strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

[sR Craig]

Hey gang,

As everyone knows BF2 is about to get a facelift with the release of patch 1.4. There have been many changes and additions to the game and we at strafeRight would like to get the feedback of the public community here at TBf2.com to help us decide what, if any, of these changes to incorporate to our servers.

I know many of you frequent our servers and we trust in the feedback given on our site as well as that found here to help us further develop our BF2 server configs and settings.

So if you could, please answer the following two questions:

1. Would you like to see us enable the Infantry Only mode?

2. Would you like use to add the new map 'Road to Jalalabad" to our City Maps server?

Of course many thanks to Tbf2 for the excellent resources found here and for allowing us to seek information from the community. Bf2 is a great game when we all pull our resources together to find the best setup to host the most action packed game possible.

Thanks in advance for reading and for any input you may have.

-Craig

[Harmor]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

Anyhow, without vehicles there's really no point in playing anything but Karkand, Sharqi and Mastuur. Do you want to spawn on the carrier in Dalian Plant with only 4 boats for your entire team? (You select the top of the carrier, and by the time you get to the bottom all 4 boats are gone...of which 2 of the boats only have 1 guy in it...commander can't drop a RIB...so you're screwed). Or run to each of the flags in in Zatar Wetlands?

What they should had done is:

'Vehicle-lite' ranked map option:

• Replace Tank/APC spawns with Heavy Jeeps
• Replace AA vehicles with Light Jeeps
• Remove Jets
• Replace Littebirds and Attack Helicopters with Transport Helicopters

AND/OR:
'Vehicle-neutered' ranked map option:
Same as above except all transport vehicles have their guns removed.

They are trying to make BF2 into CS:S...won't work. BF2 is about vehicles. In the above two suggested modes EVERY kit and EVERY map will be played. Heck, I would play maps OTHER than Karkand, Sharqi and Mastuur if either of the two options were available. As it stands now Infantry Only should be called Medic only...everyone plays Medic/Support/Sniper


I would suggest, because everyone will be wanting to try out Infantry Only, have IO alternate on each of the servers for the first week. See how it goes...if people leave the server then go back to what you guys have now.

24/7 Karkand & Jalabad Straferight.com Server:

• Karkand - Conquest
• Karkand - Infantry Only
• Road to Jal - Conquest
• Road to Jal - Infantry Only

24/7 City Maps Straferight.com Server:

• Karkand - Conquest
• Karkand - Infantry Only
• Road to Jal - Conquest
• Road to Jal - Infantry Only
• Sharqi - Conquest
• Sharqi - Infantry Only
• Mastuur - Conquest
• Mastuur - Infantry Only

Again, only try this for the first week. If no one wants to play after the first few days...then forget Infantry Only. (To be honest I don't think everyone will like it.)

[Heavy552 AWG]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

1- No infantry only. The weapons are not that accurate (PKM's and poor killing power of sniper rifles)

2- Yes new map to the cities server.

Infantry only will reduce or render some classes "Unemployed" example, Engineers running about with mines but nothing to use em on; and a crappy shottie that does not hit well if caught in the open vs say.. a G36.

[imported_jsr]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

IO is a blast in it's current form.
I've been playing on one of the beta servers all morning and have not had this much fun playing bf2 in a long time.

As for some classes being "useless", not true.
Sure a medic with a g36e is going to have an advantage over an anti-tank guy if you are both standing 30 feet apart in the middle of the street...

But if you understand the limitations of the kit you are using and adjust for them, it's not that hard.
It really comes down to how good you are as a player.

There were several players (including myself) who were messing around with different classes/weapons aside from medic, and still finished in the top 3 almost every round.

You just have to play smart and pick up kits to heal/supply yourself (constantly).

Ask anyone who plays assault on pubs, you can still dominate you just have to conserver your sprint, pick up dead medic kits non-stop and generally play much smarter than you would as a g36E toting med.

The 1.4 beta 2 IO mode really gives you a chance to practice with kits/guns a normal ground-pounder would never consider using in vanilla bf2.

[12:oc7ock]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

Well, I've played a couple of times on your servers and never had any problems. With that said, i've witnessed many threads and posts among these forums chastising your servers and admins for supposive foul administrating. So, maybe you should focus on how your servers are being administered as opposed to what to implement upon the release of 1.4.

[sR Craig]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

Hmm...well we always invite feedback, good or bad, but I seem to recall this thread where just about everyone said we do a good job:

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74801

Could you show me the threads you're talking about? If there's something we should be doing differently I'm all ears.

[Michael]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

I agree with what Harmor said. Turning this game into CS:Source is not the way to go here. There are only a total of three Vanilla BF2 maps I would even go near with IO mode. IO made already unplayable maps like Clean Sweep even more unplayable.

Jalabad is great stuff, but IO is not.

[imported_Sacramento]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

The man asked two questions...not a whole review of the game.

Should the sR servers play IO? IMO, no.

Should the sR servers add the new map to the city maps server? IMO, yes.

[hebrewhammer14]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

24/7 Karkand & Jalabad Straferight.com Server:

• Karkand - Conquest
• Karkand - Infantry Only
• Road to Jal - Conquest
• Road to Jal - Infantry Only

24/7 City Maps Straferight.com Server:

• Karkand - Conquest
• Karkand - Infantry Only
• Road to Jal - Conquest
• Road to Jal - Infantry Only
• Sharqi - Conquest
• Sharqi - Infantry Only
• Mastuur - Conquest
• Mastuur - Infantry Only

Again, only try this for the first week. If no one wants to play after the first few days...then forget Infantry Only. (To be honest I don't think everyone will like it.)

ditto

[Chodda]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

You guys need a Wake server =)

[hebrewhammer14]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

You guys need a Wake server =)

or at least throw wake into the rotation , NOT INFANTRY ONLY THOUGH!!!

[Turnip]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

Meh I think infantry only mode will be popular, I mean when do you go around as an infantry, get owned by an apc, jet, or chopper, and think "hmm that driver is really good, i deserve to have died." You more just die, think they are a cheap whore, and go on your way.

ed) I didnt say tanks because they actually have to aim to hit stuff.

[sR Craig]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

Interesting you should say that Chodda :)

sR.bf2 will be growing again very soon and that has been on our radar (no pun) for quite sometime now

I guess I'll make an adendum:

3. Would you guys like a 24/7 Wake Server?

[Blades]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

Hell yes. The only ones now are TOC and Insomnia, which arent admined for ****. Straferight FTW.

I like Harmor's approach. All the tank whores one round get their asses kicked in the next. Although Mashtuur would be very boring on infantry.

[Hurricane.CAD]

Re: strafeRight Looking For Community Feedback

Don't enable whining smurf mode, do put in Jalalabad.