Veterans Far and Wide
So, as I was discussing in another topic by @carsono311 , do you all think it is a possibility that dev team was well aware that the gameplay mechanics of, for sake of argument I’ll say BF2042 proper...
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@ragnarok013 @Trokey66 I’m very curious to hear your opinions on my hypothesis if you’d give it to me.
@gruntbrews_vicv wrote:
@ragnarok013 @Trokey66 I’m very curious to hear your opinions on my hypothesis if you’d give it to me.
@gruntbrews_vicv Just have to say up front that I don't have any inside information on this topic so everything I say on it is pure speculation and nothing more. That being clarified it could be what's going on however, I am more inclined to believe DICE was just chasing trends and misreading the Battlefield Community's most likely reaction to the Apexification of Battlefield...because many Battlefield players play Apex...right? And many big Battlefield streamers went to COD during BF5 to pay the bills so their Battlefield viewer must like COD...right? I think that some devs must have raised the alarm and it's why we got Portal as a fallback position for Battlefield vets.
I sincerely hope that after seeing the screenshot of the BF3 classes on someone's ultra-wide monitor in the Beta on Twitter that DICE sees the large rejection of Specialists by a significant portion of the player base and at the minimum has Classic Battlefield gameplay setting servers with classes outside of Portal at launch in the main game along side of the Specialist versions. If that happens it'll be very easy to see where exactly the Battlefield Community's desires are located gameplay wise and they could please the entire player base instead of only a portion.
- @ragnarok013 I can actually confirm this with my own two eyes, this is on Xbox Series X, that when I booted it up into first game today that I encountered the same thing. I tried selecting them to no avail. I do hope they get rid of the specialists, I have wasted tons of ammo drawing on allies thinking they are enemies because I never know and I don’t want to risk getting schwacked.
- @gruntbrews_vicv It would be excellent if they had the fall back position all along in case Specialists failed to flip a switch and bring back classes in some modes. Wishful thinking on my part probably but a masterful fall back plan if true.
@ragnarok013I mean and here is another thing, while I wasn’t a tremendous fan of the “Elites” in BFV, it doesn’t hurt gameplay, they could roll these characters over as being “Elites” and just call them “Specialists”, go back to the class system, and what I thought was great personally, was the customizability you got for your character in BFV. Now sure you’ll see some people running around similar to you, but you could choose how you looked for the most part, set yourself apart. In today’s day and age the capabilities are there, so why not take advantage of it? For example, maybe they can harken back to to the old days and slap on an old Interceptor plate carrier or maybe you want to wear a modern minimalistic plate carrier, maybe have a war belt, so on and so forth. These are just ways they could of given it a “flair” if you will without the need for this “hero”esque driven Specialists. Part of the immersion of BF, and this is my opinion, is feeling like just another person out in the middle of a battlefield working alongside others to take an objective and win the day. When I’m seeing 100 McKays or whatever it kind of throws me off. This is all my opinion of course.
And to add on, part of the class system worked so great is I think it made people have to have some fore thought on how to approach an objective. For instance I know that on Zavod on Rush in BF4, in those first two objective, I can run pretty much run whatever, but come those last two, I am going to run something with AT capabilities to combat their tank. I think the class system encourages balance and teamwork.
Agreed!!
The specialists make the game confusing and dumb.
WE WANT MILITARY NOT FORTNITE.
you want to copy somebody? How about you go back and play the Battlefield before you and copy the team THAT WE ALL GREW UP WITH.
Quit trying to appeal to other crowds before you lose the ones who have been here for over 10 years!?!?!
- @Apinkham08 I’m not going to say I want “military”, because I don’t feel like sitting around for to much time prepping and talking and moving and one shot boom your dead, I play Insurgency or ARMA for that. I said it in another post I’m this topic, there has to be a middle ground we meet between old and new fans that while maintaining us, they bring in a bigger share of the market that’s out there for the grabs. Part of that is though, now more than ever, the FPS market has a ton of competition and options.
