10 months ago - /u/T0TALfps - Direct link

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Hello there!

Today we’re back with a new note from the vehicles team about Quality of Life improvements coming to Battlefield™ 2042 as part of the Season 5 update*. We’ll talk about how we’ve seen vehicle gameplay evolve over the past few Seasons, and which changes we’re making based on that.

Explosives and Vehicle Roles

As a start, we’ve heard your feedback on the current prevalence of explosive weaponry. While explosives have their place on the battlefield, they should be a strategic choice and not the default choice or available option for all vehicles. Not only because their prevalence provides an unforgiving experience to infantry gameplay, but also because it undermines picking the vehicle that meets the current needs of your team.

We also feel that the changes to the vehicle categorization, while leaving their loadouts unchanged, has resulted in the removal of clearly defined combat roles. Transport vehicles are a good example of this, as they are meant to swiftly carry you and your squad towards an objective. While they still have weaponry available to defend themselves during that journey, they are not meant for direct offensive purposes and… blowing sh*t up.

That means we’re restructuring vehicle loadouts to ensure their combat roles are clearly defined. This will also add further readability on the battlefield to ensure you know what to expect from vehicles when you encounter them.

Loadout Changes

The restructuring of loadouts primarily focuses on our ground vehicles, and we’ll both remove and add weapons to each available vehicle loadout.

Explosives will no longer be an option for all vehicles, and overall you’ll find more choice through a larger selection of weapons available to you.

While we won’t fully lay out all loadout changes today, we’ll take a look at a few examples where we feel you’ll notice the most impactful changes.

LATV4 Recon

The LATV4 is one of the most used vehicles in the game, and having explosive weaponry readily available pushed it outside of its intended role as a transport. We’re removing all its explosives, such as the 30mm, 50mm and Grenade Launcher, and will replace them with anti-infantry weaponry instead.

https://i.redd.it/5g0y5b2gwr1b1.gif

EBAA Wildcat

The Wildcat was previously able to compete across multiple vehicle roles, such as Anti-Air, Air-to-Ground, and anti-infantry. However, it was always intended as an Anti-Air vehicle, and we have therefore removed its 57mm Cannon, and replaced that with 35mm Dual AA Cannons instead.

As part of these changes we’re also moving the ELCB-Ram from Light Armor into the Heavy Armor category, which will allow both the Ram and Wildcat to be more readily available, alongside being for their intended roles.

https://i.redd.it/7gj74o0lwr1b1.gif

M5C Bolte

The Bolte wasn’t intended as a stationary vehicle which shoots explosives from afar, but rather to help push the team forward while deploying hit and run tactics towards enemy vehicles, or objectives.

To encourage this more active role, we’re making its glass impenetrable from all projectiles and will grant passengers spotting capabilities. For its weaponry, we’ve removed the 30mm Cannon, and instead added a 50mm Cannon and 40mm incendiary Grenade Launcher.

https://i.redd.it/wplyb40pwr1b1.gif

Once the update is available, be sure to check the Collection -> Equipment screen to find out how to unlock the newly added weaponry across your vehicles.

Thermal sights for vehicles

Now that we're overhauling vehicle loadouts, it also seemed like the perfect time to make thermals available!

We know it’s something you’ve been asking for, and the team has been looking forward to adding them. You’ll now be able to choose between using either thermals, or optical zoom on some of our vehicle weapons stations.

Thermals as an additional loadout option for vehicles will be a great benefit to your team, allowing you to spot enemies or their gadgets such as Anti-Tank Mines with a lot more ease.

Jet gameplay improvements

We’ve also heard your feedback on improvements you’d like us to make to jet gameplay. This has mostly centered around how responsive they feel once you’re gliding across the sky.

A large part of this comes from the camera movement, so we’ve made improvements to help you feel more connected to your jet. This should also have the effect of allowing them to be more responsive and controllable when dogfighting an enemy jet.

We’ve also reintroduced vehicle control when using the rearview camera.

We believe that jets should still feel useful even if there are no enemy jets or dogfighting opportunities available. So to ensure you stay engaged with enemies, we’re adding Rocket Pods to the jet loadouts.

Other changes

Another change that we wanted to mention is that for tanks we’ve also reintroduced the decouple aim from turning option. This means that you can now turn your tank without moving your aim to offer more control over your Heavy Armor.

We have also reworked the STAFF Shell for tanks so they no longer lock onto enemy ground vehicles on their own. Instead, it can now lock into all laser designated targets to deal extra damage. The aim here is to encourage working together with your team’s tank crew to create a more powerful offensive move.

Lastly, while previously only available for the CAV-Brawler, we’re also adding the Cyber Warfare Protection System as a loadout option for all vehicles except the LATV4 Recon.

And that’s all we have for you today! There are a lot of changes to vehicles incoming, so we’ll continue monitoring how that plays out once you’ve gone hands on. Please also stay in touch with us on how you feel about these changes, and what else is on your mind for vehicle gameplay. We continue to read your feedback, thoughts and ideas, all of which greatly helps as we plan towards any future QoL improvements.

Season 5 is not too far away now, and we’re looking forward to giving you a full overview of everything that’s new in the near future.

//The Vehicles Team

______________________________________________________________________________

This announcement may change as we listen to community feedback and continue developing and evolving our Live Service & Content. We will always strive to keep our community as informed as possible.

^(\Requires Battlefield 2042 (sold separately and all game updates.))*

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10 months ago - /u/T0TALfps - Direct link

https://preview.redd.it/u1tso7z8wr1b1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=9e5363818b881059415c66edb8ea1800082c635d

Hello there!

Today we’re back with a new note from the vehicles team about Quality of Life improvements coming to Battlefield™ 2042 as part of the Season 5 update*. We’ll talk about how we’ve seen vehicle gameplay evolve over the past few Seasons, and which changes we’re making based on that.

Explosives and Vehicle Roles

As a start, we’ve heard your feedback on the current prevalence of explosive weaponry. While explosives have their place on the battlefield, they should be a strategic choice and not the default choice or available option for all vehicles. Not only because their prevalence provides an unforgiving experience to infantry gameplay, but also because it undermines picking the vehicle that meets the current needs of your team.

We also feel that the changes to the vehicle categorization, while leaving their loadouts unchanged, has resulted in the removal of clearly defined combat roles. Transport vehicles are a good example of this, as they are meant to swiftly carry you and your squad towards an objective. While they still have weaponry available to defend themselves during that journey, they are not meant for direct offensive purposes and… blowing sh*t up.

That means we’re restructuring vehicle loadouts to ensure their combat roles are clearly defined. This will also add further readability on the battlefield to ensure you know what to expect from vehicles when you encounter them.

Loadout Changes

The restructuring of loadouts primarily focuses on our ground vehicles, and we’ll both remove and add weapons to each available vehicle loadout.

Explosives will no longer be an option for all vehicles, and overall you’ll find more choice through a larger selection of weapons available to you.

While we won’t fully lay out all loadout changes today, we’ll take a look at a few examples where we feel you’ll notice the most impactful changes.

LATV4 Recon

The LATV4 is one of the most used vehicles in the game, and having explosive weaponry readily available pushed it outside of its intended role as a transport. We’re removing all its explosives, such as the 30mm, 50mm and Grenade Launcher, and will replace them with anti-infantry weaponry instead.

https://i.redd.it/5g0y5b2gwr1b1.gif

EBAA Wildcat

The Wildcat was previously able to compete across multiple vehicle roles, such as Anti-Air, Air-to-Ground, and anti-infantry. However, it was always intended as an Anti-Air vehicle, and we have therefore removed its 57mm Cannon, and replaced that with 35mm Dual AA Cannons instead.

As part of these changes we’re also moving the ELCB-Ram from Light Armor into the Heavy Armor category, which will allow both the Ram and Wildcat to be more readily available, alongside being for their intended roles.

https://i.redd.it/7gj74o0lwr1b1.gif

M5C Bolte

The Bolte wasn’t intended as a stationary vehicle which shoots explosives from afar, but rather to help push the team forward while deploying hit and run tactics towards enemy vehicles, or objectives.

To encourage this more active role, we’re making its glass impenetrable from all projectiles and will grant passengers spotting capabilities. For its weaponry, we’ve removed the 30mm Cannon, and instead added a 50mm Cannon and 40mm incendiary Grenade Launcher.

https://i.redd.it/wplyb40pwr1b1.gif

Once the update is available, be sure to check the Collection -> Equipment screen to find out how to unlock the newly added weaponry across your vehicles.

Thermal sights for vehicles

Now that we're overhauling vehicle loadouts, it also seemed like the perfect time to make thermals available!

We know it’s something you’ve been asking for, and the team has been looking forward to adding them. You’ll now be able to choose between using either thermals, or optical zoom on some of our vehicle weapons stations.

Thermals as an additional loadout option for vehicles will be a great benefit to your team, allowing you to spot enemies or their gadgets such as Anti-Tank Mines with a lot more ease.

Jet gameplay improvements

We’ve also heard your feedback on improvements you’d like us to make to jet gameplay. This has mostly centered around how responsive they feel once you’re gliding across the sky.

A large part of this comes from the camera movement, so we’ve made improvements to help you feel more connected to your jet. This should also have the effect of allowing them to be more responsive and controllable when dogfighting an enemy jet.

We’ve also reintroduced vehicle control when using the rearview camera.

We believe that jets should still feel useful even if there are no enemy jets or dogfighting opportunities available. So to ensure you stay engaged with enemies, we’re adding Rocket Pods to the jet loadouts.

Other changes

Another change that we wanted to mention is that for tanks we’ve also reintroduced the decouple aim from turning option. This means that you can now turn your tank without moving your aim to offer more control over your Heavy Armor.

We have also reworked the STAFF Shell for tanks so they no longer lock onto enemy ground vehicles on their own. Instead, it can now lock into all laser designated targets to deal extra damage. The aim here is to encourage working together with your team’s tank crew to create a more powerful offensive move.

Lastly, while previously only available for the CAV-Brawler, we’re also adding the Cyber Warfare Protection System as a loadout option for all vehicles except the LATV4 Recon.

And that’s all we have for you today! There are a lot of changes to vehicles incoming, so we’ll continue monitoring how that plays out once you’ve gone hands on. Please also stay in touch with us on how you feel about these changes, and what else is on your mind for vehicle gameplay. We continue to read your feedback, thoughts and ideas, all of which greatly helps as we plan towards any future QoL improvements.

Season 5 is not too far away now, and we’re looking forward to giving you a full overview of everything that’s new in the near future.

//The Vehicles Team

______________________________________________________________________________

This announcement may change as we listen to community feedback and continue developing and evolving our Live Service & Content. We will always strive to keep our community as informed as possible.

^(\Requires Battlefield 2042 (sold separately and all game updates.))*

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10 months ago - /u/T0TALfps - Direct link

Originally posted by DueRepresentative417

Should have put cropped pictures side to side instead of gif. Thanks for the post tho!

(I dont have enough time to check every spek before it changes)

Clicking the GIF should expand it, allowing you to pause it in your preferred area. :)

10 months ago - /u/T0TALfps - Direct link

Originally posted by MistaJelloMan

So I’m curious about this, and not sure if it was mentioned elsewhere.

You say that you’re trying to reduce explosive spam, but give Irish’s APS a nerf. What was the reasoning? Do you feel like you’re reducing spam enough to justify the cooldown? Is it something you’re open to readjusting if it turns out to hurt more than intended?

I believe this is being looked at through the angle of singles and what this change does for me as an individual, rather than what the change means for a group and your Squad.

What about multiple Sentinels at a single moment in time?

The cooldown becomes mitigated to near enough zero cooldown when there are two Sentinel systems in the area for example.

Because in a two-sentinel scenario: One will trigger and counter a projectile and then go through and counter any further projectiles for a few seconds before spinning down and needing to recharge.

When it is recharging, any further projectiles would be detected by that second sentinel - and when that one hits cooldown, the other one would be near enough ready to repeat.

That effect is felt even more when you start to introduce even more Sentinels (or even Jammers) into the area, thus making a no-go zone.

What I am saying here is, and this is just my opinion the presence of a cooldown will only be felt if you're talking about a single sentinel in one location - and by that point, we'd have to consider if that point is really that secure if there's just one there?

"Explosive Spam" is something that we are tackling, as seen with these changes to vehicles. It does not mean we're done with tackling that topic, it means we are underway in our tackling of it.

Live service means things will never stay in place for too long, for any given moment in time - and we'll continue to tackle areas that the community feel need tackling.

Edit: As with near enough everything in Battlefield, there must always be a counter. Worth noting that the counter for the Sentinel are the likes of C5, EMP, Tank Shells and... just plain bullets.

10 months ago - /u/Straatford87 - Direct link

Originally posted by Great-Ad9090

Are you f**king dumb? Do you know that RAM is like an armored MRAP and can't be on the same category of tanks? Do you have any idea of the game you have already worked on? Why don't you create a separate category for the RAM considered is multirole attitude and not the hardness of the armor....

Are you okay there buddy?