EA what are the plans about Specialist ? No more debate

I want them gone forever. Thanos snapped, obliterated, erased from the franchise. 

good luck with that as they already sold 4 new ones to people.  in order to get rid of them they have to refund a lot of money

@VRACinque Lets be straight, the community has such diverse opinions, that can be funneled in the term "The Specialists Issue", which is a very wide field about what people think is wrong with BF2042.

For me it groups into several subcategories:

• Class Restrictions aka unrestricted vs.
  • Weapon Type
  • Gadgets
  • Throwables
• Cosmetics aka faction and class specific look vs.
  • Name
  • Gender
  • Look

Also I like know when people say "Classes are better than Specialists" which classes do they speak about BF2 classes, BF4 classes? Because that makes a huge difference, to understand what peoples issues actually are.

So I what I assume I hear a lot is "BF3 classes are better than Specialists" and since I am a BF4 player, that played  BF3 only for research purposes, I had to google a lot about BF3 classes. And I came to the conclusion that BF3 classes are not so different from the Specialists. BF3 has 4(+1) classes with one irreplaceable main gadget, the +1 because there are Anti-Tank Engineers and Anti-Air Engineers.

So there must be reason behind why people say this, but I don't get it. In BF4 I have the freedom, not to equip a defibrillator as assault, not to bring an ammo crate as a support, not to bring a ranged anti-vehicle weapon as an engineer, and not to bring a spawn beacon as a recon.

When BF3 players choose their class for their main gadget, the same is true for the BF2042 players, or they choose the BF3 class for the class specific weapon type, and annoyed team mates by just ignoring their primary gadget.

With the reveal of BF2042 my first comment was, I don't think the specialists are a good idea. Having the only medic being a woman will cause the more issues, than BFV defaulting medics and recons to female models. I am pretty sure, the reason why Angel can revive team mates is about this  gender issue. 

For me, I would be happy when they replace the specific cosmetics with something faction based generics.

• Grapnel
• Grenadier
• Shield Assault
• Defender
• Autoturret
• Medic
• Quatermaster
• Spotter
• Hacker
• Infiltrator

I think they might of been able to sell this specialist thing better if they at least looked different on each team. maybe people would be willing to give it a shot? but having everybody look the same in a shooter where fractions of a second count on your reaction to seeing enemy or friend shoot or dont shoot is just terrible.

They said pretty early on Specialists were here to say - I hope they can at least make some tweaks to the formula to balance the scales a bit. Flakfire posting something interesting on twitter; it's not aperfect, but it's a great start IMO

https://twitter.com/Flakfire/status/1490503628997672962?s=20&t=wN64qK8KtWxWvrNB_cvcuQ

I mean in bf4 I tried every weapon but got mastery with 23 weapons. I'm fine with the games launch weapons I feel like there's at least 1 weapon for every playstyle. Including the mp28 being like a pistol carbine

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@rippedwire01 wrote:

I want them gone forever. Thanos snapped, obliterated, erased from the franchise. 

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@rippedwire01 so do I however since some players bought the game with Specialists advertised I think Specialists should be maintained in a side mode as I mentioned above for those who like them while giving us a traditional class based AOW Battlefield mode without Specialists. For the next game I hope Specialists are completely gone but I don't think anything the game launches with should be removed permanently since some people do enjoy them in 2042.

There's already precedent for this type of action from DICE too. In BF4 the game launched with full mag dumps when you reloaded in core and in hard core whereas full mag dumps were formerly only in hard core. The community gave feedback that we wanted the core mechanic to be like earlier core versions without the full mag dump and DICE made the change. In order to please the people who liked the launch version with full mag dumps DICE kept the launch version of core with the full mag dump and called it "classic mode". Everyone was happy so I think this type of mentality is how best to appease all sides in the current 2042 vision wars.

That'd be a nice alternative. Unfortunately I don't think the current DICE is capable of doing something like that.