BF2S Forums How to balance the vehicles

I get the sense that alot of people would prefer to have BF2 an infantry only game.... no tanks no helos no jets, no $ale. If you turn tanks into the equivalent of infantry wearing a heavy coat then whats the point?

if you work as a team, in squads with commander/tank/infantry/artillery/air combined joint operations then you never feel like the game is unbalanced equipment-wise. At this higher level the game seems very well balanced, not perfect but damn good.

Last edited by OpsChief (2006-01-19 15:22:09)

yeah so many people want this to be an infantry only game. that is just stupid. the point of battlefield games are to be able to use everything on the battlefield. if you want infantry only go play cs or something.

tanks aren't hard to kill... why should you get 20 points for killing one?

The only type of person who would suggest this is someone who seriously gets worked by vehicles. Pickup the AT kit and get in the game. I don't have a problem smacking vehicle whores into the ground.

Remember, a lot of people aren't necessarily doing what they are doing for the points. Some are simply sissies padding their kill stats. So the guy who gets 20 kills and 1 death ain't gonna care if you get 20 points when you finally kill him.

If tanks are worth a lot of points, then as soon as someone sees a tank, everyone is going to go after it.  So it makes it harder for tank noobs because everyone wants him dead.  This makes sense right?

Its faster to stat pad with a knife and shock paddles than it is to kill tanks.  It takes about 45 seconds for a tank to respawn remember.

Sharkbite your argument is based on lone wolf perspectives, join a squad and kill the tank together! The tank is a team target.

There are enough ways to stat pad as infantry whores already and the tank is way too easy to kill solo to have it score so high.

Shark I agree with your comments about public servers. There are many many people playing this game who use a video arcade approach and not military approach. Both are valid but one leave me wanting, I'll play the higher team level game it is what is most fun for me.

If all else is equal the better teamworkers will beat the enemy regardless of their godly tank commanders. What I have noticed is tanks aren't so dominant BUT I do play regularly with a small squad. We take time to train and share information and we use Team Speak so we can talk to each other in or out of the squad. We are fluid and support each other. We can solve problems like a tank showing up behind our lines. A lone wolf cannot resolve every situation but I think a good squad can.

Again, I would not play this game if it didn't have armor or a commander mode. I was in armor in the military and it has been my preference for more years than I will admit lol.  What I like as a BF2 armor user is the people who are more interested in selfish stat farming, racking up massive points and thier team be damned. Those are the games where our squad rules, Divide and Conquer is made easier because the enemy has already divided all we need to do is conquer (pwn). Not the best way to make stats grow but much more fun having our squad all over the game board at the end.

Find some people and try to meet at the same server same time same day every week - this game is much more fun with a squad full of champions to share it with. There are so many levels of play beyond a lone wolf experience. Things are less fearsome when you have trusted m8s to back you up.

LOL sharkbite is bent on changing this game. What thread number is this shark? i remember you posting others and just like the rest i strongly disagree with you.

this is becoming ridiculous - the vehicles MAKE battlefield
if you don't like the way it is play counterstrike - it sucks balls but there's no vehicles so you'll feel more at home sharky

Sh4rkb1t3 wrote:

You can still whor3 the tanks as much as you want and get just as many kills, except it is less rewarding.  The main problem with tanks is that people whor3 the just for the points.  And anyway, if you manage to kill a tank, you deserve 20 points.

Since when is it hard too kill a tank?