It’s frustrating to play i.e. Engineer right now because nobody drops ammo so you can’t restock your gadgets.
I realize it’s to encourage team play but in reality hardly anyone runs with ammo.
The next game has to be grounded in reality and not in wishful thinking about encouraging team play.
The game has a serious identity crisis. It is two different games in one, which normally doesn't work like we have seen with this BF2042 dumpster fire.
They should've called this Battlefield: The Specialists or something like that and purposely went hard with that route like Hardline.
However, they needed more than one faction with the same specialist abilities. Like some of the modes, they should've restricted the Specialists per squad (so you can't have 4 Mackays). Then went with different game modes like Hazard Zone, Capture the Flag, King of the Hill, Domination, etc.
No Conquest, Breakthrough, and Rush with Specialists. Leave that for Portal, where you could play all those modes as BF4, BF3, BFBC2, or BF1942 soldiers with the appropriate class restrictions.
Just one example of what I'm talking about.
Battlefield 2042's Best Change Should Be a Launch Feature in The Next Battlefield Game (msn.com)
My take on this is the only way to make specialists work is to have a server browser, because then people wouldn’t care that there specialists.
actually, it’s more than that, a proper team oriented setup, with continuous squads through a map rotation would allow people to properly self organise and achieve something of an organised play style, especially with a group of random players. Which is the only way to get the most out of specialists roles.
also, find some way to ensure visibility of specialists roles from a distance.
