The amount of time required to unlock weapon attachments is nowhere near feasible for just about everyone. I've played the game for 90 hours and still don't have suppressors unlocked for most guns, 8X or 10X scope for starting sniper rifle, extended magazine for most guns...etc. These are the most basic weapon attachments that people want. Why are they locked behind a grind that will need 100s of hours of repetitive gameplay (using the same gun over and over) to unlock?
Call me crazy, but gameplay items (weapon attachments, gadgets, vehicle loadouts, etc) should be able to be fully unlocked in less than 20 hours. It's rewarding for a period while unlocking, then after that's run it's course, we can experiment with what's on offer, find what we like, and play that way.
It boggles the mind how they made the decision for weapon attachment unlocks to take this long. It's in no way rewarding to unlock the same exact attachments 50 different times for each weapon. Each weapon requiring 20+ hours to unlock everything (totally guessing, I have no idea, I don't have any fully ranked up after 90 hours).
Why go out of the way to create the possibility for so many weapon builds...only to lock it behind an impossible grind?
Why are they locked behind a grind that will need 100s of hours of repetitive gameplay
Not only that...but most of those attachments outside of the thermals and 8x and 10x scopes for the snipers...aren't even worth it. The negatives outweigh the positives they add. Sure, X might increase by 2, by Y and Z decrease by 6.
yea definitely.
It's like nobody at DICE ever did the simple math:
XP needed to unlock all attachments for 1 gun / average weapon XP gained per hour X number of guns
I have no idea what the values are, but I played a 20 minute round of breakthrough the other day, was on top of scoreboard for a 20 minute game, used one gun for the whole game...was just above mastery 16 when round started, finished just below mastery 17 at end of round. Gained just under 1 mastery rank in 20 minutes.
Conservatively, 1 mastery rank per 20 minutes....3 mastery ranks per hour, 40+ mastery ranks per gun....comes out to 13 hours per gun. There are 45 guns....that's 600 hours to fully unlock all attachments. It's an absolutely ridiculous number. It's off by a factor of 10 at least.
Simple fix: If I unlock an attachment using ANY gun, it's available on ALL guns.
