BF3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Battlefield 3 will feature 4 man squads like in Bad Company 2, however, according to DICE’s Alan Kertz, who once again confirmed some new info via Twitter, squad spawning has changed compared to Bad Company 2.
In Battlefield 3, the squad members can only spawn on the squad leader, while the squad leader can spawn on any squad member. This seems to be the right way to do it, as Kertz points out: “it keeps pace up without tons of spawns”. One of the (minor) problems in Bad Company 2 was that any squad member could spawn on any squad member, meaning, for instance, one player camping behind enemy lines could spawn 3 additional squad mates.
The new system resembles a lot like Battlefield 2, where squad mates could only spawn on the squad leader, while the squad leader had to spawn at the spawn point. on the flip side, this led to a lot of “squad hopping”, whereby a player who died would hop to a squad with a leader closest to the action, and spawn on him. Squad hopping was later fixed in a patch.
But i still wanted larger squads than 4 people… even if just in PCs… I like going with 5 other guys behind enemy lines:)
totally agree with you :/
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yea that will fix a little a problem with BC2
I wish we would get like 8 man in a squad; seems to me you’ve got much more action-tunneling and a lot more options for strategy. On the other hand, maybe things will get out of control, like two groups within a squad of which one just makes their own plan. And me the squadleader will become overloaded…
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I just hope they fix the mainbaseraping. The worst. I dont do it and I dont want people to be able to do it.
It’s a difficult problem to fix. If you lock up a base, people may camp in it and the game will be very stale. Depends on the map of course. I like the BF1943 rules, where you don’t register points for kills in the enemys main base but you can still go in and flush it out.
or just make nothing count if it happens in or near the deployment
im hoping u can do 3 man squads like bc2
^ there were 4 man squads in bc2
yeah, but u didnt have to have 4 people. u couldve had only 3 if u wanted to
This doesn’t make sense. You can spawn on squad leader but squad leader can spawn on any member.
So normal member is camping behind enemy lines.
Squad leader spawns on him.
Rest of squad spawns on squad leader.
What have they solved exactly?
Well, they’ve made it harder to do exactly that. It’ll happen a lot less often this way. But you do have a point.
You have the ability to spot squad leaders (there’s probably a star above their heads or something) so you can pretty much guess where they are spawning from.
C’mon dice, just give us one more man, make them 5 man squads.
this is terible, say the leader is a bushwookie, than you will have to walk to the objective every time and you will get all dipple attacks’, hope its possible to vote away the sqaut leader..
Maybe leave the squad and join a different one?
then everyone has its own personal squat, not very team work supportive, unless you can vote out your squatleader
If you aren’t happy with your squad leader, just join a different squad. If you’re in a group with your buddies, your squad leader should always be the person willing to be at the front lines all the time. Snipers should never be squad leader, unless you’re a squad full of snipers.
looks like you never play pub lobies… will be even worse with all the cod boys coming in
but we will see in beta and the demo
cod players will be playing their usual brand of madness hopefully they do come in their hundreds of thousands…
would give the scavengers more to eat…
i think this is a great idea.im tired of almost killing someone to arm the objective in bc2 while 3 guys spawn on him and take me down.at least this is going to be minimized in bf3.oh,and if u spot someone and its the squad leader will it tell u?and r squad leaders picked randomly,voted on,or picked status wise?
Good to see squad leader is back, bfbc2′s everyone is a squad leader=nobody really is, sucked big time, can’t say i was a fan of the spawn system either then again voip didn’t work so in a way that ‘casual gameplay’ spawn system made the game more bareable.
Would like to see it up’ed to 5 but i guess they have their reasons, maybe that number will change if it doesn’t unbalance things to much.
worked fine in bf2 and 2142
good call
I’m glad there doing that as the BF2′s system. It has no problem at all. Thank you DICE.
Very good
There is some things that just are the best when they are left like they are….
On a 32v32 player map we’ll have 16 squads of 4 players. Seems a bit much. Although I don’t doubt that the developers know better than me about that.
Will there be like that the guy who invites the other squadmates, will be the leader? Or will it be like the guy with the highest rank or gametime will be the leader?
I have to agree, the squad leader idea doesn’t seem to fix anything. All the squad leader will be is a glorified spawn point and when he is killed a squad member will hide until he’s spawned back. And why can’t we have a separate big squad game mode that has 6-8 members? (like in codmw2 I hate to admit)
Alot of people suggest that there should be 5-8 man squads, IMO that’s a bad idea because consoles don’t support as many players and there will only be 2 or 3 squads in the match.
BUT EVERYONE HATES ON CONSOLES SO W/E lol.
I know a guy all he talks about all day is how cod is better than battlefield
i have to disagree i have purchased or played every cod game and i have owned every game in the battlefield franchise…
anyway battlefield has always from the start had a strategy element where each player must do their bit medics, engineers, support or assault everyone has to do their bit in order to win…
this strategic element is lost in most modes in cod with the exception of zombies and search zombies is limited to 4 players in the same manor but the zombies are just multiplying bots and search turns into a race to see who can wipe out the entire enemy team which usually gives the player with the most kills 3 kills not exactly action packed when you think about how long it takes to get a game sometimes…
there are so many arguments that could be put into this debate but baseline battlefield rocks they mix it up loads cod are running low on ideas the 7th installment of zombies and the best they could come up with is a shrink gun that looks as though it belongs to duke nukem…
and helicopters that magically go where you want while your guy ingame freezes making him a nice steady target for a headshot…
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4 man squads is shite in honesty
it needs 6, like it has ALWAYS been in a battlefield title
sadly the game is looking more and more like a console port as we find out all the features that are missing
now there is no squad managment either, its crap
Lol so how is that confirmed ?
Where did you get that details from ?
Everyone can spawn on everyone, there is rarely any squadplay in BF3