Teamwork
Hey guys I have a crazy idea. Instead of blaming the specialists for no teamwork, how bout we blame the battlefield community that seems to forget that teamwork is essential. Crazy idea I know.
Forum Discussion
Believe it or not, the specialist system and the class system are very similar. The only thing that separates them are the unique gadgets and names. As for me personally I don’t mind the specialists and I kinda like them ( this a sin in battlefield community apparently). Would I rather have classes back, yes but at the same time I don’t want them to remove specialists. I hope DICE sees this and takes the Star Wars Battlefront 2 approach in which you have your main classes but then you can select the specialists if you want.
@acousticxero In theory, yes. In execution, no.
Class system: You know more or less the loadouts of your teammates. Limited weapons and gadgets resulted in you having an idea of what kinds of weapons and gadgets they have so you could pick a class to complement.
Specialists: No indication of any of this. And while I love the freedom with weapon/gadget selection, it makes it impossible to know what loadouts your team has so you can pick something that works well with it. Even something as simple as a small UI element next to their names that showed the weapon class and gadget would be a huge improvement in this regard.
But it's all the intentional design decisions from previous games that are missing. Why can't I get suppressing credit for helping lay down covering fire for my team as they move up? Why can't we have "oldschool spotting" back for our squad only? (it makes sense that it's gone for the whole team) Why aren't there any rewards for actual interactions with the specialist skills to encourage players to find interesting combinations and work together to achieve them?
I could go on, but my point is that while yes, teamwork has always been hit-or-miss in terms of what players actually do, the design to encourage and reward teamplay was very much more present in previous BF games compared to 2042. You can't control/force players to play a certain way, but you can absolutely encourage/reward it. And there's little encouragement or rewarding of teamwork in 2042.
Class system: You know more or less the loadouts of your teammates. Limited weapons and gadgets resulted in you having an idea of what kinds of weapons and gadgets they have so you could pick a class to complement.
Specialists: No indication of any of this. And while I love the freedom with weapon/gadget selection, it makes it impossible to know what loadouts your team has so you can pick something that works well with it. Even something as simple as a small UI element next to their names that showed the weapon class and gadget would be a huge improvement in this regard.
But it's all the intentional design decisions from previous games that are missing. Why can't I get suppressing credit for helping lay down covering fire for my team as they move up? Why can't we have "oldschool spotting" back for our squad only? (it makes sense that it's gone for the whole team) Why aren't there any rewards for actual interactions with the specialist skills to encourage players to find interesting combinations and work together to achieve them?
I could go on, but my point is that while yes, teamwork has always been hit-or-miss in terms of what players actually do, the design to encourage and reward teamplay was very much more present in previous BF games compared to 2042. You can't control/force players to play a certain way, but you can absolutely encourage/reward it. And there's little encouragement or rewarding of teamwork in 2042.
