DICE TeamDrop your comments below.
@Straatford87 wrote:Hey everyone,We'd like to hear your feedback on several gameplay elements now that Update 3.2 is available for play.Today we'll start with Classes.
- What do you like?
- What do you dislike?
- Anything you'd like to see changed?
Drop your comments below.
I do not like the new system. this is not a class system because the weapons are not locked, all it does is interupt playstyles that people have settled into for the past 14 months since launch.
this is not the game i purchased and have roughly 650 hours in and my desire to play is gone. previously i ran antivehicle combos such as Rao with stinger, angel with various launchers or AT mines. neither combo are useable now.
Lis is locked out of 60% of engineer gadgets
crawford and boris have useless specialist gadgets to fight vehicles and are nearly useless against infantry so if you want to use a FXM, javelin or M5 you basically give up 2 gaget slots
the fun is gone in the game
I liked the freedom of choice when it came to gadgets, because some specialists work much better with certain gadgets. The specialist system doesn't mix well with the class system, as now you can't really play to the specialist strength when they're locked behind a class that doesn't offer them that chance.
Ammo issues are now much more frequent, because ammo crate is locked behind the support class, and the maps are too big for the teams to stick together all the time, so there's a good chance you'll just run out of ammo, or not have any ammo for gadgets when you need them.
Switching to support isn't really a viable solution if the enemy team has a lot of vehicles that aren't getting destroyed, because then you have to decide between having ammo, or taking care of that same vehicle that keeps killing you whenever you spawn near a point. Encouraging teamwork is nice, but at the cost of self reliance isn't quite so nice.
I think the class system could work if it wasn't for the specialist system as well, both combined just really take away the freedom of choice, and right now it feels that some specialist are objectively better than others.
I mentioned this in the update thread as well, but the class gadgets are horrendous for consoles, and I've been having a terrible time on PS5. The controller was already maxed out on bindings, and with the introduction of the class gadget, they conflict with grenades.
Class gadget and grenades are bound to the same button, when I try to use a class gadget, I can only choose my grenade. No matter how many times I press the up directional button, I cannot switch to the class gadget unless I have no grenades left.
This means, if I am playing an engineer, I need to waste my grenade first before I can repair a vehicle, if I'm playing recon, I need to waste my grenade before I can place a spawn beacon.
Switching attachments is also highly infuriating as when I try to switch attachments, I automatically switched to my secondary first. Then when I try again, I switch to my primary, and automatically switch scopes because I have to hold in the triangle button.
Class gadgets need to be removed, or reworked, as they cannot function properly in its current state.
@VOLBANKER_PC wrote:
@PsubondThere are too few weapons in the game for that to work IMO.
there are enough with the new valut weapons
Adding classes has taken a step back from what BF 2042 started out as. Having the freedom to setup your avatar with the weapons and accessories you wanted made for really fun gameplay. For instance, when using Sundance it was fun to use your respawn beacon and be able get to different places on the map with the wing suit. Now that you can't do that it makes the wing suit a bit pointless.
Secondly the default controller layout was perfect, especially to change your weapon accessories. Now it is very jarring and not as user friendly. I may be wrong but it doesn't seem you can setup your button configuration the way it was with customizations.
So having spent many hours playing 2042 the way it was initially released, it is no longer as fun for me personally. I will probably not take the time to get used to the new setup going forward. Thanks for listening.
@VOLBANKER_PC wrote:
@PsubondOk, that may be true. I haven’t been considering the vault weapons as “real” weapons worth spending time on as I heard they were pretty much bad all of them :D
in all fairness people only ever picked one or two weapons in each class in past games.
