I was very optimistic about this game when I started, the battles felt really intense and fun, but now at lv 21 its just not enjoyable anymore.
There are just too many too powerful “mass destruction” weapons around. Every battle is full of arty, bombers, mortars and tanks while you are not even in a house safe from those. Apart from that basically everyone is running around with MG’s, high end SMG’s and semi auto rifles. And those can obliterate an entier squad in few seconds if used properly.
Hence it’s obvious that, in such an environment, bots won’t survive longer than like 20sec. Especially if they are as stupid as currently.
So I would suggest to take some power form the players away. For instance there could be an upper limit for quality and quantity of equipments a squad can barry.
(Disclaimer, my experiences are based on battle of Moscow campaign, where I’m at the time at level 21)
My feelings are mixed about that topic, but I fear too that the power creep can be a problem.
And it will increase when campaings get even longer (they plan lvl 40…)
On the other hand it could be engaged by a proper matchmaking.
But how does it work? If it goes only after the campaign lvl I have reached, it will not help players that are far in the campaign but have bad equipment.
And at the moment the ONLY benefit of premium squads is to progress faster in campaign.
Fortunately for everybody, it seems that devs are already working on some of those problems.
Outside of that, I must say that if nothing changes, power creep will be a masive problem. Already there is next to no reason to use some of the early weapons (BA rifles < semi autos < FG42 for example) so I can only imagine how bad it will be with 40 lvl campaigns.
I agree in 100% Even though I have the majority of the Army myself equipped with a semi-auto and 2-3 grenades and I feel definitely that I have too much of it, so I think that one day everyone will be armed this way and the battles will end at respawn. At least I do not play in a branch of the radio operator because it makes no sense for me to mark a point on the map and 5 frags for free I do not like this one.
Honest question, how do you guys get killed by arti so often?, Is it a squads thing?.
I tend to play lone fighters, and so far I can say Less than 25% of my deaths are to arti/tanks/planes/explosives combined.
I hadn’t played for a month and am back enjoying the game but genuinely feel it’s hitting bf1 levels of explosive spam now. I don’t even seem to be safe from bombs or arty inside a building, not sure if that’s a feature now or a bug but I genuinely seem to be getting destroyed even inside a building by bombs.
I feel like the game would be better if it had a power-rating system, a la WT. That way, you could set up your roster with whatever power rating you please, and play to your pleasure. Aircraft and tanks would obviously have high power ratings in comparison to infantry.
Artillery is not really that much of a problem anymore. Friendly fire and negative xp for killing teammates kind of prevents the plane spam from being as bad in lone fighters. I’d like to see planes deal friendly fire just like artillery, should give negative xp as well though otherwise the bomb spammers wouldn’t care.
It works, if you know how to use it. You’re not going to get thrown in with someone whose BR is 3-4 above yours, unless your BR is all over the place. If it is, then that’s your own fault. Choose a few units with the exact same BR, and put them in your unit. Enjoy the game.
I’ve maxed out in Berlin and Normandie as Germany so don’t need much exp