Eventhough I'm mixed about BF3, I had to vote 'no'.
BF2 is a fun game. And I love the balance of combined arms. But there is to many things wrong with the game to make me want to get BF3 right now. I still think we're playing a beta. I tried playing yesterday and had three CTDs in an hour. Add in punkbuster issues, bad coding with hit regisrty, and bad patches. Also, I wonder how BF2 will be a year after BF3 is out. Will EA pull all support for BF2? If so, will all I get to do is play on 16 player maps with bots?
Gald to see in the announcement:
-Mostly urban maps. I was dissapointed that the only ture urban map post release was jalalabad. The only map of the 9 'vanilla' maps that matched what most people played online. I really wanted to see a PLA vs MEC and a PLA vs USMC urban map.
-Destroyable terrain should be interesting.
Some things would convince me to get BF3:
-Not a BETA! Release a finished game. And make sure patches are good. No more patch the patch.
-Bots for all maps. Being in the military, I get deployed. And when I'm downrange, I'm lucky when I have a 14.4k connection. Being able to play against bots would be nice. BF1942 had it.
-Better distance. The M24 is rated for 800+ meter shots. So how come I'm limited to 300 metes on open maps? Longer distances is better than short range eye candy in the graphics department.
Some other nice things:
-Unlocks worth unlocking. The unlock doesn't have to trump the primary weapon, but should offer something the other rifles don't.
-Awards that help in play. So you're an expert Medic? Do you shoot better or heal faster? It doesn't have to be much (5% per level?), but if you're going to add in an MMO element to this, would be nice.
-AA: Aircraft are too powerful in this game, and ground base AA is a joke. I've killed more attack choppers with machine guns than the igla/stingers and the linebacker/tungueska combined.
-Have the commander get points for things he does, not just the average of the team score.
-Don't have each side be a mirror image of the other. I like that the SDV and M24 are different sniper rifles. And most infanty weapons are not the same weapon with a different skin. But the vehiclels are not. With few exceptions, there realliy is no difference between the vehicles of the same class.
UNCAPS have more than one spawn point. This will help relieve base rape.
Last edited by IrishWind (2008-01-02 07:03:25)