The Case for a Sniper # Cap
Most of us dread the lone snipers camping off in the distance trying to amass a high kill count. And we experience that in Operations for both attackers and defenders - you often find your scout team...
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EA_Atic
DICE Team
DICE TeamVery long and constructive feedback post, well done! 🙂 We need more of this! @SterlingARCH3R
I personly disagree with the idea of setting a cap on how many recons you can have running around the Battlefield. Having the freedom of what you want to do on the battlefield in an open and controlled sandbox is what it gives the battlefield feel to the game.
Having too many recons I do see the issue in on having that on the battlefield as a team you should try to work together so that doesn't happen. But it could also be that recons are too rewarding to play to a point where you as a player have the feel of that you need to play recon more.
But then you don't want to discourage players from playing a specific class because they feel less effective or gain less from playing that class.
A random note that I thought off when typing this. I personly would like to see a chaos mode in the game that has no cap on vehicles at all and sees the world get unleashed.
I sent on the feedback to the team. 🙂
/Atic
That's a good point @EA_Atic and the sandbox nature of Battlefield is a great appeal of the game. I do love to play as scout, too, so I have nothing against scouts, per se. Maybe if it were a higher sniper count that would be a good compromise to preserving the sandbox feel (like max half the team?). Of course, since I play Operations in BF1, the sniper cap would help a lot. But yeah, in a lot of game modes, a sniper cap doesn't seem feasible.
Two things of note is that I do hear at almost every game the complaints against snipers (in Operations game mode), and the lack of complaints of having a limited number of vehicles (except for the occasional "you took my plane only to ditch it to parachute to somewhere", or the frustrated pilot-only players who are really good that wait for the plane to become available).
And, chaos mode actually sounds awesome! I did have an earlier request for a huge cavalry charge mode for BF1, but that didn't pan out. I think if there were a ton of tanks clashing against one another that would be a fun and intense game mode. And, no one would want to play sniper to boot lol.
