Originally Posted by aculle01

the capture logic, to prevent against lonewolves, requires a full squad to be in the area to have any sort of success at capturing a point. The one problem with this is (at least until someone gets the Quatermaster so we can unlock the armory) that even if you decide to leave some guys on the perimeter trying to provide cover for those vulnerable the other side has a good chance of respawning before you have a chance to neutralize the flag. I dont know how much we want to fiddle with it but because we request people to squad up maybe we can speed up the time it takes to change control of a point.

I want to pick up this issue with my first impressions, but first I have to say that this mod has gotten some amazing things just right, among others:
-sound
-no more stealing of complicated military equipment
-infantry maps
-weapons (scary stuff) are soo deadly
-Tanks have a driver + two gunners. An awesome change I've longed for.
-Tanks can be taken out by at in one shot: tough, but real.

Then a few Items I am doubtful over wether they are good:
-Not being able to see you team icons in the playfield. I get the reasoning, but is the engine suited for this? In America's Army you could use different elements of the silhouette to identify long range targets. Bf has to many different uniforms and colors on them to really ID an enemy. You have to look at the map and see if the spotted soldier is on it. I haven't heard of such a device in RL. The indicators IMO make up for the poor situational awareness a computerscreen gives you. In RL you have at least 5 senses to keep track of the situation (e.g. if your teammates smell very bad, you don't even have to look where they are to know it). On a pc you have 2. That said I can live with it and will probably adapt my playstyle.
-Minimap: nice design, pretty confusing.

Now I'll move to the biggest problem in the game: Flag logic and spawnpoints.

I'll illustrate by talking about last night's last round with Egoatboy SL, Ash on other team. We were on a map with a square, had taken it back. Then the foe got on top of the buildings around square. Now they weren't taking the
flag. We would spawn in middle of the square every time.

-Note: problem one = only one spawnpoint per CP

They just mowed us down before we could stand up even. This game has one spawn per flag. All it takes is one guy spawning and you've learned the spawns. Aim at spawn ===> killstreak pwnage woot!

We were mowed down on square because the spawnpoint was in a very poor position.

-Note2: Very poor positioning on a lot of CP's.

We also saw this on an earlier map with egoatboy. We were defending the dam taken from kubra. And our spawn was on the bottom only. Lots of climbing to do + practically trapped us in the valley.

-Note3: capture times for flags.
If you wipe out the whole defending squad on a cp, they will respawn right on the flag with you by busloads. Huge problem imo, I hope the TG devs can change this by changing one variable per map and not per flag.

Well thats it for gameplay aspects for now. I do have one rather important remark. I dug up the thread for you: http://realitymod.com/forum/t6476-gameplay-speed.html

The discussion is pretty pointless there to me (about runspeed which is fine in poe for me). The interesting part is the philosophy the devs write in this thread. Apparently their mod is supposed to be very realistic bot NOT TACTICAL. Read it up they really say that. Most of the people take him up on this because they see an inherent flaw in this reasoning, as do I. I thought BF was a game that looks real but plays arcade, we dont need more of that. I hope the devs see the error of their ways before it's too late, because there are so many fine features in the mod. You cannot cater to two crowds (rambo and tactical) in one mod.

Signing off with good hopes for this mod.