Sunk Cost vs Fool Me Twice
I think it was an absolute mistake for DICE to abandon development on BF2042. I know they think BF2042 is a sunk cost and no amount of development work will save it. But this is twice now that DICE h...
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@StormtrooperDan
Which were these Battlefield games where the vehicles were few but important?
I started with BF3 and played every title since then. I do not remember any proper large scale combined arms mode were vehicles were few. BF2042 also has a mode with few vehicles, it is called Rush and it will be AoW soon.
BF2042 has the most impotent planes in my memory and we should all be a bit thankful for that.
The Boltes got demoted from super light vehicles to terrible tanks, the attack helicopters cannot ravage the ground from the sky ceiling
The flying transports can be rocket spammed to pieces.
The Nightbirds got reduced by being made to share the slots of the other attack aircraft. These are still super annoying at the right hands but they deserve a special mention and not a generalization as vehicles.
A single Sundance can technically do enough damage to solo destroy a tank from a distance with her grenade belt and m5 recoilless
@UP_Hawxxeye I mostly played Rush/Hardcore Rush modes in BC2/BF3/BF4, and Breakthrough modes in BF1/BFV/BF2042.
In Rush modes, the attackers generally had only a few vehicles (1 or 2 tanks, 1-3 air vehicles, 1 big transport) and they were super important to keep alive and help with the push. The vehicles also had a fair amount of respawn time and some don't respawn at all once past certain sectors.
As for 2042 I should have been more clear that I was referring to the initial release state of the game. The vehicles have been nerfed quite a bit since launch.
Good pilots are immune to anti-air infantry. The only times air vehicles are shot down by infantry lock-on rockets are when they get greedy and stay in the AA range after their flares have burnt out.
@StormtrooperDan
Let me pass on to you a little trick that you can pull off if you you have a rather upgraded EBAA wildcat.
Set the missiles of the Wildcat to Anti Vehicle (not anti air).
Have your soldier carry a Soflam.
Park the wildcat in a location that is closed enough to get lock on but not a prime target for the enemies.
When an air vehicle is in range for a lock on, get out and use soflam on it.
Quickly get back to the wild cat and lock and launch the anti vehicle missile at it.
Because this missile does M5 damage, all the air vehicles except the transports will be oneshoted if they do not have the flares ready (sometimes even in spite of the flares) and the transports can take about 2 shots.
The good pilots have mostly left the game. The remaining ones are semi good at best and generally prone to overextending.I take great joy and stopping every single enemy vehicle in every way I can. Both on foot and with other vehicles
