Vehicles need an urgent adjustment

I'm not a person who complains a lot but this is beyond me, I just played the most frustrating game in everything I've played since launch, they keep nerfing everything that goes against vehicles and they are unbalancing the game more than it was.

As an infantry player I am very annoyed and today I have to say this is not the way, the last few games I have played I have felt overwhelming harassment from vehicles, this last one being the most absurd I have seen in a long time. A 64p game where it was literally respawning and being immediately obliterated by a helicopter or tank, and NO, neither RAO, nor the FAMOUS LIS SUPER OP were able to contain that abuse. I don't know what happened to Rao because I felt him useless, so much so that today I hacked a bolt to try to escape and he returned fire almost instantly.

I think air vehicles are still too powerful even if many come to say it's not so, it's nice to be mowed down by a supposed "transport" vehicle, armed to the teeth and with two engineers repairing any incoming damage and a stealthy moquito. If a half-decent person drives one of these they will surely finish the game above 90 kills easy because neither Lis nor anyone else will be able to stop them.

The streamers asked for the nerf to the dart gun and the Javelin because they couldn't add a couple of kills to their stats so the change came soon after, it would be good to find a balance for everyone. Remove all heavy weaponry from "transport" vehicles, there are too many explosions on the maps, all vehicles have 30mm cannons or something like that with splash damage.

Since they are nerfing all the defense gadgets, they should also reduce the firepower of the vehicles, they are tipping the scales on one side and making the game frustrating for others. Battlefield has always been an imbalance fest when it comes to vehicles, please balance things out a bit.

I'm not making this post with the intention of being toxic, quite the opposite... I want BF2042 to be an enjoyable place for everyone.

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19 Replies

JOGAGATYA
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I am no pro player on PS4 but the other day i played in a squad with friends trying out the javelin. My friend was supplying me with ammo and i was just destroying vehicle after vehicle. I felt bad for drivers. I was wondering what is the counter measure against the javelin now? I mean after the javelin is locked on and 100% going to hit the vehicle? Smoke? Was i just lucky that the drivers were not experienced? In a squad of 3 friends talking with a mic we easily destroyed 8-10 vehicles on Noshar Canals in a round.
BackwoodsRaider
3 years ago
i wouldnt say the air vehicles are overpowered.
I will say the anti air is a POS. unload on a Air and the guns overheat way to early. guns are underpowered also, unload on infantry and they just run away after getting hit alot. and the vertical range is crap, how can an AA not at least go to 85 degrees. sitting at about 75 at the moment. air sit right above and nothing you can do.
and why cant it go up a damn hill? any little block in the road and you are stuck.
fix AA and the air will be balanced
Tank2042Man
3 years ago
@InsidiuZ "Enjoyable place for everyone"
That's a team problem not a game problem.
On Australian Conquest servers there's still plenty of rockets coming the way of tanks and Assaults are still blowing up vehicles all over the mAp, though definitely less M5 rocket spam.
I also see choppers exploding in the sky on the regular.
Two weeks in and class make-up is still roughly 30% Engineer, 30% Assault whenever I check the scoreboard on Exodus Conquest and top 3 EOR player highlight is dominated by Falck now instead of Mackay and Boris is popping up quite often too.
So the specialist meta appears to be changing.
S3SSioN_SoL
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@InsidiuZ It sounds to me like you're trying to be a one man army.
In Battlefield, there's no such thing. You're not supposed to be able to solo a tank or any other vehicle. You need to work with your TEAM. Unfortunately I don't blame you for experiencing for you are, compared to BFV, 2042 does not have as much team play incentives.
ATFGunr
Legend
3 years ago
@S3SSioN_SoL You’re right, and a voice of reason. In my opinion the vehicles have been nerfed to the point of virtual uselessness. There are so many options to kill the paper vehicles now, it Im not surprised to see yet another pro-infy post about nerfing them further. If somebody doesn’t want to fight vehicles, go play COD.
ZRuff46
Rising Ace
3 years ago
@ATFGunr The issue with the transport heli is on Breakthrough. Right now, the transport heli is dominating in Breakthrough to the point where it's unplayable. 8 out of my last 10 matches had a transport heli that no one could bring down and the primary gunner had 80+ kills.
ATFGunr
Legend
3 years ago
@ZRuff46 I won’t deny the transports are still basically flying tanks. They have long needed a health nerf. Stakeholder should be able to be locked on by a soflam. Armor is total garbage though. Sorry I wasn’t clear.
InsidiuZ
New Hotshot
3 years ago
@S3SSioN_SoL I understand perfectly how BF should work because I have been playing it for many years, team play has always been a priority, the problem is that in BF2042 many times it doesn't work and that's when frustration appears.

I can assure you that I have lived games in which the most coordinated team can not be and still are swept.

I'm not asking for vehicles to be removed from the game or anything like that, I just want them to be more balanced that's all, I find it laughable that vehicles with absurd mechanics are implemented.

1. The Huron and Hannibal should not be able to drop bombs in stealth mode, that mode should only be used for running away.

2. Helicopters in general should have a height limit, currently they fly so high that anti-air can't even lock on to them. it's a matter of spamming the on-duty pipe and doing kill ez.

3. Transport vehicles should have at most a minigun, removing all types of guns and grenade launchers would make them used exclusively as respawn points and to move infantry between points, as it has to be.

There is already too much chaos in the games, a transport vehicle does not have to overcome an attack vehicle and in this game many times it happens.

3. The previous point connects with this one, the vehicle calls should be only for transport (LATV, LCAA) and leave the attack vehicles as in previous games, in base or in specific points. That would give a break to people who play as infantry because it reduces the spam of vehicles in points of interest, not to mention that the tanks on rooftops would end. It's not the same fighting a heli on top of a skyscraper as it is fighting a tank crushing the elevator.

There are so many things that can be implemented to balance the game but they just prefer to nerf defense stuff, it benefits some and hurts others, it's never half and half.
iSharpedge
Seasoned Rookie
3 years ago
You either play alone and suffer, or play with a squad and dominate. There is no in between.
InsidiuZ
New Hotshot
3 years ago
@ATFGunrI only asked for a mechanics tweak, if you go into the typical comment of me going to play cod simply because of this opinion, then I may as well tell you that if you want to play a game where vehicles dominate go play War Thunder.