"Vehicles are essential"
No they're not. They're simply part of Battlefield, not the end all.
"Battlefield is Battlefield because of vehicles"
Let's go back to BF2. Mashturr City & Songhua City only had transport helos. Strike At Karkand (BF2's most iconic map imo) only had ground vehicles. Sharqi Peniussula didn't have jets. There was an entire Special Forces expansion (which had the best map in the game imo, Warlord) with minimal vehicles and Armored Fury with more ground vehicles. Then we got BF3 where the most popular map in the game was Metro, a map with no vehicles at all.
Not every map needs vehicles, and not every map needs air vehicles.
If 2042 had a proper server browser and/or dedicated servers I would bet money that the majority of the player base would shift to custom portal servers where the night bird has been removed. Unfortunately it doesn't because this game uses bespoke amazon servers spun up when the lobby flushes to a game and destroys the game if the host leaves, which makes it impossible to keep a portal server up.
I appreciate your comments and efforts to argue with some people, although the arguments against my propositions have been unreasonable to the point of not being worth engaging with.
There are several other points I didn't even mention, but right now I want to focus on the point of Liz being a counter to the Nightbird.
In the title I mentioned "console" as this is where I have the most experience and information from.
Liz on console isn't much of a threat, since maneuvering vehicles is easier and aiming the missile harder.
I think some of you are too young to remember BF1942 "Thats an ok thing" I was in my mid 40's when it released. Aircraft dog fights were common. Sometimes they would strafe infantry but mostly it was vehicle vs vehicle not the vehicle infantry farm simulator it has become. That was Battlefield to me, large infantry vs large infantry going toe to toe.
I mis this formula.
JMHO
