BF2S Forums What map size do you prefer?

16 player size - allows just 1-2 good players on a team to totally dominate a map. While I could be that person and rack up a bunch of wins, I usually end up killing the server because so many people leave because of my skill.

32 player size - what I used almost exclusively for my first 200 hours of this game. If one team has an awesome squad, they will dominate the map. Much better overall balance, but able to lose powerful base without having good enough resourses left (vehicles) or terrain (always an uphill battle) to retake it, thus why the team with a good squad is the one who is able to retake this base or prevent its loss in the first place.

64 player size - opens the game up! More ground to cover, more routes of assault. Some maps are bad in this size (Zatar springs to mind - but that sucks at all sizes), but overall provides a full environment to let loose on and find creative ways to attack bases. Yeah, you'll run across many a server of tk'ers, n00b tubers, and 'spawn campers' (the latter two of which I approve of), so just avoid them. I've found myself a small grouping of 64 player servers (map size, not all actually have 64 slots - lowest is 54 slot) that I play in regularly where I can freelance at times, but can form a squad to get stuff accomplished if I need to.

easy - 64

I play on 32 man servers but I like 64 player sized maps (with 32 or 40 players) when I get to play them.

Kobrakai wrote:

Just wondering what map size people prefer to play on.

Personally I prefer 32 player servers as 16 is too few and 64 player servers always seem to be full of people team killing for vehicles, lamers and spawn campers. Yes I know you get this everywhere but I usually find it to be a lot worse on 64 player servers. Not to mention every time you move your getting shot at from god knows where...

Indeed.

64 players are great except for a few things. all the problems like tking annoying n00btubers and getting artied all the time occur twice as often as in 32 players, so with a bigger # of players comes a bigger magnitude of issues. some times I prefer smaller gamesto avoid this dumb crap, like when I get so annoyed it starts affecting my playing performance.

chitlin wrote:

isnt anyone gona call gilgalad a douche / fag / w/e

While I could be that person and rack up a bunch of wins, I usually end up killing the server because so many people leave because of my skill.

you arent that good biatch dont forget people can look at your stats

yeah.......lol

I once played on a server that had 64 players on a 16 player size Sharqi Peninsula! MAN it was a freaking massacre!  People were dropping dead left, right and centre!

It was awesome and such a sensory overload. I once lobbed a C4 block and killed 7 guys with it.  Everything was so condensed.  On the second round we successfully voted to move to the other map.  I don't know why it went to a 16 player sized map when in the last rotation it was a 64 player sized one (one extra CP.)

Bingo wrote:

I like 32-player servers that play with 64-player-size maps.  Reason is, with only 16 people on your team, you have a better chance of finding a vehicle.  Any map smaller than 64-player is too small and quite possibly has no airplanes/helicopters, which I like.

BINGO!

32 size map, sometimes a bit bigger, but 64 size gets laggy for me. i am always looking for a nice 48 person server or so. of the maps i play, the only one i like 16 size is gulf of oman.

i once played with 42 people on a 16 size karkarnd. it was a crazy fragfest.