Re: Why does Dozer not have a cooldown?

Agree with @UP_Hawxxeye Dozer is nowhere as dangerous as some people make him to be. He's been nerfed already, making the range of his shield shorter and it seems also the angle of protection has been reduced. Meanwhile there are several counters; incendiary grenades, shooting at his exposed feet, drop C5 and wait until he runs past it. Yet still too many people panic when they see a Dozer charging and start running, making themselves easy targets to get shot in the back.

@RanzigeRidder2
by the way, what is the effect of the concussion grenades on Dozer?
If it is the same as on the other soldiers, then that might also work.

But shooting at the feet is by far the best counter. You either kill him or he has to crouch and become much slower.

You can stun him like everyone else if the grenade detonates on his 180⁰ - it gets a little trickier depending on when/how his shield is deployed though (he still gets stunned but the shield does help get him back to normal quicker as it acts like a wall - at least that's what I believe).

I think Dozer has already received a nerf but it does make sense he should have a tiny cooldown (those shields have gotta be heavy lol). That said, as annoying as he can be, I think he only really ecels in very specific situations and someone who knows he's there can trick him into kneeling or turning 

Dozer is balanced. His feet are very vulnerable.

I must suck with Dozer b/c I always have trouble killing someone with his shield.

if i may, shield up and just moving forward freaks out most people and they just start backpedaling lol

 if they start shooting at your feet then crouch and keep moving forward.  

if they reload then run a bit to close distance...

if they throw a nade a few things you can do here are a couple examples:

if nade hits shield and or bounces off of it

= just crouch and wait it out then continue moving forward

if nade goes to your side or past you

= you can run forward to make some range then shield up soon because they will try shooting ayyyyyy you

if they throw c5 same thing but face shield towards c5

they can't shoot you while trying to detonate c5 so watch if they pull out gun,  otherwise shield towards c5

= if they switch to gun then they can't detonate any more so start moving toward them again

always keep moving toward them

crouch if they try shooting feet

if they start running away = back shoot them like it is 1888 wild west Haha

hth a bit anyway

i love smashing ribs and faces with dozer sometimes lol

@UP_HawxxeyeFor me it is the stupidity of Dozer and his shield that is the problem.

The game is full of lots of (often small) stupid things and it ends up being a giant joke.

You constantly get your 'immersion' broken by something annoying and the game is just not fun to play.

@cso7777  Agreed. The whole shield of dozer thing is just pathetic.

For a start it would be heavy, and I mean really heavy, and if it can withstand C5 and a would magazine from machine guns and still be exactly the same effective wise then it's blatantly overpowered.

Then there is the speed at which people can run with its blinking mind blowingly stupid. And as for being able to kill people by hitting the other side of the wall with it, well, that just goes to show how challenged these developers are, no wonder people like using it, everything is just such an easy kill for them, and as for being able to deploy it on a zip line, well, I rest my case.

I hope the next BF Game is designed by grown-ups, not the children that clearly designed this one.