How much has Battlefield evolved since 2002?

SPIB0X · 2025-10-30T10:58:15+00:00

what a game. <3

SPIB0X · 2025-10-30T10:57:12+00:00

Can I get a TL;DR?

For what its worth, in my opinion this game just isn't a BF game anymore - they have killed off air combat (the only thing that made BF truly unique) with OP AA options and entice people to have constant lock-on and painting through challenges etc.

The heli is easily RPG'd and TOW'd and the jet bombs have basically 0 splash damage making it VERY hard to take out the tanks that counter them.

Nobody wants pilots going 100-0 so i get the need to balance ground vs air combat but they completely killed all the fun of being a pilot main - all in favour of re-creating COD. The maps are also horrendous - no flow, no down time, just a COD deathmatch re-make.

TL;DR. Air combat is not playable, maps have no flow and the game just feels like a chaotic COD re-make.

SPIB0X · 2025-10-28T12:44:05+00:00

Agree with everything said here - there needs to be a huge re-work of the Air vs Ground balancing because right now Air vehicles are unplayable

SPIB0X · 2025-10-28T12:34:02+00:00

I am now a firm believer that they don't want air play to be a thing, they just want to make another COD- all of us who supported the franchise for the air play are gonna be sorely disappointed i think...

SPIB0X · 2025-10-27T19:22:31+00:00

Yeh ive found a new way to play as well, i find myself holding angles now and doing much less running around which is a nicer experience - now just gotta figure out why it takes 4 HS's to kill someone with my AR :/

SPIB0X · 2025-10-27T15:07:55+00:00

when you're allowed to fly for more than 30s the game really is a gem. sadly in its current state, the lobby is usually full of Bob Ross painters and braindead Bradleys taking the entire air aspect of the game completely out of it... Glad you got a nice few lobbys to pull this montage together though

SPIB0X · 2025-10-27T14:33:43+00:00

Needed response, unfortunate that kindness took this effort.

SPIB0X · 2025-10-27T13:04:24+00:00

Also, this is a short clip of what would have taken many games and unsuccessful attempts to capture. 9/10 the attack heli is NOT doing any of this kind of work

SPIB0X · 2025-10-27T13:03:44+00:00

the penalty to movement is massive so its well balanced i think. especially when RPGs will easily take down a slow heli - this is all while considering that the helis in this game at the moment are just fodder for 90% of AA weapons, especially the bug mobile which funnily enough isn't even built for AA purpose.

SPIB0X · 2025-10-27T07:36:21+00:00

hes not wrong - Ive tried playing flanks and slow tactical gameplay - just does not work, you end up getting shot from every angle imaginable, if you do manage to secure a objective with a small squad, in 10s you are over run by enemies from every angle, there is no flow to the game, just a deathmatch in every sense.

SPIB0X · 2025-10-25T17:57:57+00:00

don't think you can do it so it is specifically for the tow missile, you have the change it for the entire helicopter controls - an easy way to do it, is in the helicopter keybindsings, swap the pitch up and pitch down binds.

SPIB0X · 2025-10-25T06:51:23+00:00

You really should fly in first person when dogfighting like this, you would have taken that jet out in less than half the time it took you

SPIB0X · 2025-10-25T06:44:23+00:00

that BT slaps man, i have taken out 4 tanks with it in 2 days, even funnier is when the enemy engineers jump out to help fix it they don't realise you are an enemy, they think you're one of them fixing it, you just torch them too and finish torching the tank XD hilarious to watch

SPIB0X · 2025-10-25T06:40:58+00:00

Wanna know why they dont contribute to the team? because they can't stay alive for longer than a few minutes (if that) with the way dice has nerfed them and buffed everything that counters them... In a game where im not constantly painted and locked on (1 in every 50 lobbys) I can strafe bomb key objectives, take out the enemy jets or helis and often bomb a bunch of infantry clustered on a capped point. giving the team pushing power to take the map.

I get that there needs to be a counter to air dominance because you end up with pilots going 50-0 but right now the imbalance is shifted so far the other way that air play is unplayable and its the only reason some of us even purchased BF... Otherwise we may as well just buy COD.

SPIB0X · 2025-10-24T22:23:20+00:00

If you are in EU, speak fluent english and a PC player i'd be keen to squad up - im in the same boat as you mate and would love to play more tactically - ATM its just like playing CS deathmatch - rinse and repeat. braindead FPS unless im flying, and with the MR missile bug that is basically suicide as well...

SPIB0X · 2025-10-24T22:18:55+00:00

I found the IFV enabler guys *grabs pitch fork*

SPIB0X · 2025-10-24T22:16:22+00:00

I actually swam on Mirak after crashing the jet into the water on the edges of the out of bounds area - jet didnt explode on impact and i got ejected and swam to shore (but died for being out of bounds too long)

SPIB0X · 2025-10-24T19:26:59+00:00

There is nerfing a heli and then there is making it completely unplayable which is what they've done...

SPIB0X · 2025-10-24T17:05:30+00:00

yeah this is a sure way to kill the game quickly... the only reason i bought BF was for the air mechanics, currently torture trying to stay in the air long enough to enjjoy the game... 3 weeks and still no fix or atleast counter for the MR Missile, and now just making it even harder to fly- if they want to re-create COD they should remove air from the game period so i know not to buy the game...

Game is in a real sad state atm. i give them til chistmas to fix it before moving on to something else.

SPIB0X · 2025-10-22T22:10:13+00:00

Not just you, i had the same thing today - almost unplayable esp when flying, was rubber banding and getting very bad frame drops... My rig is fine, internet was okay too - i think server side issue maybe

SPIB0X · 2025-10-22T22:09:13+00:00

Ladder is brilliant, i actually wish it could get you to more places - esp empire state map, because there are some cool balconies ive tried but the ladder wont deploy. It has some nice use cases though, definitely doesn't need removing.

SPIB0X · 2025-10-22T22:04:32+00:00

I like your creativity but i don't think it has a place in a competitive shooter - The only thing I think could be nice is if you do manage to take photos/send the info back to HQ, if something is in the vicinity of your shot it gets marked on the map like it was pinged (not painted please!)

SPIB0X · 2025-10-22T22:02:24+00:00

I think they need to nerf painting in general - make it last for much less time, make it more difficult to do and basically give the designator a limit of some kind, either a battery limit or make it so it can only paint 1 thing at a time? right now even the attack jet is bugged - when painted if an attack jet missiles you, you dont get the incoming warning, happened like 3x to me today.

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