my sexual preferences have nothing to do with the fact the game is good but not great and I became bored of it very quickly
(tho I can't speak for the SM crew )

I played it a lot during about a 3 month period of time. That's about what I expect out of a game that is good but not great. I became bored of it on par with when I become bored of all other games of it's quality level. So no surprise really!

who even plays it any more?

we had about 15 guys playing it when it came out, and I might be wrong, but I don't think any of them are playing it any more!

as much as I've bitched about other things, the map issue is one I think I took for granted, and now that some of the guys I'm playing with are in their rank 20's, many are complaining that the maps are getting boring. I guess we took bf2 for granted.. even if you removed Karkand from the mix, I would say that 75% of bf2's maps are better than the best bf3 map. that's not good for long term playability. As Kade pointed out the Return to Karkand map pack will be interesting for a bit, but just as everyone seemed pretty played out with karkand on bf2 a year or two back, the same thing will happen, probably after a couple of months.

at first I thought the maps were good, but now that I've put a lot of hours in I'm starting to realize how poor they are..

we were on SM1, last night.. I tried both and just didn't get any message

hmm I can't kick or ban it seems.. is it supposed to be !ban or @ban? although I tried both..

yeah I don't expect it to be much of a problem, just like in situations last night where I want to change the map but don't want to piss off someone else in SM who might have been playing, who perhaps didn't know about the lag issue or just wanted to play it anyway.. as Monkey said the @say command should help

how do I know what abilities I have? I assume I can kick/ban, but can I use the next map function? That's probably the only other one I need..

yoooo

Monkey has so kindly given me admin rights on you guys servers.. just wanted to say that while SM guys are on the server I'll try my best not to use the power to over rule anything you guys want going on. for example last night I wanted to change the map when we were on Tehran Highway as it's laggy as hell, so I asked Leborn if he was cool with it before doing it. Problem is I don't know each and every SM person so it's possible I might not even know someone is on.

So I just thought I'd post this up in case I do something to fuck someone off and then there's a post about me in the members only forum about how much someone hates me. so yeah give me a shout if I do piss someone off rather than get angry behind my back!

oh and Mcjaffa will have admin rights too at some point.. as in as soon as I get around to forwarding him the email


cheers

monkey, how do I set this up? Or is it something where I am on a list on the server settings so my account picks it up when I log on the server?

oh and if there was one thing i regretted about my time on Metro, is that I should have played engineer more. you need to rank that guy up fast cuz you'll be spending a whole lot of time on him.. if you want to win, that is

I was saying this before.. assault has become nearly useless.

I imagine on a server that is set to bf2 settings and on IO, it will be better, but the default game with vehicles makes little sense to play assault. the ability to spawn on everyone, the decrease in spawn timer and the decrease in the time the person is capable of being raised, make it next to useless to raise anyone ever. it's easier as a medic to just stay alive and let them spawn on you. plus being raised still counts as a death unlike bf2, so that's not even a motivation.
add to all of that the regenerating health, and your healing kit isn't nearly as useful as it once was..

frankly, it's annoying as hell. there is really no need for a dedicated healing class in the game anymore, nor is the assault class even worth playing for any other reason either. not to say I'll never play it but it certainly is not on balance with the other classes.

on vehicle servers, we were always running around with 3 engineers and 1 support, for the ammo. any other combo was really just a waste. maybe occassionally throwing one of the engineers in as a recon, for the c4.

part of the problem for you 6 is that, unless I am wrong, you are playing by yourself. yes you play with others on the server but you aren't playing with a clan or anything.. if you don't want to be in vehicles, then taking them on as infantry is difficult unless with at least one or two others working together.. playing that way, you'll always eventually get fed up I'd imagine. maybe you should just embrace the vehicles and actually use one? I know you prefer infantry (as do I), but that doesn't mean there is no fun to be had in them..

removing vehicles (a major aspect of the game and the only thing that really is going to set this new battlefield apart from COD), seems a bit extreme imo

inf only didn't come in to bf2 until we'd all been playing the game with vehicles for 2 years... I know 6 you always say you don't like vehicles but at the same time I've always thought you've never really given them a chance.. not entirely your fault as you came in to BF late in the game, but still..

great monkey that's what I was hoping for. appreciate though that it might change but that's to be expected as people play. while everyone wants the game to be bf2 in style, it's been balanced to be bc3.. so turning some of these settings off might actually hurt the game.. tho I'm of course hoping not!

so what are your server settings going to be set at? default?

agreed!

wow!
this is the best news I have heard yet.. as I posted in the shout box, if the server is listed as hardcore, is it still ranked?

all we need now is 6 man squads.. although that's a very very big thing missing still..

the gunners return

raile761

i hope there are never any jet vids

awesome
sounds like most of the things from BC2 that I hate are back in it..

now why would we be pre-ordering this thing again?

I was more than a little bored of Karkand at the end..

then again IF the game is good, then I will be playing vehicles, which I know you will distance yourself from.. so you can go play karkand while I play everything else

agree with 6. the idea behind it all sounded really good.. then we played it and realized they had really made a mess of it! it was so bad that I'd be surprised if just putting some content in would help much.. it really needs to be rebuilt again from the ground up! but you know, free and all so I'm not surprised if many try it..

If this game comes out and we are all playing Karkand again, then this game is a failure

that's a pretty good review. cheers Leborn!