Does anyone else hate specialists?
After puting many hours into the beta, I came to one conclusion. Specialists suck! They make the game unrealistic in every way, they don't make sense, and this game didn't feel like a battlefield gam...
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@dirtytamatoSpecialists are more “realistic” than classes, truly.
They are merely a different form of the class system and I have yet to hear a valid, coherent argument against the concept of specialists.
Most people just don’t like them for emotional or nostalgic reasons, which is fine, but that does not really invalidate the reality that they are not all that different from classes…
I full heartedly disagree. I'm pretty sure our us military don't run around with an auto turret in their back pocket.
- @dirtytamato They do not, but Boris is not American and this is a “future” setting game… beside the point though.
The military does identify combat roles within a squad or team for each member to fill, but cross-training can make those combat roles interchangeable and I see specialists in much the same light. You could argue about the Medic / Corpsman, but even Combat Lifesaver Training is widely taught across the board. - @dirtytamato I’m pretty sure they don’t carry a bunch of parachutes either.
It’s a game, not a sim. There’s not much that’s realistic about BF if you actually break it down for a second. The focus for any game should be balancing which I would argue makes for the most fun. I’ve played classes for years now, kinda boring.It took me about 5 hours each to get bored of each specialists. I stopped playing the beta 2 days in because of how dreadfully boring the specialists made the game. I suppose they are better for playing solo and not worrying about sticking to a role but that's not what I play battlefield for and other games do it better so I don't really see what the point of this battlefield game is.
Nope, I enjoyed the beta already very much. I'm curious how this new try out of Dice will work in the final game. I guess there will be some balance challenges, but I think Dice will work them out. I'm afraid I'm going to make a lot of hours in this game. Cheers
Balance issues aside, I'm loving the change.
Everyone will eventually just pick the meta specialist after watching Levelcap... Or, just use Portal with BF3/BF4 classes on maps with customer servers...
- @SH4RPest1 Welcome to gaming. People will always choose what is meta to win. That is every game.
@dirtytamato If think in this way, jump from a jet and blow a enemy with a rpg is not much realistic, c'mmon bro, over realism is not a argument for this is not the propose from this game, never was and is not a sim
I get where you are coming from but have you seen the new specialists? This is litterally a cod game
