IO and Your Thoughts...

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I have played IO mostly on the new Jalalabad map and loved it! A few rounds on a 16 player Karkand and it was fun also.
I am enjoying not having to run around as AT most of the time or dealing with jets and attack choppers.
Unfortunatley, I can see the future trend on the larger 32/64 player maps is gonna be nade spamming and too many snipers. Also, If you are ranked above Major , watch out...they tend to single you out in a group for the first target LOL. I was running around in a squad of six and was almost always the first dropped in the Jalalabad chaos.
Fun stuff, but as I mentioned I hope the support guys (nade spamming) and snipers dont ruin it.

[ThIrD-EyE]

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IMO IO mdoe is great. i love the chaos of bullets flying around you while you try and take flags. yeah its true its pretty much all medics snieprs and support, but i dont care, because i like the fast paced chaos. i tihnk IO mdoe is a better simulattion of urban combat and real battles because of all the people in 1 area. the only thing i would like to see less of is nade spamming. also, anyone who thinks that IO mode is just like CS are wrong. its nothing like CS, its better than CS. im really happy with patch 1.4 despite some things not getting fixed that should have been 4-5 patches ago. one thing that i think would be really fun is an armor only mode.

[Revoluti0n]

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Why not keep it the way it is and just rearrange the capture points? That would seem like the most reasonable method to me. The current maps and capture points being used are build for vehicles (except the 16 player maps).

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After all this I still think they should add two more server options:

Option 1: 'Vehicle-lite' ranked server option:

• Replace all tank/apc spawns with Heavy Jeeps
• Replace all AA vehicle spawns with Light Jeeps
• Remove Jets
• Replace Littlebird and Attack Helicopters with Transport Helicopters

Option 2: 'Vehicle-neutered' - same as above except all remaining vehicles have their gun mounts removed.


This way ALL kits on ALL maps in ALL sizes can still play.

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Just love IT

reguarly getting 40 + round kills and best of 81 , but only with great teamwork best round score in my clan is 102 kills .. so i have to aim to beat that we have been Inf clan from day 1 drop by

https://www.vets-hq.co.uk

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I love it.
I'll still play vanilla bf2 but pure infantry combat without all the spam is bliss.

[Dairuka]

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IO is easy mode 'for me.'

I traditionally lead the combat score department, and rarely lose the gold medal to anybody except for revive whores, and commanders.

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Yeah and above all else my framerate is back where it used to be before 1.3 patch, this only happens in IO servers but I don't really care. I guess vehicles were causing the slideshow cuz I used to have to tolerate 13-18 frames per second on 64 player maps but now my frame rate only goes below 20 under the heaviest fighting on a full 64 player server and the choppiness clears up really fast whereas before once my fps fell below 20 I never got back out.

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It's so nice not having to get arty'd, bombed and Havoc raped for a change.

Well said that man.

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The starting points for the attack teams need to be changed because there's too much intial open ground to cover on most of the city maps but other than that it was cool, nade spamming and sniping is for noobs but nade throwing range and throw rate need to be reduced, nade spam is entirely cheap IMO. My team couldn't take a flag to save their life on Jalalabad but I ended most of the rounds with lots of kills and low deaths, even got 31-4 on one round with the L85A1. Nobody on my team could approach that kill ratio that wasn't a sniper so it boils down to individual shooting skill. After seeing how well I was doing I had 5 people join my squad (so I wouldn't get team switched) uninvited and I was holding out trying to stay alive so they could respawn and try to get in on their first flag but nobody had the skill to push the enemy back. It's so nice not having to get arty'd, bombed and Havoc raped for a change.

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Like I said before, IO is like the special olympics, only a select few appreciate it.

And most of the participants beat you?

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yeah there r some maps that aren't ment to be on io :p

[Teh_Diplomat]

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Like I said before, IO is like the special olympics, only a select few appreciate it.

[RocketChild]

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I don't remember seeing or hearing about this from them, until I do it's just a rumor like so many other things. We need to stop the speculation and try and go with the current set of facts that we do have.

I think we are going to see a great reduction in patching, but I strongly believe we will see a 1.5. Anyone that has said that 1.4 is the last, I have jumped on asking for proof. But I will say it again: People, get your priorities straight, because only so much is going to be fixed. I don't thing we will see 1.7, if we see 1.6 at all. You can bookmark that statement.

[Revoluti0n]

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To add on to that thought, DiCE will very soon stop supporting BF2. You people need to pick and choose what you REALLY want fixed because if it does not happen in this next patch (if there is one), then it will never happen period. And whatever happens in this next patch, you will have to live with it for the next [+/-]year.

I don't remember seeing or hearing about this from them, until I do it's just a rumor like so many other things. We need to stop the speculation and try and go with the current set of facts that we do have.