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, armored vehicles, helicopters and planes. congratulations, I applaud this great mind.
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.
Padding_Ur_Stats I agree that vehicles just got a huge implicit buff because almost nobody is now carrying rockets, and if they do, then they have a hard time getting resupplied once they fire those rockets.
Air vehicles are the bigger beneficiaries of this buff. Before the 3.2 patch it was difficult to shoot down a good helicopter pilot - yes they could be harassed to have to go and hide/repair for half the time, but a good pilot could still go 50-1. Now that constant harassment is not very feasible from an infantry perspective - helicopter pilots are getting what they have been complaining about forever, the ability to farm infantry with impunity. The only real ground threat to a helicopter is a Wildcat or other vehicle with cannons.
Ground vehicles at least are still vulnerable to mines/c5 - infantry rockets are now few and far between and can be stopped by Irish sentinels anyway, so not much of a threat.
The buff to Lis rockets are not really a threat to vehicles as her two rockets won’t kill anything before the vehicle can just back off and repair. Allowing her to equip the other rockets in her gadget slot might make her a viable ground vehicle counter. The idea that her default rockets are a serious threat to a good helicopter pilot (one that does not just hover over the battle) is ridiculous.
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.
@NazT55 wrote:
@murdocklawlessI think you completely missed the point of my post and sarcasm.
@NazT55What sarcasm? You laid out the reason for the change. That's the way BF used to be. It encouraged a degree of teamwork. Now if they will just bring back the concept of squad orders that are rewarded for following and enforceable if you don't as well as consistent and reliable TOIP, and chat between teams they will really have a game!
I agree. Specialists were a step forward, classes were two steps back. Dice has less to listen to those they listen to.
@flcrm wrote:I agree. Specialists were a step forward, classes were two steps back. Dice has less to listen to those they listen to.
They listened to the people who don't play the game. Instead of doing what they asked though, they kept specialists and screwed over the remaining loyal players.
They (dice) get what they deserve if the player count nosedives
