BF2S Forums AF: Another 1 hit "wonder"?

Gen. Payne wrote:

I thought you liked AA!

Whenever I'd play against you in Midnight Sun, you always be beating me down with the linebacker.

Bastard....

lol was that you?

That was one of the few times i spent in AA, i got my veteran and expert air defense in the same match and got promoted to Major.

Irony at it's best

I have to ask this:

When I first started playing in December 2005 there were over 4,000 servers available.  Last night, when I logged in there were less than 400.  The number of SF maps was like 5. 

Does anyone else see this?

I think they are empty b/c its tough to mak eprogress towards medals and stats i think.

For example i am tryin to get expert first aid and expert repair,   and we all know they are impossible on those maps, i am havin a time even in WARLORD!!!!!!!

Last edited by docnutz (2006-07-14 08:14:02)

PRiMACORD wrote:

I hate road rage, the AA is pretty dumb on it when you're in a chopper trying to transport troops. You basically can't go near one at all, perod. The map itself provides very little cover as well. The 32 player version with 1 jet and 2 recons is even more dumb since there is even more AA. There is an AA tank at every flag besides the center one iirc. It's just plain stupid.

Midnight Sun is awesome tho, i love that map, decent amount of cover from AA and just a generally nice design.

you don't like it cause you get owned in your helicopter by the AA, it is more balanced, you can't own people like you normally do. whine, whine, bitch, and moan, ha!

I enjoyed AF alot more than EF but, most servers dont play full rotation with those included... which is why they didnt take off.
I love operation roadrage... it kicks ass.

It's not AF what keeps me from playing it,it's those friggin' CTDs that "force" me to play Wake Island 24/7,it's pretty stable once I'm on the server.

Fix the damn connection and ctd problems and I'm back on every map!

Some people here say its down to slaw gameplay...well, on a 64man server thats full up on any of the 3maps, its good, fast and action packed gameplay. Just because people cant run around as a medic and earn a gold medal without ever firing a shot is more likely why people dont like it. Or cant grenade spam and get a shitload of kills. It takes skill to play well on the maps.
Ive had BRS on the maps of 74, 69 and 61 in either AA or armour on all 3 of those maps, with all of those scores earned on servers that had at least 50 people in them the entire time. I couldnt care less about earning a 100BRS on them - if I do, great! If not, who cares?

I also agree with he_who_says_zonk - if they integrated both expansion packs with the game more, then yeah, the maps would probably be played a lot more. Especially Great Wall, which everybody seems to like from reading topics - but how many servers do you find with more than 3 people on it? Its a god damn shame.

I guess its just because none of the maps are Karkand, and so AF will just turn out like EF unfortunatly has - yet another great pack wasted because people cant nade spam/revive whore/claymore spam the whole round - they will have to do something that takes a bit more skill.
ARGH, I hate karkand! Down with karkand for ruining a great game and taking people away from the great maps. ARGH.

Snake, not to bust on you, but being in AA isn't too hard I do agree though, it takes good skill to outmatch other tankers. If maybe the system rewarded killing another tank in a tank 3 or 4 points, then armor oriented maps might deliver more points since that seems to be what everyone is after. If the maps don't deliver, they don't play.

I like to solo on the attack choppers. Operation Harvest is simply amazing for that, next to Operation Smoke Screen.

I love armored fury. The only thing that pisses me off in Armored fury is the AA and the no-effect flares on the Su-39 which i fly most often. The flares dont seem to have any effect at all. You drop em and they dont even brake a lock on your plane and all the linebackers are just spamming missiles at you from 20 different directions and there is almost zero chance to evade the missiles.

I delayed purchase because although I like BF2 Special Forces I do not like that I have to leave BF2 to go to a BF2 SF server.  I found EuroForces a bit boring(I  admittedly did not give it much of a chance). 

All that made me think twice about putting out more money on another possibly wasteful expansion.   

With all that I went ahead and purchased AF yesterday morning.  I was very pleasantly surprised.

Maybe there are more people  like me waiting to hear if AF is any good.