When do you usually play these days?
I played a few days ago, and luckily Dan was on... we always click right away, but I feel like when I play with you we can usually pull out the wins as well.
I've been pretty mediocre player in BF4, worse even than BF3. I've basically just stopped piloting any vehicles altogether. And I'm having trouble adjusting to the larger player counts. My aggressive style to just push the objective doesn't seem to work anymore. Frustrating at times. In BC2 I felt like I could change a match. In BF3 I felt like I could affect change in a match. If BF4 I feel like a used match.
You just have to adapt. You were always one of our best vehicle players, and as infantry you're up there with everyone else. Vehicle play is a bit different than when you left, things have gotten a little better for chopper pilots (but not that much). I feel that on maps like Dawnbreaker and Siege that offer a good chopper pilot lots of cover you could destroy people like you used to do on the older games. You just have to be a bit less aggressive and prioritize staying alive over destroying armor or killing people. I've one or two pilots on my FL that almost always stay alive the whole game on those maps unless they get greedy.
As infantry do you still hip fire and use PDWs a lot? Maybe you should look into that. The usual engagement distance on BF4 is considerably higher than on BF3 so PDWs suffer a lot, and there are some issues with hip fire as well according to LVCap (comparing to how hip fire was on BF3).
I've been playing mostly alone with randoms and I have changed my play style a lot. I'm still mostly an infantry player but since I don't usually have backup or people to support me I'm being way, way more cautious and less aggressive than I was on BF3.
My SPM and KPM suffered a lot when I started playing differently, but thankfully I started capturing more flags and defending then better so my win percentage got a lot higher (currently sitting at 83%) and that's all that matters to me so I'm satisfied considering I play mostly with randoms.
For us GAF console players making a difference on BF4 is way more difficult than on BF3. On BF3 with just 24 players a GAF squad just depended on themselves to win a game, on BF4 no matter how good we are we still need a bit of support, and we need to play smarter.
Sincerely I prefer this way. Steamrolling the other team almost every single time got kinda boring later on. The games I still remember on BF3 are the ones we had a difficult time winning.
