[xXx]gh0st's view on Infantry Only (IO)

[Roger Smith]

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Well guess what, you just discovered a new side of the essence of battlefield games. If everyone thought like that, every single sequel would be the same game with better graphics

wrong, every sequal would be the same game in a new setting. take 1942 and vietnam for example. anyhow, that wasnt the point, the point is that i would have much perfered a new gamemode like ctf than simply removing vehicles and changeing soldier attributes.

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I don´t understand why people don´t want IO mode.
Just don´t play it.

If there are people that do want to play maps only with inantary let them!

Almost everyone says he/she doesn´t care abaut stats...so why worry that someone else will be playing this version of bf2?

Are you afraid that the servers playing vannila will be deserted? If so then there is a lot more people that prefer the infantary mode of bf2 than the vehicle version, so don´t try to impose your will.

I really think that people will still play both vertions. And I will only comment the balance of I/O mode after playing it and not before.

[DarQraven]

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Well guess what, you just discovered a new side of the essence of battlefield games. If everyone thought like that, every single sequel would be the same game with better graphics

[Roger Smith]

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the whole idea of infantry only goes against the essence of battlefield, it was a bad idea from the start. as long as the io gamemode doesnt get played in the same cycle as conquest, i wont have any objections. although i think i speak for the many when i say we would have much rather had ctf's.

[DarQraven]

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First of all, I don't understand what all the fuss is about. Playing infantry only will be just as hard as player normal, just different. Medic whoring will in fact be limited because there are less kills. Last time I played the beta, the spawn times were really long, so it's not like an army of 16 medics will be able to keep storming one flag, and keep reviving themselves like crazy. A few die and not get revived, and it's all over soon.
What you moaning guys don't understand is that rounds will NOT last any longer, except maybe because there won't be as many respawn tickets used. The flag ticket rates are still the same, and not it'll probably take you even longer to get to that flag someone else captured, making your tickets drop even more than normal.
Second of all, what's the whole deal with the statpadding? I know for sure that a lot of people have statpadded in some way; some using medpacks/revives, some by clocking over 500 hours in armor, some by constantly playing assault (before the GL was nerfed), some by flaghopping with the BH.
However, I don't have any problem with that. I play this game because I like the competition IN A ROUND. Not globally. I never look at my stats and think: wow ... I pwnd em, I'm awesome. Unless you are already in the top 200, why do you even bother about your global score? In case you ARE in the top 200, go do something else, you've probably spent more than a healthy amount of time on this game.

If you do not like the IO mode, don't play it. If you can't stand playing without vehicles, that is the same as IO players not being able to stand playing WITH them.

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I figured this was still interesting enough to talk about, but I'm not so sure if I even care anymore. After reading alot about what we really are getting with 1.4, I think I might just wait for QW or even COD3 is looking pretty nice.

Re: [xXx]gh0st's view on Infantry Only (IO)

I'm tellin' ya. I already made huge posts in this thread, including the OP, it's not gonna work!

Hey [xXx]gh0st, aren't you the punk that TK'd me on Ghost Town, as I climbed a ladder.

Sheesh, advise given by a TKer.

I haven't played SF in almost 5 months, except 2 nights ago, briefly. I did kill someone climbing a ladder, but i would swear it was enemy. But the way I killed him I couldn't stop laughing, I shot a grenade and it hit him in the head (didnt explode), and it killed him. I suppose he had 1 bar of health perhaps and it was as if I threw a stone at his skull. lmao. If that wasn't you, then no, I didn't tk because I hardly tk as it is, unless you did something to piss me off, which I doubt cause I barely played that night.

[Verzili]

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i see alot of players worried that this new mode (IO) will take somthing away from normal bf2.

i dont think its really going to damage it the way some seem to think it will.

we have various players that like,SF,some like,EF,AF ect thats 3 differnt games that are not BF2 vanilla.

i no the expansions are more like bf2 vanilla than the IO mode,but the point im trying to make is,

a new game mode is not going to divide the whole community 50/50 with IO on one side and bf2+expansion on the other.

you have youre SF players (by that i mean exlusive) and same for EF and AF,

but thats a small count from normal bf2 servers(there are more vanilla servers than all the add-ons combined)

then there are a few scatterd citymap only servers + the few 24/7 servers.

IO will have its fan base of dedicated players for sure just like bf2 and expansions do.

but i doubt very mutch IO,SF,EF,AF will take the majority of the ranked servers,that will still be BF2 vanilla.

for the simple fact with out bf2 vanilla there is no expansions.

let those who are willing to enjoy the new game mode play it,for those that dont(just like some that hate AF,EF,SF)then they can stick to bf2 or whatever they prefer.

personaly i dont like some of the maps in bf2 +expansions but i wouldn't say remove them just beacuse i dont like them.

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Hey [xXx]gh0st, aren't you the punk that TK'd me on Ghost Town, as I climbed a ladder.

Sheesh, advise given by a TKer.

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I like how he says he can counter vehicles better than you. How exactly does he know how you play, anyway?

~Wolfgang

Who knows? Most of the post wasn't a logical, thoughtful explanation of why he/she views IO as a good thing for BF2. It was a post filled with adolescent posturing and childish name-calling.:laugh:

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Itsazvo, I dont mind it at all. But Ive got some ideas how to butcher Infantry aspect of the game far more effectively than you can imagine.

If jets have to land, how about more powerful bombs then? More powerful cannons?! More speed?

You already have it. It is called an airplane. :laugh:

You can have more powerful bombs. If I can have a way to keep you from rearming; I don't care what you have to start with, since I would keep your resupply point destroyed.

[WolfAlmighty]

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I like how he says he can counter vehicles better than you. How exactly does he know how you play, anyway?

~Wolfgang

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LOL INFANTRYWHORES. So now using a gun is whoring infantry eh? I can counter vehicles just fine, better than you. I simply dont like them. You have no idea how much your team needs to work together in an infantry match. Theres no cars, so you cant let anyone run past you to your back flag, because you cant chase them in a car. Its a whole different style of play. Why do you even care? Its not like you will be forced to play it. The only complaint I have about this infantry mode is they changed all the health and weapons and stuff, so you cant actually use it as infantry practice because the guns are different in the real game. And shut your face about changing the game for the 'infantrywhores' playstyle. You stupid noobs have had the game nerfed from day one will every single competitive player against it, so dont tell me about changes you dont want.

Just like using a jet makes you a planewhore, or using a tank makes you a tankwhore. Me, I'm an equal opportunity-whore, I'll use whatever vehicle is handy or whatever kit is needed to contribute to victory for the team I'm on.

All of the kits, vehicles and aircraft are weapon systems put into this game to round out the appeal and make it more challenging and fun to play.

If you remove the vehicles/aircraft from the battlefield and isolate everything down to "infantry-only", you wind up with half a game for everyone concerned and the community as a whole loses out.

Alex, you really need to keep abreast of the changes occuring with the Beta testing. The second beta version is out now. DICE has restored the normal health and damage to the IO mode.

In closing, I do care about this game that I've come to enjoy playing so much. It really saddens me to see it basically being flushed by adding modes, content and exploitable features without all of the bugs being worked out and a final version of the game being released.

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Basically what I've read so far is that the infantrywhores do not want any competition or challenge to their whoring ways. So, they want to take a game that WE ALL bought and change it around to suit THEIR STYLE of playing. They can't be bothered with learning combined-arms tactics either offensively or defensively. They can't learn or practice intelligent, cooperative, team-based strategies. They just want to run around and shoot other people like in CS, UT, et al. Oh, but they also want to amass points that they couldn't normally get playing in the original BF2 game because they couldn't be bothered with learning to counter vehicular threats.

LOL INFANTRYWHORES. So now using a gun is whoring infantry eh? I can counter vehicles just fine, better than you. I simply dont like them. You have no idea how much your team needs to work together in an infantry match. Theres no cars, so you cant let anyone run past you to your back flag, because you cant chase them in a car. Its a whole different style of play. Why do you even care? Its not like you will be forced to play it. The only complaint I have about this infantry mode is they changed all the health and weapons and stuff, so you cant actually use it as infantry practice because the guns are different in the real game. And shut your face about changing the game for the 'infantrywhores' playstyle. You stupid noobs have had the game nerfed from day one will every single competitive player against it, so dont tell me about changes you dont want.

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If jets have to land, how about more powerful bombs then? More powerful cannons?! More speed?

Nukes, maybe?
That would be fun! Only one or two per round and per team.
And put in a requirement, like capturing an enemy nuke silo or something…