Ok now that i just read the posts and watched the vids. I change my vote to NO.
That is bullshit. If i want a futuristic game that I want to run robots and shoot lasers at eachother ill get starwars, halo, or UT.
What a way to fuck up a good game. I play battlefield soley for its realism. BF3 should build on that, making the maps 10x bigger, actually taking a 5 minute chopper ride to the first base. Servers should increase their numbers to 128 or 256 slots. We should have more jets, vehicles, helicopters, and tanks.
For example:
Chinook helicopters
B52 bombers
C5 Transport planes
Stealth bombers NON DECTABLE BY UAV OR SCAN AND UNDETECTABLE TO HEAT SEAKING MISSLES. Like the F-117-A nighthawk and the B-2. Sorry for the harsh reality but this is how it really is with these toys. So if your a towel head fighting americans, your fucked. With that said, to make it not as devastating only allow the stealth fighters to carry a couple missles that are for tactical use only, combined with long flight periods and landings to slow the reload time down. To keep the jetwhores from devastating an area, it would f*ck the game up that way. Also, equip infantry with long range laser designators for the missles to hit. Only make it to where the jets that have the most devastating bombing capability to be easily detectable and hit by anti air. So in theory, good anti air defense means no pesky jets. Likewise, this should make the opposite team use their brains to take out AA before they can hit a base. duh!
Make it to where there is no such thing as a vehicle spawning in. You want a vehicle? You had better request an air drop. I'm not talking about this fall out of mid air bullshit either (like the supply crate). I mean actually have a chinook chopper air lift a humvee for you.
Want a tank? Bust the dozer out and clear the trees and build your own runway for the C5 transport to land their and bring your tank to you. Shit like that would be so cool.
Oh yea, and your C5 isnt going to fly all this in one shot, we need a tanker plane to refuel you so you can get back to base.
We need different types of bombs. Anything from napalm to bunker busters.
Various ground vehicles:
Mine sweeping armor. Real mines are not above ground, they are underneath it. We need a tank with a plow to clear a path for the supply convoy to get to the infantry about 20 minutes away.
Trucks that carry those diployable bridges, each truck has to have a driver to diploy the bridge section to cross a river.
Bulldozers for clearing trees and deforming terrain to make bases, runways, and firing lines.
Also make maps that dont have certain air capabilities. Specifically to eliminate dropping troops at flags just so you can do exactly what i said above. Only be able to transport troops in the air but make it to where they cant jump out untill they are landed. Then designate some maps to actually be able to air drop infantry. Still make it though to where they have to have a staging area and clear paths and shit to do your battle.
Water vehicles:
We need to bring back the destroyers and subs like in bf42. Equip destroyers with anti air capability, tawmahawk cruise missle, and artillery capability. Also anti cruise missle capability.
Also, artillery needs to be more flexable. Allowed to be dismounted and transported to anywhere on the map. Be able to provide consistant fire and be able to be adjusted left or right while laying down fire. No recharge times! Long as there is a crew on the ground to man artillery and reload it. Either allow its control to fall in the hands of a commander, allowing him/her multiple screens to operate strikes on multiple points of the map simotaneously. Also with the maps being as big as i said they should be, the arty needs to be able to reach anywhere in the map. Do you want cannons? Fine, allow 1, 2, 5, 10, or even 20 arty cannons if you want. Just have them braught in and transported to the site!
We also need destroyable structures. Example: Tired of the nade whores at the hotel in karkand? Send a team in to level all those buildings from the hotel back to the american spawnpoint, then get a dozer to push all the debris into the street to make it hard for their tanks and vehicles to get through.
That folks, is what I think battlefield 3 should be like. Then just make the laser bullshit an expansion pack that the select few that want to play it, can just buy it and play it somewhere else.
Last edited by Drunken_Tankdriver (2006-03-21 13:51:18)