Self repairing vehicles are damaging game play. In previous versions aircraft had to fly back to the team base repair rather than just leave the combat zone for a short time. Their fire power and abundance remove the ability to attack or defend as infantry. If the vehicles can self repair the engineer tool is redundant. Tanks take 3-4 anti tank missiles to destroy which is a farce, especially when there's a siper rifle that does it with far less rounds. The anti tank weapon is so named because it takes them out rather than just removing the paint. Infantry game play should be the main focus of the game but at the moment foot soldiers are merely easy to kill targets for over powered armour and air.If you remove the ability to self heal and force teamwork to repair damaged vehicles it will give players on foot more of a chance. Let's not forget there are 128 players per round.

@Contact-w8-out wrote:Self repairing vehicles are damaging game play. I would argue that going back to a repair station every time you lose a part of your vehicle health is more damaging to (vehicle) gameplay. It encourages more camping and conservative playstyles@Contact-w8-out wrote:In previous versions aircraft had to fly back to the team base repair rather than just leave the combat zone for a short time.Version as in singular.In the last decade of Battlefield games only BFV lacked auto repair.Unless you refer to almost 2 decades ago@Contact-w8-out wrote:If the vehicles can self repair the engineer tool is redundant. It is not because the repair tool as much faster than the self repair and can happen while the vehicle takes damage@Contact-w8-out wrote:Tanks take 3-4 anti tank missiles to destroy which is a farce, especially when there's a sniper rifle that does it with far less rounds. The anti tank weapon is so named because it takes them out rather than just removing the paint. Your information is outdated, the Sniper rifle in question was nerfed to the ground, I do not even see it being used anymore.The M5 recoiless rocket spam on the other hand is very prevalent and very effective.One of the reasons I spend a lot more time as infantry in this game compared to the previous ones is how many and easy to use the anti vehicle tools are.@Contact-w8-out wrote:Infantry game play should be the main focus of the game but at the moment foot soldiers are merely easy to kill targets for over powered armour and air.Infantry game play should be one of the main focuses of the game, not just the main focus, it is a battlefield game aka combined arms. There are better games out there for purely infantry focus.@Contact-w8-out wrote:If you remove the ability to self heal and force teamwork to repair damaged vehicles it will give players on foot more of a chance. Let's not forget there are 128 players per round.Which means up to 128 (64 per team) anti vehicle launchers. As in many previous BF games, most of the grief that a team gets stems from its own lack of a proper response to a threatThe only vehicle that manages to strike outside the range of ground based anti vehicle weapons is the attack helicopter which got nerfed once and might get nerfed again.

Only people who run and gun don’t play vehicles have this complaint.

@Eisenteeth I think this is more specific to the "I refuse to use anti vehicle gadgets in responce to vehicle threats" sub faction of the run and gun players

It's a good thing in a way too as it means you need teamwork. Without teamwork vehicles will always dominate.Sad part is BF2042 teamwork is nothing to write home about either.

@Contact-w8-outDICE has done many stupid things with BF... too many... which is ok, you have to try new things. But never to learn anything from it...In the past, you had to repair your vehicles yourself. Get out, take the tools and repair. Everyone had a chance to destroy or even steal the vehicle during that time.A tank had to pull back a bit, a helicopter had to land to repair. This greatly reduced the pressure on the infantry.With automatic repair, there are more and more players who want to play without vehicles. Because they are just permanently penetrating annoying.There are so many reasons why BF3 was the last halfway good BF... and so many why everything after that was no longer good.

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CrlscoCube
4 years ago
Self repairing has been in several previous BF.
You would enjoy hardcore mode where there is no auto repair or health regen. These are just a couple minor benefits of hardcore over the casual/easy mode.
Donidon
4 years ago
@CrlscoCube wrote:
Self repairing has been in several previous BF.
Only the last bad ones... in no good BF was it like that. That's the point.
RLMCCOYism
4 years ago
Why remove the auto repair if the super hero specialists can kill you in 1 shot? The auto repair has to be there or they would need to remove the vehicles completely. Specialists kill the vehicles so fast there is no point if they have to go to another part of the map to heal up, they would already be dead.
Tank2042Man
4 years ago
@ValdarezV1 wrote:
Actually agree with this in return for buffing the vehicles to make them viable.
BFV vehicles had limited ammo,no self repair,and damaged parts that you had to repair manually in return for increased effectiveness against infantry/other vehicles mostly...
As for saying it encourages camping,isnt it the case now with c5 drones? and i always feel modern combat dumbed down vehicle gameplay with no skill lock on they need to add more skill based weapons like the JDAM/TV missiles
A quick fix i can think of is decrease thermal smoke cooldown to increase survivability a bit now that everyone can run around with stingers
In BFV you did have self repair. You could use it only once and it repaired a percentage of your tanks health. When you rearmed at the ammo supply stations you got your one use self repair back.
In BFV it was far easier to retreat, hit smoke and jump out to repair yourself and if you chose the engineer role your repair tool repaired at a faster rate. Also BFV didn't have everyone running anti tank setups, lock on nonsense and Sundances flying around not to mention high elevation for regular enemies to parachute from armed with OHK C5 x 3.
BTW chemical smoke in 2042 is broken and doesn't work reliably.
They should have had APS not this broken chemical smoke defence.
DaveTheBrave_USA
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Contact-w8-out You're right. Self repairing vehicles and self healing to 100% is not the Battlefield way and it negates the benefit of having medics or engineers on the team. Battlefield development got taken over by some people who don't know or care anything about Battlefield and don't have the guts to stick up to the obviously very left leaning corporates culture at the top.
UP_Hawxxeye
Legend
4 years ago
@Daeyon-beeven the ground vehicles are nowhere tanky enough. One person with the M5 is already a big danger and there can be many more as well as homing grenades, other tanks, AGM missiles etc.

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