I do not regularly play Commander, but this is what I have discovered

The EMP UAV preventing your team from being spotted thing is true

The Cruise Missile is near fucking useless

Hey, I too play Commander with my brother, who has set up the new PC gaming room.

I agree with much of what Aenonar said:

UAV needs to be stopped. It is automatic and annoying. A couple solutions:

1. UAV only shows everyone on the map to the commander, not on the minimap.

If you think about it, this makes sense because only the commander needs the information the UAV provides. When he gives orders and issues warnings for lots of infantry in an area, that is as a reaction to this information. If everyone gets it, there is no point. Thus commander spotting altogether needs to be severely limited. MAV, Tugs, and Recon Balls put the scan abilities in the hands of people on the ground, commander should be doing tactical things that are not spotting now. UAV should only be for the commander's benefit.

2. UAVs are destructible. Either make stinglas able to bring them down or have a destructible shed like BF2.

Make map GUI more obvious on conquest

AC 130 Point should be far more obvious than it is in Conquest now. AC-130 should only be on conquest, it should have a real cooldown tied to when it is destroyed, and the Spawn Map should itself scream at players which point is the AC130 point.

Ditto for Cruise Missiles.

Commanders should be able to give orders to places on the map, not just capture points. And GUI to reflect this.

Again, the gui is a mess and hard to understand for most people. It should be clear to the squad leader what is Commander requested and then another set of icons should be used just to show orders. Dorito spam ruined a lot of the quality GUI work for command from BF2 and BF2142.

Lastly and most importantly,
Commander should be enterable and exitable from in game without having to switch out to another screen. On PC at least, this is incredibly tedious and cuts from the flow of game a lot. That would help prevent the one team commander unbalance.

I would also like to have automated commanders. Even a crappy AI commander who automatically calls in the AC-130 and randomly proposes untaken capture points as assignments for squads is better than nothing. I have to believe this rudimentary AI is possible.

@JohnGroth

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Topazy's comment is on-topic enough, and I will let the topic stay open.

I find it strange how Topazy agrees with someone who hasn't posted in the thread. Turns out the comment is just copied from this thread. Should commander mode be removed from Battlefield?

Perhaps it has something to do with the suspect website linked in sig and battlelog?

@Miffyli

Quoted from "potetr"

I find it strange how Topazy agrees with someone who hasn't posted in the thread. Turns out the comment is just copied from this thread. Should commander mode be removed from Battlefield?

Perhaps it has something to do with the suspect website linked in sig and battlelog?

@Miffyli

Oh ... I thought it was just a reference to some other threads. I swear I checked for links but apparently I did not.

Anywho, thanks for notifying us!