Now I've been working on a level for about a week and haven't been playing much during this time. Tonight I went ahead and put in my hours. It was terrible in almost every way.
First thing I noticed was of course the grenades. I know this has been talked about already but it really needs to be changed. Half the people in the map run around with m16 w/m203. This isn't really that bad except that they almost all run around in grenade mode. They don't even TRY to shoot you with a bullet first REGARDLESS of range. They see you, they shoot their grenade, switch to bullets, then continue firing if your still alive. I don't really know what can be done about this while keeping the realism but it ISN'T real and it ISN'T fun when 40mm grenades are the first thing to come out of somebodies gun when they see you.
Second is camping. Not that people camp but what is said to those who do (even if they aren't doing it). So tonight on dockside mill I was outnumbered like 4-1. Now only a fool would wander around aimlessly on that map with those odds. I did the smart thing and lay down in a dark corner. Within about 30 seconds I had people yelling at me for camping. A minute or so later the last player countdown started. I stayed where I was hoping that in a panic to find me the enemies would come running around the corner. Unfortunately they didn't and the timer ran out which EXTREMELY upset the other people on my team. I don't see why because isn't it better to have a draw than to run out and get yourself killled, losing the match? I mean it's not like I was HIDING from them I was simply waiting for them to make a mistake (rather than make one myself).
What's worse is what happened after. Almost every time I stopped after that I was yelled at "get moving!". I could run a marathon and be out of stamina then lay down to recover it. Eh, I'm camping again. Take a 3 second pause behind a crate while deciding the best route to take? Camping again. Kill a few enemies then duck behind a wall to reload? You got it, camping yet again. It got so bad I just started to tell people "f--- you, if I want to camp I'm gonna camp", even if I was just reloading or something.
Simply put, it wasn't fun. If I wasn't getting killed by another grenade I was getting yelled at for not running around like rambo. I hope the tweaked bulk system REALLY makes people think twice before taking a grenade launcher. BTW, is there any way to ignore players?
First thing I noticed was of course the grenades. I know this has been talked about already but it really needs to be changed. Half the people in the map run around with m16 w/m203. This isn't really that bad except that they almost all run around in grenade mode. They don't even TRY to shoot you with a bullet first REGARDLESS of range. They see you, they shoot their grenade, switch to bullets, then continue firing if your still alive. I don't really know what can be done about this while keeping the realism but it ISN'T real and it ISN'T fun when 40mm grenades are the first thing to come out of somebodies gun when they see you.
Second is camping. Not that people camp but what is said to those who do (even if they aren't doing it). So tonight on dockside mill I was outnumbered like 4-1. Now only a fool would wander around aimlessly on that map with those odds. I did the smart thing and lay down in a dark corner. Within about 30 seconds I had people yelling at me for camping. A minute or so later the last player countdown started. I stayed where I was hoping that in a panic to find me the enemies would come running around the corner. Unfortunately they didn't and the timer ran out which EXTREMELY upset the other people on my team. I don't see why because isn't it better to have a draw than to run out and get yourself killled, losing the match? I mean it's not like I was HIDING from them I was simply waiting for them to make a mistake (rather than make one myself).
What's worse is what happened after. Almost every time I stopped after that I was yelled at "get moving!". I could run a marathon and be out of stamina then lay down to recover it. Eh, I'm camping again. Take a 3 second pause behind a crate while deciding the best route to take? Camping again. Kill a few enemies then duck behind a wall to reload? You got it, camping yet again. It got so bad I just started to tell people "f--- you, if I want to camp I'm gonna camp", even if I was just reloading or something.
Simply put, it wasn't fun. If I wasn't getting killed by another grenade I was getting yelled at for not running around like rambo. I hope the tweaked bulk system REALLY makes people think twice before taking a grenade launcher. BTW, is there any way to ignore players?