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FlibberMeister
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago

Re: vehicle time penalty.

@AngrySquid270 wrote:

There should be a reservation system for vehicles.  I dislike this system where vehicle play is only possible for players willing to spend their game time camping the spawn menu.  I also dislike the idea of having teammates being useless competing with each other in the spawn menu.

It's just a bad mechanic.

The goal for the next BF game should be to find a solution for this spawn menu camping.

I gave up on tank play pretty much immediately, 42 system is hot junk.

BF4 had it pretty good and you could get a pretty decent flow going if you wanted to play tank. 

also, BF4 had a nice mechanic that vehicles spawned at  flags, so controlling those flags had more priority. 

The whole call in system just makes vehicle play a load of garbage imho. call-in for quads, maybe jeeps is ok.

If you want to play jets or tanks and get a whole flow going, then you need to be able to secure those vehicles after death.

Trying to make it fair by adding in some stupid timer actually just makes it terrible flow for people that want to play vehicles rather than infantry. 

Just another reason I deleted 42, and am praying they fix this rubbish. 

6 Replies

  • Man_iLoveFishing's avatar
    Man_iLoveFishing
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    And when player has been playing lets say 5 mins with helo and dies, then helo respawn timer resets. Why wouldn't it instant spawn after global 2 mins timer?

  • UP_Hawxxeye's avatar
    UP_Hawxxeye
    Legend
    4 years ago
    @CPT_GASLIGHT wrote:

    Reservation system lol. Dumbest idea I’ve heard so far. 

    Could you please elaborate on why you believe this is a bad idea?

    It could encourage a less boring vehicle turnover than spamming the relevant vehicle button

  • CPT_GASLIGHT's avatar
    CPT_GASLIGHT
    4 years ago
    @UP_Hawxxeye wrote:
    @CPT_GASLIGHT wrote:

    Reservation system lol. Dumbest idea I’ve heard so far. 

    Could you please elaborate on why you believe this is a bad idea?

    It could encourage a less boring vehicle turnover than spamming the relevant vehicle button

    There are 64 players on a team. Each round lasts about 20 minutes. Vehicle respawn timer is 1:30. So one vehicle has about 13 spawns per round and that’s assuming it gets blown up right away. You do the math. 

    I’d legit quit the game altogether if they made it so I can’t play the game how I want to and forcing me to wait in line.

  • AngrySquid270's avatar
    AngrySquid270
    4 years ago
    @CPT_GASLIGHT wrote:
    @UP_Hawxxeye wrote:
    @CPT_GASLIGHT wrote:

    Reservation system lol. Dumbest idea I’ve heard so far. 

    Could you please elaborate on why you believe this is a bad idea?

    It could encourage a less boring vehicle turnover than spamming the relevant vehicle button

    There are 64 players on a team. Each round lasts about 20 minutes. Vehicle respawn timer is 1:30. So one vehicle has about 13 spawns per round and that’s assuming it gets blown up right away. You do the math. 

    I’d legit quit the game altogether if they made it so I can’t play the game how I want to and forcing me to wait in line.

    All vehicle spawn concepts have drawbacks. If there were a great solution that made everyone happy I'm sure DICE would stumbled across it sometime in the past 20 years.

    I understand that with a reservation//lotto system many players will never get a chance at a vehicle in a match. But that is a true statement with any vehicle spawning concept - provided that DICE doesn't turn Battlefield into a purely vehicle combat game. Demand will always be greater than the supply.

    A lotto/reservation system would at least ensure that everyone who wishes to play a vehicle gets a fair chance AND players wouldn't be wasting their game time in the spawn screen.

  • UP_Hawxxeye's avatar
    UP_Hawxxeye
    Legend
    4 years ago
    @CPT_GASLIGHT wrote:
    @UP_Hawxxeye wrote:
    @CPT_GASLIGHT wrote:

    Reservation system lol. Dumbest idea I’ve heard so far. 

    Could you please elaborate on why you believe this is a bad idea?

    It could encourage a less boring vehicle turnover than spamming the relevant vehicle button

    There are 64 players on a team. Each round lasts about 20 minutes. Vehicle respawn timer is 1:30. So one vehicle has about 13 spawns per round and that’s assuming it gets blown up right away. You do the math. 

    I’d legit quit the game altogether if they made it so I can’t play the game how I want to and forcing me to wait in line.

    I already cannot get vehicles as often as I would had liked between the sub-category (not global) death penalty and and people who seem to be lurking in the spawn screen while turbo-spamming the button of their vehicle of choice

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