BF2S Forums What has 1.4 done?

Damn, I hadn't realized it Des.Kmal, but I too have the repetitive IO syndrome. I agree, I find the whole IO thing annoying and easy. It's very easy to place in the top 3, especially when you have weapons like the AK, or the PKM. A little bit of skill, and a little bunny hopping gets you a long way. But I too find myself looking for IO servers often. If it wasn't for Wake, I probably wouldn't plan non-IO servers at all.

I hate how there's all these nade-fests, and all these claymores, and lots of douchebag behavior all around... but it's really easy to get points in the end and I guess that's what draws me to the servers as well. Plus, they are always packed.

I wouldn't mind having them be unranked only either.

IO mode = wussyfield, as one of my friends to eloquently put it.

IO mode ruined ranked play for me. What's the point of having the ability to stand up against vehicles as a ground-pounder, when evenryone and their dog can go into an IO server to get inflated and artificial stats?
It effectively ruins the compare charts as well, as you never know HOW those stats were reached.
Did he medic/support whore in IO, or did he play in a team on a normal server?

I have played about 3 rounds on an IO server. Surprise, surprise, Karkand. They all pretty much ended at a stalemate at the river, where all assault would be foiled by grenade artillery.

yeah, pretty much the only IO servers are karkand.

If you play on Sharqi/Mashtuur it isn't that bad. It's still too easy, but It's 10 times better then Karkand/Jalalabad.

Dont play IO, and if its like stat padding, why the hell do you care? do they'r stats affect you? just play a regular server.

Knight`UK wrote:

I get where you guys are coming from but ZOMG there are many more servers out there, that play the normal bf2 and they out weigh the IO servers 2-1 .

Yeah its a medic and support point farm but it makes a nice change instead of being raped by vechiles all the time .

Just dont play it all the time .

That ratio is a false its more like 6/4 regular to IO

IO is retarded, I thought it would be cool but I've hated it since the first day I played it and stuck by that statement. A lot of people were all for IO and it seems like they're slowly starting to see the light... I love when people say it takes skill to play IO, I laugh. It doesn't take skill to play IO, all it takes is a lot of medics and supports on your team. I can post a few scores I've had where I was ground pounding the whole time with vehicles and people will just think I was tank whoring or whatever. I don't like using vehicles and I try to stay away from them as much as possible, with the exception to transport vehicles. Besides, it still takes a lot of skill to fly helis and jets, tanks not so much. If you can fly jets perfectly, I applaud you because I know how hard it is, I'm nowhere close to good with those things. Some helis are kind of lame when they just hover there and let the gunner have basically a super powered mounted MG, but when there out there paragliding, or whatever it's called, and the gunner is still perfectly hitting everything, that's amazing too. The only tanks I appreciate is shooting down flying vehicles, I've shot down my fair share of helis in a tank but I even shot down a friggin jet flying in the air. Is that lame? No, that's skill. It really just depends on how you do what, but if you can get a better score without IO, I think you're skilled.