I really dont like having to choose a pre made character and i hate it when said characters have specialised abilities like the ones on the website. I much prefer being just one of the grunts in the uniform of the faction im playing as and the equipment etc being based on the class i have chosen. Well see how its fully implemented for me but theres a lot of issues i have with this and its a big negative imo. (changed tittle to reflect the conversations and merged similar topics) - Atic

@eqoswiftzzz Same, i prefer that people look the same because of their uniforms, not because they are specific characters. Kinda ruins the whole, im just a "normal soldier in this battlefield"

@eqoswiftzzz I think you don't like it because you feel like you don't play as yourself in the game, but this named "hero". The game doesn't really create a space for the player to roleplay as themselves if these named "hero" classes take their identity. Their class names should be anonymous making room for the player to customize and roleplay as themselves with skins, nametags, emblems etc. because it creates player immersion where you feel like YOU are on the battlefield, not this named character you play as.

@Ingeniekey yes this is what i mean and im glad people are agreeing with this. its just not the same when your playing DICE's pre made character.

ALL THEY HAD TO DO IS RESKIN BF4, if this turns into Apex Legends level champions I might actually burst a fuse. It genuinely smoothes my brain that they are still doing this 'Hero' stuff. It is so overplayed and frankly monotonous and bland. Oh he's a stealth character with a drone, lets give him a mysterious demeanor and cover him in a ghillie suit.Oh she's a medic, lets give her a syringe gun, and blue rubber gloves.Crazy russian, hell be our tinkering engineer with an attitude and not to mention a greying beard.I dread what other unimaginitive stereotypes the other specialists will play into. Perhaps the wingsuiter is a high-octane dare devil, that would be SOOOO original.Maybe I should sign up as EA's exec writer considering my below IQ Neanderthaal brain would likely come up with better characters in my sleep.Perhaps an intuitive idea might be an EA developer, whoms skills include 'Making good content' followed up by his passive 'Abdication of micro-transactions'. Wow now that's an original unheard of idea!!There is a reason EA is considered one of the worst Gaming Companies, nay one of the worst companies in considering customer satissfatction (and in general) of the last ten years. This epidemic of taking good titles and milking the daylights out of them is genuinely soul-crushing. It still preceeds me as to why they couldn't just give us BF4 mechanics with a new coat of content, hell even just a remaster would likely be better than this antsy fancy rubbish that is obviously just a sales oppurtunity.

Yeah, they need to change this. They need to have a customizable character that players can create themselves like in BF5, or BF1, BF4, BF3. Where we can change the camo, gear, and make the character look how we want to be portraited. This seems very pay2win very fast. Just like games like rainbow six siege, where the season pass Specialists are going to have overpowered abilities and gear no one else can get unless your fork up the money.What's the point of them selling Cosmetic bundles if you can't customize your character with the bundles, instead its a single cosmetic skins for certain specialists. Which sounds like deception tactics to sale more copies by lying about what cosmetic bundles are.If the game is just going to be Character abilities I have to pay for, its plain and simple, I'm out. I'm not gonna fall into another R6:Siege trap where in order to stay competitive in the game I have to constantly be buying the next new character. And this literally sounds exactly like that. If there isn't a generic character to play with who you can pick and choose what you want to play with and how you look like every other battlefield game before, then this isn't battlefield.

Specialists Feature - Conversation

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ArchAngeL-PCX
4 years ago
@eqoswiftzzz I wouldn't worry too much about it. Playstation Blog has a good writeup:

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/06/09/battlefield-2042-launches-october-22-on-ps4-and-ps5-first-details/

It seems to me to be just a way to specialize the standard classes.

Did you play Battlefield 2142?

Battlefield 2142 had 4 classes, but two different trees of specializations for each class with a variety of highly useful items.

Besides, what shooter have you played where some broken gun or perk is NOT spammed? lol!!! That's basically par for the course. Something will likely emerge, but we'll see how quickly DICE is to react to it.
ZombieP1ow
4 years ago
@eqoswiftzzz I'm confused. Specialist was a covert class that got a silenced sub machine gun (orginally the only class with a knife) C4 and a couple other tools depending on the bf title. What are you referring too?
eqoswiftzzz
4 years ago
@ArchAngeL-PCX idk man i dont wanna see 70x of one character running around spamming a grappling hook or turret
eqoswiftzzz
4 years ago
@ZombieP1ow go to the bf2042 website and find the specialists page. theres like characters to choose from like cod modern warfare but they have special abilities like grappling hooks
Warius5
4 years ago
@eqoswiftzzz Same, i prefer that people look the same because of their uniforms, not because they are specific characters. Kinda ruins the whole, im just a "normal soldier in this battlefield"
ArchAngeL-PCX
4 years ago
@eqoswiftzzz Thing is they'll have counters to all this stuff in other classes. So they will have EMP devices or something else that will be good at taking out turrets.

Battlefield 2 Special Forces expansion added grappling hooks and zip lines. Grappling hooks were on the Assault class and zip lines were on the Spec Ops class as I recall. Its just a way to get up to windows or other places...nothing special that's OP or anything. It was standard class equipment.

Basically lets you do what people already do in BF4 with choppers and spawn beacons....get to higher elevations.
eqoswiftzzz
4 years ago
@ArchAngeL-PCXyeah but why change the old system in bf4 that works perfectly. why do we need to have characters. why cant we just be us in a uniform like the other bf's. i dont like it and it seems im not alone but each to their own i guess. Ill have to wait and see it in more detail but i haven't got high hopes for that sort of gameplay.
Princess_Catkin
4 years ago
@eqoswiftzzzI agree. If I have to play Maria Falck or some other character (instead of making my own) I won't bother buying 2042. I don't like to play characters twenty other people are playing. I don't play the elites in BF5 for the same reason.
ArchAngeL-PCX
4 years ago
@eqoswiftzzz You'll probably be able to change how they look. I don't care about the cosmetics anyway lol. From the PS Blog article:
"Specialists are Battlefield 2042’s different character types. Each comes with a unique Speciality and Trait. The former may take the shape of a grappling hook (for Assault types only – a quick zip to higher spots) OV-P Recon Drone (the mark of the Recon – which can be piloted or parked to pinpoint targets) or S21 Syrette Pistol (handled by Support – firing health vials at those who need them). Those nicely pair with Traits. Assault types are known for their nimbleness, whereas a Support Specialist doubles as a Combat Surgeon, capable of fully restoring a comrade’s health.
Beyond those two unique abilities, Specialists can be customised with whatever loadout you wish, giving you more freedom to create a playstyle that fits you. Battlefield 2042 will offer 10 Specialists on launch."
It looks to me like they are basically classes.
This actually reminds me more of Battlefield 2. Battlefield 2 had 7 classes:
Sniper - sniper rifles, claymores...
Spec Ops - carbines, c4..
Assault - assault rifles, zip lines in special forces..
Support - ammo, LMGs, grappling hook in special forces
Medic - healing packs, defib, basically a healing assault class
Anti-tank - RPGs, mines and all other anti vehicle munitions
Engineer - repair tool and such
Basically split out the BF4 classes into more specialized set of classes. That's what this setup reminds me of. It worked very well as Battlefield 2 is still generally regarded as the best BF game by long time fans.
empleat100
4 years ago
Yeah if some OP specialists will be locked behind Golden season pass, that's a big turn-off for me. No one loves game-passes. They usually try to sell you more than you really need... And balance in BF games wasn't best last years...