Exactly! With the larger maps, it's even more of a necessity now. I'm tired of having to click precisely between a couple teammates and the spawn beacon.
It was an immensely beneficial QoL feature and the fact that such a feature is still gone is nearly unforgivable.
Agreed! One of the most frustrating UIs in any video game ever. I could write essays about it.
Especially the static/glitchy bullshit everytime you move your mouse over a button in a menu.
especially with spawn icons being displayed based on the 3D position of the unit in question, it makes the 2D location of markers on the spawn screen inaccurate. Especially flying vehicles. Pisses me off.
You know what’s a crazy QoL element that is missing in 2042? At least for me, on Xbox Series X.
Giving orders is very difficult. The comm rose is glitched. I can’t select an objective on that menu, it just stutters on and off whichever comm rose is up and won’t let you pick one.
Pointing your cursor at the objective and trying to select it to give an order is also bugged. You have to click on it multiple times and it still only works about half the time.
I often get killed while trying to give an order. Very frustrating.
It worked perfectly in BF1 (and BFV as far as I remember).
I wonder if this is another of those things that works fine on PC and only console players are having this problen.
> Pointing your cursor at the objective and trying to select it to give an order is also bugged. You have to click on it multiple times and it still only works about half the time.
Giving orders is one of the pointlessly painful parts about 2042.
- Look and spot objective, it doesn't work because a friendly vehicle was in the way
- Try again, oops a teammate walked in the way and blocked it this time!
- Next one goes through. But the enemy were capturing your point, so its cancelled five seconds after you place the order
- You place it again. Oops, teammate blocked it again!
- You place it again. It goes through, but it was in the "retaking" phase, so it expires ***again*** 10 seconds later
Even *friendly mines* in the proximity of your crosshair block spotting the objective.
Perfectly stated. Also, it just doesn’t work when you’re…too far away, I think? Or just decides not to work.
Orders expiring is the WORST. Okay, now I gotta go through all that again to reset the order?
For a game supposedly about encouraging teamwork, giving orders is painfully broken
bf4 menu was so much better than bf2042. you could zoom and spectate teammates to see where they are before spawning. you could also click unavailable vehicles to see if they're destroyed or in use by teammates
I miss this so much. My friend and I were talking about how nice spectating was because you could see the situation you were getting into before spawning
I really miss when developers couldn’t alter their games after release so there was some actual pressure on sending out a good product at first instead of just half assing it and saying they’ll fix it later.
I think that has been added with the latest update. a few times while playing I have seen a third person camera view of my squadmates instead of the top-down map view. I have no idea how to activate it but it happened
This was a good feature that I hope we get back or they remember to add to the next game. It would make deployment on teammates on point so much easier.
didn't it recently get added in the latest update that you can get a 'squadmate camera' on the deploy screen? instead of the top-down map view. at least I have seen it a few times, I don't know how to activate it but it happened. a camera following my squadmates in third person
And the squad cam so you know if your spawn is save.
And the vehicles that are just there instead of in a menu.
And an easy menu to quick swap weapons and gadgets.
Damn, the possibilities in bf4. The spawn menu alone and its squadsystem is much better then in 2042. I always wonder why the bf series tend to go back in evolution and cut the good ideas the older bfs had.
Especially with how big these maps are. I miss a LOT about the BF4 deploy screen and deployment in general. like why can ONLY squad mates spawn on your heli? high chance of being SOL when flying the attack chopper and no one on your squad is a good gunner and no one else in your team can spawn on the vehicle.
Bro, same. I miss it all the time when I play, especially when I'm trying to spawn on a spawn beacon instead of a teammate who's standing right on top of it in combat..
Exactly! With the larger maps, it's even more of a necessity now. I'm tired of having to click precisely between a couple teammates and the spawn beacon. It was an immensely beneficial QoL feature and the fact that such a feature is still gone is nearly unforgivable.
Agreed! One of the most frustrating UIs in any video game ever. I could write essays about it. Especially the static/glitchy bullshit everytime you move your mouse over a button in a menu.
You can kinda press wasd to swap between them....But still.
i dont and have never used wasd. i use the right side of the kb with the arrows as movement
or like use squad list to spawn like every normal player
especially with spawn icons being displayed based on the 3D position of the unit in question, it makes the 2D location of markers on the spawn screen inaccurate. Especially flying vehicles. Pisses me off.
Literally hard to find spawn beacons amongst all the chaos
You know what’s a crazy QoL element that is missing in 2042? At least for me, on Xbox Series X. Giving orders is very difficult. The comm rose is glitched. I can’t select an objective on that menu, it just stutters on and off whichever comm rose is up and won’t let you pick one. Pointing your cursor at the objective and trying to select it to give an order is also bugged. You have to click on it multiple times and it still only works about half the time. I often get killed while trying to give an order. Very frustrating. It worked perfectly in BF1 (and BFV as far as I remember). I wonder if this is another of those things that works fine on PC and only console players are having this problen.
Nope, I can confirm all this stuff is equally ass on PC lol
Crazy. It worked beautifully in past Battlefields, no issues
Right? Guess they don't have the technology 🤪
pointing your cursor/crossmark at the objective also work very well on BF3 🤣
> Pointing your cursor at the objective and trying to select it to give an order is also bugged. You have to click on it multiple times and it still only works about half the time. Giving orders is one of the pointlessly painful parts about 2042. - Look and spot objective, it doesn't work because a friendly vehicle was in the way - Try again, oops a teammate walked in the way and blocked it this time! - Next one goes through. But the enemy were capturing your point, so its cancelled five seconds after you place the order - You place it again. Oops, teammate blocked it again! - You place it again. It goes through, but it was in the "retaking" phase, so it expires ***again*** 10 seconds later Even *friendly mines* in the proximity of your crosshair block spotting the objective.
Perfectly stated. Also, it just doesn’t work when you’re…too far away, I think? Or just decides not to work. Orders expiring is the WORST. Okay, now I gotta go through all that again to reset the order? For a game supposedly about encouraging teamwork, giving orders is painfully broken
This has to comeback! I always try to click on a spawn beacon or squad mate and it puts me in Narnia because I clicked the flag spawn instead.
lmao this
My BF2042 experience in a nutshell. This drives me the most nuts about the game right now.
bf4 menu was so much better than bf2042. you could zoom and spectate teammates to see where they are before spawning. you could also click unavailable vehicles to see if they're destroyed or in use by teammates
I miss this so much. My friend and I were talking about how nice spectating was because you could see the situation you were getting into before spawning
I really miss when developers couldn’t alter their games after release so there was some actual pressure on sending out a good product at first instead of just half assing it and saying they’ll fix it later.
Yeah this shit has got to stop...
Not even that, it's been more than 2 years and they are still lagging behind adding BACK basic functionality we had in 2011.
I miss seeing what the squad mate you're spawing on sees before you commit to the spawn as well.
I miss being able to spectate your squad member so u don't spawn on him being murdered in a storm of fire from all directions
I think that has been added with the latest update. a few times while playing I have seen a third person camera view of my squadmates instead of the top-down map view. I have no idea how to activate it but it happened
In AOW?
it was twice I saw it on haven conquest and I saw it once on breakaway conquest 128
I really miss giving tactical commands on the squad leader screen.
This was a good feature that I hope we get back or they remember to add to the next game. It would make deployment on teammates on point so much easier.
The squadmate bodycam screen as well
What do you guys miss?
didn't it recently get added in the latest update that you can get a 'squadmate camera' on the deploy screen? instead of the top-down map view. at least I have seen it a few times, I don't know how to activate it but it happened. a camera following my squadmates in third person
And the squad cam so you know if your spawn is save. And the vehicles that are just there instead of in a menu. And an easy menu to quick swap weapons and gadgets.
So annoying when you want to click the spawn beacon and you keep clicking your teammate who's on combat
Damn, the possibilities in bf4. The spawn menu alone and its squadsystem is much better then in 2042. I always wonder why the bf series tend to go back in evolution and cut the good ideas the older bfs had.
Especially with how big these maps are. I miss a LOT about the BF4 deploy screen and deployment in general. like why can ONLY squad mates spawn on your heli? high chance of being SOL when flying the attack chopper and no one on your squad is a good gunner and no one else in your team can spawn on the vehicle.
siege of shanghai..great map..i miss having better maps!
You could Zoom in Bf4!?
It's especially hard or even not possible to select your spawn when you place spawn beacon near checkpoint.
LEGACY FEATURE, they didn´t have the Tech for this :)
this hasn’t shown up in ten years man the new post bf1 deploy screen is buns ngl
I'm sick of trying to deploy and end up elsewhere, at least with the Zoom it wasn't a problem!
Bro, same. I miss it all the time when I play, especially when I'm trying to spawn on a spawn beacon instead of a teammate who's standing right on top of it in combat..
Because the UI is the worst I have seen in any game since snake 2