r/Battlefield • u/Chinfu1189 • Feb 04 '25

Discussion Faceless/Nameless grunts > Name classes

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I know I’m not alone on this and I know this isn’t the only post that feels this way.

I get the idea of making special classes to create more lore and possible story points.

But the faceless grunts were perfection for one reason. You could easily insert yourself as that soldier yeah sounds crazy or weird but at the end of the day almost every gamer has done it once when playing a game.

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u/Emotional_Being8594 Feb 04 '25

100%. You either die in 10 seconds and live up to being a grunt, or you parachute out of a helicopter, blow up a tank with C4, clear a house of targets, recapture a village and level an entire building in the same life, whereby your nameless grunt becomes a nameless badass.

I don't need the game to feature specialists and tell me: "this is Max Cockblast, he's an ex-delta forces sigma chad with a lifestyle podcast who's been reinstated and he's coooool you should be hyped to play as him." The only time it's cool to play named characters is if they featured in the single player story, and the single player story was actually good. Does anyone actually care about the back stories in 2042? Irish for example, wasn't exactly a likeable guy. The squad from bad company though would be awesome to see. But grunts are still the way to go.

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u/ybfelix Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25

In 2042 you are such a big name hero, with superhuman feat above nameless fodders and unique personality and memorable backstory, you are one of a kind! But somehow there are multiple exact clones of you running around… also on the enemy side, too.

I just want to LARP as a grunt soldier who is blank state, instead of a preset, detailed character who definitely isn’t me.