It really felt like I have had a lot fewer chances to use vehicles in 2042.

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@UP_Hawxxeye wrote:

One of the main things that got me hooked into BF since BF3 were the vehicles.

But in 2042 if feels to me like I ended up spending a considerably longer time outside of vehicles.

I am trying to do some brainstorming as to why.

1. It feels that there are fewer available vehicles compared to the team size than in older games.
2. The vehicle loss penalty prevents you from getting the same vehicle twice in a row unless nobody in the team wants it for like 15 extra seconds.
3. Most ground vehicles have clunky: turrets, mobility, turret angles and 3rd person view (it was improved a bit on S7).
4. Most air vehicles feel bad in terms of controlling them. The Nightbird is the only exception which is still the complete opposite
5. Some specialists had way too easy a time vs ground vehicles pre S7 (Mackay and Sundance and their now nerfed 3 C5 dives.
6. 3 out of 4 classes used to be able to quickly solo a tank up close  pre S7.
7. I think that never before did the infantry have such an overwhelming number of Anti tank gadget ammo and anti tank options.
8. A well played infantry soldier ends up getting more kills/score than most drivers/pilots. This probably has a lot to do with how much downtime a vehicle has vs a team that is not incompetent.

Does anyone else have something to add to the list

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Regarding your points.

1. I agree.
2. I agree, during the beta, you could queue for a vehicle whilst it was timed out. I HAVE NO IDEA why such a great QoL was scrapped. Hell, this scrapped feature should've been expanded upon, where you could reserve the vehicle so that if you deployed as infantry you would get a message telling you to use the tablet within 10 seconds to call in your reserved vehicle or your vehicle right would be passed on. If it was an aircraft that you reserved, your life ticket would be preserved but if you died within 60 seconds, you would lose 2 tickets for your team.
3. I agree, only this year, did we finally get some form of UI for where passenger turrets are aiming. How 2042 launched without this, I will never know. Much like bigmap and quick big map.
4. I'd argue the nightbird is too easy to control and is at times just defiant of gravity like the Condor. I miss BF4 aircraft physics and airfields.
5. The lack of proper classes is the cause of this. Assault shouldn't have C4, just Recon and Engineer.
6. See above.
7. See above.
8. I think it makes sense that vehicles receive less kills than infantry, it would be kinda wild if it was the other way around. And still there are many people who go 50 and 0 in vehicles by camping and not pushing, and then there's the 80 and 0 Nightbird mains.

I think vehicles were woeful in 2042 overall. The fishbowl effect still exists on many maps for aircraft, the balancing was all over the place across the seasons. It was not what I expect from a AAA game.