From the Q&A I was able to gather that if you chose to be a pilot or tanker, it’s like a class now? So, you won’t be able to play assault or engineer once you chose to fly or tank? Does this mean while flying, if you bail out the plane from enemy fire, you can’t parachute into enemy territory? Well, do you spawn in vehicles like StarWars now? Because if so, that’s so lame!!!
The freedom to walk-around and chose the “path or role” you play in the Battlefield is now being directed by DICE, we will no longer be able to change the “role” we play at the drop of a hat, without first dying..and then changing classes! You’ll have to play their way, NOT freely. What this means is, if you see a tank, or a plane… you will NOT be able to enter it, you have to spawn into it.. aka"DEPLOY".. What is this StarWars all over again? LAME if this is true!!
I want to play like triple XXX or James Bond, or even Ethan Hunt… when I’m running around in the Battlefield… I want to be able to do anything FREELY!! This means base jump like “XXX” and parachute into your hiding spot, or Jihad a tank like “Bond” and bail at the last possible second to survive the mayhem, or crash a plane into your squad like “Hunt”, and spoil your plans… get the drift?
That’s FREEDOM!!! Anarchy99, LOL
Stop telling us what to do or how to play! ROFL
This is from Julian’s Q/A"
“Want to jump into a vehicle and wreak havoc? Play as… the Pilot or Tanker!
Deploy into the driver seat of a plane or tank in Battlefield 1 and you’ll eschew your typical class in favor of the two new Vehicle classes. These replace your typical classes, letting you trade in your Medic or Support kit in favor of playing as a Tanker or Pilot. When you’re deploying into a tank or a plane, those vehicles are your primary weapon, and you’ll be fully absorbed into that role, rather than being an Assault who happens to by flying a biplane.”
Let me explain how this works.
You are in the spawn screen and tank/plane is available. You choose to spawn into the vehicle (AS A PILOT) and your kit will automatically change to the pilot/tank kit, depending on the vehicle ofc.
You can still bail out and open your parachute, but you won’t have your regular kits like assault/medic/support/scout. Instead, you will now have the pilot kit which has a Carbine,Pistol,Repair Tool and Flare Gun.
For the tank, you have the carbine,pistol,repair tool and an Anti-Tank Grenade.
While running around on the map, you can still hop into the nearby vacant vehicles, and at that point, your kit will remain unchanged. So, even if you find a vehicle lying around, you won’t be able to enjoy the perks of a tank class soldier (no in-vehicle repairs, etc).
This is nothing like battlefront. Vehicles spawn on outposts and uncaps, like all the other Battlefields. There are no vehicle pickups afaik.
This was done to stop the worthless people who used valuable vehicles as transport to get to their favorite little sniper perch where they hide the whole game in an attempt to avoid dying.
Well, that’s not as bad as I initially thought… thanks for the detailed answer. It makes me happy to know it’s not as bad as I assumed it was going to be. At least I can cope with that knowing in real life, pilots carried those weapons instead of class specific guns and kits that are more overpowering than the pilot who already has a plane or a tanker who has a 100mm-200mm cannon.
The work around is that your mate finds a plane lands somewhere and gives it to the sniper to fly to an inaccessible area.
If I managed to work out tis work around then so will lots of others. The trip is to shoot the bugger down when he doesn’t have the pilots parachute.
