Yeah don't judge the game by these extremely rare moments. No, BF is not a hyper real shooter where it takes one or maybe max two bullets to kill you. But it's not cartoonish either.
I've put in more hours in BF games than anything else and people love BF because you can have some crazy moments in it that are just fun and wacky, but at it's core it's a solid multiplayer shooter. The crazy stuff pretty much only happens with vehicles, and rarely.
Yeah as long as the shenanigans are similar to BF1942 or BF2 I’m all for it.
I read something interesting regarding the no single player or story.
Apparently many gamers say the want a story in a shooter but the data collected from games says the opposite. Many shooter buyers never even start single player and fewer play it more than 10(?) minutes. We all go to multiplayer and stay there.
BF5 missed its sales target which is insane since it sold 7 million plus but they had to aggressively discount it which I assume hit their revenue goal.
Avoiding the whole social issues regarding that game one thing cited was releasing a month late during the holidays and competing against other games. Delay was caused by wanting to polish the single player more and it turns out few people played the single player missions.
Seems like the idea is drop single player and focus on creating a good multiplayer game that is released on time.