BF2S Forums Why isn't SF more popular?

I think its the night maps, people always bitch about them. Personally I love them, pity servers our not running that many of them at the moment

I think the city maps like Warlord are great. Most of the others are too, but the one i hate is the Iron Gator. Its okay on 16 player but any bigger and its just horrible trying to get onto the ship.

Generally im also beginning to prefer SF over normal BF2 because of the mixture of open area and indoor skirmishes that many of the maps offer. Also with SF maps you dont tend to get as many people who just play the one map and are "uber 1337" at spawncamping like you do in Vanilla bf2

dunno, but I play SF more than BF2 vanilla, because i hate the Aircraft Whores.
I have played SF for 90 hours and vanila for 87 i think.

For me, I've always been irritated by the fact that I'm missing most of the vanilla unlocks, or that the unlocks I get are team-dependent. Too attached to certain weapons, I guess...

if i didnt lag so much i would play it more. also if there were more servers with night maps then it would be better. night maps are what make special forces worth it. if i wanted to play bf2 because there are no jets then i would just stick to karkand/sharqi/mashtuur.

Well i dont like night maps, only exception is the airport one and the sub one at times.   
The others maps like surge i think are better then kark

I have to agree that the system requirements are bit more due to bad coding IMO.

I dislike heavily that you have to reload the game in order to play SF. It shouldn't have reload the game. It should load new graphics and new objects just like any other map would do. It should not have to restart the game just to play different maps with different vehicles and weapons. That's just stupid.

However there is more reasons for me. Of all the maps in SF I only like a few.  Of all the Night Maps in SF I only like Leviathan and think the rest are crap.  Of the day maps I only like Warlord, Ghost Town, Mass Destruction and on a good day sometimes Surge. I think the rest of the maps are crap.

So:
1. Bad coding leads to lag and higher system requirements. It's a rush job and it shows.
2. Having to reload the game for new maps. Shows poor forward thinking and lack of decent coding once again.
3. Of the eight maps only four are decent, one of which is a night map which was the main selling point of SF.

Those 3 reasons are my biggest reason I do not play SF. I might one day try it out again but that won't be anytime soon I don't think. So far SF has been a $29.99 pass for a 2nd tier of unlocks.

I hope Euro Forces and the other booster packs are better than SF. I pray they are at least.

Last edited by kilroy0097 (2006-03-13 03:46:27)

I'm glad there's more variety in maps for ranked servers and awards. This is why euro force and armored fury are going to be great additions in my opinion for the maps alone. They should put out in the future some ranked approved map packs and or update the ones they have now. Like a finished Dalian Plant or Kubra Dam. I wouldn't mind a battle at Karkand Airport either. Oops unless thats what the name of the airport in nightflight is lol ...

Last edited by section9 (2006-03-13 06:08:48)

I can never seem to get a stable connection to an SF server - which is pretty much the only reason I don't play it online much.

I've played SF almost nothing coz of the lag. Too laggy. Nevertheless I like Ghost Town and Warlord; these maps are different to Vanilla BF2, coz Karkand, for instance is an Urban Assault map, and Warlord is more of a combination with Urban Assault and MOUT. Certainly the indoor raids are a bit more tactical, and I like that.




Semper Fi!

Definitely love the SF maps - am generally a dedicated Infantry Whore; these maps shift the balance from vehicles to infantry very well. The nighttime ones especially are about getting squads to move together and protect each other in the darkness. Unfortunately, the major Australian hosts run 5-6 daytime only maps and 1-2 all map rotations. Would love to get a nighttime rotation going. The darkness is your friend and makes for a lot more of those surprise knife kills and wtf? moments.

Add on top of that the freedom of movement for a well rounded squad using ziplines and grappling hooks - and you have a dynamic 3D environment and not a standup tank-slugfest. What I would love to see is a little of the counter-strike style objective play though - the intro for SF showing a US assault on Devil's Perch would be a lot more interesting if the objective WAS to destroy the asylum post.

Last edited by Ekfud (2006-03-14 18:57:31)

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