BF2S Forums What's wrong with IO?

medic/claymore/grenade/ammo/g36e spamming aside, I think that IO ruins the feel of the game.  In almost every vehicle round there's at least one "holy crap that was awesome" moment, and I have never experienced that in an IO server.

Infantry takes more skill to play. I/O players suck at vehicles because vehicle players have a routine. Infantry has a variety.

lowbot wrote:

The problem with IO is that it becomes a sniper-fest.  Everytime I play it becomes a lot easier just to snipe than to try to get a decent
squad together.  The defending team gets a huge advantage as there's no real way to cover from sniper fire when you have to walk
a kilometer to the closest enemy flag.

I think EA dropped the ball on this one.  I'd much rather see a no aircraft mode than an IO mode.  Nothing kills the fun at Sharqi like a
chopper pilot who is next to invulnerable blowing up all the players.  I think the allure of IO is that you dont have to deal with that crap anymore
but also you lose basic vehicles.  IO would be nice if it allowed the dune buggy or the smaller truck.

QFE

golgoj4 wrote:

venom6 wrote:

I dont like the fact that if yo play IO 80% of the players are medics and 20% are playing as support. One is haling himself the other is spamming nades. So we really need an option for server filter called "No Medic" ?
Just realize how unpopular it would been as nobody would play it "omg im stuck on the medic kit and i have only 123123123 hours played as a point whore revive-heal newb and im not #1 medic global"
Nah forget it. I would like to see more Spec Ops and Assault guys as they are not that popular in IO.

Assault and spec ops are my two fav classes purely for blowing up the roving stacks of medics. For as much as I hate the asshole in a tank raping the spawn, roving packs of medics are just as annoying. But thats why the ea gods gave us C-4.

and flashbangs, dont forget them. its great fun getting abused in servers when you noobtube a medic bunnyhopping into a wall for 30 seconds coz they cant see hehehe

The right way, and the grenade spamming, statpadding, pointwhoring, stand-around-with-an-ammo-bag-and-idle way.

Drexel wrote:

1.  Maps were never intended to support IO.

That's the only reason I need.

Nothing wrong with IO, less spawn rape, no artillery, it taked skill to shoot people with an actual gun (Except the E) instead of a tank on kark. Just find a good server with admins that are fair, and who keep the nadespam and claywhores out.

steelie34 wrote:

there is nothing wrong with IO, unless that's all you play.  you will not be a well rounded player without learning how to play vehicles.

Don't need to learn vehicles if all you play is IO......

Nikola Bathory wrote:

EvilHomer15 wrote:

Seriously, what's wrong with IO servers?
I see it as a great fun and it did increase my infantry skills dramaticly.
So people how come you don't like IO servers?

Here's what I found out about IO servers:

• People who plays it whines less
• People don't spawnrape with tank and doesn't die by artillary each  5th minute
• It increase their KDR and skills using weapons instead of whoring vehicles?

and

What do you think people miss by using their time in IO servers?

Let me explain:
IO is a lame n00b nade fest. Revive, revive, revive. IO is stupid, boring, requires no skill, makes you think you are a good player, while in fact you suck. Hard.
That's it.

Hmmm..

I recall seeing you spawn rape the hotel in a tank or APC at karkand a few times....

You are awesome dude!!!!

Last edited by usmarine2005 (2007-11-29 00:11:11)

Reduce the ammount of nades, remove gaywhores completley and it would be fun.
As long as there are these fucking nade tossers running up and down them streets,
this muthafuckah iz going to stay in the air spraying bullets n shit on you....

FlemishHCmaniac wrote:

Pea....Tear.....Griffen wrote:

Nothing wrong with IO, less spawn rape, no artillery, it taked skill to shoot people with an actual gun (Except the E) instead of a tank on kark.

It takes skill to stay alive in a tank on non-city maps. Jets and helicopters can make short work of you. I usually feel more safe on foot than in a tank on air maps, but that's what makes tanking so much fun then. You are required to pay so much more attention to your environment than on city maps.

Also, the SF city maps unlike Vanilla's are quite challenging for a tanker. AT gets grappling hooks which means you can be attacked from ANYWHERE. Plus there's the RPG which doesn't give you a heads up of the danger. So although you may think tanking isn't skillful on Karkand/Mashtuur or Jalalabad, it IS on every freaking other map in this game. I'd like you to play in a tank on Operation Road Rage and try to get the gold, you'll see how 'easy' it is.

But I met so many AT's on Ghost Town who where just to stupid to climb on a building. It's so much easier to kill a spawncamping tank from above. But some are just to stupid to think taktical and get on a building.

Grappling Hook > Ladder

btt: I.O. destroyed this game, it so hard to find a ghost town or warlord server with vehicles. The majority of the warlord servers are I.O., I don't have problems to play I.O. but those "I'm uber1337 ak-101 and g36e pro" players just suck, if they get close to a vehicle their k/d goes under average and the want to go back to I.O.

Tbh I had so much more fun with vehicles than with I.O. Shooting down jets with TV guided missles or killing a 50:0 chopper team with a tank shells is so much more fun than rpk and nade spamming on karkand....

To all karkand i.o. noobs: Start getting out there, start playing SF with vehicles. If you can get a better K/D as infantry than a tank then you got my respect....

Last edited by Swope (2007-11-29 02:03:32)

The revive option should be removed in BF2. It's not fun to fight against a squad of medics. You kill some but in the end You die and they just revive each other so Your actions has had NO impact whatsoever. Not fun. Or am I the only one experiencing this? Love the game though