Will the mini grenades be the new meta?

@ElliotLH
This is why I believe that they did not think this change through.

A cooldown is important for the Tank versions of the APS because the Tank APS stops shells too, it is also part of the tank and cannot be individually destroyed.

Meanwhile the infantry APS can be erased by a couple of bullets, an explosive shell or EMP.

So now we have to wait who knows how many months for their "Telemetry(TM)" to catch up to the fact that the infantry APS was the only thing giving some protection for 8 to 64 players throwing all their frag grenades and missiles at your general location while siting next to their ammo boxes

I'm very worried about that too.

AMP is very useful, when the grenade baseball game starts.

ON BF2042 I'm not liking the way conquest works. So I live to play breakthrough and Rush. Sometimes was because of smart use of AMP that the match changes.

And one simple EMP could handle that.

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@ElliotLH wrote:
@UP_HawxxeyeYep I agree, it would have been better if they'd differentiated between vehicle and infantry APS. There are loads of explosives flying at you as infantry and the sentinel was such a helpful gadget to give you a bit of a breather.

I'm worried that defending on Breakthrough and Rush, especially Rush XL, is going to be frustrating as you'll be getting fragged left and right.

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Exactly this, and Rush XL can be manic enough at the best of times. 😁

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@UP_Hawxxeye  wrote:

@ElliotLH
This is why I believe that they did not think this change through.

A cooldown is important for the Tank versions of the APS because the Tank APS stops shells too, it is also part of the tank and cannot be individually destroyed.

Meanwhile the infantry APS can be erased by a couple of bullets, an explosive shell or EMP.

So now we have to wait who knows how many months for their "Telemetry(TM)" to catch up to the fact that the infantry APS was the only thing giving some protection for 8 to 64 players throwing all their frag grenades and missiles at your general location while siting next to their ammo boxes

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It's sad but true. I don't think we've received any feedback here about why such a change was even necessary to Irish. When they see the percentage of people who die to explosives rise by 50%, maybe then, they'll realize that it was a mistake to make such a change to Irish.

It feels like some kind of "twisted" way to force players into other classes that have as much explosives to equally spam back explosives. Just make the other "specialists" more useful (looking at you Rao) instead of nerfing the ones that are actually good and useful.

Honestly, I think Battlefield needs to have a kind of "Limited Test Environment" to test updates before they ship to the main game, something like this did previously exist if I'm not mistaken.

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@S3SSioN_SoL wrote:

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@UP_Hawxxeye wrote:

@ElliotLH
This is why I believe that they did not think this change through.

A cooldown is important for the Tank versions of the APS because the Tank APS stops shells too, it is also part of the tank and cannot be individually destroyed.

Meanwhile the infantry APS can be erased by a couple of bullets, an explosive shell or EMP.

So now we have to wait who knows how many months for their "Telemetry(TM)" to catch up to the fact that the infantry APS was the only thing giving some protection for 8 to 64 players throwing all their frag grenades and missiles at your general location while siting next to their ammo boxes

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It's sad but true. I don't think we've received any feedback here about why such a change was even necessary to Irish. When they see the percentage of people who die to explosives rise by 50%, maybe then, they'll realize that it was a mistake to make such a change to Irish.

Honestly, I think Battlefield needs to have a kind of "Limited Test Environment" to test updates before they ship to the main game, something like this did previously exist if I'm not mistaken.

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You're not mistaken, although that was stopped after BF1. I think it'd be helpful for there to be a CTE too.