Hmm I am happy with that map pack actually. Sharqi was possibly my Fav map (as an inf only player really). Oman was a good map but it was a vehicle map so I didn't play it so much. Wake again is really only a vehicle map - but that is the all time BF series favourite and given they made 1943 was a certainty for BF3 I think!

Shame about the commander - although perhaps there will be no 'enemy spotted' spam now hehe. I do hope that there is some way to issue more than basic 'attack/defend here' orders. Quite often it is equally important to be able to say go to point X and then hit flag Y (from the direction they are not watching).

I did consider BF3 on steam but if its £30 without the map pack then I am happy paying £40 and getting it at release

I remember playing Codename Eagle at a LAN I went to with some clan mates back in about 2000 or something. Never realised it was the same company!

I can handle the 4 classes but will sulk if it is 4 man squads again I think. 6 is better for maximum carnage

Me either. I nearly justified to myself buying what I knew to be a terrible game because of the BF3 beta offer... but... couldn't... just... do... it!

You couldn't tell from all the bugs?

i am not exited at all for bf3, if anything it shows how lazy and unimaginative dice are, the features they have been using to promote it (prone, planes, 64 players) were all in bf1942. the game will end up a total shitfest once cod/bc2 players start playing it with half the team sat in base waiting for a tank/plane tking the others waiting and the other half of the team camping on wookie hill with a sniper rifle.

Haha I do remember it being buggy but I also remember it being huge amounts of fun when we were all rather drunk shouting at each other across the room!

I don't disagree that many of the features in BF2 have been there from the get go, but I had thought we had seen the last of 64 player games. CoD, BC2, MoH, Crysis etc all had 32 players. I think Crysis 2 is going for 12 players! I'm sure there will be a range of FF on/off options which will deal with deliberate TKing.

As I said above, I am an Infantry only man anyway really - it might not solve camping but it does stop people waiting for vehicles

Haha, yes I remember it well. Actually I linked my own in game vid of an Armoured Fury map and some 3 star general guy tk-ing another guy for a plane, which is a common occurrence.

Despite all of the negatives to online game play in Battlefield games, I think I'd rather see a new game coming than not. I always used to play 64 players despite the added mayhem and how it was often more difficult to do well with all the added chaos and stupidity with increased scarcity of planes and helos. It really shows you humanity at its most base.

Sometimes it was funny but most often very annoying and pathetic to see people so greedy they didn't respect anybody else, stealing planes from others calmly queuing. I had many a moment of rage typing. Selfish little pircks (rearrange the letters)!

But let's look on the bright side. Well, tell ya what I bet DICE don't do a damn thing to change the status quo. Would it really take that much effort to put in place some kind of system that held people in a proper queue so they could not skip their turn for the planes etc? And in this way, you could also be protected from being killed by all those annoying base raping plane [censored] deliberately targeting the newly spawned.

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As I said above, I am an Infantry only man anyway really - it might not solve camping but it does stop people waiting for vehicles

Lol. Instant solution! Mind you, there was a helluva lot of running around on some maps. Say Karkand when you were USMC. With an APC you could always hit the water and attempt to get round the back and capture the MEC's home base. It only worked once every 50 tries or so but it was probably better than getting naded or blown apart by armour as infantry coming down that hill.

I have pre-ordered BF3 now btw but from Amazon, which will make T2D laugh. They were asking for £30 I think and that's the Ltd Edition. Okay, so I will have to wait a few days longer but I think it's worth it. Shop.net also offer a good price but for some reason I can't sign up as they say my address is already registered but I don't have a linked account.

They got it pretty much sorted by the last patch of BF2, it stopped the idiots exploiting ways to get what they want (a jet or heli).

TBH its always annoying when some idiot is sucking up a vehicle you know you can own in, for example in BC2 me and a friend or two love the blackhawk we can rake up to 60-80 kills in a round (supporting the team covering the mcoms, etc) always come top if we can get hold of one, but so many idiots just grab it will just kamakazi it, if the same person does it over and over sometimes we do just TK them out of it because theyre wasting everyones time, obviously if someone does a decent job and actual flies it and has gunners in it then we leave them alone, but so many idiots just load it up and fly it over and let it bail. BF2 was the same with jets people who couldnt bomb or attack so they ditched them into tanks, hopefully DICE will nerf the direct impact damage from the planes so kamakazi isnt viable.