Originally Posted by BHack

It's conversations like the one we are having here that make me worry about TG game play. These forums seem to be a haven for "I had a bad round, I kept spawning and getting killed, it wasn't fair, etc" whines.

First off, like Bleak said, the arty is NOT difficult to take down.

Second off, it can't rapid fire. It's splash damage is big, but not THAT big. It CANNOT cover every spawn at a CP with every shot. It just can't. You can certainly get unlucky and spawn 3 or 4 times to instant death, but you WILL get away at some point.

Third, aren't we talking about the flag that is RIGHT next to the enemy UCB? Didn't UKR have EVERY SINGLE other flag on the map? What the hell was the arty guy supposed to do? You were the very first flag he encountered out of the UCB. There was literally nothing else for him to do. I believe I know which round we are referring to and I was on the Ukraine side. We were completely dominating them and every squad was pushed up against the first CP's as we literally had all the others. We were a mass of targets. We were bunched up. He had almost nowhere else to fire, and even if he did, why the hell would he? Half our team was hanging around 1 CP. A perfect situation for arty to demolish it. Their team was getting obliterated, they were hugely down on tickets, they were fighting TO GET OUT OF THEIR UCB, yet we are complainging about spawning into his arty fire? Why didn't you spawn at the back base as spec ops, get the transport chopper, drop on him, c4 him and call it a day? What would you have done if you were him? Back away? stop fighting to get out of your UCB?

OR, would you have felt better if he just backed up into his UCB so he couldn't "0 degree" shoot down on you and instead just arced his shells onto your head? What's the difference? You'd insta die the same way. Once he had the coordinates he wouldn't even need a spot.

I find this ridiculous because PoE makes the "frustrating" deaths of BF2 a much less occuring event. It adds skill and removes much of the "death spamming" that was possible in vanilla, yet we still find something to complain about. Sure the tanks have big guns but at least you aren't dying constantly from obliterating bombing runs, commander's random artillery of death, noob tubes, grenade spamming, etc.

I can't tell you how many times I've spawned and died instantly. Not a chance to even move. Do I think "gosh, what a jerk! That wasn't very 'TG' of him!" No, of course not, I spawned at a flag under attack and took a risk of dying extremely fast because of it. IT'S PART OF THE GAME.

You know I used to play badminton. Now when I'd play a friend, sometimes I would know that I will beat him 15-0 if I go all out. Off course I don't do this and instead try some funny things, make the rallies a bit longer, go for difficult shots etc.

The whole thing is just a difference in how you enjoy competition. Some people will go for the 15-0 all the time, or some people might not think as I do that playing battlefield is supposed to be like playing with friends.

-The "It's in the game" argument has been used for all of the things that were ever banned on the server.

-I never asked for admin rules to change or anything like that, where did you see that? Did anyone else in the thread?

-If you can't stand a post, why not skip it instead.