Forum Discussion
Looks like they are catering to the anti vehicle crowd. That makes me very unhappy. Vehicles are the entire reason I play the game in the first place. That cooldown time is insane along with less vehicles on the map. Battlefield was built on combined arms. Will give it a shot but ultimately these decisions will make me uninstall after 400 hours of fun
- edgecrusherO03 years agoSeasoned Ace@Joe234567891011 Because vehicles are currently broken with how many there are and how quickly they can be pulled. Taking one down should have an impact on the battlefield, and currently it doesn't.
It still IS combined arms, but vehicle vs. infantry balance is absolute garbage right now. Vehicles should be stronger (yes, I'm arguing for that) - though with aircraft a bit easier to take down (please fix AA rockets shooting off on a locked target that didn't blow flares...but the missile still zips off into nowhere) with longer cooldowns, so that way each vehicle is more impactful and taking one down has a bigger impact on the battlefield.- 3 years ago
@edgecrusherO0 wrote:
@Joe234567891011Because vehicles are currently broken with how many there are and how quickly they can be pulled. Taking one down should have an impact on the battlefield, and currently it doesn't.
It still IS combined arms, but vehicle vs. infantry balance is absolute garbage right now. Vehicles should be stronger (yes, I'm arguing for that) - though with aircraft a bit easier to take down (please fix AA rockets shooting off on a locked target that didn't blow flares...but the missile still zips off into nowhere) with longer cooldowns, so that way each vehicle is more impactful and taking one down has a bigger impact on the battlefield.Completely disagree. Never been easier to take down aircraft. Never been less vehicles on the map. Never had weaker fire power on the vehicles . If they make these vehicle changes to conquest I’m done with this game. And the funniest part is all the changes are for the player base that quit and aren’t coming back. So now they are just chasing away the people who stayed
- edgecrusherO03 years agoSeasoned Ace@Joe234567891011 And it's never been easier to avoid getting shot. Non-lockon options from the ground are largely useless thanks to slow turret speed, and with how quick aircraft are it's very easy to do strafing runs whenever flares are up or fly low and abuse either LoS or distance to break locks/get out of range of missiles. Sure you can't just hover over a battle going crazy, but that's the point.
Again though: I'm arguing for STRONGER vehicles, but fewer of them and pulling them less often (which DICE is moving towards). Each vehicle should be a significant threat to infantry, and if infantry/vehicles are working together to take them down there should absolutely be a consequence for losing one.
And yes, they NEED to make changes that will hopefully bring back the overwhelming majority of players that have left the game. Focusing on the tiny minority still playing isn't going to help the game population grow so that we can consistently find matches that aren't half-filled with bots.
- 3 years ago
Completely agree with you! I will also uninstall the game if they reduce amount of vehicles (tanks/helis/etc). This AOW 128 players, isn't an infantry only mode. Its combined arms. The maps lack vehicles! Especially tanks! Breakaway the largest map in the game only has 3 armored tank slots per team thats very sad. Yet panzerstorm on bf5 64 had 7 per team. Now they want to reduce to only 2 per team out of 128 players. We will never get a chance to drive one that is freaking ridiculous and really upsetting. Players who want to do infantry only or less vehicles can go play other modes in portal. More vehicles=less traversal on foot
- InsidiuZ3 years agoNew Hotshot
To be honest all these changes are very good, I think that was the way from the beginning. The ideas about the vehicles seem fantastic to me, one of the main reasons why I left the game was because of the absurd spam of vehicles, at the time I made a post on reddit contributing ideas to balance that, one of those ideas was precisely to divide the vehicles and that only transport vehicles such as quads, trucks, motorcycles could be requested, vehicles with weapons such as volte, hovercraft and tanks should be considered attack vehicles and that they only be acquired on a base basis as it has always been in old BF. Seeing all these changes in the game would really motivate me to return, hopefully all this will come true.
After so much time with disappointment there is finally a pinch of happiness in me.