First Impressions & a couple questions
Posted: 2007-01-15 14:08
Just loaded this mod up this weekend for the first time.. I havent played BF2 in about a year and a half or so, I got burned out on it fairly quickly. I heard about this one through the grapevine and thought Id give it a try.... Havent read much of the forums here, I'll start after I post.
First impressions -
Sound- Bullet impacts onto nearby surfaces. Nice job. The closest Ive heard to a real bullet impact. Immersion factor is quite nice on this, espically if you have experienced it before.
Weapons - Recoil and controllabilty seem about right save the M4 which seems a bit gamey. Its not quite as controllable as it is modeled here. The only weapons I cant speak personally for is the L85, and a couple of the chinese ones. As far as the sniper weapons go I only have experiece with the SVD and M24, and they seem pretty on as well. Rates of fire are pretty accurate... The 74 seems a bit slow to me, but I havent handled one in a while. I do remember it being slower than a 47 though. The HK21 is a beast recoil wise, as it should be. Too bad you cant model it spitting **** in your face, as thats something it is really bad for. Tracers seem a bit odd from the shooters standpoint, being little dots and not streaks. Also, I think they need to go away in individual weapons such as the Ak's, M4, G3, 53, etc.
I see an increase in teamplay, but not as much as I would like. But thats human nature I suppose. I'd like to find a server where both sides work well at teamwork.
I like the fact there arent 20 snipers per map and back capping flags, flags swapping 100 times a game, etc.
Often locating the enemy shooting at you is difficult which is nice. can be frustating but thats a good thing as I see it. Spawn camping sucks as it does in any game.
It doesnt seem that there are *alot* of people playing this, compared to "straight" BF2. Sometimes there are maybe 2 servers with 40+ players, some of the time. Most of the time it seems that there are a couple servers with 20 or so and thats it... I kind of find that dissapointing, as I like large amounts of players working together on both sides. 10 on 10 or 15 on 15 seems like the maps are empty. Am I missing something? Most players are euro possibly?
Where are the rankings held for this mod? I see guys with ranks but I dont seem to have any... Not that it matters for kit selection or weapons choices, right? everyone gets the same weapons?
All in all it looks promising, I just wish there were more folks playing it... Sort of like r6 Vegas, you can barely buy a server there, simply because ubisoft won't release the damn SADS files.
First impressions -
Sound- Bullet impacts onto nearby surfaces. Nice job. The closest Ive heard to a real bullet impact. Immersion factor is quite nice on this, espically if you have experienced it before.
Weapons - Recoil and controllabilty seem about right save the M4 which seems a bit gamey. Its not quite as controllable as it is modeled here. The only weapons I cant speak personally for is the L85, and a couple of the chinese ones. As far as the sniper weapons go I only have experiece with the SVD and M24, and they seem pretty on as well. Rates of fire are pretty accurate... The 74 seems a bit slow to me, but I havent handled one in a while. I do remember it being slower than a 47 though. The HK21 is a beast recoil wise, as it should be. Too bad you cant model it spitting **** in your face, as thats something it is really bad for. Tracers seem a bit odd from the shooters standpoint, being little dots and not streaks. Also, I think they need to go away in individual weapons such as the Ak's, M4, G3, 53, etc.
I see an increase in teamplay, but not as much as I would like. But thats human nature I suppose. I'd like to find a server where both sides work well at teamwork.
I like the fact there arent 20 snipers per map and back capping flags, flags swapping 100 times a game, etc.
Often locating the enemy shooting at you is difficult which is nice. can be frustating but thats a good thing as I see it. Spawn camping sucks as it does in any game.
It doesnt seem that there are *alot* of people playing this, compared to "straight" BF2. Sometimes there are maybe 2 servers with 40+ players, some of the time. Most of the time it seems that there are a couple servers with 20 or so and thats it... I kind of find that dissapointing, as I like large amounts of players working together on both sides. 10 on 10 or 15 on 15 seems like the maps are empty. Am I missing something? Most players are euro possibly?
Where are the rankings held for this mod? I see guys with ranks but I dont seem to have any... Not that it matters for kit selection or weapons choices, right? everyone gets the same weapons?
All in all it looks promising, I just wish there were more folks playing it... Sort of like r6 Vegas, you can barely buy a server there, simply because ubisoft won't release the damn SADS files.