Vehicle Loadouts Should Not Carry Over From the Previous Driver

I guess this might have something to do with codeof the game; once a vehicle’s loadout has been locked, it cannot be changed.

I don't think they should change it.

Yes, sometimes your teammates pick dog sh*t loadouts for vehicles, but you could partner with a buddy and swap in and out of vehicles for different situations.

We should at least be able to change away from the loadout the bots spawn the vehicles with...

Are you saying that a two-person crew with different equipment configurations should be able to handle any situation simply by switching places in the cockpit as needed?

I’m against such a ridiculous design.

yagayaga1111​ nailed it! This should not be possible for exactly that reason!

Only way I could support such an idea is if it would require the new driver to pass through either the spawn or a vehicle resupply station to get their loadout updated. But automatically applying a loadout is a ridiculous idea.

RanzigeRidder2 wrote:

Only way I could support such an idea is if it would require the new driver to pass through either the spawn or a vehicle resupply station to get their loadout updated. But automatically applying a loadout is a ridiculous idea.

That is also fine. Let me take the vehicle that I took from some blueberry who abandonded it back to my spawn and put on it my own loadout on it once there.

As someone who finds himself more often in the gunner seat than in the driver one, I’m not a fan of this option: I don’t want whatever gun I’m using to suddenly change mid-way. 

I don't see how this is a silly issue.

Previous Battlefield games handled this just fine. When you entered a vehicle, your own loadout was applied automatically, and there was never a problem with it.

The current system forces players to use whatever setup the previous driver selected, which makes no sense when everyone has their own preferred vehicle configuration.

I'm not asking for a new feature—I'm asking for something that Battlefield already did correctly in past titles.

AiXc1 wrote:

I don't see how this is a silly issue.

Because of this:

yagayaga1111 wrote:

Are you saying that a two-person crew with different equipment configurations should be able to handle any situation simply by switching places in the cockpit as needed?

Example, me and my friend coordinate our MBT Loadouts, where I spec my loadout for anti infantry, and my friend who will ride shothun with me, specs his as anti armor. I start attacking an objective with a lot of infantry for which my vehicle is well suited. Now assuming the enemy team is not as dumb to let this continue and let me farm them, they send in their tank, now all of a sudden I'm vulnerable as my loadout is not suited for tank to tank combat, in your scenario me and my friend could swap seats and all of a sudden his loadout is applied and we can have a tank to tank fight.

It's for the same reason you are not able to switch between your own vehicle loadouts 1,2 and 3 midlife.

Yes, it is a problem, and players will always find ways to do annoying things regardless of the system.

What I meant was that there should be a solution, whether it's a loadout change station at the main base, a quick vehicle customization menu, or any other method. The important part is that the game should not automatically force me to use the loadout of a bot, a previous driver, or a player who abandoned the tank before I entered it.

Since you mentioned situations where changing loadouts could become annoying, I'd argue that the current system creates situations that are even worse. Being stuck with a completely different setup in the middle of a fight can be disastrous, especially when your preferred equipment is critical to how you play that vehicle.

There has to be a better solution than inheriting someone else's loadout.