Spotting and Sound...Plus a New Feature?
Hello everyone, BF1942 vet here, excited to see this new game come out. Looking really good so far.
Spotting seems to be incredibly overused in this game.
It seems that unless you're using a suppressor, you really shouldn't shoot your gun in this game.
Theres also UAV / Vehicle Radar / mini devices / Recon ADS and then everyone else in the game.
This leaves the slower, strategic plays a lot less possible and the game a sludge until you get to suppressor (often level 20)
It would be nice to take some of the old Hardcore spotting mechanics of, no LIVE spotting and the spot is broken once you leave line-of-sight.
Onto the next point, sound.
The ambient sound and the character sounds from far out are incredible, really on point and let you know what you need to know except for tanks. For some reason, I can't hear tanks around a corner or anything. These things are loud running monstrous motors, we should be able to hear when one is near. It's led to some hilarious gasping moments though I must say.
Character CQC steps are also really muffled, often I cant hear them because all of the other sound channels are just full of muddied noise.
The Assault Class:
It seems to me, compared to other classes, the Assault class has a gap of sorts.
I'd like to suggest a new-ish feature:
It would be cool if you could approach your assault class and have that cool BF2042 weapon attachments menu to change what add-ons you'd like for your gun while deployed. This would allow squads to coordinate, slow down, adjust based on whats happening and give much needed use to the assault class. Maybe also a higher weapon mod limit.
My take on the game so far:
Pros:
- Great graphics
- Great gunplay
- Love the weapon mods menu and instant shooting range (lol @COD)
- Much better TTK than COD
- Maps are varied and destruction is awesome
- Main menu is simple, quiet, muted. I like it.
Cons:
- TTK is too high, I have to empty 2/4 - 3/4 of a mag to down someone
- 200rnd LMG attachment is too high mod points value
- Tank sounds, soldier footsteps sounds too quiet
- Small maps
- No server browser ( i heard rumors this is coming )
- No Hardcore
- Ammo counted as rounds rather than mags ( this would slow down the gunfights )
- Health can regen to 100% without medic / stim pen
- No character skin selection?
Thank you EA, for access to the Early Beta to Battlefield 6, I hope this feedback was helpful.
BF1942 remaster would be killer just a heads up.
-Zoris