No airstrikes. You spawn with 0 grenades (frag, GLs, RPGs, or specials). For every 5 person kill streak, you get 1 nade (GL or RPG if you have a launcher, regular nade if you don't) and fresh ammo. 7 kill streak gives you a special grenade. Weapon sights no longer drunkenly bob around unless using ACOG or sniper scope without holding breath. No Martyrdom.
I'm all for people intelligently using nades, so why not reserve them for the players that are actually fighting, rather than holding back and trying to spam their way to victory? I also think that the system might be better if, rather than kill streaks, it was just total kills for rewards. This way people have one less incentive to camp and play like a defensive whore. On the other hand, the kill streak system does encourage people to look after their neck and play a little more "realistically" and I can appreciate that.
Grenades are important but its just silly how they are used in this game. Since people can carry 3 of them yet know they probably only have 2 minutes to live in battle, there are nades being thrown out almost constantly. It's just sort of comical. I can't picture soldiers just throwing out nade after nade in the middle of streets, etc. outside of games like this. Maybe I just don't know enough about military tactics. ...the nade spamming strategies annoyed me in BF2 as well, much moreso than CoD4...
I'm all for people intelligently using nades, so why not reserve them for the players that are actually fighting, rather than holding back and trying to spam their way to victory? I also think that the system might be better if, rather than kill streaks, it was just total kills for rewards. This way people have one less incentive to camp and play like a defensive whore. On the other hand, the kill streak system does encourage people to look after their neck and play a little more "realistically" and I can appreciate that.
Grenades are important but its just silly how they are used in this game. Since people can carry 3 of them yet know they probably only have 2 minutes to live in battle, there are nades being thrown out almost constantly. It's just sort of comical. I can't picture soldiers just throwing out nade after nade in the middle of streets, etc. outside of games like this. Maybe I just don't know enough about military tactics. ...the nade spamming strategies annoyed me in BF2 as well, much moreso than CoD4...
Last edited by Marinejuana (2008-01-04 17:43:40)