BF2S Forums Would you be happy if the next patch removed artillery from the game?

Darth_Fleder wrote:

Only if they took the rest of the guns out as well.

Hell yeah, I look forward to having a 2x4 with a rusty nail in it.

Seriously, arty should stay.  I know sometimes I feel that I have a GPS locator attached to me as it seems the arty tracks me, but its a serious part of the game.  It's also a major part of being commander.

Last edited by Jade Falcon (2006-04-12 09:48:33)

How about we take out the G36e to make the kits balanced?  No?  Thought so.

I.M.I Militant wrote:

sif EA would remove it .. and thankfully they dont =] arty yer its annoying but it helps the team alot good for clearing areas... or takin care of those pesky l337 snipers no1 can seem to find or kill

it defeats the purpose of being a l337 sniper then doesnt it

Arty is definately good, but commanders should not be able to fire it if they are in a vehicle and once it is fired they should not be able to enter a vehicle. Hell, a commander should not be able to even open the command window if they are in a vehicle.......yeah you know what I'm talking about~

i just wish that they would change it so a shell 20+ feet away doesn't INSTANTLY kill (i mean this in every sense of the word) me

If you command enough you will know where arty is going to drop because if you were commanding you would drop it there. Its pretty intuitive once you understand.

I'd like the option to have it off.

actually artillery has more than a fun factor in the game, i think the devs put arty in the game the way it is so that commanders would (through the desire to kill as many people as possible) keep people from making the game stagnant, that is, that everyone camps in a certain area and just sprays, makes the game much more mobile since the biggest group of people in one area presents the best target.

my 2 balls.



or is it cents.

Is this a serious question?  Did you actually think about this?  What if we didn't have artillary?  You know how different the game would be?  It wouldn't deserve the battlefield name.

Every peice of the commander's screen is vital to him operating his team.

You bitch because you've been blown up?  Go take out his artillary and wait for him to repair and see how he likes them apples.

Because of artillary I move across the screen so quickly.  If artillary weren't around I'd camp flags after I cap them.  But since I know an arty strike might be coming I run after i cap.

KEEP IT

As a frequent commander, I like artillery. It is great to be able to take out embedded snipers, soften up a flag while the troops are inbound, buy some time for inbound troops or in the case last night, bomb the daylights out of a group of jackass stat padders. I do hate though when I am commanding and the enemy commander feels the need to arty me every single time. Sure he is hurting his team, and he usually loses, but damn does it piss me off, especially on maps where I have no solid cover.

The commander should have more options for arty, the amount, speed and density of your artillery strike should be all adjustable, but then effects the reload time for the next arty strike. So say if you want to kill off a sniper, you set it for a low amount of shots (3 rounds or so) and all in very close proxsimity (speed of the shot wouldnt really matter as snipers dont move much) and your reload time after that shot would be very low. If you wanted to take out a squad at your main flag immediently though, you might want a high load(15 shots) with a medium density and you would want that shot right now. The reaload time would be very very long but your strike would have proballly saved your flag.

Sorry about the spelling

edit: the arty making holes in the ground would be cool, but would probally require a new engine(wait for the next battlefield.

Last edited by MrPredictable (2006-04-14 13:52:51)

Spark wrote:

Sit and place UAV's once a minute? Yeah, cos that's real fun, isn't it?

Ever play on a 16 player Ghost Town 24/7 server? That's all the commander can do.

I had to sit doing that for 25 minutes for my damn vet command.

{RS}Diamonddog wrote:

I'd rather play without it. How realistic is it to have artilery every 30 seconds all throughout every battle you play? I bet in modern wars like irak they didnt even use artilery or very rarely. We need the option to turn it off on servers.

It's actually quite realistic. What isn't realistic is the killing radius. In modern day battlefields, such as Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom for example), the operations that do the most damage and garner the most kills are artillery and air. Believe me, I was there, in an artilley battery, shelling the shit out of every hotspot from the Kuwait/ Iraq border all the way up to Baghdad. I was in the Marines for nearly for years prior to the invasion, and during those 4 months I fired more rounds than those past years combined.

Not a flame killer, just a correction.

Also wanted know what another poster meant by "density" of the arty strike.

Semper.