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Hi all,
Can someone here figure out why there is artillery in this game (I certainly can't come up with an explanation)? It simply doesn't follow the same logic as everything else in the game.
If someone in a plane shoots at you/kills you, you get a plane and put a missile up his tailpipe (well, after first accidentally killing your entire team, some guys playing on a totally different server, two raccoons and a rare plant because the missiles work the way they do...)
If a tank shoot at/kills you, you C4/mine/TOW/get a tank etc yourself
Killed by infantry...say hello to Mr. Knife
That list goes on and on and there is always some way to fight back/get some payback...until you reach artillery. When you get killed by it, what can you do ? You could go to the enemy base and blow up the artillery but that gives me about as much satisfaction as blowing up an empty tank - that's not payback. You could spend quite some time trying to track down the enemy commander but that's not very efficient and I'd rather spend my time doing what the game is about - fighting over flags.
Being on the receiving end of an artillery strike is about much fun as when BF2 crashes - you say **** **** **** and then restart/respawn. Where's the fun it that? If I lose a gunfight against another soldier, at least there was combat involved and isn't that why we are playing this game?
The BF2 Artillery is just like the nukes some misguided people used to ask for in Desert Combat - an überweapon, Rape-o-matic 2000...no skill involved (in DC, at least you had to aim the SCUD/MLRS...), no risk (unless you count the possible tk:s) as it's remotely operated and does immense amounts of damage.
The artillery breaks up a game round into many short ones...it's like a friggin commercial in the middle of a great movie...some nice infantry combat going on...ARTILLERY STRIKE....allright, let's start again....whoho, excellent combat..Oh oh, run lads - it's arty time again....and so on...
Sorry about the whining but artillery just annoys me more than pretty much any other problem in BF2 (a close second after the tk/tk punish problem) and I'm just hoping there will be servers/mods without artillery in the future.
Can someone here figure out why there is artillery in this game (I certainly can't come up with an explanation)? It simply doesn't follow the same logic as everything else in the game.
If someone in a plane shoots at you/kills you, you get a plane and put a missile up his tailpipe (well, after first accidentally killing your entire team, some guys playing on a totally different server, two raccoons and a rare plant because the missiles work the way they do...)
If a tank shoot at/kills you, you C4/mine/TOW/get a tank etc yourself
Killed by infantry...say hello to Mr. Knife
That list goes on and on and there is always some way to fight back/get some payback...until you reach artillery. When you get killed by it, what can you do ? You could go to the enemy base and blow up the artillery but that gives me about as much satisfaction as blowing up an empty tank - that's not payback. You could spend quite some time trying to track down the enemy commander but that's not very efficient and I'd rather spend my time doing what the game is about - fighting over flags.
Being on the receiving end of an artillery strike is about much fun as when BF2 crashes - you say **** **** **** and then restart/respawn. Where's the fun it that? If I lose a gunfight against another soldier, at least there was combat involved and isn't that why we are playing this game?
The BF2 Artillery is just like the nukes some misguided people used to ask for in Desert Combat - an überweapon, Rape-o-matic 2000...no skill involved (in DC, at least you had to aim the SCUD/MLRS...), no risk (unless you count the possible tk:s) as it's remotely operated and does immense amounts of damage.
The artillery breaks up a game round into many short ones...it's like a friggin commercial in the middle of a great movie...some nice infantry combat going on...ARTILLERY STRIKE....allright, let's start again....whoho, excellent combat..Oh oh, run lads - it's arty time again....and so on...
Sorry about the whining but artillery just annoys me more than pretty much any other problem in BF2 (a close second after the tk/tk punish problem) and I'm just hoping there will be servers/mods without artillery in the future.
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