I guess it's also to prevent mass hot drops without needing transports? I've heard people complain about that in PS1.
I kinda like it. It let's you further specialize vehicles. You give up flares and get improved radar for example.
Now that light assault class has jetpacks to use(unless they nerf this) it's hardly going to stop people from taking 100 bombers to the drop zone and bailing.
its a balancing mechanic
how can you blatantly pretend to ignore that
I didnt play enough PS1 to know what they did in it
though I agree that to a point alot of that stuff should be on vehicles and then you can use a slot to BUFF one up, like long range radar or longer countermeasures
and ejection seat is a customization? seems weird
The point is you shouldn't have to give up any of those things, it's an unbalancing mechanic. I don't mean to reference real life because gameplay>realism, and in fact, it is simply a coincidence here that realism and the best thing for gameplay are the same thing, but it's wrong for gameplay for everyone to run around missing key capabilities that any aircraft/vehicle in real life would be carrying.
You may disagree, but I simply think that the customizations should be balanced around weapon loadout choices, not eletronic warfare and other non-weapon choices.
And I'm talking about BF3 just as much as PS2. Not that there's going to be a huge difference, PS2 will be BF3 with huge maps and future theme IMO. Not that that's a problem by itself but I wish they would not copy BF3's problems, such as the one I just described.
Don't misunderstand me though, this is not a game breaker, I'm just stating my preference. Game breakers would be killcam, 3D spotting (especially if you can Q spam to see people in the dark of night, that would be a crying low down shame), etc. Especially in an MMO, I mean, Battlefield and CoD with their small scale, it's one thing to taint them with these things but to taint a large mmo? Please no, SOE!
I just think it makes for more interesting fighting when all vehicles have what they are supposed to have. KEY NOTE though: Flares, for example, you would always have. however, unlike BF3, you would be carry a limited supply. So that's not overpowered.
