GUNNERS - ANY TIME YOU HOP INTO A BRADLEY OR STRF - PLEASE ALWAYS SWITCH YOUR WEAPONS TO SEE IF YOUR DRIVER HAS THE LASER DESIGNATOR.
The amount of people in this game that are oblivious a whole YEAR after it released is remarkable.
How do so many people still not understand that I need them to paint the helicopter that is locking on to us so that I can lock on to it to take it out or to force it to fly away to cover?!
I will literally say in the chat “gunner plz switch to ur secondary weapon and paint the helicopter for me so I can lock onto it.”
Yet they just sit in the gunner seat firing an LMG at it when it’s quite literally 500meters away, and clearly doesn’t care at all about how little damage it’s taking.
Then boom.
We’re both dead. Or they jump out like pussies and run if I’m severely damaged, but not destroyed.
Some of them will even be engineers and they’ll run off and not even repair.
It’s the worst on Vegas Strip conquest.
I just left a match where one of my team mates used the attack heli as a transport heli and discarded it when he got to where he wanted to go. Then the enemy team hopped in it and then the whole match the other team had TWO ATTACK HELIS.
Like I can’t even get out of Spawn because two enemy choppers are just taking runs at me, undeterred, while the AA gun in the middle of the map is under control of the enemy team and has a clear sight line directly into my spawn.
And then I have to somehow type in chat to the guy in my gunner seat. Which is painful as fuck and slow.
Yet here I am I asking in the team text chat for someone, literally ANYONE on the team to paint the fucking helicopters.
And best I can get is two different guys jump in my gunner seat, and just go “durrrr machine gun go BRRRRRR”.
I literally explained in chat how to laser designate. But no. They then get out of the vehicle when I’m in cover waiting for the super delayed repair to kick in, and they’re just shooting at me because they want me to Leroy Jenkins into our deaths while I’m asking them to paint the god damn helicopters for me.
Like just paint the fucking helicopters. I can literally move when they’re painted. I’m level 200 in an IFV. Before this update I could literally just switch seats and do it myself. But theyve now nerfed vehicles super hard, so now I can’t be a one man show in those lobbies where no one knows how to do anything.
And before anyone says the laser designator is back to how it always was in previous battlefields…
Yeah, that’s good and all, but why is it that Engineers still have the fastest RPG reload speed in franchise history, can carry 5 rounds, while also carrying 3 anti tank mines, while ALSO carrying the repair tool?
This update made the imbalance so insanely worse.
Hell.
Even the pilots can just switch seats and pop flairs and use alternate weapon systems no problem.
Yet I can’t even shoot my turret in defence or else it pauses my repair. And every engineer in my gunner seat just jumps out and runs for their moms as soon as we take like a hit.
We really need in game team proximity chat, because the amount of people who have the text chat window turned off in this game is really hurting team communication.
Like if you are in a vehicle with someone you should be able to talk to each other no matter if you’re in a squad with them or not.
DICE - Please give us prox chat.
GUNNERS - Please don’t just forget you have a brain and shoot the LMG across the map like a total imbecile while two helicopters are locking onto you. Check to see if your driver has a laser designator or has been asking you in the chat to use the fucking laser designator.
Sorry for the rant. This has just gotten so frustrating over the past few days.