- Freekit squads, kit stealing.
- Squads that think they are "seals" or "delta force" or whatever and go around a 4k map on foot just to flank a flag that you can take a chopper to.
- Asset whoring, now now I'm not against it but it's annoying when you have asset squads that go rogue and farm kills while the infantry is getting destroyed because the infantry at that moment is shite
- Not responding to comms, at least use text chat.
- "Recon" squads, unless you have a spotter with you to lase for CAS or help the sniper spot shit, we hate you..
- Squad members that lonewolf, blame is mostly on the SL but you can't micro everyone when you expect them to be reasonable people but in most case they're not.
- Commanders, people barely use the commander at times when you need the UAV or the Arty to help ya out, yes there's not much action going on but directing a squad and guiding them to ambush an enemy tank or an enemy squad is so much fun, it's like playing Chess knowing the other team has no commander, you just stomp them, we need more commanders.
- Beautiful maps that are ruined by people turning up their gamma to have a superior advantage to you, cheating with tools such as magnifiers or "hash" spoofers, heck even the ENB thingy has an inbuilt tool to magnify/zoom in, devs should disable the allowing of modifying or any files that alter the game/graphics, shouldn't be hard to set up a list of blacklisted known files for enb's and deny them from being used unless proven to be clean, too much work but something has to be done since PR is an open playground now, not as it used to be closed to people with a legit BF2 copy.
Not really, if you pop smoke on the apc, the enemy will not see you if he does not have thermals, but he will know that you are there, and he, and the rest of the team can still fire there, so you don't become invisible, or invincible(which the thermal rape make you belive in), it just give you concealment.
You're right, you're just announcing yourself for trouble, I usually fire a rocket or two with a LAT inside that smoke or spray it if I'm in a vehicle to lure the vehicle in the smoking from hiding so our friendly squad HAT can ruin his day
- Insurgency is not a bad mode on great maps, personally I enjoy playing Lashkar Valley insurgency, I don't know about you but to me it's enjoyable from both sides, at least for me, beautiful map too.
- People who used all squad chat to talk to a certain squad, can you fucking not yell in my ear while I'm trying to lase for CAS..
- I have no trouble with transport choppers myself, I personally enjoy flying the chinook almost always, my favorite all time vehicle in the game, it's fast when used properly but a big target so you have to know the route you're flying from and keep in contact against enemy AA vehicles or AA inf if you have a commander around with a UAV to spot them or a FOB.
- "Super FOBs" while I'm one for building FOBs, digging in at most times in a remote useless location and building a FOB there is stupid, now if you build a FOB on one of the caps and throw assets around to defend it, then you're a great guy!
- We need some new maps in, and lookie here, Rabbit is still working on his map-pack, DRK brought back some BF2 maps that we all love and we have some user made maps lately, maybe the DRK community or map-makers like Rabbit should be approached if not already that is, to introduce their maps as part of the official map selection list after evaluating them carefully? Maybe bring back some old maps that were canned and improving on them to fix them. Rabbit breeds maps like... rabbits, why not approach him? and ease up on the jew jokes Rabbit..
Now I'm not tooting my own horn, I've barely played PR before standalone, only at times around 0.8 or 0.9 but that was a ways back before I even hit puberity or even was of age to have my own computer so things are fuzzy in my memory, but personally it seems that the community is at a crossroads here and every update matters on which playerbase you want to attract or keep a steady balance, talking about "asset only people", the "inbetween people" and the "infantry only people", now there's some hardcore asset players out there and they are damn good at what they do like Viirus for instance as much as it pains me to admit
but I see him at times play as infantry sometimes to even balance teams out or just to play as infantry.
What I'm saying is, the INF play has lost it's appeal to some people which brings us all in full circle to what everyone is stating here.
TL;DR: My points in different words but most of them have been already mentioned, vehicles will be too OP in the next update and RIP INF, and maybe a master banlist handled by a "community manager" to keep out the hackers that just go to other servers?
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