It genuinely hurts to see what's becoming of Battlefield.
The problem with this game, is it shows it wants to be Battlefield 3 & 4 and bring back what made them amazing, but it tries to reinvent the wheel and force it on players. The biggest issues is there is no incentive for teamwork anymore, the game panders to other franchises players, and the balancing is way off from any other BF Game.
Teamwork was key in many of the Battlefield titles, whether is was obvious or not. Each class filled a unique roll that molded everyone to pick up slack when they didn't even realize they were doing it. Now, it's pick a class with gadgets you like, what ever gun you like, and free ball it till someone looses. Are you a COD player? Play Assult. Do you hate vehicles and like suppressing enemies? Play Engineer. Are you actually good (or awful) at the game and run out of ammo? Play Support. Like sniping? Don't play recon, literally never see anyone play it because you can have a sniper on any other class.
I don't see them going back to class restricted weapons, and at this point why even bother? If they looked at win/loss games and how many of what class was playing on each side, and try incentives to play more of another class, it would get better. Key word being incentive, not nerf.
Balancing just feels wrong at times. I played hardcore servers most of the time and that maybe why I feel this, but they didn't even add hardcore this time. It feels like they crammed everyone together in the hopes of it making servers look more full, but we still end up with loads of bots every few games.
Blackhawks are troop transport helicopters for example. In past games, they were weak and slow, but could carry a lot of players somewhere and change how a fight was going. Now they're a force to be reckoned with, with some players just flying them around the whole game raking up kills. It feels like RedSec is the priority with balancing, yet no one plays it.
RedSec may have been one of the worst additions to this game. When BF6 was announced, everyone lost their minds and were excited. That hype alone, returning to classic Battlefield, would have propelled this game for years. Now it feels like it's just there to compete with CoD and Warzone. It doesn't feel like a Battlefield game anymore.
Want to add a crap load of micro transactions? Cool, we buy them or we don't. It's the future of gaming it seems. Want to add a battlepass and a way to unlock stuff from it later after the end of the season? Amazing! Truly, a great addition and player friendly. But this game? It dropped the ball, hard.
