I recently discovered that these were a thing in the upcoming game and thought I would share my stance on the subject. Personally I think that this is a bad idea. Typically most people don’t sit in a vehicle like a tank or plane for an entire play session and really if they are, they are usually just hogging the vehicle and playing very defensively in the back corner of the map, or they are just trolling and not doing anything. And to say that if you jump out that you will be crippled by only having a secondary pistol is quite ridiculous.
Typically one’s excursion in a vehicle such as a tank or plane ends quick before the occupants leave due to the vehicle being disabled, meaning those such people will now be handicapped and unable to properly defend or play the objective as they should. And that isn’t even mentioning the biggest problem, the fact that the driver of the British tanks have no defensive capability on their own meaning that they will only be as good as the ‘noobs’ that decide to jump into the guns of such tanks. A good example of this, look at the AAV-7A1 AMTRAC from Flood Zone in BF4… remember it? The big fat thing that was slow and required you to switch seats just to use its main gun? No? that’s because no one EVER used it. Now these drivers once the stupidity of the gunners is realised and the tank is disabled, now you have to run around with only a pistol as your back up… great. And I won’t even get started on the planes because people will likely be in those for a way shorter period of time than tank which really says something about what will happen after they bail out… At least then maybe people will just follow through with their death when the plane is disabled.
Maybe I’m just overreacting but this seems like an incentive for people to not play the objective when the jump out of the vehicle, but rather try and hide from being picked off by anyone running with better weapons which will be any other infantry player that may be around you. The other thing I see this doing is forcing people to not play with vehicles at all which is also a problem as that is the very basis of the game. I really hope this idea is revised, I get they want to enforce that side of the ‘realism’ scale, but when the rest of the game is making exceptions in that category this should be one of them.
watching the gameplay i personally dont think vehicle class is as under powered as you think.. he basically gets a semi auto rifle.
ultimately the class was implemented because recons would take air vehicles or tanks to a rock and sit on the rock the entire game with the vehicle next to him and that vehicle could have been used by some one else but nope it stayed by the rock the whole game
It’s meant to prevent people from using key vehicles as a way to cross the map, and to keep them from abandoning it at the first signal that they might die.
Also, you’re forgetting that tankers and pilots can PICK UP kits off the ground, and the fact that they get a 20-round “Carbine pistol”, the Mauser C96 Carbine - it’s more accurate than most sidearms and it has about the same range as the Medic’s semi-auto rifles. They also have a sidearm, a grenade, a wrench, and a flaregun to help them with spotting.
That’s more than enough to defend yourself after your vehicle is destroyed until you can pick up another kit.
But now what Dice is trying to say is they want you to stay in the vehicle as long as you can which doesn’t offer up much opportunity for those vehicles to be shared, a problem notable even in BF3/4. And what about those people that will never want to be the driver of the tank due to the fact the have no gun, I can see the trolling people already just sitting at the spawn until someone leaves the vehicle just so they can take a gunner position…
I think it’s fair you start off in a tank while everyone else has to be on foot to get the good guns I think it’s quite clever for balancing there always has to be a give and take system if you started with the same guns as everyone else then everyone would be a tanker.
@AceArchangel1, you can choose what kind of tank you want to use when selecting an armored vehicle spawn point. No longer are the spawn points predetermined for a specific type of tank like in previous BF games. So, if you are playing alone, you probably don’t want to choose the heavy tank where the driver has no weaponry. Source: one of LevelCap’s more recent BF1 videos.
He is in this case - he provided direct gameplay to go along with what he was saying - and it is true.
If you’re playing alone, go with the light tank - because it has a rotating top cannon that you control by yourself as you operate the tank. Only the medium and heavy tanks require a team in order to achieve their full effectiveness.