BF2S Forums Infantry only mode - your thoughts many months after?

SharkyMcshark wrote:

As we all know Inf Only mode was included in patch 1.4.  ... i thought Id see what everyone else thinks

Here's what I think:

Gren Ades that Spam

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i made this to see how many points i could get in a hour and a half, infantry only is pretty fun.

Definitely some good things about IO. One is that individual skill often matters more. You're constantly having one-on-one fights where the player who shoots faster and more accurately wins. Tank whoring is totally out of the picture so no one can go around crushing people with sheer firepower.

A second good thing about IO is that teamwork can be more important than in regular BF2.  When no one has vehicles, good defenders can keep the other team from reaching any bases at the start of a round (e.g., on Karkand or Jalalabad). On the other hand, a good attacking team can spread the defenders out so a couple of players can slip by the defenders and take a base far behind the front lines. Keeping the other team boxed in requires teamwork. Slipping by the defenders also takes teamwork. Very different from ordinary BF2 where it's not fatal if the other team slips by and takes Suburb on Karkand, for example, because the MEC tank and a car full of players can get up there in just a few seconds and take it back. In IO you can't recover so quickly if you let an enemy player sneak behind your lines so you have to work as a team to keep the other team boxed in.

I prefer pre-patch IO. When you just used to not use tanks/APCs, I do miss my jihad jeep.

IO jihading was histericle, sure you could run over people or .50 cal them, but driving a jeep up loading with C4 and blowing it with 6 guys around = histericle.
That or just load it up with C4, wait for someone to get it and blow it up....Oh good times.

I say bring back jeeps in IO, they are easy enough to take out with well placed grenades and lets face it, it's IO, there are a lot of grenade whores. Again to agree with that other people have said, it would provide a use for Engineers/AT, I get bored just using the Jackhammer to beat 1 AT'er with the DAO who has been pissing me off, I'd like to be able to place down some mines and be more useful.

IO was fun until they noticed they had nades..... ff MUST BE TURNED ON!!!

bad_mongoloid wrote:

IO with friendly fire OFF = noob city
IO with friendly fire = new gameplay mode that takes skill

YEAH. I hate FF off. its good if u like killing people u cant even see with grenades, C4ing onto obscure roofs, or if u are really sloppy about TKs. People put more care into their attacks when they are trying to damage the enemy AND keep their team safe at the same time.

They need a NO Claymore,ARTY,Nade,Vehicle server

I love IO, but there are definitely a few changes that wouldn't hurt it.

1) Like most other people have said, grenades. Too many, too often. 1-2 grenades, with 1 ammo pack per 1 grenade would be nice.
2) Some maps aren't really ideally setup to support IO mode. 64 Jalalabad is a massacre nearly every round because of the amount of open space US players have to cross to reach the nearest flag. I've seen only 1 round in which the US managed to actually cap a few of the back flags and get away from their spawn, though they still lost. 16 Jalalabad, on the other hand, is incredible for IO. It would be beneficial if servers weren't limited to a single map size per rotation.
3) Neutered DPV's, only upon vehicle request from SL to commander would be useful. No weapons, just transportation.
4) AT mines should explode when stepped on, and Clays / AT mines explode when hit by another explosion.

nade spam and medic padder.

Unless I know lot's of people on the server to form a good sqad i go somewhere else!

Spookyboy wrote:

its good fun,

but bein on 64 jalabad and being on the USMC sucks ass. the mec got the open flag first and we couldn't leave the base owned.

i think jeeps would be great.....maybe civilian cars??

thats where that "human wall of ownage" comes into play, a well organized commander and un-noobish players can all rush the lake, then into the city, throwin UAV's as a signal to "CAP THIS FLAG" and show the few poor souls defending it.

i've been on the bad end of this once...me, 3 other snipers and 4 medics ran from the lake to the little rock patch between the uncap and the lake to see ALL 32 PPL running, gunning, and nading.  i may say we got massacred.  in about 5 minutes (including run time between) they took the lake, junkyard, hotel, and the market.

Cbass wrote:

It's been said before and ill say it again. IO mode is for boons. It takes everything unique away from the game and turns it into an average shooter. Not having vehicles makes some maps just unplayabe. IO Iron Gator is 99.999% impossable for MECsf to get anywhere near the carrier. Vehicles are half the fun for me, if it's not for u then don't use them. IO mode is proof that DIce only listens to whiners. /cry

They have boats on Iron Gator, Operation Clean Sweep, and all the other large water maps.  Why would you play maps like that IO anyway?  That is silly.  Maps like Jalalabad and Karkand are made for IO.

lt603668 wrote:

They need a NO Claymore,ARTY,Nade,Vehicle server

If they began systematically removing everything from the game because some people complain about each part of BF2 (i.e. 'It's only for noobs', 'It's only for whores', 'It's too powerful'), then we would have nothing left. Battlefield 2 would be nothing but 64 guys will M-16s and nothing else, because everything else has been complained about. And that would be communism.

Personally, I enjoy Infantry Only, simply because I am a groundpounder and I felt tired of vehicles continually destroying me. I do play in servers with vehicles, but I see nothing wrong with Infantry Only. I do well in those servers. I'm quite a good shot with the AK-101. I try as much as I can not to use grenades as a way to ruin everyone else's fun (although, if they don't like being killed by grenades, they don't have to be there).

But we do need to remember that the entire concept behind Battlefield 2 was that there were vehicles that anyone could use. That was revolutionary. It was fantastic. And just because I am currently playing Infantry Only doesn't mean I'll never go back and use vehicles. That is what makes the game better than everyone else's.

In any case, this argument between infantry and vehicle proponents seems ridiculous. If you are having fun with what you are doing, whether it is flying a jet or tossing grenades, then go ahead. Have fun. That's what the game is about, not judging who is better than everyone else.