It is silly and childish that you guys are talking about leaving based on an experiment that we ran based on feedback FROM YOUR CLAN MATES. People are just looking for a resolution to a problem that was identified and all of a sudden people that have been here forever get all upset over something small. Surprises me a lot.

I feel the same way as TwoFour.

We have always run with All weapons, All Perks.  And have only limited these for special events and this has been with the older games to keep a fresh perspective about them.

Looking at doing this for a new game is just to soon for a Battlefield game.

If this was something that everyone was on board with, I could see a change, but since there are almost as many against and there are for, I cant see this being a benefit for Polite and Friendly yet.

I can't help but wonder how many NO votes were from those that play with sniper rifles (not just recon) on the Crouch Server vs. how many of the YES votes were from those players that are continually sniper fodder on the very same server?

No doubt there have been some complaints about some maps because of the sniper issue, so much so that Luke has actually considered removing them from the rotation. If the clan is thinking about removing maps from the Crouch rotation, because of the sniper issue, then is not the sniper  rifle an issue in the first place?

I find it odd that some people feel are adamant about ALL weapons and perks,  but have no issue about removing a map because of the fact that having All weapons and perks impacts game play. Is that not slightly hypocritical?

I am not trying to poke a stick at anyone directly, but rather trying to add some objective food for thought.

I played a while last night and I must admit it was a good change.  I personally think the issue isn't the recon class, but the bolt action rifles.  If someone wants to play recon with a non-bolt action rifle I say let them..  but it's much easier to ban the entire class.  It's an end to a means, but a rather heavy handed one.

BF4 is balanced for Run&Gun, not crouch:  Bolt Action Rifles and the recon class in general is balanced such that in a run and gun server they need those one shot kill and see everything everywhere advantages to bring them up and make them par for the rest of the classes.  When you slow the game down to a crouch game, suddenly the the bolt action rifles and recon are over powered for that style of game play.  

The PLD is a game breaker in many ways, but it's designed to be.  On servers where someone can burrow into a spot and murder freely without being seen, the PLD gives the opposing players a way to find that problem and deal with it.   The PLD is basically an "in-game esp hack".. heh  but it serves a purpose and can be good, even in a crouch server.



Uh.. Try it.

I play a lot with shotgun slug and scope and I can tell you, its simply not nearly as effective as you make out.  Firstly you're making a bad assumption about the zero drop thing, there is a drop.  And it's considerable.   (In BF3 there wasn't one but they corrected it in BF4.)

More over, the slug does a lot less damage at range.  I have slugged people at range 2 or 3 times (complete with puff of blood) and not killed them.  

More over the accuracy is horrible compared to the bolt action rifles.   Now admittedly I'm not the greatest shot out there.. but a slug round can vary wildly compared to the bolt action rifles.

I agree that banning a single weapon type is a slippery slope because another weapon will step up to fill its place, but I assume you it will be DMR's not shotguns..  (And no I'm not advocating banning DMRs.. They aren't one shot kills either..  )

It really seems like the majority of the people that are hating on this change play primarily recon - or so it seems from my comparing names to known play style.  More over, I think making blanket threats of leaving or telling people you're going to take your ball and play somewhere else if things dont change is childish of you.  Don't make ultimatum threats 'cause you're gonna lose.

Advocating change is good.  Discuss it in an adult manner and try to be the change you want to see.  Throwing a tantrum if you don't get your way isn't acceptable.  Be an adult about it.

I personally would like to see recon allowed to stay, but implement a procon plug to remove bolt action rifles (including map pickups).

hey u keep recon I'll kill u with a sniper rifle u take away recon I'll kill u with another other weapon, Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water if you put water in the cup it becomes the cup and water can flow or it can crash.

A procon plug to remove bolt action rifles (including map pickups) would be ideal but we do not have that(yet) and i liked the no recon seemed to work well made crouch much more enjoyable!

A final ruling has been made and posted in the BF4 section. I'm going to lock this post for now. Closer to the end of the year we will make a new post for feed back after people have played this for a bit.