5 years ago
To many memes
I do love the BF community but some of you are just whacked. Some demand that players learn to adapted, face challenges and think more tactical while demanding - we all wear the same uniforms. -...
I assume by enter an exit animation people are referring to entering vehicles. These are absolutely essential to keep for balance reasons as previously you could attack someone repairing and they could insta warp into the vehicle and effectively counter attack. Same issues exists with exit animations. gunner can just pop out and flank someone. These animations are sensible, practical and by and large well executed. No more than you should have instant reloading weapons should you be able to instantly make yourself immune to small arms fire while dramatically increasing your offensive capabilities as you do when you enter a tank. I shouldn't have to wonder whether a person entered a tank or lost their internet connection when they disappear.
There is precisely ZERO reason to legitimately criticize these vehicle entry/exit animations and any attempts to do so can be easily dismissed as can likely their authors.
OTH you have patently absurd animations like sliding which are both unnecessary and poorly implemented. Sliding deserves all the animosity it has garnished and then some.
enter/exit animations aren't essential given they weren't in the franchise for ~15 years.
And they aren't well executed at all. The animations are hard to look at day in and day out with how much the camera moves around and they take too long too.
Yes they do stop some 'unfairness' but at the expense of lots of other fun and practicality. ...because, for one, most of the time you're just getting in a vehicle without an enemy around. And yet now you can't just hop in and go. You gotta watch that micro movie over and over and over every round. You can't hop out of the vehicle either when you encounter some enemies. If you try to hop out in such a case you'll end up a ways away and/or you'll be executed because you're sitting duck in BFV when trying to get out of a vehicle. All because you gotta go through the 2-3 sec animation. A lot of spontaneity is lost. Parachuting is more lame with the 2-3 second delay. Jumping out and repairing vehicles isn't very doable now either.
The animations really annoy the player when they jump into a vehicle then decide to jump in a different vehicle for various reasons. In those situations , you're forced to watch 3 micro movies in a row. A lot of practicality/ease of use is lost. And annoyance is increased.
Animations also just created a different kind of unfairness. Now the guy in the jeep, for example, who was already a bit of a sitting duck, is really a sitting duck since it takes 2-3 seconds to get out of the jeep. Any guy getting into a tank is now served up on a platter for enemies sitting in bushes. The last second escapes from a vehicle about to blow up aren't as fun either.
Also it's untrue you couldn't kill a guy (while he was repping a vehicle) before he hops back in. Did it all the time. There's already internet delay as it is so a player can't react right away as it is so if you land your shots, especially headshots, you're going to drop the guy quite often. As it was, a rocket or sniper rifle etc could take out the guy in one shot already. Also the better move was to steal the vehicle instead if the repair guy was the driver. That ability is largely taken away.
So the end result has been less fun overall in order to solve some minor esports influenced technicality. In other words, the cure is worse than the disease.
Last, even if the repair guy gets back into the tank, you've forced him to stop his repair. That's a positive most of the time because there's a good chance the tank remains low on health and vulnerable. Ready for you or a teammate to take it out.
I'm not that bothered either way about enter/exit animations but hopefully the next game will have slower ttk so they wouldn't make as much difference. There are other problems though like having to line up perfectly with a door, interaction with scenery (bouncing), having trench networks right outside/in regen.
Also on panzerstorm jeeps exploded when hitting tiny dry stone walls that went everywhere so you had a car that dies in 1 shot to a tank with a driver that dies in 1 shot to a sniper, with a windscreen that could be shot down to shoot the driver from front/back/sides and with blockages everywhere on the map, making it pretty pointless to use.
I like the slower tanks but while BF1 had crazy designs with machine guns pointing out all directions giving them very good anti infantry and also being maneuverable, BF5 had extremely hard to maneuver tanks with all anti infantry capabilities facing the same direction as the main gun and the ttk/see it you can shoot it stopping external machine gunners with 360, with main cannon being deliberately useless with splash to infantry. So I'd like the see solutions for those. Also not a fan of the driver having no machine gun, if they need to retreat for main ammo often it just means they have to camp miles away or constantly go for resupplies which may annoy any passengers.
I'm also not convinced by having a spec tree/locked options but alternate ammo/firing options for soldiers and tanks was nice, and tank body customisation from the start of the game would be good and tank death animations I did like.
Would be nice to see some kind of armour on a vehicle to act as a shield to external passengers and narrow down the angle to shoot them from and possibly openable/closable doors on helicopters. Door closed the heli takes incoming fire/door open the players do.
It may also help if you have more certainty over where you're going to exit a vehicle so you can position it as a shield if you or others are exiting and for exiting to be quicker than entering. I'm really hoping for larger positions you can actually have fights on too with less dead space between them and more cover/foliage all round preferably with not much blocking but that reduces visibility like pacific storm or the rushes near the bridge on al sundan first breakthrough sector. I love that waterfall area =P
I don't do much with planes but the one on the BF1 DLC was horrible killing from miles away with no counter, also people switching seats to rear gunner on BF5 and their plane flying perfectly straight feels unfair, also I expected planes bombs to be affected by more things like distance and speed but they seem to fall exactly where the aim is, I always assumed you would have to use that as a guide and account for other factors yourself with trial and error.
Also hoping all weapons will be available on release and any added later will be for balancing purposes rather than withholding stuff for crappy social media/mtx reasons and not a fan of nerfing the original weapons to create reward space just to get back to where you started from.
@trip1ex Not in 15 years is a low bar when you consider the advancement of game engines and platforms. Many things got add when technology(memory) allowed.
You can't have it both ways., the community needs to accept either stay inside repair to 100% or force players to get and repair. Which is it going to be? That is the problem BFV had a group want drivers to leave the vehicle.
As for me i prefer the drive stay inside and keep the anime.
I am sorry but jihad jeep is cheap. Tanks are slow, slow turrets and have slow respawn. Yet you want a vehicle that rapidly spawn become a weapon to take out tanks instantly but complain about how boring the anime and how unfair to the jeep driver. Cavalry was a good Anti-tank in BF1. If you want the ability to throw C4 from a motorbike/jeep I will support that.
Annoy is also target warps into a vehicle to have bullets miss, spontaneously appear out of no where to kill you. That works on jeeps too.
Abandon a vehicle at the last seconds and escaping alive is a skill. It was to easy to escape before, it was something people complained in BF4 about. Working over a vehicle only for the kill to escape at the last second.
Parachuting from a bomber should have had a door to stand at.
They've always been able to put delay into game mechanics. And there was never delay in the game for entering and/or exiting vehicles even if the engine couldn't have done annoying animations back in the day.
Escaping alive from a vehicle at the last seconds is just knowing when is the last possible moment you can press E to leave a vehicle. Adding a vehicle exit delay doesn't change that. It doesn't make it more skillful. It doesn't make it harder to get out. You just gotta press E at ~20% vehiclle health instead of 5% or whatever the numbers actually are.
(I responded to some of your low quality comments in another post to popa2caps)
You can't hop out of the vehicle either when you encounter some enemies. If you try to hop out in such a case you'll end up a ways away and/or you'll be executed because you're sitting duck in BFV when trying to get out of a vehicle.
That's exactly right and working as intended.
Protip: You can kill the enemies while inside most vehicles
I mean you can't work for one day at the store at the mall and make $99,999,999. You can't wipe your bum 1 time and expect it to be clean forever and you can't exit a vehicle and expect not to be vulnerable. These are simple life facts and if a person is genuinely struggling with these concepts they may wish to consider getting aid. This may be legitimately foreign to you but when you wait for someone to fire an rpg or switch to C4 or repair tool (attack) and you magically warp out of the vehicle and kill them while they are vulnerable, it isn't fun for them.
Animations also just created a different kind of unfairness. Now the guy in the jeep, for example, who was already a bit of a sitting duck, is really a sitting duck since it takes 2-3 seconds to get out of the jeep. Any guy getting into a tank is now served up on a platter for enemies sitting in bushes. The last second escapes from a vehicle about to blow up aren't as fun either.
Beautiful! *chef's kiss!* Working exactly as intended 😃 Jeeps are some of the fastest vehicles in the game. That's the cost of mobility. I'[m not seeing a 2-3 second jeep animation either. This shows about 1 second. And last second escapes from a tank, really? You got GOT and you're trying to steal a kill from the someone did the gotting. That's shameful! In many cases you shouldn't be abandoning the vehicle period (Thank you for reminding me of another benefit - reduction in vehicle abandonment)
Also it's untrue you couldn't kill a guy (while he was repping a vehicle) before he hops back in.
I never said you couldn't nor implied that so I will assume you are arguing with yourself here. I did, correctly, say that people could (and often did) warp into vehicles while repping to avoid damage. I know because I did and witnessed others do so.
Last, even if the repair guy gets back into the tank, you've forced him to stop his repair. That's a positive most of the time because there's a good chance the tank remains low on health and vulnerable.
If there's a teammate in the vicinity and if the enemy doesn't point its turret at you and/or teammate and blow them away. Far and away the more desirable result is to have the driver dead or force them to abandon the position and retreat.
So the end result has been less fun overall in order to solve some minor esports influenced technicality. In other words, the cure is worse than the disease.
How you've managed to incorporate esports into this is a marvel of the human imagination. I cannot properly convey in words how diametrically opposed your post is to anything resembling proper logical reasoning. It is deeply disturbing both for your hyper sensitivity to length of these animations which unless you spend your entire time in game entering and exiting vehicles, amounts to a negligible and miniscule fraction of gameplay time and for your utter lack of empathy for the players on the other side of the interaction. I should note that a consistent lack of empathy and disregard for others can be signs of a personality disorder.
Posts like the one I am responding to are a detriment to the Battlefield community and do great harm. It's one thing to post an opinion but entirely another to put up regressive content at such an absurdly low quality level as to insult a reasonable person. I urge you to take a week or maybe even a month off to consider the implications of your post recognize the complete lack of value in it and come back only when you are prepared never to repeat this mistake.
I wish you a healthy, speedy and enjoyable forum vacation! 🙌