Something I've realized about team play over last few BF games

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@Kyosji wrote:

So I've been hearing a lot of complaints about people not PTFO on the recent Battlefield games, and I stumbled on a facebook memory today where I wrote "My K/D love these assignments" joking about how doing these weird * assignments and goals kills my normal play style.  I realized that since they started these assignments for unlocks, it deters people from playing the actual game as a group and going for objectives. 

I think it's time that the franchise stop having us do these assignments and have unlocks come through the way they once did in BF3 and 4, and not by "Getting x amount of kills with y machine while on objective whatever while prone" type of play.  If people weren't worried about doing random BS to unlock certain things, there'd be more reason to actually play the objective.

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Do you mean the weekly missions? The only changes I've made to my playstyle for those was to switch to the ammo crate for a few hours. I mean I guess they could introduce elaboarate conditions like they did in BFV (10 kills in a life in hipfire in objective areas for the medic SMGs springs to mind), but they haven't yet. The weekly missions have so far only awarded cosmetic items - a skin for the Bolte and a charm for your primary weapon.

All the unlocks for guns and vehicles are achieved through using them, i.e. 1200 kills with a gun will get you all the attachments.

Specialists have their own list of things to do to get masteries.  Instead of people playing objective, you have people trying to smash others with shields non stop or hunt down sentries to disable and such.  It takes away from natural game play by setting goals that don't really line up with the objective, or having tasks that don't help with capping the objective.

The ones I've looked at tend to be performed using each specialist's trait. Falck has to heal and revive. Mckay has to get kills from a height advantage. Dozer is a close-quarters tank. Boris has to get kills with the sentry gun. Rao has to hack enemy vehicles.

I think all of them can be used to play the objective. The problem, then, is that players don't PTFO, but that's not exactly new - it's always been that way.