Garteal Wrote:Sadly in contrary... Since Battlefield is basically an arcade shooter now, all the COD players have moved over to BF3. The community is bigger than it was ever before.
Ok I should have written that differently. Their original community/fans/whatever you want to call them. There.
Garteal Wrote:Yeah, the gameplay looks pretty much the same. I really do hope they will give the PC community a proper sequel to BF2. I highly doubt it though.
How I miss being the commander and call an artillery at a bunch of enemies.
>That first time I booted up BF2
>Take commander position
>Hear alpha squad leader say "What are your orders sir?" over voip
>Sit there stunned in silence, I could not believe I was being called sir in an online fps
>"Commander? Are you there?"
>Still stunned
>"Do you have a mic?"
>Me: "Um....yes."
>"Well?"
>Look at map
>Me: "It seems that they are focusing on the town center. Flank the church from the right and you should be able to take them by surprise."
>Sees him change his squad order to attack church
>Other squads begin reporting in and asking for orders
>Think to myself "So this is what it must feel like to be Hitler. This feels pretty nice."
>Next few games
>Everyone has a mic, every uses it, everyone is polite and articulate, people help each other, coordinate strategies, and follow or suggest orders rather than questioning them, leaders ask ground troops for input in decision making, squads have to fight together to survive since each class offers something different yet useful to the group
>Teams with good strategies that follow orders generally win regardless of skill
>Think to myself "this is the most wonderful thing I have ever experienced"
I used to play with a community called tacticalgamer. Their servers were setup with a 1 minute warmup time at the beginning of each game (a time period where you can't spawn into the battlefield yet) so that each team had time to plan the upcoming match (kind of like tf2 except unlike tf2 we didn't spend it fooling around). And we really did use the entire time to plan things out. Squad leaders must follow commander orders and squad members must follow squad leader orders otherwise you get kicked (or temporary ban after 3 times). Everyone must be in a squad within 30 seconds of joining or the server would auto-kick them. Everyone must respond to their leaders via voice chat or squad chat (for squad members/leaders), commander chat (for commandors/squad leaders), or team chat (for other squads). Not responding is also a kickable offense. Despite these rules the 4+ servers were almost always full or near full.
Dice now claims that they removed features like commander mode and squad voip because they're annoying and people don't like to use them. I say that's BS. They were a big part of what defined the earlier games. It pains me to know that I will probably never experience this again. But it pains me even more to know that future generations will never know what this was like. They will be forever trapped listening to 15 year olds screaming in rage over voip while mindlessly running around in a meatgrinder map racking up kills to see who has the biggest epeen.
Also the map designs and conquest mode in BF3 are pretty bad compared to the earlier games. And the unlocks aren't very creative. Nor is the DLC.
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