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4 years ago

Please remove the Ranger from BF2042

As the title says; please remove the Ranger from BF2042. It is a gimmick that doesn't belong in a shooter, let alone a Battlefield game.

The problems:

  1. It requires zero skill to use. 
    - All you have to do is call it in - after that it is an autonomous drone that spots and damages the enemy for you; even outside of your own command.

  2. It caters to the solo player mentality
    Battlefield has and always will be a team game; and this tool has nothing to do with that. It is only there as a crutch to be used if you are playing solo. It adds nothing to the overall team or Squad.

  3. It is way too powerful
    While the doggo doesn't do much damage it spots you from ridiculous distances. In a game where you are already on the minimap 80% of the time; flanking becomes very hard to pull off, unless you are playing as Sundance, but even if you do get into a good position, the Ranger can ruin that within seconds. 

  4. Scope glint
    The whole point of the scope glint was to make it easy to identify enemy snipers. The glint on the Ranger makes it hard to tell the difference and can get you killed easily because you are likely to give away your own position as soon as you take aim yourself. 

  5. No price to pay
    With all of these perks that the Ranger gives you'd think that there would be some sort of cost to all of this or that it at the very least had to be earned. Nope. It's just there for free.

  6. It ruins fun and competitive gun-play
    The amount of times where you lose a fire-fight to some random factor in this game is already high. Sometimes you get sniped, sometimes you get blown into pieces by a chopper, those are all fine. They required skill by the actual player. But there is nothing more infuriating than being in a good 1v1 firefight only to have the fight disrupted by an AI shooting at you. I have lost countless fights this way, because I had to change movement mid fight or get pinned down at low health making me a sitting duck.

  7. Solo vs. Team
    As I have already said; BF is not a solo game. But with the Ranger it is heavily incentivised; especially when there are already gadgets like the stim and the ammo plate in the game. I personally think those should be removed too. Soloing should never be incentivised in Battlefield

  8. Nothing Special
    Final nail in the coffin for the Ranger, imo, is that it makes Boris feel less Special. Yes his drone is not mobile, but the Ranger almost serves the exact same purpose except it is much more tanky - which in some ways even makes it superior. 

Solutions:

  • Remove the Ranger from the game.
  • If no removal; at least implement a squad reward system like in the days of old so this thing is not free of charge and is actually earned through teamplay.
  • Make a Specialist that has it as a call-in- alter the functionality to something more teamplay oriented like automatic vehicle repair- mine clearing - or maybe let it have a supply bag on the back with health and ammo. Literally anything anything that is not solo related. 
  • Force the player to give it orders so it is not a passive drone. It should only react to enemy that the player has personally spotted. 

Sorry for the rant, but I really hate the Ranger and their zero skill utility.

Edit: Formating 

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