Vehicle Gameplay is Ruined!

That video hurts me on a personal level. It is absolutely miserable trying to get one. Completely zapped all enthusiasm I had for this game. 

I'm curious. In a typical game just how many cumulative minutes are wasted by players camping the spawn menu for vehicles.

Also, what is the max number of vehicles allowed in Portal? Anyone know?

@AngrySquid270 

A lot of time is waisted. A lot of cumulative minutes. Notice how quickly the available vehicles were taken. This is due to fact many players waiting in spawn menu and spamming the LT mouse button to get into a vehicle. 

Portal maps are 64 player conquest 32 vs 32. And even then they have more vehicles in scale compared to 128 player conquest 64 vs 64....

Here's a few screenshots of them: Be mesmerized

What a complete * joke right?!?! 

I don't know if 'ruined' is the right word here.

Clearly vehicles are fun enough for people to spend 50% of their time just waiting for a chance.

To me this tells the opposite story.  People would rather sit and do nothing than play infantry.  

Thats right

becouse death is certain on those flat, open surfaces.

can you blame them ?

I agree 100% vehicle game play now just isn't as fun and playable most of the time since the 4.0 patch.  My guess is they wanted to push more infantry combat with these changes.  More infantry combat is a great idea but on such large maps it doesn't make any sense.  Large maps need various vehicles to get around and to have regular access to them.  I would suggest including smaller maps for an infantry only combat mode and have this mode available all of the time.  This could be a combination of new maps, older maps from prior BF games or scaled down versions of current maps   Remember how fun Operation Metro was? 

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@tprz wrote:

I agree 100% vehicle game play now just isn't as fun and playable most of the time since the 4.0 patch.  My guess is they wanted to push more infantry combat with these changes.  More infantry combat is a great idea but on such large maps it doesn't make any sense.  Large maps need various vehicles to get around and to have regular access to them.  I would suggest including smaller maps for an infantry only combat mode and have this mode available all of the time.  This could be a combination of new maps, older maps from prior BF games or scaled down versions of current maps   Remember how fun Operation Metro was? 

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Think it'd also work with LATVs and quads too, on larger maps. Admittedly it wouldn't then be infantry only, but I don't think dealing with those kind of vehicles would be a huge challenge.

@ElliotLH
Given the size of the maps, at least on 128 player maps every player should always be able to call in some light transport (quad or motorcycle). It can be made in a way that they will explode faster if nobody is using them, say after 10 seconds they start to get damage over time applied and explode after 10 more seconds.

To make those huge maps and not be able to always get a vehicle is stupid (I am only talking about transports without any weaponry, just to make this explicit). What I always do is to redeploy and spawn somewhere closer to the action instead of walking. But I should not be forced to do that.

Played a few games today and it's still over powered the black bird.

They shoot at a distance hide behind a building etc shoot some more rinse and repeat.

Just give the infantry modern weapons to take these things out of the air.

It's 2042 and drones are not used as weapons just spotting?

So stupid and backward no wonder the player base is dead.

i have zero sympathy for people waiting in spawn screen for a vehicle.  you are hurting your team by not helping take objectives.  that is even more useless than a bush wookie camping on a hill.  at least they get a kill every 100-200 shots and draw fire from other wookies.  if whoever has the vehicle is able to stay alive they they are probably at least mildly competent in the vehicle they are in (unless it is armored, then they are just as likely to be camping on a hillside shelling objectives)