Seasoned Veteran

Re: Battlefield vehicle spawn systems

@Raven3356 There will be some point system were you can spawn vehicles in to your location. These vehicles you can spawn in can be hit by enemy fire allegedly as they come down (mentioned in a EA briefing chat online)

Apart from that there will be vehicles to use around the map.

I would like to see a cool down system once you’ve been in a vehicle tank plane helicopter etc once you die there is a cool down or time limit before you can try to obtain another.

3 Replies

akula_r
4 years ago
@Hudson009 wrote:
@Raven3356There will be some point system were you can spawn vehicles in to your location. These vehicles you can spawn in can be hit by enemy fire allegedly as they come down (mentioned in a EA briefing chat online)

Apart from that there will be vehicles to use around the map.

I would like to see a cool down system once you’ve been in a vehicle tank plane helicopter etc once you die there is a cool down or time limit before you can try to obtain another.
I've been replaying BF4 the last couple of days and I'm being reminded why I agree with this so much. With 64 person servers you already have people camping for specific vehicle spawns.. with 128 person servers I can only imagine it getting worse. I play mostly infantry but occasionally when I get the opportunity I love piloting and co-piloting helicopters. It's kind of a shame that the current system can be abused where if the person who last used the vehicle died and just waits at spawn screen until that vehicle icon reappears so they can spawn on it again and not allow others the opportunity.
Maybe the vehicles spawning around the map will curb this behavior a little bit - I hope some thought is going into the spawn screen campers issue.
OkamiToge
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@akula_r I see pilots do it 24/7 on BFV it's BAD.
rainkloud
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@akula_r Camping the spawn screen or spawn itself isn't as bad as many people make it out to be.

1) Vehicle pros can bring a lot of value to the team and can have a dramatic effect on attacks and defenses. And even if their K/D isn't spectacular if they are tying up the enemy pros and preventing them from going on a rampage then they are still pulling their own.

2) Many maps have multiple vehicles so the actual "wasted" time is negligible. And in fact considering that vehicles are a lot faster than running it can actually be more efficient to wait for one depending on the wait time.

3) Not all vehicle people are committed to a certain one. Yes, jet pilots are notorious for being single disciplinary but many like myself will work on multiple vehicles - even transports. But those jet pilots have a good excuse for focusing so much as piloting has traditionally been extremely competitive and only repeated practice can make you better.

4) A lot of people couldn't care less about vehicles. In my experience most chat, discord, forum is typically dominated by class and weapon discussions. Some people never set foot in nor want to get in a heavy vehicle outside of a transport. That means the competition for them is fairly light on most maps where supply largely meets (and sometimes exceeds) demand. Certainly there are exceptions like maps that have just a handful of vehicles but on most medium to large maps its generally not a big issue.