Yeah its frustrating. I think part of the reason no one revives is because they dropped the point reward down to 20 points. In BF3 you got 100 points for every revive. Its a bit silly I think. It made sense to get rewarded 100 pts for reviving a fallen player. Its risk for reward. You’re completely vulnerable with the defibs out. Now very few people revive and teams suffer from it.
The 20 point reward, yes. And the fact that you can equip stuff other than the paddles. Perhaps people want to play Assault rather than Medic. For me, I love playing medic. It’s the team play of BF that I like more than anything.
Haha yeah. It sucks when you go down surrounded by a group of friendly assaults, all running with the m320 grenade launcher or something.
I just fully ranked as an Engineer so now I switched to Assault and was loving the total revive fest I was having in the ice bunker place. I’m not the best shot so I have a feeling this is how I’ll be ranking up this class.
The best matches are the tight combat ones with lots of medics. Getting three revives+full heals is satisfying and helps the team immensely.
I actually like them lowering the revive points - Obviously charging your paddles fully you’ll get the full 100 points. I think this change has stopped the awful full medic squad thing going on where a squad would revive each other over and over again. I didn’t like that.
I fully agree
You do know that you can charge the paddles for three seconds and get a full revive, 100 points and everything?
Also, I think the points thing is bullshit. Simply put, players are assholes and the more the franchise progress into Call Of Duty-ness the less you’ll see effective teamplay.
Also, the M320 grenade is the most idiotic thing ever: in my whole playtime, ~700 hours between BF3 and BF4, I maybe got killed a couple of tens of times by it. It is extremely situational and the only maps where I find it kind of useful are Locker and Metro…
Afterall, if you are in the position needed by the M320, with clear sight and maybe a little of elevation, you are better off using your Assault Rifle, considering the ridicolous splash damage.
Much better running with medikit/paddles or and underslung shotgun.
Huh I’m kind of ashamed to admit that after nearly 70 hours in BF4 I was not aware you could charge the paddles. And to think of all those poor bastards I’ve revived with only 20 health. That’s embarrassing. What you said about the m320 rings very true. Its a situational weapon. I haven’t used it once yet in my own loadout.
No need to be ashamed. It took me a full month to realize that you could charge them.
Agreed.
I would, but I just started playing and it seems that you need to play for like 20 fucking hours to unlock anything.
Yea reduced points and the ability to carrt weapons instead of paddles has really cut down on revives. I didn’t even know the paddles could be charged for full revive until just now.
I do when I remember. I rarely play assault and when I do I forget I can revive.
It’s a really clumsy system too, often I’m standing right above someone, but the paddles don’t reach them or something so I have to crouch.
Hit them at an angle. It’ll work better.
As a medic, it’s pretty useless to revive someone unless you’ve dealt with the immediate threat because then they just oneshot the downed person and might kill you too, so sometimes they just have to keep shooting and by the time they get around to reviving you you’re respawned.
That’s always been the case. Don’t Rambo revive. It just seems like no one even cares to revive, like you go down in the middle of a group of medics and no one even takes their paddles
I just got the game yesterday on 360 and got the defibs within like 2 hours