Health and Body armour
I've seen comment on the next BF as modern setting, and customization of body armour different level and impact on players. This is more a reharshing an order topic of past BF. What if we had 2 ...
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@UP_Hawxxeye technical part of the reason why so many bullets are needed to kill in BF3/4 is because you meant to be wearing armour.
Balance is an issue with slow ROF and low damage but that could be part of the solution you could have 6, 7 or 8 bullets for the same calibre. It not balance you are talking about that is viability of a weapon. Yes, DICE get this wrong at time because they over estimate the community concerns. A classic is the BF1 AA rocket gun where pilot and streamers complained that it was OP before it hit MP. A similar thing happened in BFV. DICE tries to make it fun for both sides but when a single player goes 100/0 something is seriously wrong. I expect some OP and UP weapons to happen as inherit bias has been shown.
As for shotgun most current require 2 shots unless close. I am talking body shots only atm, headshot is still prime target. Shotgun have pellet spread too. You could increase range if you have lower starting damage.
Balance is an issue with slow ROF and low damage but that could be part of the solution you could have 6, 7 or 8 bullets for the same calibre. It not balance you are talking about that is viability of a weapon. Yes, DICE get this wrong at time because they over estimate the community concerns. A classic is the BF1 AA rocket gun where pilot and streamers complained that it was OP before it hit MP. A similar thing happened in BFV. DICE tries to make it fun for both sides but when a single player goes 100/0 something is seriously wrong. I expect some OP and UP weapons to happen as inherit bias has been shown.
As for shotgun most current require 2 shots unless close. I am talking body shots only atm, headshot is still prime target. Shotgun have pellet spread too. You could increase range if you have lower starting damage.
While I like the idea behind armor and enjoyed managing scrap metal plates in Firestorm, I can't but help but think it'd just be a headache in-game with people complaining they should have killed someone and didn't - might we worth it to just tweak regular TTK/TTD
- @TTZ_Dipsy complaints are 1 of the reason why it was not implemented in BF1.
I was talking with DEVs in CTE when something like this was suggested it was even talked about being implemented in intrusion.
The idea was to create a defence system instead 0 to 100% health it was meant to be a direct comparison to ammo where bullets(pouch) to 100% and gadgets slower to restock from a crate(like BFV).
Here an example of BF1 where is was talked about Elite would have 200% armour and 100% health compared with 100/100 infantry. Instead we got elite with 200% health which is stronger than 200/100.
Yes, it would allow greater flexibility with the TTK/TTD.I dont like the idea of putting even more into the game as it is. If you compare to RL (you have to do it like that at some point) a shotgun would only deal damage when you headshoot someone bevasue moderne bodyarmour would protect wearer from harm- most of the modern wests can take hits from 762x51 mm so a shotgun is no go)
But that aside I think they should go for "keep it simple" - its not a RPG game but a FPS which I think you should be able to join in without much thought than "what perk do my squad need me to grab" and then get going.
