BF2S Forums How can you actually like Wake Island 2007?

ryan_14 wrote:

Unless you know how to fly, Wake is not for you.

Exactly what I was going to say, word for word.

SargeV1.4 wrote:

petermassingale wrote:

Wake > Other Maps

reason. now.

I hate armour whores. All the other large maps every second person is in an armour, unless your at, engineer or spec ops you can't do jack. There's only three tanks on wake and its easy for US to nick them as everyone spawns at airfield.

Also unless the US team is completely retarded its quite easy to have a close game, if the US just keeps one flag for most of the game then tickets are normally relatively equal.

For the US team to easily cap a flag at the beginning it just requires teamwork and NOT every person spawning on the carrier. Have a two squads take a boat each from the arty island to take North and South base. Little defence as the J10s are still raping the carrier and everyone else is waiting for the second J10.

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Dwit wrote:

I play wake a lot, it is much fun, IF you play it on 16-24 player servers, much less raping etc. It becomes a really nice map. Lots of vehicles so you got plenty to chose, and the distance to cover isn't a problem anymore, there is always a vehicle ready for you.

I like it, but 64 player: sucks, to much rape/tk

I agree with Dwit. I nearly always play ea uk rackage.com 24/7 wake (24 player) when I play Wake Island. Wake isn't good with 64 players.

Last edited by petermassingale (2007-01-04 12:59:14)

I play wake a lot, it is much fun, IF you play it on 16-24 player servers, much less raping etc. It becomes a really nice map. Lots of vehicles so you got plenty to chose, and the distance to cover isn't a problem anymore, there is always a vehicle ready for you.

I like it, but 64 player: sucks, to much rape/tk

p.s. Songhua is a great map(i thought it was total crap) played it today and it was great:D

ryan_14 wrote:

Unless you know how to fly, Wake is not for you.

No. Wrong. It's "Unless you know and are willing to repeatedly bomb the Essex, Wake is not for you." You're talking to Sarge, remember?

Snake wrote:

If there are 10 pieces of armour on a map, are you really going to leave it alone only to be used by the enemy on a "large map"? Would you really leave that tank there, leaving your team underhanded by 1 piece (or more) of armour? If so, you need to learn the concept of how to win a round and aiding your team in doing that.

I'd rather take the fastest vehicle closest to me, so then I can quickly take flags to help my team keep their precious tickets.





Or I'd just play Wake.

Wake sucks.

Warlord and Ghost Town FTW

Belcorwyn

Wake is good, sure other maps are better with Carrier Rape and stuff..


But the one reason I love wake is because its not just all Armour and Air..

You can actually play Infantry on it too..

Give me another map name that you can whore a Helicopter, and run around on the ground too.

LT.Victim wrote:

Give me another map name that you can whore a Helicopter, and run around on the ground too.

GHOST TOWN

You all make it sound soooo impossible ...

I play lots of wake, and i prefer to be on the USMC side :

- raping with the J10 can be fun, but it's not really a challenge
- if you don't get that J10 and the USMC team sucks, you've got nothing to do

But when you're usmc :

Get in blackhawk as squad leader, attempt to take off untill you succeed ( you might get toasted a couple of times, but i always end up on the island ) Fly to island via the sides of the map : the baseraping J10's are flying from carrier to base, carrier to base ... they are not checking the sides of the map, they only want the easy kills on the carrier. If you have at least 4 team members with sufficient brain cells, you'll have a full blackhawk. Your options are now :
- Land the blackhawk, cap the first flag
- While you're on the side of the map, ascend to 500 feet altitude. This takes a while and this part can be very challenging for the short-attention-span generation, but when you're at 500 feet, you can simply hover over the airfield, the chance of being detected and killed is quite small. You are now a mobile spawnpoint for your squadmembers. If they are unable to cap at least one flag this way, they suck :)

ps : a blackhawk that takes the direct route is probably a wasted blackhawk

The other option is killing the J10's to give your teammates a chance : take an F35 ( the type that doesn't get killed during take-off :p ) Immediately go above 400 feet and stay there. Configure your controls so you can use your mouse to look around in your cockpit ( i'm assuming you fly with a joystick ). When you've done that, fly above 400 feet, and use your mouse to look down and spot any J10's. When you see one, dive down and get right behind him, shred his tail with the machinegun and unload some rockets. It will take practice, but you'll be surprised how well this works. If you're starting to lose him, back off and immediately get above 400 feet again.

ps : This does not work if the 2 J10's are smart enough to work together ( but that is unlikely, they just want to bomb the carrier )

The fun thing about wake -is- the unfair advantage. It just very rewarding to cap that first flag on the usmc team ;)

I find it funny that not that many people like Wake. I thought it was a popular map and it's definately in my Top 2, Sharqi being the other favorite of mine. Yeah, there's a few rounds where the jets just rape you ever chance you get, along with that one crazy heli duo, but that rarely happens when I play. There's very rarely any tkers I run into too. There's a few people who do run from you if they're in a jeep without picking you up but it's not that big of a map that you can't sprint from point to point, just between north base and airfield sucks.

Anyways, I very rarely get rounds that just blow like you seem to say happens all the time. Very rarely when I am Chinese, do they never capture a point. That happens maybe 5% of the time of being Chinese. Now getting to the island just requires a little bit of trickery and sneakiness. Once you find a decent path, you have to stick to it. You need to think carefully about where the enemies might be when, why? You can't just say, "Hey, I'm going to go for the South Base first." That just doesn't work. Once you find a good path and get some teamwork going, you'll have to keep that a secret. My brother and I have a path we always take and we make it 95% of the time because we work together. We usually neutralize the first flag of the round before the USMC tickets drop below the Chinese tickets.

edit - And I'd have to agree with SgtSpoon, I enjoy being USMC a lot more than Chinese. It's just so much more fun and more of a challenge.

Last edited by FrankieSpankie3388 (2007-01-04 15:16:35)

ScratchUSA wrote:

I for one do not like Wake because of the distance to cover.  Same for other large maps.

Don't know if its already been said, too lazy to read all the posts. But if your complaining about the size of the maps in BF2, you need to find a different game.

This game is designed around the use of vehicles. This isn't Counter Strike.

I love Wake, it was one of my favorite maps in BF1942. If your team is getting raped on the carrier, its because your team sucks. I've only once been stuck on the carrier due to raping. But that was because more than half my team was plane whoring.

k30dxedle wrote:

ryan_14 wrote:

Unless you know how to fly, Wake is not for you.

No. Wrong. It's "Unless you know and are willing to repeatedly bomb the Essex, Wake is not for you." You're talking to Sarge, remember?

I stay away from the carrier if I fly a J10 on Wake. There's always plenty of boats to sink and cars to bomb if they get a flag. I only go to it if I run out of targets.

There's also fun infantry fighting.