BF2S Forums [Official] Operation Blue Pearl - Discussion Thread

_Dominiko_PL wrote:

- Add some ships in the center of the canal close enough to allow for US snipers to take out Chinese soldiers at the temple and to provide cover for the ribs and APC:s moving across. Placement should allow for US but disallow for Chinese sniping. This could be used in combination with the first three ideas.

Im_Dooomed wrote:

I like the idea of having the temple neutral, and maybe the other flag south of that.

Main reason is this: With temple neutral a lot of US players can land, and they might run into PLA resistance, but those PLA players will HAVE to fight those already landed. Thus giving other US players chance to land also, or go around.

The idea is to distract PLA, make them fight first for the flag, not just be able to walk to it, and cap it. They'll have resistance to deal with, if Temple is neutralized first.

As it is now, USA CAN cap flags and win the round but it is difficult. So in my opinion, even having ONE flag (Temple) neutral, it greatly increases the chances of USA winning.

ALSO it is MUCH less frustrating having US being able to land and fight a bit on the ground rather then being helplessly killed in a dinky little boat EVERY ROUND!

QUESTION: Can we test this out on a server?? Can't a map mod neutralize the first flag, some of us then can download it and test it out for ourselves sometime?? LEz do it!!

As I said in an earlier post I would probably spend the weekend thinking about the feedback you guys have given me so far. So with the weekend behind us – here’s a quick update on my thoughts about the map right now:

Anyone remember Market Garden for BF1942. Market Garden was an assault map that started out with neutral flags for the defenders. The start of MG was always satisfactory for me as it infused a sense of urgency for both teams - the defenders had the urgency to rush the front points and try to take them before the attackers while the attackers had the opposite sense – to quickly gain a foothold on the other side of the bridge and not lose it. I believe that OBP, using neutral flags in the front would accomplish something like that. This will take the focus off the landing some, but I still believe it can communicate the “landing” feeling and sense of urgency.

This being said, here are my candidates right now. It’s not written in stone yet but I feel that these three layouts might cut it. Prove me wrong J

64-player layout – What I have in mind here is simply to make the 3 front flags neutral. The idea was first posted here and I can see no point in changing that layout.

32-player layout – Simply making the Temple and the Old Square neutral won’t fix the problem. So I’m making a switch in the layout. 32 will retain the 2 front flags from the 64 –player layout. This is to make it hard for the PLA to hold the front IF the US don’t manage to land the first time round. What’s more I’m shortening the layout some, removing the Harbour Office base and moving the PLA main base to the Construction Site.

16-player layout – As stated earlier I’ve based this on the wishes of the community to have the 16-player (and presumably most clan friendly version) work in IO mode. I made a layout earlier and I think I’m sticking with that for now. Kitteh hatched the wish for an IO workable version and I iterated on his version retaining the IO wish but placing the control points in more “interesting” and balanced areas of the map.

Look through the ideas and feedback on them.