Battlefield 1's fix for too many grenades is unlimited grenades

[Ryan_Kelly]

Hey, you got Battlefront on my Battlefield…

The public backlash is understandable. To quote Tom’s observation about The Divison.

@tomchick

No one has an issue with that when it’s a wizard slinging a magic missile at an orc. Who knows how much damage a magic missile does? Who knows how many hit points an orc has? The game can make up whatever it wants. But as soon as you add guns and a somewhat plausible setting, people have real world expectations that don’t fit the MMO model.

Likewise, I think people have stricter expectations about WWI stick grenades than they do for thermal detonators. Especially when Battlefront is aimed more at the arcade shooter audience. As for the developers’ justification:

Cooldown based gadgets are nothing new to the Battlefield series, a good portion of the gadgets in Battlefield 1 already use a cooldown or regenerating ammo, such as medkits, syringe, mortar, periscope, and more.

Medkits and syringes in video games have about the same real-world connection as magic missiles and orcs.