God infantry combat in this game is a steaming bag of **** thats been ****ed on by a group of feral cats.
If you're actually running around as infantry there's really only about 3 weapons worth using as everything else seems to revolve around a "aim, hold in the trigger and pray" mechanic. Smg's in particular just seem incredibly random, 1 minute you can hit enemies from a decent distance, the next even though you're using the iron sights and the chimp you're aiming at is dancing about hip firing you don't land a shot and he kills you after hitting 3/4 of the map.
Then you have that retarded melee system, its like the chainsaw in gears of war, if they get within a certain range you get sucked into the animation and theres nothing you can do about it. The bayonet charge is similar, you can be spraying them with bullets but if they're within a certain range they basically pass straight through them and kill you. I love how dice seem to plump for the gimmicky animation with the **** game-play mechanic instead of just keeping melee combat how it is in most other games.
And the rankup system is equally dumb, keep the supposedly good smg for level 10 and have no unlocks after level 3.
WHY? Why have such a gap just to have an irritating grinding mechanic being stuck with **** weapons until you get to level 10.
I usually just use vehicles and this reinforces why, BF imo has never had good infantry combat, it just seems like an afterthought compared to the actual vehicle combat. Whereas a dedicated fps infantry only game i can usually do pretty well in.
If you're actually running around as infantry there's really only about 3 weapons worth using as everything else seems to revolve around a "aim, hold in the trigger and pray" mechanic. Smg's in particular just seem incredibly random, 1 minute you can hit enemies from a decent distance, the next even though you're using the iron sights and the chimp you're aiming at is dancing about hip firing you don't land a shot and he kills you after hitting 3/4 of the map.
Then you have that retarded melee system, its like the chainsaw in gears of war, if they get within a certain range you get sucked into the animation and theres nothing you can do about it. The bayonet charge is similar, you can be spraying them with bullets but if they're within a certain range they basically pass straight through them and kill you. I love how dice seem to plump for the gimmicky animation with the **** game-play mechanic instead of just keeping melee combat how it is in most other games.
And the rankup system is equally dumb, keep the supposedly good smg for level 10 and have no unlocks after level 3.
WHY? Why have such a gap just to have an irritating grinding mechanic being stuck with **** weapons until you get to level 10. I usually just use vehicles and this reinforces why, BF imo has never had good infantry combat, it just seems like an afterthought compared to the actual vehicle combat. Whereas a dedicated fps infantry only game i can usually do pretty well in.
The plane gunner wasn't impressed when it went sailing into a wall.
Especially the one that introduced the crutch for noobs aka ac130 
