BF2S Forums About the arty!

Homercide wrote:

I read everywhere that people complain about the arty and that it's reloading to fast. That's just crap. In real life it would be possible to continuously shoot arty, and even cover a much larger area, lets say about the size of a footballfield. I say that EA should take that into consideration, and make it so that arty don't need that stupid reload time, and also cover a much larger area. Playing commander is tough enough as it is.

ahem...that would totally ruin infantry gameplay....if you had arty all the time without reloading what do you think would happen? it would totally piss off ALL infantry on both opposing teams and would prob. cause alot of ppl to stop playing BF2! Would YOU want that?....arty is a very useful tool and tactic and changing the way it is would not be a very good idea! sorry but i disagree totally with what you are saying!


EDIT: plus...playing commander is not hard...al you have to do is give your squads different support to help them get more points which in the end you get the average of which gives you your score!

peace andy

Last edited by c4_he_was_famous (2006-05-17 09:17:05)

arty could POSSIBLY be more deadly in the centre of its attack, weakening outwards to the extent of its field of destruction... POSSIBLY expanding the area of attack more.

Arty SHOULD DEFINITELY:

a)  Stun troops who are not killed..
b)  Be able to destroy an APC/TANK.. (how many times have we seen arty rain down on either, and for them to just sit there taking it like it was water...)


otherwise, im fine with it..

Actually I wrote the post with a good deal of sarcasm, after a rather frustrating round on wake island. I really really hate arty and wish they could remove it from the game and let it burn in hell for all eternity!
It makes me so mad, it even makes me want to turn off the computer and go out.

Cbass wrote:

Homercide wrote:

I read everywhere that people complain about the arty and that it's reloading to fast. That's just crap. In real life it would be possible to continuously shoot arty, and even cover a much larger area, lets say about the size of a footballfield. I say that EA should take that into consideration, and make it so that arty don't need that stupid reload time, and also cover a much larger area. Playing commander is tough enough as it is.

Just take that idea and lock it away forever. If there was continous arty, the only person in game who would have any fun is the commander. All u would have to do is repetedly click arty on every enemy spawn point and now no1 can spawn without dieing. What an awesome idea.....Not!  Arty is annoying enough as it is, leave it alone.

Better yet, Make arty available every five minutes or longer instead. It ruins the fun when you can't shoot back at the enemy commander every time he "shoots" at you.

YES I DEFINETELY AGREE THAT ARTY SHOULD DESTROY ARMOUR. THE ONLY TIME IVE SEEN ARTY KILL ARMOUR IS WHEN IM IN THE ARMOUR:( iT SHOULD BE VERY EASY TO KILL ARMOUR WITH ART

Homercide wrote:

I read everywhere that people complain about the arty and that it's reloading to fast. That's just crap. In real life it would be possible to continuously shoot arty, and even cover a much larger area, lets say about the size of a footballfield. I say that EA should take that into consideration, and make it so that arty don't need that stupid reload time, and also cover a much larger area. Playing commander is tough enough as it is.

In real life.... bla bla... well its a GAME and let it be a game and not like real life, thnx

Homercide wrote:

I read everywhere that people complain about the arty and that it's reloading to fast. That's just crap. In real life it would be possible to continuously shoot arty, and even cover a much larger area, lets say about the size of a footballfield. I say that EA should take that into consideration, and make it so that arty don't need that stupid reload time, and also cover a much larger area. Playing commander is tough enough as it is.

ok your'e right.
but you have to carry in bullets from the enemy base. through enemy lines...... by foot..

If anything should be changed with the arty it should be changing the arty into mortars. It just doesn't seem logical to be firing artillery, meant for long range "fire for effect" style barrages, when your troops can be just feet away from the intended target. Mortars are much shorter range and more of a "I think I see enemies in that field over there, but it's only a few hundred yards away, lets call for mortars." Artillery, on the other hand, at it's maximum range (lets pretend there's an Iowa class BB 20+ miles off the coast of Sharqi), can be off by nearly 200 yards (this comes after just watching Future Weapons on the Discovery channel).

It would also be sort of neat to be able to choose the size of the barage. Small - 15 second respawn, Medium - 30 second respawn, Large (size now) - 45 second respawn. Then it could be use to make enemies turn-tail and run if they think it's a large barage or walk into it hoping it's a small one.

Homercide wrote:

I read everywhere that people complain about the arty and that it's reloading to fast. That's just crap. In real life it would be possible to continuously shoot arty, and even cover a much larger area, lets say about the size of a footballfield. I say that EA should take that into consideration, and make it so that arty don't need that stupid reload time, and also cover a much larger area. Playing commander is tough enough as it is.

Die in a fucking fire.  Slowly.

About real life... you CAN NOT shoot arty continuously.  You would have to load the powder for the desired range, get the round in, aim the big fucking gun then fire, then repeat.  The most I've ever called in was a Batt. 6, where a battalion of guns shoots six rounds, and that lasted for maybe and it's a big big maybe, 1.5 minutes.  Then they had to reload the guns which took forever it seemed but was probally only like 5-6 minutes.  Then you get asshat privates who put the power charge in backwards and it forces the gun to go dead while they figure out how to get the big ass bag of powder out without blowing themselves up... take it as it is in the game and deal with it, 'cause arty is the shit even with the wait time.

I think arty is part of the game (though a bit annoying at times) and seems to work fine in terms of reload, area of effect, etc.  I would change a couple of things though:

1.  Explosions near armor.  Even if the arty doesn't kill the tank, they would be extremely stunned and therefore should have a flashbang like effect in the tank

2.  Arty deaths shouldn't show up on your stats/affect your KDR.  I would like to see how my stats were affected by arty strikes, especially since when I just started playing I didn't know the tricks to avoid fire or judge when a barrage was intended for my area.  It should still decrease tickets and add to the commanders score though.

uber73 wrote:

arty could POSSIBLY be more deadly in the centre of its attack, weakening outwards to the extent of its field of destruction... POSSIBLY expanding the area of attack more.

Arty SHOULD DEFINITELY:

a)  Stun troops who are not killed..
b)  Be able to destroy an APC/TANK.. (how many times have we seen arty rain down on either, and for them to just sit there taking it like it was water...)


otherwise, im fine with it..

no they dont take it like water because in bf2 water is the most deadly substance known.  Lakes are basicly pools of acid.