It might just be me.... but 1.4 seems to make the community less retarded.
First of all: Sorry for the Wall 'o Text.
Ok, I just played a very enjoyable game of 1.40. The map was Fall of Berlin. I HATE Fall of Berlin (getting roofcamped and APC raped ftw!!) but this particular game was so much fun! Unbelievable.
Game start: I'm EU and I spawn near the vans to the north. I immediately chuck down some MM's to counter the vehicles. I make a squad. 5 people join within seconds. "Defend this coordinate!".
Walker and APC approaching.. damn, one of my MM's rolled over to the road... Now they'll probably just drive around. But all of a sudden, a Baur boy deploys a SMOKE GRENADE right on my MM's. The APC and Walker don't even have the slightest idea, and BOOM 5 kills. Walker, BOOM, 2 kills. I type in the chat "Dude you are a genius!". What's even better was that he was one of my squadmates. Couldn't wait to work with this guy.
The game proceeds on. I run around and me and my fellow squadmembers are fighting in the southern alleyway. I take a quick peek around the corner. Crap, two snipers and a LMG at the very end. No way I'm gonna survive that. My assault friend (the smoke nade guy) gets mowed down. I grab his kit and I zap him. He thanks me on VOIP :O. I smack down a smoke nade, and my team uses the cover to advance. I rush in and advance as well. The LMG does 40 damage and snipers both miss me. The rest of my squad follows except for our sniper. He plays it smart and headshots the LMG. He also reports that they got backup and that there were 5 tango's sitting behind the hill. He couldn't snipe them cos he was already near death. He told us all on VOIP. VOIP rules.
Now, were the average BF2142 player would just spam 29878392 nades over the hill, my squad decided to do this differently: we ALL charged over the hill as a whole, and the enemy squad didn't even know what happened to em. Withing seconds they died. Beautiful.
I hear the sound of an APC behind us. The APC completely ignores us and drives through the alleyway. Smoke nade man (now with engi kit) fires a rocket.... right in it's ***. BOOM, another APC gone and forgotten.
Uh oh, UAV spells trouble! At least 6-8 hostiles advancing towards us. My squad settles down. We had three Baurs, a SCAR, Bianchi and a Sniper. One guy pops his head up. Bianchi starts to spray like a madman, instantly taking him down. Suddenly I hear "GRANADA! GRANADA! GRANADA!". Oh boy. Nadespammers. My squad immediately got up, rushed SIX guys and mowed them all down! Unbelievable! I didn't even ask for a medic, I actually got one. Just like that. We proceeded to defend the line over there. I ended the round with 35 kills, 40 teamwork points and 0 deaths... rest of my squad had similar results. I had 122 Squad leader succes points (it was a 64 player server with ~40 peeps in it), the entire squad had about 275 squad succes points. Insane!
It might just be a coincedence or something, but my team (and the enemy team as well) worked together. We were fighting one war instead of 30 small wars. It was PAC vs EU. And we kicked the PACs *** through teamwork. I checked the rank of my fellow teammates. No Brig Gen's, I was the only one. Impressive. It seems that now that weapon balance is MUCH MUCH better, people reside on the only "pleasantly overpowered" game play aspect: Superior teamwork. Now that the Voss and Krylov don't farm points automatically for you anymore, people tend to rely on their teammates. I've observed this with Brig Gen and low ranked soldiers alike. One six man squad can turn the tide of the battle, and it seems that more and more people want to be part of that 6 man squad =)
Kudo's to DICE for making such a super impressive patch balance wise. For those of us that have been dying for a less retarded community: have a little patience, if things go on like this, we'll soon be enjoying the most enjoyable BF2142 games ever!
Ok, I just played a very enjoyable game of 1.40. The map was Fall of Berlin. I HATE Fall of Berlin (getting roofcamped and APC raped ftw!!) but this particular game was so much fun! Unbelievable.
Game start: I'm EU and I spawn near the vans to the north. I immediately chuck down some MM's to counter the vehicles. I make a squad. 5 people join within seconds. "Defend this coordinate!".
Walker and APC approaching.. damn, one of my MM's rolled over to the road... Now they'll probably just drive around. But all of a sudden, a Baur boy deploys a SMOKE GRENADE right on my MM's. The APC and Walker don't even have the slightest idea, and BOOM 5 kills. Walker, BOOM, 2 kills. I type in the chat "Dude you are a genius!". What's even better was that he was one of my squadmates. Couldn't wait to work with this guy.
The game proceeds on. I run around and me and my fellow squadmembers are fighting in the southern alleyway. I take a quick peek around the corner. Crap, two snipers and a LMG at the very end. No way I'm gonna survive that. My assault friend (the smoke nade guy) gets mowed down. I grab his kit and I zap him. He thanks me on VOIP :O. I smack down a smoke nade, and my team uses the cover to advance. I rush in and advance as well. The LMG does 40 damage and snipers both miss me. The rest of my squad follows except for our sniper. He plays it smart and headshots the LMG. He also reports that they got backup and that there were 5 tango's sitting behind the hill. He couldn't snipe them cos he was already near death. He told us all on VOIP. VOIP rules.
Now, were the average BF2142 player would just spam 29878392 nades over the hill, my squad decided to do this differently: we ALL charged over the hill as a whole, and the enemy squad didn't even know what happened to em. Withing seconds they died. Beautiful.
I hear the sound of an APC behind us. The APC completely ignores us and drives through the alleyway. Smoke nade man (now with engi kit) fires a rocket.... right in it's ***. BOOM, another APC gone and forgotten.
Uh oh, UAV spells trouble! At least 6-8 hostiles advancing towards us. My squad settles down. We had three Baurs, a SCAR, Bianchi and a Sniper. One guy pops his head up. Bianchi starts to spray like a madman, instantly taking him down. Suddenly I hear "GRANADA! GRANADA! GRANADA!". Oh boy. Nadespammers. My squad immediately got up, rushed SIX guys and mowed them all down! Unbelievable! I didn't even ask for a medic, I actually got one. Just like that. We proceeded to defend the line over there. I ended the round with 35 kills, 40 teamwork points and 0 deaths... rest of my squad had similar results. I had 122 Squad leader succes points (it was a 64 player server with ~40 peeps in it), the entire squad had about 275 squad succes points. Insane!
It might just be a coincedence or something, but my team (and the enemy team as well) worked together. We were fighting one war instead of 30 small wars. It was PAC vs EU. And we kicked the PACs *** through teamwork. I checked the rank of my fellow teammates. No Brig Gen's, I was the only one. Impressive. It seems that now that weapon balance is MUCH MUCH better, people reside on the only "pleasantly overpowered" game play aspect: Superior teamwork. Now that the Voss and Krylov don't farm points automatically for you anymore, people tend to rely on their teammates. I've observed this with Brig Gen and low ranked soldiers alike. One six man squad can turn the tide of the battle, and it seems that more and more people want to be part of that 6 man squad =)
Kudo's to DICE for making such a super impressive patch balance wise. For those of us that have been dying for a less retarded community: have a little patience, if things go on like this, we'll soon be enjoying the most enjoyable BF2142 games ever!
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