BF2S Forums Blue Pearl IO mode

I've never played it non-IO

I wish there were more full vehicle servers, but I can only find a few populated ones at any given time.

IO is always awful. On Blue Pearl it's worse because the IFVs are the only chance the Americans have at landing after the first 2 minutes.

5H1FTY wrote:

I've seen servers make the rule of "No A/T rocket shooting landing craft until USMC gets 1 flag". I guess that fixes the problem, although I do love the rocket sniping. Also, I think it adds emphasis on getting that first flag out of the gate for the USMC. IF they don't understand that (or fail), then they get punished all round.

Servers shouldn't have to invent their pwn ridiculous rules. The fact of the matter is that Blue Pearl, and in fact none of the maps in BF2 were designed for IO, and as such the only way to play a balanced version of the map is to play conquest.

And plus the vehicles are all that's keeping this game from being shit like CoD4 or CSS anyway.

steelie34 wrote:

why are so many pearl servers IO?  i hate running across that goddam bridge every two minutes, and the boats dont stand a chance against a competent china team.

Is it any different with APCs?

The map just sucks, period.

DrunkFace wrote:

steelie34 wrote:

why are so many pearl servers IO?  i hate running across that goddam bridge every two minutes, and the boats dont stand a chance against a competent china team.

Is it any different with APCs?

The map just sucks, period.

APCs can provide heavy fire, as well as take several direct hits from the Eryx. Several engineer filled APCs can land almost unhindered. It's also possible to sneak an APC along the north corridor, harder with a boat due to the boat's lack of armor and ineffective wepon.

Clay spamming is worst in this map then karkand

Infantry only is good, on vehicle servers you can't really do much as infantry so it gives you a chance to play whatever type of game you want, better than not being there at all.
Sometimes I just feel like a bit of IO especially after playing vehicle servers for a while I hate it when you're just about to shoot someone and they just run away into the nearest APC or whatever so you cant touch them- why are so many people recently been saying IO is shit sounds like theyre just copying other people, it's not like people have to play it there is an option that way it keeps everyone happy.
You can't really compare it to COD or CS for hitreg or whatever people moan about but IO on BF2 is good because of the size of the maps and the tactics it takes thats what makes it so much different to other IO games, people say it's not designed for IO but thats stupid saying that because infantry has always been in BF2, doesn't mean if you take the vehicles out it automatically makes it shit and if it was that bad everyone who only plays IO would play COD or some other games wouldnt they

Don't be rediculous COD and games like that havent got squads or anything you just run around shooting random people, BF2 is a lot more tactical when you compare it, even in games full of noobs there are still squads and people planning where to attack.
The thing I don't get it loads and loads of people love BF2, yet most of them say stuff like "BF2+Tactics=lol" "BF2 IO sucks" "BF2 sucks" "I quit BF2" "Vehicle servers suck you just get raped" "BF2 is dead" etc but they still play, I bet you play IO as well

Ok well that's what you think, I normally play as lone wolf and squad leader and squads are a lot more than green dots, say you're on karkand on MEC team and only have suburb left, the whole team is going for square, are you saying having a squad go to train accident is not helping your team? That's why there are squads so you can stop the enemy flanking you and so you can cap flags to stop enemy spawning, or even just to help out your team by killing enemies, like I said I see teamwork in pretty much any BF2 game, where most other FPS's have none at all, you are right about grenade spamming and medipacks everywhere and that's not really teamwork it's just getting kills which is what a lot of people do which is why teamwork is important, but surely you've been in squads and know what I'm on about

H3RB4L ABU53 wrote:

Ok well that's what you think, I normally play as lone wolf and squad leader and squads are a lot more than green dots, say you're on karkand on MEC team and only have suburb left, the whole team is going for square, are you saying having a squad go to train accident is not helping your team? That's why there are squads so you can stop the enemy flanking you and so you can cap flags to stop enemy spawning, or even just to help out your team by killing enemies, like I said I see teamwork in pretty much any BF2 game, where most other FPS's have none at all, you are right about grenade spamming and medipacks everywhere and that's not really teamwork it's just getting kills which is what a lot of people do which is why teamwork is important, but surely you've been in squads and know what I'm on about

GRAMMAR MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT?

Simply said: Blue Pearl is not the awesome PLA vs USMC map it could have been.

mtb0minime wrote:

lots of teamwork (i.e. medics actually reviving and throwing health packs, support actually throwing ammo).

That's not team work, that's points whoring.