Average players rarely waste precious squad slots on weak flamethrower troops just to clear trees around capture points.
That means you often have to blow up small vision-blocking bushes with valuable satchel charges.
Not to mention satchel charges can’t even cut down these trees right now.
Let us be able to cut down this annoying vegetation with melee weapons.
You have to precisely aim tank shells at their roots to take them out.
It’s utterly ridiculous.
Honestly, if you wasted high-value TNT just to get rid of foliage blocking your sight instead of simply stomping it flat in real combat, you’d be accused of squandering military supplies.
This game’s mechanics are poorly designed. Our shovels, axes and pickaxes should let us cut down small trees and clear bushes, yet we can’t interact with vegetation at all. We have no way to clear it, which is extremely frustrating.
Many trees only serve to block the vision of defenders, letting attackers rush forward under cover. It’s such an annoying flaw.
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Ugh, don’t even get me started—it’s so infuriating. Take maps like Moscow and Berlin for example; there are tiny bushes and saplings less than half a person’s height.
Even if you unlock the perk that boosts melee swing speed for shovels, clearing them takes ages. Worse still, these plants are completely indestructible, with an invisible half-meter buffer zone around them that stops you from digging anywhere near them in advance. That design is just awful.
I’ve seen other games feature great environmental physics where you can dig trenches under vehicles to flip them over. But in this game, every single piece of foliage might as well be completely impervious to all player interaction.
Axes should be more efficient at cutting vegetation too (if this were implemented).
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One must be more precise. You won’t achieve much by stabbing a bush with bayonet in reality.
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Visual cover sucks, lets go cut it down!
do like what bf1 did and allow different types of destruction with various melee weapons… clubs to destroy fences, axes allow you to destroy wire and vegetation, swords primarily vegetation.
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Good suggestion.
We should also be allowed to order our bots to destroy elements of vegetation, much like how we can order them to deconstruct buildables.