New teams every round

[Hando]

I'm not sure if this is a bug, the way it was designed or something controlled by the server itself, but it is VERY annoying. Nothing is worse then getting in a great squad and after the round ends, all of the teams are disolved and you have to try to find everyone again.

This was not the case in vanilla BF2 so I'm not sure why it happens in SF. Can someone please shed some light on this subject for me?

[oaKenfoLd]

Re: New teams every round

It's a serverside setting, and there's good with the bad. I agree that it sucks to reform your squad up, but its easy enough to make a squad and invite those members back in. If your squad was that good, they'll join up again.
On the positive side, and the reason we have our servers set for this, is because some maps are somewhat lopsides, like MEC or SAS winning every round. This evens it up, and lets players play both sides. One side you get the F2000 or SKAR, the other you get mowed down by it...only fair

[JarEme]

Re: New teams every round

It's a "feature" of a popular admin mod. Both BF2 and SF suffer from it.

As for your options, unless you can contact the server's administrator and convince them to turn it off, you'll have to get used to it or move on to another server. You could also try petitioning EA/Dice to patch the game so that entire squads can be moved between teams. That way, you wouldn't be broken up all the time.

On a barely related note, you need to add an in-game macro to automatically create a custom squad of a user-defined name. Like the rest of you, I create the same custom-named squad each game. Seems silly that I need to always type it in.

[Death Dealer 68]

Re: New teams every round

I don't like it one bit

[Riggz]

Re: New teams every round

I don't like it, but I understand why I've played some rounds on 24/7 karkand servers where the americans have one 20 straight rounds.

[Talus]

Re: New teams every round

I can't stand it either but it sure is nice mixing things up a little.

I'd LOVE for there to be an alias for creating a squad and inviting members....GREAT idea!

[BudSilent]

Re: New teams every round

I personally like getting to play both sides, but it's annoying to have to remake the squad and invite all your guys... I just ignore it and yell at my friends to rejoin the squad on vent. :)

[MackTheKnifeAU]

Re: New teams every round

I hate it, and try not to play on servers with it enabled (out of the 5-6 I can choose from, 1 of the 2 "main" providers use it, and 1 of the 3\4 others use it.)

[FiveO]

Re: New teams every round

As stated...its a server side setting. I was going to put a ticket in to get it taken care of but actually we've found with the unbalanced SF maps...and the fact that many of of the weapons are army sensitive makes it a no brainer to switch teams at the end of the round.

Lessens the team jumpers at the end of the round if you switch maps. Too many people getting sick of being on the end of the bad weapons armies.

IE: A player has the F2000...whores it. Is on the same side all the time. This way he can try to switch...but the rest of the team won't.

[Hando]

Re: New teams every round

Thanks for the info guys. While I'm not fond of it, you have given me a side to look at the I hadn't thought of before...the lopsided maps. This makes sense and while it's a little annoying, I can deal with it to switch up the weapons on some maps.

Thanks again.

[yosemite610]

Re: New teams every round

It's a PITA to reform squads. After all, it's supposed to be one of the major features of BF2.

Took some getting used to for me, and now, especially with SF I feel like the auto-switch is forcing me to play in a manner other then what I might decide.

Maybe it's fine for point-farmers, people who are only interested in the FPS aspect of the game, but I like team/squad play. I actually enjoy playing on the losing side often, it seems to pressure people into learning how to better play as a team.

What really gets me is when/if I get switched to the winning side, to a side that has 80%+ of the flags already. What kinda sense is that?

bleh.