I just want to bump this topic up as it covers one of the largest issues with BF 2042 and this series as a whole. Hopefully whenever platoons get added to this game there will be a host of squad/team play focused features to go along with it.
i'm bumping too.
why TF do I care about the player increase when I'm forced to play with less of my friends as the result of this * backwards *. None of the work arounds from previous games work either.
I would love to see a larger squads and a return of BF2 commander mode where you could give specific squads instructions which would come up on the map and show coloured smoke in the level.
My concern would be if you have 16 player lobbies, and it needs to find another 16 players then you need 32 players to start the match.
This shouldn't be a problem but it is since the player count has gone down.
I think you need either 24 players (3 squads on each team) or 32 players (4 squads on each team) currently to start a 128 player server.
Players in less populated regions (like me) already have trouble getting into games.
If they could implement the suggested system but have it so you could start with only 2 squads on each team I'd get behind this.
In terms of a command structure it would be good to have other squads in your platoon colour coded differently - ie say your squad is green, other squads in your platoon could be purple, allies are blue.
Once again I will reference Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Seige and also Nintendos' Splatoon which are two games that have separate and well defined ranked lobbies. What I mean by well defined is that players know if they are in ranked lobbies playing solo or with their clan members, that this is a PTW (Play To Win) area where teamwork is required.
Battlefield has needed a space like this for team focused players for a long time. The solo, sandbox Battlefield experience has gotten old for me. DICE tried Incursions on Battlefield 1. I think that it was 5 Vs 5, and that is the reason why it did not work.
Large scale warfare has always been the main selling point for this series, and it was so disappointing when Incursions released to see that it was not focused on that.
I have always said that the people that want to play with each other as a team should be allowed to do so with and against other players that want to do the same.
