Is Special Forces slowly dying?

[imported_Apostle]

Re: Is Special Forces slowly dying?

I'm not exactly sure what we're trying to achieve in this thread, is it dying? Has it died?

Truth is, as long as there is a server with more than twenty players on it I will be playing SF. I don't play it exclusively, but I do really enjoy the change from BF2, i.e not being bombed to hell all the time. That's my opinion! Don't flame, mm kay.

Why is it important to decide whether it is dead or not, I think is what I'm saying. We have two clan servers, and oddly, the vanilla and EF server is empty most of the time, whilst the SF server is full every day! Forty players too, it is unquestionably still popular.

Oh and marranello, if you tick "populated" for BF2 it will also dramtically lower the reported servers, we all know this. It's obvious because people don't initially go into empty servers, so they stay empty, all server admins know how frustrating it is to get a server going.

[Berrern]

Re: Is Special Forces slowly dying?

How are you finding 30 servers?

A few days ago i logged on and found just 12 SF servers. Thats it for all maps.

Change game browser dude, there's obviously something seriously wrong with yours.

My ASE shows 401 SF servers, of which 39 are populated. And now it's only noon, there are a lot more players during the evening. If I remember it I'll have a check tonight.

I bought SF the day it was released. I haven't played over 10 hours total. It just isn't good.

I bought it right after release, and have played it for 240 hours. I guess we all have different opinions - I for one really love SF, the infantry combat with 64 players is simply awesome :)

Oh, and I don't think SF is dying, the somewhat lower player numbers lately is most likely due to people playing EF. But with only 3 maps I can't see them being hooked for very long, so most of them will come back!

[Smiley_ie]

Re: Is Special Forces slowly dying?

The best games i had where all with SF. The game play " i find " is a lot slower than bf2, i allso got EF ? didnt like it. Hopefully they will do some add ons for SF.

[imported_Apostle]

Re: Is Special Forces slowly dying?

Oh, and I don't think SF is dying, the somewhat lower player numbers lately is most likely due to people playing EF. But with only 3 maps I can't see them being hooked for very long, so most of them will come back!

Exactly. I bought EF and of course, it's like a present at xmas, you wanna play it because you've been looking forward to it. When the hype dies down though, and server admins change there servers from just the EF maps, and put them in a regular rotation, like you say, people will come back to SF.

The last couple of days I've been playing lots of EF, but last night my mate asked me to join him on SF. It was a breath of fresh air! Seriously, the gameplay is better than BF2, in my humble opinion.

[QWFreak]

Re: Is Special Forces slowly dying?

This thread was started to ask "Does patch 1.21 ruin SF?". From my chair here, I don't see it. Look, if patch 1.21 is really causing some serious problems by which no servers can host the game or servers keep on crashing, then how are you going to explains there are still over hundreds of servers populated with players running version 1.21? It's just not very logical the way you put it dude.

I find it a general phenomenon within the computer gaming community. People like to go to forum and complain they do not like the game this and that, and then go further to say "Is the game dying", "This game is dead", "I am not playing this game, I want my money back from ..". I mean, if you do not like playing a game, would you just go or bite you phucking tongue? Like for myself, I don't play another FPS game which I have recently purchased because I find it not really my cup of tea (I won't disclose the name here, don't ask and I won'yt tell anyway). I stop going to the forum and I have never thought I need to any more. The last thread I left there was talking about my opinion(slightly doubtful about the storyline and multiplayer issue with a couple of questions). But now I don't care anymore because that game is going to be dusted on my shelf abyway.

If you find the patch really causing some serious problems on your servers, send an email to EA/DICE. The difference between posting the same information on a forum like this one, and sending it to the publisher or producer is that you will be seen as inflaming the situation, or more prcisely "bad mouth". Being a bad mouth person is a character stain if you keeps on doing it causing serious issues to others. If you can provide concrete evidence or proof that patch 1.21 is causing crashes to your server, do bring it up with the evidence you have. And I don't think that would be just a few lines of comments. That would be some crash logs, some screen capture, piles of statistics....etc Do you have all that? You don't even have that to support your saying "SF is dying" do you?

Be objective and don't act like a bad mouth.

[*FMJ*Birdsht]

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I have noticed a significant change to game play. I have a p4 3.4ee and 2gigs pc4400, 6800 ultra and its almost unplayable. Everything on low and it still doesnt feel very optimized. Was alot better in 1.21 Wasnt perfect but alot better. To say that nothing changed is far from accurate. The weapons are not acting the same. Its just not worth playing anymore. It had alot more potential early on. But its fading. People learned not to buy it and have their buddies activate the weapons for vanilla. Its dropped off hard since that was popular. The division that made SF should have made the whole game. It would have been better. The fact they dont run together at once is its death sentence. Euro forces and Armored Fury are the same scenario. EF is quickly dropping off and AF will do even worse. Tank whores like easy grazing. Now they will have a bunch of other armor whores to play with. THey will get burnt out fast.
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[Citizen Kained]

Re: Is Special Forces slowly dying?

Special Forces is alive and kicking...

I'm part of a great UK SF community over at http://www.bf2sf.co.uk/ who all play SF.

The ranked server is the fastest in the UK.

Forget getting bombed every five minutes by some pilot. Forget running miles to find your next kill.

Go cqc, go SF!

Ok, thats my bit over!!