Wake Island 2007

[MrChris_CJ]

Re: Wake Island 2007

Wake was one of the best 1942 maps sitting in a ship bombarding the shoreline...or sitting in a coastal battery shooting the ships...mines etc galor the map was fun and assaulting the flags is good as well...gonna have to be wary of snipers this time round i think

[LoneWolfSniper]

Re: Wake Island 2007

One of my favorite maps back when I used to play bf1942. Looking forward to this remake. :)

[Thomy]

Re: Wake Island 2007

OMG nice picture :)
I hope they remake all bf42 the maps :)

[Slapidus]

Re: Wake Island 2007

From what i remember about wake island from 42 that it is a very fun map and if you have 2 good teams its a very well played map

[Harmor]

Re: Wake Island 2007

Wake was one of the best 1942 maps sitting in a ship bombarding the shoreline...or sitting in a coastal battery shooting the ships...mines etc galor the map was fun and assaulting the flags is good as well...gonna have to be wary of snipers this time round i think

I don't think the Aircraft carrier will move.
I don't believe there will be any coastal artillery batteries.
I don't believe there will be a battleship or a sub either.

I hope I'm wrong though.



If the Chinese are attacking Wake Island, what is the name of their Aircraft Carrier?

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: Wake Island 2007

The Chinese are already on the island and have all 5 spawns, the US are on the carrier and are attacking, the setup scenario is exactly the same as Wake in Battlefield 1942 where the Japanese were in control of the 5 spawns and the US attacked from their carrier.

[Harmor]

Re: Wake Island 2007

The Chinese are already on the island and have all 5 spawns, the US are on the carrier and are attacking, the setup scenario is exactly the same as Wake in Battlefield 1942 where the Japanese were in control of the 5 spawns and the US attacked from their carrier.

Kewl. Then it'll be a fixed USS Essex just like Dalian Plant. I didn't notice any battleships or artillery batteries...oh well.

[imported_Fig]

Re: Wake Island 2007

I must say that is stupid. The US should definetely be defending, the chinese could easily spawn in transport choppers and other things hanging in midair.

So, if the AA missles actually kill things now, Jets and helis will have to be very careful when considering attacks. If they still suck, or are not good enough, jets will destroy every thing on the map

land vehicles will have hard times, as the level is really narrow most of the time, nearly all paths can be mined.

infantry combat will be nice if we arn't totally being raped by jets

helicopter combat will be similar to zatar wetlands probably, nearly no good hiding places will shorten the life span of even your best heli pilots to about a minute probably.

all i can say is: id rather they left helis and jets out, and let it develop into a nice jungle esque ground combat similar to karkand, only in jungle.

[Thomy]

Re: Wake Island 2007

The Chinese are already on the island and have all 5 spawns, the US are on the carrier and are attacking, the setup scenario is exactly the same as Wake in Battlefield 1942 where the Japanese were in control of the 5 spawns and the US attacked from their carrier.

Americans were in control of the island and japanese were attacking. In bf1942 that is.

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: Wake Island 2007

Americans were in control of the island and japanese were attacking. In bf1942 that is.

Yes you are correct, sorry about that, been playing DC too much :S
There the opposition defended :p

[Harmor]

Re: Wake Island 2007

Engys are going to love this map. AT mines are going to rule on the narrow road ways of this map.

Not sure if that'll be a good idea because of the TK punish system we have now.

In BF:1942 you go SLOWLY go over enemy and friendly mines without exploding them. Obviously moving 1m from an AT mine will destroy anyone in BF2.

[rombaft]

Re: Wake Island 2007

WAKE ISLAND is a very good map, was my favorite on BF1942, and it's very good balanced, when joining the map you never knew wich team was going to win.

The map has lots of things, vehicles , but watch out, the vehicles can only drive on a small area wich is dangerous for mining.

Infantry : every infantry class will be here, sniping is great on this map, lots of bushes with a nice view, bunkers, watch towers, .... engineers will be happy to place some mines on roads that have to be used by vehicles because else you drive into the water. Assault, spec ops, medic, are always in a game, and on foor you can do a lot in this map.

About airplanes, well I hope they aren't going to be in the game, realy, jets on this map are going to be a dissaster, I know in BF1942 it was very very easy to bomb on this map because the vehicles have to stick on the roads and can't go much of them.
Choppers are OK .

Probably as in BF1942 the major fighting of actualy mostly infantry will be going on at the airbase on the island, some bunkers there, lots of huts, wach towers, and lots of alternative entries when on foot (sea sides) .

[Fullforce]

Re: Wake Island 2007

Wake Island was one of my favourite maps on 1942, a really good, (i liked any map with the boats, carriers, and beach landings!)

RIBs are gonna be good on this map.. on other maps they aren't used, in this they are going to be constantly used, there will need to be a lot. In the Wake island custom map there is Chinese on the 'USS Essex' (chinese, meh) attacking the USMC on the island... there was 4 boats on the carrier rather than the usual 2.

I would love to see Battle for midway in BF2, 2 carriers fighting for the island, although much of the fun was to be had having naval battles...

[WolfAlmighty]

Re: Wake Island 2007

Damn, I thought that a lot of people here had at least played 1942
I was there in the multiplayer demo days back in July 2002 and the map that came with the mp demo was... Wake Island.
I'm really looking forward to revisitng it. :)

I'm not too sure but perhaps the BF42mp demo is still uploaded somewhere, go try it!

Indeed it is. It's on EA's official site.

http://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/demos/battlefield_1942_multiplayer_demo.exe

The Chinese are already on the island and have all 5 spawns, the US are on the carrier and are attacking

Awww crap. Exactly the scenario I dread. I've been on Oman and Dalian Plant when the US loses all its land bases and are forced to start at the carrier. Rapage doesn't even begin to apply. Usually I bail out of the server when that happens. That's the main reason I can't stand Clean Sweep. I guess if I were more of a flyboy it'd be fun, but trying to boat all the way to land only to get insta-pwned by arty/helicopter/tank/C4/whatever other trap has been set is not how I like to spend my time. Bummer.

~Wolfgang

[Harmor]

Re: Wake Island 2007

Awww crap. Exactly the scenario I dread. I've been on Oman and Dalian Plant when the US loses all its land bases and are forced to start at the carrier. Rapage doesn't even begin to apply. Usually I bail out of the server when that happens. That's the main reason I can't stand Clean Sweep. I guess if I were more of a flyboy it'd be fun, but trying to boat all the way to land only to get insta-pwned by arty/helicopter/tank/C4/whatever other trap has been set is not how I like to spend my time. Bummer.

~Wolfgang

Actually if you recall the aircraft carrier and the battleship where VERY close to shore. You could actually swim to shore and take the jeep that was next to the artillery battery there.

See with Dragon Valley at least the US has a main base on land. I'll assume that the aircraft carrier will be 600m away from shore like Dalian Plant.

Also recall that you could move the aircraft carrier - effectively a mobile spawn point to give your guys a shorter distance to travel depending on which flag you guys were trying to get. The only thing really that kept you from getting closer to shore was beaching the ship and the artillery batteries.