Overall design IMHO is OK, but there are other issues...
To me BF2142 maps feel too... well, "cold" may be the word. In BF2 all of the maps are somehow "cozy". I mean, when playing in BF2 you feel good, natural on any map.
BF2142 to me feel like you're in some unrealistic and uncomfortable setting - like playing on the Moon.
Guess it may change over time for me.
P.S. What I really DO miss in BF2142 - Kubra Dam.
Nothing gives so much adrenaline as trying to shake fighter from you tail by flying 10-20 meters over ground level around all obstacles (US uncap -> river -> under the bridge -> under the crane -> Dam (vertical near chopper spawn or inside the tube) -> vertical under the crane over MEC spawn -> over the runway -> inside the hangar (you may get up to 5-6 road kills per pass by smashing jetwhores) -> up and start high-alt evasive. And all of this at 800+ km/h.
When I managed to follow this route and not crash on the way (which was mostly the case recently) - only several times there were following fighters who did not crash.
Such thing is simply not possible in BF2142. Chopper is not suited for this.
To me BF2142 maps feel too... well, "cold" may be the word. In BF2 all of the maps are somehow "cozy". I mean, when playing in BF2 you feel good, natural on any map.
BF2142 to me feel like you're in some unrealistic and uncomfortable setting - like playing on the Moon.
Guess it may change over time for me.
P.S. What I really DO miss in BF2142 - Kubra Dam.
Nothing gives so much adrenaline as trying to shake fighter from you tail by flying 10-20 meters over ground level around all obstacles (US uncap -> river -> under the bridge -> under the crane -> Dam (vertical near chopper spawn or inside the tube) -> vertical under the crane over MEC spawn -> over the runway -> inside the hangar (you may get up to 5-6 road kills per pass by smashing jetwhores) -> up and start high-alt evasive. And all of this at 800+ km/h.
When I managed to follow this route and not crash on the way (which was mostly the case recently) - only several times there were following fighters who did not crash.
Such thing is simply not possible in BF2142. Chopper is not suited for this.