The latest Q&A has shaken my confidence in BF6

 I need bf1 remaster. I played it 2800 hours. It was perfect.

 Sniper is powerful enough. Mini scout easy and have high damage mid range. C4 one shot tanks. Even engineer cant beat tanks close range. They killed mines. When bf6 first realese we can put mines on enemy vehicles and blow it. It must be return. Long range enemy sniper camps kills the game it feels jail in the map. People cant go anywhere. Maps are small and mid, Recon is unbeatable with mini scout. Recon is best class in the game with assault. Assault have ar bonuses, fast regen. Third class is support, it have lmg bonus. Worst class is engineer in the game, smg bonus is doesnt effective aganist enemies it have hipfire bonus but Assault rifles and carbines most powerful types close and mid range. Bcz developers thinks " if you have rpg you must be weakest, rpg is unique weapon" (meanwhile rpg hits %15 damage to tank from front) xd

Question: "Are you guys going to actually fix anything, or add anything players want?"
Answer: "That's a good question.  You should look forward to what we have in store because it's definitely a change.  Things won't be the same, and we are listening to players.  Sometimes the data doesn't align with what the players are saying however, so don't expect everything you ask for.  This is EA, signing out."

Great response from them.  Totally useless QA sesh.

I agree. I honestly don't get why they bothered in the first place. 

It feels like the team can't decide on what direction to take the game, when they were surprised that people didn't want a COD clone. Also, the fact they are doing a top gun crossover when aircraft has been completely neglected is amazing. 

I'm also astonished also that there's still so many tech problems, yet they are busy instead giving massive bonuses to the EA leads. 

Gold2222 wrote:

Sniper is powerful enough. Mini scout easy and have high damage mid range.

🤣 what a joke...
Sniper rifles have lower muzzle velocity than DMR's, LMG's and even some AR's, while also having an extremely low damage multiplier of 0.67x, that's the lowest damage multiplier I've ever seen in a BF game. The scout mini has lower max damage than the SVK, that's not high damage.

Following the previous update, which significantly reduced the effectiveness of practically every sniper rifle, they feel incredibly weak—so much so that DICE is seriously considering readjusting them. Where are we headed? Will we end up firing air bullets? Simply put, they feel very weak.

1. Normal response for every battlefield game regarding ongoing balance.
2. New vehicle will be tweaked using real in game player feedback, again perfectly in line with all new vehicles added to battlefield games.
3. Netcode is never perfect in any online shooter and is always being looked at by devs post launch to see if it works most of the time, which is all you can expect when dealing with an imperfect internet a server and 64 players all with different non static pings connected to the server.
4. Server browser and features associated with it are being tested in labs. Not sure what else you expect while it's in test?

Anyway hope that helps!

Kunstula wrote:

Sniper rifles have lower muzzle velocity than DMR's, LMG's and even some AR's, while also having an extremely low damage multiplier of 0.67x

Why would snipers care about the multiplier, sniper headshots kill no matter what? If you're not head-shooting with sniper rifles, you're doing it wrong. I think this may have been mentioned once or twice before...

I'm not necessarily bothered by the non-answers of the Q&A. I'm bothered a lot more about the deafening silence on the general philosophy, the type of stuff that would help us understand what it is they are trying to build here:

• They changed gun balance quite a few times, introduced then removed horizontal recoil, played with bloom, nerfed sniper rifles (to some extent): what is the goal? What do they want the game to feel like?
• On netcode: yes, it's a complaint in every game. But with servers disappearing left and right, well first, what is the policy on servers and can we get updates when some are taken off? But also, how will they manage the higher pings, are they improving the netcode to take into account the larger variety of pings? What do they see on their side?
• On game modes: some game modes that had never been advertised as time-limited have gone, others put on rotation. What's the plan, can we get a clear picture on what will be supported and what won't, so we may know in advance how much to commit?
• On match balance: we see matches being terribly unbalanced. We also see large inconsistencies in individual results, and some wonder if there is some SBMM at work. It's time to stop being cagey: what do their own stats say about this? Is there a plan to address this or do they think the current state is ok? 

This is what I really want them to talk about. I don't care about the minute details of the Top Gun mode, or whatever new time limited stuff they'll add in, all that I will see when it comes. But they steadily refuse to communicate about the bigger picture. I'm sure they were thrown off by the drastic drop in the player base, but it's rebounded somewhat, it's time to let us know what the actual vision is. 

Yes, it's been mentioned before and it's still an supremely dumb argument that only people who have absolutely zero understanding of proper weapon balance use.

There's no reason why only sniper rifles should have this absurdly low of a damage multiplier while other weapons do not.

There's no reason why only sniper rifles should have this absurdly low of a damage multiplier while other weapons do not.

Of course there is. Once again: these are the only weapons that have the ability to one-shot opponents at any distance, and the only weapons that can reliably hit beyond 150m, and so obviously they're gonna be severely limited in other ways. 

Kunstula wrote:

people who have absolutely zero understanding of proper weapon balance

It's kind of a pity you don't see the irony in your words, because man, those words are hilarious.