Originally Posted by AshOck
Put simply, it seems like they are trying to make the game easier in order to attract more players. This sounds fine on paper. More players, more fodder, more fun.. sure. But in reality, the easier the game is the less a very skilled player can express his/her full potential.
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Easy how? I don't understand. It'll have less of a learning curve initially if that's what you mean. You don't have this weird cert system and freeform inventory that people won't really use well until they've played a little bit. That's not really "easier" though. I mean, they're adding in headshots this time. That alone will up the skill ceiling vastly. Aircraft are going to have much better done flight mechanics. Land vehicles have directional armor. Every single aspect of the game is having more detail to it, more stuff for people to make use of or have made use of against them in combat. I can't see how the changes to the game will do anything but make it "harder" for new players to compete.
Plus, squad leaders imparting actual benefits to their squadmates? That's pretty big. Classes forcing people to draw something based on benefits and negatives rather than being supersoldiers? The demand for good squad composition and coordination is enhanced by changes like that. So not only is actual, basic gameplay going to be "harder" when FPS gods shoot you in the face repeatedly and you die like a chump in the air to guys who'd been flying planes in BF3 or WW2OL for years make a mess of you, but the opportunity for good squads to excel is even more significant.
Unless you mean being unable to decide whether to bring an extra medkit or an extra box of ammo or something trumps all of those other changes.
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