the new update is a complete disgrace
I spent hours on falck and now they have taken the rockets out of her hands and given them to the engineer class. Those outside the engineer group were left completely defenseless against tanks, armo...
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JMHO
Restricting Rockets to Engineers is too limiting.
Engineer is the weakest class. Nobody is playing it so currently Pilots run around with no fear. Played all day yesterday and Armor just parks on nodes. They aren't moving. They see that nobody is playing engineers (or very few, not enough to make a difference). Lis is being played, but she alone cannot down a tank, mav, large vehicle class. Maybe add the gadget to the Assault class as well. After all, they are Assault. Or allow Lis to carry rockets with her ability. She would be able to solo large vehicles in about 20ish seconds presuming she hits with all and isnt capped while shooting.
The irony was the the tidal wave of whine with the changes to Lis. Expect a tidal wave of whine from everyone who isn't a pilot now.
Or they could change the other two specialists' abilities to something that is actually useful and benefits their class.
I mean all the other two get is a weak easily destructible sentry gun that never, ever seems to target anything and a glass mini gun turret that pops up a big neon banner that just screams "I'M STATIONARY PLEASE SNIPE ME!"
Let one of them have portable AA mines like BF4 and maybe give the other those proximity mines from BF2142 or something, just make it something USEFUL!
@Ironhead841 wrote:Or they could change the other two specialists' abilities to something that is actually useful and benefits their class.
I mean all the other two get is a weak easily destructible sentry gun that never, ever seems to target anything and a glass mini gun turret that pops up a big neon banner that just screams "I'M STATIONARY PLEASE SNIPE ME!"
Let one of them have portable AA mines like BF4 and maybe give the other those proximity mines from BF2142 or something, just make it something USEFUL!
What really attracted me to 2042 was the ability to design my avatar. Back in the day when we had a team of 4 guys, I was either Casper (with SOFLAM) or Falck. I'm horrible at twitch gaming so I supported my buddies. We had two guys who could easily get 40-60 kills without a permanent death. Whomever played Falck was lying down reviving them, and I had the drone showing them what to shoot. When a SOFLAM was needed, I would pop one out.
We bought into the teamwork, but we were able to design our team. We really wouldn't be able to do that effectively now. I had buttloads of assists, but no kills during that time. I avg over 200 spots and 90 assists a game back then. Good Times.
I've tried to like this update but it's not working. Too many restrictions. Prime example - the worst specialists in the game are the only ones with the M5. And you've got some specialist with C5 but no EMP grenade - why? It makes no sense. It hasn't increased team work whatsoever in games with randoms. Campers continue to camp and loan wolves continue to play away from their squad. The only people who play as a team are the people who played as a team before the update! So the net beniefit realized by all of this was giving tankers icons for enemies - something they could've accomplished without any of this.
On top of everything, the controls are an over complicated mess. Flying is dead now that line of site breaks have been negated. The load outs are infuriating. They should've been assigned to the classes! Now we have to change items around each time, so we effectively don't even have any load outs at all, just a single set of gear. All this effort Dice put into this patch could've been allocated to giving us actual NEW weapons and gear instead of a bunch of redundant Vault garbage, or a meaningful Tier 1 system so we have a reason to keep playing and trying new things.
And before anyone tells me to learn how to play other specialists, I've T1'd all of them. Boris is completely useless and an utter embarrassment to even been seen using, I'm honestly fighting the urge to uninstall and will probably give it one more chance, but I don't expect to feel any different.
Yup, total mess and I hate it. I feel like we had it all, and now they're taking it away and restricting us.
I've been playing since BF2, and I liked the specialization previously, but I grew to like the BF2042 method even more. It was such a nice system to play the character I like with whatever items I needed at the time.
Honestly, as dumb as it may seem, I'm done. It's not fun like this for me.
I would be curious to see how this pans out, if they get more players because of it. I feel like the people who wanted this have mostly left long ago. Of course, I solely base that on the amount of people I heard constantly complaining about the game in chat when the game came out and for a while after, as opposed to the almost complete lack of complaining I was seeing recently.
