I’m growing tired of running around alone or with a few other ptfo’ers trying to cap flags while half my team camps 400m away from nearest objective. The easiest way to predict which team will win is to count the team with the least scouts on it. If you join a game with 50% scouts and other team has 25%, there are great odds that it’s about to be a complete stomp like 300-1000 tickets.
My new policy is if my team hits 40-50% scouts I just leave and try my luck with another server. (which happens very frequently on enticing sniper maps like suez, sinai and fao.) Dice should either implement a built-in restriction that 25% of team (not max team) can be scout class because lets face it 8 out of 10 scouts do nothing but place tripwire behind them and sit far away and snipe. There might be 1 or 2 firing flares and spotting for the other 8 that sit at the bottom half of the scoreboard like 6-10 with 3000 points.
Either that or remove the ¯_(ツ)_/¯ gamemodes no one plays like war pigeon and add a snipers only mode so all those kind can go and play there instead of not capping anything and ruining games for people who wanna work as a team and push obj’s. It’s a complete and indisputable handicap to have excessive scouts on your team compared to enemy team.
Yes I’m aware this will never happen but one can dream of more balanced and fun games.
You won’t make good players out of bad ones by adding restrictions to the game. Because your “issue” has nothing to do with any specific class at all. Deal with it.
What does it have to do with then, do you have a possible solution to suggest? Whats wrong with adding a scout/sniping focused gamemode to help remedy the excessive scouts in conquest?
There is no solution, campers gonna camp, even if you limit the scout class they’ll just camp out there with a telescopic/suppressive lmg or a sniper slr.
From a players perspective I totally understand the idea. Snipers are annoying to play with and against when they just sit back and do nothing. The problem is that a scary amount of players specifically buy games just so they can play like that. I don’t get it but it’s true. Removing the ability for paying customers to play how they want to play could have a negative impact on sales so I doubt they’d ever do it.
They don’t want to play a sniper battle mode either, they just want to sit back and take shots at people that have no way of realistically returning fire. They’re bad players for a reason.
You really think the server would be dead? I have a feeling it wouldn’t as I know I’m not the only one frustrated by the seemingly ever increasing % of scouts in matches but then again I won’t give EA another penny of my money so I won’t be finding out.
…they hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool… a spotting class hero is something to be.
Just came off a game where I was smack center of the action and no-scoped people point blank with the Martini-Henry, sometimes that did the trick other times I had to follow up knife or hunt them down with the Kolibri and then this Support player I never once saw in the match said I was sitting back killfarming as a sniper, projection much?
they can limit snipers and then have a separate sniper browser to find games with open sniper slots.
really though just limit them like they limit planes and tanks and cav. make a player click in on them to spawn in as a sniper just like you do with tanks/planes/cav. And attach a sniper kit to some flags so if you cap the flag your team gets a sniper kit.
that would probably allow for some more comebacks. the more pts you cap the more snipers your team has and the more chance they get overrun and the other team comesback.
More people would be camping the spawn screen just like they do with planes and tanks.
Battlefield has never limited the 4 main classes. As stated before the snipers you want to limited would just move to a different class and still camp. Campers will always camp no matter the class.
You would also limit the people like my self that stand on the objective and counter snipe those glints off in the distance.
Problem is I use a infantry rifle I get called an aim assist spammer, I use a sniper I get called a camper even if I’m on a flag.
I hate marksman scopes personally.
I dislike assaults constantly killing me with the hellriegel maybe we should limit them to only when tanks are on the map. If you limit one class you will open a Pandora’s box that you will hate the results of.
Limiting the class would do nothing but lead to people quitting the game or camping the spawn screen until a spot opens. It would also prevent the useful scouts from playing the class when it’s unavailable because all the slots are taken by worthless hillhumpers.
I personally would never buy a BF game that limited one of the main infantry classes like that.
Plus it’s just stupid to limit the one class that has access to the weapons that were actually used in WW1 by the vast majority of soldiers.
As for the scout rifle only game mode - they already have one. It’s called Back to the Basics. Hardly anyone plays it.
it was the BACK TO BASICS game mode i really liked t his mode but no one play it anymore. real shame. PROblem is, alot of people didnt know about this mode and it is not on the main page. ITS DICE killing their own game mode,
Difference is the average assault actually contributes to the team objective in this teamplay oriented game of capturing objectives, I rarely die to snipers, the only time i notice them is when I look around no one in sight, check scoreboard and low and behold half my team is scouts nowhere near an obj. Oh well, only real solution is to keep doing what im doing and leave any team/server with 40%+ scouts which is becoming much more common lately it seems.
Its not even fun to play against a team like this as you stand around with all points capped while a bunch of scouts plink away at you from their uncap instead of grabbing a support with smoke and pushing. I guess i’m just ignorant of the appeal and mindset of the 24-7 hillhumper types. Knowingly handicapping your team just doesn’t make sense to me. Don’t get me started about tank campers doing nothing sitting on their gimme flag.
