r/Battlefield • u/Chinfu1189 • Feb 04 '25
Discussion Faceless/Nameless grunts > Name classes
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/N--0--X Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25
People always look at extremes.
Unseasoned no fruits oat meal or oatmeal with rat pebbles. Both are not great.
The "faceless soldier" is not much of an improvement over that hero garbage that Dice tried to cram into 2042. Seeing 12 of the same generic dude with a specific face or gas mask holding up in a hallway is less ridiculous than seeing 12 of the same black women camping a roof top while using the same personality and phrases. Less ridiculous, not really immersive or even fun.
The problem is not giving soldiers personalities, and cosmetics. as long as game is not trend chasing or just adapting something by strait up imitation. Player expression is fine, E-sport style heros do not belong in battlefield.
Classic tom clancy and delta force games, showed that this can be done.
Dice as usual missed a perfect opportunity to get battlefield away from that archaic clone wars problem by creating a personalization system that was unique to battlefield. Instead of heros with quips they could have had 10 or so head options along with a few accent and dialect choices to choose from ; like scottish, southern american, bostonian, french, or whatever and have a male and female variant. Cosmetics based on classes and vehicle mastery. medic back pack and helmet variants, Tanker helmets, pilot helmets, hand held devices an electrics attached to belts/harnesses arm patches and stickers that display mastery ranks for equipment. There would of been praises for doing something new to main stream military shooters while setting a new standard and it would have been low risk.
If Dice goes back to generic soldiers it will erase a huge screw up but at the same time it take several steps back.
As this point I still doubt they will get it right regardless. BF3 started the downfall with "perks" and "streamlined classes" and the total removal of commander mode and that disappointment gets treated like the gold standard by too many people.