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Slimebeast on 08 April 2010
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mirgro said:
Slimebeast said:
mirgro said:

I would disagree. BF1942 is still the best game in the BF series. The whole leveling schtick they are pulling is absolutely horrible, the maps are much smaller, and overall there's less stuff to do. No naval ships or airplanes. There are helicopters however, but that's about it and they are as unwieldy as the ones from previous games.

It is also dumbed down. The Scout spots for artillery, but the players aren't the ones who supply it, it just falls from the sky sort of. The engineer and anti-tank are combined. So now you have a guy with rocket launchers, guns, repair tools, and mines running around. The medic is given a fucking machine gun which is ridiculously overpowered for a class which can heal itself whenever it wants to. Oh yeah, the assault is also the one that carries the ammo boxes in this one, so you have the class with the most powerful weapons basically have endless ammo to their grenade launcher.

The game also has far less vehicles in sheer number than Battlefield 2. The leveling bullshit is even worse than in Battlefield 2, you literally start with nothing at the early levels, and there are many many weapons to unlock, not just 1, or 2 with the expansion, for each gun type.

All in all, BF1942 is still the best BF, then BF2, then BC2. Basically, reverse chronological order.

Edit: Just a few more things. Shitty netcode, I have a blazing fast connection and even when connected to servers across the street from me, literally, I have never seen less than 130 ping. If I am not connected directly to my modem then I cannot play since the game disconnects you from the servers instantly. Also, there is no proper player auto-balance at all or something to even ensure people don't switch teams when one starts to lose. Maps also do not change their size depending on the amount of players on it. So if you have a map with 5 people, it will be as big as if you had all 32.

Why dont u like the leveling? I think it's near perfect. U start out with quite a decent arsenal but it's still worth it and fun to level up to get slightly better gear.

Most shooters have 4 classes. In BC2 they're all attractive because their powerful and all have stuff that is easy to use. Assault gets grenade lanucher, Medic gets M60 and Engineer has Carl Gustav bunker-buster and snipers have mortar strikes. They're all almost equally popular.

 

No, you start off with shit arsenal. Medics dont have the paddles or healing, engineers dont have repair tools, scouts dont have spotting or motion sensing, assault doesn't have their ammo packs. You have nearly no chance of killing a player that is a higher level outside of getting lucky. Their bullets can do more damage, or they may take less damage, or they can just see you from 200 feet and kill you before you know they are even there. You can;t even play your job correctly. It is a very shitty system.

Most shooters also suck, so having just 4 classes may be a problem with them, not a plus. If you are gona have a game built around startegy and tactics, it needs to be balanced. As it is, it is not at all.

Noticed your edit. If by spotting you mean the little things that fly over people's heads on others' UI when the scout has the spotter, then no it doesn't. It does however have artiullery spotting, except that the players have to aim and use the artillery, not the computer. BC2 does have smaller maps than BF1942. You can make an argument out of Rush maps, but they are just long, but very narrow. In BF1942 I could fly around in a plane for a good while to get from one side to the next in a map. This game doesn't even have planes, probably because of its tiny size.

Then why have levels if you won't get better anyway? I admit it was lil hard at first, I had K/D ratio 0.64 at first, but it was mostly because I was simply rusty with BF tactics, I was too run-and-gun style, and  after 1-2 hours with each class you get almost top gear (and since then I am rufly 1.0 K/D) Its not a big problem. I didnt feel it was too hard to kill otehrs as a noob. Also it's good that it takes a few hours to get the good gear because it prevents people from making new accounts and "smurf". I hate smurfs. I want people to stick to one ID in games.

Okay, maybe by area the maps in 1942 were larger, but speaking of Rush, Rush introduces something awesome into BF - more objective based and focused gameplay with the map divided into 4 separate phases. I loved that system in Enemty Territory: Quake Wars. The Conquest game mode pretty much sucks, it's a lot more dumbed down than Rush.