Preface: I do like this game quite a lot, but I saw someone else put it perfectly: Itās a ādeath by a thousand cutsā situation where thereās a good base but itās just plagued by sooo many different issues and missing cool things that make me irritated every time I play. I was able to play BF4, 1 and V for all afternoon but nowadays I get burnt out off this game after maybe an hour or two whereas other games I play I easily play for several or more hours.
Thereās genuinely good, solid fundamental gunplay, weapons, attachments, vehicles, and I like most of the maps, and most of the cosmetics Iām fine with and a good bunch I do quite like, hereās a list of things I think are missing/really big bugs.
Let me know your guyās thoughts!
MAJOR
- Add 2 seater jets elsewhere
- Add carriers as the HQ spawn on Tsuru Reef
- Add differing Transport helis for the factions (Could do the NH90 for PAX?)
- Stupid and very inconsistent skin design/aesthetic direction (thereās minimal real-world camos, too many silly colours and excessive equipment that just kind of seems slapped on and makes a lot of potentially good skins look really cluttered)
- Revert all the ground vehicle changes made in S5 apart from the health delay (Delay slightly lowered)
- PERMANENT LOBBIES PLEASE, I hate getting a new match and waiting for the lobby to fill up EVERY. DAMN. TIME. (Believe this is now being addressed alongside server browser)
- Ability to join a friendās party even when there is already 4 people
- Fix bug when with Xbox players they wonāt get dragged into the next game with other party members (been in the game since launch)
- Fix heavy warheads ability on PAX Attack helicopter (works on NATO but just doesnāt work on the PAX heli)
- Ability to see whoās in a vehicle
MEDIUM
- Better visual distinction between PAX and NATO (Unlikely but perhaps PAX could wear more greyish and dark green/brown camo patterns, whilst NATO uses mostly multicam). Overall doesnāt really matter since Iām going to shoot someone who doesnāt have a blue marker
- Better class play (separate the Support class into Medic/Support with medic having a specialisation with Carbines and obviously support having a specialisation with LMGs. This would make the Support class wayyy less OP
- Add Dynamic Weather on some maps
- Add Flags on objective points!
- Add Ribbons
- Better terrain mapping (smoother over uneven surfaces)
- Fix horrible menu UI
MINOR
- Ideally have closed weapons but honestly people seem to mainly use traditional weapons in their class anyway (Assaults use ARs, Engineers I see mostly use SMGs, carbines and so on and so forth)
Pipe dream but fortifications would be amazing
It kind of feels like thereās 2 parts of the team and one half kind of just doesnāt care, pumps out whatever (like the āSecutyā and 5 pistols incidents) and then thereās another half which actually make an effort to make the game feel a little more like the trailers (Better menu music, cooler background picture in the menu with the C17 being loaded, cooler character poses, more sensible skin design on soldiers, weapons and vehicles) and itās quite draining, the game constantly feels like itās doing half measures.
On the one hand, Iām kind of enduring and hoping for some great patch thatās going to make the game feel less draining and fit the Battlefield identity we all would prefer, on the other, I just wish theyād just commit to the slopfest so I can pack it up and uninstall the game.
It just feels like too little progress is being made and Iām kind of done just sitting around when it becomes more and more clear that EA just doesnāt seem to have the same vision for Battlefield as its actual player base.