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Battlefield Studios has published its first Battlefield Combat deep dive ahead of Update 1.3.3.0. The update focuses a lot on the core gameplay of gunplay, affecting recoil changes, body hit damage multipliers and sniper sweet spots. The update is scheduled to arrive on June 30th with the latest Season 3 patch.
Recoil has been made more consistent and predictable across dozens of automatic primary weapons. The idea is to reduce the random variation in direction and intensity that made weapons harder to master than intended.
To balance that out, bullet deviation after the first shot has been slightly increased, making controlled bursts and tap fire more important at range. Full auto will remain more clutch in close-range firefights.
In addition, the blog post shows the recoil patterns are much cleaner to learn for one AR. It’s likely the case for other weapons too, and means there’s a particular skill to mastering each one.
Limb and lower torso damage is being reduced across nearly all weapon classes, effectively adding one extra shot to kill when you’re hitting extremities rather than centre mass. Meanwhile, headshot multipliers on automatic weapons have also been nudged up slightly. Headshot-focused attachment builds using Hollow Point or Synthetic Tip ammo will push those multipliers even higher. It should help players feel rewarded for landing body shots or headshots as a way to keep the TTK rewarding, while punishing less accurate aim.
If you’re a sniper, sweet spot damage is changing too. Each sniper rifle has a sweet spot range at which it deals increased, one-shot lethal damage, and those ranges are all being reduced in this update.
SV-98 drops from 54-90m down to 54-75m M2010 ESR goes from 75-120m to 75-100m PSR tightens to 90-120m L115 comes down to 100-133mHow this actually impacts players depends entirely on positioning. Players running the L115 on a long-range map now need to be significantly more considered about where they set up, since the window for a reliable one-shot kill has narrowed. Snipers might need to think about where they want to position themselves with their favorite weapon and play around that range.
Combat changes are a consistent feature that the devs want to keep iterating on. It will no doubt continue to evolve as we get closer to Season 4, with the naval maps currently in testing.
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