"Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

[LoganX]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

loganx, your anti-infantry mentality is diving me nuts, go buy a flight sim

I'm not anti-infantry by any means.
It's all good.

What I am against is people trying to change what the BF series is about.

Like I've said...if they do indeed offer a Infantry Only setting then they've solved the problem for everyone. You can eliminate the vehicles, and I don't have to hear you people complain about them.

[WolfAlmighty]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

Unless the infantry only setting is allowed on ranked servers, it won't solve anything, and I have no reason to believe it will be allowed on ranked servers (they don't allow special rules like 'no tanks' in the RoE, why would they allow this?). Many of your typical 24/7 Karkanders (and before anyone jumps on me and claws my eyes out, yes, I know there are many of you that love Karkand for the infantry fights and that's fine, I'm not talking about you) are of the point and stat whore variety who hate tanks and jets/helis (which is one reason they only play Karkand) ruining their awesome stats. If they played unranked, even if it were infantry only, no stats would get recorded so playing the game to them would be a waste of time. That's why I don't think an infantry only setting is really going to change anything as far as the ranked community (which is definitely the biggest part) is concerned.

Just my $.02.

~Wolfgang

[LoganX]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

Nicely put and I'm happy you at least partially agree with me about the 'typical' Karkander.

However AFAIK this Infantry Only setting may just well be for Ranked as well.
EA/DICE make the game. Who'd to say they can't make an "official" exception to any of the RoE's.
Having an Infantry Only setting for a Ranked server will satisfy a niche that all these vehicle-haters want so badly. Why wouldn't EA/DICE want to do that?

[TooL]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

Here we go again, the holy battles between infantry and anti-infantry, EA just can't please everybody...

EA doesn't have to

Whiners are always going to whine... so ignore it. I think it's a step in the right direction that EA is releasing a free map... I can only hope the reponse is positive and they will consider releasing more maps.

[Splinter]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

urban map with PLA Vs US (or maybe MEC) is all I ask for
A mix of Karks urban fighting and Mash's sight distance and open fields

[WolfAlmighty]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

Nicely put and I'm happy you at least partially agree with me about the 'typical' Karkander.

However AFAIK this Infantry Only setting may just well be for Ranked as well.
EA/DICE make the game. Who'd to say they can't make an "official" exception to any of the RoE's.
Having an Infantry Only setting for a Ranked server will satisfy a niche that all these vehicle-haters want so badly. Why wouldn't EA/DICE want to do that?

Well, you could be right. It just seems like it would almost be in violation of their own RoE to allow infantry-only servers to be ranked, but I guess they could make an exception (like you said, it's their game they can do what they want). Wouldn't matter to me if they did or not, though, since I personally love the vehicles. :)

~Wolfgang

[davelisowski]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

I saw the satellite view from google earth, it looks like some sort of road with a dam near by, I assume this is going to be a "look round the corner" map.

http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/...m_12-21-99.jpg

Anyone notice the stars in the field NW of dead center? I wonder if they'll have those in the map like the crop circles on Zatar.

[-=4th=-1/2Hawk]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

From the title, I doubt the map will be heavy cqc / urban at all. If it was going to be a city map, why not just call it "Jalalabad" or be more specific about which part of the city you're in?

The specific inclusion of the phrase "Road to..." seems to point out that the action will take place outside of the city limits. I'm imagining convoys of APCs and a few attack choppers on patrol along a desert highway with smaller pockets of buildings/checkpoints along the way. If there's any city at all, I bet its spread out a bit, like what's found in Warlord. From the maps produced in the two boosters, seems like the level design du jour is to spread things out a bit more than in the original maps, allowing for multiple fights in several locations at once. *shrug*

[DakotaDoc64]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

Looks like it is up again. New test IP, new patch version. 1.1.2905-737.0

[mlkmnz]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

You can eliminate the vehicles, and I don't have to hear you people complain about them.

But you'll have no-one to kill with your chopper?

[LoganX]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

Uhhh...You've missed my Whole point.
I won't be playing on "Infantry Only" servers.

[Dangerdog]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

Funny how they added in cartillery and now maybe an infantry only game mode, very odd.

I hope RtJ is focused more on infantry and light armor.

[AlphaCueUp]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

logan, i was kidding when i reffered to your 'anti-infantry mentality', i was simply pointing out the conclusions we tend to jump to....

i think light armor, and and maybe an attack heli would be ideal (like sharqi)

i like sharpi pencil more than kirkland :p

[Mystikal.Ghost]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

I have a feeling it will be like Karkand, but more like the "Suez Canal" BF2142 map.



Something like that where it will be more of an attack/defend map. However the infantry only thing sounds fun...cant wait to beta the new map.

[loonsluv]

Re: "Road to Jalalabad" Discussion

I personally want to see another US map. Something like downtown New York, or DC. Something along those lines, and of course infantry.. I love the ground pounding..