Will Battlefield 2042 threaten future balance problems because of the specialists?
Battlefield 2042 has not yet been released, and fans are already meticulously tearing apart every scrap of gameplay videos. The remaining five specialists and their skills were recently revealed – and several well-known influencers are deeply concerned.
Here we consult new videos from the high-reach YouTubers Westie and JackFrags, both of whom are known as great shooter and battlefield experts. And both show themselves to two of the newly introduced specialists in Battlefield 2042, specifically Dozer and Ji-Soo Paik, irritated and full of concern that they could endanger the balance.
You can read which ten specialists have been confirmed in Battlefield 2042 in our article:
Classes in Battlefield 2042
All 10 specialists and their skills
What are the experts criticizing?
Westie explains why he thinks Specialist Ji-Soo Paik’s skills are dangerous to balance. Briefly about what the fighter can do: Paik uses a scanner to mark enemies who are in cover. This way, campers behind corners are made visible through walls in red.
Westie thinks this gadget is basically one Wallhack
, which has a lot of potential to worsen the gaming experience in Battlefield 2042. However, the YouTuber points out that we do not yet know all the details. For example, it could alleviate the situation if marked players received a warning about the ping. Westie also credits the developers with the fact that the marking does not work if opponents are not hidden behind cover.
You can see the complete video here, the section on Paik starts at 06:31:
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JackFrags takes dozers to prayer and refers to a skill as fundamentally broken
. It’s about his ballistics shield, with which he apparently reflects enemy bullets in the Specialist trailer for Battlefield 2042. You can see how the enemy player-character Maria Falck is even defeated by her own bullets when she shoots the ballistic shield for too long.
JackFrags thinks the feature is not suitable for a Battlefield game. He fears it could really annoying
will be fighting against players with Riot Shield. Blocked bullets are one thing, but reflecting the shots goes a step too far.
You can see the complete video here, the corresponding scene starts at 00:53:
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Incidentally, both YouTubers agree on Dozer and Ji-Soo Paik and make similar arguments as to why they consider the skills to be overpowering, inappropriate or dangerous to balance.
What do you think? Are the two specialists too powerful, do you see potential for frustration or do you prefer to wait and see how it all really unfolds in the end? Share your opinion in the comments!
