Progression is worse than any other battlefield
So, I finally finished this:
I can safely say that unlocking all my class items was the least amount of fun I've ever had gaming. Ever. I've played every other BF title, and this by far was the singular worst experience of any other BF game.
If my choices were to a) Do this again or b) Have a traffic cone stomped down my throat...
I would choose the traffic cone.
Keep in mind, I did all of these except assault challenges BEFORE they nerfed them. Even after being nerfed, the assault challenges were still horrendously stupid.
"Kills while contesting objectives" So, both myself, and the person I shoot has to be ON the objective for this to count. Yet most of the objectives are about the size of your average american bathroom or prison cell. Yeah, not fun.
"grenade damage" In the majority of previous titles, you could cook a grenade. That means you'd pull the pin, **bleep** it back, and hold it... letting the fuze burn. If you held it too long, you'd blow yourself up. If you timed it right, you could essentially airburst it right in someone's face. So this wouldn't have been a problem in old battlefield games. Yet in this Call of Battlefield game, you can't cook nades. The grenades also do not start burning their fuse until they hit the ground. So, not only can you not airburst them in the room, you can't toss them high and have them high arc so they blow up when they hit.
No... instead you toss a grenade in a room full of guys, they see it come in... they all jump out, and you get zero damage. OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN until you want to curb stomp yourself. Oh, and you can't do the "put a mine by a vehicle" then redeploy and grenade the mine thing anymore. It doesn't work. You also can't go support and use incendiary grenade, because grenade damage has to be as assault. You also cannot use your GRENADE LAUNCHER to get GRENADE DAMAGE.
This is just a couple of the challenges that caused me to have a level of contempt for strangers that I didn't think I could possibly have. Seething contempt at how out of touch someone could be with their audience. Don't even get me started on the cosmetics. Aerial combat assignments... FOR RECON CLASS!?!?!!?!? Explosives expert assignments for SUPPORT skins that don't have any explosives?!?!?!?!
You wouldn't think someone like me would have to stop what they are doing and come here to explain that SUPPORT SKINS should be unlocked with SUPPORT KIT... yet here we are.
I do not want to be forced to play this game the way YOU want me to play it.
I want to play how I want, and progress in the process.
In BF games past... this was so simple and so fun. Does anyone even work there anymore that built those wonderful games?
You want to unlock all the engineer class stuff? PLAY AS ENGINEER! Do whatever you want as engineer, in ANY GAME MODE, with ANY PLAY STYLE, on ANY MAP, IN ANY WAY YOU WANT! You do stuff, you get XP, you progress your class unlocks.
You want to unlock the rest of the assault rifles? PLAY WITH ASSAULT RIFLES! As you get XP you get unlocks for those guns and you get new even better assault rifles.
This assignment system is the most hated thing I have ever experienced in any video game in my 35 year history of playing video games.
I don't mind an XP grind. I'll happily grind away for hundreds of hours stacking XP to get this or that unlocked... but I want to play THE WAY I WANT TO PLAY.
I
DO
NOT
WANT
TO
PLAY
YOUR
WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Change it, please.
