Dev notes-Vehicle, equipment loadout changes for season 7

A couple other big changes for me.

1) Improved sensitivity/turn rate on vehicle turrets

2) Engineer class to get +1 extra rocket ammo (eventually)

Honestly Don't know how to feel about this yet. I don't want to crap on anything till I have actually tried it. 

@Hudson1531

You missed "As such, in an upcoming update we’ll be increasing the available RPG, Recoilless and all other era-equivalents by 1."
I'm still not happy that the Crawford perk isn't removed and that further +1 given to boris as well, and crawford and boris' deployables made better (e.g. let crawford's turret be placed when angled, and angle itself up higher?!)
I think the RPG didn't need a +1, and the M5 needed a +2 but this is probably fine.

I think the changes are pretty good. 2042 has extremely fast infantry movement while ground vehicles are much slower to accelerate or change direction than in BF4, nevermind McKay and Sundance, so the C4/mines nerf is pretty warranted.

The wildcat didn't need to have the 40mm. The reduction to the "range of the main cannon" doesn't quite make a lot of sense to me. The 30mm already has huge spread, and past ~400m it is doing chip damage to most things minus jets that face you with their top/bottom. It also vanishes past ~700m. Are they reducing its time to live? More damage falloff? What about the 35mm, which probably lives for ~2000m?

I think Casper's drone was kinda fine; if they want it to not affect vehicles, ok, I agree with that due to how small and risk-free it is, however it should be able to destroy spawn beacons and APSes, and it should be able to detonate enemy mines/C5 from range like the MAV could.

I'm not seeing "reintroduced the inability to fire lockons within air vehicles as it was in BF4". Or just anything about the pondhawk really. It can eat a stinger and live, it takes low damage from the NTW-50 or any other weapon in general, it has thermal smoke AND there's a chance the rocket will just spin around it and miss it because of how small it is.

I also have a feeling the flare cooldown increase will be minor and not much will change. A passive/instant lockon launcher is needed IMO.

@Hudson1531 (In reply to the more recent comment) The post also mentions some turn rate improvements/3p(?) for ground vehicles minus the TOR, so this can be a decent plus for the wildcat.

Interesting that DICE said in their post:

"We’re aware that Ground Vehicles currently face too many threats both from infantry and other vehicles, and due to this it automatically encourages defensive gameplay which takes place from a large distance."

But then only nerf infantry (as usual).  What about the serious OP threat from attack choppers and jets!?

I don't understand any of the changes, other than increasing flares cooldown, which I suspect will be so minor it will be almost undetectable.

Wildcat gets YET ANOTHER nerf, so no one will bother with that now and the skies will be clear for the flyboys.  And the engineer gadgets also nerfed against vehicles!?  They already have APS, thermal smoke, self-repair and other things - why nerf engineers EVEN MORE!?

Honestly, I'm done with this game.  Tired of the devs ignoring the feedback from the loyal community, and making up their own changes that no one has asked for, which they then usually have to revert or u-turn on later.  Visual recoil for instance - what a joke!

@Hudson1531Nerfing the wildcat is insane.

We're in a game state where little birds are invincible death machines going 150-0 constantly, and DICE see that and think "yeah, the AA needs even more nerfs".

Are you guys even playing the game?

First of all, a Wildcat AA should be "lopsided" when going up against Air. That's it's job. Would you ever say that the EMKV90-TOR is "lopsided" against other ground vehicles? No, of course not. Now that the 40mm is removed the only thing it's useful for is Anti-Air, so why would you nerf it? And now the vertical lock-on is being nerfed as well.

The flare change will do nothing, knowing dice the change will be 1 second or something equally tiny and pointless.

Once again the twitch sweats that DICE fanboi over will be loving these ground nerfs.

I look forward to playing Haven and getting spawn trapped by a littlebird sweat racking up 200 kills with no deaths because there's nothing to counter him.