Wake Island

[BryanG]

Re: Wake Island

It depends 100% on which team has the better pilots. It can always go either way, but one thing is for sure: one team will blow the other team out.

If the USMC has a pilot who can take out j 10s... its over for the chinese team.

IF China has good j 10 pilots... the carrier is sunk!

[Shask]

Re: Wake Island

WAKE- Would be one of the better maps in IO mode

Agreed, that will own.

[ArmadonRK]

Re: Wake Island

Once the US get's a foot hold on the island it has some of the best ground fighting of any map besides Sharqi.

Karkand, I can't see how people can exclusively play that map.

Nothing to add here. QFT

Wake is simple. Hit the beach flags with infantry. Take out the bridges fast s it's easier to cap the beach flags. Repair if possible to take the tanks across to the inner Chinese CPs, otherwise just mount a massive infantry assault. An attackc hopper can rule the ground if the US jet engages the J10 and keeps it occupied. Bam, bam, bam. Man every IGLA and pressure the Chinese on the ground till they crack.

OK, not so simple, but it's possible, and it just takes a lack of jet whores on US to really play it well. On the other hand, China relies on jet whores entirely.

[Jamez646]

Re: Wake Island

It depends 100% on which team has the better pilots. It can always go either way, but one thing is for sure: one team will blow the other team out.

If the USMC has a pilot who can take out j 10s... its over for the chinese team.

IF China has good j 10 pilots... the carrier is sunk!

Agreed

[EliteOneOneSeven]

Re: Wake Island

WAKE- Would be one of the better maps in IO mode ..

Problem, does the U.S. team swim to shore then?

[7man]

Re: Wake Island

the only reason i play it is cause that is the only map that i can be chinese and acctaly be good. im cammander on that map unless someone with a higher rank gets it then i just snipe. good sniping map to and jet/plane map.

[Major Culo]

Re: Wake Island

It's one of my favorite maps, I love grabbing the F-35B (if i dont get tk'd for it) and bombing the tank on the northside then bailing out over the chinese airfield and taking it away from them. That pretty much solves the J-10 imbalance issue, lolz. I wish more peeps would use jets for quick transportation to enemy spawns instead of dogfighting. It would make wake a lot more interesting.

[Turnip]

Re: Wake Island

It would be nice to have a ground units only option, infantry only is okay I guess but tanks and stuff arent really to bad.

[EliteOneOneSeven]

Re: Wake Island

It would be nice to have a ground units only option, infantry only is okay I guess but tanks and stuff arent really to bad.

If they have those jets like the AC-130 gunships, then they could carry a full squad, fly over Chinese airfield and bail out.

If ure asking me where we would launch them? The lonely carrier runway...

[BryanG]

Re: Wake Island

Problem, does the U.S. team swim to shore then?

I thought IO was supposed to keep boats...but then I guess nobody really knows how it will turn out in the end.

IF anything turns out...hehe

[Blades]

Re: Wake Island

I love Wake Island. The dogfights are awesome stuff, even though you are at a severe disadvantage on USMC. There is also the challenge of flying the F35, which is difficult on Wake. Its a great map, imo.

[Roger Smith]

Re: Wake Island

Could someone explain what appeals to people about Wake Island?

the appeal of wake is simple, with 32 players or less, a small group can make a huge difference.

I detest the map, it is horribly imbalanced

aside from gameplay problems unrelated to the map, its equally unbalanced for both teams, china just starts with the advantage. if kept out of thier airport, they can be slaughtered.

there is very little action

on china there isnt unless the usmc knows how to assault

you have to travel for ages to actually reach the island

to reach a cp yes, to reach the shore, no. most usmc are too greedy and dont want to do the work required to sneak or take out enemy forces without airsupport.

if your not an aviator you're worthless

for china yes, for the usmc, omg no. the usmc need to be devoted to ground pounding, or they will lose every time, its all about speed and keeping both fronts up.

china wins 99% of the time

not on wake wake axxium, well not usually. if the usmc arent boneheads, they can easily destroy china in 5 minutes flat.

all usmc ever does is camp carrier

all ****ty ones ever do, thats not a map problem its a player problem. that being said, gameplay problems are at fault here aswell.

j10s rape constantly

once again gameplay problems.

the cobra is useless because of vehicles camping all over the island, and loads of IGLAs which can cover huge proportions of the map

tv guided missile, stfu!

infantry seem useless because of huge distances needed to travel

lol!

most vehicles get easily raped, as the island is extremely narrow, 1 tank can cover an entire side of the island.

try going around it, on the lower part.

anyhow, the map is perfect, the gameplay of bf2 is majorly flawed, specificlly when it comes to ground to air combat. helicopters are fine, but some jets are pretty much unstoppable because of a combination of broken and unblanced aa. the problem is balancing ground to air with jets and maintaining helicopters current survivability rate against aa.

-fix aa
-balance air to ground combat
-make transports faster (like the rib)

this would fix all the problems with the current wake, everything else is player incompetence.

[WhardieJones]

Re: Wake Island

Wake island is a fair map, if anything it is in favor of the USMC team. Chinese have no uncap bases and no air defense. US has infinite helicopters, jets, and essex guns. If the chinese screw up once or twice with the J10 it can be over. The US can get shot down all day and still be guaranteed air defense, jets, helicopters, and boats. Dying 10:1 under these circumstances is not that bad unless you are a USMC fanboy + stat whore.

[EliteOneOneSeven]

Re: Wake Island

Couldn't they have like a transport/paratrooper jet on wake island?

[p00kypiez]

Re: Wake Island

Wake is FN awesome, who is the ***** who says its for people who want to fit in?

Fit in to what? I want to play a killer map that is a challenge and that one is. It's how you play the game, son.

BTW Check out Wake Island in Google Earth. It's a shock how close the BF1942/BF2 map is to reality, and how big the actual airstrip is. It's gigantic. How many loads of concrete/asphalt they floated out there just to pave that poor fn island is sick!