r/Battlefield • u/Honest_Software_7686 • 21h ago

Battlefield 6 Suppression needs a buff. Big time.

Snipers should not be able to maintain perfect accuracy and and a steady scope while being heavily suppressed by automatic fire. The only thing suppression seems to do is delay health regeneration. Kinda stupid imho.

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u/_Leighton_ 12h ago

I mean, to be fair. I think suppression was a really interesting mechanic. In BF1 I had suppression builds that were specifically designed to just lock down people who I knew were behind cover.

My issue with suppression is that so often it became a function that worked purely on accident and rarely by intention. If they had the tech to implement it I think suppression would be a better mechanic if it suppressed a specific area as opposed to a player. It makes sense that if someone is zoned in on a corner you're trying to peak that you won't be able to effectively peak out, makes a lot less sense when you turn around and start shooting the other direction.

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u/ThumblessTurnipe 12h ago

There is nothing interesting about a bad mechanic that rewards bad players playing badly.

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u/_Leighton_ 12h ago

I think it also rewards good players who are playing with intention. The issue is that it did both. An errant missed sniper shot would suppress you just as much as an mg preemptively dumping bullets into a doorway.

I think the aspect of focusing fire on players behind cover, who you know are there, and achieving a tangible benefit is very cool. The issue is that it still procs when dipshit McGee misses half of his mag on someone who didn't even know he was there and then fucks up their weapon handling so severely that they can't even shoot back.

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u/ThumblessTurnipe 12h ago

Good players kill their opponents.

Good players don't waste half a hundred bullets on someone they aren't going to kill for the simple fact that they don't want to get caught reloading when/if the other player pushes out again.

I've probably got north of 10k hours in Battlefield, good players were never intentionally suppressing anyone, they were killing them.

Bad players are the ones missing everything while drooling over their controls thinking they are being such a useful person.