Re: Why many people are quitting BF2 for good -- it's not fun anymore
I think it is just you.
Originally posted by Village_Idiot
A great number of people are abandoning BF2, and giving it up for good.
They simply aren't having fun anymore.
Why? Most games have devolved into utter domination by planes and helicopters, which are extremely overdone and overpowered.
Planes rapidly heal back to full health, and essentially have unlimited ammo. Both heal and resupply are accomplished by a quick passover any airfield. The unlimited Bomb and rocket spam do truly massive damage, leaving those in a large area with little hope of survival.
Anti aircraft guns only get two shots, which are nearly useless. They rarely hit, even if you are careful to fire only after flares have fallen. They only do incremental damage, which a plane may instantly heal by a quick passover of an airfield. Even the anti-aircraft vehicles have little hope of success. Though a direct hit with an anti tank weapon utterly destroys any jeep or truck, a helicopter shrugs it off without problem. Even a direct hit with a tank shell does not destroy a helicopter, this is absurd. The flak guns on the armored personnel carriers do damage, but must be trained on helicopters for a long time to bring them down, while any decent helicopter pilot would pop them in one second after discovery. No stinger missiles are included in this game, so those running about are simply fodder.
A helicopter must move slowly or hover long enough to take several hits from an anti-tank weapon to die, something only newbies would tend to do. Support machine guns do little. Whatever hits are scored, are quickly shrugged off via healing at any helipad.
Worse, a person manning an anti aircraft gun is instantly highlighted for planes to see, manning one is like screaming, "kill me now!". The designers were idiots to do this.
The result of all of this is a few helicopter and airplane pilots running around with massive scores and almost never dying, while the people actually playing the game are demoralized by being killed over and over. This is not an obscure case involving only highly skilled pilots, it is the norm with run of the mill pilots on most every server. This is not fun for anyone but the pilots, and drives many people to quit for good. Not just experienced players, but even worse, the newbies who should be getting hooked on this game.
Is this really what the designers had in mind? A flight simulator with fodder, it's just not fun anymore.
They simply aren't having fun anymore.
Why? Most games have devolved into utter domination by planes and helicopters, which are extremely overdone and overpowered.
Planes rapidly heal back to full health, and essentially have unlimited ammo. Both heal and resupply are accomplished by a quick passover any airfield. The unlimited Bomb and rocket spam do truly massive damage, leaving those in a large area with little hope of survival.
Anti aircraft guns only get two shots, which are nearly useless. They rarely hit, even if you are careful to fire only after flares have fallen. They only do incremental damage, which a plane may instantly heal by a quick passover of an airfield. Even the anti-aircraft vehicles have little hope of success. Though a direct hit with an anti tank weapon utterly destroys any jeep or truck, a helicopter shrugs it off without problem. Even a direct hit with a tank shell does not destroy a helicopter, this is absurd. The flak guns on the armored personnel carriers do damage, but must be trained on helicopters for a long time to bring them down, while any decent helicopter pilot would pop them in one second after discovery. No stinger missiles are included in this game, so those running about are simply fodder.
A helicopter must move slowly or hover long enough to take several hits from an anti-tank weapon to die, something only newbies would tend to do. Support machine guns do little. Whatever hits are scored, are quickly shrugged off via healing at any helipad.
Worse, a person manning an anti aircraft gun is instantly highlighted for planes to see, manning one is like screaming, "kill me now!". The designers were idiots to do this.
The result of all of this is a few helicopter and airplane pilots running around with massive scores and almost never dying, while the people actually playing the game are demoralized by being killed over and over. This is not an obscure case involving only highly skilled pilots, it is the norm with run of the mill pilots on most every server. This is not fun for anyone but the pilots, and drives many people to quit for good. Not just experienced players, but even worse, the newbies who should be getting hooked on this game.
Is this really what the designers had in mind? A flight simulator with fodder, it's just not fun anymore.
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