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NullEffect9
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2 hours ago

When in Vehicles, Preserve Cover on Your Side of the Map

One of the more frustrating trends that I've seen with the increased destructability in Battlefield 6 is when someone takes their tank or other vehicle and just mows through walls and buildings to sit on the point before rolling on toward the next target.

By doing so, you're robbing your team of valuable cover when the enemy team is pushing further toward your side of the map. If your first thought is to think that their vehicles will destroy your walls, that is absolutely plausible and likely. But they have to get there first, and your engineers and other roles can help repel from behind cover a bit more easily. A building or other cover will destroy more easily when driven through vs. shot at.

By depleting the cover, you're opening your team to long range fire from infantry when in those areas. It is harder to revive without cover, too. Will the cover eventually get destroyed? Possibly. But if you take down fortifications for them, it's gonna make their job easier to clean up the back line.

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  • The moment you're thinking of which flags to cap, which positions to take, which routes the enemy take or which buildings to preserve then you're already ahead of about 75% of the players at the very least. The average player won't think about defending their gimme flag because they don't even know why that's important.

    They are focused on the moment to moment gameplay and aren't really aware of what happens after they've moved through an area. That's not saying that those people couldn't do it if they tried, but it's just not the kind of mentality that's for everyone. Some people just want to drive their tank and wreck things. We all have that gaming buddy that you really need to keep away from explosives, because as soon as they get to blow things up, they will, even if that includes you.

  • I agree and disagree.

    Sometimes, clearing the cover makes it easier to defend, you just do the defending off the point, instead of right on it. 

    I've seen tank drivers on Op Firestorm guard A like that. They destroy all the walls on the building, and clear out the walls on the little building next to the point. Then, just move around between A and B (where they do the same thing), and proceed to just annihilate anyone that is trying to cap those very exposed points (without the tank needing to enter the point at all). Obviously, you can hide in the rubble some and with the little walls left, but there is not much cover on the point, and they can easily defend it.

    My playstyle is sneaky flank and back cap, and I have a much harder time back capping the points where the enemy team has intentionally destroyed all the cover. Their vehicles and their infantry are off the point, able to see everything on the point, and I need to get on the point to cap, leaving me very exposed.

    So, to me, it comes down to:

    1. Is my team going to actually defend the back point; and would it be better to defend from off the objective? If so, destroy all the cover.
    2. Is my team going to not defend? In which case, the point will likely go back and forth a few times. I prefer to leave the cover in that case.
  • The problem is the fact that in BF6 levolution destroys about 99% of all available cover on an  objective instead of creating new cover via massive amounts of rubble. 

    Take for instance the Siege of Shanghai map in BF4. When the high rise comes down it crates all sorts of ground cover. If we had the same map in BF6, the high rise  coming down would result in a flat golf course type terrain with a few 3 foot high pieces of cover. 

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