DICE has announced that aside from damage number indicators and squad management additions coming in Season,  the game’s specialists will also get adjusted too. The studio has revealed the Battlefield 2042 Irish and Dozer changes incoming and it’s a mixed bag, and depends on whether you felt both specialists needed buffs and/or nerfs.

Battlefield 2042 Irish and Dozer Changes for Season 5:

• Dozer was always meant to be played as the up-close and personal breacher, but we’ve noticed his gameplay can be improved to emphasize this further isn’t as satisfying to play as we would like.
• For Irish we wanted to focus primarily on the APS-36 Shootdown Sentinel, not only its interceptive functionality but also the communicative and defensive capabilities of the gadget.

Dozer Areas of Improvement

DICE has announced that they are enhancing Dozer’s movement when using the SOB-8 Ballistic Shield. Players can expect to strafe, rotate and pitch more quickly when the shield is equipped.

Animation for bashing enemies have been improved as well, and the speed to deploy and undeploy the shield has been slightly increased too. Additionally, Dozer will now be able to traverse ziplines with the shield equipped, which is something I’m sure Dozer players will appreciate.

However, Dozer isn’t just getting buffs, as he’s getting a slight nerf as well. If you’re going up against an enemy Dozer with the shield equipped, you might have noticed that firing at the shield translates to bullet deviation that’s a little too linear, which more often than  not, ends up the player dying from their own bullets.

For Season 5, DICE is increasing the spread and introducing more bullet trajectory upon hitting Dozer’s shield. This ensures that encounters against shield bearers will be a bit more fair, and players won’t be impacted by their own bullets as before.

DICE has also added more ways for Dozer players to earn XP by helping the team while using his shield:

• Damage Assist – If an enemy shoots at your shield, and a deflected bullet hits that enemy and dies within 5 seconds then Dozer will receive a “Damage Assist” bonus.
• Distraction Assist – If an enemy shoots at your shield, and a friendly kills that enemy within 5 seconds then Dozer will receive a “Distraction Assist” bonus.

Irish Areas of Improvement

DICE is tweaking Irish’ APS-36 Shootdown Sentinel. In Season 5, the Sentinel will now have a five-second window from its first intercept to take down any additional projectiles it detects, such as Frag Grenades and Anti-Infantry Rockets from Specialists and Vehicles.

Once the initial intercept time has elapsed, the Sentinel gadget will enter a recharge state and will n longer be able to intercept any further projectiles for 7.5 seconds before being able to intercept projectiles once again.

Alongside that change, it can now be taken out with an EMP Grenade as well, or a C5 will do the trick, and Tank Shells will also work per DICE.

Lastly, DICE will also run an audio pass on each of the states the Sentinel goes through to provide more readability as to what’s happening at any given time.

Well, there you have it. Are you satisfied with the changes incoming for Dozer and Irish? Personally, I don’t agree with nerfing Irish’s Sentinel given we have enough explosive spam as it is. But hey, I’m not a game dev or anything.

Source: EA