such a shock to the system for me. I just hope that the player base doesn't decline any more - I'm finding it hard to find games, as it is.

@EA_Atic I guess we will see in a weeks time.

Class rework will split the player base - IMHO

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Skill4Reel
3 years ago
While I think that reverting to the class system in BF2042 is unnecessary and nothing more than the devs using it to say. "Hey, we listen when some of you complain." I enjoy playing Battlefield enough that I will continue playing this game.
Isn't the community already split between BF2042, BF1, and BF4? I do not see the people that have been regularly playing BF2042 jumping ship to go play an older title in the series that also has classes.
Anobix
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Lancelot_du_Lac wrote:
Already seeing in the comments - some newer players criticising the changes, and some veteran players praising it. A lot of players will mourn the loss of freedom on the battlefield.
I'm prepared to give it a go. I started playing the franchise with BF2, so not such a shock to the system for me. I just hope that the player base doesn't decline any more - I'm finding it hard to find games, as it is.
Ultimately, I agree. The game has been out for over a year at this point. While I and many others missed the Class system, the way this particular entire game was designed, including maps, gadgets, vehicle counts, and of course specialists and their 'abilities'. Including the lack of squad benefits like in previous BF games, etc don't necessarily fit it.
As you said, I enjoy BF games overall and have played most of them in various quantities since 1942, but I truly don't expect this change, this late, to bring back a significant percentage of the population that has moved on for one reason or another other than for maybe a weekend.
UP_LordPlumber
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Lancelot_du_Lac It should bring more overall balance into the game.

Right now some players are having it too easy, while other players saw their playstyles utterly ruined.

For run and gun players you pick Zain or Macay or Falck, a rocket launcher/C5 and you're set to do pretty much anything. Killing infantry, killing vehicles, and staying alive with heals.

Players who want to play more vehicle-oriented gameplay are screwed because 9/10 players would run either a rocket launcher or C5 because its the best gadget that provides the most value. So any time a tank peaks its barrel from out the cover, the screen lights up red with 10+ rockets coming your way from every direction. Its just not a good game design.

Other specialists are also neglected. Everyone runs 3-4 "META" setups and the rest are left untouched.

Now people will have a choice of either picking their favorite setup, or changing it because there is a situation that requires it.

It won't being any sizeable playerbase back, nor will it make many players quit.

But if they're committed to supporting this game long-term, I think this change is necessary.
X-Sunslayer-X
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Lancelot_du_Lac what loss of freedom exactly?
you can still pick any of teh soon 12 specialists with your favorite passice as well as any weapon you want, the only thing you loose is the aspect DICE called "min-maxing" so i am sorry you can no longer play as Rao and Stinger to bully most helicopters or Boris with a healthcrate sitting in a corner behind your turret....
you loose some and gain some this is called balance i know i know you lost a toy but hey thats life
Psubond
Legend
3 years ago
@X-Sunslayer-X How do you wxpect stealth helos to be countered. There is barely enough time to get a stinger off and after hack now let alone having someone else do it.
cso7777
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@PsubondI think the class system will need some adjustments after launch.

Unless Dice for once has done their homework well, it could be a long road of nerfs/buffs/rebalancing.

I personally welcome the changes, but Dice "start over" to some extent, and it can have lot of "unexpected consequences" for the gameplay.
Psubond
Legend
3 years ago
@cso7777 wrote:
@PsubondI think the class system will need some adjustments after launch.

Unless Dice for once has done their homework well, it could be a long road of nerfs/buffs/rebalancing.

I personally welcome the changes, but Dice "start over" to some extent, and it can have lot of "unexpected consequences" for the gameplay.
i'm proably done after the update. i'm not playing cannon fodder for vehicles with no effective way of fighting back. (looking at you stealth helo)
X-Sunslayer-X
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Psubond i'd just take away the stealth mode, or make them choose between either a short duration stealth or flares...
but hey DICE surely knows best.....
ragnarok013
Hero+
3 years ago
I'm extremely happy they are bringing back classes, but a bit disappointed in how it was a half measure instead of a true full class system. The only thing I'd ardently against is Rao being a recon class instead of being an engineer as his gadget synergizes with AT/AA systems far more than being "recon".
cso7777
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@PsubondWe don't need an air-vehicle with stealth, bombing infantry (/vehicles), its among the worst vehicles to ever be in the franchise. That Dice can think that these kinds of vehicles are good for the game shows how disconnected from reality they are.

And the general buffing of land-vehicles can become a disaster as well, less players will probably use rocket-launchers, and we risk that infantry ends up being hammered even more.