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AllanWongX's avatar
4 years ago

Jets in this game are too boring

If your average FPS fans don't like vehicles being useful, just make fast-paced infantry-only maps, don't make vehicles useless. Vehicles are one of the core mechanics of large conquest maps in BF games. Making vehicles useless isn't going make traditional FPS fans happy, and it will make us traditional BF fans disappointed. 

Now speaking of jets, there are a few things that make zero sense.

1. Helicopters and jets have the same flight ceiling. From both lore-wise and gameplay perspective, this is broken. Lore-wise, jets should be able to fly at least twice as high as helicopters can. The helicopters in this game look like UFO floating on the sky box sometimes. Gameplay-wise, jets are overall less efficient against ground targets especially against infantry compare to helicopters, and they are tagged as air dominance vehicles, and good at fighting other vehicles. But that's not the case. 

2. We are 42 years into the 21st century, but air radars are non-existent? This also doesn't make sense from both lore and gameplay stand point. First of all BF4 jets all have radars on them, BF3 jets have optional radars too, and even BFV planes can have radar on them. How come in the year of 2042, the aero and electronics technologies have regressed 100 years? in terms of gameplay, air radar is one of the thing that raises skill ceiling of air combat. DICE do you hate skills? 

3. Not being able to control your air vehicle while viewing rear camera and the big map.  I don't get it, why movement control is locked when looking at rear cam or the big map? 

4. No information about the direction of incoming lock-on. Again, technologies have been regressed since BF4 era. I know BF3 didn't have this, but wouldn't it be nice to tell the pilot where the lock-on comes from, so there are more things the pilot can do with it? DICE you added this in BF4, why remove it now?

5. Countermeasure AKA flares are broken, and why remove the ability to dodge missiles? I think it's a bug and will be patched soon. But removing the missile dodging mechanics just makes the experience less fun. Just think about which ever is more fun: Flying away and waiting for the flares to recharge, or doing a pro-gamer move dodging missiles? And why no ECMs?

Jets in this game are too boring. 

6. The game forces me to spawn as an infantry at the beginning of a round if I can't get a vehicle. WHY? Why forcing me to play as one of your stupid sPEciALiSts when I completely don't care about shooting a gun? I had to redeploy most of the times in this game. I bought this game to fly air vehicles, sometimes tanks. Because it's a Battlefield game, titled as one, sold as one. And I should be able to buy a BF game just to play vehicles. I don't just speak for myself. I know a lot of people who play BF games just for the vehicles. 

I made a list to make jets more fun in this game. Let me make this clear first: everything in the list has at least appeared once in previous BF games, I will put which BF game(s) that it was included in. They aren't fancy gimmicks, just those old things that made the old games fun. Here is the list:

1. Bring back proper speed control and air radar (BF3/4, BFV for air radar)

2. Lower the flight ceiling of helicopters or raise the jet ceiling.(BF4, can't remember about BF3)

3. Balance the turning speeds of F-35 and Su-57. (BF3/4/1/V, I know there are differences among the jets in BF3/4, but they weren't too big like in BF2042)

4. Proper countermeasures, functioning flares and ECM. (BF3/4)

5. Proper anti ground weapons like JDAM bombs(BF4, BF1/V have bombs too), TV guided(BF4), rocket pods(BF3/4/V)

6. Being able to control your air vehicle when viewing rear cam and the big map. (BF3/4/1/V, pretty much every BF game you don't lose control in rear cam since rear cam was added)

7. Do not force people to spawn in the beginning of the game (All the BF games in my knowledge lol)

DICE please, fix this game. 

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