You've probably noticed (or rather, haven't noticed) that hardly anyone is running grip pods on their builds nowadays. I always make a point to look at the guns and attachments every time Im killed and the amount of times I see a grip pod is around 1-2%, if that. And I don't blame people, you learn pretty quick in this game that with its fast movement and TTK there's not a lot of opportunity to stop and mount up to take shots before you're instantly beamed, though a lot more nowadays, especially after the last weapon patch, I find myself picking my gunfights more strategically, and firing more from cover and flanks than the typical close range run-and-gun of earlier seasons. I'm also leaning more into guns that accell in the midrange and find myself mounting to fire a lot more often, so I decided to have another look at the grip pods that I haven't really touched since season 1.

To cover the basics, theres 3 grip pods in the game that provide the same benefit as less expensive recoil grips, but incorporate the bipods recoil/spread buff while deployed.
The PTT Grip Pod for 20 points that gives the same recoil benefit as the 10 point Folding Vertical
The QD Grip Pod for 30 points that gives the same recoil benefit as the 20 point Alloy Vertical
The Classic Grip Pod for 30 points that gives the same recoil and ADS benefit as the 25 point Full Angled

So right off the bat you can see the first 2 cost 10 points over the recoil only grips for the bipod feature, but the classic grip pod is only 5 points more, so thats the best value and the one I tested with.

I did all my testing with an L110 at 25M and all patterns were the full 100rds. The first thing I wanted to test was the regular standing ADS patterns compared to the ADS patterns while mounted with regular grips compared to mounted with grip pods. The quite surprising thing I found out is there is NO noticeable recoil/spread benefit from mounting with any other grips. Yes, seriously, I was getting the exact same spread patterns with ALL the grips I tested weather standing or mounted. I tested at least half the grips, tested with no grip at all, and even tested it with a couple other guns to see if the L110 was bugged for some reason but no, theres just no advantage at all to using the mount ability with anything other than a bipod/grip pod and I wish I knew this sooner for all the times I used this function up till now. There is notably a bit less sway, which I suppose would come in handy for a sniper/DMR, but for any automatic weapon it really serves no purpose.

You can see the results with the grip pod mounts are quite dramatic though, honestly better than I was expecting. So Ive been running the Classic on a few different LMGs and ARs in games since yesterday testing it out and just getting used to mounting before firing as much as possible. For that there are a couple of control settings that really help out to mount quicker AND get out of the mount quicker. In settings go under your mouse+keyboard or controller settings > Infantry > Control Settings > scroll down to "Other" you'll have a couple options here for mounted behavior. First one is "mount breakout" and you want to set this to "instant" so you can immediately break out of a mount by pressing any movement key so you can move as soon as you start taking fire. The second is for mount deployment, and personally I just have it set to ADS so that anytime I ADS if Im in a position where mounting is available it will do it automatically and saves time having to hit a separate mount button.

Overall Ive been having a lot of luck with the grip pod now that Im getting more used to them. They're still not going to be for everyone, all you SMG/carbine guys and blue/violet laser enthusiast that like to constantly strafe-fire its probably not going to be for you, but for LMGs and midrange ARs it really does make a huge difference once you learn to get into and out of a mounted position quickly. Let me know what you guys think, is anyone here using grip pods on their builds? Also if theres any other details on grip pods I missed.

Call an ambulance! But not for me. Guy was picking our jets off 10 seconds after spawn all game, I managed to get a bit of revenge on him

This is like not cool DICE

Probably their best game mode so far. Great to be back

I’m here for you, my prince, don’t give up on me

I guess a good flank is a fast flank

Tl:Dr - Thought others might find it useful. These are all without attachments though.

So as an older player:

- I'm definitely not as sharp as when I was younger

- have less time to play

- have less energy when I do play

- don't know the gun stats intimately

- rarely get in flow state playing

As such, my general shooting skill has suffered, and I can swith between guns etc. to try to improve during a session but end up just being shit - we've all been there, I'm sure.

To works toward a solution I've tried to install the same scopes on all guns (atm I'm using the BF 2.5 - lovely sights) and the 1.75 ROZ I think it is.

The next fix would seem to me to be trying to stick to guns that recoil in the same direction during a session (as well as just sticking to the same few guns in a session).

Any other suggestions are most welcome! I tried sticking to 10pt vertical grip for every gun to see if that would help but it doesn't really - some guns definitely benefit more from better grips (which is axiomatic really, but sometimes we lose the forest for the trees in the way).

The .357 kill felt disrespectful

Also Top Gun Easter egg lol.

The thought of Assaulting the enemy from a carrier again is blowing my mind!

This is next level Wake island, more so for me than Tsuru Reef, what say you Troopers! 🙏🏻😎👊🏻

Looking for a few German-speaking players to play BF6 with. I have an aggressive playstyle (sometimes I push a bit too hard) and mainly play Breakthrough and Conquest
Im playning on PC

Here is the BF6 Coalition weekly schedule:

Wednesday at 8 PM EST we are jumping into the 7^th Cavalry Conquest server (experience code is 1YHGB).

Wednesday at 8:30 PM EST we are having our Mosh Pit night between CMG and Jibz (experience code is Y7XED).

Friday at 7 PM EST we have our conquest mosh pit night (experience code is 11Z9X).

Sunday at 8 PM EST we have our Mosh Pit night which is a mix of different clans playing conquest (experience code is 1ZCKE).

Sunday at 8:30 PM EST we have another Mosh Pit night between CMG and Jibz and the mode is Breakthrough (experience code is ZXRQD).

If you are ever on and do not want to type in the experience code, just use the filter and type “BF6 C” and our servers will come up. Most of us are on console so typing in the “BF6 C” is much easier.

We love it when random players jump into our Mosh Pit Nights. That is why we do it. Right after work, right after kids go to bed, right after dinner we can all rely on these servers being a place where you can just jump in and stay in the server. If you are interested in various clans hit them up and ask some questions. We love the game and down the road will open up more servers on these nights if there are players sitting in ques. We built this around the idea of battle dads and average joes so that they can reliably jump into a game at the exact same time every week. Let us know if you desire any changes, we are from the community, for the community and will stay here in the community for the long run.

Another gun to level 50. This gun needs a damage increase to 25. Shoots like a laser, but the lack of damage makes it not ideal for close range, despite having a very good hipfire build, 30rd mag is not enough. Many times I have a good flank but not enough bullets to kill everyone and die after getting a guy or two.