You are 100% right about it all working normally at a start of a round. However I’ve joined games half way in and it still happens then. And as you pointed out, after you die in say a tank, you watch others claim them and you can’t even see them spawn.
Complete BS, I was unconvincingly told by a dev it was a bug months ago, it would be great if they patched it. Sometimes on Panzerstorm A & G don’t even show as captured on the map so it’s impossible to spawn on vehicles there.
Even in BF1 we could hover over unavailable tanks so we could customise them. The amount of times I’ve lost a tank while customising it then NEVER getting one for the rest of the game is pretry rage inducing, especially as a tanker.
Like this one:
i’ve noticed this too. It happens more often on Planes spawn.
get that lots of times and not just when trying to spawn in a tank. i click plenty of places on the map that we have control on and end up spawning at our main base or 2nd main base which 1 in 50 times is waaaaaaaay out of bounds and end up dead.
They implemented these gamemechanics because cryhards cried that they couldn’t get a vehicle. Although that system is there to be ‘fair’ for others it feels unfair to others. Why? DICE don’t communicate about implementing these kind of protective measuers to ensure cryhards don’t quit the game. Although I totally disagree with these mechanics at least be open about your gamerules DICE!
My mate is a tanker only and he has a script setup that clicks the icon 100 times a sec so he can get his tank.
My mate use to fight over an objective so he could get an T90 tank instead of an Abrahms tank. No que. Just fight. No scripts. No dumb cryhard protective measures. Just fun.
Bring back vehicle spawn on flags and runways. Make flags important to capture in order to gain more vehicles.
The other stupid thing is the slot system for equipped vehicles. You might want a light tank the next round but because you were (rushing to get a vehicle slot), you can press the wrong bloody equipped slot because the game before you might have been using something from tier 3 when you have your light tanks in tier 1 if you follow.
All this because your having to panic rush the vehicle spawn as most maps have 1/2 spawn, and even when you get the slot, it can go red and you lose it.. Rage inducing or what.
Very annoying bug and it was NOT fixed in the patch.
So glad it’s not just me watching 3 tanks get taken by teammates when I never see them available for spawn. Add it to the list of stuff that makes me play more Apex than BF5.
So very true. The fact this has gone on since Bf1 speaks volumes for how this game has become more infantry focused.
Back in most BF games, vehicles would spawn at a homebase or objective. 100% fair for all AND, you could before stepping into a vehicle check the ground for mines, man homebase defence, spot targets preying on the homebase area.
In Bf5, I’ve spawned into tanks to be blown up by plane mines directly under the spawn point, spawned and seen enemy tanks start firing away at me becuase of the stupid map design. Been bombed by bombers doing their flybys. Had my tank stolen (esp now with depots needing to be repaired), stuck on terrain and I can’t even head back to homebase to get another tank. Your basically gimped as a engineer, you can’t even customise like other classes, you can’t even look at the tank specs etc until you get one in game wasting more time.
I’ve had times the tank slot spawns and as I go to hit it, it’s moved to another flag and someone claims it, other times it goes red and stays that way?
Man, I miss games like bf3, BC, 1943 etc.
And Dice who made this change say nothing…
The UI designer for this change in bf1/5 should be fired. Period. Have they ever tried this feature before releasing it? It doesn’t make any sense.
Defiantly. who thinks of this stuff?
Twisted steel is like one road where all the tanks spawn, so what do planes do, litter the area with mines that we don’t even get pts for taking out, and can’t be spotted like infantry placed mines. All made easy because you can’t see anything as you have to spawn into a tank now.
It actually lags, you can claim a tank spawn, and then a second after, it goes red and gives it to someone else. It’s like dices personal joke…
Half the time I click on a tank, I forget there is an additional selection you have to make–and by that time, someone else has gotten it.. I think it should give the person that clicked on it at least 30-45 seconds to realize and make their vehicle type selection, or else default to which ever one has been ranked up the highest by that person (if no selection is made) but don’t let some other whipper-snapper get the tank you clicked on first.
There are literally dozens of annoyances (that don’t really affect game play though) which seem also very easy to fix…like when you spawn into a game with 40 tickets left (annoyance #1) then you hear “Our first enemy kill” (annoyance #2). Quality Control department must be at lunch (all day)