Karkand does have the best infantry fighting out of the three vanilla city maps, HOWEVER, the 'whorage' ruins it for me
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Karkand is...
| overrated | 14% | 14% - 29 | ||||
| the best map in bf2 | 21% | 21% - 44 | ||||
| not overrated, but over-played | 54% | 54% - 113 | ||||
| an average map | 8% | 8% - 18 | ||||
| none of the above | 1% | 1% - 3 | ||||
| Total: 207 | ||||||
Karkand = Easy points...
With over 400 hours on Karkand i'm really tired of this map.
On most 24/7 Karkand servers it's usual always the same: nadelaming, claymorespamming and the ever lasting and never ending fight for the hotel flag with an addition of spawn raping and never moving USMC armor.
Karkand can be fun if you're playing it on a not 24/7 Karkand server, you'll usually find a group of players that are motivated enough to capture the MEC backisle.
Meanwhile i enjoy different maps like Sharqi Peninsula & Mashtuur & Great Wall (way better infantry fights), Gulf of Oman & Kubra Dam (both good helicopter maps), Warlord & Surge & Mass Destruction (Special Forces Maps are way underrated)
On most 24/7 Karkand servers it's usual always the same: nadelaming, claymorespamming and the ever lasting and never ending fight for the hotel flag with an addition of spawn raping and never moving USMC armor.
Karkand can be fun if you're playing it on a not 24/7 Karkand server, you'll usually find a group of players that are motivated enough to capture the MEC backisle.
Meanwhile i enjoy different maps like Sharqi Peninsula & Mashtuur & Great Wall (way better infantry fights), Gulf of Oman & Kubra Dam (both good helicopter maps), Warlord & Surge & Mass Destruction (Special Forces Maps are way underrated)
I have played karkand a lot but recently really got bored with it.. so i've moved onto wake and warlord mainly..with some iron gator in between, keep things fresh
Jihad Jetskis for the win!
Karkand is a dream for Commanders and people who are good in armour (otherwise known as armour whores, but I don't agree with calling anyone who is good in a vehicle a whore)
Dude who parks his APC at the hotel and starts spawnrapin' = whoreBullyBeef31 wrote:
Karkand is a dream for Commanders and people who are good in armour (otherwise known as armour whores, but I don't agree with calling anyone who is good in a vehicle a whore)
Tank driver who spends the round taking care of enemy armour and backing his team up = user
If you can rack up a lot of armor kills on a mainly infantry map, it doesn't automatically mean you're good in armor. If these guys can survive on a mainly armor/vehicle map, then they're good!BullyBeef31 wrote:
people who are good in armour
True dat - as commander on Karkand i've seen a lot of armor whores. These guys we're spawnraping the MEC at hotel and the MEC APCs where on the west of the hotel flag killing the USMC infantry and wasting a lot of tickets. I think most USMC armor whores just have fear to get a scratch on their tank.Dude who parks his APC at the hotel and starts spawnrapin' = whore
Tank driver who spends the round taking care of enemy armour and backing his team up = user
Last edited by fierce (2006-06-02 16:16:43)
I play Karkand 24/7. I like it because it's a challenge; if you're MEC you have to avoid those tanks, if you're USMC you have to take over all of those flags. I do my fair share of putting my Abrams in park outside of a spawn and making some 'Smores of course.
I'm the opposite i used to play wake 24/7. That place brings out the worst in people.your_girlfriends_mom wrote:
yea i dont like karkand no more i play wake now
My favorite map is Warlord, but I've noticed alot of Karkand kids converting over, I guess they just got thier allowance and bought SF. We switch our one 32 server, but our 64 stays at Wake, something I noticed being a server owner is that Wake gets alot of tking for aircraft, but nonetheless the USMC gets to the island. I like Mashtuur also since they nerfed the BH, you can actually run around as infantry without hiding when you hear the rotor. Sharqi to me is beginning to be alot like Karkand in a way, but not necessarily, you have the Helos not fighting each other instead one goes to the front flags and the other goes to the tv station..weird. And the first flag is like the Karkand Hotel, you have 30 people in that area and no one wants to advance. Mashtuur is my opinion is the best map for infantry. Because if you don't watch out you'll loose all your flags, you have to defend, advance, and all kits are useful in this map, the second map where I saw that the engineer dont have to be in a tank to be productive. Mashtuur is a small Warlord
Couldn't have said it betterusmarine2005 wrote:
To goddamn predictable.
tank whore fest, its more fun when you play with people that can play -oustide- of a tank
The best map, but it is overplayed a bit. I've gotten somewhat bored of it, but it's still great fun.
Yeah I'll have to agree with everyone here, that map is overplayed and it shows because a majority of the top players play this map over and over, through and through because it really isn't that hard to seek out and destroy some targets. Yeah, I took a break from that map and decided to go elsewhere, so usually I'm on Wake, Mashtuur City and sometimes the other maps just because. For SF, the day maps are all fun for me, thouhg I particularly LOVE The Iron Gator, that's the best map on SF EVER!
Warlord's alot like Karkand though...
Warlord's alot like Karkand though...
i stopped playing karkand,gulf of oman is a good map for everything.
overplayed definately, but hard to avoid. Sharqui for me, and of the SF maps probably ghost town, though im glad to see iron gator getting some mentions.
Karkaband sucks unless your all about points. I get bored playing the same map more then 3 or 4 times. who knows how Firestorm has played Karkaband over 2000 hours.
I think that Karkland is a great map.
How people play it is what ruins it for me.
24\7 Karkland [or 24\7 City Maps for that matter] servers are the problem because, as so many people have stated, people whore it up all the time.
I tend to play on servers with a full rotation and really enjoy the Karkland, Sharqi maps when they turn up.
For anyone who is sick of Karkland I would suggest trying what I do. You may start to like it again? Or Not?
DrM
How people play it is what ruins it for me.
24\7 Karkland [or 24\7 City Maps for that matter] servers are the problem because, as so many people have stated, people whore it up all the time.
I tend to play on servers with a full rotation and really enjoy the Karkland, Sharqi maps when they turn up.
For anyone who is sick of Karkland I would suggest trying what I do. You may start to like it again? Or Not?
DrM
i cant believe all the replies in one day. looks like option three is in the lead so far.
your just famous
oh shit this guy must not know who i am. dont you know who i am? im the fuckin juggernaut bitch!genius_man16 wrote:
your just famous
karkand is a great map, and as has been stated before great for infantry. But if you go to a 64 player karkand, the point whoring is extreme. That is a fact. If I want team play infantry 32 player karkand is the way to go. If I am working on ranking up, 64 player karkand all day long baby.
It's a good map but way overplayed, I noticed I too was falling into a karkand 27/7 routine but allready had 60 hours on it, now I'm trying to whore it up on warlord & ghost town so I can have different map as my favorite, the karkand picture is so ugly.
yeah, i wake'd it just to have that beautiful island picture on my profile, not to mention my jet instead of an ugly tank or chopper.