bigiain:
I think visibility is the biggest problem with the game, on xbox anyway. You get used to it if you play a lot, you start to know all the spots where people will be and start to recognise that grey blob as an enemy and not a piece of rubble. I think it’s one of the big reasons for people abandoning ship at the beta stage. Lots of players don’t have the time to learn maps this size or the patience to die over and over again to players who they can’t identify.
I would bring spotting back, it’s painful at times being in a squad with people who have no idea where the enemy are.
Next up is the netcode. The instant deaths and the deaths behind cover have been a thing in the series before, but always intermittently, here it’s been most the lifetime of the game.
Attrition has been a mixed bag. Less explosive spam has been good, ammo and health crates on most objectives seems to defeat the purpose of the whole idea though. Likewise letting tanks retreat to their spawn to resupply, that’s like an anchor to a lot of players. Rather than resupply stations drawing poor players to flags, they seem to have kept good player stocked up. I think the whole thing has discouraged proper use of the crates as well, so less teamwork.
Fortifications are also mixed. Anti-tank guns and some of the ways to rebuild buildings with sandbags and barricades are a decent addition. No one seems to use the MMG emplacements and the ability to turn a flag zone into a maze for your own team isn’t great. The whole thing sometimes feels like busy work for people who aren’t planning on shooting at the enemy.
Balance in general is terrible, but the majority of player have been encouraged by the game to find a hiding spot to sit and wait, hoping that someone will step in front of their 3x scope, meanwhile the squaded up players at the top of the scoreboard will be running and sliding about the map and never stop moving.
Im on Xbox and never got the issue people have with visibility. Must admit when I’m running around I seem to spot enemies before others do but I dare say some people sit miles from their screens whilst I have mine 2 .5 feet from my face. Also sound is your friend, use decent a headset - I can’t count the number of times hearing where the enemy is has saved me.